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Speaker 1: to look at Radio. Welcome to season three of Local

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Speaker 1: Radio Porcallas. Because fem revenge has never sounded so sweet,

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Speaker 1: Look at Our Radio is a radiophonic novella archiving the

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Speaker 1: myth and Bullshit radio radiophonic novella, which is really just

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Speaker 1: this is actually hilarious because we are starting to run

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Speaker 1: into locomotives more and more in different ways. Right tell

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Speaker 1: them where you recently rot. So most recently I attended

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Speaker 1: the Southern California Sexual Health Summit at the California endowment.

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Speaker 1: They were all like working in various nonprofits or in

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Speaker 1: and family, the familial love, you know, like that's also important,

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Speaker 1: That's my affirmation, um, Mama, and I'd say affirmations to

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Speaker 1: you can also do that with yourself truly. Yeah. Yeah,

424
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:33,040
Speaker 1: just just pray to yourself yourself. Um. I keep some

425
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: affirmations by my bedside and I wrote them out with

426
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,159
Speaker 1: my therapist, and I don't have them on hand. I like,

427
00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:41,879
Speaker 1: I don't have the memorized. But if you do go

428
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:43,919
Speaker 1: to too, If you do see a therapist, you know,

429
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 1: you can also work on them with your with them

430
00:23:46,320 --> 00:23:49,000
Speaker 1: that's helpful, like a specific things you want to work on.

431
00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,679
Speaker 1: Or you can a lot of people share their affirmations

432
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,280
Speaker 1: online like on I G. You can google some like

433
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:58,800
Speaker 1: there's a lot of affirmation I think oriented pages. Yes,

434
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,159
Speaker 1: you know a good one is on alex l A

435
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: l e x e l l E. I love her

436
00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,240
Speaker 1: and she has been like talking, she has been like

437
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 1: talking about self care, like before it became like this

438
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,600
Speaker 1: really like capitalistic corporate idea of like we're gonna sell

439
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: self care, you know, we're going to wrap it up

440
00:24:15,680 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: and sell it. She has been talking about it for

441
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,719
Speaker 1: a long time, and she writes little affirmations like on

442
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: a little papelito and then she like takes a picture

443
00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:26,399
Speaker 1: holding it. So she's definitely someone I would recommend to

444
00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:29,640
Speaker 1: go follow and check out her affirmations. Yeah. I used

445
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,399
Speaker 1: to follow her on tumbler. Yeah, she's been She's been

446
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:35,480
Speaker 1: like online for a while, like writing about what she

447
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:37,920
Speaker 1: writes about. I feel like she wrote a book, right, Yeah,

448
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,159
Speaker 1: I think she has a few books out. She does

449
00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:45,360
Speaker 1: a podcast mother she's a mother of two. Yeah, she's beautiful.

450
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: She's beautiful. Yeah, she's great. That would be a dream

451
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,119
Speaker 1: podcast collab for me. I think you should tag her

452
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: in this good let's do it? Yes, okay? Um? Next question,

453
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:59,800
Speaker 1: are y'all monogamous? And have you ever struggled with that? Because, bitch,

454
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: I'm pressed. Thank you for this question. Um, I'm not

455
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: monogamous because I'm not in a relationship. Have you have

456
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,639
Speaker 1: all of your relationship has been monogamous? Um? Well, on

457
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: my end, they were right. I don't really know if

458
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:17,000
Speaker 1: that's a yes or no, right, but I think I

459
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: was in the relationship under the presumption of monogamy, right,

460
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:26,160
Speaker 1: put it that way. Yes, Now in my current relationship,

461
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 1: we are both monogamous, right, And um, I mean I

462
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,720
Speaker 1: guess yeah, I can take especially a new relationship, like

463
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:36,440
Speaker 1: everything takes adjustment, gets to getting used to. I wonder

464
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:39,920
Speaker 1: if that's why this listener is pressed. Maybe because it's

465
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:43,520
Speaker 1: just I mean, you're used to You're so used to

466
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:45,800
Speaker 1: being by yourself, right, And there's like that quote where

467
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,280
Speaker 1: it's like, I'm so good at being alone that like

468
00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: your company has to feel better than my being alone. Yes,

469
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:54,640
Speaker 1: you know so, I think that that's a really good

470
00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: way to like weigh whether or not being in this

471
00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: relationship if this relationship is for you, right, Like doesn't

472
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 1: feel just as good when you're a lot better if

473
00:26:03,880 --> 00:26:09,160
Speaker 1: not better? Yeah, good question. I like this next question

474
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,920
Speaker 1: because I think it's pretty cut and dry for us. Anyways.

