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Capítulo 046: Disabled y Latina · Locatora Radio [A Radiophonic Novela]

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  Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies, a myth and bullshit, a radio
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  Speaker 1: phonic novella Look Radio hosted by Malamn. Hello, Welcome back
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  Speaker 1: you once again from Radio Espasio here at EsPAS nine
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  Speaker 1: in boil Heights, where we always record. Thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for joining us, Thank you for tuning in. Look
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  Speaker 1: At Radio is a radiophonic novella, a podcast archiving the legacies,
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  Speaker 1: geniuses and brilliance of women and fans of color. That
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  Speaker 1: is who we are and that is what we do.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a while since we've recorded a hot minute.
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  Speaker 1: We took an unexpected break. Um, Mala and I have
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  Speaker 1: been working behind the scenes, so we haven't actually been
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  Speaker 1: able to record. And then I was out of commission
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  Speaker 1: for about a week. Yeah, I got sick. You got sick. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's been kind of a weird August. It was. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so ready for August to be over. And officially mercury
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  Speaker 1: Is has stationed direct. We are out of retro rade.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you goddesses, thank you planets. I learned a lot
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  Speaker 1: in this retrograde. In this recent retrograde. We're on the
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  Speaker 1: tail end. I mean there's like some weird stuff still
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  Speaker 1: going on, right, you know, yeah, like in our lives,
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  Speaker 1: in our personal lives, good stuff, lots of good stuff,
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  Speaker 1: good stuff, more good stuff than weird stuff and weird
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  Speaker 1: stuff always, you know. Yes, Okay, So we have an announcement.
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  Speaker 1: So as y'all know, we had to reschedule our meet up,
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  Speaker 1: our Vienna party. Unfortunately, I was very ill. I had
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  Speaker 1: I actually lost my voice, could not speak, could not
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  Speaker 1: eat for about a week. It was her instruments the worst. Literally,
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  Speaker 1: I told mom, I was like, I feel like Beyonce
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  Speaker 1: and carry like I have to be on vocal us,
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  Speaker 1: vocal rest, do not talk to her right right. And
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  Speaker 1: then the last thing I wanted was for our locomotives,
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  Speaker 1: our Fly Fly Local motives to come to our meet
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  Speaker 1: up and then get sick right and then get their
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  Speaker 1: family six. So I was like, no, Mala, we have
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  Speaker 1: to reschedule. And I was so heartbroken to have to
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  Speaker 1: do that, but you know, yeah, she wasn't quarantined, but
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  Speaker 1: literally we've rescheduled all that. To say that we have rescheduled,
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  Speaker 1: so new date Saturday, August. That is just a week
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  Speaker 1: away a few days from now by the time y'all
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  Speaker 1: are listening, so it'll still be a delicious pizza time change.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually from two to four pm and d J.
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  Speaker 1: Sizzle will be joining us. She'll be spinning and we're
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  Speaker 1: super super excited. So if you weren't able to make it, um,
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  Speaker 1: if that day didn't work for you, is what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully that y'all can make it to come on the party,
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  Speaker 1: Pina Party, Come show your pianna, where your little dresses,
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  Speaker 1: your little shorts, whatever makes you comfortable, whatever you want. Um,
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  Speaker 1: there's pizza there. We're not buying food for people, but
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  Speaker 1: there is food. They're right, it is a meet up
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  Speaker 1: and there's like they have some wine options, some beer options,
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  Speaker 1: some beer options. So it's gonna be cute. So come through.
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  Speaker 1: Someone um actually asked on the Instagram if they could
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  Speaker 1: take their baby, and absolutely, you can take your child,
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  Speaker 1: bring your children. It is like, this is a pizza place,
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  Speaker 1: it's an all ages events. So this is a perfect opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: If you cannot come to like any of our live
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  Speaker 1: shows because you need to hire a babysitter or whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is. You know, things happen, So yeah, this is
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  Speaker 1: a good this is a really great event. And at
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  Speaker 1: the same so actually that day we also will be
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  Speaker 1: hosting our last show at Levin Pavilion. UM. It will
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  Speaker 1: be we're so excited for this one. This is I
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  Speaker 1: mean all of them, but this one in particular because
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  Speaker 1: we actually saw them last year here at the special
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  Speaker 1: and we didn't see them like it was just a
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  Speaker 1: few of them. It wasn't the full ensemble, but in
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  Speaker 1: all women's Maniatchi group will be at Levin I'm MacArthur
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  Speaker 1: Park next Saturday, and that's at seven pm. So we're
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  Speaker 1: going to have our meetup and then we're gonna take
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  Speaker 1: a little rest and then we're going to go to
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  Speaker 1: to host UM Florida the flor Show. So we're super excited.
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  Speaker 1: We like really hope that people come with us. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, leave the meet up and let's go see
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  Speaker 1: the ladies sing. They're incredible. They're so good, so effing good, magical.
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  Speaker 1: I believe they just won a Grammy, like the Latin
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  Speaker 1: Grammy or something. I believe it they won like some
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  Speaker 1: music award. One of the Mohennes in Florida is Miguel's cousin.
