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Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know from house Stuff Works

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Speaker 1: dot com. Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark.

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Speaker 1: There's Charles W. Choke Bryant, There's Jerry. And this is

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Speaker 1: a very special day for us. It's a very special

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Speaker 1: day for Jerry because she's celebrating her her very special

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Speaker 1: day because today Jerry turns sweet fifteen. Right, well, technically

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Speaker 1: it's her triple king Tanya. No, Jerry started producing the

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Speaker 1: show when she was five. Oh yeah, she was the

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Speaker 1: wonder kin. She was a child prodigy three, A lot

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Speaker 1: of temper tantrums. Yeah, but we got through that time,

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Speaker 1: we did the Terrible fives and now she's just a

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Speaker 1: pretty little lady in her pink lacey satine dress. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that dresses a lot, even for a king signor address.

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Speaker 1: Jerry agreed. Can I go ahead and say I don't

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Speaker 1: do the R role very well? So I'm just gonna

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Speaker 1: say Keen Sanira, okay, instead of Kencaniana. Yeah that wasn't

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Speaker 1: very good either, right. I used to do a good

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Speaker 1: R role because of German, but I feel like I've

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Speaker 1: lost it a bit, and I guess it's actually an

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Speaker 1: end role. Keen Signietta is good, right, yeah, but if

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Speaker 1: I try to keep it up, it's it's I think

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Speaker 1: it's going to fatigue everybody pretty quick. So Keen Sanira, Well,

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Speaker 1: and the last thing we want to be here two

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Speaker 1: jackass white dudes, Well, that's what we're doing too, thick

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Speaker 1: to forty something white dudes are about to talk about

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Speaker 1: Keen Sanieta's like, we know what we're talking about when

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Speaker 1: we did the research, and I think it's uh. I

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Speaker 1: think it's good to cover stuff like this. I do too.

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Speaker 1: I had very little understanding about this, just from what

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Speaker 1: I've seen on like MTV or whatever, you know, did

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Speaker 1: they have a show they have one called like My

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Speaker 1: Sweet sixteen or whatever I might be complaining with. But

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Speaker 1: I swear I've seen ken like I knew some of

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Speaker 1: this stuff somewhere. I don't nowhere though, somewhere just in

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Speaker 1: the just being plugged into culture, I knew it. I guess. Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 1: I lived in Los Angeles, as you know, and they

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Speaker 1: have obviously quite a Latin population, and I looked up

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Speaker 1: Hispanic in Latino. I wanted to get out all right, good, good,

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Speaker 1: let's hear what you got. Well, it says that they

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Speaker 1: can generally used interchangeably these days. But um, I think

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Speaker 1: Latino can like I think Hispanic refers to whether or

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Speaker 1: not you actually have Spanish speaking roots. Oh is that right?

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Speaker 1: But um, Latino can be like Brazil uh in places

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Speaker 1: in South America as well, if I'm not mistaken. I

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Speaker 1: heard once that Ronald Reagan was the person who coined

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Speaker 1: the term Hispanic, or at least popularized it. Really Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well it was that tattoo across his upper back Hispanic

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Speaker 1: life for life, yea with the number four. Uh. But

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Speaker 1: at any rate, you know, lived in l A and

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Speaker 1: there's uh, you know, a large Mexican population. So I

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Speaker 1: would see Quantanietas going on all the time when you're

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Speaker 1: just driving around on a weekend. That I would see

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Speaker 1: stuff and I was like, wait a minute, it's not

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Speaker 1: prom it's summer. Like what's going on? It's like Prom

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Speaker 1: times ten. And then some somebody hit me in the head.

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Speaker 1: They're like, you dummy, dumb white guy from the South.

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Speaker 1: That's a Kencanietas, right, And so I was like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know what one they I'm gonna do a podcast

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Speaker 1: about that. They said, what is a podcast? To make

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Speaker 1: up for all this? He said, just watch that's right.

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Speaker 1: So one thing I saw was um with Latin, you know,

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Speaker 1: an X just to make it the word gender neutral,

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Speaker 1: like Latin X. Oh. Yeah, I don't know how you

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Speaker 1: pronounced it. I didn't get that far, but I saw

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Speaker 1: trying to remove the gender from you know, Tino or

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Speaker 1: there's a m. I haven't seen it, but there's an

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Speaker 1: for a trans girl. Okay, would it be pronounced Latins? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: I mean I have to see it written down. How

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Speaker 1: is the X in like wakaka? Isn't it like hot

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Speaker 1: here we go. I didn't want to be too dumb dumbs,

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Speaker 1: Getis right, which is we've been dancing around this thing.

