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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio a myth and Bullshit, a radio phonic novella.

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Speaker 1: Look Radio, hosted by Malamnio. Welcome back to local radio.

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Speaker 1: This is and this is Malms. Welcome back UM once

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Speaker 1: again for another gup of Brown Girl Hour. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. This is I can't believe it already.

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Speaker 1: It's been It's been so much fun. It has been

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Speaker 1: someone's turkins. Oh my god, what did we miss that?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god? Right now this feels like I never

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Speaker 1: had a King Tanana and I'm still bitter about it.

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Speaker 1: Tonight we cannot do tonight. It's yes, another night. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about this later, Okay, to my stone and

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Speaker 1: accidental Miles. Wow, Oh my god, I'm a little upset.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know we're gonna come back. So if

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Speaker 1: you're tuning in for the first time, we are look

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Speaker 1: at that our radio. We are a podcast more than

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Speaker 1: a podcast where we celebrate the brilliant legacies of women

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Speaker 1: and fems of color. Way more than a podcast. We're

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Speaker 1: a radiophonic novella exactly. So we um have two very

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Speaker 1: very very adorable special guests here today. We're so excited, UM,

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Speaker 1: and let's go ahead and introduce our guests and get started. Yes,

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Speaker 1: let's do it. So we have two beautiful, brilliant artists,

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Speaker 1: ladies from Let's Give, and we're gonna let them introduce themselves. Him. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm Mandy aka Dandy Mandy. But a lot of people

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Speaker 1: know of Dandy Mandy because you have a following. Girl,

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Speaker 1: it's impressed. I don't happen, but it happened. So tell

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Speaker 1: us of out Let's give, tell us about yourselves. Okay. Um.

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Speaker 1: I started Let's Give when I was fifteen, um on

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Speaker 1: eighteen now, so it's been it's been a bit of work.

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Speaker 1: I was when when we started it, it was kind

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Speaker 1: of like I was giving all of my life. And

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Speaker 1: I really wanted to create a platform for millennials to

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Speaker 1: break out of these stereotypes that have been building up

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Speaker 1: against us, saying that we're very self centered and we're selfish.

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Speaker 1: And I wanted to give you know, other my peers

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Speaker 1: and kids of my um my age and above too,

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Speaker 1: to have the opportunities to give back to our community

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Speaker 1: and like prove to people that were not selfish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's amazing, and y'all have been going strong. You'll you'll

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Speaker 1: just had an event and a culture show not too

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Speaker 1: long ago that we were actually at, but I thought

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Speaker 1: the radio where we were doing street interviews there also. UM,

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Speaker 1: So that's so amazing that y'all started that. I know

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Speaker 1: you have a really strong support system. I know you

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Speaker 1: have your mama that's like you're right or die right.

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Speaker 1: So we started it together. I kind of had the

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Speaker 1: blueprint and I brought it to my best friend at

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Speaker 1: the time and he had the people. So we put

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Speaker 1: two and two together and we've been running for about

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Speaker 1: a year and a half now and we've we've done

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Speaker 1: a lot. I'm very proud of my team. Yeah, can

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Speaker 1: you tell us some of the things that you've done

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Speaker 1: in the past maybe a few months here even we

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Speaker 1: did a tripical culture that you guys are at. UM.

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Speaker 1: We are building the next one that should be coming

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Speaker 1: very soon. And then we've um fed in skid row. UM.

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Speaker 1: The numbers are escaping my mind right now, but we've

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Speaker 1: done skid row runs. We've donated shoes to middle schools

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Speaker 1: and Watts and UM clothes two families of Compton, so

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Speaker 1: we try to help our immediate community. But we've also

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Speaker 1: given UM clothes to like warm clothes to the water

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Speaker 1: Protectors in North Dakota and we also raised funds to

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Speaker 1: give water to Flint, Michigan. And um, soon we'll be

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Speaker 1: going to Guatemala. That's amazing, so let's talk about that.