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  Speaker 1: For their first cousins like Miguel, the singer who I love. Right,
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  Speaker 1: he's from Santa Monica, right, My, Actually I went to
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  Speaker 1: middle school with one of his cousins. And it's so
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  Speaker 1: funny because this is words side charged. But let me
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  Speaker 1: just share this real quick, because I remember this boy
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  Speaker 1: that I went to school with. I went to middle
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  Speaker 1: school with, and he was like all about his cousin,
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  Speaker 1: the singer Miguel. He would always talk about his cousin
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  Speaker 1: like he was like, my cousin is going to make it,
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  Speaker 1: Like my cousin is going to be super big, like
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  Speaker 1: listen to my cousin's demo, listened to like all about
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  Speaker 1: his cousin. Turns out it ends up being sucking Miguel,
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  Speaker 1: and he did make it, and he did make it,
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  Speaker 1: and so um. So you know that Miguel is also Mexican,
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  Speaker 1: so on his Mexican side, like that is the cousin. Yeah, wow,
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  Speaker 1: how cute. He's an l a boy, like he's like
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  Speaker 1: a local boy, which is also why I love him
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  Speaker 1: so much because he did make it. We love let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you anyway. Anyway. Anyways, Okay, so also we
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  Speaker 1: wanted to announce that we are also for we are
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  Speaker 1: booking for fall and winter. Seen, We're open to booking.
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  Speaker 1: We're open to booking. Book us. Last year or last
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  Speaker 1: school year, we were at University of Oregon. We did
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  Speaker 1: pit sir, we did ucsp A USC A bunch of times. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: shout out USC. Yes we love our Trojan look I
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  Speaker 1: motives Yes, and our Oregon look a motive. All of you,
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  Speaker 1: all of you all. We love all of y'all. So
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  Speaker 1: fly us out. We will travel. We will travel. UM.
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  Speaker 1: If you're so, if you are part of a student organization,
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  Speaker 1: or if you team up with the cultural center at
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  Speaker 1: your school or professor, if there's a conference, yes, UM,
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  Speaker 1: reach out to us. We can talk about all of
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  Speaker 1: that and figure it out. Basically, any of ours we
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  Speaker 1: can turn into a workshop. We have turned them into workshops.
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  Speaker 1: One of my faves thus far has been the Goddess
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  Speaker 1: worship one that we did an Oregon, very fun. And
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  Speaker 1: then the Multidimensional ho that we did at USC. Yes, UM,
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  Speaker 1: that was really great. I also like our latinox tech
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  Speaker 1: is also we can literally come and teach you how
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  Speaker 1: to create a podcast. We can teach you how to
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  Speaker 1: do a podcast. We have done that. We specifically have
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  Speaker 1: created that workshop for youth. So if you work with youth, um,
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  Speaker 1: even like a high school, like if you want to
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  Speaker 1: take us to a local high schools until even a
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  Speaker 1: local high school. You know all of that. It's like
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  Speaker 1: a women's history month, Latino History month, you know whatever
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  Speaker 1: it is, even things that have to do with Um,
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know what I'm talking about anymore, but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: bring us out. Email us. Look, I thought our radio
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  Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. We do it all. We do everything,
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  Speaker 1: We do everything. Um yeah, okay, book us. Anyways. Also,
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  Speaker 1: we've been working on things right, as I mentioned, we
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  Speaker 1: took some time off because we have been working on
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  Speaker 1: stuff behind the scenes, so we cannot share too much.
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  Speaker 1: But we are launching a new project, very cute, exciting
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  Speaker 1: new project that we're so excited about. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: you are all gonna die. You're gonna love it. I
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  Speaker 1: know it. Okay, that's enough, you're gonna love it. Say
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  Speaker 1: no more. Um. Yeah, So we have been you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mama likes to say that even when we're not podcasting,
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  Speaker 1: we're podcasting, and that is honestly, very very true. Um,
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  Speaker 1: we're podcasting. Last night at MacArthur Park, we were, we
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  Speaker 1: were It was a lot of fun. Yeah, can I
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  Speaker 1: sure about my pants to leave? Oh my god? So
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  Speaker 1: last night we go out, right, Oh my god, my
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  Speaker 1: poor mother. She wasn't here, she wasn't involved. I just
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  Speaker 1: didn't whenever I do things, I'm like my poor mother.
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  Speaker 1: So right, so we go out. I got sick. The
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  Speaker 1: aside took me home. I don't remember much, but I
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  Speaker 1: had like this, this the will and the strength of
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  Speaker 1: mind to like go into my grandmother's house and get
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  Speaker 1: my dog, get get pop us, go in the backyard,
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  Speaker 1: and then go up to my apartment. So when I
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  Speaker 1: wake up this morning, I'm like, thes like, what happened?
