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Speaker 1: Radio radio Radio. He's a myth and bullshit radio phonic novella.

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Speaker 1: Local Radio hosted by Malamo Olalla. Welcome back to local Radio.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back Local motives. This is Mala and this is

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Speaker 1: Diosa and we are last locals. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for tuning in once again to Yes, thank you for

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Speaker 1: tuning into thirty three. Um. Just to remind folks and

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Speaker 1: any new listeners, Local Radio is a podcast archiving the

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Speaker 1: brilliance and legacies of women and fans of color. Oh yes,

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Speaker 1: we are, thank you for being here. It's such a

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Speaker 1: beautiful day Radio and boil Heights. I mean it's raining

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Speaker 1: and it's gloomy, but it's still a beautiful day. We're

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Speaker 1: here and we're joined by but we're joined by a

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Speaker 1: lovely human. Hey, what's up. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: having me. Yes, we have the uncomparable cat Lozo in

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Speaker 1: the building. Yes, I love that. I'm going to use

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Speaker 1: that in my bio. Yes you can steal that if

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Speaker 1: you like. Yes, okay, so we have a really exciting

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Speaker 1: interview ready for y'all. But before that, we always like

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Speaker 1: to do some little housekeeping recap, do all those fun things. Um.

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Speaker 1: So recently we released our episode thirty two with Bella Donna,

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Speaker 1: Yea and Italia from Bella Donna. Thank you for folks

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Speaker 1: that have listened for the feedback. It's been really interesting

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Speaker 1: to see books engage and to talk with us positive

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Speaker 1: or negative. Like. Feedback is always really good, especially since

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Speaker 1: that interview is very different from anything we've done before.

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Speaker 1: Very different. I think in the past, our caps have

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Speaker 1: we haven't addressed like a controversy, right, We haven't addressed

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Speaker 1: really like an intra community like issue that's actually going on,

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Speaker 1: was a difficult interview I think for us to approach. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it was um and I just wanted to be clear

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Speaker 1: interviews with Belladonna, because that is what someone has actually said.

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Speaker 1: We've got several comments like, oh, I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to anything Belladonna. Meanwhile, like commenting multiple times

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Speaker 1: But so if you did listen and you're listening now,

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to be known that, like the tumbler

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Speaker 1: post that's circulated, like, yes, that behavior was problematic, and

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Speaker 1: the way that no one has ever denied that. We

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Speaker 1: have never denied that. The point of the interview is

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Speaker 1: that we cannot just cut people off that are in

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Speaker 1: have to allow people to grow and do better, which

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Speaker 1: is the point of the interview, not that what has

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Speaker 1: been done wasn't problematic, but that people can actually change

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Speaker 1: and we can you know, reconstruct stuff. In addition, it's like, look, um,

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Speaker 1: if you don't want to funk with them, then don't

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Speaker 1: funk with them. You don't have to support them, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to follow them, you don't have to give

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Speaker 1: them your money, you know, like lots of us do

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Speaker 1: not give our businesses to organizations, corporations, brands that we

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Speaker 1: don't like that we that we find problematic. Right, But

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Speaker 1: is not the same thing as intentionally and viciously like

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Speaker 1: Nowhere did we say like, oh, the call out wasn't constructive.

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Speaker 1: We were saying that the types of comments were not productive, right,

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Speaker 1: And I'm also excited because when we did the when

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Speaker 1: talk about brunch. Where do we start? What do we

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Speaker 1: do well yesterday. I am rocking right now. Viva Cosmetics. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: women who are talking about what you talk about social

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Speaker 1: justice issues, I know that you get a lot of hate.

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Speaker 1: People don't like you and they are just being straight

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Speaker 1: up sucking mean and they're kind of obsessive maybe, And

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Speaker 1: how do you navigate that? Just like the hate? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: it's interesting because it's hard to decipher. It's taken me

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Speaker 1: some time to decipher when someone is truly just being

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Speaker 1: mean um, and whether someone is actually trying, like just

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Speaker 1: doesn't get it um. And maybe it's just coming from

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Speaker 1: a more angry, hateful place. Um. But in all honesty, UM,

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Speaker 1: I do so down rereading the comments now, um, which

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Speaker 1: you know pains me to say because because of the

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Speaker 1: negative comments, I miss out sometimes on the positive comments.

