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Speaker 1: Loka Toa 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 Mala mignos.

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Speaker 1: Loka Tora Radio is your freemast favorite podcast hosted by

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Speaker 1: us Mala and Riosa.

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Speaker 2: Where two ig friends turned podcast partners, breaking down pop culture, feminism,

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Speaker 2: sexual wellness, and offering fresh takes on trending topics through

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Speaker 2: nuanced interviews with up and coming LATINX creatives.

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Speaker 1: Known as Las Loka TOAs, Las Mammy Submit and Bullshit,

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Speaker 1: Porgas next Door and Las Borgasas. We've been podcasting independently

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Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen, and we're bringing our radiophonic novela to

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Speaker 1: the Mike Ukura Network to continue sharing stories from the

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Speaker 1: LATINX community.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Loka Tora Radio season seven. Take us to your.

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Speaker 1: Network, Ola La Loka Motives. Welcome back to another Capitolo

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Speaker 1: of lok at O Radio. I'm Viosa and I am Mala.

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Speaker 1: You're tuning in to Capitolo and the final episode of

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Speaker 1: season seven.

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Speaker 3: This is the thirtieth episode of season seven. It's our

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Speaker 3: thirty flirty and thriving episode. This Season seven of lokat

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Speaker 3: Thought Our Radio has been our longest and most consistent

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Speaker 3: season yet since twenty sixteen, and we're going to talk

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Speaker 3: more about that later on.

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Speaker 1: In this episode, last Time on Locatota Radio, we interviewed

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Speaker 1: the creators of Spanish Saint Bena. Tune into that one.

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Speaker 3: at thought our Radio wherever you listen, share with a friend, follow.

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Speaker 1: Us across socials at lokata Underscore Radio, and you can

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Speaker 1: find us on all social media platforms, including TikTok.

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Speaker 3: Make sure to visit our website locatora radio dot com

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Speaker 3: and subscribe to our newsletter Bessitos.

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Speaker 1: So we're just going to dive right into it.

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Speaker 4: Let's do it. Let's talk about it.

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Speaker 1: Our first network season. Long awaited, Yeah, long time in

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Speaker 1: the making, years in the making.

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Speaker 4: Years, almost ten years.

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Speaker 1: We're like at the six year mark, and so we

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Speaker 1: feel like we're so close to our tenure because we

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Speaker 1: really are, because if the last six years have flown by,

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Speaker 1: like the next four are going to be even quicker.

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Speaker 3: It's so true, and you know what they say, like

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Speaker 3: it takes ten years to become like an overnight sensation.

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Speaker 1: I'm ready.

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Speaker 3: We've been telling ourselves that, we've been counting down to ten. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: like since we started.

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Speaker 1: Basically essentially, it's something like your business fails like in

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Speaker 1: the first like two or three years. See, so they

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Speaker 1: say so, they say, right us Not us though, And

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Speaker 1: we're like, at we surpassed that. Yeah, like we're in it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're doing it.

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Speaker 4: I know we have like become a little institution.

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Speaker 1: We really are.

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Speaker 4: We have our LLC.

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Speaker 4: Us, our multi year network contract.

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Speaker 1: We are are the first production deal that Michael Dura made.

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Speaker 1: It was historic and also historic Michael Dura's historic because

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Speaker 1: they're the first Latino LATINX network on the iHeartRadio, iHeartMedia platform.

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Speaker 3: Yes, and we're like thrilled to be signed to them.

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Speaker 3: We love our home at Michael Dura and the whole

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Speaker 3: offers from other networks before we signed with Michael Dura,

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Speaker 3: and we said no to everybody. Yeah, it just none

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Speaker 1: We've been saying no to people since twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 4: Nuts. Yeah, to put it into that perspective, yes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And we've had small offerings, big offerings, and it's

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Speaker 3: You're asking for way too much for your little podcast.

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Speaker 3: It's one of those things where you hear all the

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Speaker 3: Like we've talked about Lala Romero before, but years ago,

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Speaker 1: One thousand percent. I was when I was driving over

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Speaker 3: And I think, you know, like just like with anything else,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like the integrity has stayed. And you

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Speaker 1: It's okay. That's why I wear my Maldo chain all

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Speaker 1: ads on look at the Radio, Yes, And that just

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Speaker 3: followed online. But that's who has brought us in. You know,

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Speaker 3: a lot of Latina's a lot of women, and that's

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Speaker 3: also true of Michael Tura.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like practically an all women team, yep, you know,

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Speaker 1: and I definitely yeah echo that it's always been the women,

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Speaker 1: truly at ll always the women every turn. It's really

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Speaker 1: has been so thank you to all of you. The