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  Speaker 1: How did I get home? Like? What's up? I did
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  Speaker 1: not order an uber last night, So so we figured
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  Speaker 1: it out. I had to come here to come record.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm leaving my apartment and I'm up on the
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  Speaker 1: second story. I have a little bout, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: my walkway, and I looked down and the pants that
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  Speaker 1: I was wearing last night were like in a little pile,
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  Speaker 1: like on this table like down below. There's one of
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  Speaker 1: two things could have happened, and I know which one
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  Speaker 1: it was. So either I got up to my apartment
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  Speaker 1: and up from the balcony. I took up my pants
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  Speaker 1: and I threw them across the yard and they landed
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  Speaker 1: perfectly in a little pile on the corner of the table.
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  Speaker 1: Or I took off my pants downstairs and then opened
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  Speaker 1: the gate and walked up the stairs and walked past
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  Speaker 1: my neighbor's window and front door, and then in my
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  Speaker 1: thonge specifically important and then opened the I'm thinking that
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  Speaker 1: that's what happened. I think it's the second one. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't have evidence to really support either theory. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think that was also partially my responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't walk you into your apartment. But it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: I made it in one piece, right, So anyways, what
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  Speaker 1: else are we talking about today? Anyway? That was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Point is I don't even know how we got We
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  Speaker 1: got here baby around the car park. Oh, we were
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  Speaker 1: at MacArthur Park, and then I ended up doing have
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  Speaker 1: panciless in my bank. At least you were in your backyard.
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  Speaker 1: I was in my backyard. Yes, anyway, Okay, so we're
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  Speaker 1: moving on to our next second, next segment, O god
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  Speaker 1: models going to kill us up, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So we have a few questions for all your look
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  Speaker 1: us and listener questions submitted via Instagram. So this question
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  Speaker 1: is do you ever deal with imposter syndrome? Yes? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: next question. Yeah, I'm an impostor impostor syndrome all the time,
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  Speaker 1: all time, all the time. I think that like my
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  Speaker 1: impostor syndrome kicks in my impostor syndrome. Honestly, I think
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  Speaker 1: kicks in a lot when it comes to romantic staff.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna when it come say dating, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking about podcasting work now check check, check, We're good,
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  Speaker 1: We're good, we're chilling, we're good, We're good when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to dating. Same. You totally took that out of
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  Speaker 1: my mouth. Don't feel good for it. I don't feel
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  Speaker 1: good enough. I don't feel like I'm actually like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: like I shouldn't be dating. I shouldn't be dating, like
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't you know what I mean? What is your iteration? UM?
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  Speaker 1: I was going to say, um something similar. I think
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  Speaker 1: that I have recently with my therapists have been like
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  Speaker 1: unpacking my self, saboteur my inner self, belts for um.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that it's very much tied to imposter
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  Speaker 1: syndrome or it's like I've had these very tumultuous relationships,
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  Speaker 1: um mutually unhealthy. So now that I'm in like the
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  Speaker 1: healthy relationship I've been thus far, I catch myself like
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  Speaker 1: sometimes wanting to function up because I'm like so almost
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  Speaker 1: like you're waiting for the other shooter drop right, Like
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  Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, why is this going so well exactly?
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  Speaker 1: And why are you do treat me this way in
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  Speaker 1: a good way? Right, And like I don't understand. I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like, what's going to happen? Definite impostor syndrome when
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  Speaker 1: it's comes into dating. But I feel like, um, because
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  Speaker 1: our listeners do so many amazing things, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: this question might be about school or about work and
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  Speaker 1: not so much relationships. So I just want to say,
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  Speaker 1: like remember that, like there is no one like you,
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  Speaker 1: no one, and what you bring to the table like
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  Speaker 1: is completely unique. So whether that be for school, for work,
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  Speaker 1: in a relationship, in your friendships, your family, Like you
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  Speaker 1: are like the expert at you of being you, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean. So it's like who I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: like honing on that power like trust, that trust, that
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  Speaker 1: inner strength, that inner goddess, that inner fierceness. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, And of course that's easier said
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  Speaker 1: than done. Yeah, And what I like to have this
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  Speaker 1: conversation too with my friends, and especially when I do
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  Speaker 1: like self defense workshops and stuff when I like to
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  Speaker 1: talk to girls about is the fact that, like, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at people who are considered like super intelligent
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  Speaker 1: or accomplished and like the people that we are all
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  Speaker 1: supposed to look up to as like examples of hard work,
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  Speaker 1: and we could name any like whether it's a Steve
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  Speaker 1: Jobs or this or that whoever you know, figures um,
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  Speaker 1: the people that we consider actual we base our standards
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  Speaker 1: of intelligence off of those people have all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: fucked up ship going on in their fucking lives, like
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: their messes. Like if there's one thing that the Me
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  Speaker 1: too in Times of Movement have shown me with all
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  Speaker 1: of the disclosures of sexual violence going on in Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: with these major producers and artists and geniuses and actors
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  Speaker 1: in this and that and journalists forget Matt Lauer, all
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  Speaker 1: these fools who are supposedly the gold standard, who are
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  Speaker 1: so great and geniuses, they're not effing geniuses there. They've
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  Speaker 1: had access to things, They've been able to go to
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  Speaker 1: the best schools, they've been supported their whole lives. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: they're not that fucking intelligent and they're not that creative.
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  Speaker 1: They're not more creative than you, and they're pieces of ship.
