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Capítulo 122: A Love Letter to Chillonas (part 2) · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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Speaker 1: reading Fiona and Jane by Gene chen Ho, and we
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Speaker 1: all the smart women talking. It's so much fun, it's
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Speaker 1: you can join locals. Look at patreon dot com slash
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Speaker 1: local Underscore Productions. Okay, let me just say that I
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Speaker 1: love it because it's like the anti Missa with a
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Speaker 1: Bible of a different kind. Yes it is, Yes it is.
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Speaker 1: We are reading text literature, literature UM by more than
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Speaker 1: just white men, and in fact, we don't read white
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Speaker 1: men at all. So come join us if that's your thing.
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Speaker 1: Love it revolutionary and um also like a very large
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Speaker 1: group at this point, Yeah, we have over sixty members. UM.
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Speaker 1: I would say each Sunday or each meeting we have
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Speaker 1: between like fifteen to twenty people join. UM. I think
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Speaker 1: lots of people read at their own pace, so they
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Speaker 1: But it's super great to have over sixty members on
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Speaker 1: the Patreon. So shout out to all of you. Shout
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Speaker 1: out to look as for libras in other local Lumbia
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Speaker 1: look at Multiverse News. We had our first local podcast
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Speaker 1: party in two years on at Resident in the Arts
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Speaker 1: District in downtown l A. And it was a fabulous time.
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Speaker 1: I have to say, our best event yet in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: it was the best event yet. And it was also
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Speaker 1: I think the most low key in terms of like production. Right,
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Speaker 1: if you've been to our events in the past, they're
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Speaker 1: late at night, Um, they go till two in the morning,
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Speaker 1: there's party favors, their specialty cocktails. But this we were
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Speaker 1: just vibing. Like, this show was just vibras. It was amazing.
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Speaker 1: It was so much fun and I think for me,
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Speaker 1: like the least amount of stress I've ever felt to
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Speaker 1: like put on a production, which I think is testament
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Speaker 1: to like the Resident. Mom took lead on the event.
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Speaker 1: She handled a lot of the logistics of the talent
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Speaker 1: and booking and all of that great stuff. So definitely
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite and probably our best show yet.
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Speaker 1: It was a really good time. And yeah, definitely the
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Speaker 1: venue had a lot to do with it. Resident is
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Speaker 1: a very cool indoor outdoor music venue and like event
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Speaker 1: venue and just like really great bars, they make delicious
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Speaker 1: drinks there, they have food there therefore twenty friendly on
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Speaker 1: the outdoor patio and then inside they have like a
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Speaker 1: really intimate and really nice like indoor stage, bar, dance floor. Um,
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Speaker 1: their engineer is really great and so everything sounds amazing.
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Speaker 1: And we had about a hundred people there, So thank
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Speaker 1: you to all of our listeners who bought tickets who
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Speaker 1: showed up. There were um like a couple of different
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Speaker 1: groups of friends, listeners who drove in from Arizona, and
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Speaker 1: it seemed like everyone had a really great time. So
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Speaker 1: I was just happy because everyone was happy and there
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Speaker 1: were a lot of people there, and it really went
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Speaker 1: off like without a hitch, Like there were no issues,
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Speaker 1: There were no hiccups, like there was no drama. I
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Speaker 1: mean our merch table. Um, thank you to our friends
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Speaker 1: Lupe and Vetto who ran our merge table. That that
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Speaker 1: part of things, our merge. We've been more prepared in
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Speaker 1: the past than we were for this one. That was
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Speaker 1: the only one, but everything else was great. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: had a little hiccups with the merch. I will say
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Speaker 1: we intended on having a lot more, but you know,
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Speaker 1: we've been moving around here at my place, moving our
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Speaker 1: works our look at that our workspace, two different areas
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Speaker 1: of my house, and things kind of have gotten mixed
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Speaker 1: up in the shuffle, So appreciate all of you, if
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Speaker 1: you had, if you bought merch that day, if you
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Speaker 1: were accepting more merge, sorry, well work on. We'll work
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Speaker 1: on that for the next one. Um. Yeah, this was
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Speaker 1: one of my favorite shows. So let's talk about, Um
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Speaker 1: the amazing lineup that we had. Oh yeah, such a
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Speaker 1: good lineup. Honestly historic and groundbreaking and if you were
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Speaker 1: not there, you missed it like a very crucial moment
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Speaker 1: in Latin X history. I would say our lineup included
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Speaker 1: host loud at the head of El A Taco. She
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Speaker 1: is the host of Eli Tacos live YouTube show Live
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Speaker 1: with loud A Thursday nights. Thesa was recently on Live
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Speaker 1: with Lauda. I did Live with Lauda a few weeks
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Speaker 1: back as well, and it's a great show. Hilarious. Louda
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Speaker 1: so funny and when we were thinking about doing the
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Speaker 1: show in the past, we like are on stage talking
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Speaker 1: for like forty five minutes. We would host our own show,
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Speaker 1: which was wild and ridiculous that we did that to ourselves. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it was too much. It was too much because we
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Speaker 1: would like build a stage on a set and then
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Speaker 1: like dress ourselves and then also host this whole show
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Speaker 1: and do our own hair and makeup pre Robert moving
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Speaker 1: back to l A very true, very true. It was
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Speaker 1: too much. It was too much and promoted and episodes
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Speaker 1: we were girl bossing too hard, way too hard, and
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Speaker 1: so we are exhausted now. And the thing is we
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Speaker 1: want We wanted this podcast party to be like, Okay,
9:21
Speaker 1: we haven't seen each other in two years, and podcast
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Speaker 1: listening can be such like an individual activity that you
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Speaker 1: do by yourself, but clearly there's all these other people
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Speaker 1: listening to the same show who have their own reactions
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Speaker 1: and maybe maybe have similar interests. So why not get
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Speaker 1: everybody together and like have fun. So this time we
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Speaker 1: wanted to do more of a party, like for the
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Speaker 1: listeners and bring in our friends who have been on
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Speaker 1: the podcast, who are part of like our podcast life
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Speaker 1: and that we just really love working with and who
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Speaker 1: are super talented. So like we were thinking about a host,
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Speaker 1: and we said, we're not hosting this time. We're not
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Speaker 1: the main event this time. I mean we are, obviously,
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Speaker 1: but also we're like, we're carrying the whole show. We
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Speaker 1: are always the main event. We're always the main event.
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Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair, But We're not, you know, up
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Speaker 1: there for forty five minutes. We're gonna have our little
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Speaker 1: ten minute moment and it's going to be fabulous, but
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Speaker 1: the whole party is like our moment, you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean. So we decided on Lauda and then we
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Speaker 1: originally had Gadiel on the line up doing stand up,
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Speaker 1: and then Marcella like hit us up, like hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: down to do a few minutes, and we were like yes,
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Speaker 1: thank you, like floored, honored, thrilled. Marcella's a powerhouse comedian.