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Speaker 1: Um So you're going to Watemala soon, so let's tell

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Speaker 1: tell us, tell our listeners about it. What inspired it? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's because it's gonna be my birthday. And um, I

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Speaker 1: was like talking to them about wanting to go somewhere

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Speaker 1: because like, Vegas ain't really like my type of scene.

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Speaker 1: You know, a lot of people like for their twenty

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Speaker 1: like I want to go somewhere. And my thing, I've

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Speaker 1: That's how it all started, and we're like, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: the global aspect, and we were thinking like, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: And um, we figured we're gonna do something to raise

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Speaker 1: that thing is Let's Tackle. That's our next upcoming event.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be on June from eleven am to three

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Speaker 1: and I think we're gonna be doing ticket giveaways right yeah.

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Speaker 1: And then yeah, so if y'all want to come through support,

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Speaker 1: all the money or okay, fifty is going to Let's

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Speaker 1: Give um so we could keep doing these events and stuff,

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Speaker 1: and then the other is going towards Gatemala. And then

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Speaker 1: if for any reason you can't make it, you can

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Speaker 1: always donate to our PayPal. So all the infult for

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Speaker 1: all that is on the Let's Give Instagram page, which

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Speaker 1: is Let's dot give. Okay, amazing. Are you on any

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Speaker 1: other social media sites yet or just Instagram? We are

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at let's give crew. Um, we have a

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Speaker 1: snapchat let's stot give. Yeah, we have a snapchat Let's

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Speaker 1: not give. Our Instagram is let's not give, and on

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Speaker 1: Twitter is let's give. That's amazing. Oh my gosh, you

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Speaker 1: have accomplished so much in such a short period of time,

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Speaker 1: Like that's really incredible. Now who all helps to make

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Speaker 1: the organization actually move? Do you have volunteers? Do you

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Speaker 1: have like interns, Like how does the organization the footwork?

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Speaker 1: You know, you have a full, full team, like a

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Speaker 1: full work task with multiple different divisions. Um, we have

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Speaker 1: directors and assistant directors and commissioners of each division. Um.

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Speaker 1: My mom is a huge help the whole thing. And

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Speaker 1: then mom is here, Mom is here. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: always here, UM love her. I'm the adopted daughters. Um.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we have a full blown team. And then

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Speaker 1: and y'all I know that you all aren't specifically, um,

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Speaker 1: So we're spreading out. Yeah, that's amazing. I love it

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Speaker 1: big network already. And would you say your team is

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Speaker 1: predominantly you are there adults like who's you know, like

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Speaker 1: My mom is the only adult, UM, and she's kind

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, that's really incredible. Thank you. I think

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Speaker 1: the youngest member is fourteen, and our oldest member is man.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, or castera belly rostra and and and and

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Speaker 1: and and and and and and and and and and

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Speaker 1: and and and and and and and send belly rong

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Speaker 1: and and and spend it belly rong and and and

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Speaker 1: belly wrong and and and um from from from from

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Speaker 1: from from from of it and ship mum, hello, welcome back.

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Speaker 1: We are back. So the lovely ladies of Let's Give

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Speaker 1: they had to they had to run because they're busy, Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're busy making moves, yes, making lots of moves. Were

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Speaker 1: so impressed by them. They're so cute, they're amazing. Um

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Speaker 1: and there Alma, Yeah, that was her. Alma, super dope.