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Speaker 1: So I do give myself some breathers. Um. Um. The

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Speaker 1: folks I meet through also, I've had conversations with them

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Speaker 1: about please like I don't want to see these type

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Speaker 1: of comments. So if there's anything type of like violence, UM,

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Speaker 1: I will say that maybe the biggest thing that ever

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Speaker 1: really hurt me was like when folks were rallying, it

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00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: was like one of our top comments, people were like, UM,

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Speaker 1: firect fire cat. I was like, oh my god, this

442
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: is my job, you gotta do um. But thankfully you

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Speaker 1: know me through was like no, it's fine, like you

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Speaker 1: still have a job. This is why we wanted you can.

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Speaker 1: I ask what was that about? Well, you know what

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00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: it is is Ultimately, UM, I think my videos and

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00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 1: the content that I'm addressing, um, disrupts the natural like

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00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:28,479
Speaker 1: the feed. Right. So if they've only been consuming um,

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00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 1: comedic things that are just distractions, and maybe this one

450
00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: is making them think, then I think there's a little

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Speaker 1: bit of anchor there. It's like, why are you coming

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Speaker 1: and changing this page that I like so much? So

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Speaker 1: I think it's their way of being like, get her off.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to see this type of content. I'm

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Speaker 1: okay with just being strictly distracted. UM. But yeah, interesting,

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00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:57,119
Speaker 1: very interesting when folks want to come from people's jobs

457
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 1: like like it's one look, it really is one thing.

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Speaker 1: If you are freaking here's the imbalance, right, sexual predator, rapist,

459
00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:11,720
Speaker 1: Harvey Weinstein and all of them were allowed to literally

460
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: rape people for for decades and people protected them. You

461
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: annoy somebody and they want you fired right now. That

462
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: is what we call a witch hunt. Let me just say,

463
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Speaker 1: I have not thought, wow that that connection right there.

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Speaker 1: You just blew my mind. It's sucked up. It's sucked up.

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00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 1: So when I again, so the violence, the aggression, the

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Speaker 1: dragging towards women creators over things that can be addressed

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Speaker 1: in a very like educational human manner, it doesn't make

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Speaker 1: sense to me. There's a discrepancy, there's a power imbalance,

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Speaker 1: and it's not cool, Like that's not cool, you know

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Speaker 1: that that they came for you in that way for

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Speaker 1: what you know. I wonder what those people would if,

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Speaker 1: you know, had I been fired in the beginning of

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Speaker 1: season two or I forget when that happened, if had

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Speaker 1: I been fired as a result of their comments, I

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Speaker 1: wonder what those how those people would feel, you know,

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Speaker 1: like just thinking the repercussions of like what that could

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Speaker 1: have had on me or anyone else that people want

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Speaker 1: to rally and you know, advocate that they get fired.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if people actually think maybe it's that commenters

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Speaker 1: don't know the power that they have to because I know,

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Speaker 1: as companies like we spend time reading your comments, you know,

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Speaker 1: to know where we're where we need to facilitate more

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Speaker 1: conversation or what we're not addressing. So maybe there's also

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Speaker 1: a lack of education of folks behind the screen not

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Speaker 1: realizing their their actual power right being that too, it's

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Speaker 1: such an interesting like, like the dynamics are so weird

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Speaker 1: because I feel like people really do post on the

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Speaker 1: internet thinking that no one else is going to see

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Speaker 1: it or like that comment they comment, and like people

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Speaker 1: are going to see it and they're not going to

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Speaker 1: care about it, and you don't realize it's not just you.

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Speaker 1: There's literally millions of people on the Internet and people love,

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Speaker 1: people like to follow and jump on bandwagons, to be honest,

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Speaker 1: and at the end of the day, I think also

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Speaker 1: those comments that are targeted towards me, it's because I

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Speaker 1: make folks uncomfortable by you know, like I said, I'm

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Speaker 1: disrupting this feed and it's almost like your force via

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Speaker 1: swiping and and looking at the feed to now maybe

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Speaker 1: um see a mirror to yourself, and that's always been

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Speaker 1: my objective Also is with the Cack call, is that

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Speaker 1: I know that as a light skinned Latina, as a

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Speaker 1: middle class Latina, I cannot speak for all of us.