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Speaker 1: So we ended up having Marcella up there for like
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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes. She killed it. Everybody was loving her um
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Speaker 1: and then we did our little bit. We did our set. Okay,
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Speaker 1: tell them about the writing and the creating of our bit. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So for our little stand up bit, we wanted to
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Speaker 1: reflect on like everything that we've learned in the last
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Speaker 1: five years of podcasting, last six seasons, right, and so
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Speaker 1: we just went through like some you know, some some
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Speaker 1: knowledge that we've acquired in the last few multiple years, right,
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Speaker 1: And so some of the things that we've learned is
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Speaker 1: that podcasting is easier if you have generational wealth and
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Speaker 1: some good amount of nepotism. But it's also not impossible
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Speaker 1: to do without it. Yes, that's what that really is.
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Speaker 1: One of our main takeaways. Um, not impossible, but very hard.
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Speaker 1: It's also good to cry regularly. It's not a meeting
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Speaker 1: if there's not prosecco. It's not a party if there's
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Speaker 1: no prosecco. Um. And you've got to have a lot
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Speaker 1: of heart to do it to keep it going for
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Speaker 1: this long and be Indie all these years, you've got
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Speaker 1: to like really love it and have a good partner
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Speaker 1: if you're doing it with somebody, it's true words to
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Speaker 1: live by. We've noticed that there's some podcasts that are
11:57
Speaker 1: kind of like openly the hosts are like kind of
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Speaker 1: openly hostile towards each other. We won't necessarily name the
12:03
Speaker 1: show names. We won't name shows at all, Girl, but
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine it's odd. It's odd to see they're
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Speaker 1: like on Twitter like openly like like in sub tweeting
12:12
Speaker 1: each other or not sub tweeting each other, like speaking
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Speaker 1: tweeting directly at each other. Like the fans are all
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Speaker 1: like very aware and vocal about how they know the
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Speaker 1: host don't like each other. I can't imagine that I
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Speaker 1: can't imagine that, Like, no, you know, so grateful that
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Speaker 1: Molly and I have worked so well together for so
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Speaker 1: many years, because as you know, if you've been listening forever,
12:37
Speaker 1: like as you know, Molly and I were like online
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Speaker 1: friends to party friends, to podcasts producers, co creators, business partners,
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Speaker 1: you know, like we had no idea how it's going
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Speaker 1: to go, and it really could have gone south pretty
12:51
Speaker 1: quickly because we really didn't know each other very well,
12:54
Speaker 1: not on the level of trust that you need to
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Speaker 1: like build a business together, right, And so the fact
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Speaker 1: that we have been able to successfully do this for
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Speaker 1: so long, like obviously synergy meant to be. But there
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Speaker 1: are people that are all doing it they like don't
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Speaker 1: even like each other, and I can't imagine that. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I mean I think it's like at some level almost
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Speaker 1: folks really do treat it as more of a job,
13:24
Speaker 1: and I think they think of their co host as
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Speaker 1: a coworker, and so it's kind of like, well, it's
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Speaker 1: we're just working. It's just business, so we don't have
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Speaker 1: to like each other. But we started out as friends
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Speaker 1: and we didn't start the podcast as a business venture, right,
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Speaker 1: so the vibe is different but all that to say,
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Speaker 1: I think that the vibe is also one of the
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Speaker 1: reasons why we like doing these parties because our listeners
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Speaker 1: are on a similar wavelength and are very cool and
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Speaker 1: just like chill and a joy to be around. Very cool.
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Speaker 1: What I've learned about our listeners in the last five years.
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Speaker 1: Very cool, very hot, very smart, love to drink, yes,
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Speaker 1: love dance. Our listeners love a cocktail, a couple of cocktails,
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Speaker 1: a few cock gails. Are are like bar sales. Whenever
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Speaker 1: we have parties, are like always nice because y'all like
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Speaker 1: to have a cocktail. We like to have a cocktail.
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Speaker 1: And it's like I think we've built, you know, an
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Speaker 1: environment where people feel safe to like let loose. You know,
14:31
Speaker 1: we have all women DJs normally typically I would say
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Speaker 1: always all women like talent. You know, the majority of
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Speaker 1: our listeners and our guests tend to be women, queer folks,
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Speaker 1: queer men, and the occasional like husband, boyfriend, partner, you know,
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Speaker 1: but it's mainly all women. Oh yeah, and it's very
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Speaker 1: I mean, we have more photos coming. We got more photos.
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Speaker 1: Shout out to our photographer Red Heart Media, Jessica Too's
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Speaker 1: a beautiful event. Photos um inside resident of the live
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Speaker 1: show and the party, so we'll be posting, we'll be sharing.
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Speaker 1: Keep an eye out, but you'll see it's just a
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Speaker 1: lot of women, UM and it's fun and it's and
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Speaker 1: it's a vibe. And this was our first thrilled like
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Speaker 1: day party for look at that olive usually there at night,
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Speaker 1: and I liked the day party because we ended up
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Speaker 1: staying until at least like midnight. Anyways, UM started it too,
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Speaker 1: and people got there. There were people who got there early,
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Speaker 1: like people were there at one pm. Yeah, it was
15:34
Speaker 1: so much fun. And you know, multiple people told us
15:37
Speaker 1: that we should take the show on the road. So yeah,
15:41
Speaker 1: are you a listener, are you a local mode out
15:43
Speaker 1: of state and you would like to see this in
15:45
Speaker 1: your city? Let us know. Yes, Marcel out of wheal
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Speaker 1: us loud at the and of course we had to
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Speaker 1: be sold performing original music and covers backed by the
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Speaker 1: Brown Boys band, and she brought the house down. People
16:02
Speaker 1: we played on the podcast in the past. People know
16:06
Speaker 1: her music, they know her songs, they know her lyrics
16:09
Speaker 1: singing along. They sang the Muddy One at a jingle
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Speaker 1: live and in person, because of course they composed it
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Speaker 1: and recorded it and created it. So um that was
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Speaker 1: also very fun. And then we had a five year
16:25
Speaker 1: anniversary video that we played because you know, we love
16:29
Speaker 1: our visual element, so shout out Liz Gomez who edited
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Speaker 1: that video. So that show kind of a variety show,
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Speaker 1: podcasting comedy music, you know, would you come out to
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Speaker 1: see that. I think we need to go to Mexico crossover. Yeah,
16:46
Speaker 1: we love a variety show. We can do it. We
16:49
Speaker 1: can do it. I will the script in Spanish. We
16:52
Speaker 1: got it. Oh my god, Okay, wait, I'm dying. There
16:56
Speaker 1: was a man there who I've never met before, but
17:00
Speaker 1: he was there at the show and after the party
17:03
Speaker 1: on the patio. He was like, you guys, honestly don't
17:06
Speaker 1: even have to do things in Spanish if you go
17:09
Speaker 1: to Mexico, Like a lot of people speak English down there,
17:13
Speaker 1: and you guys as kind of these like us Latinas
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Speaker 1: who like speak Spanish, speaks Spanglish, speak English. He's like
17:20
Speaker 1: a little bit of all of it. He's like, they're down,
17:23
Speaker 1: they're gonna love it. They're gonna think it's hilarious. Like
17:26
Speaker 1: they'll get it. They'll get it. They can tap in,
17:28
Speaker 1: you know, just go as yourselves. Like the show you
17:31
Speaker 1: put on like take it down there, you know. So
17:34
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, that's great. I mean tentatively, I
17:39
Speaker 1: will be in Mexico in June. Oh my god, are
17:41
Speaker 1: we going? Are we touring in June? I think that
17:43
Speaker 1: we can possibly do it in June. I'm screaming. We
17:47
Speaker 1: just need a venue. We just need a venue and people.