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, so when we think about I'm an
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  Speaker 1: impostor compared to who, who's the real effing impostor here?
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  Speaker 1: Like if you got into your school, if you're taking
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  Speaker 1: your classes like you're supposed to be there, You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be there, and you know, like, I actually think
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  Speaker 1: that we are better than a lot of people in
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  Speaker 1: many ways who were supposedly supposed to look up to.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? That would be my concert home,
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  Speaker 1: like all about imposter syndrome. Yeah, yeah, that's those guys.
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  Speaker 1: You're great, right, absolutely, and I think that they're Um,
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  Speaker 1: I want to recommend our Friends of Cheeseman. They actually
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  Speaker 1: have a an episode specifically about imposter syndrome that maybe
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  Speaker 1: you'll want to check out because they unpacked this and
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  Speaker 1: what it's like for folks of color and when you
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  Speaker 1: like um tying like sexuality and gender and class and
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  Speaker 1: all of these different things. You know, we definitely can
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  Speaker 1: feel like we're not deserving of having great things there's
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  Speaker 1: so much to talk about, and you know, there's like
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  Speaker 1: these ongoing jokes and like comedians will make jokes about it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see it on Twitter. But it's like when you
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  Speaker 1: are doing something really cool in your community and then
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  Speaker 1: people your family will like make fun of you about it, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know she's real And then so I think we
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  Speaker 1: also come from that being humbled constantly, right right, right?
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  Speaker 1: And I yeah, definitely, because I feel like the only
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  Speaker 1: one that really gets what I do is my mother
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  Speaker 1: and my my Buddymo because he lives with me, so
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  Speaker 1: he's like they literally see me leaving all the time
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  Speaker 1: to do stuff for the podcast, as opposed to a
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  Speaker 1: family that doesn't live with me or it doesn't see
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  Speaker 1: me constantly and obviously don't listen. It's just like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: she's she's hosting a party, she's going she's going to
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  Speaker 1: a party. Party, She's yeah, she's going to a party. Right.
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  Speaker 1: They don't see the process, right, right, right, So the
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  Speaker 1: impostor syndrome, I think, well, it's kind of like it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like our families feel like they know the
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  Speaker 1: true us, the one true Us, so it won't be
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  Speaker 1: DV outside of it They're like, Nope, you're not. That's
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  Speaker 1: not you. You are a suster well away anyway, next
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  Speaker 1: next question, Okay, what boundaries do you set for work
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  Speaker 1: life balance? What is the next career move? I had
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  Speaker 1: a career move recently. I am no longer working full
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  Speaker 1: time as a rape crisis counselor advocate. I'm a teacher now,
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  Speaker 1: and I will not say much more about it because
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  Speaker 1: we are work life value. This is the answer. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a teacher, but I'm not going to be sharing really
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  Speaker 1: because previously I would share a lot like about my
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  Speaker 1: work because it was so relevant to the podcast. I'm
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: still going to volunteer on the crisis hotline. Um, but
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  Speaker 1: my my full time gig now I'm teaching mostly like
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  Speaker 1: sex said type stuff, so it's it's fun times, but
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  Speaker 1: I do more and more. Like I set my individual
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  Speaker 1: Instagram to private, I set my individual Twitter to private, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really thinking of getting rid of the Twitter. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I've been on it for six years and I'm kind
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  Speaker 1: of tired of the app. I'm tired. I'm tired of
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  Speaker 1: Twitter dot com. So I'm trying to like set those
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  Speaker 1: boundaries for myself. UM, let's see for me, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think I necessarily have boundaries like I don't have thus far.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have like podcast boundaries. Um, Like I'm constantly
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm constantly um thinking about stuff for
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  Speaker 1: the podcast and I and I'll text Mole. I was like, well,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: we're I feel like we're almost like we're podcast. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's like a that's a very like that's a hyperbole, hyperbolic,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like it's right. But it's like, well, sure
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting in eight hours straight, you know, but
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  Speaker 1: I am like putting in thirty minutes here and then
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes there and there, and then a twenty minute
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: phone call with you and vice for you know what,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: and so on and so forth almost every day. Right,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: So I don't necessarily have that boundary yet. But um,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: for work, I mean I had I work a nine
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: to five, so I that's that's my boundary. I get
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to clock in, I get to clock out. Um for
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the most part, I don't work weekends. I don't really
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: work late. Um, so that is my that is my balance. Um.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: And then my next career move, um, I am plotting
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: on it. We'll see. This has been a really good
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: like transition job and a really good like just to
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: feel things out, um what my next move might be.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. We have we have things in
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: the work. I really do believe that, Like well, each
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: year of the podcast has been a momentous year with
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: lots of things going on, and there is this this
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: coming year. I just know there's going to be all
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: kinds of stuff coming our way. And who knows what
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about this time next year,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: right right? Yes, all right, So we have any other
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: else's um no, So we're going to get into our
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: song break now. Um. We have a guest for the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: second half of the in for the second half of
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: this law so or Cara, Belly Rosa and and and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: and and and and and and and and and and
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: and and and and and and and and Belly rack
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  Speaker 1: and and and send Delly rang and and and send
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Bell rang and and and ummm from from from from
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  Speaker 1: M M of it and Little ship M welcome back.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: So we're super excited to have this guest on the show.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Her name is Andrea, and I'm gonna let her introduce herself.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Hey girl, welcome, Hi, I hope for everyone. I am
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Andrea and I create videos on YouTube about disability and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: disabled awareness and education. I am disabled myself, I have spina,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: and then with my education. I like to throw in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the intersection of being a Latina because they intersect, um,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and I can't really get around it because it's both
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: my identities and what kind of Latina are you? We
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: were talking about this before we started recording. This is
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: important supposed to ask people. You're not supposed to ask
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: people why they're why I am Cuban and Puerto Rican.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: My dad's from Puerto Rico, my mom's from Cuba. So
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I generally tell people I'm a Cuba Rican. And the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: only frustrating thing I have about it, there's two things. Um,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: there's never merchandise that mixes look flats, so I always
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: have to buy individual things, and so it sucks because
