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Speaker 1: Radio Radio Radio Commies a myth and Bullshit, a radio

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Speaker 1: phonic novella Local Radio hosted by Malamn. Welcome to season

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Speaker 1: four of Local Radio Wanted for Crimes against the Patriarchy.

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Speaker 1: We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming to bring you Quarantine Confidential,

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Speaker 1: a special pandemic cast about our experiences with quarantine and

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Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. I'm Ziosa, and our intention behind this mini

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Speaker 1: series is to archive our experiences and that of our

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Speaker 1: communities during this global coronavirus pandemic. Thank you for joining

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Speaker 1: us on this journey. Hello, welcome back. We're act again.

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Speaker 1: We're now a weekly podcast. Clearly it took like a

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Speaker 1: global pandemic for us, that's all it took. Podcast That's it.

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Speaker 1: That's all it took. Afterwards four years of podcasting, we're

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Speaker 1: now a weekly podcast. We finally figured it out. Um,

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Speaker 1: so we're bringing you more content than ever before, still

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Speaker 1: for free. Might I add? How did that happen? How

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Speaker 1: does that work? How do we double the amount of

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Speaker 1: content we put out? And it's still for a free bitch?

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Speaker 1: Because we are benevolent. Queen's Girl, We're penevolent, Such generous goddesses,

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Speaker 1: Jesus in Heaven. Listen, we're at the stage of the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: We're here on Zoom. We're interfucking like are with the hoodies?

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Speaker 1: We are cozy or comfy. Yeah, and we are still

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Speaker 1: bringing you contents. Okay, So well, how are you doing

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Speaker 1: since we last spoke? How are you doing? What's you

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Speaker 1: any changes? I mean since we last spoke. Um, I'm

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Speaker 1: just watching more and more things on Netflix. I'm finding

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Speaker 1: like breaking things up, like area by area, unit by unit.

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Speaker 1: And today what I focused on was like my jewelry

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Speaker 1: what I mean. Um, And then tomorrow we're getting back

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Speaker 1: to work. We're getting back to school, but we're online.

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Speaker 1: We're doing distance learning. So it's been all about just

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Speaker 1: prepping and lesson planning because now we're an online school

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I hope, I hope. So especially

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Speaker 1: you get a bonus. Hell yeah, a pandemic bonus hasn't. Okay, Honestly,

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Speaker 1: everyone literally everyone should be getting hazard pat every single

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Speaker 1: person should be getting hazard pay. You should be getting

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Speaker 1: hazard pay. You're still going to work. I know it's

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Speaker 1: just too much. And what have you been up to

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Speaker 1: spending your time since last week you lasted out free content? Um,

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Speaker 1: I have been watching a lot of Marvel movies. So

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Speaker 1: I have not shared this on the podcast before, but

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Speaker 1: I am a really big fan of Marvel and I

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Speaker 1: of that. I do the whole thing, so I have,

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Speaker 1: but I have never wanted to learn. I know, I've

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Speaker 1: and so I'm now I'm currently at aunt Man. I've

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Speaker 1: so I'm aunt aunt Man now and then I'm like

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Speaker 1: getting closer and closer to finishing. Um, so I've been

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Speaker 1: doing that. I've been hanging out with the hen a lot,

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Speaker 1: my yes, um, more so like than usual because obviously

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Speaker 1: been hanging out a lot. And my hands are extremely

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Speaker 1: So I've been like putting the bombs on, like the

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Speaker 1: talk about bad bitch matenance in quarantine, the constant washing

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Speaker 1: And that has been talking with me. That's just a

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Speaker 1: And then talk about trying to be a bad bitch

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Speaker 1: during these times, right, Like, you know how I can't

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Speaker 1: The nails stuff. You cannot be ripping your nails off, right,

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Speaker 1: else have we been doing watching things? Tiger King? Can

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Speaker 1: Number one, White people are sucking. Um, I realized now,

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Speaker 1: not killing I would not kill my husband. Carol Light

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Speaker 1: And like another thought that I had was like every

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Speaker 1: And I'll get it. I'll get it, dude. But again,

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Speaker 1: and serial killers get murdered. Now, no serial killers get married.

