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Speaker 1: Lokata Radio is a radiophonic novela.

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Speaker 2: Which is just a very extra way of saying a podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm fiosa fem.

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Speaker 2: And I am ma la munos. We're podcasting through another

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Speaker 2: Trump election year. We've been podcasting through election years, a

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Speaker 2: global pandemic, civic unrest, political controversies, the Me Too movement,

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Speaker 2: the rise of TikTok, and we are still here. We're

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Speaker 2: not done telling stories.

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Speaker 1: We're still making podcasts. We're older, we're wiser, We're even

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Speaker 1: podcasting through a new decade of our lives.

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Speaker 2: Since twenty sixteen, we've been making Loka to our Radio

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Speaker 2: independently until we joined iHeartMedia's Michael Dura Network in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two.

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Speaker 1: From our lips to your ears, fall in love with

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Speaker 1: Loka to a radio like you never have before.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Season nine, Love at First Listen.

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Speaker 1: Ola Hola Loka Motes. Welcome to Season nine of Lokata Radio.

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Speaker 1: I'm Diosa and I'm Mala Lokaa is a podcast dedicated

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Speaker 1: to archiving our present and shifting the culture forward. You're

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Speaker 1: tuning into Capito do CentOS two hundred.

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Speaker 2: I can't believe it. We made it we're here. Last

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Speaker 2: time on Lokatota Radio, we interviewed Vicky Losa aka Vicky

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Speaker 2: the Fit Chick about being child free by choice. I

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Speaker 2: feel like I have a great rebuttal for that. It's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: People tell me that I'm selfish for not having kids.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's selfish at all. That is a

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Speaker 2: spicy episode. It's getting a lot of great traction online.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead and tune in and share with a friend

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Speaker 2: if you haven't already.

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Speaker 1: Just quick update. We're so excited to share that we

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Speaker 1: were at Endelon's ninth Assamblea in New Jersey this past week.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be producing an episode all about the

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Speaker 1: conference and we have some really great interviews with some

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Speaker 1: of our favorite artists, change makers, and laborers. So we're

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Speaker 2: We want to thank Endelon for having us because it

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Speaker 2: was a beautiful experience and all the interviews are really captivating.

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Speaker 2: So you guys definitely look forward to that episode.

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Speaker 1: And if you're unfamiliar with endel On, it actually stands

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Speaker 1: for the National Day Labor Organizing Network and they have

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Speaker 1: So it was so cool to share space with folks

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Speaker 2: Super duper excited. And in addition, it's June, It's Pride month.

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Speaker 2: Happy Pride everybody.

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Speaker 1: We're here to push the bi sexual agenda all year

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Speaker 2: As always, we're here to introduce you, maybe even to

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Speaker 1: Every year, I feel like social media, the discourse online

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Speaker 2: Right, There's so many other problems that we have to

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Speaker 2: Was it like eighteen thousand minutes? No, I think now

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Speaker 1: It really is. So thank you for still being here.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Thousands of minutes later, yes, and still

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Speaker 1: We want to take a trip down memory lane and

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Speaker 1: of Lokata Radio. Capitolo Loca pistemologies. Yes, we're recording, we

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Speaker 1: are live. Hello, Welcome to Loka Dora Radio. I am

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Speaker 2: And I'm Mala Munos. Welcome, thanks for tuning in. This

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Speaker 4: Well, keep that anonymous.

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Speaker 2: You are survivors of the Patreo Apocalypse and you've come

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Speaker 2: to the right place for fem defense.

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Speaker 1: The forces of machis will never stop, but noother do we.

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Speaker 5: It was Yosa's idea. She hit me up, she texted me.

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Speaker 5: We had been following each other online. Finally we met up,

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Speaker 2: So we have a super exciting announcement. To celebrate our

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Speaker 2: crowdfunding campaign. We are raising one hundred thousand dollars to

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Local Lania.

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Speaker 2: We are your podcasts. Be us next, or serving up

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Speaker 1: When life hands you lemons, tune into look at Dora.

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Speaker 2: Well, then what's that? Let's check it out?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, nope, okay, but.

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Speaker 2: What if it's fun? Let's go, let's go, let's go go.

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, what is that?

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Speaker 5: Take us to your network.

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Speaker 2: It's almost like we have the perfect faces for podcasting.

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Speaker 1: We can record for hours and hours on end.

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Speaker 1: We can interview and fluencers, politicos and friends.

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Speaker 2: Downloads are free. Share with the FAMI League.

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Speaker 7: Is yes, sir, look at our radio, look at Thought

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Speaker 8: Highlighting what really matters in our culture and like really

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Speaker 9: The one thing I wanted to share was first, congratulations

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Speaker 1: really worked on all of my friendships, including my friendships

438
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Speaker 1: with women. They're super important to me for the I

439
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Speaker 1: think simple fact that I don't have sisters, and so

440
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Speaker 1: I've always recognized my like really close friends as family

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Speaker 1: as sisters. And I've worked really hard to developed a

442
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Speaker 1: sisterhood with my friends and with my community. So I

443
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Speaker 1: think women friendships are so important for our development. They

444
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Speaker 1: like a good friend will push you, will hold you accountable,

445
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Speaker 1: will be there for you, we'll back you up like

446
00:22:57,200 --> 00:22:59,440
Speaker 1: and they're not there just to praise you, like they

447
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Speaker 1: really do make you a better version of yourself. And

448
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Speaker 1: so I think any good friendship will do that for you.