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Speaker 1: listeners that have flown us out, that have secured funding

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Speaker 1: for us. We know that that's so challenging as a

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Speaker 1: student on top of all the incredible, amazing things that

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Speaker 1: y'all are doing while in school, Securing funding is no joke,

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Speaker 1: And so I hope that that's actually one thing that

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Speaker 1: I kind of hope that we can bring back next

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Speaker 1: academic year. You know that I will fully be in

449
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Speaker 1: it and I won't have so many like time constraints

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Speaker 1: and limitations. Like I kind of hope that the university

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Speaker 1: gigs get camerazum in some way.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I agree. I agree.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be going to Saint Olaf end of April

454
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Speaker 3: and that's going to be like the first university gig

455
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Speaker 3: in a very long time. Yeah, so that's going to

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Speaker 3: be exciting. But I agree, if you're a student out there,

457
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Speaker 3: or you're gonna be a student and you're thinking of programming,

458
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Speaker 3: not just for Hispanic heritage a month, we can come

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Speaker 3: out all year think about us because we love that.

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Speaker 4: You guys keep us young.

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Speaker 1: It's truths.

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Speaker 3: You guys are great, like you guys are full of

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Speaker 3: life and ideas and you're fun. So we really enjoyed

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Speaker 3: the university talks.

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Speaker 1: We really do. Yeah, if there's an really The way

466
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Speaker 1: that it started was we had listeners listening to a

467
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Speaker 1: podcast episode and set and asked us, can you turn

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Speaker 1: this into a workshop?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: And we were like, yes, we can, we can do that.

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Speaker 1: One of the first ones we did was Goddess Worship. Yes,

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Speaker 1: we turned Goddess Worship into a full on workshop and

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Speaker 1: it was incredible. And that was at our first out

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Speaker 1: of state gig, which was at University of Oregon, Eugene.

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Speaker 4: So fun.

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Speaker 1: That was an incredible weekend, great weekend. Yeah, and we've

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Speaker 1: done that, you know, over the years, have turned episodes

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Speaker 1: into workshops. So if that's something that you think would

479
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Speaker 1: be good at your school, at your center, conference, what

480
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Speaker 1: have you, that is something that we're available to do.

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Speaker 1: You know. I wanted to kind of just do a

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Speaker 1: quick rundown on like some of the topics that we

483
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Speaker 1: covered this year during season seven, and one of the

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Speaker 1: things consistently that we covered was feminism.

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Speaker 4: Hell yeah.

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Speaker 1: Still even though no one talks about us as a

487
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Speaker 1: feminist podcast, we are a feminist podcast. Yeah, And we've

488
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Speaker 1: been talking about feminism since twenty sixteen. But I think

489
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Speaker 1: because of the state of the world. We talked about

490
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Speaker 1: it in different ways this season, from the conservative Latina

491
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Speaker 1: to the return of purity culture, la versus Hate. We

492
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Speaker 1: had an La Versus Hate episode that chingo on industrial complex,

493
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Speaker 1: information in public trials, the post me to world, like

494
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Speaker 1: so many different types of episodes, and that's like some

495
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Speaker 1: of the I think the best episodes.

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Speaker 3: And like we we have always done at locat Thora,

497
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Speaker 3: we interviewed some incredible people who are changing the world

498
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Speaker 3: and doing really important work of their own we like

499
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Speaker 3: we mentioned earlier in this episode, we interviewed Odilia Romero

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Speaker 3: of Macielo. We interviewed singer songwriter Irene Diaz, author Bianca

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Speaker 3: Mabouti Louis band The Tiaras, actress Jessica Marie Garcia, stand

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Speaker 3: up comedian Marcella Argueo, recording artist Ele, journalists Cerisee Castle,

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Speaker 3: and a school Spanish Saint Bena. I mean, we tried

504
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Speaker 3: to really kind of capture like who's who's doing what,

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Speaker 3: especially out here.

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Speaker 1: In La Yeah, definitely, and I mean, and just to

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Speaker 1: add also in the La Versus Hate episode, we talked

508
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Speaker 1: to different historians, organizers, artists within that episode as well,

509
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Speaker 1: So if you haven't tuned into that one, you can

510
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Speaker 1: find that on the feed. La versus hate.

511
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Speaker 3: And I think what we love most about the podcast

512
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 3: is these episodes are ever green and they're up forever.