17:50
Speaker 1: We need like a promoter down there. We do, we do. Okay,
17:54
Speaker 1: we need to link up with that Mexican podcast for
17:57
Speaker 1: those ladies shout out. Yeah, they're like the number one
18:02
Speaker 1: podcast in Mehico. Let's go with them to like mahcan
18:07
Speaker 1: as white, Mahgana as oky, but still amazing. Their contents
18:10
Speaker 1: amazing yea. And I listened to them pretty regularly. They
18:15
Speaker 1: talk about lots of like, uh, just very similar to us,
18:19
Speaker 1: you know. Um. They talk about like, you know, they
18:22
Speaker 1: have really great guests talking about like body positivity and
18:25
Speaker 1: fat shaming and structural racism, saving like how to like
18:29
Speaker 1: build wealth, you know, and be on a budget. They
18:32
Speaker 1: talked about really great things in Spanish. So if you're
18:33
Speaker 1: looking for that Spanish content, not an ad, that's a
18:38
Speaker 1: genuine as a listener. Um. So anyways, while you guys
18:43
Speaker 1: just heard live and on air. We just conceptualized a
18:46
Speaker 1: Mexico tour for the summer marketing market calenders people. Um
18:50
Speaker 1: so yeah, really great party. Thank you to everybody. We
18:54
Speaker 1: also met at the party the Funky Latina who drove
18:57
Speaker 1: in from Arizona. So nice to meet you. I've seen
19:00
Speaker 1: the Funky Latina on Instagram. Always cool to put a
19:03
Speaker 1: face to the Instagram handle. And we also met some
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Speaker 1: like local journals slash podcasters who are killing the game.
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Speaker 1: Mariah castanea host of the l A Taco production The
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Speaker 1: Sellout all about Josie we Sad and his Web of
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Speaker 1: Lies and fraud. Really good podcast we had. We had
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Speaker 1: Maria Casana on last season, so if you haven't tuned
19:28
Speaker 1: into that episode, you can head back into the season
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Speaker 1: five archive and tune into that so good sauch a
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Speaker 1: good episode. And um we had not met I had
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Speaker 1: not met Maria in person, so it was cool that
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Speaker 1: she was at the party. Um and we met Karen Lopez,
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Speaker 1: also producer at Ellie Taco. Um So it was just cool.
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Speaker 1: L A love you know, really good time, such a
19:50
Speaker 1: good time. If you missed it, there will be more.
19:55
Speaker 1: You should have some Pobo that's all you should you
19:58
Speaker 1: should have some phone. Um. So, next, before we get
20:02
Speaker 1: into the main content of today, we just want to
20:05
Speaker 1: shout out and actually just discuss and break down our
20:08
Speaker 1: season six visuals slash our season six launch. We debuted
20:14
Speaker 1: a set of four mini skits, mini like docu like mockumentary,
20:21
Speaker 1: you know, mockumentary style reels on Instagram. They're super cute,
20:26
Speaker 1: super funny, scripted, very beautiful. So we want to talk
20:30
Speaker 1: about the making of those videos. Right. So, I have
20:34
Speaker 1: been watching a lot of reality TV recently, and um,
20:40
Speaker 1: when we were thinking about what are we going to
20:42
Speaker 1: do this season? What are we gonna do this season?
20:44
Speaker 1: Of course we did a recap of like the Girls
20:47
Speaker 1: next Door and how we figured that theme into season six,
20:52
Speaker 1: but then like the delivery of it, right, So I'm like,
20:56
Speaker 1: I wanted to do just kind of like very quick
21:00
Speaker 1: be little moments like of us preparing to like launch
21:06
Speaker 1: this season, and I just knew that I needed us
21:10
Speaker 1: to have a lemonade stand like to raise money, you know,
21:13
Speaker 1: because like in like The Simple Life or other reality
21:17
Speaker 1: TV shows, they'll give like the subjects of the show,
21:21
Speaker 1: they'll they'll like do challenges and tasks and chores and things,
21:25
Speaker 1: and I'm like, we need to have an activity we're
21:27
Speaker 1: gonna sell lemonade, and so that's where it came from.
21:30
Speaker 1: And you know, we love a campy moment and we
21:32
Speaker 1: needed like a can't be visual for sure. So um,
21:36
Speaker 1: we also wanted it to be kind of like a
21:38
Speaker 1: little retroglam, like a little sixties and down to the headphones,
21:43
Speaker 1: Like you have to tell them how we acquired those
21:47
Speaker 1: vintage headphones. Yeah, shout out to my friend Kim. She
21:52
Speaker 1: her father actually works at a like prop studio, and
21:57
Speaker 1: so she lent us the headphones for Sea our season
22:02
Speaker 1: six visuals and so they're super cute because you know,
22:07
Speaker 1: retro vintage things can kind of get pricey or you
22:10
Speaker 1: can take a minute to get to and we like,
22:13
Speaker 1: you know, needed to shoot our visuals like really soon.
22:17
Speaker 1: So super grateful to her that she like lent us
22:20
Speaker 1: her that her and her father like lent us these
22:23
Speaker 1: headphones because it really pulled the look together. Yeah, it
22:27
Speaker 1: was very very cool, very grateful and like aesthetically so pleasing.
22:33
Speaker 1: And then our lemonade stand. Um, you know, we love
22:36
Speaker 1: a Pinterest board. So every time we have a shoot
22:39
Speaker 1: or we do something that requires like visuals. We put
22:42
Speaker 1: a Pinterest board together, so, um, we were looking at
22:46
Speaker 1: lemonade stands. We were looking at like old like sixties seventies,
22:52
Speaker 1: like headphone ads, you know, just trying to get as
22:54
Speaker 1: many like visual cues as possible. And then Jessica Maganna
22:59
Speaker 1: are pographer and editor and set designer, she like created
23:05
Speaker 1: this beautiful lemonade stand and like with all the garnishes
23:09
Speaker 1: and then also lit everything and shot everything and filmed
23:12
Speaker 1: everything and edited everything and scored everything, um and captioned everything.
23:18
Speaker 1: So she's a powerhouse. And yeah, don't check it out
23:21
Speaker 1: if you haven't seen it, she killed it. Head over
23:23
Speaker 1: to our Instagram, to YouTube, to TikTok and you can
23:27
Speaker 1: see all four of our mockumentary style clips. Season sixth launch.
