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Speaker 1: that's how I get invited to events. If I'm not

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Speaker 1: loud and I'm not shouting for Latino rights, then who

424
00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,439
Speaker 1: is what other big content creator is constantly not just

425
00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,280
Speaker 1: like we're Latino doing a little dancing videos, but saying

426
00:20:57,280 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 1: like hey, calling out when things are unjust, where's people

427
00:21:00,320 --> 00:21:02,679
Speaker 1: fighting for Latino rights and say like, hey, you know

428
00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,399
Speaker 1: this movie is coming out. When Moonnight came out and

429
00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:08,280
Speaker 1: they cast it out Scaraza, and they can't They didn't

430
00:21:08,320 --> 00:21:10,359
Speaker 1: say in documentaries, they didn't say in a single article

431
00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:12,760
Speaker 1: that he's Latino, that this is the first Latino superhero

432
00:21:12,760 --> 00:21:14,800
Speaker 1: and Marvel because GE's what that looks like to me.

433
00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:18,400
Speaker 1: He's not Latino. I don't care who you cast, especially

434
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 1: I love Oscaraza man. That man is the most handsome, talented, amazing,

435
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 1: But to ignore the fact that he plays white guys

436
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,359
Speaker 1: more than he plays Latinos. He's played he was Apocalypse,

437
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,040
Speaker 1: Who's Egyptian, He's played Persians, He's played Egyptians, He's played

438
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:34,080
Speaker 1: white guys, He's played everything out of the moon. He

439
00:21:34,119 --> 00:21:37,160
Speaker 1: doesn't really play Latinos though, And so for like him

440
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:39,359
Speaker 1: getting cast and I'm being like, well, here's Latino, I'm like, no,

441
00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:41,680
Speaker 1: I don't think they know that, like the fact that

442
00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 1: they didn't know Miss America is not Mexican sport. I'm

443
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 1: part of me is like, I don't think they knew

444
00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,080
Speaker 1: Oscaraza was Latino, or if they did, they didn't care,

445
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,040
Speaker 1: which goes into the category of passing the whole thing.

446
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: That's the next episode with Nats. But yeah, and then

447
00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: that's something within our community that we also is this

448
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 1: really unique experience and like, so that's that's what I

449
00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:06,479
Speaker 1: really like doing, is talking about these things and sharing

450
00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 1: these things and learning more. Like it's not just me

451
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:12,000
Speaker 1: like knowing everything. I learned more from people. People tell

452
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: me stories like the new um the movie about the

453
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 1: African princess that's coming out in two months. I found

454
00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:20,879
Speaker 1: out about that months ago because I was doing a

455
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:26,480
Speaker 1: series that was called Fairytale Princesses that Disney should do

456
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,840
Speaker 1: movies on. And I was doing, you know, Fete Throwners,

457
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:32,360
Speaker 1: which is the first ever transgender fairytale princess from Romania,

458
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: doing from the Philippines, going all over the world, you know,

459
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,399
Speaker 1: talking about Latin and diversity and African Asian princesses, and

460
00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: someone's like, Hey, there's this African princess and she's a

461
00:22:43,560 --> 00:22:47,159
Speaker 1: real person, and she had this beautiful iconic story of

462
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,640
Speaker 1: how she became this queen and this powerhouse and she's

463
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: amazing and I was like yeah, hell yeah. So I

464
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:53,720
Speaker 1: dove into and I read and that was my next

465
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: video and it was like, I love the people able

466
00:22:55,840 --> 00:22:57,760
Speaker 1: to share these things with me that you know, we

467
00:22:57,840 --> 00:23:00,240
Speaker 1: go like, oh, this is you know when I said like, oh,

468
00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:02,240
Speaker 1: la Adona and I said, this is the origin of

469
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,159
Speaker 1: la Adona. That was one of my first videos and

470
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:07,920
Speaker 1: I stopped because I realized origin for who for my

471
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: mother from Lada from or you know who who's origin

472
00:23:11,040 --> 00:23:14,119
Speaker 1: because it changes, right, it changes. Everyone has a different

473
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:17,439
Speaker 1: story of Latona. Absolutely. Is she vicious? Is she violet?