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Speaker 1: I should say I'm death row. You know what I mean? True? Right,

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Speaker 1: Like we talked about this when we talked about what's

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Speaker 1: his name, Richard Ramirez. Yes, the cult of personality, like

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Speaker 1: women love a powerful man even if he's like super terrible.

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Speaker 1: It's horrible. I do not understand it, but very entertaining television. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I didn't chop up this man? Yes? Do I tell

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Speaker 1: what up? Thank you both so much for joining us today. Um,

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that. That's why because are you

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Speaker 1: from Bakersfield. He grew up. I went to East Bakersfield

421
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:52,960
Speaker 1: High work as a child, picked cotton in grapes, was

422
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: in the uf W at fourteen. My dad's like, you

423
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: know that life like just like coming home and then

424
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: there's just like you know, like twenty cases of grapes

425
00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:07,359
Speaker 1: and so I'm gonna get through this, Like what is

426
00:27:08,160 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: like because we still have family that works in agriculture, um,

427
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,920
Speaker 1: in the fields and stuff, and so people are always

428
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 1: giving us fruits. There's always fruits. My grandma, I grew up.

429
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: My grandma worked for the longest she worked at bolt

430
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: House Farms and she packed carrots. So she worked in

431
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: the factory packing all the baggies of carrots. So I

432
00:27:27,359 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: come and I didn't like carrots growing up. So we

433
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:30,200
Speaker 1: just always had a bunch of cares. And I was like,

434
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do with always carrots

435
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:34,160
Speaker 1: grow up because I can't. I don't like this. Yeah,

436
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: a lot of carrots, I suck them up. But anyways, yea,

437
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 1: so I know that. Yeah, And it's I feel like

438
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people in l A have some type

439
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: of family or connection in the San Joaquin Valley. And

440
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 1: whether it's extended family, neighbors, your grandparents would have you

441
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:57,040
Speaker 1: in laws, there's really something there, you know. Um, there's

442
00:27:57,080 --> 00:28:00,920
Speaker 1: a big relationship historically and it comes up throughout hand

443
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,120
Speaker 1: to fid in the show Bakersfield just dropped all over

444
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,920
Speaker 1: the place, you know, and it's part of it's part

445
00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: of the storyline. Also, Yeah, I mean, uh we there's

446
00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:15,120
Speaker 1: a lot of jokes at Bakersfield's expense. And I mean

447
00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: in my family, we just talked a lot and that's

448
00:28:17,600 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 1: our love language. So I was like, I'm gonna put

449
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: as many bakers or references in here that there there's

450
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: a lot of little love taps from Marvin towards Baker's

451
00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: people talk to like why are they talking about Bakersfield.

452
00:28:29,640 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, talk to Marvin here

453
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:37,760
Speaker 1: talking because growing up we would just like we would

454
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,240
Speaker 1: talk a lot of ship about bakers are like living

455
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: there because it was it's Bakersfield, it's every sup, there's

456
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: nothing to do. We would just like all the cool

457
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: stuff was like you even needed to have money for it,

458
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 1: or it would be like you know, during or we

459
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:55,800
Speaker 1: would just end up hanging out in parking lots a lot,

460
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 1: like there's literally nothing going on out there. It's just

461
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: but we just a lot of ship about Bakersfield. And

462
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: so I wanted to put that into the show. And

463
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: like you said, there is such a relationship and everybody

464
00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:08,960
Speaker 1: in bakers who has family in l a family Bakersfield.