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Speaker 1: She's amazing, like Mama, an amazing human being. So we're

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Speaker 1: with her, and they brought us a gift. They did

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Speaker 1: bring us a gift. Well we will open that later,

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Speaker 1: yes we will. So thank you to La Morea, Alma

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Speaker 1: and Mandy of Let's give for being here today. Um So,

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Speaker 1: very just like makeshift type of home type of communities

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Speaker 1: which we can see a lot, a lot of um Yet,

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00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: you know, Petuanos and I speak from my from my

425
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: family don't want to talk about they're being Afro Latinos

426
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,680
Speaker 1: as in our family, you know. So it's just like

427
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,600
Speaker 1: you said, a very cognitive dissidence erasure, like we forget forget,

428
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Speaker 1: and let's be clear, like although I'm going to say

429
00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:46,199
Speaker 1: that basically all Latinos, especially non black Latinos, grow up

430
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: with an under some level of awareness of anti blackness

431
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,480
Speaker 1: because it's in the language that our parents use and

432
00:26:53,520 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: that our grandparents used, and it's in like their teachings. Unfortunately,

433
00:26:57,840 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways, there's this sort of well

434
00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: juxtaposition that's being done right, and that's why the anti

435
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 1: blackness is so persistent, because they need another to juxtapose

436
00:27:11,520 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 1: us against right in the midst of white supremacy and

437
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 1: colonization and all these things. So we all have this

438
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: in our ear, but I didn't. I didn't like, wasn't

439
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:25,200
Speaker 1: really awakened to it or put words to it until

440
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:29,920
Speaker 1: I really started being exposed to the work of about Domnicana, right,

441
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,000
Speaker 1: I think a lot of Latinos of our generation Latino

442
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,360
Speaker 1: x Is have core on the internet who are online,

443
00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:40,680
Speaker 1: have only learned about after Latini, that about blackness in

444
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 1: Latin America and about racial hierarchies and anti blackness amongst

445
00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 1: non black Latinos because of the Internet and because of

446
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: after Latinos Likenicana doing the work and teaching us about. Absolutely,

447
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 1: I'm glad you mentioned her because absolutely that is where

448
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,679
Speaker 1: I have learned a lot about the racial hierarchies because

449
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: of Dominican. And she she talks about this a lot.

450
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 1: How as an Alfro Latina, her history isn't anywhere right,

451
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 1: so people want to come at her like, oh, well

452
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: you should know your history or stuff like that. Like

453
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: they'll come at her and talk talking about that, and

454
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: she's like, well, where am I going to find? My

455
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: history has never been written, right, And that's so that's

456
00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: where we're exactly, So that's where we're learning. Like there

457
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,720
Speaker 1: are after Latinos doing amazing work on the internet talking

458
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 1: about their histories, their experiences being black and Latino. So

459
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: it's important to have the conversation about after Latina. That

460
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: always because of the erasure. And also because to remind

461
00:28:39,080 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 1: us that as non black Latinos, as non black people

462
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,200
Speaker 1: of color, no matter where we are, whether we're in

463
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 1: the United States more in Latin America, we are still

464
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:53,320
Speaker 1: responsible for perpetuating and enabling and participating in anti blackness

465
00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:56,480
Speaker 1: because it occurs no matter what country you're in, it

466
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Speaker 1: in the in the Western hemisphere, and then you benefit

467
00:29:00,600 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: from it as well as a non black person exactly exactly, So,

468
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: not black Latinos, even if you're brown, even if you're

469
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: very very brown, even if you're a dark skin brown person,

470
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: you're still not a black person. You're not being faced

471
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Speaker 1: with anti blackness in the face of white supremacy. It's

472
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 1: not the same. And we cannot enable like any sort

473
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 1: of thinking that would like equate the two or minimize, right,

474
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:30,440
Speaker 1: like what facts does. There's no time for it, you know.

475
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: And so that officer Janis was treated just like any

476
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,240
Speaker 1: other white supremacist white police officer who was treated the

477
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: same as any of them, right because he was not black.