449
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Speaker 1: And so I'm really glad we've been able to model

450
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Speaker 1: that too here at Look a Thought Radio with each other,

451
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Speaker 1: with our friendship and growing a business with we weren't

452
00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: necessarily Homegirls. When we started, we were like internet friends,

453
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Speaker 1: party friends, and the fact that we just built a

454
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Speaker 1: business together on vibes. But also I think we saw

455
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Speaker 1: that we could trust each other, Like we didn't know

456
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Speaker 1: each other that well yet, but I think there was

457
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Speaker 1: this mutual respect and recognition that like, this is someone

458
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Speaker 1: I can learn to trust and like build something with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, a friend is not a fan, right, you know,

460
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Speaker 2: And so I think we we Also there's this I've

461
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Speaker 2: been feeling this too as as we get older and

462
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Speaker 2: as we are in our thirties now, but there's these

463
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Speaker 2: different phases of womanhood and these different experience of womanhood

464
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Speaker 2: that change as time goes on, and I think friendship

465
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Speaker 2: also has so much to do with adapting to those

466
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Speaker 2: changes and like keeping up with those changes. And when

467
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Speaker 2: we first started hanging out, it was it was Puto

468
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Speaker 2: Pinche party, Like that's what it was like all week.

469
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for a few years, four days a week, yes,

470
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Speaker 2: at least, and that's not really that doesn't happen anymore.

471
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Speaker 2: But the friendship, the project, the business has maintained even

472
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Speaker 2: when the party wasn't there. And I think that's very

473
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Speaker 2: telling as well, because I think in life you're going

474
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Speaker 2: to meet people, especially when you're in your twenties, where well, yeah,

475
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Speaker 2: what we do is we get together and we drink

476
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Speaker 2: and we party. And if we're not, if that's not

477
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Speaker 2: there anymore, do we really have a reason to be

478
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Speaker 2: around each other? Yeah, And for and for many relationships

479
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Speaker 2: and connections, the answer is no. But for those relationships

480
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Speaker 2: that endure, even if we're just sitting in complete silence,

481
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Speaker 2: which happens with us quite often.

482
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because we talk about so much all the time,

483
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Speaker 1: and we talk all day that it's like, oh, we're

484
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Speaker 1: just going to eat this dinner in.

485
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Speaker 2: Silence and be quiet now, Yeah, because we talk so much,

486
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Speaker 2: and I think that's a beautiful thing to be able

487
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Speaker 2: to do that. Yeah, you know, So that's also what

488
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Speaker 2: I've been thinking of. I've been thinking about that a

489
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Speaker 2: lot with regards to our friendship and other friendships that

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Speaker 2: I have that are enduring even if I don't I

491
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Speaker 2: have friends that I don't see all the time, but

492
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Speaker 2: when we get back together, it's we're picking up where

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Speaker 2: we left off.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think, you know, we've talked about this

495
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Speaker 1: before on the podcast, but we're also as many journalists

496
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Speaker 1: and thinkers of this moment have been talking about we're

497
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Speaker 1: in a like moment epidemic of loneliness. And so there's

498
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Speaker 1: so much about our capitalist society that has made friendships transactional.

499
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Speaker 1: I don't want to do emotional labor for someone, like

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Speaker 1: it's being a friend, you know, first of all, I

501
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Speaker 1: don't want to pick up someone from lax like good God,

502
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Speaker 1: Like can we not ask our friends for favors anymore?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's what the discourse has been online about,

505
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Speaker 1: like friendship and boundaries, and I think it's pushed us

506
00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: to this place where we don't know how to ask

507
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: for help anymore. We don't want to quote burden anyone.

508
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,840
Speaker 1: And you know, I think, yeah, our friendships are so

509
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Speaker 1: important because so often that's the community you need to

510
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Speaker 1: be building with. Right There's like your digital space and

511
00:26:18,960 --> 00:26:22,520
Speaker 1: your digital community, and there's even organizing that happens online.

512
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Speaker 1: But like the change that happens for you individually and

513
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: then collectively is going to happen in person and most

514
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Speaker 1: likely with your friends.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. And I think honestly, like if we think about

516
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Speaker 2: the idea that like, okay, romantic connection the strongest, like

517
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Speaker 2: romantic connections start off as friendships. It almost makes me

518
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Speaker 2: think like okay, like marriage vows that through sickness and

519
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,440
Speaker 2: health better for worse, et cetera, et cetera. Like that

520
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Speaker 2: I think is a base is based in friendship, you know,

521
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Speaker 2: like if you can't do that for a friend and

522
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Speaker 2: kind of whether the storm with someone when they're sick,

523
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Speaker 2: when they're not got, when they're not doing well, when

524
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Speaker 2: they're going through something, when they're not their best selves,

525
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Speaker 2: you know, then how can you do it for someone romantically?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: And I think about like my mom has these really

528
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Speaker 2: like long enduring friendships with women, and when someone is

529
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Speaker 2: undergoing a surgery, when someone is undergoing a breakup, when

530
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Speaker 2: someone is moving, like the way these women in their

531
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Speaker 2: sixties just mobilize and show up for each other. And

532
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 2: growing up, like if my parents couldn't cover tuition, you know,

533
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Speaker 2: they had a friend who like lent them money one

534
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Speaker 2: time and vice versa. I mean, these things are hard.