465
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: I grew up moving back and forth between the two

466
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,040
Speaker 1: a lot, and so it just made it was just

467
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,920
Speaker 1: very natural to insert it in there especially. I mean,

468
00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: the show deals with gentrification and people being displaced and moving,

469
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: and Bakersfield is one of the spots that people like,

470
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,520
Speaker 1: we're finding a lot of him. They are leaving and

471
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: moving out to Bakersfield and Lancaster and now to like,

472
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 1: you know, the Mohammy Valty, like a Mohabi desert and

473
00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: like por those levels like really far, you know, and

474
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: like all these places that like I've been to all

475
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: these other spots and every time I go, I'm like, yo,

476
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: this is just like Bakersfield. Like it's all save if

477
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 1: you've been a riverside, it's like Bakersfield, it's the same.

478
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:50,280
Speaker 1: So um, it just felt like natural to weave all

479
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: that out. Yeah, And I felt like it was then

480
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: very seamlessly. I said, I told my parents watched this show,

481
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 1: and my dad was so excited, and he they're they're

482
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,680
Speaker 1: in Bakersfiel right now. They watched it over there. He

483
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: was excited. And when he's been like telling people about

484
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:06,840
Speaker 1: the show, he's been doing promo for the show, he's

485
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: like watching the show hand the back. We talk about Bakersfield.

486
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 1: Love Bigger has come after you. They like they did

487
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:20,600
Speaker 1: interviews with Marvin the like hometown hero over here because

488
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: we don't have a lot. We got corn like the

489
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: band and and Valley Fever. Valley Fever. What's Valley Fever? Oh,

490
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: just Valley Fever like that. I thought it was like

491
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: a band. I was like, that's a good band name. No,

492
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: like the like the fever that is in the soil

493
00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 1: and baker that band to deitely is really that's that's

494
00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: a good name. Yeah, that's a good name. Yeah, I

495
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: really thought you were referencing a band. Mala. You know,

496
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: Bakersfield is like the epicenter of the world for Valley Fever,

497
00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of people get it or like

498
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 1: have it, but it's like dormant. They just are asymptomatic.

499
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,600
Speaker 1: Talking about the fast paces. Like when I go home

500
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 1: and I legit, like the first day, I'm like, oh,

501
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:12,360
Speaker 1: this is so nice, Like there's like it's just so slow,

502
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: like this time just like completely slows down. And then

503
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: by the second day, I'm like I'm ready to go home,

504
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:19,880
Speaker 1: Like there's just like I'm over it. I'm bored. I'm

505
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: so bored. Oh yeah. I tell my family like, oh,

506
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: you know, they visit and be like it's gonna be

507
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: twenty minutes to go to this place, and they'd be

508
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: like twenty minutes and I'm like, yeah, it's real, fass

509
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: were like that that's how long it takes to get

510
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: across town, like like multiple towns, And I'm just like, oh, damn,

511
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: like that's real. That is real. Yeah, But we got

512
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 1: love for Bakersfield, bread basket of the world. They feed us,

513
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:55,960
Speaker 1: holding down my family, be like hater. But that's the thing,

514
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:59,960
Speaker 1: Like I love bakers like it's well, as an adult,

515
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: I used to really hate Bakersfield, like like I was trying.

516
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: I worked, I worked as hard as I have to

517
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 1: make sure I didn't have to move back to Bakersfield,

518
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, as an adult and

519
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 1: especially working on this show and around Ball Heights in

520
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,160
Speaker 1: a community that like fights for themselves, like they fight

521
00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: for their their their neighborhood, They fight for their community,

522
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:22,720
Speaker 1: love themselves so much. And I think for me, that

523
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: was definitely a huge part of that job. Just like damn,

524
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: like I don't have that, Like I don't have that

525
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: in my life. I don't have that kind of like

526
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: love where I'm out here being like like Bakersfield, like

527
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: repping them that art and I've learned. I've learned it, and

528
00:32:33,000 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: and I've learned to love that because it's also just

529
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 1: another part of the self love in this sense, right

530
00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: and being able to be like, no, this is where

531
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:40,800
Speaker 1: I'm from and I love them and they made me.

