1 00:00:03,760 --> 00:00:07,360 Speaker 1: Lokata Radio is a radiophonic novela, which. 2 00:00:07,160 --> 00:00:10,360 Speaker 2: Is just a very extra way of saying a podcast. 3 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:12,280 Speaker 1: I'm fiosa fem. 4 00:00:12,320 --> 00:00:15,920 Speaker 2: And I am ma la munios. We're podcasting through another 5 00:00:16,079 --> 00:00:19,840 Speaker 2: Trump election year. We've been podcasting through election years, a 6 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 2: global pandemic, civic unrest, political controversies, the Me Too movement, 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:26,200 Speaker 2: the rise of TikTok, and we are still here. We're 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:27,680 Speaker 2: not done telling stories. 9 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,280 Speaker 1: We're still making podcasts. We're older, we're wiser, We're even 10 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:35,920 Speaker 1: podcasting through a new decade of our lives. 11 00:00:35,960 --> 00:00:39,640 Speaker 2: Since twenty sixteen, we've been making locat Our Radio independently 12 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:44,239 Speaker 2: until we joined iHeartMedia's Michael Dura Network in twenty twenty two. 13 00:00:44,960 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: From our lips to your ears, fall in love with 14 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,159 Speaker 1: Locata Radio like you never have before. 15 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 2: Welcome to Season nine. Love that first. 16 00:00:53,400 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 1: Listen, Ola la Loka Morees. Welcome to season nine of 17 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:02,360 Speaker 1: lok at Dota Radio. 18 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 2: I'm the Osa and I'm Mala. 19 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: Lok at Dota Radio is a podcast dedicated to archiving 20 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:12,080 Speaker 1: our present and shifting the culture forward. You're tuning in 21 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,000 Speaker 1: to capitul to twelve. 22 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 2: Last time on Locatora Radio, we interviewed Isabelle Huado, La 23 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,000 Speaker 2: City Council candidate for Council District fourteen. 24 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:24,160 Speaker 3: I'm a work would be I like to be in 25 00:01:24,200 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 3: the background and do the work, keep my head down. 26 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 3: And I never thought I'd be like the face of anything, 27 00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 3: so to speak. And so it really was the tapes, 28 00:01:32,520 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 3: you know, those infamous tapes where in leave. 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 2: Us a comment, subscribe and share with a friend. 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:41,479 Speaker 1: So today we kind of have a loose structure. We've 31 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:44,840 Speaker 1: been producing the heck out of both our shows and 32 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:46,679 Speaker 1: we just want to let loose a little bit and 33 00:01:46,800 --> 00:01:51,200 Speaker 1: kind of just check in, share some funny stories, and 34 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:52,880 Speaker 1: maybe play a little bit of a game at the end, 35 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,400 Speaker 1: depending on how the episode goes. 36 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, we're loose women today. Yes, we're gonna let our 37 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Speaker 2: hair down, we're gonna kick off our boots, we're taking 38 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:04,360 Speaker 2: off our bras and we're swinging them around in there. 39 00:02:06,680 --> 00:02:07,639 Speaker 1: That's a lovely image. 40 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,440 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's us today. So what's up, girl, 41 00:02:10,520 --> 00:02:14,040 Speaker 2: what's happening, what's going on? What's on your mind, what's 42 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 2: in your life, what's in your heart? Lord? 43 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Okay, let's start there, let's start there. Let's see what's 44 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:24,040 Speaker 1: on my mind. Oh, I don't know, I feel like 45 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,840 Speaker 1: this summer was so fun in so many ways and 46 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:31,040 Speaker 1: so busy in so many ways, but also so heavy 47 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:33,799 Speaker 1: in so many ways. So I'm something light I can 48 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:36,320 Speaker 1: share is that I recently had a little pool party, 49 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,080 Speaker 1: a pool gathering if you will. It wasn't a party, 50 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,760 Speaker 1: but I invited my close friends and we literally just 51 00:02:41,800 --> 00:02:44,240 Speaker 1: swam in the pool all day. So that was really fun. 52 00:02:44,320 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: And to me, that was like, that's like the essence 53 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: of summer. When you're hanging with your friends, you're drinking 54 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: a little bit, you're eating together, you're gathering, and you're 55 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: by a pool, you're buy a body of water. You're 56 00:02:57,520 --> 00:03:01,720 Speaker 1: just together sharing time and space, you know, in that 57 00:03:01,760 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: little capsule. It's like, to me, that's what summer feels like. 58 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was there, Yeah, you were there the pool sware. Yes, 59 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 2: it was a Soare. It was so cute because we 60 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:15,760 Speaker 2: were all just floating and chatting and having snags and 61 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: drinks and it was just like a cute little vibe. 62 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a cute, little wholesome party gathering Soare 63 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,000 Speaker 1: if you will. And it's just so funny because before, 64 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:28,720 Speaker 1: you know, when we would have the pool parties in 65 00:03:28,760 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: our early twenties, mid twenties. It's like we'd be blacking 66 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,239 Speaker 1: out by the pool. 67 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 2: Oh it's so dangerous, absolutely dehydrated, drunk, at risk of drowning. Yeah, 68 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:42,120 Speaker 2: but having so much. 69 00:03:42,040 --> 00:03:45,120 Speaker 1: Fun, having so much fun. But this was a different 70 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 1: type of fun, you know. It's like a whole some fun. 71 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:50,640 Speaker 1: It's like I have these memories. Ye, it's not that 72 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: I don't I can literally remember, as opposed to last time, 73 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: I actually couldn't remember. 74 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 2: What did I do? Right? We did? I say, we're 75 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: pretty sure we had fun. 76 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:01,000 Speaker 1: We think we had fun. 77 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 2: We think we had fun. 78 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: This time, I know I had fun, So that's great. 