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Speaker 1: This is the fifteen birthday celebration for young ladies, young

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Speaker 1: women in Mexico, Puerto Rico, in Cuba, in the United States,

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Speaker 1: of age celebration that also focuses on the individuality and

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Speaker 1: tastes of the girl. You put all those things together,

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Speaker 1: you have a keen Signetta, which is a fifteenth birthday party,

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Speaker 1: she transitions from um girlhood into womanhood. It happens on

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Speaker 1: this day and they throw a huge celebration. And there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of really cool traditions that you're gonna find it,

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Speaker 1: Like every king signhetta that are that have some a

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Speaker 1: neat origin story to them or a neat symbolism to

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Speaker 1: them and also some great music, some delicious food. Mm.

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Speaker 1: Family coming together for an important day. It's really great.

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Speaker 1: Not just family, the whole community is meant to you know,

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Speaker 1: like extended family. People in the community that have like

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Speaker 1: People chip in for the expense of this. It's like

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Speaker 1: a real communal thing. Should we go back in time? Okay,

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Speaker 1: we'll go back in time all right. So the origins

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Speaker 1: Aztec Indians. Um. Obviously in the fourteen hundreds and fifteen hundreds,

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Speaker 1: marriage ready at the age of fifteen. That's kind of

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Speaker 1: what it symbolized, right, And like it's it wasn't just

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Speaker 1: the Aztecs. Like around the world and cultures around the

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Speaker 1: that's right. And they had ceremonies, they had speeches, um,

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Speaker 1: more like debutante. Yeah, it's actually I looked into this

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Speaker 1: a little further, chuck. And they they are. They can't

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Speaker 1: the Aztecs. But their source comes from a single nun

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Speaker 1: whole idea that there was a rite of passage at

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Speaker 1: No one can just say for certain though what the

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Speaker 1: And uh, we'll get to this a little more later.

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Speaker 1: But wonderfully, like you said, um, in poorer communities, you

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Speaker 1: this photographer did a really great photos series of Quintana's

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Speaker 1: I think Mexico City got together in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: some nonprofit groups held like a big mass kin signeta

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Speaker 1: at and say, that's just one enormous Sweet six Team party.

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Speaker 1: But there's there's some details in there that you'll find

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Speaker 1: it at Kenson Era that you won't at a Sweet

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Speaker 1: six Team party. And we'll talk about those right after this.

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Speaker 1: Well done, all right, Charles. So we are going to

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Speaker 1: start the day. It's a frantic day. It's a hectic day.

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Speaker 1: From everything I understand from what I've read, this is

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Speaker 1: a an actually like a cool day for a girl,

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Speaker 1: but also very stressful. All right. It's like a it's

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Speaker 1: six hour experience. But think about this. With a wedding,

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Speaker 1: With prom, you've got a handful of other girls to plan.

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Speaker 1: You know what you're doing with prom, and plus proms

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Speaker 1: already being planned for you by your school or whatever.

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Speaker 1: This is like your day, and part of your responsibility

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Speaker 1: is the keensie Yetta, which by the way, Kensonietta literally

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Speaker 1: translates to the girl who is fifteen, um, so this

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Speaker 1: is technically your Fiesta day keen Signetta or something like that.

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Speaker 1: Part of your responsibility as Kensanetta is to show that

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Speaker 1: And she's seated, probably on a throne of some sort

423
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 1: or a central chair, maybe one of those like Wicker,

424
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: remember the Wicker like seventies chair, like flared out and up.

425
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,080
Speaker 1: It looked kind of like, yeah, maybe she's sitting on

426
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,919
Speaker 1: one of those. But she's she's basically the center of

427
00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: attention right then, and something kind of cool happens. The

428
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,080
Speaker 1: shoes shoes wearing that she came in with flat sold

429
00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: sandals or um slippers or something like that. Her dad

430
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:45,160
Speaker 1: comes over and takes those off, and then he puts

431
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 1: on high heels and snaps his fingers, twirls and goes,

432
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: she's a woman, yes, And I bet you anything this,

433
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: This young lady has practiced walking in those before. I

434
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,359
Speaker 1: don't think she would want her first experience in heels

435
00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:04,800
Speaker 1: to be in that dress on the big day. It's

436
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,680
Speaker 1: just logical chuck talking, Although it would be fun to watch, No,

437
00:27:09,119 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: come on, you don't think it would be. No one

438
00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: wants to see uh what do they? Kristen said, they

439
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 1: call her Keen's girls sometimes. Yeah, no one wants to

440
00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 1: see a Keen's girl fall over. That's true except you.