535
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Speaker 2: But these women who like, they're not on social media,

536
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 2: they're not engaging in discourse, they're not talking about boundaries.

537
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Speaker 2: I don't think I've ever heard my mom use the

538
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Speaker 2: word boundary.

539
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Speaker 1: As showing up for each other.

540
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Speaker 2: They're just showing up for each other, and so they're

541
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Speaker 2: modeling that that real sentiment of I'm loyal to you,

542
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Speaker 2: I'm sticking to you even on your worst day. I'm

543
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Speaker 2: showing up for you, you know.

544
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Speaker 1: And I would say for me was the opposite. My

545
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,720
Speaker 1: mom has been very isolated. Her friends have all been

546
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Speaker 1: kind of spread out and so and she doesn't really

547
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Speaker 1: have like a friend group, like all her friends are

548
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: individual friends that she's made over the years. And so

549
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Speaker 1: I think that showed me like, I don't want that

550
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Speaker 1: for myself. I actually want closeness and connection. And it

551
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,000
Speaker 1: doesn't mean talking every day or seeing each other weekly,

552
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Speaker 1: but I want to be able to maintain something so

553
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Speaker 1: that I don't feel alone and so that I don't

554
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Speaker 1: feel isolated.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. Next, we have a SoundBite from one of our

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Speaker 2: most Write or Die favorite listeners, Jackie from AZUSA. We

557
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 2: asked Jackie what look atas should be doing more of,

558
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Speaker 2: and here's what she had to say. But what's something

559
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Speaker 2: I always showed us that I would do more of?

560
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Speaker 7: Events?

561
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Speaker 2: Events are always so much fun.

562
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Speaker 9: I mean, so many people like minded and listen to

563
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Speaker 9: our builder community.

564
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Speaker 2: So this today it's episode I'm so happy to do

565
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Speaker 2: reading book Club members from.

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Speaker 1: In the past. We have definitely put together produced some

567
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Speaker 1: incredible events. I definitely think we've slowed down because we're

568
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Speaker 1: building out the production company. We have more shows now,

569
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Speaker 1: and when we were producing more live events like Loca

570
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Speaker 1: Liva podcast party, we just had the one project, which

571
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: was still a huge lift, right, But I think I

572
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Speaker 1: think that's one of the reasons we've been doing less

573
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Speaker 1: in person events. There's also pandemic happened.

574
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Speaker 2: The pandemic definitely happened. And you know, events are super

575
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Speaker 2: duper fun, but also like very tiring, and there are

576
00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 2: a lot of work, and like entertaining live and in

577
00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: person is like a whole other beast, and we love it.

578
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 2: It's super duper fun. But like us I said, like

579
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Speaker 2: we have other shows in the works now and like

580
00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 2: building out our slate and so bringing you that entertainment

581
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Speaker 2: and engagement in other ways. But the events are coming.

582
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Speaker 2: We have more, more in the works, more on the way.

583
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it definitely takes a lot to put an

584
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Speaker 1: event together. It does take money, it does take resources.

585
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Speaker 1: You need to invest and hope that you have some

586
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Speaker 1: type of payout, whether that be through ticket sales, through

587
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Speaker 1: people attending if there's a bar, the bar sales. So

588
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Speaker 1: I mean this is just a reminder of like your

589
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Speaker 1: faves are putting on events and you want them to

590
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Speaker 1: keep happening. It's important that you show up because low

591
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Speaker 1: attendance means they might not do it again.

592
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Speaker 2: No, because especially like if an event is taking place

593
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Speaker 2: at a venue, the venue costs money. The venue also

594
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Speaker 2: wants to make money. We have to sell drinks at

595
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Speaker 2: the bar. We got to sell merch, we gotta sell tickets.

596
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Speaker 2: We got to pay the DJ, we got to pay

597
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Speaker 2: the photographer, I mean, our makeup artists. The list goes

598
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Speaker 2: on and on. So events can be very pricey, which

599
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Speaker 2: is also why you know times like if we must charge,

600
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Speaker 2: we must charge, or we're just not going to break even.

601
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Speaker 2: But yeah, there we do have ideas for ways to

602
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Speaker 2: bring back look At do A Live sometime in the future.

603
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Speaker 1: Janine from Boyle Heights shares with us what she does

604
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: while listening to look at Dora Radio.

605
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,680
Speaker 10: I am usually cooking, washing dishes, driving stuck in traffic

606
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 10: in La literally crying, maybe because the episodes are that good,

607
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 10: whether I'm laughing or just like hav an epiphany and

608
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,760
Speaker 10: I'm like, oh my God, yes, I didn't realize that

609
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 10: I take walks while I run basically do everything with

610
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Speaker 10: Look At Radio.

611
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Speaker 1: And in the past, listeners have shared so many things

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Speaker 1: that they do while listening to the podcast. One of

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Speaker 1: my favorites is that one of our listeners I either

614
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Speaker 1: was through a review or a DM, said that she

615
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: was coding yes while listening to Look at Our Radio.

616
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Speaker 1: And that's just ugh, it's so good. I love I

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Speaker 1: love a woman in stem Oh.