23:35
Speaker 1: So much fun to make. Every year we have to
23:38
Speaker 1: do something different. That's just who we are as creators,
23:42
Speaker 1: as creative people, and so really fun to try something new.
23:46
Speaker 1: And when I tell you, Mala is always trying to
23:49
Speaker 1: get me to act. This is what I mean. This
23:54
Speaker 1: is what I mean. I see the leading lady in you,
23:58
Speaker 1: and that's why I'm like script. It's in the costume.
24:03
Speaker 1: She does well. I may not see it or want it.
24:06
Speaker 1: Mala forces me and I'm right every time it comes
24:10
Speaker 1: out so good. So you're welcome, Yes, thank you, thank you,
24:18
Speaker 1: or Cara and and and and and and and and
24:29
Speaker 1: and and and and and and and and and and
24:49
Speaker 1: um um um um um um of it and ship.
25:04
Speaker 1: So let's get into the gun. And we wanted to
25:06
Speaker 1: do a call back to a very early episode that
25:10
Speaker 1: we called a love Letter to Chionas. And so today
25:14
Speaker 1: we want to talk to our fellow sad girls and
25:18
Speaker 1: do like a love letter to Chionas and Sad Girls
25:20
Speaker 1: part two. So if you identify as a sad girl,
25:25
Speaker 1: as a Chiona, this is for you, Yes, this is
25:28
Speaker 1: for you. And I'm like, I'm laughing because when we
25:31
Speaker 1: went to Zion, we went on like a little hike,
25:34
Speaker 1: like we went up this trail and you were wearing
25:36
Speaker 1: a belladonna ty long sleep that says part part time
25:42
Speaker 1: sad girl. And there was like this couple coming down
25:46
Speaker 1: the trail as we were going out the trail, and
25:49
Speaker 1: I don't know where they were from. They were like
25:51
Speaker 1: French or something. And the man after they passed you,
25:57
Speaker 1: he goes, what did her shirt say? Party girl? And
26:02
Speaker 1: then his partner was like part times sad girl, and
26:07
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, that's clever. I wish I was
26:13
Speaker 1: a party girl and not a part time sad girl.
26:16
Speaker 1: That sounds like fun. Oh my god, I know. We
26:20
Speaker 1: really don't party anymore. We're not party girls anymore. No,
26:23
Speaker 1: that era of our lives, I think is over. It's
26:26
Speaker 1: for the best. We still have a good time, but
26:29
Speaker 1: I don't know about two girls. But I don't have
26:31
Speaker 1: the stamina to party late anymore. Like no, I was
26:35
Speaker 1: thinking about this either day and I was like, one
26:37
Speaker 1: day I was young and hot and dancing until two
26:40
Speaker 1: in the morning, and then the next day I was like,
26:44
Speaker 1: I have to leave early because I have a long
26:45
Speaker 1: run the next day. Like when did that happen? Still hot,
26:50
Speaker 1: though always hot, always hot, always hot, Now just more
26:53
Speaker 1: tired and sleepy, more sleepy. Yeah, it happens so real,
26:58
Speaker 1: so real, And you know, it's just kind of like
27:00
Speaker 1: we're working a lot and have a lot going on
27:04
Speaker 1: and more and more. I would rather be like working
27:07
Speaker 1: on my ship than like seeking I don't even seek
27:11
Speaker 1: out parties anymore, Like I used to seek out parties
27:14
Speaker 1: all the time. Yeah, any more, I would rather be
27:17
Speaker 1: on my little sucking computer at home, or going to
27:20
Speaker 1: like one of our friends events, are going to an
27:24
Speaker 1: open mic or whatever I was going to say. Now
27:27
Speaker 1: more and more, like I really enjoy like grabbing a
27:30
Speaker 1: drink with a friend, going to a brewery, getting a cocktail,
27:33
Speaker 1: getting dinner, as opposed to like being with a bunch
27:37
Speaker 1: of people that I don't know at a party, you know,
27:39
Speaker 1: at a club. It's just not as a feeling to me. Also,
27:42
Speaker 1: I think like the pandemic has a lot to do
27:44
Speaker 1: with that. Like, you know, I used to love to
27:46
Speaker 1: go out dancing, and now I'm like, you want me
27:48
Speaker 1: to be in a room with a bunch of people's
27:49
Speaker 1: sweating and like breathing on each other. No thanks, and
27:53
Speaker 1: pay like a twenty dollar entrance or stand in the line,
27:57
Speaker 1: or like have to get on a guest list or
27:59
Speaker 1: like thanks, just deal with it. No, it's the whole affair.
28:03
Speaker 1: It's just too much. It's too much. Now, Yeah, I
28:06
Speaker 1: guess this is what happens when you get older. I mean,
28:09
Speaker 1: come to our parties, though that's different. Parties. Parties are
28:11
Speaker 1: our daytime parties. They end early, so if you need
28:15
Speaker 1: to be in bed by nine, you can get and
28:17
Speaker 1: you can be in bed by night. And that's the
28:19
Speaker 1: beauty of the day party. I do love day party. Yes,
28:21
Speaker 1: day parties are fun. There's such a vibe you get
28:23
Speaker 1: to wear. You don't have to wear a jacket. I
28:25
Speaker 1: hate having to wear a jacket exactly, dealing with the
28:28
Speaker 1: cold and having the pressure of wearing like night where
28:34
Speaker 1: nightwearve club gear, club gear gear. You know, you can
28:38
Speaker 1: legitimately wear jeans and a T shirt two day party
28:42
Speaker 1: and none of our listeners would wear jeans and a
28:43
Speaker 1: T shirt. But you can. We could, and it would
28:47
Speaker 1: be fine, and it would be fine. You look so
28:49
Speaker 1: hot and cute. They would be adorable. Um So, Mom,
28:53
Speaker 1: how do you define sad girl? Because I know you've
28:57
Speaker 1: been on your sad girl tip for many years. I
29:00
Speaker 1: don't know if you're still in your sad girl era,
29:02
Speaker 1: but I know for a while always. Yeah, I think
29:05
Speaker 1: it's I think, you know what, it's like one of
29:07
Speaker 1: those things where it's like the way that we can
29:10
Speaker 1: apply some type of like discursive socio political lean to
29:17
Speaker 1: being a bimbo. We could probably do the same thing
29:19
Speaker 1: with being a sad girl. Absolutely, let's take it there. Absolutely.
29:24
Speaker 1: I mean, okay, listen, we're sad about the patriarchy, structural
29:31
Speaker 1: institutionalized racism, um, the pandemic death violence, all these things,
29:39
Speaker 1: being poor, having no money, like negotiating contract negotiating contracts,
29:46
Speaker 1: people trying you, people street harassing you. There's so many
29:50
Speaker 1: reasons to finding gray hairs, finding gray hairs, so many
29:54
Speaker 1: reasons to be sad, to be angry? How sad? Why
30:02
Speaker 1: be happy? Perpetual statigal of things? You know, it's actually
30:06
Speaker 1: I think a very sophisticated political like outlook on life.
