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Speaker 1: Welcome to Morenita, a deep dive into the Latin X experience.

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Speaker 1: With more Anita, we want to create a community and

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Speaker 1: a shared space with you while sharing knowledge and inspiration.

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Speaker 1: This show is about celebrating our culture with guests who

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Speaker 1: exemplify the best of us. I'm Darrylene Gastillo Vito. You

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Speaker 1: guys get ready for this one. I am still stand

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Speaker 1: girling from this episode because we have the dynamic, beautiful, hilarious,

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Speaker 1: and the dopest friends you'll ever meet. Curly Laswez and

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Speaker 1: Maya Morillo. Okay, these two have been people that I

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Speaker 1: have admired from AFAR for years now and you might

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Speaker 1: recognize their names from numerous places. They have a hilarious

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Speaker 1: big guest podcast called The Super Secret Best Club. They

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Speaker 1: have graced us with their hilarious adventures on buzz feeds,

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Speaker 1: I could not contain my smile and my laughter throughout

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Speaker 1: this entire chat. Something that is definitely shining bright in

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Speaker 1: this convo is their beautiful friendship. I've always wondered if

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Speaker 1: their friendship was as close as it fell on social

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Speaker 1: media and I followed them during their time on Buzzfeeding

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Speaker 1: very closely. Sure, you see things online and you just wonder, like,

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Speaker 1: is this for real? Are they really friends? I can

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Speaker 1: totally attest that Maya and Curly are for real. They

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Speaker 1: are the real deal. I wanted to know what it

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Speaker 1: was like to work closely with your bff. Like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's fun and games, but tell me the juicy stuff,

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Speaker 1: the behind the scenes moments and moments of honesty that

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Speaker 1: we don't see on social media platforms. Curly and Maya

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Speaker 1: fully deliver. They open up to us about their time

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Speaker 1: with BuzzFeed and how they were grateful to meet there,

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Speaker 1: but also how they have moved on together to other,

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Speaker 1: bigger and better things. Their moved from BuzzFeed has definitely

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Speaker 1: been a part of their growth and their friendship, but

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Speaker 1: also individually and honestly, we love that. We love seeing

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Speaker 1: friendships grow together and we also love seeing how they

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Speaker 1: shape you as individuals. I mean, if you're not here

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Speaker 1: for the growth of your friends, are you guys really

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Speaker 1: are they really your friends? Something that I really loved

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Speaker 1: and admired hearing was Maya explaining how Curly became her

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Speaker 1: protector during her time in BuzzFeed and how he always

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Speaker 1: had her back from difficult moments on the jobs. And

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Speaker 1: I have to say that's something very important to me

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Speaker 1: when I look at my friendships that I have, whereas

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Speaker 1: I like to call them my chosen family. Especially in

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Speaker 1: this industry, it's really difficult to meet true and genuine people.

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Speaker 1: So I believe what Curly and Maya have here is

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Speaker 1: something really really special. And I'm so excited that they

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Speaker 1: with same veetle Maya and Curly. So happy to have

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Speaker 1: you guys here. On what ineat that welcome? Welcome, Welcome you.

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Speaker 1: I'm like a huge fan. Oh my god, huge fans

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Speaker 1: of you. You guys. How did this friendship start? Tell

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Speaker 1: me about your beautiful, beautiful, flourishing friendship. Well, we just

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Speaker 1: established yesterday that I was that we're in love with

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Speaker 1: each other, true us. I mean, I'm just speaking Curly,

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Speaker 1: but I said the other day that I would never

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Speaker 1: this thing where I fall in love with my best

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Speaker 1: friends like we were talking about earlier how we fall

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Speaker 1: don't look at people necessarily seck truly, I started falling

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Speaker 1: up with their spirits and then I'm like, oh my god.

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Speaker 1: So I told my at once and I had a

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Speaker 1: qrusher for like three days. I don't think it was

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Speaker 1: three days, you're now it's three days. I think it

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Speaker 1: was right. I think it's still happening. We met, I

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Speaker 1: was a resident at UM BuzzFeed for Better Like for

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Speaker 1: me except for Curly. And I always tell people that

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Speaker 1: I was really excited because we were going through like

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Speaker 1: a tough time on the team. Like we we had.

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Speaker 1: We were kind of started in a really rocky way.