475
00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: Is casual sex wrong? Well no, no, absolutely not no. No.

476
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: This is part of m learning the Catholicism. Yes, okay,

477
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:24,240
Speaker 1: where sex head was part of your religion class and

478
00:26:24,280 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 1: your religion teacher taught like save yourself for Jesus, which

479
00:26:28,400 --> 00:26:30,760
Speaker 1: how fucking weird to say to like a room full

480
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:33,840
Speaker 1: of like thirteen year olds, fourteen year old save yourself

481
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 1: for Jesus, save yourself for like the man you're going

482
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 1: to marry and spend the rest of your life with.

483
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: It's so weird. Yeah, I think about it, and I'm like,

484
00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: what were they? Oh my god, the policing, the policing,

485
00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: the like just let me alone, all of it, all

486
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: of it. Yeah. The idea that like sex is just

487
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:58,720
Speaker 1: so tied into religion is so bizarre to me, I know, right,

488
00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: you know, like this goes back in some ways to

489
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: the notion of like the patriarchy being a micromanager. This

490
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: is some micro management. Is like tying up sex and

491
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:15,680
Speaker 1: sexuality into the dogma of the religion, right, Like that's

492
00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,200
Speaker 1: so personal, none of your business, it's none of your

493
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: how many partners I've had and we need to Like

494
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if this is still a thing.

495
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure it is, But like, do people still ask

496
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:28,800
Speaker 1: your body count? I mean I think it's one of

497
00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: those questions that will never die. Like, I think people

498
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 1: still do it. I remember being like in my nine twenty,

499
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,920
Speaker 1: like asking what's your body count? Because I don't know

500
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: any better? You know, and like being asked that and

501
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: being like okay, sure, here's my number. But now it's

502
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: like you don't need to know that, like that was

503
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 1: before you Yeah, you don't need to know. Also, I

504
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,960
Speaker 1: lost track a long time ago, so you can ask me,

505
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:54,719
Speaker 1: but you're not going to get a straighter right right

506
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 1: because anyways, Um yeah, no, casual sex is not wrong.

507
00:27:58,040 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: It's not wrong and then not wrong. I think the

508
00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: this is a two part it's a self love versus

509
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: a woman's needs. Well, I think that they can both

510
00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 1: be you know, self love and they can both fulfill

511
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 1: your needs. I'm thinking this is again when she says

512
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: self love, I'm thinking she means masturbation, like can I

513
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: just like, you know, if I'm feeling like the needs

514
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, like can I just masturbate slash? What about

515
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: my other needs? So I think that you can do both. Yeah.

516
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:31,080
Speaker 1: I feel like love in lots of ways is making

517
00:28:31,119 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: sure your needs are met. So like what if you

518
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: love your partner, making sure their needs are met if

519
00:28:35,720 --> 00:28:37,840
Speaker 1: your partner loves you, your partner is making sure your

520
00:28:37,880 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: needs are met and then making sure your own needs

521
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: are met when and how you can meet them. So yeah,

522
00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't think capital sex is wrong and you know,

523
00:28:47,440 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: if you know, as long as everybody's consenting and there's

524
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: like clear cut boundaries and all of that, like why not, right,

525
00:28:56,160 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: go for it, enjoy, have a good time, right right? Okay,

526
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,640
Speaker 1: this is a little bit different, but I think still

527
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: important when we're talking about self love. This question is

528
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: have you ever had the experience of wearing something super

529
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: tight and realizing you've gained weight and feel sad? I'm

530
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:16,040
Speaker 1: tired of hating myself and looking for some inspiration to

531
00:29:16,160 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: love myself even if I'm not where I want to be.