79 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 2: It was a really good time. And everybody was just like, 80 00:04:07,960 --> 00:04:13,320 Speaker 2: you know, chilling and like swapping stories and telling jokes 81 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:14,640 Speaker 2: and just having a laugh. 82 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: Yeah. And I think one of my one of the 83 00:04:17,960 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: memorable stories for me that day was a story that 84 00:04:21,960 --> 00:04:24,799 Speaker 1: you shared about your recent trip to Mexico City. 85 00:04:24,920 --> 00:04:26,920 Speaker 2: Ooh, girl, yes. 86 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,200 Speaker 1: Tell us about it. And let's like, let's give a 87 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: little bit of like some context and kind of like 88 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:34,320 Speaker 1: a warning, like a. 89 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 2: Warning, yes content warning, shits and giggles on your way. 90 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,159 Speaker 2: So I went to Mexico City with my friend Demi 91 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 2: and me and Demi met while we were working at 92 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,040 Speaker 2: a school for girls in Pasadena. We both promptly left 93 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 2: due to our own personal and professional reasons, and we 94 00:04:56,560 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 2: have remained friends since now. When Demi and I get 95 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 2: together were like very like Rome and Michelle's high school 96 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,359 Speaker 2: re union, Like we really bring out the like bimbo 97 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 2: in each other in the best possible way. But I 98 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: think we really induled each other's like girlish fancies. And 99 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,599 Speaker 2: when we were in Mexico City, like that was no exception, 100 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 2: Like we brought the Sangerbo Valley to cdmex like for 101 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:24,760 Speaker 2: better or for worse. 102 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: CD Max can't stand CD Max. 103 00:05:27,440 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 2: Yeah, I love CD Max. 104 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: So we cannot stand you. 105 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,840 Speaker 2: I can't stand myself either, and I want you all 106 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: to know that, Like I I totally acknowledged that. On 107 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 2: this trip, I was like very like trash Angelino Chicana, 108 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:45,600 Speaker 2: like I'm going to Mexico City like were the summer, 109 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 2: Like that's who I was. I wasn't giving back, I 110 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: wasn't making a difference. 111 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: I love that you're owning it. 112 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:53,600 Speaker 2: I'm owning it completely like I was just we were 113 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:55,599 Speaker 2: just being those girls, but we were having lots of fun, 114 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:58,919 Speaker 2: very respectful, like like everybody loved us. I think, like 115 00:05:59,000 --> 00:05:59,520 Speaker 2: it was fine. 116 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: I'll go anywhere locomotives. 117 00:06:01,400 --> 00:06:14,120 Speaker 4: We'll be right back, and we're back with more of 118 00:06:14,160 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 4: our episode. 119 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,920 Speaker 2: So we're down there and we decided to go to Chapultepeg, 120 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:22,479 Speaker 2: you know, to the castle. Yeah, we went to Chapoltepec, 121 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:27,040 Speaker 2: to the castle, to the castillo. Stop it the one 122 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 2: I think about the history. You were learning about the culture. 123 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,479 Speaker 1: What I love about this story and when Mala shared 124 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:34,240 Speaker 1: it with a bunch of like first gen kids at 125 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:37,440 Speaker 1: the pool, is that, well everyone there speaks Spanish. Yeah, 126 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:40,080 Speaker 1: and two Mala can actually pronounce things. 127 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:41,360 Speaker 2: That's not true. That's a lie. 128 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,839 Speaker 1: It's not a lie, but she pretends that she can't. 129 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:50,840 Speaker 1: I like to under promise and over under cells her 130 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: Spanish speaking abilities, and I'm like, why are you lying? 131 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 2: Because I'm like, I don't want anybody to think I 132 00:06:57,040 --> 00:06:59,160 Speaker 2: can speak Spanish and then they want me to speak Spanish, 133 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 2: you know, like, don't make me do it. I'll do 134 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:03,400 Speaker 2: it if I have to. So we're in Mexico, so 135 00:07:03,440 --> 00:07:05,360 Speaker 2: I have to do it. So it's fine. So we're 136 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 2: we go to Chapultepec and we're at the Castio and 137 00:07:07,920 --> 00:07:10,000 Speaker 2: we're like having a great time. And so earlier in 138 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,320 Speaker 2: the trip, we had gone to the Museum of Anthropology 139 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 2: and they were having like a big fair of like 140 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:20,720 Speaker 2: a book fair, but an anthropological book fair from the Americas. 141 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 2: And there was a booth there that had puppets Axe 142 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,840 Speaker 2: Lottle puppets alout this, and so I bought a pink 143 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 2: one and I decided, okay, when we go to chipul Toepec, 144 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 2: like I'm taking the puppet with me. I named her Astrid. 145 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:34,480 Speaker 2: I like had her on my hand the whole time 146 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:36,840 Speaker 2: because I was filming content with her, and also like 147 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:39,080 Speaker 2: she was a crowd pleaser, like every time there was 148 00:07:39,120 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 2: a group of children, they were like Zunajo not there. 149 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 2: There was like a group of nuns that really liked her, 150 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:48,400 Speaker 2: Like we were having fun with Astrod. So we decide 151 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 2: that on our way to the zoo, because you know, 152 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 2: Chipuletepec is a huge park, like honestly, Central Park could never. 153 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:58,120 Speaker 1: It's a it's a bosket at ch it's literally. 