618
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Like it's just wonderful to know that, like we're

619
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Speaker 2: tickling that part of your brain. And so you want

620
00:32:10,920 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 2: to listen even if it's the butt the buzz in

621
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 2: the background, but you want to listen while you're doing

622
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Speaker 2: something that's like important and meaningful to you.

623
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we have listeners that have shared, like you know,

624
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: they listen with their daughters, They listen why while they're

625
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,760
Speaker 1: cleaning the house, while they're teaching or not teaching, but

626
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: like grading and prepping, and there's just I love it.

627
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,760
Speaker 1: I love when y'all share with us what you're doing

628
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:36,480
Speaker 1: while you're listening to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I would love to know if there's anyone in there

630
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Speaker 2: that has ever listened while they're doing it. Lord we

631
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Speaker 2: haven't heard that one yet, but there's got to be someone.

632
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Speaker 2: There's someone out there, and if that's you, please let

633
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Speaker 2: us know.

634
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Speaker 1: That is interesting.

635
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Speaker 11: I think that's something that could be something we'll see,

636
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Speaker 11: Like if you're dating somebody and you want them to know,

637
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Speaker 11: like what your values are, you know, like you're a

638
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Speaker 11: staune feminist, and this is how you tell them.

639
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Speaker 1: I would love to know for how many people were

640
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: a litmus test. I would love to know how many

641
00:33:08,800 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 1: breakups we've caused, how many fights have we caused?

642
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Speaker 2: Sure? Sure, okay, but are the first? Remember our first

643
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:18,680
Speaker 2: like real podcast party at El Dorado And there were

644
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,360
Speaker 2: like several men who were there with their female partners. Yes,

645
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 2: but the women were like, oh, he loves your podcast.

646
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Speaker 2: He's a huge fan.

647
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Speaker 1: The wives, the girlfriends, the partners were going with the husband, boyfriend,

648
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Speaker 1: whomever and introducing him to us because he was shy,

649
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Speaker 1: but he was the listener.

650
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Speaker 2: That was so funny.

651
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Speaker 1: I forgot about that. That's so true.

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Speaker 2: And it was like a couple of them, there were

653
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Speaker 2: like three. Yeah, that was fun.

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Speaker 1: That was fun. I wonder if they're still listening, let

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Speaker 1: us know, yeah, yeah, yeah, let.

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Speaker 2: Us know if you were really about it and you're

657
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 2: still listening.

658
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: Don't go anywhere look on what is We're going on

659
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 1: a quick break and we'll be right back.

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Speaker 2: Next we have Geeky from Long Beach who has been

661
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,040
Speaker 2: listening since twenty sixteen, the very beginning, and she talked

662
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 2: about her favorite episode.

663
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 3: One of my favorite look at Tha memories is the

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Speaker 3: episode does La have Terrible Food? Because I will go

665
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: to bat that La has the most amazing food, And really,

666
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 3: Mala said, I think something along the lines of, you

667
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,520
Speaker 3: can't say that La has bad food without like shitting

668
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 3: on all of our im the good communities. So do

669
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 3: not come for us. LA has the best food.

670
00:34:26,440 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 2: And I just love how look at Tha.

671
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:31,880
Speaker 3: Always writes hard for all of these important conversations that

672
00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 3: are important to me.

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00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 1: I have You've been saying this for a while now, Mala,

674
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: but I have finally come to terms with this. People

675
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: intentionally create bad content about La or wrong, like they

676
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: name a neighborhood wrong incorrectly, just to row people up

677
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: in the comments for engagement. I saw this the other

678
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: day on one of those like what's happening La, like

679
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 1: one of the pages. I don't know if it was

680
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: that one, So don't don't don't go in comment, okay,

681
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 1: but it was one of those types of pages and

682
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,000
Speaker 1: it was like come with me to spend a day

683
00:35:09,000 --> 00:35:11,360
Speaker 1: in East La, and it was, well, it was not

684
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: East Della. It wasn't even Silver Lake, which I know

685
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:16,200
Speaker 1: people have been been saying Silver Lake is a part

686
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: of East Lea, which we know it's not. But it

687
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:21,520
Speaker 1: was so wrong and far from Ea Stella. And I

688
00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:23,759
Speaker 1: was like looking at all the comments and everybody was mad,

689
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: and I was like, this has to be on purpose now, yeah.

690
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 2: Like yeah, no, totally, and it works every time it does.

691
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,440
Speaker 1: We fall for it because we're so like fierce about

692
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,439
Speaker 1: our city, especially like the sides of La that don't

693
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 1: get the recognition or the love that we deserve, right

694
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:46,279
Speaker 1: that are excluded from like what people think La is.

695
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,799
Speaker 1: But we like then feed into it and fall into

696
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:54,040
Speaker 1: the trap of like fighting for La. And it's just yeah.

697
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 2: It's so true. It's not that hard. I mean, Google,

698
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 2: if you're on Google Maps, like it's gonna you're gonna

699
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 2: know where you are, you know. And as far as

700
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: La neighborhoods, I feel like East La, as far as

701
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 2: La neighborhoods go, East La has had like a solid

702
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:12,319
Speaker 2: amount of representation in film and television, right, I mean,

703
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 2: I mean American me, I mean born in East La.

