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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: the best of us. I'm Darylene Gastillo, Ethane Vietle. Oh

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Speaker 1: yeah me, hand said. Before we get to the episode,

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Speaker 1: I want to take a moment to address the June

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe versus Wade. This decision

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Speaker 1: stripped away the legal right to have a safe and

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Speaker 1: legal abortion. Restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion,

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Speaker 1: threatens the health and independence of all Americans. This decision

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Speaker 1: Today we have a very very special episode for you.

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Speaker 1: That's right, very special because this time I'm the one

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Speaker 1: in the hot seat. That's right, your favorite host here

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Speaker 1: on Moranita, Darlin Castillo is getting interviewed. Our producer here

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Speaker 1: at Son, Carlos are Nado, will be leading this one

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Speaker 1: today to ask me all of the questions. And when

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Speaker 1: I say all of the questions, I mean all the questions.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited to share this with you guys because

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Speaker 1: you can now have a little bit more of a

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Speaker 1: glimpse about where I come from, what I'm passionate about,

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Speaker 1: and learn about what my favorite things are. As I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: Carlos Arenado leads this conversation beautifully, and trust me, you

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Speaker 1: are in good hands. Carlos mentioned he was a bit nervous,

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Speaker 1: so be kind, but I also felt this youing very strongly,

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Speaker 1: because I still get a bit nervous to this day

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Speaker 1: about interviewing some folks. We are more than thirty episodes

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Speaker 1: in on Monita Pat on the back, and those butterflies

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Speaker 1: still get me. But once the conversations begin to flow,

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Speaker 1: all of those nerves they just melt away, and I

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Speaker 1: find myself really feeling inspired and better than when I

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Speaker 1: walked into the interview. That's how I felt after this one.

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Speaker 1: Not only was it just so nice to share myself

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Speaker 1: with you all, it was a beautiful reminder of why

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Speaker 1: I'm doing this podcast. Mon Anita is intended to be

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Speaker 1: a safe space for us Latina people to share opinions,

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Speaker 1: share our stories, and share our differences and our likes.

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Speaker 1: Mon Anita is a space for learning and understanding. So

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Speaker 1: every time you click on a story, you get something different.

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Speaker 1: There's something to take away in each episode. Today, I

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Speaker 1: hope that you take away something special with my story.

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Speaker 1: For me, words like perseverance, growth, and hope came to

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Speaker 1: mind for me. During this interview, they invite the to

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Speaker 1: listen to this one and see what pops up for you. Okay,

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Speaker 1: welcome to Anita. My name is Carlos. I'm one of

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Speaker 1: the producers. He at Mardonita and Happy fourth of July.

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Speaker 1: This week, we thought we'd do something a little bit different,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna put Darylyn, your favorite morn the host,

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Speaker 1: So if I may it for the first time, Drylyn, welcome.

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Speaker 1: I'm really happy that this is happening right now. You're natural,

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Speaker 1: you know, this is this is what the people have

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Speaker 1: been clamoring for, This is what all of America wants.

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Speaker 1: I told you, I told you. No, I'm really happy

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Speaker 1: to be here. I'm happy that we're doing it on

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Speaker 1: this July fourth weekend. Moment. There's so much, so much

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Speaker 1: So but we're not gonna talk about any of that

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Speaker 1: stuff today. We're just going to have some fun. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: um any do you do anything for the fourth I'm

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Speaker 1: remodeling my house. I'm I'm literally like in this adult

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Speaker 1: to get this backyard done. We have a house in Florida,

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Speaker 1: like make a fire in the firepit, like doing yardwork,

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Speaker 1: saying in fireworks, I mean that's that's the Dominican way.

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Speaker 1: It sounds pretty American for me. What is are you

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Speaker 1: big fireworks? Man? I love fireworks? Actually I cry every

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Speaker 1: what scares me is that part keeps growing every year,

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Speaker 1: should feel when you see what I should feel. Everyone

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Speaker 1: should feel. That's what human beings should feel. But I don't.

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Speaker 1: We got to bring some happiness in your life, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: keep going with it. So you've been busy lately. I'm exhausted.

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Speaker 1: I'm exhausted, but good exhausted. Like you know, there's times

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Speaker 1: shedding the fat. Were you always that way? Like as

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Speaker 1: always have to be doing something like let's let's unravel this?