30:12
Speaker 1: Like it's a type of pessimism rooted in anti capitalism,
30:18
Speaker 1: which I'm sad ship sugs put that on a T shirt.
30:22
Speaker 1: Well that you heard it? Your girls, sad girls are
30:27
Speaker 1: anti capitalists, which is you heard it here? First, allow
30:32
Speaker 1: me my pessimism. It's fine. What is there to look
30:35
Speaker 1: forward to? We're gonna talk. You know, what what do
30:38
Speaker 1: they look forward to besides our next episode of this podcast?
30:44
Speaker 1: You know, I'm dead. So were you ever called a chiona?
30:49
Speaker 1: Growing up? Did you cry a lot? Do you cry
30:51
Speaker 1: a lot? Now? You know? Crying not so much? I think,
30:57
Speaker 1: like I actually have a my I have a cousin
31:00
Speaker 1: in who her nickname is Chona, which is uh, like
31:06
Speaker 1: um uh, it's like derived from chiona because that was
31:11
Speaker 1: her nickname growing up. She was Chiona Chiona chiona, so
31:15
Speaker 1: then everybody just called her Chona chona the chiona, you know.
31:19
Speaker 1: So I didn't have anything like that, but I think
31:23
Speaker 1: that what I have always been known for is being
31:26
Speaker 1: like a little bit impatient and having the tendency to
31:30
Speaker 1: disappear and withdraw. So that's my sad girl. Like, um,
31:37
Speaker 1: that's how it expresses itself, is like going into hiding
31:41
Speaker 1: and then crying and then crying private privately. How about you?
31:46
Speaker 1: How are you? How does it express itself? Um? Okay,
31:51
Speaker 1: So I am not a I'm a little bit of
31:53
Speaker 1: a chiona chiona light. Um. I cry light is also
31:57
Speaker 1: cute chion light. Um. I would say I'm more of
32:01
Speaker 1: like an in ahona than like a chi on it.
32:03
Speaker 1: And I've been called in an ahuana my whole life,
32:06
Speaker 1: and I think we both are. Yeah, And I'm just
32:08
Speaker 1: like I'm very sensitive, Like you know, I'm a sensitive
32:12
Speaker 1: person and so if you say something that makes me mad,
32:14
Speaker 1: or if you say it in a tone I don't like,
32:16
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get mad. And so I've definitely been called
32:19
Speaker 1: an anohona my entire life, probably since I was a kid,
32:24
Speaker 1: you know, and I used to fight it. And then
32:26
Speaker 1: when we were prepping for this episode, I was like,
32:27
Speaker 1: you know what, no, I am an inohona. I have
32:29
Speaker 1: a lot to be mad about, and and when I'm
32:33
Speaker 1: sad or anxious, my tendency is to like get very irritated.
32:38
Speaker 1: I'm very irritable, and so I start to recognize in me, like, okay,
32:43
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get irritated and it has nothing to
32:45
Speaker 1: do with other people. It's my anxiety. So I got
32:48
Speaker 1: to like sort through this separately, um, so that I'm
32:52
Speaker 1: not being a bit to everybody else. Very important self
32:56
Speaker 1: realization the other thing that I realized with that, And
33:00
Speaker 1: I think we should incorporate an ohana as a as
33:03
Speaker 1: a word more in our ship. I see merge anyways,
33:06
Speaker 1: let's do it merge. Um. It's like, okay, I think
33:13
Speaker 1: in our family sometimes it's like a little cluster of
33:18
Speaker 1: people who are quick to anger and like raise voices
33:22
Speaker 1: and like you know, talk over each other and like fight.
33:25
Speaker 1: But then you go out into the real world and
33:27
Speaker 1: you meet other people, and then you realize, oh, not
33:29
Speaker 1: everybody responds well to that, and you can't communicate that
33:32
Speaker 1: way with people. This is how people get into fights,
33:35
Speaker 1: you know. In your house it's like okay, we can
33:39
Speaker 1: like get mad at each other and know at each
33:41
Speaker 1: other and like whatever, it's fine. It's not fine, but
33:44
Speaker 1: it's fine, you know, And it's not fine because then
33:47
Speaker 1: you grow up behaving that way, and then you got
33:50
Speaker 1: into the world and then you're like, oh, I can't
33:52
Speaker 1: bring this out here. I gotta be cool, you know.
33:55
Speaker 1: So I feel like it's about like understanding oneself and
33:59
Speaker 1: like how I try now to like apply that energy
34:04
Speaker 1: in other directions and in other ways, you know, because
34:08
Speaker 1: the energy is there, but where can I put it?
34:11
Speaker 1: I'll go on a rant on my podcast instead? Right,
34:14
Speaker 1: there's like productive ways to deal with it now. I
34:17
Speaker 1: think to something that like I was definitely like the
34:20
Speaker 1: little like like I have Feminista of the family where
34:23
Speaker 1: it was like everything like I had to like to
34:26
Speaker 1: break down everything for everybody, you know, and that's like
34:29
Speaker 1: annoying to be and also annoying to be around. You know.
34:34
Speaker 1: We can see this. Yeah, that was definitely early twenties me,
34:38
Speaker 1: you know, fresh out of college, like you got you
34:41
Speaker 1: got to like teach everybody everything that you learned, and
34:44
Speaker 1: now I'm just like you. No, I'm going to meet
34:46
Speaker 1: people where they're at and like we don't have to
34:49
Speaker 1: break everything down for them. Obviously, there's like some things
34:52
Speaker 1: like no, like you don't accept like racism, right, we're
34:56
Speaker 1: not we're not standing for that. But you know there's
34:58
Speaker 1: some things where it's like, yeah, you know, I'm going
35:00
Speaker 1: to let this go because I got to protect my
35:02
Speaker 1: own energy and my own ship. And also I don't
35:06
Speaker 1: have time. You know, we're we're bimbos. We're we're in
35:08
Speaker 1: our bimbo era. We're just here divide. We're just here
35:11
Speaker 1: to vie. If you're if you're if you don't want
35:13
Speaker 1: to learn from me, if you don't want to if
35:15
Speaker 1: you don't want to learn from others, like, I'm not
35:17
Speaker 1: going to teach you anything. So you know, you know,
35:20
Speaker 1: we're not trying to fight. We're not trying to We're
35:23
Speaker 1: trying to chill. I'm done fighting. I'm very much done
35:26
Speaker 1: fighting with people that don't want to learn, you know,
35:30
Speaker 1: or be better. It's just I'm going to conserve that
35:34
Speaker 1: part of myself. Is how I feel. I think about
35:37
Speaker 1: this too, when we're in college, when we're in school,
35:40
Speaker 1: we spent twenty two years of our lives straight in
35:43
Speaker 1: school basically from like kindergarten undergrad that's like twenty two
35:49
Speaker 1: years of life. And we're used to learning coming in
35:52
Speaker 1: the format of some of of dialogue and lecture and
35:55
Speaker 1: like speaking to people about things and teaching people through language.