532
00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: You know. Um so Bakersfield, I love you. I'm sorry

533
00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: I talked so much shit. I mean, listen the way

534
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: they get, the way things are going in l A,

535
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: we all might have to move to Bakersfield. So let

536
00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:02,440
Speaker 1: me when the bridge is well, like, you gotta house

537
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: out there. I just I wanted to make sure because like,

538
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,800
Speaker 1: but no, I really do anyway anyway, But yeah, but

539
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: we're but Bakersfield, bakers we all love Bakersfield, right, so

540
00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: we're like, yeah, so we're like a month post release

541
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 1: of Hentified and also your premier Rasa, which let me

542
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: just say, we love that y'all had your premiere there

543
00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: because we're not from we're not from the West Side.

544
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: We don't venture out to the West Side unless like

545
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: we have to go to meetings or we go to events.

546
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,880
Speaker 1: So to have your Netflix premiere on the East Side

547
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: was really special to us as like community members and

548
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 1: also you know, podcasters and artists and all of that. Um,

549
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: like I in high school. Growing up, I attended to

550
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: writing workshops at blas Lar Rassa, and I know Mala

551
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:57,080
Speaker 1: has a connection with too, so like it just felt

552
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: so nice and special, and I just want to like

553
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: want to tell y'all that that did not go unnoticed

554
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 1: for like us as community members, and it was so dope,

555
00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: you know, everything was amazing. So I just want to

556
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: put that out there. Thank you. Oh God, you didn't know.

557
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,879
Speaker 1: That means so much to us, because we really were

558
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: very intentional from I mean two years ago when we

559
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,480
Speaker 1: first got you know, picked up, we were like, this,

560
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,880
Speaker 1: our premier is going to be in the community. Like

561
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: from day one, we had like a vision for what

562
00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: we wanted it to be. And there are so many

563
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,760
Speaker 1: things that we put out to our team and Netflix

564
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 1: from the start to we kind of laid the foundation

565
00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: with everyone like this is what we want, this is

566
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: our vision, Like this is about the community, and like

567
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 1: it was so beautiful to see that things that we

568
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: had planted months and months before and even years before,

569
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 1: Like people on our team showed up and they were like,

570
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: so we're gonna have the premiere in the community, and

571
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: we're like Oh, we are amazing, Thank you for listening

572
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: to us, like it that's awesome, Like it just it

573
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 1: means so much for us for it to be accessible

574
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: to the community, for it to be about the community,

575
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:58,200
Speaker 1: and for it to be I don't know, like for

576
00:34:58,239 --> 00:35:01,120
Speaker 1: it to feel like home, like partying with with the familia,

577
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:02,960
Speaker 1: with everybody that we we live and hole daring. It's

578
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 1: so crazy as you were talking about, like as community members.

579
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: As we were there, I remember my sisters or my

580
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:10,800
Speaker 1: sister works for labor unions. There's a little lot of

581
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:12,920
Speaker 1: works of feed feed families and all that, and she

582
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: was there and there was a bunch of people that

583
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:16,400
Speaker 1: she had worked with that she was like, this is

584
00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: my sister. And for her to introduced me like she

585
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,759
Speaker 1: made the show that is here, that is like there

586
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 1: was something about that moment for me that felt like, yeah,

587
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: like we're all in this together. We're all family, we're

588
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:30,360
Speaker 1: all we're all We created this not for Hollywood. We

589
00:35:30,400 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 1: didn't create this for a bunch of celebrities. We created

590
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: this for our people and that's who should be here.

591
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,239
Speaker 1: Um So so if we appre I appreciate hearing that,

592
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: that means a lot to me. It was refreshing because

593
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 1: so much stuff is on the West Side far away. Yeah,

594
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: And I had PROBA people hit me up and go like, so,

595
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:52,879
Speaker 1: like the last of the best Side. Are you sure

596
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:58,439
Speaker 1: is this the premier? I was like, yeah, yes, yes, man, yes,

597
00:35:58,520 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 1: say that's where it said, okay, just want to make sure.