532
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: This is just like the ongoing perennial like issue, like

533
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,240
Speaker 1: this is always in forever. My weight is always fluctuating,

534
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:31,600
Speaker 1: Like I am not consistent with like how much I

535
00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,000
Speaker 1: weigh or even like what size of clothes I wear.

536
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: I've always gone up and down like for years, and

537
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:40,800
Speaker 1: it's just how I am. Um. And so this experience

538
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 1: of like going down a size or going down a

539
00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: few sizes and having like your your your clothes for

540
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,240
Speaker 1: when you're skinny, and then you have clothes for when

541
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: you're bigger. Um, And this is an experience that I

542
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,000
Speaker 1: have all the time right where I'm like Okay, I

543
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: was wearing this a month ago, but now it doesn't

544
00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: fit me anymore and feeling sad. And when I've just

545
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:03,440
Speaker 1: come to realize is you know, you just have to

546
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 1: come to a place where you can say, I am

547
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,760
Speaker 1: not going to aspire towards anything with my body, Like

548
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: I am going to make a conscious choice to wake

549
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,960
Speaker 1: up and just love my body just however it shows

550
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: up today, you know, because the aspirational like self love

551
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: is kind of like procrastination because you're always putting it

552
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 1: off until a later date. You're always putting off the

553
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: self love. You're you like know that it's there, but

554
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: you're waiting to give it to yourself until you reach

555
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,480
Speaker 1: some goal that you might never reach right or you

556
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: might get to and then you know, retreat from. So

557
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: for me, um, it's kind of like you have to

558
00:30:41,440 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 1: just sort of snap yourself out of it and just

559
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: make yourself in some ways, also people say like, oh,

560
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:49,800
Speaker 1: never buy a bigger size, Like don't buy yourself bigger

561
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: clothes by yourself bigger clothes, Like buy clothes that look

562
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 1: good on you and that you feel good in. Like

563
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: if you need to keep like a larger pants or

564
00:30:58,480 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 1: larger shirts, and larger bra as for like when your

565
00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: weight is up, do that, you know, like don't be

566
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: afraid to go out and buy bigger clothes, like wear

567
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 1: clothes that fit you, um, because that's like you're not

568
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: gonna feel good about yourself forcing yourself into clothes that

569
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: do not fit and that are not your size. Yeah,

570
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 1: I agree. Um. I think something that helps me is

571
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: literally looking in the mirror when I'm naked, um, because

572
00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: I like will find myself like if I'm feeling like

573
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:29,720
Speaker 1: uncomfortable like avoiding mirrors, you know. So I'm just like

574
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 1: kind of just literally just like taking a shower and

575
00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: like looking at my body as I'm like cleaning myself

576
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:38,840
Speaker 1: like moisturizing, putting on makeup, just literally just looking at

577
00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: myself and like with admiration. I think is really important

578
00:31:43,280 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: because there's literally nobody quite like you, you know, and

579
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: weight gain or no weight gain like you are like

580
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: as a being as a whole, as like are enough

581
00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:55,479
Speaker 1: and exactly like how you're supposed to be, you know.

582
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: So I think like it's I know that it's obviously

583
00:31:57,640 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: really hard, and especially like we live in like a fat,

584
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,080
Speaker 1: a big society diet culture, especially around this time of

585
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:06,440
Speaker 1: year is like rampant, right, and like we have so

586
00:32:06,480 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: many like fitspirations and id inspirations and like all this stuff.

587
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 1: You know that it can become really toxic. And I mean,

588
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 1: for me, I'm very aware that I can get into

589
00:32:19,520 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: really unhealthy um eating and working out patterns. So that's

590
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: why I've created a very basic goal for myself of

591
00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 1: working out three times a week. And I'm I'm not

592
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: weighing myself. I'm not measuring anything. I'm really just focusing

593
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,560
Speaker 1: on how good does it feel when I move my body.