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Speaker 1: How this become you? Your personality? Yeah, I think it's

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Speaker 1: have to be doing something and if you're not doing anything,

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Speaker 1: all right. So originated the role of Julia in dream House,

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Speaker 1: to that episode two. It was great. And then but

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Speaker 1: you were also famously in Hamilton's right, and of your

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Speaker 1: Hamilton performance, it was said, the real unexpected thrill for

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Speaker 1: All of that to say, how do you prepare a

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Speaker 1: how do you make that your own? How is the two?

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Speaker 1: and then you know whoever steps into it is feeling that.

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Speaker 1: But Hamilton's does a great job at allowing the actor

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Speaker 1: Like for Lion King that's been around for fifteen twenty years,

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Speaker 1: Castillo my last name. There was some nice moments that

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Speaker 1: something didn't feel natural for darrellly so then she was like,

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Speaker 1: how do you want to say it? Elian is like

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Speaker 1: great and rewrites it and that becomes the show. Um.

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Speaker 1: So it's a much more intimate process and more inclusive

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Speaker 1: similar nerves. So anyway, continuing, I'll show you some warm

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Speaker 1: I was just I was nervous. It was like a

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Speaker 1: want to follow my face. What if I become a meme?

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Speaker 1: What if I become you know obviously like any publicity

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Speaker 1: was made me. It made me a little less nervous.

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Speaker 1: I mean at first I was a little annoyed. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: nobody's gonna see me. But then it made me a

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Speaker 1: have to be on. I can just with the eyes.

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Speaker 1: But learning experience backstage and those awards ceremonies are absolutely

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Speaker 1: insane because those stage managers are they haven't If they

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Speaker 1: do something wrong, and you do something wrong then makes

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Speaker 1: learned very quickly not to give into that energy and

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Speaker 1: to just literally like I felt like it was my

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Speaker 1: was somebody different this year the last year, like he

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Speaker 1: was stressed. Like when I say like tomato, his face

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Speaker 1: was like a red tomato. And he has done like

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Speaker 1: the Oscars, He's done like the Grammys, So I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: he's cool. No, he was like military vibe, like where

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Speaker 1: are you? Where are you? What are you doing? What's

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Speaker 1: going on? And I literally at one point was like

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Speaker 1: Let's just call him SM. I was like, SM, I

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Speaker 1: got this and walk out. So that the first year

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Speaker 1: was kind of like a crazy roller coaster. My second year,

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Speaker 1: coming back this time was phenomenal. I had the absolute

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Speaker 1: best time. And I think it was because I did

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Speaker 1: how to like handle myself in that environment. Um, and

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Speaker 1: UM because the the other SM was like freaking out

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Speaker 1: about something and they were like, do you want Darylynn

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Speaker 1: to come over there? She's coming You'll you'll feel better,

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Speaker 1: You'll feel better. And I went over there and like

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Speaker 1: I just felt very like at ease, and people were

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Speaker 1: like remembered me from last year. They were like, what's

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Speaker 1: her name again? I remember you? Um. I was like

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Speaker 1: kicking it back there with Samuel Jackson and his wife,

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Speaker 1: like we were just leaning out. So I got to

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Speaker 1: see Lynn again and ari Ariana Debos was like a

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Speaker 1: good friend of mine and we were just like kicking

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Speaker 1: it too, and like it was just cool to be

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Speaker 1: back there and feel like I'm a part of the gang.

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Speaker 1: I'm here, and also just to provide a little bit

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Speaker 1: of like calm vibes because necessary necessary, for sure. I

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Speaker 1: think what people don't realize about those shows is that

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Speaker 1: it's ten decisions being made every second and everybody supposed

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Speaker 1: to what they're doing, but nobody knows what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: So you're constantly like wrangling cats. But if something goes wrong,

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Speaker 1: everybody notices it, right, and so it's just like, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's a giant Jenga. One person is holding up and

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Speaker 1: telling people which parts to pick, you know, and without

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Speaker 1: making a collapse. Okay, we're gonna get some random questions here,

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Speaker 1: o favorite part of the show. We're gonna just ask

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Speaker 1: some random questions. Are you ready? I'm ready? All right,

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Speaker 1: f Mary kill Nio, nick on long, oh come on,

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Speaker 1: oh come on. I can't answer this, Come on, okay,

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Speaker 1: Son Culture, I would ask, Okay, you got to marry