513
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 3: The RSS feed is always there. You can go back

514
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 3: and listen to our oldest episodes, our newest episodes. You

515
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:28,720
Speaker 3: can share them widely. I think over the years, I've

516
00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 3: been really excited and surprised by like family members or

517
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 3: friends or people I wasn't expecting tuning in because it's

518
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 3: so shareable. Yeah, you know, and people maybe are more

519
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 3: likely to listen to something than to read something sometimes,

520
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 3: especially if you know we're commuting and stuff. So share

521
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Speaker 3: the podcast with your primas, with your friends, with your coworkers,

522
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 3: with your lovers, because I think everybody should be listening

523
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Speaker 3: to us.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you, Yeah, I'm with you. I love when

525
00:27:57,200 --> 00:27:59,880
Speaker 1: I see people say, like, I just found you. I'm

526
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:03,840
Speaker 1: listening from episode one and I'm at like sixty something

527
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Speaker 1: right now, I can't wait to catch up. Or people

528
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 1: that binge listen and they catch up in like a

529
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks, you know, Like I love that and

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Speaker 1: I can't imagine doing that, Like me as as the

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Speaker 1: creator of this, Like I've considered going back and listening

532
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Speaker 1: to all of our episodes, but it feels like, yeah,

533
00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,800
Speaker 1: it kind of feels like like reading my own diary

534
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: in a way. You know, I know that it's not

535
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Speaker 1: a diary obviously, but i'd feel like, oh, man, like

536
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Speaker 1: there are going to be things that I know were

537
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: happening in my life that none of y'all know obviously,

538
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Speaker 1: but I'm going to be able to identify it or

539
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: even just hearing the sound quality, like I'm you know,

540
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Speaker 1: there's there's a tiny bit of like I don't know,

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Speaker 1: just like oh, like I don't like, I'm kind of

542
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Speaker 1: nervous to go back. I'm scared.

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Speaker 4: I'm scared scared.

544
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Speaker 1: So when y'all when y'all when y'all find us new listeners,

545
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Speaker 1: when you find us and you listen from one to hour,

546
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Speaker 1: like I'm so curious, like what y'all think totally? You know,

547
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: is it? Like I'm sure you can hear the differences, right,

548
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: but in terms of I'm just love to hear like

549
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: the opinions that y'all have, you know about, yeah, the trajectory,

550
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,240
Speaker 1: how you hear it as a listener, you know, from

551
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Speaker 1: episode one to one sixty two.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And is there anything maybe that we used to

553
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Speaker 3: do that we forgot about that we should bring back.

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Speaker 1: We haven't done as many segments this season, no, you know,

555
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Speaker 1: like we have our infamous weird things white women did.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's been a while, it's been a while. It's

557
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Speaker 4: been a while.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Yelokaz is not as prominent this season as it

559
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Speaker 1: was in the last seasons. Yeah, but I think, like

560
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 1: definitely things that we can continue to bring back.

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Speaker 3: You know what it is, We didn't really need to

562
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Speaker 3: do a weird things white women did this season because,

563
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 3: like Neuri Martinez was wilding out enough for like everybody,

564
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Speaker 3: like's so true, Like, how are we going to criticize

565
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Speaker 3: white ladies when Neuri Martinez is being a monster?

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Speaker 1: You know, it's so true. I was actually on a

567
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Speaker 1: run today and I was thinking about that segment, and

568
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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't think I have a contribution

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Speaker 1: to weird things white women did. Like, I don't think

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Speaker 1: a white woman has done anything weird to me lately.

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Speaker 3: I've faith been nice. No, that segment was heavy when

572
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Speaker 3: I was working in Pasadena.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a time where Mala was constantly around

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Speaker 1: white women and they would do weird.

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Speaker 4: Weird things things to you. Yeah. It was funny, it was.

576
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Speaker 1: Very say weird things to you.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much for tuning in, for rocking

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Speaker 3: with us, for sticking sticking with us through all of

580
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Speaker 3: our eras and into our network era. We will be

581
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Speaker 3: back for season eight with Michael Tura. It's official, will

582
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Speaker 3: be back in July. Yeah, season eight.

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Speaker 1: We are already plotting on the visuals and I can't

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Speaker 1: say too much, but let me just say it's gonna

585
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Speaker 1: be fabulous. It's gonna be like classic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, old hello glam And.

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Speaker 1: I can't say too much about this, but we actually

588
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Speaker 1: have a new show of coming out in October.

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Speaker 4: A brand new, a brand spankin new show.

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Speaker 1: Brand new show from the world of lok At Thought

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Speaker 1: our Productions and Michael Dura Network. So we can't share

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Speaker 1: more yet, but just know there will be a second

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Speaker 1: show coming out from Lokat, Dora and Michael Dura in

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Speaker 1: the fall, and it's gonna be delicious.

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Speaker 3: Delicio, an original, an original podcast unlike anything you've ever

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Speaker 3: heard ever before in the history of humanity.

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Speaker 1: So so high expectations here.