594
00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 1: I sit at a desk from nine to five. My

595
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: back hurts, whatever hurts, So how can I um ruly

596
00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 1: just feel good in my body and and feel how

597
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:50,640
Speaker 1: my body is moving. And one thing that a goal

598
00:32:50,640 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 1: that I set for myself, And this is kind of

599
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: going in a different direction, but a goal that I've

600
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,160
Speaker 1: set for myself is like, well, for this hour that

601
00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,520
Speaker 1: I'm at the gym, I'm not going to check my

602
00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:00,080
Speaker 1: emails and I'm going to try not to check to

603
00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,720
Speaker 1: anybody because it's just one hour for myself. So whether

604
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: that's like whatever that self care time is for you

605
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 1: wherever you do it, like having those little goals I

606
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: feel helps and will help you love yourself more and

607
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: like you know, serve like it's purpose for you. Yeah. Yeah.

608
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: I also found that, like at the height of my

609
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: UM eating disorder issues, that following will Going back to Tumbler,

610
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: I remember following UM this page called Curves and Color

611
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,000
Speaker 1: or Beauty and Color. Oh my god, I remember that

612
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: I would follow that page and I love that page

613
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,000
Speaker 1: and that was so helpful for me. And then Full

614
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: Figured Potential UM I think, was another page that I

615
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:47,120
Speaker 1: would follow and really like being online, and back then

616
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:50,600
Speaker 1: the body posity body possy stuff was much more run

617
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: by like fat women and big bodied women, not just

618
00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: curvy women, and so I felt like that online community

619
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: was really impactful for me. Um. Yeah. Also, like I

620
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: think the other thing that's helped me with this is

621
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,719
Speaker 1: sometimes our families will comment on how our clothes are

622
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: fitting us, and I had to learn to use my

623
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:15,280
Speaker 1: voice and like literally use my words with my family

624
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: and said boundaries with them. And that also helped me

625
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: because once they learned that, like I had spikes and

626
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: they couldn't just say whatever they want because they might

627
00:34:25,560 --> 00:34:29,479
Speaker 1: get their fingerpricked, then they stopped, you know, And so

628
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: sometimes It's like when you stand up for yourself, it's

629
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: also showing yourself love, you know, because you're willing to

630
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: defend yourself, right, I agree. I mean I shared this

631
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 1: on an earlier episode where my mom and I had

632
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: a disagreement at Christmas like two years ago now, where

633
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: she was like talking about my body and like as

634
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: if I wasn't there, and I called her out on

635
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: it and she was so embarrassed. Well guess why she

636
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: didn't do it again? Right, And like maybe I was

637
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,319
Speaker 1: being a quote marial or like you know, not a

638
00:34:56,320 --> 00:34:58,560
Speaker 1: good daughter because I I did shame her, but you know,

639
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:01,600
Speaker 1: that's how she learned. I wasn't trying to be rude

640
00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: about it, but it's like, why are you talking about me?

641
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,760
Speaker 1: Like I'm not here? You know, I am in my body.

642
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,479
Speaker 1: It's not separate from me right literally right here, you know. Um.

643
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: And it gets really tough, especially like I was sharing

644
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:17,799
Speaker 1: with Mama, like I have a da visiting and she

645
00:35:17,880 --> 00:35:21,120
Speaker 1: will like talk about people's weight gain and I'm like why,

646
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 1: like you're not even like you're visiting and this is

647
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: what you want to talk about, like you know, and

648
00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:29,640
Speaker 1: that's just so um normalized in our community, that we

649
00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: can just talk about people's weight and you know, either

650
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:34,359
Speaker 1: in a positive way or like either oh she's lost

651
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 1: too much weight, or she's had this and that done,

652
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:39,160
Speaker 1: she's had that nipp and talk blah blah blah, or

653
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,080
Speaker 1: she's gained so much weight. So so what do you want?