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Speaker 1: the Dominican flag. That's fine, that's good. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: stick to that. That's my answer. Finally answer yeah, Cult,

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Speaker 1: you just want that, like, yeah, let's stop there that's

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Speaker 1: a treat. That's a treat. What's the favorite city you've

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Speaker 1: ever been on touring A hard, hard question. Of course

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Speaker 1: I'm not including San Juan, which we're gonna say is

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Speaker 1: number one. And then well I was, of course, I

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Speaker 1: mean that's like that takes over everything. Because also we

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Speaker 1: got to spend like a few weeks they're kind of

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Speaker 1: on vacation slash rehearsal wasn't rehearsal, um, but yeah, I

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Speaker 1: got to really explore the island and get to know

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Speaker 1: the island, and it was I was pleasantly surprised, especially

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Speaker 1: being Dominican. I never I mean I never want to

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Speaker 1: Puto Rico, which is crazy because there's that the boat

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Speaker 1: that brings us both to Puerto Rican diller, you know,

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Speaker 1: the card of the crew of the ship. My grandmother's

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Speaker 1: done a bunch of times. I hadn't done it. So

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Speaker 1: to finally go to Puerto Rico and then like also

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Speaker 1: feel the love, like I don't know who made up

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Speaker 1: this Dominican Puerto Rico versus thing. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: who did that. Get out go somewhere because I felt

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Speaker 1: like I was home and like they I got. I

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Speaker 1: felt loved and cared for. Um okay, second favorite city, though.

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Speaker 1: Something always brings me back to Detroit. I know that's

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Speaker 1: it's a weird Detroit. Detroit. I really do love to

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Speaker 1: do a Detroit. I don't know what it is. I've

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Speaker 1: been there like four times now and I've always just

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Speaker 1: had a great time. People, the vibes go to you know,

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Speaker 1: hit up a casino. I love Detroit. I did not

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Speaker 1: see Detroit making the top five. Wow, how about that? Okay? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love Detroit. Check out to Detroit. Love working there,

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Speaker 1: I love the vibes, I love the people. You know

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Speaker 1: what it is. I guess it just reminds me a

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Speaker 1: little bit of New York, like it has grit, has

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Speaker 1: like real authentic like grit in history. Just I'm even

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Speaker 1: gonna say Detroit pizza. I know. Do you enjoy the squares?

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Speaker 1: I do enjoy it. I know love Detroit. Alright, Little Caesars,

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Speaker 1: if you're listening, we'll take a sponsorship. Um okay. As always,

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Speaker 1: we always closed with the same question, what is it

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Speaker 1: that reminds you at home? However it is that you

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Speaker 1: define home? All right? If you know me, you know

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Speaker 1: this answer. It has to go on. It has I

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Speaker 1: mean it's like it's the it's the national plate of

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Speaker 1: Dominican like it's it is the plate of Dominican Republic.

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Speaker 1: Like I love food. I I could be anywhere in

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Speaker 1: anywhere in the world if there's I'm home. I'm like, yes,

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. I even have a mug. I

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Speaker 1: got two of them actually for Christmas. I want to

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Speaker 1: shout out my friends that know me. They got me

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Speaker 1: two mugs, the same exact gift that has it like

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Speaker 1: it's in clay, like it's clayed, it's made into it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: And two of my really close friends got me the

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Speaker 1: same exact mug for Christmas, and it just was like

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Speaker 1: I have to I use them both every day today.

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Speaker 1: Man Satia, I said, well, yeah, like that's just everything fantastic.

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Speaker 1: That's a good answer. All right. Well that is um

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Speaker 1: the end of our time together today. I hope you've

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Speaker 1: enjoyed this, uh, this little glimpse into our host life. Carlos,

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Speaker 1: you did. You did such a great job. I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying. I can feel my left arm now, I

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Speaker 1: can feel it. It's coming back. Um, Darylyn. For the

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Speaker 1: listeners at home wherek and may follow you, Yes, you

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Speaker 1: guys can follow. Well, first off, what I nat that

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Speaker 1: you guys can follow, um, What I Eat? That podcast

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Speaker 1: those causes, I will be sure to call you. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. This is the last have a wonderful

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Speaker 1: for the July week, however it is you're celebrating, and

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Speaker 1: we will see you next week here on Mona Mona

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