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Speaker 1: Kiss FM, Los Angeles. Good morning, good he have you

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Speaker 1: on with us on this Friday, mostly sunny today Tomorrow

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Speaker 1: highs in the mid seventies and eighties. Gonna be gorgeous

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Speaker 1: this weekend, so get out and enjoy it. Let's see

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Speaker 1: the hometown hustler. I'm a hustle bad coffee. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: talk about coffee right now. Marlon Gonzalez of Cafe Santo

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Speaker 1: Manabelo is gonna join us. So Marlon arrives in La

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Speaker 1: from Ohaka back in twenty ten and was looking for

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Speaker 1: his calling, and he found it, creating Cafe Santo, serving

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Speaker 1: will Hawk and inspired drinks. Coffee's there. Let me get

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Speaker 1: him on the line. He's our hometown hustler. Marlon, good morning.

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Speaker 1: How are you pretty good?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: How are you super good? Tell me what is wahawk

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Speaker 1: in coffee?

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Speaker 2: Well, so I'm from Wahaga and I moved to late

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Speaker 2: like thirteen years now. So I decided to start these

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Speaker 2: projects just to highlight my roots. When I'm calling from

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Speaker 2: so my coffee shop, it highlights, you know, what happened chocolate,

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Speaker 2: what happened beans? We have a small food menu, so

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Speaker 2: we also also you know, like try to do always

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Speaker 2: with the hack and touch with the ingredients. And but

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Speaker 2: I mean that the chocolate, especially Hagan Charlotte chocolate is

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Speaker 2: our best sellers. So basically we do like this balance.

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Speaker 2: We do the specialty coffee and also what happened, like

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Speaker 2: what happened touched my roots, So that's our soul and

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Speaker 2: our project. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What I love about your story is you worked your

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Speaker 1: way up. You came here in La, you worked in

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Speaker 1: a restaurant, you wash dishes, you were at a barista

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Speaker 1: at a coffee shop, and then you found your path

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Speaker 1: and opened your own spot. That must feel so good.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, that's totally right. Actually, this morning, I was

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Speaker 2: just thinking how long it's been since I moved here,

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Speaker 2: and I mean time flies, and I was, you know,

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Speaker 2: like thinking about all this processes. When I moved here,

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Speaker 2: I didn't speak English, you know at that time. You know,

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Speaker 2: I started as a diswasher like like two years after

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Speaker 2: you know, I started working in this coffee shop, and

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Speaker 2: I just felt like a connection with cofee and everything

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Speaker 2: is around you know, the people, uh, you know, the vibe,

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Speaker 2: the music I love like music, art, fashion, everything that

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Speaker 2: is around coffee, and I just felt connected and it's

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Speaker 2: been helping me a lot, you know, to express myself,

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Speaker 2: to growth as a person.

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Speaker 1: So I think, Whaka, I've been there and I've tasted

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Speaker 1: the food. I think I had some of the best

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Speaker 1: food maybe I've ever had in the world. It's so delicious. Cool.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean, Wahaka is switching a small town,

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Speaker 2: but it's very rich, you know, like astronomically, we have

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Speaker 2: like so many things to offer. So yeah, So basically

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Speaker 2: that's that's what I mean. That's the coffee shop prafice.

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Speaker 2: So we try to bring a little bit from Mohawka

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Speaker 2: to a lake.

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Speaker 1: Wow, Marlon and Zalees our hometownhouse. So check out Cafe

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Speaker 1: Santo in Montebello. It's a Bulevard market which is Wittier

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Speaker 1: and sixth Streets in Montabello. And check out Instagram too,

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Speaker 1: you want to see all that. It's like a minimalist vibe.

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Speaker 1: It's a cool vibe at Cafe dot Santo on Instagram. Marlin, congratulations, bro,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming on.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I'm a hustle. It sounds so good. Just it's coffee.

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Speaker 1: It sounds so delicious. So if you want to submit

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Speaker 1: somebody for a hometown Hustler kiss a m dot com

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