36:01
Speaker 1: But then you leave school and you realize there's literally
36:04
Speaker 1: a million other ways to apply your knowledge other than
36:08
Speaker 1: talking to people about it or lecturing people like that
36:12
Speaker 1: knowledge can be utilized and disseminated in other formats, but
36:17
Speaker 1: we're just so used to that from so many years
36:20
Speaker 1: of conditioning. So for me, it's been about like, Okay,
36:23
Speaker 1: I can know something, I literally can do so many
36:27
Speaker 1: things with that knowledge other than debating someone or teaching someone.
36:33
Speaker 1: I could like go do a research project. I can
36:35
Speaker 1: make a podcast, I can write an article, like I
36:39
Speaker 1: can you know, there's I could put an exhibition together
36:43
Speaker 1: and it's still putting the knowledge to use. But when
36:45
Speaker 1: you're straight out of school, you don't have that experience yet. Yeah,
36:50
Speaker 1: Like I'm not someone that likes to consume like debates,
36:55
Speaker 1: like you know, there are podcasts or like they put
36:58
Speaker 1: or even like videos or show those where they like
37:00
Speaker 1: put to contrasting ideas or viewpoints like together, and it's
37:04
Speaker 1: like doma fight. I don't like that, you know, and
37:08
Speaker 1: that's not something I like to consume, which is why
37:10
Speaker 1: I think like here for the podcast, like you're going
37:12
Speaker 1: to hear people that are in line or are aligned
37:15
Speaker 1: with what we believe in and what we support and
37:18
Speaker 1: what we know our listeners like to because that kind
37:21
Speaker 1: of like to me like oh my god, like that
37:23
Speaker 1: must that would make my head hurt, Like do you remember, mama.
37:25
Speaker 1: We never shared this publicly, but we were invited to
37:28
Speaker 1: be on that very conservative talk show, Yes with that
37:33
Speaker 1: guy who interviewed that model at SLT walk and he's like,
37:38
Speaker 1: why are you a slut? Yeah? Yeah, that guy. That
37:42
Speaker 1: guy emailed us. They emailed us, and we were like
37:44
Speaker 1: gonna do it. We were like sure, yeah, let's do it.
37:47
Speaker 1: Why not? And then we did some more digging and
37:49
Speaker 1: we were like, oh no, like I'm not I'm not
37:52
Speaker 1: taking time off of work to go and be rated
37:54
Speaker 1: by someone that's going to call me a slut, like
37:57
Speaker 1: in a negative way. Yeah, And you know, it's it's
38:01
Speaker 1: the type of thing where there's a very disingenuous like
38:05
Speaker 1: call for discourse out there. When you know that a podcast,
38:12
Speaker 1: in many ways a show is scripted. He's not going
38:17
Speaker 1: a podcast host, a TV host, especially if they're conservative,
38:22
Speaker 1: a conservative brow, what have you. They go in there
38:26
Speaker 1: with an outline, with the script, with a plan of
38:28
Speaker 1: the way that the show is going to start and
38:30
Speaker 1: how it's going to end. They are not going in
38:33
Speaker 1: open minded and free balling and let's see what I
38:36
Speaker 1: learned and find out from this person. There's no dialogue
38:39
Speaker 1: taking place. It's a scripted show and they're gonna say
38:42
Speaker 1: what they're gonna say, no matter what we say as guests.
38:48
Speaker 1: And I think that's really important for us to remember
38:51
Speaker 1: as media consumers because we make media. And sure there
38:55
Speaker 1: are chat casts out there, and maybe they're not as
39:00
Speaker 1: organized and researched and well written as we are, but
39:04
Speaker 1: they have a direction, they have a flow, they have
39:06
Speaker 1: a format, they know what they're going to be saying
39:08
Speaker 1: on the show that day. You know. So I think
39:10
Speaker 1: it's just like very disingenuous, this whole like just free
39:13
Speaker 1: thought and we're dialogue and we're learning. You're not. You're
39:16
Speaker 1: putting together a pre planned and produced show. And that's fine, right,
39:20
Speaker 1: But yeah, so that's why we didn't go on, because
39:23
Speaker 1: there's no learning to happen. No, and that person that
39:26
Speaker 1: that the producer that emailed us, like didn't they knew
39:29
Speaker 1: what they wanted to get out of us, right, and
39:32
Speaker 1: like at first and we're like, sure, cool, this is
39:34
Speaker 1: a cool op, Like why not? And then it's like
39:37
Speaker 1: you factor in. I gotta drive there, I gotta take
39:39
Speaker 1: time off of work. I gotta get my hair and
39:41
Speaker 1: makeup done, I gotta pick an outfit. I got all
39:43
Speaker 1: the mental energy that also goes into all of that
39:46
Speaker 1: pre planning to then go and probably not get paid
39:50
Speaker 1: and then you know, be verrated by someone. No thanks, yeah,
39:54
Speaker 1: and to that like that that that theater, it's a theater.
39:57
Speaker 1: It's theater. It's a show. It's a show and very
40:00
Speaker 1: much a circus and like there's no way for us
40:03
Speaker 1: to look good and it's no way for us to
40:07
Speaker 1: feel good or enjoy it. And it's not something we
40:10
Speaker 1: would even want to share with our audience. Now, you know,
40:13
Speaker 1: I know when something is bad for me. I like,
40:16
Speaker 1: I have it. I have an Apple Watch, right, and
40:19
Speaker 1: my Apple Watch will tell me when my heart rate
40:21
Speaker 1: is going up. And so there was this time that
40:24
Speaker 1: I got into an argument with my dad and I
40:28
Speaker 1: could see my heart rate was like progressively like getting
40:31
Speaker 1: higher and higher and higher, and I had to like
40:34
Speaker 1: exit and like go walk, Like I had to go
40:36
Speaker 1: outside and just like take a walk with my dogs
40:38
Speaker 1: because I was like, I need to bring my heart
40:40
Speaker 1: rate down, Like there's no reason that I should be
40:42
Speaker 1: feeling like all this stress and anxiety, you know. But
40:47
Speaker 1: like some people like really put you at that level,
40:50
Speaker 1: you know, and sometimes it's avoidable and sometimes it's not right.