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Speaker 1: I cannot speak for the entire Latino X community. UM.

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Speaker 1: So the objective also with the Cack call was one

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Speaker 1: where I wanted to highlight a mirror on the ways

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Speaker 1: that we as a community UM oppressed one another, because

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Speaker 1: a lot of the time, the conversation is how is

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Speaker 1: you know the outside, how are outsiders oppressing us? Which

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Speaker 1: is fine, and I think those conversations need to be had,

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Speaker 1: but I don't think that we often hold one another accountable, right, absolutely, No.

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Speaker 1: The intra the intra community conversations are so important because

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Speaker 1: there are hierarchies and the violences that are enacted on

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Speaker 1: us from the outside in in many ways, the same

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Speaker 1: hierarchies exist within our own communities. And I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't think we know that. I think because we have

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Speaker 1: this guys of like one that we're just a one,

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Speaker 1: that we're like a minority group, that we're quote unquote

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Speaker 1: all POC and like all of this is like mis education. Um.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, and I don't think that people think of

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Speaker 1: it that way. I don't think they think that within

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Speaker 1: our community there is power structure. It's always a conversation

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Speaker 1: about how the outsider is, how the a k. A

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Speaker 1: white man, the Anglo white man is oppressing us, which

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Speaker 1: is valid, right, um so, and I think that that's

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Speaker 1: um I lost saying, but no thinking about one of yours,

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Speaker 1: going to say one of your compile tho, one of

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Speaker 1: your episodes, um, when you're talking about breaking down the

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Speaker 1: difference between race and ethness city, right, and so when

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Speaker 1: we're actually able to understand the difference, we can understand

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Speaker 1: the power structures. Like you're saying that that the power,

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Speaker 1: the hierarchy still is in our community even though it

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Speaker 1: is made maybe POC right. Yeah, so I think even

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Speaker 1: just folks don't under Latinos specifically don't. We're not really

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Speaker 1: taught the difference between race and ethnicity because it's so complicated, right,

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Speaker 1: and we know that, like the census has a lot

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Speaker 1: to do with the way like Hispanic identity has been

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Speaker 1: created in this country literally marketed. Yes, we've been marketed

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Speaker 1: in Brandon. Something that I see happening a lot is like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's such a complex conversation, but it's also simple at

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Speaker 1: the same time. Yes, right, And so I think also

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Speaker 1: a lot of Latino X people, especially if you are

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Speaker 1: and there's also parallel conversations about even using the term

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Speaker 1: light skinned is that is a term that originates in

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Speaker 1: African American communities and in black communities. So can non

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Speaker 1: black people even use that term to describe us ourselves there,

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Speaker 1: I've I've I've seen that conversation take place where that

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Speaker 1: the term light skinned is a Black term for black people, right,

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Speaker 1: But it's a term that we all use because even

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Speaker 1: in my house, my dad would describe us as light

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Speaker 1: skinned or whatever. However, right, because we come in all

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Speaker 1: these different colors in one family, you can have family

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Speaker 1: members that look like they're all different races. Me and

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Speaker 1: my dad in the face, we look alike, but I

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Speaker 1: we look like we could be of different racial locations,

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Speaker 1: essentially because he's much darker than me. And I think

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Speaker 1: with Latinos it's like, look, I have to contend with

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Speaker 1: the fact that everywhere I go, I present like this pale, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty light. My dad is not following me around

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Speaker 1: everywhere I go for people to see that this is

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Speaker 1: my people and who I come from, and this is

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Speaker 1: what I'm you know what I'm saying. So I think

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Speaker 1: that like there's like latinos like in the skin that

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Speaker 1: we're in we want to carry. But oh, but I'm

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Speaker 1: mixed with this, and but my grandma' is this, and

565
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Speaker 1: but my mom is this, and my dad is this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but that's not what people are seeing when they see you.