654
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: What do you want? What do you want? Literally leave

655
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: me alone, not coming on anyone's bodies anyway. Well, going

656
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: back to this original question, I hope that our listener

657
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:58,239
Speaker 1: um feels heard and seen and we love you. And

658
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,640
Speaker 1: it's an individual path, like we may not have the

659
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: so we don't have the solution because that's why, because

660
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: self love is so individual, very individual. No, it's different

661
00:36:07,560 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: for everyone. One of my favorites I used to listen

662
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: to a lot of Regina Specter. Oh you know, like

663
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:14,120
Speaker 1: back in the day, we all we all had our

664
00:36:14,160 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 1: Regina spect phase. So she has this one lyric from

665
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: a song that I love where she says, I have

666
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: a perfect body, but sometimes I forget I have a

667
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: perfect body because my eyelashes catch my sweat. And I

668
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,520
Speaker 1: love that lyrics so much because it's like, yes, it's

669
00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: just this tiny little detail, but like your body in

670
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 1: that moment is working exactly how it's meant to, you know,

671
00:36:37,200 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: so like appreciating those little things and ship. Okay, So

672
00:37:26,880 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: going back to the female, today's cap is vanity. Vanity

673
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: is self love and self preservation. Right. Well, I think

674
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 1: like one thing we wanted to talk about is like

675
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:45,680
Speaker 1: self love as self preservation, like or vanity as self love,

676
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,480
Speaker 1: Like if you're not in a relationship, you know, like

677
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,520
Speaker 1: you want to love on yourself, and even if you

678
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: are in a relationship, like regardless of your partner like

679
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: being great or not, like they're still not going to

680
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: love you the way you love you, right, And there's

681
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,759
Speaker 1: there nobody will ever take care of you and know

682
00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: you the way you know you, you know. And I

683
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:08,799
Speaker 1: think that was like one of the reasons we wanted

684
00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: to talk about that today. Yeah, And it's just going

685
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 1: along with our sort of theme that's like a constant

686
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: theme of approaching topics um from sort of this like

687
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: counter narrative, this place of counternarrative and thinking about something that,

688
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: like earlier in the CuPy that we were saying, you know,

689
00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: vanity is considered one of the seven deadly sins. It's

690
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: something that we're taught and socialized as bad as sinful,

691
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: is even harmful somehow, But we want to ask ourselves why,

692
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:42,440
Speaker 1: what's the other side of the coin? Um part of

693
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:48,759
Speaker 1: me thinks about how if we are dissuaded from being

694
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: vain and from loving ourselves, right, we're not fulfilling that

695
00:38:53,640 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: very basic desire we have, like for love and for

696
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: getting you know. So, I think it's almost a way

697
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:03,399
Speaker 1: to almost like compel us into romantic relationships, to sort

698
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 1: of seek out love that we could already be giving

699
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: to ourselves. It's a conspiracy by the patriarchy, a conspiracy

700
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: by the patriarchy. Love yourself in spite of the patriarchy. Yes,

701
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: basically basically um right, because we were like one thing

702
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:24,439
Speaker 1: we were questioning, like, well, why is vanity so bad? Right?

703
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: Why is it so deadly? Why is it sinful? Why

704
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: is it wrong? Is it only wrong when women do it? Right? Like,

705
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 1: what would be the marker of vanity on a man?

706
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: We know the story of Narcissus, right, and this is

707
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,279
Speaker 1: kind of like where the term and the idea of

708
00:39:40,360 --> 00:39:46,239
Speaker 1: narcissism comes from. But Narcissus right, he had never seen

709
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: his reflection. He suddenly comes upon his reflection in like

710
00:39:50,080 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: a pool of water, becomes sort of obsessed and dies

711
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: staring at himself. Staring at himself, So like, what is

712
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: that cautionary tale? Exactly? Was going to say, Exactly, it's

713
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: a cautionary tale, like you can't look at yourself for

714
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,840
Speaker 1: too long, you can't love yourself for too long, or

715
00:40:05,920 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: you might die. Like what does that mean that if

716
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: I look in the mirror for too long, I might die?