474
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,160
Speaker 1: Some people say no, Other people, yeah, she kidnap your children,

475
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,280
Speaker 1: taking the rip. Other just just she just cries, or

476
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: she drowned her kids, or she's indigenous, or her husband

477
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: left her for a Spanish woman or she didn't have

478
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,480
Speaker 1: a husband or he had a family and you know

479
00:23:29,480 --> 00:23:31,480
Speaker 1: all these or she's magical or she's a demon, or

480
00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,480
Speaker 1: she can't get into heaven or hell blah blah. You

481
00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 1: know it's like and that's what I love because doing

482
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 1: this I get to expand what it is for me

483
00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: to be Latinos, and then I get to share that

484
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,080
Speaker 1: and then we just keep growing this beautiful branch and

485
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: tree of what it is to be Latinos. It's like

486
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,200
Speaker 1: this beautiful experience that I am so blessed to share

487
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 1: with other people that like, just God, I love this community.

488
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,320
Speaker 1: It's necessary, it's necessary, and I talked about this multiple times.

489
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonneat that with multiple guests. But it's like the

490
00:23:59,280 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 1: fact that we don't have the knowledge of our of

491
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:06,320
Speaker 1: our family. It's very common. So what you're doing is

492
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 1: already battling that. And I think it's so beautiful. I

493
00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: love when you mentioned your son because I can't stop

494
00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,480
Speaker 1: thinking about that in the stories that he's going to

495
00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: be able to have and and share as he gets older.

496
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: And um, it's just the work you're doing and what

497
00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 1: you're doing is so necessary, and I just wanted to

498
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:27,200
Speaker 1: make sure I say that, and I also don't want

499
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 1: you to get mad at me, But of course I

500
00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: have to ask you. Of course I have to ask

501
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:37,239
Speaker 1: you about that. Girl. I know, I know, I know

502
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,160
Speaker 1: you literally just said it, but I have to because

503
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: and honestly, let's go into it a little bit. Let's

504
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: go into it a little deeper. Let's go into HBO Max,

505
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:51,520
Speaker 1: Let's go into chronicles. Let's go into Okay, Okay, I'm

506
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: going to try to nut shout everybody, grab your waters,

507
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: cool down for a second, grab your SPF, grab your ship.

508
00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: It's gonna get that, okay. So, like, so here's the thing. Right,

509
00:25:02,200 --> 00:25:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm a huge Complic fan. My son is named Peter

510
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,439
Speaker 1: after Peter Parker and Peter Pant and me and my

511
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 1: wife agreed if we ever had another son, he would

512
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,639
Speaker 1: be named Miles after Miles Morals. I'm a huge huge

513
00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 1: comic book nerd. And so it's like when I say that,

514
00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,800
Speaker 1: I am like, how do I what do I even

515
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,000
Speaker 1: begin on this? Okay, so let's talk about HBO Max right.

516
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 1: Just so, they were bought by Discovery Discoveries, another streaming

517
00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 1: platform that I don't know if single person owns. I

518
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 1: don't even like when the like Discovery Plus, I'm like,

519
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 1: is that out yet? Is it? What is exist? Discovery?

520
00:25:37,280 --> 00:25:40,879
Speaker 1: Like the Discovery Channel bought Warner Brothers. What where did

521
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: they get the money from? Like you know, So for me,

522
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: it's like it's all weird and it seems weird of

523
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: how they're prioritizing this, right because like you look at

524
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:54,880
Speaker 1: their let's talk about this exclusive from like a Latino representation. Right,

525
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,760
Speaker 1: So one of their big flagships movies, Fantastic B series,

526
00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: right it odd you see Harry Potter Francis, I'm gonna

527
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,280
Speaker 1: have in Latinos in it, right, it's all in Britain whatever. Right,

528
00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: But they come to America, right and j K rolling

529
00:26:06,240 --> 00:26:07,760
Speaker 1: you look at her and she's like, I care about

530
00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: diversity and representation and misfit and an all white cast

531
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. You're in New York City, worst, the

532
00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 1: a Latinos, the New Yorleans brother, where's even the Italians?