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I want to wear like a body question. But then
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm Cuban. Two I need them to know
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: him right or things like that, or people who are
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: familiar with Cuban Puerto Rico. Apparently that the islands don't
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: get along. Um. So they asked me if my parents
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: still love each other, if they're still married. Oh my god,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: I'm like I didn't know this as a kid, so
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I was like, what are you guys talking about? But
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: it was. It was a big thing. And I learned
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: later that my parents had like a lot of issues
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: for a while with my dad's family for my dad
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: marrying my mom. But like now everyone's kind of fine,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: especially because my dad, I guess, fulfilled his duty and
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: had like six kids, but he had no sons, and
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: so we gave him a boy dog. So okay, here's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: your boy, here's your boy child. He kept thinking, he
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: was like every kid he kept getting. He was like,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this will be the one. And then we're all like, no, Dad,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we're better. And you you are also online and you
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: are a content creator as well. Right when we were
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: talking about that too, Yeah, you want to talk a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: little bit about like your your videos and like what
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you discuss and your mediums and all that good stuff. Yeah. So, um,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the main video I do every week. It comes out
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: on Mondays on my channel UM. I call it hashteck spinnipifida,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and I started that because while I have a physical disability,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: it's invisible most of the time unless people really focus
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: on my walk or if I use a cane. UM.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: But growing up, my parents were always just like, yeah,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you're disabled, Like it wasn't really a bad thing. It
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: was just as a matter of fact, because everyone likes
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to use these weird um I forgot those like pseudonyms
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: or whatever of saying like you're differently abled or stuff,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and that's I don't know, I don't. Some disabled people
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: use it, and that's fine because the community itself we
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: can identify how we but able people meaning someone that
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any mental illnesses physical disabilities. Those are able
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: people and um, not to be confused with able body.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: A lot of people say able bodied, but there are
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: disabled people who are able bodied. They could have a
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: mental illness, um, but they're still able body. And so
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: when you do that, you like exclude other people in
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the disabled community. But I like disabled because it says
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: what it is, I can't do stuff, and that's and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: everyone can't do things, um right and disabilities of culture.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And so my parents just kind of like, let me
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: be happy with my label. But growing up we would
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: get like aggressions from people outside. Um. I've had a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: disabled placard that I carry with me and I will
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: use it on days where I am having just trouble
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: walking far distances. And because of that people My sister
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and I would use it a lot because we lived
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: with her while I was in college and she would
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: park in it to pick me up from class, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: we would get harassed by elderly people, by a police
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: officer and because I didn't look disabled enough to them.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And that's just the issue that everyone thinks it looks
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: like that sign, and I'm like, disability doesn't look like
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: that sign. Um that element attached, right, yeah, And that
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: sign is like it's good and bad. It gives everyone
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and they know what that's for, but it adds a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: lot of problems because it's a wheelchair sign and there's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the diversity of that. But also it gets people confused
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: about wheelchair users. Everyone thinks, you will chair users are
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: bound to their chairs, and majority of the time they're not.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: They can get up and stuff, and that's when you
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: get those like shitty, am I will to curse? Yeah? Absolutely.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: And the word that you used again before we started recording,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the word that you that you used to just scribe
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: um like a cane or a wheelchair was mobility aid. Okay,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: so so right because it's an aid. Yeah, so it
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: can be used in any number of ways. Yeah, and
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: like a lot of things can be an aid. If
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: it's helping better your life, it's an aid. Um. I
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: use uh text to talk a lot on my phone,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: especially when I'm walking, because when I'm I have no balance.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Uh We've talked about this a lot. I have nerve
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: damage on my feet, so I don't have balance, and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I look the way. My brain compensated for that because
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I lost feeling from one of my back surgeries. They
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: took out nerves and I just lost feeling at my feet,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: so I looked down a lot. And Um, when I'm walking,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I have to focus. And so when people text me,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I'll use my headphones and I'll text to talk And
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I consider that as like an accessibility tools because it's
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: helping me still stay stay safe because l A drivers,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: oh my god, moving out here, they don't. The only
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: time I don't care is when I'm in Sandem Monica
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: seeing my doctors because it's rich white people and I
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: want to get hit hit me. I have. I have
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: student laws and they like they're old, they're going to
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: die soon. Give me money. But but it's just going
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: through all that, Like I got harassed a lot by
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: police officers, and looking back now, it's scary. I I'm
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: very I'm white passing. I'm a white Latina from my
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: mom's side. My dad has Diana blood, but I look
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: like my mom's I have skin, so I'm privileged in that.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: But my sister got my dad's skin, so she is
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: like your color. And so that's scary thinking about that
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: we would get stopped by cops. And the mention of
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: street harassment and the harassment from the police and from
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: other people. You were talking about how there is a
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: very specific intersection of like disability and street harassment, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that's so interesting to me. How even like the carcetral
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: state becomes like the FED through the police become involved
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: in that. You talk a little bit more about that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: intersection of the street harassment. Yeah, well, I mean there's many.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: So I'll have to for those situations, I have to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: prove that I can park there. They just have to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: run my I d But they like it doesn't stop
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: them from making side comments. They're like, well, you look
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: so healthy and all these things, and I'm like, okay,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: that happens at the doctor's office. I go to the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: urologist a lot and it's just feel old people that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: their bladders don't work. I didn't have to get old
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to have like a shitty bladder. And I just look
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: at them, like Helen, because they look at me, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I can tell that they are like, why is she here?