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Speaker 3: Follow us, follow us, subscribe, keep up, go to our website,

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Speaker 3: look at Thought our Radio dot com. Subscribe to our

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Speaker 3: newsletter Besthos because you don't want to. I mean we

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Speaker 3: have actually like a number of I mean we have

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Speaker 3: mighty one at us Season three's coming out for twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, lok I Thought our Radio Season eight

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Speaker 3: is coming out July. Our are heretofore unnamed new look

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Speaker 3: at What our original with Michael Dua is gonna come

606
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Speaker 3: out also this summer. Fiosa has a new podcast project

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Speaker 3: that she's been working on for months and months and months.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we have a lot of podcasts like on

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Speaker 3: the Horizon.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm pitching, I'm shopping right now. It's all I

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Speaker 1: can say. But it's it's happening, it's being made as

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Speaker 1: we speak, and the story is also still being written

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Speaker 1: in so many ways.

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Speaker 4: Have no idea what the end.

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Speaker 1: Result looks like for this podcast. I'm not sure, but

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Speaker 1: it is a narrative, scripted podcast about my family. And

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Speaker 1: that's all I can say.

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Speaker 3: You guys are gonna flip out like you have no idea.

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Speaker 3: It's really good.

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Speaker 1: It's very good. It is very good. I'm just it

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Speaker 1: is very good. I've been listening to it non stop

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Speaker 1: because I'm working on it, and each time I finish,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, God, damn, this is really good. I like,

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Speaker 1: you know, not to be full of myself, but it

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Speaker 1: is very good. And I'm not saying that because I'm

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Speaker 1: making it. More So, what I think is so good

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Speaker 1: about it is that I'm like, I really have my

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Speaker 1: audio journalist hat on in this new series, which I

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Speaker 1: think is a muscle. I was like really trying to

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Speaker 1: grow and flex. So I'm happy to be doing that,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I'm really proud of, you know. And

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Speaker 1: so TVD I will let y'all know.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be a smash hit. It's going to

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Speaker 3: be a smash hit like all of our shows are.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're just building and growing. But yeah, you guys, subscribe,

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Speaker 3: stay tuned because we have a lot of new work

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Speaker 3: coming and you're gonna love it because it's going to

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Speaker 3: be It's it's the look at thor stamp.

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Speaker 4: Of approval is on all these shows.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, And so we want to thank our og listeners.

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Speaker 1: If y'all have been rocking with us since twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: thank you since twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, all

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Speaker 1: the years. Thank you so much. If you're a new listener, welcome.

644
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Speaker 1: Did you start listening during the network era, like I

645
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Speaker 1: would love to know. I'm super curious, like what this

646
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Speaker 1: has been like as a listener if you're a new listener,

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Speaker 1: so let us know. And also thank you to the

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Speaker 1: Michael Thura team. Mm hmm. Thank you to our audio

649
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Speaker 1: editor Stephanie Franco. She joined us during season seven, and

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Speaker 1: shout out to our previous editor. She was no longer

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Speaker 1: with us, she moved on to an incredible project, Jordan Calling,

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Speaker 1: I think in part like she also got us to

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Speaker 1: the audio and give it to someone and made it better,

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Speaker 1: you know. And so shout out to her, even though

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Speaker 1: she's no longer part of the Lokatoa team, like love

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Speaker 1: to her and also to our current editor Stephanie Franco.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You know a lot of podcasts out there have big

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Speaker 3: teams and producers and editors and scriptwriters and all kinds

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Speaker 3: of stuff, and for the longest it's just been the

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Speaker 3: two of us. So now to have you know, like

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Speaker 3: a team like working on different parts of the show

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Speaker 3: is super exciting.

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Speaker 4: So thank you.

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Speaker 3: All for being here, for tuning in. And this is

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Speaker 3: our final episode of the season.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe it. So during off season, go back

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Speaker 1: and listen to older episodes. If you're not caught up,

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Speaker 1: re listen to your faves, Share with the friends, share

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Speaker 1: with your pritimas, share with your thea, share with everybody.

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Speaker 1: We'll also be on Socials during this quote off season,

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Speaker 1: We'll still be active. We'll be sharing clips and some

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Speaker 1: bts of off season life. And also you know, full

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Speaker 1: time Loka Tora like the real deal, like it's it's

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Speaker 1: been happening, but it's really happening now.

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Speaker 3: Don't miss follow us everywhere. We're also on Patreon. You

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Speaker 3: can keep up with us on Patreon. I'm at Mala Underscore,

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Speaker 3: Munos on Socials, and I'm at Theosfim And this is it.

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Speaker 3: This is our thirty flirty and Thriving episode.

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