533
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: The irishman. They're like, yeah, we'll get rid of them too,

534
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:24,439
Speaker 1: And I see that. I'm like, okay, it's all right.

535
00:26:24,520 --> 00:26:27,440
Speaker 1: First movie, there's not gonna be in the Latinos. Okay.

536
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: Second movie, Oh, we're leaving them. We're going back to

537
00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: white France, okay, whatever. And then they introduced black people, like, yes,

538
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: good job, there are black people in France. I appreciate

539
00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:39,240
Speaker 1: you doing that. So for the second movie they introduced

540
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:41,359
Speaker 1: up black love interest for the two white guys, of course,

541
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:46,240
Speaker 1: and then they kill here. Okay, I don't know why

542
00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: you can't have anything nice apparently, and then we get

543
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,400
Speaker 1: the fantasticas three, and there's the Brazilian and you're like, wow, Brazilian,

544
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:55,640
Speaker 1: this is gonna take place in Brazil. And then it's

545
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,359
Speaker 1: like not really, And then the ladies like apparent they

546
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: introduced this of like oh, there's not just like a

547
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: prime minister of like each country that was a prime

548
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: minister of all wizards that were just introducing just now

549
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:09,640
Speaker 1: nine movies in and then it's like, is it gonna

550
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: be a white guy, Oh, the white guy's evil, or

551
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 1: is it gonna be the latina she won't say a word?

552
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,560
Speaker 1: You want have a single line of the whole movie.

553
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,480
Speaker 1: We get it, We get what you guys are trying

554
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: to do. I feel like white people want to tiptoe

555
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,400
Speaker 1: and I just want to say this, you can make

556
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: people of color villains. It's okay to make people of

557
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: color villains. Like I hate this, Like Marvel keeps doing this,

558
00:27:29,840 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: so like we really don't want to make villains that

559
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: aren't white guys. And if they are super sympathetic, if

560
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: it's a woman, or if it's a person, super super sympathetic,

561
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,720
Speaker 1: the white generic as hell super evil and I'm like, no,

562
00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,360
Speaker 1: it's okay. You can look at till Monger right now

563
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: it is to me, it's like, and so that's where

564
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: you go in this movie and it's like, okay, weird representation.

565
00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: Or the chupa get that Boulogne out of here shows

566
00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: up in the second movie. It's like a little lizard

567
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: thing and you're like, why did you guys to read

568
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 1: about the chupacabra, Like you guys know anything about it?

569
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,720
Speaker 1: Like you couldn't even stick it to like a Latino guy.

570
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: You have to like, I don't get these things right.

571
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: I don't understand why they're doing this. But looking past

572
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: Harry Potter, right the Latino reposation a fel Max is

573
00:28:16,640 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 1: not that good. But the thing is, Latinos aren't even

574
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 1: including Latinos in their movies. Right. This Mexican director of

575
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:27,119
Speaker 1: all time, When is the last time that man has

576
00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:30,920
Speaker 1: put a Latino in his movie since he was making

577
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: movies in Mexico like twenty years ago? What is like?

578
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 1: You know? And I love him and he's a wonderful

579
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 1: you know director and writer. Where is the why is

580
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:42,200
Speaker 1: he abandoning the people? We look at the Asian communities,

581
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:44,520
Speaker 1: look at African American communities, and we see that when

582
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: they make it. They bring everyone with them, right, but

583
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,800
Speaker 1: Latinos we just can't. It's they're they're incapable of doing it.

584
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: They're incapable of just going like I've made it big,

585
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:56,479
Speaker 1: let's cast some Latinos. They don't do it. And so

586
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: like we look at these movies. You look at all

587
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: this cool stuff like Pinocchio movie, He's coming out, and

588
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: of course there's no Latinos in there. In the Shape

589
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 1: of Water, no Latinos, and you know, it's just like this,

590
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,880
Speaker 1: it's frustrating because we aren't even on our own side, right.

591
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,440
Speaker 1: Everyone's like, oh, how come you're not on our side?

592
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: How come we don't show we don't even shout for ourselves, right,

593
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: And that's what frustrates me the most, is like, like

594
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 1: with name more in this this new you know, like

595
00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 1: he's Latino. I said, like, I'm so proude for this

596
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: Latino and this, you know, it's part of our culture everything.