154 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:00,880 Speaker 2: A forest, and so they really build it out to 155 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 2: be this all day, all weekend like excursion site. There's museums. 156 00:08:07,240 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 2: We went, like I said, we went to the zoo 157 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:13,200 Speaker 2: and we're having so much fun. We're like seeing the animals, 158 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:16,720 Speaker 2: were like bopping around. We decide to go to one 159 00:08:16,760 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 2: of the vendors and get our faces painted. So Demi 160 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 2: got her face painted like a tiger. I got my 161 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:26,880 Speaker 2: face painted like a butterfly. And then Astrod couldn't get 162 00:08:26,880 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 2: her face painted because she's a puppet, so we. 163 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: Can't stand out. 164 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 2: You can't put face paint on a puppet, famously, So 165 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:42,520 Speaker 2: we had a appointment at El Museo Free de Collo 166 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,480 Speaker 2: and we were like running late, and we had been 167 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 2: taking so many videos and pictures that our phones were dying, 168 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:50,880 Speaker 2: so we like also didn't have service. We couldn't call 169 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 2: an uber. We didn't have enough time to take a bus, 170 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 2: it would take too long. So we're like, oh, let's 171 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:58,280 Speaker 2: hail a taxi. So we're there on like the main 172 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:02,719 Speaker 2: street outside of Elbows Gay and I like wave at 173 00:09:02,720 --> 00:09:05,439 Speaker 2: a taxi that's driving by, but I waved like left 174 00:09:05,440 --> 00:09:07,760 Speaker 2: to right, like as if I'm saying hello or goodbye, 175 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,200 Speaker 2: And so the taxi driver looked at me and like 176 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,440 Speaker 2: waved back at me and kept going like it didn't 177 00:09:13,559 --> 00:09:16,000 Speaker 2: I didn't hail him properly, and he didn't pull over. 178 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 2: He thought I was just waving at him. So we're like, 179 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:22,080 Speaker 2: oh shit. So almost immediately, another taxi pulls up behind 180 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,360 Speaker 2: him and he's like, get in, I saw what happened, Like, 181 00:09:25,400 --> 00:09:26,840 Speaker 2: I'll take you where we need to go, and it's 182 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,000 Speaker 2: the taxis down There are these cute little pink and 183 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 2: white cars. So this pink and white car pulls up 184 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 2: and we just we're like ooh, great, okay, so we 185 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:36,160 Speaker 2: jump in and he's like, yeah, if you wave like that, 186 00:09:36,280 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 2: they think you're saying goodbye to them, you know. He's 187 00:09:38,880 --> 00:09:40,720 Speaker 2: like that, and so like he saw that I didn't 188 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:42,439 Speaker 2: know how to hail a taxi, like I'm from La, 189 00:09:42,559 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: Like when do I hail taxis? Like never? So then 190 00:09:46,800 --> 00:09:48,960 Speaker 2: we're like having a great time. We're chatting with him. 191 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 2: He's like very talkative, very friendly, telling us all kinds 192 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 2: of things. The ride was kind of long. We get there, 193 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 2: it took like forty five minutes. We get out. No, 194 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 2: before we get out, we go to pay and he 195 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 2: brings out one of those card readers, you know, so 196 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,800 Speaker 2: we hand over our cards. The first card he says, oh, 197 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,200 Speaker 2: it's not working. Let me try your other card, and 198 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,559 Speaker 2: so okay. So like I give him my debit card. 199 00:10:13,880 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 2: Oh it's not working. Okay, well we can pay you 200 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,360 Speaker 2: in cash. So like we're kind of like not thinking, 201 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:21,520 Speaker 2: and we're like, okay, we're like on time for our 202 00:10:21,559 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 2: appointment at the museum, like we're here whatever. We get 203 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,400 Speaker 2: out of the car, I see him drive away, and 204 00:10:28,440 --> 00:10:30,920 Speaker 2: then now I'm looking at this car and I'm like, 205 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:35,640 Speaker 2: is that a real taxi? Because there wasn't a number 206 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:38,040 Speaker 2: on the side of the car. There wasn't a taxi number. 207 00:10:38,120 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 2: We weren't even thinking about it or checking for it 208 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 2: when we first got in. I just saw a pink 209 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 2: car and got into it, you know. And so then 210 00:10:45,520 --> 00:10:48,920 Speaker 2: I'm like, wait a second. This is now feeling off 211 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 2: to me. And so the high of like being at 212 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 2: the zoo and having the face pain and having so 213 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,320 Speaker 2: much fun is immediately wearing off. And now we're like 214 00:10:57,600 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 2: here at the museum. Our phones are dead. I brought 215 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,920 Speaker 2: my charger. We went to the cafeteria. I charge it, 216 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:06,320 Speaker 2: stop it, I charge my phone. I look at my 217 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:10,320 Speaker 2: banking app and this will charge be four hundred and 218 00:11:10,320 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 2: fifty American dollars US dollars usd BRO. And I'm like Demi, 219 00:11:16,559 --> 00:11:20,000 Speaker 2: you need to check your bank account to see if 220 00:11:20,040 --> 00:11:22,560 Speaker 2: he charged you because he tapped both of our debit cards. 221 00:11:22,760 --> 00:11:24,200 Speaker 1: Damn, I know. 222 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:28,480 Speaker 2: And Demi goes to look at her banking app. She 223 00:11:28,520 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 2: opens up her phone to try and check her account. 224 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:34,720 Speaker 2: It's facial recognition. It doesn't recognize her face because of 225 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 2: the tiger face paint, so she cannot check her bank account. 226 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:40,880 Speaker 2: There's no way for her to get in. And so 227 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 2: now and I still have astraed the puppet with me, 228 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 2: and we still have to do our tour of the museum. 