598
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: I wasn't sure, like because they were so used to like, oh,

599
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:04,960
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to Hollywood, We're gonna go with that,

600
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: We're Beverly Hills and we're like no, and to be

601
00:36:08,120 --> 00:36:10,720
Speaker 1: where it needs to be, and and it was so beautiful,

602
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: you said. And we got to also bring so many

603
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: vendors from the community that I thought, man, the food

604
00:36:15,320 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: game that night we didn't get to eat because we

605
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: were talking to everyone else had the best food ever.

606
00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: It looked amazing. And they also let me send them

607
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: a bunch of vendors that we were like, you guys

608
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: gonna check out all these people and bring them in.

609
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 1: So that was that was super dope. Yeah, the tackles

610
00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:33,520
Speaker 1: were bombed. The one place that we ate that what

611
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:42,279
Speaker 1: is it? John Legend and Chrissie Teagan allegedly likes yeah, yeah,

612
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: I forget the name or something like that. Yeah, yeah,

613
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 1: I think so yeah, so good. I didn't know Chrissy

614
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: Teagan and John Legend like vouch. Yeah, that's wild. It

615
00:36:57,800 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: was so awesome. It was such a special night. We

616
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:01,959
Speaker 1: really but I also thank you for sharing that because

617
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: we were also a little worried because technically it's not

618
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: in bull hids. We were like, we needs to be

619
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: in bullhids. But we shot so many uh scenes there

620
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: at the finale episode the art gallery um that's in

621
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,439
Speaker 1: episode ten, like that was all yeah, you could tell

622
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: like when I thought for sure, yeah, we're over here

623
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: pretending it's like over like on the wet um. But

624
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,480
Speaker 1: we were like yo, like in our stages were like

625
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 1: so close to there, and we were like there all

626
00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: the time, like we're just like it felt right to

627
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:32,400
Speaker 1: be able to deal with there, and we knew that

628
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:35,800
Speaker 1: it was such a hub for the community. We're like,

629
00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: it's such a beautiful space, Like it's so great. I

630
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,000
Speaker 1: didn't even realize, like people are telling us later that

631
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Speaker 1: there was like all this other stuff, like all further

632
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 1: a little further away you could get like Cheeto boats

633
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:53,399
Speaker 1: and stuff. When I heard about what we had valets too,

634
00:37:53,560 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: damn they were there. I know, the truck that was

635
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,040
Speaker 1: on my and my mom was like, we need to

636
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: have that truck. It was beautiful though the little trailer.

637
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:12,879
Speaker 1: So y'all missed out everyone listening now, I'm kidding people,

638
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 1: more people if we got to do another one. There

639
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: is where we also picked up place like our team did,

640
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 1: because it allowed us to have more space from our community,

641
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: because we want to invite so much community and Netflix

642
00:38:24,120 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: wanted to honor that. In a lot of the spaces

643
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 1: that we were looking at didn't have enough room for

644
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:30,520
Speaker 1: us the amount of people we were trying to invite,

645
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 1: so they were really it is like worked out perfectly,

646
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:37,719
Speaker 1: I think. So. Yeah, so it's been a month, right

647
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,880
Speaker 1: and then after the release on Netflix, you went on

648
00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: a press tour and then well now we're in a pandemic, right,

649
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,919
Speaker 1: and we're like and now we're being quarantined like staf

650
00:38:48,960 --> 00:38:51,959
Speaker 1: we're at home, So like, how has that transition been

651
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,919
Speaker 1: for like, busy, busy busy too? Now you're like, I'm

652
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,839
Speaker 1: taking a step back because I literally have to. Well

653
00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: it was, I mean, we're so we we were pretty

654
00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: fortunate that we the show did come out before all

655
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,319
Speaker 1: this happened, because I mean, like the talent has shut down.

656
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: It's crazy, like how everything is happening right now. I

657
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: mean it was we were starting to wind down so

658
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 1: for at least for me personally, Like I was ready.