478
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: It didn't matter that he was brown. It was just

479
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: the fact that he wasn't black Is gave him that elevation,

480
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Speaker 1: that step up, gave him license to kill right, Yeah,

481
00:29:56,240 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, to be clear, like with

482
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Speaker 1: this content, we're putting it out with the hopes that

483
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: our listeners are like at a in a space where

484
00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: you can hear it, engage with it and learn and

485
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:11,680
Speaker 1: do better and seek out other information and other sources

486
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:15,240
Speaker 1: on this topic, seek out you know, other writers, authors,

487
00:30:15,320 --> 00:30:20,080
Speaker 1: thinkers of the African diaspora and you know, and we've

488
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 1: talked about this a lot, Like I remember we talked

489
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Speaker 1: about Nadia Government in our she talks about how the

490
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 1: work starts at home, right, that this is a perfect

491
00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: example of how the type of violence that we need

492
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,760
Speaker 1: to undo, the type of anti blackness that we're raised with, right,

493
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: it needs to start at home if we're going to

494
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: deconstruct it, dismantle it, exactly, and she Nadias afro bertuanaa.

495
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Speaker 1: If y'all haven't tuned into that episode, you should, because

496
00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 1: she's amazing. She'll also be back soon. That was the

497
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Speaker 1: absolutely No, it does start at home because that's where

498
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Speaker 1: we as children, we hear it, we learn it, internalize it,

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Speaker 1: and then enact, you know, the same abusive and oppressive

500
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: racist behaviors when we're out and about in the world.

501
00:31:02,600 --> 00:31:05,280
Speaker 1: And then we become adults, and then someone continues and

502
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 1: it perpetuates, and then we have children and what happens,

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00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: it continues continues. You serve on a jury now for

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00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: an officer who has killed an unarmed black person, right, um,

505
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:18,720
Speaker 1: and what are you doing and what systems are you perpetuating?

506
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:23,280
Speaker 1: And what does it say that you know this this man,

507
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,760
Speaker 1: this Latino man, a police officer killed this Philando Castile

508
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: right with his daughter and his partner in the car.

509
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Speaker 1: And there's actual footage of it happening. And this is

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Speaker 1: an intersectional feminist issue. Yes, this is because this is

511
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:43,280
Speaker 1: a public health issue, this is a reproductive rights issue, everything, everything,

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Speaker 1: It's it's so important that we talk about it as women,

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Speaker 1: as men of color feminist. If it's not a part

514
00:31:48,520 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: of your discussion, then what are you doing? Exactly? So

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00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,440
Speaker 1: white supremacy and specifically for having the conversation about white

516
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:59,760
Speaker 1: supremacy being carried out by law enforcement, white supremacy and

517
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Speaker 1: to blackness specifically being carried out by cops visa the

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Speaker 1: like the the the killing of black people right with permissions,

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00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 1: with state permission, um, and basically with social permission. Because

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00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: a jury acquitted this man recently. So there's social permission,

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00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:22,719
Speaker 1: their state permission for police officers to kill black people. Right.

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00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: Black women are affected in every scenario because black women

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00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: are also shot down by police and it is not

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00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: only black men. Black children get shot by police. Right. Um.

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00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: And when black men and black children are being killed,

526
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:41,680
Speaker 1: black women are still suffering. Their moms are, their mothers

527
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: are at the press conferences, their kids don't have fathers now,

528
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: their girlfriends don't have their partner to co parent with, right. Um.

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00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: And we see that it's an intersectional feminist issue because

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00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: we see the black women consistently, right showing up to

531
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: doing the work. Trayvon Martin his mother. He's now an

532
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 1: advocate against you know, police violence and anti blackness. So

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00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: it's an intersectional feminist issue because in any iteration of

534
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: this of this police violence, that black women are affective

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00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 1: and their children and their partners and their families are affective.