717
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: You know? And I think it's also like when women

718
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: love themselves, When we love ourselves, it's like a waste

719
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: of time, right, because if you're if you're sitting in

720
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,640
Speaker 1: front of a vanity, you're putting makeup on, you're wasting

721
00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: your time. If you're getting your nails done, you're wasting

722
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: your time. Right. If anything that is like for you

723
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:32,319
Speaker 1: because you want to do it because it feels good,

724
00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,279
Speaker 1: and it's not for like the mail gaze, it's a

725
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,720
Speaker 1: waste of time, waste of money, A waste of money,

726
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:42,480
Speaker 1: a waste of time. People love to use the example

727
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:47,240
Speaker 1: with regards to things like child support, like, oh, he's

728
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,799
Speaker 1: paying his baby mama child support, and look at what

729
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,960
Speaker 1: she uses it for to get her nails done and

730
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: her hair and new clothes. There's always this linking of

731
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:04,000
Speaker 1: like irresponsible spending right with appearance with fem aesthetics. Yes,

732
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: specifically it's considered a waste of time. It's considered a

733
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 1: waste of time. And um, we were talking about before

734
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: we started recording. There's this correlation that we hear. It's

735
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: like an old school sort of saying that, like red

736
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: lipstick is for horse or red lipstick is for prostitutes,

737
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: And people will even say that in Spanish sometimes yes,

738
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:24,680
Speaker 1: or you don't want to look like a Buddha. I

739
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: remember when I was little, wanting to wear um, you know,

740
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: my would paint my nails. Um, they started me young,

741
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 1: and um she would she put like a burgundy on

742
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: me and my dad got really upset because it was

743
00:41:38,440 --> 00:41:40,719
Speaker 1: too much here. But like I was a little girl,

744
00:41:40,880 --> 00:41:43,840
Speaker 1: like and that's the thing like where we like sexualized girls,

745
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: like young girls like what they're not allowed to wear X,

746
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 1: Y and Z, Like they aren't allowed to paint their

747
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: nails and like obviously to each of their own, everyone

748
00:41:50,960 --> 00:41:52,840
Speaker 1: has like the rights to parent how they want. But

749
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: it's like, or are we just sexualizing young girls? You

750
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:59,800
Speaker 1: know what? Are we really protecting them from? Exactly what

751
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: you know threat, what's the looming threat? Looming threat is

752
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 1: the men? The man? So who needs to be corrected?

753
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: The men? The men, the surveillance or like the little

754
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 1: girl wearing shorts around her buddys and her theos exactly

755
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: who's the problem is the men again again and it's like,

756
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,920
Speaker 1: what direction is the surveillance going? The surveillance has always

757
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: directed towards the girls and the women, and we have

758
00:42:21,600 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: these blind spots to you know, male aggressors and male

759
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 1: aggression and it's left up um And I think it's

760
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,879
Speaker 1: interesting to going back to, you know, our Catholic upbringings.

761
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:36,000
Speaker 1: So while vanity is one of the seven deadly sins

762
00:42:36,040 --> 00:42:40,600
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, humility is praised like above all as

763
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,440
Speaker 1: far as human qualities, right, what is okay, this is

764
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: my Catholicism coming up, But it's like, what is it like?

765
00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: Blessed be the meek, for he shall the day inherit.

766
00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: So you can finish my Catholic sentence. Okay, you know what,

767
00:42:55,360 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: We've never done this before, and I'm hope we never did.

768
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: I say, I hope that never happens again. I did

769
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: that with my booty other day. He was like, what

770
00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: is this like Bowers and I was like, oh that's

771
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: from John blah blah blah blah blah. And he was like, um, no,

772
00:43:10,080 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: like we have deep biblical yes, yes, I took my

773
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: freshman year of high school, I took a scripture like

774
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: we had to take a scripture class where we learned

775
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,919
Speaker 1: to analyze scripture like nuns at your school. Yes, there were.