659
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,919
Speaker 1: I was like, I need a break, things are slowing down.

660
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:20,440
Speaker 1: I'm gonna like I was already planning like getting a

661
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: cabin and big bear and just disappearing for a week. Um,

662
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: And then this happened and I was like, Okay, I

663
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,839
Speaker 1: guess I'll just stay home and watch movies all week.

664
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: So all the last week I was kicking and I

665
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: was chilling, um, just watching a lot of movies. But

666
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: by Sunday Monday this week, I I snapped. I definitely did.

667
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 1: Was like like I was like, I'm like, oh, I'm

668
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: like really stuck here for I'm gonna like, this is

669
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: a lot. This is a lot. I mean, my beard

670
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: is getting off. It's looking good. It's looking pretty good,

671
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:49,480
Speaker 1: but it looks it's looking happy. I've got a lot

672
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 1: of sleep. I will say that I've got a lot

673
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 1: of it's looking really like, yeah, I missed it. I

674
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:58,759
Speaker 1: haven't seen it like this in a while. Um, But

675
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm starting to feel a little bit

676
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:07,120
Speaker 1: of like okay, like, um, you know, but luckily what

677
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: we do is we we right right now. All we

678
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: can do is right and like what's what we need

679
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:12,800
Speaker 1: to do, so we can do that from home and

680
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: a lot of virtual calls and phone calls and so

681
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: it's you know, we're very fortunate that we get to

682
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: be able to do most of what we do from home.

683
00:40:22,719 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: We don't have to and if anything alone. The other

684
00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 1: thing is that people like to have a lot of

685
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: meetings and they make us drive all over the place

686
00:40:28,120 --> 00:40:30,880
Speaker 1: to go to meetings. And it's like now we're learning, like,

687
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:32,800
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't have to. We could just have

688
00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:34,440
Speaker 1: done this the whole time and we don't have to

689
00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: drive all the way. You know. That's so real? Is

690
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:48,959
Speaker 1: all the driving that necessary? It's really not. I think Yeah,

691
00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: for me, it's been a little different. But I tend

692
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: to process things like Marvin like he he like he'll

693
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: like gogle go and then he'll something all hit him

694
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: like later down on line and be like, oh ship,

695
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: what happened me? It's like immediate like like whoa, this

696
00:41:03,239 --> 00:41:05,800
Speaker 1: is happening. Don't you see what's happening? Like and so

697
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:09,120
Speaker 1: for me, when when it happened it was very much like, oh, wow,

698
00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: we're off experience of experiencing a collective trauma. Like we're

699
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,000
Speaker 1: in the midst of a collective trauma that we're experiencing.

700
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: And um, for some of us that like, I think

701
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 1: our reaction to that trauma is to go full speed ahead,

702
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: and for others it's like we need that space to

703
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 1: process and to like, you know, it's kind of like

704
00:41:28,080 --> 00:41:30,400
Speaker 1: the flight or fight response of the body that happens.

705
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: And I think for some people it's like fly and

706
00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:35,200
Speaker 1: run and keep working and pushed through, and for others

707
00:41:35,280 --> 00:41:37,680
Speaker 1: it's a little bit of that freeze and like, oh,

708
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: what's happening? Let me take this in. And if I

709
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: think if you're empathic as well, and I feel like

710
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: a lot of creatives who are writers and who are

711
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: connected to communities, like you know, often we feel that

712
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: we feel our communities and are the people that that

713
00:41:52,600 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: were connected to We feel that that that anxiety that

714
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 1: overwhelmed and and right now we're experiencing it on a

715
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:00,800
Speaker 1: global level. And so for me when it happened, it

716
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 1: was definitely jarring and a lot to a lot of

717
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: process and two in, like Mormon said, like we are

718
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: so blessed that we get to be financially secure and

719
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,439
Speaker 1: be able to continue some of our work from home.