441
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: But you got laughed at while you did the backstroke,

442
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:28,879
Speaker 1: so I get it. Yeah, mocked. Uh. They may also

443
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,919
Speaker 1: get gifts, but not always a lot of times there

444
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: are symbolic gifts. A lot of times other people will

445
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: bring gifts, but from the parents. The festival and ceremony

446
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: itself is the gift. But sometimes if the parents have

447
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: some dough and a big budget, they may get what's

448
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: called regallo sorpressa, which is a surprise gift. Um on

449
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 1: top of everything else. And this of course is including

450
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 1: um like you mentioned the prayer book and the Rosary

451
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: and the Bible and stuff like that, right, and that

452
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 1: those were probably given to her at the church before.

453
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 1: I'm thinking that, depending on the position of her parents socioeconomically,

454
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:16,239
Speaker 1: the girls probably getting other other presents too. Yeah. Um,

455
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: but yes, supposedly just the kensior A party is like

456
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 1: this is plenty, don't you think. Yeah, But I think

457
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: the gifts to also are always represent that transition into adulthood.

458
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: So she's not getting the dolls anymore. She gets maybe

459
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: some jewelry or ear rings and stuff like that, right,

460
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: stuff to deliver her into womanhood. And then guests are

461
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: also giving gifts as well, and her party favors the

462
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 1: way that the whole thing set up, even though the

463
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: community like um might have people that chip in her

464
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:50,600
Speaker 1: family members or whatever. The parents are saying like, come

465
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:55,320
Speaker 1: help celebrate our our daughter's transition into womanhood. Right, So

466
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:59,120
Speaker 1: the party as men is like a gift for the guests,

467
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,200
Speaker 1: and and so the thing is kind of meant to

468
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 1: be like come and get your eat on and your

469
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 1: drink on and just have a lot of fun. The

470
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: thing is part of that welcomeness and that inclusiveness and

471
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: that you know, please come and be a part of

472
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 1: this um. That backfired really hard for this one couple.

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00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: Have you heard about Ruby Abara Garcia? Oh my, So,

474
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: Ruby Abara Garcia turned fifteen on December nineteen, year two

475
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: thousand and sixteen, okay, just like a year or so ago.

476
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:41,280
Speaker 1: And she is from Lahoya, which is in San Luis, Potosi, Mexico,

477
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: and it's a little tiny town. Two and her parents

478
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:47,960
Speaker 1: decided to get with the times and make like a

479
00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: YouTube invitation video invitation to come to um Ruby's Kinsera.

480
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: But they posted on on YouTube and they didn't put

481
00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: any privacy settings on and it went viral and twenty

482
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: thousand people from around the world showed up to Ruby's

483
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: Keen Signetta party in this little town of two hundred.

484
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,440
Speaker 1: That's kind of great. So right, it was great on

485
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:13,480
Speaker 1: the one hand, but if you look at the photos

486
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:18,440
Speaker 1: from it, she was very much overwhelming. True was not

487
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,080
Speaker 1: expecting it. Apparently, like like on Facebook, like over a

488
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: million people said they were coming, but even still twenty

489
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: and if you look, there's like all these stands set up,

490
00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:29,920
Speaker 1: and like people from all over the country and the

491
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: world chipped in to like feed everybody and make sure

492
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: everybody had takes or whatever. So the parents said, okay,

493
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: we're doing this um and they they did it. They

494
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: they stepped up and and met there there there are

495
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: they kept their welcome to everybody. I guess as a

496
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: way to put it, that's kind of great. But I

497
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: can definitely see on the day that the girl might

498
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:53,400
Speaker 1: have been overwhelmed. But I bet she also in retrospect,

499
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 1: it's like, hey, I've got one cool story for my life. Now.

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00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, she's got a big old story and she

501
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:03,920
Speaker 1: got a Chevy Volt. Serious. Yeah, I couldn't tell. I

502
00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,440
Speaker 1: literally couldn't tell if you were just being Joki Josh

503
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:08,960
Speaker 1: there that was. I didn't even need to be that time.