40:53
Speaker 1: And so if I can choose to avoid and not
40:56
Speaker 1: engage with it, I'm going to choose to not engage
40:59
Speaker 1: with it. Truly. Um, that's a real thing. And look,
41:04
Speaker 1: there's plenty of outreach content and click bait. It's its
41:08
Speaker 1: own genre, it's its own economy, and there's an ecosystem
41:12
Speaker 1: when it comes to content, Like people make stuff, people
41:16
Speaker 1: consume it, people critique it, people right about it. It
41:19
Speaker 1: kind of doesn't necessarily matter what the thing is. If
41:23
Speaker 1: it's out there, someone's going to consume it, someone's going
41:27
Speaker 1: to engage with it. You know. It's just the life
41:29
Speaker 1: cycle of content on the Internet. You know, It's just
41:33
Speaker 1: it is what it is. So we're just like really
41:35
Speaker 1: choosing to opt out. There's so much out there. We
41:38
Speaker 1: don't have to do stuff that we don't feel an
41:40
Speaker 1: alignment with. You know, there's so many other options. And
41:44
Speaker 1: I think that's part of like being more seasoned and
41:46
Speaker 1: like mature, is like before there, you we felt a
41:49
Speaker 1: lot of pressure to do so many things, and now
41:51
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, we're going to do what we want
41:52
Speaker 1: to do because we've I think at this point we've
41:55
Speaker 1: paid our dudes, right, Oh yeah, we're in debt from
41:58
Speaker 1: our dues or yes, yes, anyway, So moving back to
42:07
Speaker 1: the sad Girl, you know, I went thinking about this episode.
42:11
Speaker 1: I was also thinking about, like, sure a lot of
42:15
Speaker 1: us are sad girls, but like how many of us
42:17
Speaker 1: were like set up and raised to be sad girls?
42:22
Speaker 1: The music and the novellas, you know that like probably
42:28
Speaker 1: a lot of us grew up listening to. I know
42:31
Speaker 1: as a kid, one of the first songs I ever
42:33
Speaker 1: sang there's like videos of me, like home videos of
42:36
Speaker 1: me was Anna, which is such a dramatic song, so dramatic.
42:44
Speaker 1: I was like four years old singing it, right, so
42:47
Speaker 1: like I was singing about heartbreak. You know, I was
42:51
Speaker 1: raised to be a sad girl, is what I'm gathering.
42:54
Speaker 1: I think that that's very real. I also just think
42:57
Speaker 1: about like how funny my grandma is, and even growing
43:01
Speaker 1: up very you know, there's just Senora soon is gonna
43:06
Speaker 1: be so dramatic, the drama so dramatic, And I think
43:11
Speaker 1: it's one of those things where you know that Debbie
43:15
Speaker 1: Downer skit on SNL. Sometimes a Senora can have this
43:20
Speaker 1: tendency to like, even in the most joyful moments, just
43:24
Speaker 1: make a statement and drop a line that's just like,
43:28
Speaker 1: why would you say that we were having such a
43:32
Speaker 1: good time? You know. So I feel like I have
43:38
Speaker 1: just that's in my personality too, because that's that's my
43:42
Speaker 1: genetics and my family and my people. And I think, um,
43:46
Speaker 1: it's also where a lot of my comedy comes from.
43:48
Speaker 1: Is just that kind of dark place, um, and it
43:53
Speaker 1: can be really funny, you know. So I think I'm
43:56
Speaker 1: that type of a sad girl too, that it's like, oh,
43:59
Speaker 1: most comics like are twisted and sad on the inside.
44:03
Speaker 1: I think I'm that kind of a sad girl. Yeah,
44:06
Speaker 1: I think like that maccabre morbid humor. I think it's
44:10
Speaker 1: very common in Latin X homes families. I know my
44:14
Speaker 1: mom is always saying the wildest ship and same like
44:17
Speaker 1: beautiful moments, fun times, boom sad. You know why I had,
44:24
Speaker 1: like Lisa, you know, my mom is constantly like you know,
44:27
Speaker 1: when a song plays, She's like, oh, this is a
44:29
Speaker 1: song I want played at my funeral, Like, oh my
44:32
Speaker 1: fing what we love talking about my mother. I love
44:35
Speaker 1: talking about their funerals. Your mom talked to me about
44:40
Speaker 1: her funeral, say, at the party right at our podcast
44:44
Speaker 1: party probably, but before then too, when we were going
44:47
Speaker 1: to La you were still getting ready, she was telling
44:49
Speaker 1: me about her funeral, and I was like, oh my god,
44:52
Speaker 1: this is my mom. Also again on our way to
44:55
Speaker 1: like a lovely premier party for a joyous occasion, and
45:00
Speaker 1: here she is talking about her her death, her funeral,
45:04
Speaker 1: her will, all these things. Yeah, And I'm like, you know,
45:08
Speaker 1: and I wasn't even it didn't even take me by
45:10
Speaker 1: surprise because I'm like, yeah, my mom and I talked
45:11
Speaker 1: like this too, so like, yeah, this is just a
45:14
Speaker 1: part of being having having a Latina mom. That's what
45:18
Speaker 1: it is. So that's why we're perpetually chea on us.
45:21
Speaker 1: And you know it's again, if we really want to
45:24
Speaker 1: do a deep read. It's like we're just we have
45:28
Speaker 1: a very um, casual, intimate, Cotidian relationship with death. True,
45:35
Speaker 1: it's true. They bring it up whenever because it's not
45:38
Speaker 1: a scary thing. It's just let's like say, oh my
45:41
Speaker 1: king set my funeral. Yeah no, And it's true. And
45:44
Speaker 1: I think, like, um, this has been said before, but
45:47
Speaker 1: like Latinos Latino X people have a very different relationship
45:51
Speaker 1: with death than white people do, or like US Americans do,
45:57
Speaker 1: where it's like a morning period of morning where troll.
46:00
Speaker 1: For us, it's very joyous. You celebrate, it's vibrant, you know.
46:05
Speaker 1: When my grandfather died, we had it that ghetto like
46:09
Speaker 1: and everyone came to my house afterwards was a funeral,
46:11
Speaker 1: really sad, absolutely, but afterwards it's like most of these
46:15
Speaker 1: people hadn't been in the same room for over ten
46:17
Speaker 1: years and there was a that ghetto and people were
46:20
Speaker 1: like not happy obviously, but it's like you're in that
46:24
Speaker 1: moment of togetherness, you know. And so we very much
46:27
Speaker 1: celebrate um life and death very differently than other white people.
46:34
Speaker 1: I went to a family funeral recently. We went up
46:36
Speaker 1: north to Silinas, and what I loved this The woman
46:43
Speaker 1: who died. Is my the last like matriarch that was
46:47
Speaker 1: older than my grandma here in California. So now my
46:50
Speaker 1: grandma's the oldest she was, she's my grandma. And so
46:54
Speaker 1: they had all their dogs there. They were like four
46:56
Speaker 1: dogs at the burial site. They're carrying their dogs because
47:00
Speaker 1: she loved her dogs. I love that. It was so cute. Also,
47:04
Speaker 1: when you texted me, you were like, oh, I'm going
47:05
Speaker 1: to a funeral that day, and I was like, oh
47:07
Speaker 1: my god, I'm so sorry, and you were like, it's fine.