229 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,439 Speaker 2: So now I know I've been scammed four hundred and 230 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:51,320 Speaker 2: fifty dollars. She can't even check to see if she's 231 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: been scammed. We still need to do our tour of 232 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,959 Speaker 2: Frida Collo's house. But now we're in a bad mood. 233 00:11:57,600 --> 00:11:59,640 Speaker 2: So now it's like, why are these two girls with 234 00:11:59,679 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 2: their face painted carrying a puppet so sad like while 235 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 2: they're walking through the Freedo Fallow Museum. Eventually we get 236 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:14,720 Speaker 2: back to our airbnb. She washes her face. She washes 237 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:19,320 Speaker 2: her face so she can check her account. She's fine, 238 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 2: she was not scammed. Thank god. I get on the 239 00:12:22,440 --> 00:12:26,760 Speaker 2: phone with the bank. I submit my complaint. They launched 240 00:12:26,760 --> 00:12:29,600 Speaker 2: an investigation. They credit us the money bag, and then 241 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 2: I watched the dirty pop documentary about in Sync in 242 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:36,680 Speaker 2: the Backstreet Boys with Astrid in bed. It was quite 243 00:12:36,679 --> 00:12:40,800 Speaker 2: the day. It was very trying, but we survived and 244 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 2: I learned. I learned so much. 245 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:45,720 Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere, lookamotives, we'll be right back. 246 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: We're back with more. We hope you didn't go anywhere. 247 00:12:56,640 --> 00:12:59,240 Speaker 1: It's so funny. I mean, the story is great, and 248 00:12:59,240 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 1: I'm glad that you you got the money back, and 249 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:06,000 Speaker 1: like nothing actually terrible happened, you know, but it's so 250 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,320 Speaker 1: funny because you know, I was in Mexico City earlier 251 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:11,920 Speaker 1: in the summer in July, at the beginning of July, 252 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: and we did some traveling and our trip did not 253 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: go as planned for very different reasons or like health 254 00:13:18,880 --> 00:13:23,240 Speaker 1: related stuff. And so it was kind of in that way, 255 00:13:23,400 --> 00:13:25,360 Speaker 1: like we started the trip on like a like a 256 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:29,000 Speaker 1: really excite excitement, like a really big high, and then 257 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:31,319 Speaker 1: like womp womp, you know, it like kind of took 258 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: us hour turn and again everyone is fine, we're back, 259 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:38,400 Speaker 1: everything's okay. But while I was there, it's so funny 260 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,160 Speaker 1: to hear you tell the story and me having like 261 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,840 Speaker 1: a really different experience in terms of language. So when 262 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:48,800 Speaker 1: I was growing up, my family always told us like 263 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,200 Speaker 1: and this was more so for Bdu, not for Mexico. 264 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: When you go back to Peru, it doesn't matter what 265 00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: you're dressed, like how you sound. Cianis get it? Is 266 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 1: it pure? When we go back we go to like 267 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 1: li Ma Kayao. And so when you go back, you say, 268 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: like you know, you what what what virio that you rep? 269 00:14:09,240 --> 00:14:13,480 Speaker 1: Literally like geve Asinda you rep and where you're from 270 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:17,080 Speaker 1: and like you have just like these little facts about 271 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: where you're from. Right, I was not born there. I 272 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,520 Speaker 1: actually cannot, you know, say that I was born there. 273 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,200 Speaker 1: I was from there. But I had my little story 274 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:27,360 Speaker 1: because this is what the family tells you to prep you. 275 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,440 Speaker 1: Because it's not even about like, oh, you're gonna get 276 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:33,320 Speaker 1: up charged, right, Who cares about that? Like when they're 277 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: in my opinion, like when you're in Latin America and 278 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: you're paying in dollars, who gives a fuck? Like who 279 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,000 Speaker 1: cares if they see you as a tourist and you're 280 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,280 Speaker 1: getting up charged? That to me, like that's lomenos. But 281 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: it was more so like a point of safety. You 282 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: always speak Spanish, you always say you're from there, you 283 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 1: have your little story, you know, and like keep keep 284 00:14:55,520 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 1: the talk to a minimum, especially if you have you know, 285 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 1: you don't have an accent from Kayao, from Lima, like 286 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:03,480 Speaker 1: they can tell. So just keep it, keep it quiet. 287 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: And if you're like with someone that's from there, like 288 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:07,800 Speaker 1: actually let them do all the talking. 289 00:15:08,240 --> 00:15:08,520 Speaker 2: Cool. 290 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:11,680 Speaker 1: And so you know, I grew up with all this knowledge, 291 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:14,160 Speaker 1: and I've lived in Biddu and I've gone back many 292 00:15:14,200 --> 00:15:16,440 Speaker 1: many times. And for Mexico it's a little different because 293 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: we don't have we don't have family there anymore. For 294 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 1: the most part, everyone that's closest to us and within 295 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: like our little extended family is here in the US. 296 00:15:26,360 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 1: And so Fernando, my partner, my husband, he was born 297 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:34,480 Speaker 1: in Mexico, born in Acapulco, would go back all the 298 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: time up until he couldn't. And when we get go there, 299 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: he's telling everybody he's from La love it. And I'm like, 300 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:47,800 Speaker 1: first of all, you have like you have an accent, 301 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: like you're from here, Like claim it, you know, tell 302 