704
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,359
Speaker 2: I mean hinhi Fied and boil Hides and the list

705
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 2: goes on and on and on, like East La is known,

706
00:36:20,719 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And so yeah, I totally

707
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 2: think that people are baiting us, and yeah, we always

708
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 2: fall for it. So don't do that, don't give it

709
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:31,719
Speaker 2: to them, don't let them have it.

710
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: Instead, comment on your favorite La local, La Taco newsroom, restaurant,

711
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 1: community podcasts, what have you? You know what I mean, Like,

712
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 1: I think, let's redirect it. But I'm glad they. Kiki

713
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: liked this episode. This was also such a fun episode

714
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: to make where we talk about does La have terrible food?

715
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:53,640
Speaker 1: And clearly it does not.

716
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 2: Right now that these takes are happening, because they seem

717
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:02,279
Speaker 2: to pop up up every so often, we get like

718
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: a random person sharing a very loud, very wrong opinion

719
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 2: about how La apparently has no good food.

720
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,840
Speaker 1: A lot of people agree. And what I've noticed is,

721
00:37:13,880 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: like the ven diagram, it's always what's always hitting is

722
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: transplants and Gentrif.

723
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 2: La has an amazing food, go back and listen to

724
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 2: that episode, does La have terrible food? Because that's another

725
00:37:25,880 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 2: thing they like to beat us on is on the food.

726
00:37:28,280 --> 00:37:31,680
Speaker 2: They always go in on the food or they're always like, oh, like,

727
00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: Downtown doesn't want to be Manhattan. When whoever said that

728
00:37:35,200 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 2: we wanted to be Manhattan? Nobody, No one has ever

729
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,239
Speaker 2: said that in the history of this city. So anyways,

730
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:43,480
Speaker 2: go back and listen to that episode and thank you

731
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:44,760
Speaker 2: to Kiki for that memory.

732
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: Next we have Kim from Southeast La, my favorite Loka

733
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: to memory es when you, Mala Andiosa went virtual for

734
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: a Grand Parks community program back in twenty twenty.

735
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 12: It was supposed to be an in person the event,

736
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 12: and because of COVID, it had to go virtual and

737
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 12: it was a day long event and it was just

738
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 12: so incredible to see you while just figuring it out

739
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 12: while we you know, like while audiences were tuning in,

740
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,400
Speaker 12: while the Grand Park team was figuring it out, and

741
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 12: at the end of the day it ended up being

742
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 12: like a really wholesome community event for everyone, and a

743
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 12: lot of people were able to tune in, and I

744
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 12: think it was a successful program.

745
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:27,600
Speaker 1: Mala, what was virtual hosting like for you in twenty twenty?

746
00:38:28,080 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 2: It was weird but like oddly fun. And I mean,

747
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:37,239
Speaker 2: you know again, like love live entertainment, love performing in

748
00:38:37,280 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 2: person in front of a live audience. And we used

749
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,799
Speaker 2: to do a lot of hosting of live events, but

750
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 2: that can also be very exhausting, and so there was

751
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,680
Speaker 2: something very chill about you know, we're on screen when

752
00:38:48,719 --> 00:38:51,760
Speaker 2: it's our time, and then when it's not our time,

753
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:52,840
Speaker 2: we can like take.

754
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: A break totally.

755
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,719
Speaker 2: And I remember my family was there that day and

756
00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 2: we were doing kind of like a distanced like visit

757
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: hang and I like made us lemonade and I was

758
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 2: like hanging out with them downstairs, and then when it

759
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:11,040
Speaker 2: was our time to host, I ran back upstairs to host,

760
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,080
Speaker 2: and so I was doing kind of double duty that day.

761
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: And it was kind of chill, but yeah, very strange,

762
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 2: but not like not like a horrible time, you.

763
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 1: Know, No, I think too. This was the part of

764
00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 1: the pandemic where everyone thought it was going to be

765
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: over in like a month or two.

766
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 2: It was just like a cute little break.

767
00:39:28,040 --> 00:39:30,359
Speaker 1: It was like, Okay, this is where we're pivoting. We're

768
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 1: making it work, but like things will be back to

769
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: quote normal in a couple of weeks, right, And then

770
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 1: obviously we know how that went. And so and even

771
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 1: for us, you know, we had a series called Quarantine Confidential.

772
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: We thought Quarantine was going to be a hot minute,

773
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: and it wasn't. It ended up being for many years,

774
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: and so then we just ended Quarantine Confidential and pivoted

775
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:54,719
Speaker 1: back to our regular programming.

776
00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 2: Absolutely, gosh, what a time, What a time, What a time.

777
00:39:57,600 --> 00:39:59,440
Speaker 2: But you know what, even then, we were like, let's

778
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 2: make something, let's innovate, let's keep it going.

779
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:06,359
Speaker 1: Next we have Sebastian from Whittier and they you talk

780
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: about one of their favorite Loka projects.

781
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 6: My favorite Lokata memory, Well, there's two parts. One is

782
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 6: the Lookita's Anonymous short film. I loved it because it

783
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:21,920
Speaker 6: was campy and it was fun and cute and it

784
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:25,240
Speaker 6: was so well done. But my favorite thing about Locata

785
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 6: every season is the visuals. Like I feel like it's

786
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 6: like like when you're waiting for your favorite artists to

787
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 6: drop in you like single or whatever. I was like, Okay,

788
00:40:33,560 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 6: new season's coming, We're getting new visuals, there's new themes.