47:10
Speaker 1: She lived a very long life. She really did. Okay, Yeah,
47:17
Speaker 1: it's true. It's true. She was like a hundred, she
47:21
Speaker 1: was like something. And that was the general. Of course,
47:24
Speaker 1: there were there were tears, of course, people were sad, yes, um,
47:28
Speaker 1: But the general mood and feeling and kind of consensus
47:32
Speaker 1: was like, she lived a great life and she lived
47:34
Speaker 1: a long time, and she had her dogs and all
47:36
Speaker 1: her kids, and it was a very happy you know,
47:42
Speaker 1: um homegoing send off home. Yes. I love that. Yeah. Yeah.
47:48
Speaker 1: So well, we've really covered it all here today. We
47:53
Speaker 1: really have. I don't know, I don't know if we've
47:57
Speaker 1: talked about funerals before, but here here, y'all, oh here
48:00
Speaker 1: it is. Yeah, yeah, it's true. I mean, you know,
48:03
Speaker 1: I think sometimes like things come up in our daily
48:06
Speaker 1: lives and we don't even realize like, oh, this is
48:08
Speaker 1: something we can talk about on the podcast. Totally. I'm
48:11
Speaker 1: going to plug something that's really really important that I
48:14
Speaker 1: promise a lot of people. Don't have your parents, your
48:17
Speaker 1: loved ones. You probably need a living trust. My mom
48:21
Speaker 1: just did that. We just did one recently, and you
48:25
Speaker 1: need it. It's an important document to have. UM. It's
48:29
Speaker 1: basically like a living will and testament, and so you know,
48:33
Speaker 1: whomever you is making it gets to UM basically distribute
48:37
Speaker 1: all their assets the way that they want to and
48:39
Speaker 1: you have to do with the lawyer. It's a little pricey,
48:42
Speaker 1: but I promise you it's so important, especially if your family,
48:45
Speaker 1: your parents, your loved ones are homeowners or have assets,
48:48
Speaker 1: have property, have stocks, you know, have jewelry, have jewelry,
48:52
Speaker 1: you know, money in their bank account. Yes, so very important.
48:58
Speaker 1: Look into it. Get it. I promise you. If you
49:02
Speaker 1: don't do it, you will regret it. Because when my
49:04
Speaker 1: parents had COVID, all I could think about was holy
49:07
Speaker 1: sh it, we didn't do this. Luckily, everyone got recovered
49:11
Speaker 1: and was healthy and then we were able to go
49:13
Speaker 1: and do it. But like I promise you, that's like
49:15
Speaker 1: one thing you're going to think about if something happens
49:18
Speaker 1: to a family member is like, oh, ship, I should
49:20
Speaker 1: have done this, I should have done that, so do
49:22
Speaker 1: it important. And you know people are still dropping like flies.
49:26
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's true. We're still in the pandemic. People.
49:33
Speaker 1: People are still dying. Um, and you know if you
49:36
Speaker 1: have siblings laughs. But also it's this too, it's this too.
49:43
Speaker 1: My mom also loves talking about like in like family friends,
49:48
Speaker 1: when um, the matriarch or patriarch dies and then all
49:52
Speaker 1: the siblings suddenly don't know how to act and behave
49:55
Speaker 1: horribly and mismanage all the assets. So you may think
49:58
Speaker 1: you're cool with your siblings, but let a relative die
50:02
Speaker 1: and then watch chaos and sue. So it's true. I've
50:05
Speaker 1: seen so many terrible things happen in families because the matriarch,
50:11
Speaker 1: the head of house dies and then the siblings, like
50:13
Speaker 1: you said, don't know how to act. Get a will,
50:16
Speaker 1: get a truss, get a living trust. You'll regret it.
50:19
Speaker 1: It's true. It's true. You've heard it here. That would
50:24
Speaker 1: also be its own like probably really terrible but really
50:27
Speaker 1: interesting podcasts where it's like people talk about their like
50:30
Speaker 1: living not starting, not let me trust their like probate
50:33
Speaker 1: horror stories with family because it happens. You're you're all
50:37
Speaker 1: love and family until there's money, and like people don't
50:40
Speaker 1: know how to act the family home assets whatever. You
50:45
Speaker 1: may not think that your family has assets, if your
50:48
Speaker 1: parents own their house, it's gonna come up. It's going
50:51
Speaker 1: to be a thing, yeah, you know, and so much
50:54
Speaker 1: money gets lost and time gets lost in probate court,
50:58
Speaker 1: you know, and like then you're just letting your government
51:01
Speaker 1: tax things and we don't want to give them the
51:03
Speaker 1: government more money, No, the government. Yeah. And also like
51:07
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes someone dies and like families go and
51:10
Speaker 1: life start taking things, you know, they start taking items.
51:15
Speaker 1: I've like definitely experienced that before, and it's like hold on,
51:19
Speaker 1: like there hasn't even been a funeral yet, and like
51:21
Speaker 1: you're already over here sorting through things, like have some
51:25
Speaker 1: more respect, oh yeah, and not only that, like is
51:30
Speaker 1: there a caretaker before this person dies. We had a
51:36
Speaker 1: situation with a relative who wasn't a blood relative relative
51:41
Speaker 1: um and didn't have any children, and after her husband died,
51:45
Speaker 1: she lived alone, but she had a caretaker, and that caretaker,
51:50
Speaker 1: little by little just kind of took over bank accounts, jewelry,
51:56
Speaker 1: closed the apartment and it was very like sneaky over
52:01
Speaker 1: the course of years. So by the time this this
52:04
Speaker 1: relative died, it was already she had already entangled herself
52:09
Speaker 1: in in all of this senoras affairs. And it was
52:15
Speaker 1: crazy because nobody had thought two look and see if
52:21
Speaker 1: this woman was basically stealing from her. That wasn't crossing
52:25
Speaker 1: anyone's minds um. And then when the death happened and
52:30
Speaker 1: all this people started to ask about the will and
52:33
Speaker 1: the stuff, then all these things came out. You know,
52:37
Speaker 1: the will had been edited while she was still alive,
52:42
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Um, So just saying, guys,
52:45
Speaker 1: just keep an eye on things. Oh my god, it's
52:49
Speaker 1: a thing that happens. It really is. And that's something
52:51
Speaker 1: we don't talk about either. There has there's so many,
52:54
Speaker 1: so much family drama, like because of things that I think, like,
52:58
Speaker 1: even if it makes you family members unhappy that there's
53:02
Speaker 1: a living trust or a will or what have you, like,
53:05
Speaker 1: you gotta do it, you know, try to do it
53:08
Speaker 1: to outline what you want to happen to yourself and
53:13
Speaker 1: to your stuff and how things are going to work.
53:15
Speaker 1: You have to give people a plan or people will
53:18
Speaker 1: just freak out. We'll do what they want. Trust your family.
53:27
Speaker 1: You heard it here first, like my father does. Trust nobody,
53:33
Speaker 1: Trust nobody. The call is coming from in the house anyways, Um,
53:42
Speaker 1: what else are we talking about this episode? As if
53:45
Speaker 1: that's not enough, I think we can everything we got.
53:49
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