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Speaker 1: I think I read that his partner, Diamond, that she

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00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,560
Speaker 1: was like recently arrested for something she had, like some

538
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,800
Speaker 1: type of assault, right, And I'm like thinking about it,

539
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:29,920
Speaker 1: like this woman is suffering from PTSD most likely absolute, right,

540
00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: I would probably be losing my mind, like I have

541
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: no patience for anybody anymore. Someone murders the father of

542
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: my child in front of me, with my child in

543
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 1: the back, with with with no reason whatsoever, for zero

544
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,840
Speaker 1: reason whatsoever. And that's why I think this is also

545
00:33:46,920 --> 00:33:51,760
Speaker 1: a public health issue because this is literally traumatizing entire

546
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:56,000
Speaker 1: communities globally and generation and generations. That's that was multiple

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00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: generations in Philandro Castiles far exactly right. So Latinos, latin

548
00:34:02,400 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: X folks, we not only have to do better, but

549
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 1: we have to stop, you know, and just like educate ourselves,

550
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: educate each other, open our ears, listen. Even in our

551
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 1: our our biggest movements has Latino people are around labor

552
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: and immigration. That is where are organizing um Our manpower

553
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: goes immigration and labor, right, because those are the issues

554
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: that tend to affect us the most. And housing. But

555
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 1: I would say historically, if we talk about like big

556
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 1: movements and protests and marches and organizing, it's around those

557
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: two issues. And in both issues, we always always always

558
00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: are racing everybody who's not us of that intersection as

559
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: well of that intersection as well. So immigration, you don't

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00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: see campaigns for after Latinos, for black immigrants, for African immigrants,

561
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: for African current folks. Right, it's very Mexico centered, not

562
00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:09,800
Speaker 1: even necessarily even broadened to really have cognizance and concern

563
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: for Central American immigrants who are facing deportation. Were very

564
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: narrow in our activism, um. But we're not the only

565
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: ones affected on this issue, but we've made ourselves the

566
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: face of the issue nationally, So in our activism we

567
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: have to do better and not participate in that eratier um.

568
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: In labor, right, there's been a history reratier of Filipinos

569
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 1: contributing to our labor movement right and the United farm Workers,

570
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: and it was Larry Itlian and Filipinos who laid the

571
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,200
Speaker 1: groundwork and the framework. Um. But we made ourselves the

572
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: face of it, right, So there's a lot we have

573
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 1: to kind of like shrink a little bit. It's like

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00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: time to like take a seat and listen and then

575
00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: talked to your people, you know what I mean, Like

576
00:36:01,760 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: listen to what Latinos are saying, black books are saying,

577
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: African Americans are saying, especially about anti blackness. You know,

578
00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: it's like it's like when when as Latinos are people

579
00:36:13,400 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: of color, we tell why people that they're being racist, right,

580
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:21,640
Speaker 1: and they're like, no, I'm not. You know, well, actually,

581
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: you know, this is the time that we have to

582
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: listen because we probably are being anti black in some capacity,

583
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: in some way because it's so rooted, you know, So

584
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,960
Speaker 1: this is the time to listen and then do the

585
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,640
Speaker 1: work with your community, right, like true coalition building, because

586
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: here's my thing. If you have a problem with with

587
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,720
Speaker 1: the idea of sharing the mic and sharing the stage

588
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: and sharing space, then you're not that's not that's not radical,

589
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: it's not revolutionary. It's just not. It's not. It's just not.

590
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:51,839
Speaker 1: And like coalition building is supposed to be uncomfortable because

591
00:36:51,880 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: you're not changing, you're not growing. Nothing will happen if

592
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: it's comfortable, if it feels good. You know, it should

593
00:36:58,560 --> 00:37:03,240
Speaker 1: feel uncomfortable because you're unlearned things exactly, undoing, undoing, undoing

594
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,880
Speaker 1: and learning. And we're all like folks, we all have trauma.

595
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: And then that's what makes it really difficult, right, we

596
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: all have trauma. We're all working through ship, we're all

597
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,360
Speaker 1: trying to pay rent, we're all trying to survive. But

598
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: people are being killed. People are black, people are being killed,

599
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: people are being killed, and and like if we can,

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00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:29,920
Speaker 1: if we think that we're capable of changing labor laws

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00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: and changing immigration laws, and we're capable of impact and change,

602
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:36,640
Speaker 1: and then let's put that to you. So let's put

603
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: that to work. You know, like you, we cannot, as

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00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: non black people, ever expect anything. Don't expect anything from

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00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 1: black people. It's what I would say to non black Latinos.