776
00:43:23,360 --> 00:43:25,759
Speaker 1: There used to be a convent. All that I will

777
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: say exactly anyway, So going back, like, okay, so we

778
00:43:29,200 --> 00:43:33,000
Speaker 1: were talking about humilities praise, right, I just imagined escaping

779
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: the convent, like that's literally down, that's a flat. That's

780
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: so funny. Oh my god, right I did escape the convent. Um. Okay,

781
00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: So humility is praised right the meek um? But why

782
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: why is humility so good? Right? Why is it got

783
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,720
Speaker 1: like close to godliness or whatever? And vanity is like sinful,

784
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,879
Speaker 1: closer to the devil, Like what's the deal? You know?

785
00:44:03,600 --> 00:44:06,399
Speaker 1: I don't understand. Also, because then I think about cathedrals

786
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:08,359
Speaker 1: and the insides of Catholic churches and how they're full

787
00:44:08,360 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: of gold and all kinds of them so good. I'm like,

788
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: didn't you all like colonize the America's and take all

789
00:44:13,080 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 1: our gold. That's right in your church? Who's vain? Right?

790
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: Who's the vein one? Right? Anyways? So all that all

791
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: that to say, if you're listening, fuck humility, fucking humble,

792
00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: Go be vain. Go where your red lipstick? But the

793
00:44:34,440 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 1: thing is it actually vain? That's the thing. Are you

794
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: actually being vain for looking in the mirror wearing your

795
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: red lipstick? What even is vanity? What? What does it mean? Nition? Well,

796
00:44:45,360 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 1: what does it mean? Dictionary dot com? What is vanity? Yeah?

797
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: I really don't have to vanity in an actual vanity?

798
00:44:55,360 --> 00:45:01,759
Speaker 1: Love it? I love a nice vanity. Okay? Vanity excessive

799
00:45:01,800 --> 00:45:05,959
Speaker 1: pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.

800
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: How can you have excessive pride or admiration? How can

801
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: you excessively admire something? Wait? But look at what the

802
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: synonyms are conceit self, conceit, narcissism, self love, self admiration,

803
00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 1: self regard, self absorption. So it's a it's interesting because

804
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: it's it could it's so positive and negative at the

805
00:45:28,040 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: same time. Is it a positive thing or a negative thing?

806
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:34,800
Speaker 1: Because I hear self love is a synonym for vanity,

807
00:45:35,040 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: but in relation to our background, our bringings us Catholics.

808
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: It's a negative thing, fake news, right, it's negative. So

809
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: we were talking like could vanity be so negative because

810
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,880
Speaker 1: any adoration that is not to like a higher power,

811
00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 1: that's not to God, right, this one entity though, as

812
00:45:56,560 --> 00:45:59,560
Speaker 1: Catholics we pray to and believe in, Like is that

813
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: I vanity is so harmful because then you're not adoring

814
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: this one like omnipotent power, white male, gross, which also

815
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,239
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense that Jesus would be white. He's brown,

816
00:46:12,320 --> 00:46:16,840
Speaker 1: He's Palestinian. Like, it doesn't make sense, Like this wasn't white.

817
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:19,480
Speaker 1: I do not get Okay, he wasn't a fucking Viking,

818
00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: wasn't sucking Nordic like he was Palestinian here, like hello,

819
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,240
Speaker 1: geographically he's brown anyway, this was a man of color

820
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:35,479
Speaker 1: he was, and he was radical and he was radical anyway.

821
00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,840
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think this is just another example

822
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 1: of like just being surveiled. I mean, and if you

823
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: think of like all the atrocities that the Catholic Church

824
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:50,600
Speaker 1: has committed, both like historically like through the America through colonizing, colonization,

825
00:46:51,000 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: but also even now with like the countless cover up

826
00:46:55,120 --> 00:46:59,319
Speaker 1: and protection of pedophiles up until the current moment on

827
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: liter really literally it's a mess. It's a mess. I

828
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,719
Speaker 1: told my mom. I was like, Mom, honestly, I like,

829
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: all due respect, please don't even invite me, like to

830
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,520
Speaker 1: go to church, because I'm gonna. I'm not comfortable going.