789
00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 6: So yeah, I was always here for the creativity.

790
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:43,280
Speaker 2: And now Lokitho's Anonymous is a very very fun short

791
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,919
Speaker 2: film that we made a few years ago now, and

792
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 2: I actually can't believe how early it was into our

793
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 2: podcasting career, and we're like, let's make a movie call

794
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 2: the Ethical Punk.

795
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:57,640
Speaker 1: You're not going to make it back on time.

796
00:40:57,880 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 2: We have no choice. It's either us or them.

797
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: Look atas, y'all know what to do.

798
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 4: That's anonymous, Well, keep us anonymous.

799
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: You can watch Lokitha's Anonymous on YouTube in full, the

800
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,600
Speaker 2: full short. It's like eight eight and a half minutes long,

801
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:29,480
Speaker 2: and you're going to recognize some some actors that we

802
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 2: cast in our movie who weren't they're not actors, but

803
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:34,800
Speaker 2: we had them acting and now they're doing incredible things.

804
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 2: So Vanessa Romo Is is in Lokitha's Anonymous. Jen torres

805
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 2: A Kagen from the Block is in look Ata's Anonymous,

806
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:46,239
Speaker 2: and it's it's like a star studied Crisol. It was

807
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 2: a really fun time.

808
00:41:47,480 --> 00:41:51,439
Speaker 1: It really was. Yeah, And that I think was one

809
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: of the many ways I think that we try to

810
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: keep lok or try to grow the projects and try

811
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 1: to grow the concept that maybe originated in our lives,

812
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: our work, Like in my last case, like that was

813
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: the film was directly inspired by the work that she

814
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:13,759
Speaker 1: was doing and just really trying to like infuse what

815
00:42:13,800 --> 00:42:18,000
Speaker 1: we do with like creativity, innovation, and also like not

816
00:42:18,120 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: being afraid to like try something new. At that point,

817
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: like we weren't really doing the visual trailers yet, but

818
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: we were like, let's make a short film, and we did.

819
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 2: A lot of people worked on that film, and you know,

820
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:34,799
Speaker 2: we had a small budget to make it happen, but

821
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 2: it was also like all hands on deck and a

822
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:40,239
Speaker 2: lot of people just kind of donating their time and

823
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,320
Speaker 2: their their energy and their talents to put it together.

824
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:47,319
Speaker 2: Gella Getza, they donated lunch for our food so we

825
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 2: could feed our cast and crew. Chaba and Michelle were

826
00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 2: you know, directing and doing sound, and Ernie Prieto was

827
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:01,120
Speaker 2: our cinematographer. Robert was our makeup artist for everybody, the

828
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 2: entire caz He did everybody's makeup Godalitha Designs. You'll notice

829
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 2: that in Lookitha's anonymous. The production design, the costuming is

830
00:43:09,239 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 2: incredible even for no budget. Tons of beautiful jewelry that's

831
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 2: from Godaliita Designs. And then we shot in uptown Whittier at.

832
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,840
Speaker 1: Whittier Beauty Collective, Yes now known as Beauty collective lab

833
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,799
Speaker 1: but at the time you'll see in the credits they're

834
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:27,280
Speaker 1: credited as a Wittier Beauty collective and my mail artist

835
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 1: Valerie like just let us use her space, which, as

836
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,919
Speaker 1: you'll know, like the space is such a big deal

837
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 1: to have, and so we were able to film there

838
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: that whole day and made it possible.

839
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 2: And Belladonna donated our hair pieces. We had like Biosa, Loca,

840
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,000
Speaker 2: like little Barette, little Baretts. I mean, the list goes

841
00:43:48,000 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 2: on and on. A lot of people worked on it,

842
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:51,880
Speaker 2: and we still work with a lot of these folks.

843
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 2: So yeah, that check it out. Lokitha's anonymous, it's on YouTube.

844
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,359
Speaker 1: Finally we hear from Teresa from East La.

845
00:43:57,680 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 13: Hey everyone, my name is Teresa and I am born

846
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,680
Speaker 13: and raised in East la and a longtime fan of

847
00:44:03,760 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 13: Loka Radio with Malaandiosa. And my favorite episode is honestly

848
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 13: one that kind of harkens back to like their early days,

849
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 13: which and you guys like redid it recently, but it

850
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 13: was all about the concept of ethical chieze mosa. It's

851
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 13: my favorite because honestly, you guys like coined a term

852
00:44:23,239 --> 00:44:24,279
Speaker 13: and a concept that I.