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,720 Speaker 1: them you're from Acapulco. Tell them you're go Staniel, tell 303 00:15:54,760 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: them you're from Guerrero and he's like, no, telling everybody 304 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:59,800 Speaker 1: he's from La and I'm just like they're like stressed, 305 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:02,000 Speaker 1: like what is wrong with you? Full like you can 306 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 1: actually like rep where you're from and you can say 307 00:16:05,240 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 1: you're from here and granted you don't live here anymore, 308 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:08,240 Speaker 1: but you don't they don't need to. 309 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:11,000 Speaker 2: Know all of that. Yeah, and he's actually from and he's. 310 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:13,640 Speaker 1: Actually from Nico, and he's like telling all these stories 311 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:17,680 Speaker 1: about like oh okay, soyak soa, yeah me Familia tatata 312 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: because he has family in Mexico City too, and that's 313 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:23,120 Speaker 1: who we stayed with. And so I'm over here like 314 00:16:23,160 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 1: with my knowledge and my viewpoint of the world and 315 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: traveling and how I travel, and he's over here just 316 00:16:30,000 --> 00:16:32,920 Speaker 1: like yes, talking in Spanish, kind of talking in English 317 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:36,280 Speaker 1: to me at least. And it was just a very 318 00:16:36,320 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: interesting experience to see both of us and how we 319 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,120 Speaker 1: like navigate that because we're both this is the This 320 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:44,120 Speaker 1: was the second time that we were able to travel 321 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:47,800 Speaker 1: to make go together and so that was really interesting. 322 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: And so I, you know, on my close friends on Instagram, 323 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:53,080 Speaker 1: I was like asking people like if you go back 324 00:16:53,080 --> 00:16:54,840 Speaker 1: to like country of origin, like what do you do, 325 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: Like what were you told to say? And like ninety 326 00:16:58,680 --> 00:17:00,880 Speaker 1: percent of the dms were like, oh, we always say 327 00:17:00,880 --> 00:17:03,760 Speaker 1: we're from here, you know, and we have like exactly 328 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:06,040 Speaker 1: like me. We have like our little facts. And then 329 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: I have other people say like yeah, but they can tell, 330 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:10,840 Speaker 1: so like it doesn't really matter, like you can tell 331 00:17:11,080 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 1: they know. It's like the way we dress, the way 332 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:15,479 Speaker 1: we talk, like the way we carry ourselves. There's just 333 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:18,080 Speaker 1: like as respectful as we may try to be, like 334 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 1: they know, and so I don't know. It like really 335 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:23,960 Speaker 1: got me thinking about that. So just funny, like the 336 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 1: three of us, ye mean, you, me and then even Fernando, 337 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:30,520 Speaker 1: like having these very different experiences in one place and 338 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: different like viewpoints of how we show up. 339 00:17:33,160 --> 00:17:35,919 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean part of it is my family. We 340 00:17:35,960 --> 00:17:38,000 Speaker 2: did not go to Mexico when I grew up. It 341 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:41,280 Speaker 2: was not part of my experience. I took myself to Mexico. 342 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:44,800 Speaker 2: Like in high school, we did a week long homestay 343 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: in Mexico City. They took a group of us. So 344 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:52,600 Speaker 2: I was in Mexico City with my Pasadena High school 345 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,040 Speaker 2: and we did homestays and that was my first time 346 00:17:56,119 --> 00:17:58,439 Speaker 2: spending any time in Mexico. And it was through school, 347 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:02,640 Speaker 2: and that experience was great and fabulous, and it's where 348 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:04,920 Speaker 2: I really started to fall in love with Mexico City 349 00:18:05,040 --> 00:18:07,640 Speaker 2: when I was like a junior in high school. And 350 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:11,919 Speaker 2: I felt at the time like, oh, I'm reconnecting, like 351 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 2: with my home country and like we've been in the 352 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,719 Speaker 2: US for so many generations, like we have no connection 353 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:19,399 Speaker 2: here anymore. I'm so excited for this homestay. I'm going 354 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:21,480 Speaker 2: to stay with a Mexican family for a week and 355 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 2: we're going to go to school with their kids, and 356 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 2: it's going to be dope. And so I get assigned 357 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,960 Speaker 2: to my homestay placement and I go to spend my 358 00:18:28,960 --> 00:18:30,720 Speaker 2: first night with them and I meet them and they're 359 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 2: a German family that had immigrated for this time. Back 360 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: in the day, I used to tell this story, but 361 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 2: for the new listeners, they were a German family of 362 00:18:40,080 --> 00:18:44,280 Speaker 2: architects that had moved to Mexico City and we're raising 363 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 2: their German children there, and so that was cool. But 364 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 2: also that's part of the reality of Mexico. It's an 365 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,120 Speaker 2: international plays just like the United States, and people move 366 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 2: there from all over the world and then have kids 367 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:01,000 Speaker 2: who are then Mexicans. Absolutely, and that's just the part 368 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: of the reality of the country, you know, And that 369 00:19:03,359 --> 00:19:05,280 Speaker 2: was an important lesson for me to learn as well 370 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,120 Speaker 2: and to see that. Then as an adult, I had 371 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 2: a friend, a coworker, the homegirl Nora shout Out, and 372 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:13,520 Speaker 2: she decided that she was going to like up and 373 00:19:13,560 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 2: move to Guatemala for a year. I went and stayed 374 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 2: with her in Antigua, me and my friend Melissa. That 375 00:19:18,400 --> 00:19:21,040 Speaker 2: was really fun. Then she decided she was going to 376 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,520 Speaker 2: stay in Mexico City for a year. Mind you, Nora 377 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 2: is a white woman from South Pasadena with blonde hair 378 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 2: and blue eyes, who at the time didn't speak Spanish 379 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 2: but now she does. And she just moved to Guatemala 380 00:19:30,440 --> 00:19:32,840 Speaker 2: by herself and then just moved to Mexico City by herself. 