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00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: Don't expect anything from black people. Don't expect them to

607
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: show up for you, don't expect them to do work

608
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: for you, because you're not doing ship in reverse right

609
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: to to lessen even the violence that we enact on

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00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:02,480
Speaker 1: black community these right or black folks within our own community,

611
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: like our own communities exactly. So it's like, you know,

612
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: show up, do better, and that's that goes for all

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00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: of us. This is not necessarily a lecture. It to

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00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 1: us like thinking out loud, absolutely, you know, there's all

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00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: the work we have to do. Like my body and

616
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,080
Speaker 1: I talked about this all the time, like within our

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00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: our Peruvian family, like what the funk like some of

618
00:38:23,800 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: the stuff that we hear and we're like we're no,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. And that's the thing too, Like there

620
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 1: are people that you can share to work with, especially

621
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,000
Speaker 1: in your own family. Yes, absolutely not. I shouldn't all

622
00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:36,440
Speaker 1: be you don't put that emotional labor on yourself. But

623
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 1: this is the time to um talk about it. This

624
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: is the time to talk about it. This is the

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00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:48,120
Speaker 1: time to talk about it um once again. Yes, thank

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00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:52,160
Speaker 1: you for tuning into Another Capital Radio, tuning into Bronco.

627
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: Our our accidental king say, our accidental Kings said that.

628
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Speaker 1: I still can't believe we didn't even put two and

629
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: two again to take ourselves out to dinner and get

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00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:07,320
Speaker 1: all cute. I like, let's do that next week, Okay

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Speaker 1: when I get back. Yes, when you gets going on

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Speaker 1: another wonderful vacation that she deserves. Oh yes, yes, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Miami because shout out to my lovely, dear,

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Speaker 1: beautiful friend Lorianne Lorianne Stacy, who I love so much.

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Speaker 1: We went to college together and she's fabulous. It's her birthday.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to Miami. We're going to be in

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Speaker 1: South Beach. Is going to be very cute, extremely cute.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see all the bikini thongs. Girl Summer

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Speaker 1: is my season, and I ordered a bunch of bathing

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Speaker 1: suits and like, I'm just my ass is going to

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Speaker 1: be out the whole summer, should the entire summer? I

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Speaker 1: cannot wait? Good, Um, yeah, it's warm in eline now.

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Speaker 1: I was waiting for it to get this form because

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Speaker 1: the minimal clothing is what I'd like to wear. Ideal, ideal.

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Speaker 1: I hate wearing jeans, They're uncomfortable, right, don't make me

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Speaker 1: wear a don't don't you do it? Don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: mind like a nice folk for you know, in the winter.

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Speaker 1: But when it's summer, I wanted to be hot and

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Speaker 1: I want to wear minimal clothing. And it's nice and

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Speaker 1: hot today. And my thing is like I look best

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Speaker 1: when I'm naked, so I like to emulate that visa

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Speaker 1: via my clothing if possible. I agree with you. I

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Speaker 1: find the same way. Sometimes I feel like clothes don't

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Speaker 1: just don't do me justice, I know, right, like cramping

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Speaker 1: my style, getting my way. The chasing is anyways too much, anyways,

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Speaker 1: the thing is too much. So yeah, thank you for tuning,

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Speaker 1: for tuning in. And we love you, We love you.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you soon. We have new projects coming soon.

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Speaker 1: We have new projects coming soon. Um. Some dates are

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Speaker 1: TVD so we will share in the future. Make sure

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Speaker 1: you're checking our Instagram, make sure you're checking our Twitter,

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Speaker 1: because there's something really exciting coming. Um it's like a

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Speaker 1: present for everyone and ourselves. We're really excited. So love you,

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Speaker 1: miss you, really want to GISs you. Betos