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Like they're trying to figure out what's wrong. I'm like, Helen,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to get my bladder looked at like
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: you're going to die. I'm just trying not to right.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: But the other the other street harassment, um is this
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: one with like the Kane yes, what happened Kane Yes?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: And what happened? Okay? So okay, So earlier today, earlier today,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I was turning the corner coming to a spa and
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I was recording a video to my Instagram stories. So
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I was like la la la, you know, and I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: and I'm still recovering from last night. You know, I'm
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like not all here, so, you know, So I'm walking
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: around the corner and I see a mariachi sitting on
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a bench and a young lady sitting next to him
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: and they're like talking. They're like talking or he's talking,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: and I'm not really painted, I don't know, So I
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: was like, maybe that's his niece or his daughter or something,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: because you do look very young, and she's very that's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: living my dad, jeez, that's the thing, you know, is
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: very petite. And so I'm walking by and she goes
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: my lad and she looks at me, and I'm like, oh, hey,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Like but I didn't know what was going on, so
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I kind of kept walking for this. I kept with them.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I like kept looking back and I stopped in the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: doorway and I'm like, I kept looking at my eyes
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: were wide. I was like, yeah, not so yeah. So
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: then I stopped in the doorway and I was like,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: is everything good? And I was like yeah, And then
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he had he pulled up because then I was just
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: going to already and beligne it to you. So he
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: put his hand out to shake his hand, and like God,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: but I'm like torn because at the same time, I'm
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: like I don't want to don't feel like gross. But
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: also my dad, my dad's a marine and raised me
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that I need to like handshake, and he had a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: ship handshake because my dad has had a ship. That's
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: that's the thing too. My dad, I think because he
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: overcompensated that he had no boys, he made sure that
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: all the things he would want to teach a boy.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: He taught to my sisters and I, which is like
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: that thing he should teach any I know, good thing
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to teach a kid, like when he would give us handshake.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: When he would teach us how to give a handshake,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: he was like, you have to do with the marine way,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: So you have to like it's like a power show.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: You have to squeeze. And I do that with everyone.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I love it though, because like men don't think women
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: will do that, And they go to give like such
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: a like half ash shake and I squeeze their hand
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, I'm the fucking authoritive. Sometimes I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: like to invert it though, and I'd like to make
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: all the time. Mama will do like the hi like
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: she's like expecting you to kiss her hand. That's literally
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: what she does a constantly think. I like laughed at me.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: She's like, Zoey, what the is that? Anyway? I'm but
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the with with the guy. He so before Mama got there,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: he I was sitting on the bench because they weren't
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: here yet, and I got here really early, um and
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I saw him walk by and I was like, God,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: damn it, he is going to say something to me later.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You always know because he because he walked by and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: he got like, I'm not good with math. He got
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a good distance and he stopped and looked back and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: then kept going. And that's when I was like, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: so I was instagramming my friends being like this is
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: going to happen. And then he came back. He started
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: talking to me, and then he just was saying I
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: was really pretty, and then I was just like, okay,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: thank you. And he's much older. Yeah, he was like
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: it was no even if even if like he wanted
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to pay my student loans, it's enough. I never understand.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I really never understand. I truly don't get it when
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: like older and I'm sorry, ugly guys like old men,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Like what do I call them? All these grossos out
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: here and they're just there. I know, there's such grossos
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and they're so old and ugly, and like I'm like,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: why do you how where did you get where did
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you get the confidence to approach me? Well, it's why
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: do you think that it's okay? Why do you think
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: that it's okay to speak to me? I don't get
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: it because like I he asked, like what I did,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and then I didn't know I was. You get so
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: like not flustered, the confused because you're processing that this
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: guy is just talking to you and so and I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: have That's the thing I need to work on. I
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: really hate lying to everybody and I know and like,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was glad, I just don't like, oh,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I work with computers, and then he was It's not
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: a full lie, but it was like enough where he
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: was just like, oh, but I bet your talents like
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: being beautiful. Sometimes I like to tell men that I
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: like work at as like a mortician or something that
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I work in a mortuary, Like what is the most
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: like horrific? You know what I mean. But back to
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the mariachi on the street, he you also brought up.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: That's where the mobility aid conversation also came to play. Yeah,
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: he um. So it's a lot of for me. I've
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: been using my aid for like a little bit over
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: a year. And that was a big confidence thing too,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: because there's so much able is um and internalized able
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: ism where I don't want. I have the privilege that
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: I can hide my disability so I can decide if
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: it's safe for people to know. But with AID. It
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: makes me more visible to people. Um and like there's
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: a lot of stuff like I got my AID because
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: my ex and I were talking about it and he
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: was like you need it and like I want you
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to have it, and he's like, you want me to