381 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:35,399 Speaker 2: And when I stayed with her and went out with 382 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 2: her in these countries, you know, my family was very like, 383 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:40,680 Speaker 2: what where are you going? 384 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 1: What are you doing? 385 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:45,400 Speaker 2: And I'm like, she's going by herself. And she goes 386 00:19:45,440 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 2: to bars and alone, right, and goes to bilez and 387 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 2: goes to shows and is meeting friends and learning Spanish 388 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,199 Speaker 2: and it's literally fine. Yeah, but you know, as Mexican 389 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,840 Speaker 2: Americans especially when we don't grow up going to our 390 00:19:59,880 --> 00:20:03,560 Speaker 2: he home country, going to Mexico, we have outdated ideas 391 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 2: based on our grandparents. So the knowledge we have of 392 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 2: Mexico and the language that we speak is from nineteen 393 00:20:10,560 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: forty five Mexico, Jalisco, Okay, from the Campo, Like we're 394 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,159 Speaker 2: not updated. So I've taken myself as an adult and 395 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,760 Speaker 2: every time I've gone, like you know, like I said, 396 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:23,760 Speaker 2: I mean, there's no barrio or vesindad for me to 397 00:20:23,760 --> 00:20:26,280 Speaker 2: claim down there, you know. And what I've loved though, 398 00:20:26,800 --> 00:20:30,440 Speaker 2: is even Injalisco, you know, because Mexico I felt when 399 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:32,880 Speaker 2: I go, this is not correct, this is wrong whatever. 400 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,720 Speaker 2: I always feel like La is just like an unincorporated 401 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:38,520 Speaker 2: suburb of Mexico City, you know what I mean. Like 402 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,000 Speaker 2: it's really not that it's different, but it's not that 403 00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:44,439 Speaker 2: different that I can't like go and be myself and 404 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,439 Speaker 2: this oh no, no then and they know who I 405 00:20:46,440 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 2: am and where I'm from. 406 00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:50,320 Speaker 1: You know. That's definitely the point of I think why 407 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: the gentrification of Mexico City has been so rampant, because 408 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,320 Speaker 1: it is very welcoming, Like there's like Mexican hospitality is 409 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:01,760 Speaker 1: like known for a reason, right, And I think, yeah, 410 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:05,280 Speaker 1: we showed we we as I think as mindful people, right, 411 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,960 Speaker 1: we show up like respectful. Right. We can't say the 412 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:10,520 Speaker 1: same for lots of other people. We don't know them obviously, 413 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 1: But I think that's why, like I think Mexico City has. 414 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 2: Felt so. 415 00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:20,640 Speaker 1: Welcoming for people to move there. Yeah, obviously there's people 416 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:25,200 Speaker 1: that it's led to its own issue with the gentrification 417 00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:29,880 Speaker 1: across Mexico City. But I think because it's it feels 418 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: so familiar and it's a metro it's a metropolitan city. 419 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:36,919 Speaker 2: It's like going to New York, yes, yeah, and it's 420 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 2: and you know, because there is a lot of back 421 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 2: and forth between Mexico and LA and southern California. Like 422 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,399 Speaker 2: when I was in Halley School with my mom, Like 423 00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,719 Speaker 2: if we're in a taxi or an uber, like if 424 00:21:46,760 --> 00:21:49,640 Speaker 2: we're just walking around and talking to people, we could 425 00:21:49,680 --> 00:21:52,680 Speaker 2: specifically say like, oh, like we my mom would say 426 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 2: that she lives in Bakersfield, and they know exactly what 427 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:57,960 Speaker 2: Bakersfield is and they've been there, right, you know, because 428 00:21:58,359 --> 00:22:00,320 Speaker 2: there's a lot of back and forth, and so it's 429 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,840 Speaker 2: also fun to compare notes because like we're not from 430 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,760 Speaker 2: an exotic place. You know, everybody in Mexico knows about 431 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,359 Speaker 2: La of course it's probably been, you know, and so 432 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,840 Speaker 2: that's also fun to sort of exchange that absolutely with them. 433 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 2: And even like you know, the small agricultural towns, you 434 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 2: know they've been, They're familiar, you know, they understand, they 435 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,560 Speaker 2: know what San Jose is, right well, I mean. 436 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: The proximity to the US and California give lends itself 437 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,840 Speaker 1: to that kind of exchange versus like a country in 438 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:29,639 Speaker 1: South America. 439 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,880 Speaker 2: Absolutely, it's very different. So yeah, in that way, I've 440 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,760 Speaker 2: always felt very like I can let go they and 441 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,720 Speaker 2: everybody speaks English, you know, so I practice my Spanish. 442 00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,600 Speaker 2: I do. Yeah, I don't know. I always have fun. 443 00:22:42,760 --> 00:22:45,880 Speaker 2: I have a good time down there, and I'm every 444 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:47,679 Speaker 2: time I go, I do I do the I do 445 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 2: the museums, I do the TOURISKI stuff like, I'll do 446 00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 2: all of it and then I'll also like we went 447 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:57,119 Speaker 2: to the aquarium Elaquardrio, Michine, which was really really fun 448 00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,760 Speaker 2: because it was like Universal Studios. And what I liked 449 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 2: about that day was we were probably the only Americans there. 