597
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: They're like, well, he's not Latino, he's indigenous. I'm like, well,

598
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,360
Speaker 1: we don't know for fact what he is or what

599
00:29:28,400 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: he isn't. Yes, he's indigenous, but Latinos are indigenous, right,

600
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:34,120
Speaker 1: that's just our history, it's our blood. Because people look

601
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:36,479
Speaker 1: at him and they go, that's a Mexican, that's a Latino,

602
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:38,040
Speaker 1: and that's something that we should be proud of, and

603
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: you we can't. And so when h POX keeps doing

604
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:45,080
Speaker 1: these things like they the Gordya Chronicles, man it got

605
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: wide praise one day that one day at a time

606
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 1: got wide press, Centifi got wise press. These are shows

607
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: that have like percent round tomatoes. Right. The new Predator

608
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: movie The Prey has a dent on rotten tomatoes and

609
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: all indigenous cat with an indigenous producer. And not only

610
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:04,600
Speaker 1: did they do that, they passed the Dasy test. The

611
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: indigenous actors are commention nation like they are in the movie,

612
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,320
Speaker 1: what like this is amazing, but are we going to

613
00:30:12,360 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: get a Predator too? Not? How come this movie didn't

614
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,280
Speaker 1: go to theaters? Yea? And when there's a movie that's

615
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: made and we can't even watch it, yeah, so yeah,

616
00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: let's go. So let's get tobacco right now. I'm like,

617
00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: I love the fact that d C made Blue Beetle.

618
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: They once again this is another instance of them going like, well,

619
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: we'll make a Latino cast, but the white the villain

620
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: is gonna be a white person. But it's it's like

621
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,800
Speaker 1: this Latino writer, Latino director's Latino cast. And man I

622
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 1: cried when I saw that, like it's this is the

623
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: first movie and this is I don't know if you

624
00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: ever saw her the video I've made. But the reason

625
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: I got mad at Marvel Studios because I look at

626
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: this and I go, look, Bad Bunny is a superhero.

627
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:10,120
Speaker 1: He's getting his own movie. Bad Bunny and Sony. Sony

628
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:14,400
Speaker 1: doesn't know their way through um like horror way. They

629
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,680
Speaker 1: think it's amazed, right, they're so hit in their butts.

630
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: They don't know how to do anything. Most of the

631
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Speaker 1: movies flop. They they very rarely have a good successful

632
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Speaker 1: financial here. And yet they make a movie with Bad

633
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: Bunny and Bullet Train, and Bad Bunny goes, hey, can

634
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 1: I be a superhero for yours like you guys do

635
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: Marvel movies and they're like, yeah, we don't have any

636
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: Latino superheroes and they go, what we have one? He's

637
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:38,960
Speaker 1: a Lucrador and he's like perfect, I like wrestling, Let's

638
00:31:38,960 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: do this. And so they're gonna make a movie. DC

639
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,680
Speaker 1: is making a movie. We had Backer, we have Supergirl,

640
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 1: and you know, you get into the whole like Latino

641
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:51,840
Speaker 1: characters versus Latino actors. Whatever, Right, we're still geting Latinos

642
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:54,680
Speaker 1: were still getting Blue Beetle. But then you look at

643
00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: Marvel and you're like, Marvel your thirty movies in where

644
00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,840
Speaker 1: is the Latino Superheroes? And they, oh, we have Moonnight.

645
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: But we're not gonna say he's Latino Miss America. But

646
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: we're gonna say she's an alien who travels dimensions and

647
00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: isn't even from this dimension. Okay, okay, what about name More? Yeah,

648
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: nay More is you know he's the villain. Oh okay,

649
00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 1: Like what what? What? What? Why can't we get something bad?

650
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: Money gets a freaking Sony is giving us at Magical Nutridor,

651
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 1: and Marvel still can't give us some movie. And so

652
00:32:26,520 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 1: when I see things like back or like like Pisces

653
00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: me off and I'm like, yo, why you know how

654
00:32:31,280 --> 00:32:33,080
Speaker 1: bad Venom is? And yet for some and there's not

655
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 1: Latinos in Venom, and Latinos, especially Latino men, love the

656
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,640
Speaker 1: Venom movie. I don't know what is in our blood.