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Speaker 1: Better like had a really and better like was it

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Speaker 1: was is and sorry it was and is. Buzzfeedes Latino Vertical,

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Speaker 1: so they produced content for the la in latin X community,

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Speaker 1: when they started, when we started, things were really rocky

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Speaker 1: our journey and we were getting this new resident and

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Speaker 1: I'm like the one that's like, come in, come sit

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Speaker 1: kind of were like insufferable. Since then, like we had

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Speaker 1: I think early on my you started to do videos

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Speaker 1: there's your video where uh, what was it signs you

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Speaker 1: my first video that I pitched was like when you

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Speaker 1: And there was some pushback from it that like, oh,

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Speaker 1: So I did it, and um, I think throughout my

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Speaker 1: career at BuzzFeed, Curly was like really like I almost

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Speaker 1: but he really was in there like protecting me and

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Speaker 1: like there's a lot of people on our team and

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Speaker 1: that protector, that savior, like very much like a rock

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Speaker 1: Like there's no I'm always like why would I want

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Speaker 1: don't know everything about being solid and we don't know

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Speaker 1: everything about being Mexicans. We were like, how can we

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Speaker 1: make a skin about a period and I'll play your

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Speaker 1: period maya like, or why don't we make a skin

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Speaker 1: about out like um, just being best friends at the office.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of what has set us apart from

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Speaker 1: think working together and going through so many things that

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Speaker 1: that's that's our love story. It's evident in your work too.

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Speaker 1: I think that's why so many people connect with you,

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Speaker 1: even people who are not Latino, Like, have so many

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Speaker 1: and it also took a lot of growth to like mynor,

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Speaker 1: great communicators now, and we're very big on accountability, not

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Speaker 1: just for each other but for ourselves, right, So, like

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Speaker 1: you know, we have always had like come to Jesus

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Speaker 1: Like was it was it? Like? Was it? It sounded

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Speaker 1: like you guys had each other's back, So like what

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Speaker 1: Did you guys find some pushback? Was so not authenticity?

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Speaker 1: that for you while being at BuzzFeed? And if you

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Speaker 1: Where do where do we start? I'm sorry, but I

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Speaker 1: don't know. That's exactly what you said. Is exactly how

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Speaker 1: it went, is exactly how it went. Yeah, I mean

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Speaker 1: and everybody is like, you know, getting all these like

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Speaker 1: So we were honestly having a lot of like non Latino,

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Speaker 1: non people of color, non people like telling us what

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Speaker 1: who have I've ever worked with on that team has

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Speaker 1: lot of help. Honestly, we were. We were in in

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Speaker 1: fucking epic. It's so dope, and it's just so inspiring.

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Speaker 1: And I love that about you guys, and it's it's

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Speaker 1: evident in your work. It's evident in your work, and

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Speaker 1: that's why so many people love you guys. Thank you

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Speaker 1: so y'all, we're reaching my favorite portion of the show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we got your favorite question my god, yes, currently anytime.

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to point out that that me singing

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Speaker 1: that part, that's on my real voice. I don't want

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Speaker 1: to think that's me. No, that's no, that's purpose. Just

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Speaker 1: so everyone's like, wow, I hope you didn't really think

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Speaker 1: that that was cREL Curly. I know what you have

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Speaker 1: inside of you. I know what you have inside curing. Guys,

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Speaker 1: we're going to have a triple feature, a thruple being

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Speaker 1: like not for the dam Like she's like, oh, yes,

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Speaker 1: that was my god, give me a break, any of

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Speaker 1: you guys do? Okay, Freddy for my favorite segment, favorite portions. Okay,

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Speaker 1: now I'm going to ask you questions, the real questions.

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Speaker 1: The ones that matter. Okay, wonderful. Okay, first question, how

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Speaker 1: do you guys think your life would be if you've

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00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: never met, if you both never met? Oh, my god,

449
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:45,199
Speaker 1: mine would be so boring. I literally just get emotional,

450
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: like thinking about like what my life would be that

451
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: my like I would cry, Like my as the first

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Speaker 1: person that I call in the morning when I'm like

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Speaker 1: freaking out. She's like, yes, Like she's like the person

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Speaker 1: who will kind of keep me young, Like, oh, we

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Speaker 1: don't say that anymore, the person who, like, we can

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00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: have really deep conversations and hold space for each other

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00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 1: and we argue, we give each other like the best

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Speaker 1: advice that we can in the best way that we

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Speaker 1: know how, and then apologize for it because we were

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Speaker 1: like that was not the best advice. But uh but yeah,

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00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,240
Speaker 1: I mean thinking about that, Like I'm already getting emotional. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: my scorpion Moon is always like I feel things very deeply.