450 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,880 Speaker 2: Everybody else was like a family with their tiny children, 451 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,840 Speaker 2: you know, so like I also like doing stuff like that. 452 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,720 Speaker 2: We're like, no, this is just like the local families 453 00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:16,359 Speaker 2: what they would do on a Saturday. Yeah, and I'm 454 00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 2: going to go and just do that and just be wholesome. 455 00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,120 Speaker 1: Well, the very first time I went to Mexico City, 456 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,120 Speaker 1: I stayed with someone I knew from undergrad who was 457 00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:27,639 Speaker 1: born and raised in Mexico City, had lived there. She 458 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,280 Speaker 1: just lived there and I met her because she was 459 00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,400 Speaker 1: on an exchange at UCSB. Yeah, and so I got 460 00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:35,600 Speaker 1: like that viewpoint of she took us to do, like 461 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:38,960 Speaker 1: very touristy things, but also very local things. So when 462 00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: we went in twenty twenty two, Fernando went through his 463 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,439 Speaker 1: university through his master's program and he did advanced parole, 464 00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 1: and so we very much went into that trip with like, 465 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:51,320 Speaker 1: we don't know when we're going to be able to 466 00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 1: come back together, let's do everything. So we did every 467 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 1: imaginable touristy thing possible and it was a lot of fun. 468 00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:03,240 Speaker 1: This time, I think because of some health stuff that 469 00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,520 Speaker 1: I mentioned and we were staying with his family, it 470 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,080 Speaker 1: was a very low key, very like locals only type 471 00:24:10,119 --> 00:24:12,640 Speaker 1: of trip, which was so fun too. I think it's 472 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: really nice when you can do like that blend and 473 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:18,400 Speaker 1: that mix of like here's where the locals go. Definitely 474 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:20,639 Speaker 1: felt like a gentrifier when I was running through the 475 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,480 Speaker 1: park because I was thinking about, like, damn, you know 476 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,680 Speaker 1: when you're in LA and you're in like a non 477 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: gentrified neighborhood and you see like a white person running 478 00:24:29,440 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 1: and you're like. 479 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,679 Speaker 2: Oh, this is bad. 480 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,080 Speaker 1: Well, then I had that like reverse feeling when I 481 00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: was in Mexico City, when I was in the little 482 00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:40,960 Speaker 1: Colognia that hisprimas live in that's not gentrified at all, 483 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,800 Speaker 1: it has not reached that point yet, And I was 484 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: like running through the park and I was like, oh 485 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,320 Speaker 1: my god, I'm the gentrifier running in your neighborhood. 486 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:53,760 Speaker 2: Literally, yeah yeah yeah. 487 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,080 Speaker 1: And so that was really that was like really interesting 488 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:58,080 Speaker 1: to feel that. And then you know, I posted my 489 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:00,920 Speaker 1: little run on social media like okay, like first run 490 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:05,399 Speaker 1: in Mexico City, and someone DMed me and was like, girl, 491 00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:07,560 Speaker 1: there's gonna be a TikTok of you running through the 492 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,840 Speaker 1: park calling a gentrification and I'm like, I know, I 493 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:15,560 Speaker 1: already thought that, literally, but also people run in Mexico City. 494 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,040 Speaker 1: There's also when I was when I was there, it 495 00:25:19,160 --> 00:25:21,679 Speaker 1: was also during the time of the Medio Maraton and 496 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,439 Speaker 1: I was and it was sold out and I was 497 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:29,000 Speaker 1: really trying to like find someone to sell me their bib. 498 00:25:29,560 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: But one, I don't want to get scammed first of all, 499 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: and two was like, just run it, just jump in. 500 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,879 Speaker 1: But if they catch you, you get banned. And I'm like, well, 501 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 1: I want to actually run it formally, so I don't 502 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:47,320 Speaker 1: want to get caught and get Bannedoco. So maybe next year, but. 503 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 2: That would be so embarrassing. 504 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, literally no, So anyway, I would like to run 505 00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,720 Speaker 1: it next year. That's and that's going to be my 506 00:25:52,760 --> 00:25:55,960 Speaker 1: goal for next year. But seeing the other communities within 507 00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,480 Speaker 1: Mexico City or within any place that you travel to 508 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: and you see like the running communities. Right the last 509 00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: time I was there, I saw like a group like 510 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:08,040 Speaker 1: like fifty to one hundred people like just skating literally 511 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:08,960 Speaker 1: on roller skates. 512 00:26:09,000 --> 00:26:10,879 Speaker 2: Oh my god, I need to find. 513 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: Them going down Like it was so cool, so cool, 514 00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: you know, And so seeing I think all those different 515 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,080 Speaker 1: communities is really fun when you're traveling and like you know, 516 00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:22,320 Speaker 1: copping in when you. 517 00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 2: Can absolutely, yeah, it's so fun, such a fun place. 