657
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: We just love that the Venom with the suit. Yeah.

658
00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I hated those movies, but I watched them,

659
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: and look at the movies made almost a build. I

660
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: think they both made almost a billion dollars terrible movies

661
00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: and they look at back and be like, yeah, do

662
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,680
Speaker 1: you know there's a movie just uh, it just didn't

663
00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:58,160
Speaker 1: do good. Everything you're giving me right now, it's just

664
00:32:58,200 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: sounding like people don't want to take risks. And I

665
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: don't know what these people people they did. Yeah, I

666
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,880
Speaker 1: was gonna say, listen, I've seen a lot of really

667
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 1: bad white white movies, all right, y'all and they and

668
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 1: they still up on Netflix and they're still coming to ten.

669
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Speaker 1: So I don't understand what is the problem with taking

670
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 1: the risk. I think Back Girl for me was just

671
00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:27,240
Speaker 1: like the most shocking. It doesn't make any sense because

672
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 1: I'm just like, the movie is made, so you're putting

673
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: it away, Well, the marketing budget, then don't give it

674
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 1: a freaking marketing budget. You've gone, it's fine. Latinos know

675
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 1: about this waiting for it? Yeah, it's a Batman movie

676
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,480
Speaker 1: and it's a Latina. Michael Keaton's coming back. You didn't

677
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:46,320
Speaker 1: think that, Michael, And like, let's just be real here,

678
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: Michael Keaton costs like twenty million dollars. He was easily

679
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: the most highest paid actor in that movie. He has

680
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,479
Speaker 1: probably paid more than all the other actors combined. Right,

681
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Speaker 1: And you don't think that the nineteen eighty nine Batman

682
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: reprising his role with butts and seats. You don't think

683
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: that an after latina in a starring superhero role, Right,

684
00:34:04,840 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: she's gonna be the first latina main character in a

685
00:34:07,240 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: superhero movie. Right, Because they don't They didn't realize that.

686
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: They didn't realize this was the first latina superhero movie. Right.

687
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:16,879
Speaker 1: They don't care. They don't see these things since they're

688
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: not bit, they don't look like us, and so they

689
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 1: just they just go, yeah, tax right off, whatever, we

690
00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:25,479
Speaker 1: don't care. And I'm like, y'all ever heard the story

691
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: of Deadpool? Are we just forgetting that? When Ryan runs

692
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: was like, hey, let's make this movie and they're like, yeah,

693
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,320
Speaker 1: maybe get a sick and he's like, oh, that's interesting.

694
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna leak the the thing we did to the world.

695
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell us soul and then let the fans. Yeah,

696
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,680
Speaker 1: and the fans blew up and around like who who

697
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 1: make that video? So crazy? And they're like, man, there's

698
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,280
Speaker 1: a lot of love for this. Okay, we'll make Deadpool.

699
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: Oh look, it's the highest rated R rated movie of

700
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,600
Speaker 1: all time. Oh my gosh, it made a billion or

701
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,799
Speaker 1: I think nine million dollars. I just don't see the

702
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: industry trusting us right now fully and wholeheartedly. And and yeah,

703
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: there's moments, especially being in the industry, like there's moments

704
00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: where yeah, you see some light and you see something happening.

705
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: But and this is my worry as we continue on,

706
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:22,680
Speaker 1: is Latino people just becoming this fad, right, and like, oh,

707
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: we have bad Bunny. We don't need anybody else. We

708
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:27,040
Speaker 1: have Limino Miranda, we don't need anybody else, right. But

709
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: the worst part about this is is like, because I'll

710
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:32,200
Speaker 1: be full front, I didn't like in Coma, I didn't

711
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: like the movie. You're the first person I've ever heard

712
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 1: say those words. I won't get into it. I was

713
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: at a red carpet and they're like, oh, yeah, you're Latino.

714
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: To I'm Latino. What's what about in count I was like,

715
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,120
Speaker 1: this is off the trailers, and I was like, I

716
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:47,840
Speaker 1: don't trust it. The writers and directors are white guys.