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00:26:29,400 --> 00:26:32,679
Speaker 1: I feel the same way I think, Like it's crazy

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Speaker 1: because I think I was telling my mom this the

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Speaker 1: other day that like I really feel like I have

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Speaker 1: grown a lot in this friendship, Like I think we've

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Speaker 1: both grown, like our souls have grown a lot because

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Speaker 1: we're able to communicate when we're being a little bit

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Speaker 1: mean or when we're being a little bit but and

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Speaker 1: and we're able to be very tender and human with

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Speaker 1: like we're comfortable to be human with ourselves and to

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Speaker 1: have human moment monts and still love each other either way.

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Speaker 1: You know, even though we were like we said that

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Speaker 1: thing the other day that we're like, oh sorry, you know,

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00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: which just happened. That often either we're not really like

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00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: we don't call each other out of our names. We

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00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: don't really argue that much. We get annoyed more. Yeah,

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00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: we get annoyed, but I think it's yeah, it's natural.

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Speaker 1: But honest, honest friendship. Honest friendship is what I'm hearing.

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Speaker 1: Honesty and communication and putting make sure, keeping out both

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Speaker 1: in check, keeping each other in check. I love that. Okay,

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Speaker 1: second question, which is the one celebrity that you would

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Speaker 1: love to have dinner with? You can only choose one.

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Speaker 1: I really mine, Selena, me too, Selena Mine for sure?

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Speaker 1: For sure, for sure, it is not Selena because Selena

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Speaker 1: is not your best friend, like she's my friend. She

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00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: doesn't even like you. She said that you don't like

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Speaker 1: like you? Then why are we having dinner tonight. Maya

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00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: thinks that just because she's friends with Netflix Selena, that

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Speaker 1: she's actually friends. I'm not. I'm not. You're friends with

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Speaker 1: Selena Netflix Lena, and I'm friends with the real Selina.

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Speaker 1: I hope someone, I hope someone takes that clip out

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Speaker 1: of context. All right, well, guys, I think I triggered something.

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Speaker 1: Mine is We're all mad when when we were crying,

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Speaker 1: what our friends? Or the next we're like, where mine is? Oprah?

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Speaker 1: I would love I had a dream more time. One

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Speaker 1: time I had a dream that I was sitting between

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Speaker 1: Oprah and Kelly Roland. We were just like talking about life,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I hope that I find myself in

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Speaker 1: a situation where I'm between Oprah and Kelly Rule. I

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00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: think it's gonna happen for you. Yeah, Curly has very

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Speaker 1: like he attracts celebrities like a lot. Like it's crazy.

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00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: I love Curly are manifesting that for you, Kelly Roland

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00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:08,160
Speaker 1: and Oprah Um, Quinta Brunton and I who Quentin I

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00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,560
Speaker 1: has her show AB Elementary and ABC. She used to

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Speaker 1: come into my kitchen back in the day. She's amazing

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Speaker 1: and Quentin I used to talk about how much Kelly

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Speaker 1: is like she needs more love. And we started the

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Speaker 1: Kelly Roland Club in the kitchen. And now Quentin knows Kelly,

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00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: so I'm like Quentin introduced me to It's like, let

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Speaker 1: me know. When you guys are at Starbucks having coffee. Hey, Kelly,

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00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell her about the club. Oh my god, absolutely.

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00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: I wrote it like when Quintin posted a photo her

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00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:42,520
Speaker 1: and Kelly Roland, I wrote it on her thing as

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Speaker 1: a g and we started the club like it was

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00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 1: just like we were just so mad and moved that

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00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: Kelly needed more like more respect on her name. I

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Speaker 1: feel like the real Destiny Child, like the real people

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00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: who love Destiny Child, like they know that. It's like,

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00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: you know, Kelly is really like the glue. He's the

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Speaker 1: one who is Yeah, she can do it all, like

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Speaker 1: she can hit those moves, hit those notes like Kelly is.

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Speaker 1: She seems so sweet and so genuine and just so

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Speaker 1: real like down to earth. I know, I know, I

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Speaker 1: know this is do you want to join the club down?

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Speaker 1: As long as I can be Beyonce the number three

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Speaker 1: and welcome to the club. You can be the secretary

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Speaker 1: or you can God because I'm I think went to

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Speaker 1: the president and I'll be vice president. We can be

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Speaker 1: vice president's tachoty do whatever you want me to do,

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00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: whatever you want me to do. Okay. Our third and final,

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Speaker 1: what is the one thing that makes you feel like

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Speaker 1: home or it makes you think of home? M karaoke?