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Speaker 1: And that I love that you brought that up because

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00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,560
Speaker 1: it's very true, um, and you can bring that even

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Speaker 1: with class. Right. So for me, I think, um, colorism

570
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: was like one of the first things that I learned about,

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Speaker 1: and you know sexism just because you deal with it,

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Speaker 1: especially with auditioning. But but for me, class was one

573
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: of those more complex things to understand because of that

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Speaker 1: because I carried my parents story and their history right.

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Speaker 1: So the fact that you know, my father, both of

576
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: my parents, UM, came from South America. UM, my mother

577
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 1: has cleaned houses till this day. UM. And so like

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00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,800
Speaker 1: their struggles I wore as mine. But then later on

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Speaker 1: acknowledging and realizing I'm like, okay, wait, those stories are

580
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,280
Speaker 1: very valid, but at the same time, they're not my stories,

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Speaker 1: Like it's not my lived experience, and I think that

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Speaker 1: within our community, Like you said, I think we hold

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Speaker 1: our parents uh stories and struggles as if they are

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Speaker 1: our own, as if there are lived experience. I think

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Speaker 1: also there is the element to that in our families

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Speaker 1: and our communities. There is so much storytelling between our

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00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: parents and us. They are talking to us in my

588
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: family anyways, I'm hearing very consistently, ever since I was

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Speaker 1: a little kid, about this is our family history and

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Speaker 1: this is where we come from. I think our parents

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Speaker 1: also want I want to share that with us, you

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Speaker 1: know what I mean. But that's the distinction, right that

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Speaker 1: you're coming up that you're talking about. Yeah, um so,

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00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,919
Speaker 1: kind of to go in a different note, but still

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00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: of course talking about media and all of that. We

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Speaker 1: were all recently at the National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact

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Speaker 1: a War Impact um so I wanted us to talk

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Speaker 1: about that for a little bit. Um well, especially because

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Speaker 1: cads had a pretty big role at the Impact Awards.

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Speaker 1: Um you were doing interviews on the Red Car. I

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Speaker 1: would be me to correspondent and uh yeah, I had

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Speaker 1: the pleasure of interviewing folks like Aubrey Plaza un get

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Speaker 1: it at all and it was nerve wracking. I've definitely

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Speaker 1: embarrassed myself, but it was well worth it. You look fabulous.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. And in the midst of the entire program

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Speaker 1: where like all of these major celebrities are being awarded,

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Speaker 1: they gave Cat like a recognition, like a major shout

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Speaker 1: out in the middle of the whole thing, right, and

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Speaker 1: then they showed some of her work on the multiple

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Speaker 1: screens that were around. It was really really sweet. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was sweating. I was sweating. There was a big

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Speaker 1: drop of sweat that went down my book. I did

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Speaker 1: not see that happening. Congratulation. That's amazing. You mean you've

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Speaker 1: put in a lot of hard work, you know, and

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Speaker 1: like you do a lot in congratulations. Yes, so I

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Speaker 1: think we have. We're coming to a close now of

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Speaker 1: this already already, yes, fast, too quick. But thank you

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Speaker 1: cat so much. Do you have any announcements? Thanks for

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Speaker 1: our listeners to look forward to. Where did they check

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Speaker 1: out Cat Call Season three? Sure? So I'm in production

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Speaker 1: literally like next week for season three of the Cat Call.

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Speaker 1: But if you're not familiar or you want to get

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Speaker 1: familiar with the Cat Call, you're more than welcome to

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00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,759
Speaker 1: go to YouTube. Just type in the Cat call with

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Speaker 1: a K like my name, or just go to meet

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Speaker 1: Through's Facebook page and yeah, or I'm sharing stuff on

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Speaker 1: all my socials. It's cat love it. Um, So thank

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Speaker 1: you again for tuning into Another Capital Radio. Just a

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Speaker 1: reminder if you if you can, if you'd like to

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Speaker 1: show us some love on the iTunes reviews, give us

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Speaker 1: those five stars. We love reading your comments. And we're

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Speaker 1: also on Spotify. Yes, yes, it was so funny because

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Speaker 1: I had actually forgotten that I submitted a request and

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