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: get one too? So we match and I was like, no,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: I'm fine because I used him as an aide. That
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: was only perku dating him like cold his hand and
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: it would be my AID at the same time. But yeah,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: it was like he was always that was the thing too.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I cried once because I was like when I got it,
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: and I was like, are you still going to hold
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: my hand when we walk when I use it? And
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, why are you asking this? Like
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: fu And I was like I just I know because
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: I never see it. Like that's the thing too. The
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: aids aren't really shown in a positive light with dating,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: so I was like, what do I do? Can I
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: hold his hand or do I need to and it anymore?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: But um, I I've kind of regressed a bit back
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: since we've been broken up because now I'm back in
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: the dating world. And when I when I met my ex,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: he already kind of knew about my disability and he
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: watched my channel a lot. I was gonna say, I
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: wanted to ask you something because I know that you're
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: also a writer and you contribute to Fearce let you do.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And so you have a few articles, well one article
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: in particular where you talk about dating and your disability
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: and like what that's like for you. I don't know
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: if that's something you want to share and like talking
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: here on the show, I can do I can do that.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: That article was about my first time having sex and
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: it was with my ex and like my petty I'm
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: little kidding, like my petty side. I almost sent him
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the article to be like hey, um, like I know
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you're having a ship time right now, but like at
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: least something good came out of dating and I got
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to fucking make money off of having sex with you, bish,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I got paid. What do you do and still work
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: in your job? That is like the pettiest thing I've
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: heard in a while, Like right, and we hear a
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: lot of petty things. So can you talk about I mean,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: if you're comfortable sharing like your experience dating and what's
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: it like, what is it like for you? I us
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: now starting to date again. I took just time like
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: focusing on work and paying stuff because I was just like,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I didn't want to really deal with anything at the moment.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: And I was scared because since he knew everything and
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: my ex and he UM was really good at like
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: he was really good dating, like he was very good
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: at learning about my disability, never overstepping his boundaries and
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the stuff. In my article, I had said, because I
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: wear bladder control pads and it still makes me weird
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: saying it out loud, but I have so many videos
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I can't really hide it. But that was my issue
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: on having sex with him, because I was like, he's
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: going to see these pads. It's not like I can
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: hide them. I wear them every day. UM. And leading
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: up to it, I we were going to watch a
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: movie and I told him about it and I was
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: crying because he thought I was going to like say
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: something like that I've been like cheating or whatever, and
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I was just like, I wear these pads and I did.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: This is why I didn't want to have sex yet,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: because I didn't know if you would find it grow.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: And he I will give him credit, he had the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: best response to it. He was like I already knew
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and I was like how do you know? And he's like,
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: you have a video, an old one about it. But
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I was just waiting for you to tell me. So
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: would so he was he was watching he would watch
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: your videos before you guys started dating. Yeah, well, because
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I would you consider him like a was he like
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a follower, you know, And he's a musician. He's a drummer.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: This is why it didn't work out. Musicians. We're still
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: we're still we both are still paying for Yes, we are.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Well I'm joining that club because I don't laugh like
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: that of it. But my last visit laughed through the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: pain the same, right, laughing instead of crying moments. I
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: just joked through it all. I'm sorry, do you have
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: because we have a rule that we really are not
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: supposed to date. We're not as a datorhook up with
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: our senners for like followers, Why do you make the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: phase that you have because I have. I'm just laughing
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: because I'm like, there's podcast listeners and followers, and then
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: there's like I followers. I think when it gets blurry
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: when they've usually what I have seen them due to
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: my life. The line actually something that you wanted to
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: ask earlier, and I forgot, but I'm gonna ask now
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: because I think it's interesting going back to the talking
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and texting, and you mentioned that that was like an
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: invention by disabled people for and then now we all
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: utilize it. And then you were also talking about like streets,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: like enhancements on the streets and like the things that
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: disabled individuals have put into place, like all of us
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: benefit from it. Yeah, but um, there's a little saying
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: that accessibility benefits everybody, Like if you make things accessible,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: it's going to help everyone, regardless if they're disabled or not.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: And they're simple things to Like a lot of times
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: people make fun of those gadgets that are like as
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: seen on TV. But those gadgets of majority of the time,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: we're intentionally for disabled people. But if you market it
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: to them, the price goes up because it's seen as
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a medical so they market it like that. So that
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: like the slap chop that was for people who don't
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: have the dexterity to chop with their hairs. Um, snuggies
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: were made for wheelchair users because the point was that
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: you could have a full blanket on you but not
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: get it caught in your wheels. But then people always