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Speaker 1: Come on? Maya is Korean dad. My dad's a musician.

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Speaker 1: He plays um, he sings in Spanish and like he

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00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: uh is just a wonderful like human being. And he

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00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: has taught me without exactly teaching me, because when I

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Speaker 1: was little, I was like I want in there and

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00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: I just want to do it by myself. But he

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00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: like would teach me kind of how to sing. And

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00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,800
Speaker 1: so every time I come back home, me, my mom

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00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: and my dad always do we always sing karaoke because

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00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: my dad has the a legit sound system to do

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00:31:26,200 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: it all. And then yeah, we would just like sing.

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00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: It just feels good, you know, to be at home.

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00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: My dad can sing. And then like when I'll show

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Speaker 1: off a little bit, he'll be like that was good,

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00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: or sometimes he'll give me notes and be like try

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00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: it more like this, and I'm like, I'm just having fun.

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00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: But okay, I love that mine would be my mom

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Speaker 1: makes My favorite food in the wide world is this.

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00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 1: My mom makes like a or like we call it's

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00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:56,200
Speaker 1: like it's just like meat soup, but they put like

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00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 1: uma or like like the ox tail in the soup.

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00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: It is my favorite thing. I can eat it almost

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00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,240
Speaker 1: every day. My mouth is salivating thinking about it. And

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00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: my dad and my mom has been in sells the

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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: culture since we were kids. So like my dad collects,

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00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: uh if you go on his Instagram, called collects vinyls

560
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,080
Speaker 1: from all over the world that are outside of Fannia

561
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 1: All Stars because he's like there's more to like Motown.

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00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 1: There's more music that existed other than Motown in that time,

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00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: so he's like there's like finding has like the Motown

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00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: of that era, So he collects like, um uh exactly that.

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00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 1: So like it would be his vinyls playing Sista in

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00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: the background, And my Mom's like, uh sure that to me,

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00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 1: if I could want to change, if I could live

568
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:47,040
Speaker 1: in a slice of heaven, it would be that with

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00:32:47,200 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: like my family and my dogs. Maybe I'm just really

570
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: emotional today because I'm just like that's such a it's

571
00:32:51,880 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: such a nice thing where I'm just really thankful for

572
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 1: those those moments and moments of culture in love, you know. Yeah,

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00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys so much for coming

574
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: on here and sharing your positivity, your energy, your sunshine

575
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: and the real real like thanks for giving us the

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00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: real scoop and like the real vibes, because that's what

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00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 1: we want to hear. And it's just it's so inspiring

578
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: to see you both doing your own thing, repping our

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00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: community and like just like walking the talk, you know

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00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: what I mean. Yeah, and same to you, like thank

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00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: you for having us. And you're such an incredible energy

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00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,000
Speaker 1: as well, Like the minute you popped up in our

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00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 1: little zoom thing, like you could tell it right away,

584
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,200
Speaker 1: like you were like all giggles and laughing with us. Yeah,

585
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:35,600
Speaker 1: and you're doing the thing too, and I hope that

586
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,280
Speaker 1: you hold onto that truth that you would like absolutely

587
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: like trailblazing as well in your own way. And like

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00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: I said on our podcast, you're getting the bag and

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00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: the man. So here we are doing well here. If

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Speaker 1: we want to follow you on Instagram or on social

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Speaker 1: media where or tickety talk or Twitter, water whatever, let

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00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: us know where how can we follow you? What? Where

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00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: can we see your journey? You can find me at

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Speaker 1: my moment m A y eight in the moment on

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Speaker 1: pretty much everything I make TikTok's Instagram reels uh, and

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00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: I'll tweet sometimes, but Twitter's scary. It's weird on there,

597
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:15,320
Speaker 1: it's so weird. And you can find me at the

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00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:19,440
Speaker 1: Curly v Show on Instagram and TikTok. I'm literally only

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00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:24,440
Speaker 1: post their shrafts and videos of or about my grandmother's

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Speaker 1: So if you like old lady content and nipples, you'll

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Speaker 1: love my Instagram and guys, guy, yes, thank you guys

602
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: so much more. And it's been such a pleasure having

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Speaker 1: you on what I need them. Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Mona Nita is a production of Sonato in

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Speaker 1: partnership with I Heart Radios Michael Guda podcast Network. For

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Speaker 1: more podcasts from I Heart Radio, visit the I Heart

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Speaker 1: Radio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you listen to your

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Speaker 1: favorite shows. We'll then tend to be fas