853
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,680
Speaker 2: Think is so I love that Teresa brought up ethical

854
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 2: cheesema because I think, like loca epistemologies, this is sort

855
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 2: of like an original concept that we coined and have

856
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 2: been sort of developing out as we go. And I

857
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 2: think ethical cheesema came from this place of like I

858
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,319
Speaker 2: was working at a rape crisis center and as we know,

859
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: and as we've talked about over the years, the police

860
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:53,520
Speaker 2: are useless and they don't do very much. So what

861
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 2: kind of spawned this idea is like, you know, women

862
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 2: are talking to each each other and have these informal

863
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 2: like networks for information sharing, and sometimes it's coded as

864
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:12,480
Speaker 2: gossip and or in our case, cheese men. But it

865
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,480
Speaker 2: can be life saving, it can be resource sharing, it

866
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 2: can be you know, tipping people off. We talked about

867
00:45:18,640 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 2: the difference between being a cheese mosa and like a

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Speaker 2: metice and how like the government is a meticche like

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Speaker 2: when they're like wired tapping our phones and getting involved

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Speaker 2: in our lives in that way. And so we really

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Speaker 2: talked about I think also older women in our lives

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Speaker 2: and how the cheese me is a form of information sharing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's so many layers to it, right, and

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Speaker 1: I think we get into it in the last in

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Speaker 1: that episode and then in our current rendition of ethical

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00:45:44,560 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: cheese men last season, but also recognizing cheese men, like

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Speaker 1: you said, as a tool, and just thinking of how

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Speaker 1: it is so gender expansive, Like we think about it

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Speaker 1: of course as like cheese miss goals morchrees, right, or

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Speaker 1: it's like a woman's thing, but there's also like queer

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Speaker 1: folks that participate in cheesema, gender expansive folks that participate

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Speaker 1: in cheesement, and seeing I like, for example, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: about like the queer little boys that are like with

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Speaker 1: the theas like learning the cheese, me getting the information right,

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Speaker 1: and then how like they use it as a tool

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Speaker 1: for themselves. And so I think there's just so many

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Speaker 1: different angles and so many different ways we use cheese

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00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: men in our community. And we did work on this

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00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:31,440
Speaker 1: concept and this term term ethical cheesement with Rubin from

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00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:35,279
Speaker 1: at the time Queer Chicano Cheesement, and so we were

891
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: like working on that and then we worked that out

892
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: in that episode, right, and we've come to understand it

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Speaker 1: in more ways and expand on it on our own through.

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Speaker 2: And I think that is it ethical cheesema that has

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Speaker 2: been written about in somebody's pieces.

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Speaker 1: No locopistemology, but we have been referenced as being one

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Speaker 1: of the originators that coin the term ethical.

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Speaker 2: She's in like a paper, in a paper.

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Speaker 1: But in someone's thesis esther she wrote about us, and

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Speaker 1: in her dissertation.

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00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:13,879
Speaker 2: About local pistemologies. Yeah, yes, we're just creating academic frameworks

902
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 2: just as we go. As we're just you know, flapping

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Speaker 2: our lips.

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Speaker 1: What does two hundred episodes mean to us?

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Speaker 13: Well?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what does it mean to you? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I think to me, it means consistency, It means support,

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00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,640
Speaker 1: It means community support, it means now being with a network,

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00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: it means god rigor. It means yeah, perseverance like continuing

910
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:45,359
Speaker 1: believing in this project so much and doing everything that

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Speaker 1: we could even before the network, to get the show made,

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00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: paying for it ourselves, not getting paid, keeping our jobs,

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Speaker 1: running ourselves ragged at times, keeping a job so that

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Speaker 1: we could make this show right. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: something we've advocated for ourselves for so long, is we

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Speaker 1: didn't want the project to stress us out financially. So

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Speaker 1: that's why we kept the kept our day jobs for

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Speaker 1: so long, Because if you're stressed by money, like it's

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00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: not conducive to making good art, to being in a

920
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: creative space if you're so stressed, and so I think, yeah,

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Speaker 1: it just means like what we were willing to do

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Speaker 1: to make this project grow for so long, anything almost anything,

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Speaker 1: we did a lot with a lot.

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Speaker 2: Two hundred episodes to me means really pushing the limits

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00:48:34,080 --> 00:48:37,279
Speaker 2: of our creativity and our imagination, because to have two

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Speaker 2: hundred distinct episodes that are not all exactly alike and

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Speaker 2: that offer something new to the archive takes imagination, you know,

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Speaker 2: and it takes really bringing in a lot of different

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Speaker 2: people from the community for these interviews so that every

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Speaker 2: interview is really a standout and a standalone. Will also

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Speaker 2: I think pushing ourselves individually, you know, to like hone

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Speaker 2: our crafts, our you know, our multiple crafts, and really

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Speaker 2: expand on our ability as artists. And it also gives

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Speaker 2: me hope for like, well, what does two hundred more

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Speaker 2: look like?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally where else.

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Speaker 2: Can we take this? And two hundred is also for

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Speaker 2: me like all the little shows that were born out

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Speaker 2: of this show. Yeah, you know, this is like the

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Speaker 2: trunk and we have many branches and many more to come.

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Speaker 2: So it's exciting and I'm just happy to be here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and how many shows did we also inspire? You know,

943
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Speaker 1: how many folks made their own podcasts after listening to us.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think about that too, which is exciting,

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00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: you know. I hope that we inspired folks to make

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Speaker 1: their own show or to start their own creative endeavor,

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Speaker 1: whatever that may look like for them.

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Speaker 2: We definitely have children, Yes, we have.

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Speaker 1: Children out there, we do. And we also have lots

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Speaker 1: of thank yous to give.

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Speaker 2: So let's start from the very beginning.

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Speaker 1: So we want to thank Noel Reyes from shot Mevi

953
00:50:05,520 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 1: that she let us record at her studio at her

954
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:12,880
Speaker 1: boutique in Highland Park after hours on Sundays so that

955
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Speaker 1: we could start the show so we could get it

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Speaker 1: off the ground.