717
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 1: The Latino right and director they brought her on a

718
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:51,880
Speaker 1: year before the movie was supposed to be released. I

719
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:53,840
Speaker 1: don't trust that you work in a movie for especially

720
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 1: an animated movie, for four or five sixty years sometimes

721
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:00,600
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden the last year, you

722
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,720
Speaker 1: bring on Latina, who's not even Colombian, she was Cuban.

723
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: Like to me, it looks like a marketing employer, like

724
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: look Latina, Like it's like, no, you guys did this

725
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 1: without any Latinos involved except for Lynn. And Lynn has

726
00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:15,120
Speaker 1: a whole thing of like Hollywood's like, all we need

727
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: is Lynn and the Latinos will come. It's like, but Lyn,

728
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 1: it's not everything. He's Puerto Rican, he's New yor Rican

729
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,560
Speaker 1: Mars specifically, and well he's a talented individual, Like you

730
00:36:24,600 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: can't rely on him for everything, right, And so within Kanto,

731
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 1: to me that there's just little things that make it

732
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:34,200
Speaker 1: feel like inauthentic. I have to say, and maybe I'll

733
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 1: maybe I'll get staked for this. I didn't see it yet. Okay, Well,

734
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: so there's some things that I noticed in the trail

735
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,239
Speaker 1: that I was like, this is worrisome, Like there's red flags, right,

736
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:43,920
Speaker 1: So it's like in Gantos, I see this stuff and

737
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm just like, how come we couldn't get a casting

738
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: crew like the guy riding the next movie and who

739
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: worked on ran Last Dragon was a Mexican. Why couldn't

740
00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,759
Speaker 1: you get him to work on the Tncanto movie? The

741
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,680
Speaker 1: last movie Disney Animated movie to have a Latino when

742
00:36:58,719 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 1: it was directed, written by Walt Disney, and nineteen forty three,

743
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: the Three Cabatrolls. It took them seventy years. Okay, I think,

744
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:09,759
Speaker 1: my maso, I don't know if the math is on that.

745
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: Seventy whatever years, nineteen forty three to two thousand nineteen,

746
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 1: that's how long it took for Disney Animation to make

747
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: another Latino movie. And here's the crazy part. Walt Disney,

748
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: for all of his faults, traveled to Latin America. He stayed.

749
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 1: He went to Brazil, he went to Colombia, he went

750
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,280
Speaker 1: to Mexico, and he's like, damn, I like these people.

751
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: These are some good people. He studied their music, their culture.

752
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: He loved the spend like three weeks there, loved the

753
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: whole thing. And he came back and he said, I'm

754
00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: making this movie as a love letter to Latin America.

755
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: And you can watch that movie. I'm moving in nineteen

756
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 1: forty three, and there isn't a single harmful stereotype to Latinos.

757
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: They casted a Brazilian actor to play the Brazilian character,

758
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: a Mexican actor to play the Mexican character. It's shining

759
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: periods like it can be done with some thoughtfulness and

760
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,560
Speaker 1: with some ideas and creativity rather than just just laziness.

761
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 1: And that's what it's all about, folks. But then also

762
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: as Latina people, we should hold some of the we

763
00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: should hold all of the material being brought out about

764
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: us to a high standard. As you do and as

765
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: we all love you, we should speak on it. And

766
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,120
Speaker 1: and I love I mean, you've thrown some knowledge at

767
00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: me and I'm sure at our listeners today. Um, and

768
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: I also want to like, I already know you're continuing

769
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: on to tell more stories. I would love to also

770
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: hear about your possible podcast. I know that's being in

771
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:36,879
Speaker 1: the works, but I'd love to hear more about that

772
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:39,759
Speaker 1: and that journey for you and little plugs ur listeners

773
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:42,719
Speaker 1: can keep some tabs on you as well. Thank you,

774
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: thank you. Yeah, So it's uh, I wouldn't be doing

775
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,640
Speaker 1: a story Time presents where I guess if you like

776
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,520
Speaker 1: hearing me talk, congratulations, that's what I'm just gonna be