831
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: I don't want to go. I don't even want to

832
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,759
Speaker 1: step into the building. It creeps me out. It gives

833
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: me the fucking heb gbs, like all of it, the

834
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: abuse stuff, just it's too much. It's overwhelming. And and

835
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: I think about the fact that someone like literally Cardinal

836
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 1: Mahoney still works at a local l a church in

837
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: Hollywood and gives mass. Cardinal Mahoney, Cardinal Mahoney, who if

838
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: you're if you are not familiar, was one of like

839
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 1: when when the sexual abuse cases in California churches and

840
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:48,080
Speaker 1: in the Los Angeles Archdiocese was really like blowing up

841
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,840
Speaker 1: and being looked at. Cardal Mahoney was one of the

842
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: key players in knowingly just shuffling around pedophile priests from um,

843
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: you know, church to church with full knowledge right of

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Speaker 1: what was going on. And he's still giving services over

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Speaker 1: here in the archdiocese. So I see that, and I

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00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:15,920
Speaker 1: see I see no attempts really truly for justice or

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00:48:15,960 --> 00:48:19,000
Speaker 1: to reconcile what has happened. So I want no parts.

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00:48:19,040 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: I'm not down. I would rather wear red lipstick and

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00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 1: go be a fucking hoe like you know what I

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00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: don't you know what our churches, Our churches brunch okay,

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00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: that is that is where were congregate and that is

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00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:33,320
Speaker 1: where we like, you know, the dance floor, Goddess Goddess

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00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: worship is ourselves and our friends. And that's that's where

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00:48:36,640 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 1: we're going to church, you know, that's where the knowledge

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00:48:38,880 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: is being spread. That's where the gospel is spoken at

856
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: branch with their homegirls, with their friends. So they're a

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00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:52,200
Speaker 1: poetry reading with party with DJ Sizzle. That's where we

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00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:58,919
Speaker 1: find God, yes, Goddess Goddess in ourselves and ourselves. Um,

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Speaker 1: God is blessed, God bless Oh. This reminds me. I

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00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,560
Speaker 1: saw Sancha perform at Viviana's which is a former cathedral,

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00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: and Sancha puts on a very queer, very firm, very

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00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,319
Speaker 1: vain show and it was beautiful. I mean, it was

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00:49:15,360 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: part of the Red Bull Music Academy and they invited

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Speaker 1: us out, So thank you Red Bull for having us

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Speaker 1: Bull Sancha was amazing, incredible, so beautiful, her mixture of

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Speaker 1: theater and music. Um, the aesthetics, the outfits, the makeup.

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Speaker 1: She looked gorgeous. Like the entire production was amazing. And

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00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: it was in a former cathedral. Right and here's this

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00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 1: very weird like Chica next show. It was wonderful. Um,

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00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: so shout out Sancha. One time when I was in

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00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: the house, I have family in San Antonio, I went

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00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: to a bar that was a convent. It was a

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00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: convent turned into a bar. It was felt very sacrilegious.

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Speaker 1: I loved it. Yes, it sounds great. Um. Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: think that that is all I would say, Like biggest

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00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: takeaway is like love yourself, yourself, Goddess worship is everything

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Speaker 1: it is, um. You know, Cardinal rule is you know,

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00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: love yourself, cardinal rule. God is blessed, like find God

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00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:18,720
Speaker 1: in yourself and that's that on that Yes, so remember

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00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: where to follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, You know

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00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 1: what to do like comment, engage everything you know. We

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00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: love um sharing space with y'all and we will also

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Speaker 1: be at you see I On March nine, we are

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00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:43,240
Speaker 1: giving a keynote at their sitcom, yes, which is they're

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00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,200
Speaker 1: basically social media conference, so that we're gonna be talking

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00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: about social media from a lot of different perspectives, and

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00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about podcasting, social media, fem tech, um.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to post these dates and all those

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00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 1: information fires and all that on the gray. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: come on out, keep up with us on social media.

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Speaker 1: We will catch you next time. Look, amore is befit

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Speaker 1: us mhm.