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Speaker 2: We also want to thank Nico and Maira from Aspasio

958
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 2: eighteen thirty nine, which is the first studio that we

959
00:50:22,080 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 2: ever recorded in and Radio Spacio is such an important

960
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,400
Speaker 2: community project. Go and support them. Got shop at Espasio

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Speaker 2: eighteen thirty nine and there are still shows that are

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Speaker 2: recording out of Radiospasio.

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Speaker 1: We also want to thank Adriana aka Hippie Thatka on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: She designed our very first logo. If you remember the

965
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Speaker 1: hand holding the mic with the acrylic nails and the roses,

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Speaker 1: it's so beautiful. That was our first logo. It was

967
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Speaker 1: first red and gold and then pink, pink and gold iconic.

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Speaker 2: Adriana also did our flyers for at one point and

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Speaker 2: she like literally handmade outfits for us to wear at

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Speaker 2: oh and Hobby Mendoza. Hobby Mendoza who's been living his

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Speaker 2: very best life in Brazil, but Hovey was also a

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Speaker 2: big part of Loki This is anonymous. Hobby was a

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Speaker 2: big supporter. We also want to thank Mica Amato, who

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Speaker 2: designed our second logo and has designed actually a bunch

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Speaker 2: of art for us over the years.

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Speaker 1: Also Alanis Alvarez, she was our social media graphic designer

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Speaker 1: circa twenty nineteen. I think during season three we had

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Speaker 1: these really beautiful hand drawn Gopitolo announcements. So thank you

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Speaker 1: Alanis for being a part of the team.

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Speaker 2: We also want to thank Mariana Alvarado, who is our

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Speaker 2: web designer, who has been working on our website for

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Speaker 2: several years now and is the reason why we have

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Speaker 2: a website and an online shop which, by the way,

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Speaker 2: visit lokatoa radio dot com and shop Loki Tho because

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00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: we do have new merge that we're going to be

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Speaker 2: selling on there, so go check that out and thank

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Speaker 2: you to my for making that possible for us.

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Jordan Colling, our very first audio editor.

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00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 1: We found her during the pandemic and she edited with

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Speaker 1: us for about two years.

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Speaker 2: We also want to give a major, major, humongous shout

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Speaker 2: out to Stephanie Franco, who is also now at this point,

993
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Speaker 2: our longtime audio editor and our in house producer. Stephanie

994
00:52:22,640 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 2: make sure that our episodes are well put together in

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Speaker 2: sound design and beautiful for you all to listen to.

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00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 2: Stephanie also traveled with us on our first trip together

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Speaker 2: as a three person team to the Endolan Assemble and

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Speaker 2: Nacional and we just have a lot more beautiful work

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Speaker 2: coming out with Stephanie in the future.

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Speaker 1: We also want to thank Grisol. She produced, compose, and

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Speaker 1: performed Loca original music.

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Speaker 2: For season nine and she also is responsible for the

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Speaker 2: Marijuan Etra podcast for Pothead's original music.

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Speaker 1: We also want to thank Graeme. He's our behind the

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Speaker 1: scenes audio engineer. You've probably never heard this name before,

1006
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Speaker 1: but he started working with us or We started working

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Speaker 1: with him when we joined the Michael Dura team, So

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Speaker 1: shout out to him and LA Studios.

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Speaker 2: Big, huge, major shout out to the Michael Dura podcast team.

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00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 2: Major major shout out to Giselle for reaching out and

1011
00:53:14,280 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 2: seeing us and bringing us on to the Michael Dura

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00:53:17,560 --> 00:53:31,360
Speaker 2: podcast network years ago and even got us our first

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00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 2: meeting like at CAA like he got us into some rooms.

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Speaker 1: He got us into lions Gate.

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00:53:36,239 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 2: He got us into lions Gate. So yeah, big shout

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Speaker 2: out to Hobby Mendoza.

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Speaker 1: We also want to thank our friends, our family.

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00:53:44,200 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 2: Even lovers, past, present and future. We also want to

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00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:49,800
Speaker 2: give a big shout out to our enemies, our haters,

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00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 2: our stalkers, our lurkers, our DM dwellers, troll.

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Speaker 1: Okay, okay, okay, I think that's our time. Catch you

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Speaker 1: next time.

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Speaker 14: Looka mo issita Us Happy two hundred episode, two hundredth episode,

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Speaker 14: We Love.

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Speaker 12: You Happy, two hundredth episode, Loka.

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Speaker 13: Tora Radio Copy two hundred app.

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Speaker 6: Episode, two hundred episodes look at Radio.

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Speaker 1: Look at a Radio is executive produced by Viosa Fem

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Speaker 1: and Mala Munios.

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Speaker 2: Stephanie Franco is our producer.

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Speaker 1: Story editing by me diosa.

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Speaker 2: Creative direction by me Mala.

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Speaker 1: Look at a Radio is a part of iHeartRadio's Michael

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Speaker 1: Dura podcast network.

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Speaker 2: You can listen to Locata Radio on the iHeartRadio app

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Speaker 2: or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Leave us a review and share with your prima or

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Speaker 1: share with your homegirl.

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Speaker 2: And thank you to our local morees, to our listeners

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Speaker 2: for tuning in each and every week.

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Speaker 1: Besitos Loka Loo