504
00:31:09,440 --> 00:31:12,320
Speaker 1: So Chevy got involved, of course. I think her parents

505
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:15,640
Speaker 1: gave her that. Oh I figured Chevy was like, hey, no,

506
00:31:15,840 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: I think that was I think that was her rigalo

507
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:24,280
Speaker 1: surpraise her surprise gift. Yes, and speaking of sour praises,

508
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: um the that was uni Spanish name, by the way.

509
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: But speaking of surprises, there's also chuck. Go onto YouTube

510
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Speaker 1: and type in by a surprais a b A I

511
00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: l e spraisa and just start watching these videos because

512
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: the Bia surpraise is one of the hallmarks of the

513
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Keys and euro Party and they are about as adorable

514
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: and embarrassing as you can imagine. What what does that mean? Though?

515
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: What is it? Oh, it's a surprise dance. So it's like,

516
00:31:57,080 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 1: for months ahead of time, the key signer uh and

517
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:05,120
Speaker 1: her court will practice a dance that they make up

518
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: or that they hire like a choreographer, and they will

519
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 1: like perform this dance for the guests. It's the surprise dance.

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00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: It's like part of the kingson era and um, they're

521
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: they're very cute to watch they do. But they also

522
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: are really they're very earnest about it too, like they

523
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 1: like they practice this dance and they're they're doing it

524
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:32,560
Speaker 1: and it's it's very cute. You can also hire Shamblaan's

525
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:37,400
Speaker 1: professional ones and they're all like dancers by trade, so

526
00:32:37,440 --> 00:32:39,880
Speaker 1: they'll they'll like really knock your socks off of your guests.

527
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,400
Speaker 1: But it's, you know, it's lack in that heart of

528
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: something you and your friends came up with yourself. Or

529
00:32:44,840 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: you could if you had a lot of dough, you

530
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: could hire a choreographer like Paula Rebduel or something. Yeah. Yeah,

531
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: like her, she's still choreographing, right, yeah, choreographing, choreographing. Something

532
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: bad wrong with us today? You got anything else I do?

533
00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: This is a little so oppresso for you. My friend,

534
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: there was a father in Texas a couple of years

535
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: ago that spent six a million dollars on his fifteen

536
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: year old daughter. Oh he uh what's his name here? Uh?

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00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,719
Speaker 1: He's an attorney named Thomas J. Henry san Antonio. They

538
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 1: were very kind of well known family. His daughter Maya

539
00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 1: is big on Instagram and social media, and she's big

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00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:33,440
Speaker 1: into activism, so she's like, you know, she's not just

541
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: your ordinary teen, although that is kind of ordinary these days, thankfully,

542
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: to be a well known teen activists well to be active, sure.

543
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 1: But at her Kincaneta she had Nick Jonas perform, Pitbull perform. Um.

544
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: Let me see what else here? A fifty five thousand

545
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: square foot space that they built. I don't think they

546
00:33:56,760 --> 00:34:00,560
Speaker 1: built it from scratch, but it does say that it

547
00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:06,440
Speaker 1: was built. UM purpose built venue. How many guests? Six

548
00:34:06,480 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: hundred guests? Man a thirty foot tall cherry trees, a

549
00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: thirty foot tall cherry cheese and full blossom walls of roses,

550
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: A garden room, the ballroom with butterfly suspended from the ceiling.

551
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: She wore a Rolando Santana dress, which means nothing to me,

552
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: but I assume that means it's something. She had her

553
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: makeup done by Patrick Ta who does the Kardashians. Her

554
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:39,799
Speaker 1: photographer was Michelle Obama's photographer and um Thomas Henry and

555
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 1: his wife whose name is az Teca, beautiful name. They

556
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:45,759
Speaker 1: hired a New York social event planner named David Man.