518 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,560 Speaker 2: So we talk about it all the time. Honestly. Yeah, 519 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 2: So shout out CDMAS. You guys are cool, dumb. I 520 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,720 Speaker 2: love you guys. Oh my god, no, I opened. So 521 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 2: while I was down there, I did redownload my hinge 522 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 2: app just to see who's who, what's what. And dude, 523 00:26:43,880 --> 00:26:49,439 Speaker 2: the number of white men in Mexico City, the number 524 00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:53,240 Speaker 2: of white men the sheer number from all over, not 525 00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 2: just from the US, from everywhere. And so I'm like 526 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 2: looking at my options and like, my I'm you know, 527 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 2: you know, I'm like matching with people or what I 528 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,000 Speaker 2: And I'm like, DEMI like, what if I went on 529 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 2: like a date with this guy like while I'm down here. 530 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:07,000 Speaker 2: And she's like, you're not gonna go on a date 531 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,280 Speaker 2: with fucking like white boy tod in Mexico City. Like 532 00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,439 Speaker 2: it's true, and it's true, and I didn't. But seeing 533 00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:17,879 Speaker 2: the because you know, you're down there, you're walking around, 534 00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:20,640 Speaker 2: you don't know who's who or who's from where. No, honestly, 535 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 2: you definitely don't. It's definitely hard to tell. And I 536 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 2: don't think there really is a way you have to 537 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,159 Speaker 2: just talk to someone to find out are you a 538 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 2: Mexican or are you from Sweden honestly, or are you 539 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,520 Speaker 2: from wherever you're from, because anybody could be from anywhere. 540 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 2: So it was interesting seeing the app because then it's 541 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,120 Speaker 2: telling you exactly where they're from and what their deal 542 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:44,160 Speaker 2: is and why they're there, and so even just like sociologically, 543 00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,639 Speaker 2: it was really interesting to see. And there were like 544 00:27:46,680 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 2: a number of people that had been there for years, 545 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:53,000 Speaker 2: you know, and they were working most mostly a lot 546 00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 2: of like tech, a lot of like sales. So yeah, 547 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:58,880 Speaker 2: I don't know, it was fascinating. But I didn't see 548 00:27:58,920 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 2: a lot of like Mexican men on the app, which 549 00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:03,679 Speaker 2: was also fascinating. 550 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 1: I don't I'm trying to remember this detail. But there's 551 00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:10,239 Speaker 1: this influencer that I follow. We follow each other, but 552 00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:10,880 Speaker 1: we don't. 553 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:11,520 Speaker 2: We're not friends. 554 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:13,440 Speaker 1: I don't think we've ever met in real life. And 555 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: during the pandemic, she was one of those Mexican Americans 556 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,800 Speaker 1: that went to Mexico City, yeah and started living there. Okay, 557 00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:27,359 Speaker 1: now she's a whole mother. She met a Mexican man 558 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:28,639 Speaker 1: right in Mexico. 559 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:29,400 Speaker 2: Nice. 560 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:32,560 Speaker 1: He's beautiful. They look like the leno Vela stars together, 561 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: both of them. Honestly, they're both very beautiful people. And 562 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,360 Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember if she met him on a 563 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,880 Speaker 1: dating apps or like just you know, through people in 564 00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:47,080 Speaker 1: community in real life. But that's also a thing too, 565 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: you know, like you go and you meet someone and well, 566 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: I guess I'm staying. 567 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 2: Right, I guess I live in Mexico City now with 568 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:55,960 Speaker 2: a husband and a family. Yeah. There's a woman that 569 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:58,760 Speaker 2: I went to undergrad with. She moved to Mexico City. 570 00:28:58,880 --> 00:29:01,480 Speaker 2: She found her husband on a app in Mexico City 571 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,200 Speaker 2: and married him, which is why he's her husband. And 572 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,000 Speaker 2: it was because of that story that I was like, well, 573 00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:10,160 Speaker 2: let me download him, might find my husband while I'm 574 00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,800 Speaker 2: down here. Let me check it out. But it was 575 00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,800 Speaker 2: a lot of white men. It was really interesting to see. 576 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 1: That is interesting. 577 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, but I can find those here. Yeah, they're not 578 00:29:18,160 --> 00:29:20,520 Speaker 2: that hard to find. This place is crawling with white men, 579 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 2: absolutely crawling. So if I'm going to Mexico, I need 580 00:29:24,840 --> 00:29:29,160 Speaker 2: something other than Todd from But it's also. 581 00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: Not like you're dating Todd from Bourbank out here. Either. 582 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:31,800 Speaker 2: I'm not. 583 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: No, I'm definitely not. 584 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:34,200 Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I tried. 585 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: You go in the world, You're not going to date 586 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: the Todd for Burbank. 587 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 2: I did once. I tried once. It wasn't for me. 588 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,000 Speaker 2: It wasn't for me. Yeah, it's okay, it's okay, it's fine, 589 00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 2: it's fine, it's fine. How are we on time? 590 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:52,520 Speaker 1: I think that we have time to wrap up and 591 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,520 Speaker 1: that's like, yeah. 592 00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:56,880 Speaker 2: We literally just filled this episode. 593 00:29:56,440 --> 00:30:00,000 Speaker 1: With our Mexico City trips, respective trips. 594 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 2: I love it. 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