777
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:54,000
Speaker 1: doing ranting these kind of things. They're gonna say, Hey,

778
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,919
Speaker 1: what do you love? What do I like doing? Rant

779
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: about it, talk about it. And it's just gonna be

780
00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:01,760
Speaker 1: me and a microphone and I'm gonna be ranting and chatting,

781
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: and I'll have some guests sometimes, and it's it's just

782
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,760
Speaker 1: about Latino representations. Latino pop culture, whether you are Latino

783
00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:11,600
Speaker 1: or equally is important. You want to learn more about

784
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: Latino culture. You don't have to be Latinos to appreciate

785
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: Latino culture. There are tons of people who love our

786
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,120
Speaker 1: culture who just want to know more about it because

787
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: they're interested in it. And that's perfectly okay if you

788
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: don't have to shy away from that. And that's why

789
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: podcasts and that's you know, that's what it's for for

790
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,080
Speaker 1: people of any background, whether you know you're Latino heritage

791
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 1: or you don't know your Latino heritage and you want

792
00:39:30,520 --> 00:39:33,720
Speaker 1: to be like, oh, I never realized that Marvel doesn't

793
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,239
Speaker 1: do Latinos properly here. You know, there are trends of

794
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: how come every Marvel comic book character that's by racial Latino,

795
00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,919
Speaker 1: it's always the mother lad that's Latino. It's never Latino father.

796
00:39:43,960 --> 00:39:45,600
Speaker 1: You know, it's like these little things I want to

797
00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: share where you want to talk with you to really

798
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,839
Speaker 1: just get your creative juices flowing to get you going, like, hey,

799
00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:54,800
Speaker 1: the industry is kind of un not too nice to people,

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00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: and especially when it comes to Latinos, they kind of

801
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: just treat them like second class citizen. So yes, thank

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00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:01,720
Speaker 1: you for let me plug it. I'm sorry I ranto

803
00:40:01,800 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: so much on this, but I really, like you said,

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00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: you open up thing of passion and I just can't start.

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00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,879
Speaker 1: We love it, That's why we wanted you here. So

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00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:13,480
Speaker 1: excited for it, I would have it no other way. Um.

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00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:16,600
Speaker 1: And also, if our listeners want to tap in and

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Speaker 1: find you on TikTok, find you on Instagram, what are

809
00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,279
Speaker 1: the social what are your tags? What are your things? Yeah,

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00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,520
Speaker 1: I'm at the Storytime Guy all one word. If you

811
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,919
Speaker 1: ever want to email me anything too, I'm Storytime Guy

812
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 1: biz at gmail dot com. Email me whatever you I

813
00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: get emails all the time. There's kind old ladies. Does hey,

814
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: can you talk about this today? Do anything you want?

815
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:40,919
Speaker 1: Email me, talk to me, message me on Instagram. So please, yes,

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00:40:40,960 --> 00:40:43,480
Speaker 1: at the Storytime Guy, message me. I love it and

817
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 1: I love seeing your videos and everything, and I hope

818
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: you love seeing my videos and everything. So there you go,

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Speaker 1: Matt storytime guy. It is time for the moment we've

820
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Speaker 1: all been waiting for. This is our moment of speed

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Speaker 1: question rounds. So I have some questions to ask you,

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Speaker 1: and we're going to hit him. Okay, what's something that

823
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 1: you love that would absolutely hurt you if your son

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Speaker 1: told you it was not cool? Of the comic books? Okay,

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00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 1: that's good. Specific comic book, Any comic books, Any comic book. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you can only save one franchise Marvel, d C Star Wars,

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Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings Marvel. That was fast. Okay. What

828
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Speaker 1: reminds you of home or makes you feel at home? Food? Yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: this is my last final question because I'm just curious.

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Speaker 1: What house are you? My wife's a griffin door. I'm

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Speaker 1: a griffin door to go grips. But yeah, so learing

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Speaker 1: a griffin door, we kind of get each other a

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Speaker 1: little bit. There's a balance vibe. Matt storytime guy, thank

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Speaker 1: you so so much for being on Moranita. It's been

835
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 1: an absolute pleasure getting to know you. I can't wait

836
00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: to keep track of you, and now now I have

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