557
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: He had a hundred and fifty person team to to

558
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:53,760
Speaker 1: plan out this party. And finally they arrived by police

559
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: escort in nine rolls Royces because why not, why not

560
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: get the police involved and not to feel too bad

561
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: for her little brother or I guess maybe it was

562
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: a big brother. Um, he spent four million dollars on

563
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: that kid's eighteenth birthday, I believe, o case o praisa,

564
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,880
Speaker 1: So they have, they dropped ten million bucks on a

565
00:35:14,880 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: couple of parties for their kids. Man, and those the

566
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,399
Speaker 1: girls in Mexico City are happy to to be part

567
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 1: of the city wide annual one. Yeah, I wonder what

568
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: pit Bull got paid for that? A mill? Uh? Maybe

569
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: I bet Nick Jonas got more than pit Bull, did

570
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,359
Speaker 1: you think? Yeah? And of course she had her her

571
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: pictures with both of them, and well I'm sure that

572
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: was part of it. It's like, yeah, man, all right,

573
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:49,040
Speaker 1: well that is something. What's her name, Maya? Yeah, Henry, Oh,

574
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,359
Speaker 1: I gotta look that up. Um, if you want to

575
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:56,920
Speaker 1: know more about kein Signetta as well, just show up

576
00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 1: the one uninvited. See see how that goes. You know,

577
00:36:00,160 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: you'd probably be welcomed, probably chuck probably uh, And since

578
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: I said probably a couple of times, it's time for

579
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: listener mail. Hey guys, a long time listening to a

580
00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: card carrying member of the Stuff you should know Army.

581
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:15,040
Speaker 1: I've always want to write end, but just had and

582
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: found the right topic until the It Stranger Things script

583
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: retooling debate that was during emojis. Uh. Stephen King is

584
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,760
Speaker 1: by far my favorite author and it is my absolute

585
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 1: favorite of his novels. Highly recommend. Also a huge Stranger

586
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: Things fan. Uh. They'll have no media experience. I do

587
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: have an m B A and know a thing or

588
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: two about marketing. WoT it's worth? I side with Josh

589
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,400
Speaker 1: with the studio definitely retooling the script to create synergies

590
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: between It and Stranger Things. Aside from casting the Stranger

591
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: Things kid, which to me is a smoking gun. They

592
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: change the setting in the film to take place in

593
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: the eighties. Like Stranger Things the novel, Uh, the story

594
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,839
Speaker 1: follows the main characters is in the fifties and then

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00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: again as adults in the eighties. There are elements of

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00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 1: the story that didn't translate as well into the eighties

597
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:00,040
Speaker 1: in my opinion, but it was a small price to

598
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 1: pay in order to captivate that Stranger Things audience. Just

599
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,360
Speaker 1: one guy's opinion, but I'd like to say one guy's

600
00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: informed opinion. Sorry, Chuck for what it's worth. As a

601
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: movie crush or as a movie buff, always catch movie crush,

602
00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: keep it up, Mike Sanders and Mike m I did

603
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 1: a very simple Google search and found that Stranger Things

604
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: was released in July two thousand sixteen, and principal photography

605
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: of it began about a week before that. Okay, so

606
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: that's therefore rendering that impossible. Here's the thing. Movies have

607
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: been known to change horses midstream, right. I don't think

608
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: that that settles it. Yes, do you think they shot

609
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: a bunch of the movie in the nineteen fifties and said,

610
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: wait a minute, this TV show we're here doing. No, no, no, no,

611
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: let's go make it the eighties. No. I don't think

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: let's recast this kid that we've already cast. I think

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00:37:57,480 --> 00:38:00,040
Speaker 1: I I think that there. I think that they a

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00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:03,399
Speaker 1: retool I do. I don't think that they did. Yeah,

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00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,200
Speaker 1: I don't think they did. They I don't think they

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00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: were shooting in the fifties. I think they're probably shooting

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00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: in the eighties. I think they really. My whole point

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Speaker 1: has been that they played up the same things that

619
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 1: Stranger Things was known for and that you wouldn't find

620
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,840
Speaker 1: in in the book it that and that they plumped

621
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Speaker 1: up that stuff because of Stranger Things. That's my assertion.

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00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: So as they're shooting the film it, they're doing rewrites.

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Speaker 1: They're doing rewrites because they're like, man, we gotta walk

624
00:38:34,239 --> 00:38:36,920
Speaker 1: into this TV show. Yes, and you can also do

625
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: that in the editing booth as you know as well,

626
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: which would have happened long after Stranger Things was already

627
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 1: a smash cultural phenomenon. That's I don't think it's settled, man, Okay,

628
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:52,800
Speaker 1: And it never will be all right until the editor

629
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: tells me himself for herself that I'm just dead wrong. Okay.

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Speaker 1: If you want to settle a bet, you can get

631
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: in touch with us on Twitter at Josh M Clark,

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