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: like go to. There's one right now that's going around
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: people are making fun of where it's helping you put
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: on your socks, and everyone's go to is just to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: make fun of it, Like who needs that? That's lazy?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: You never think that, like it's a disabled item, that's
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: just sneakily disabled. I have no idea. I don't know
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: that either. But even in the recent band of straws
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: has been a conversation because the percentage of the landfill
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: is like very small in comparison to everything else, right,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Like I have a video of wh tell that? Because
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: everyone brings up alternatives and I use a metal straw,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I don't for myself with my disability, I have no
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: issues with alternative straws. But a lot of people keep
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: saying all these alternatives, but disabled people keep educating me
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: like these alternatives aren't safe for us. A lot of
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: the ones that like biodegrade, a lot of disabled people
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: take a long time to drink, so it bio degrades,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it can cause choking hazards, um a lot of the
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: little dysentery into yeah, and then a lot of like
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: the metal ones, people have allergies to that. There's like
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: corn and pasta ones. Um, people have allergies to that.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: And so also the straw was a disabled invention. It
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: was only available in hospitals, um, and so there's that's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: like a conversation that there's an issue where able people
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: will take stuff that's made for us and they'll abuse it,
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: and then that's where it becomes a problem. But then
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: we're victimized for using it. And then there's the argument, well,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you can just ask for a straw if you need it,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: but that comes with harassment. We already get harassed if
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: no one believing our disabilities, and so if we were
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: to ask and we don't look like we need it,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: they're they're going to start guilt tripping us. And yeah,
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: so it's like and I mean, I got that video
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: cut so much like hate from people because they weren't listening,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: because I was like, I was like, we can find like,
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: let's find like ways to maybe improve our recycling of them,
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: but like work with disabled people to do that. Don't
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: make these decisions without including us. Because people got mad
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: and I said, this can cause people to die, a
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: lot of these things lead to death, and they're like,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: you're exaggerating, and I'm like, I'm not Yeah, I'm sorry,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: go ahead. I'm like I was just gonna say, and
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: that's like what people fail. They think we're just we're
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: being over dramatic or like an s g W that
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: I get constant in my videos right when you're stating
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: a need that you know your community needs. So, UM,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I think we're coming to an end. But I wanted
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: to um and on a note that our listeners um or,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I want to ask this question. I'm want to pose
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: this question to you, UM for everyone listening. What are
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: ways that we can be allies to folks in the
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: disabled community or folks with any type of disabilities. What
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: are some ways that we can use our to be
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to be allies or accomplices. And and I want to add,
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: especially if you identify as Latino X, because you did
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: mention that there's an element of just like disbelief that
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: disability even exists, like in Latino X communities. Yeah, I
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: find in like the English, like I guess white community,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: it's not perfect at all, um, but the more willing
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: to be like, okay they're disabled, and like at least
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: kind of have a conversation. But in the Latino community,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I find like no one wants to talk about it.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain my disability in Spanish
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: because I was never taught the words to explain it. UM.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was intentional or maybe my
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: parents just also didn't know what to say UM. But
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: that also leads to just I can't I feel like
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: in Latin X spaces, I can't ask for accommodations because
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think it will be understood as easy as
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: if I was just in a non Latin X space.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: So for for ally ship, right, I mean that's important
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: for folks that like organize events, organized parties, whatever, whatever
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: type of the work the organizers do, like also take
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: into taking into account accessibility and if you're not sure,
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: like ask a disabled person to make me help um honously,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Like not every accessibility tool I need or whatever I
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: suggest will be for everyone, but like there's like standards
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: like have an interpreter, have someone that's open captioning, because
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: not every person that's deaf can that knows American Sign
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: language UM, and then having like reserve disabled seating at
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: the front because a lot of people put it at
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the back and it's like we can't see anything. And
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: then a lot of times. Wheelchair accessibility for where they
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: can be is always at the back and so no
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: one can see anything. Um and if you have staff
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: at an event, have them educate on like what that
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: there's a diversity of something that might use this. Now
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: I'm like even thinking like for like show, Oh my god,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: what if we had what if we had a sign
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: language interpreter there? I think that that's the great idea.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Thoughts are being thought. I love it, so please share
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: with everybody as we as we end. Thank you so
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: much for being here today, Like I love this conversation.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: We have not discuss disability on the podcast yet, so
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for bringing all of your knowledge
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: and experience and artistry and everything you do. Where can
• 44:08
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• 44:10
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• 44:13
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• 44:16
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• 44:19
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• 44:24
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• 44:28
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• 44:31
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• 44:35
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• 44:39
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• 44:42
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• 44:45
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