720
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: But that's not true for everyone. And I think that

721
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 1: and this for me, a lot of that's on my

722
00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 1: mind is, yes, our work is some of our work

723
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:26,840
Speaker 1: in Hollywood is important. Obviously, storytelling is important. But curious about,

724
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,800
Speaker 1: like in these times, whether or not pressing cause on

725
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,239
Speaker 1: some of those things so that we can help the

726
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: greater community is also an okay thing to do. Like

727
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm processing a lot of those thoughts

728
00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: in my head because I have continued to work. I

729
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: have a script that I'm revising right now, and and

730
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 1: Hollywood has continued to move forward in a lot of

731
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: ways and development, but productions shut down like everywhere. So

732
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 1: we got so blessed that our our premiere like happened

733
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: because you know, all my blocks premiere got canceled like

734
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: one day at a time, like everybody who had shows

735
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:59,200
Speaker 1: coming out of their premieres got canceled. And and promo

736
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: is very different now, right, Like it's like you're trying

737
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,080
Speaker 1: to promote and people are like yay, kind of like

738
00:43:05,880 --> 00:43:08,200
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to be like, yeah, look at this show.

739
00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: But that's what, my god, what's happening? People are down

740
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: like it's a it's a very different like energy and atmosphere.

741
00:43:14,120 --> 00:43:16,600
Speaker 1: And I'm very grateful that we have the opportunity to

742
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: have such an amazing celebration of the series and what

743
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,600
Speaker 1: it means to not only us, for to our people

744
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 1: and to the community and the audiences have watched it.

745
00:43:26,640 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: And so for me and the time of prison, who's

746
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: like whoa like sit back and take that all in

747
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: and try to process it. And I think for me,

748
00:43:33,719 --> 00:43:35,799
Speaker 1: just in the last few days, have I been coming

749
00:43:35,880 --> 00:43:39,400
Speaker 1: back into Okay, this is our new normal? And how

750
00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,400
Speaker 1: do we function within this new normal? And how do

751
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 1: we create within this new normal? How do we keep

752
00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:49,319
Speaker 1: supporting creators and keep telling stories in a world where

753
00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 1: a lot of people are in survival mode and and

754
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 1: sometimes art is a luxury, sometimes it's not a luxury.

755
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: And I think right now, people like we're we're in

756
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: a least of like people need basics, you know, like

757
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: they need food and home and water and um mental

758
00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: health resources and and this is kind of the first

759
00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: time and in our lives where it's happening globally and

760
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 1: this to this degree where like it's this intense. Sorry,

761
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,279
Speaker 1: I don't mean to be all down there about like

762
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: that's what's on my mind. Like that's what's been on

763
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: my mind for the past weekend. I have and and

764
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,040
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, I was talking to um, a

765
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:29,960
Speaker 1: friend of Julisa, you guys, not Juli stat to say.

766
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: I was talking to her earlier and I was like, Um,

767
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: I was like, you know, we just had to take

768
00:44:34,640 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 1: it one day at a time, Like you know that

769
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: song that was a song of my grandma would always

770
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,240
Speaker 1: think good when she was my Mofina, who the characters

771
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 1: named after. She would always that was one of her

772
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:45,600
Speaker 1: favorite songs towards said of her life. It's like, well,

773
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: I've been painting is a lot of suffer, and there's

774
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: a lot of tough things, but we just gotta take

775
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:50,399
Speaker 1: it one day at a time and live each day

776
00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: one to the next and and still leave room for

777
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:57,239
Speaker 1: joy within that. So that's where my mind is what

778
00:44:57,320 --> 00:44:59,799
Speaker 1: I tend to go that deep, really hard, and then

779
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: I come out of it and we switched places in it,

780
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: and then MARK think is really deep, and then I'm

781
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be okay. That's have fun. So how

782
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: are you or both of you know, it's okay, how

783
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: are both of you finding joy right now? You know,

784
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: we're like very limited and what we can do, but

785
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,280
Speaker 1: there's also so much gratitude that we can also practice

786
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: in these moments. So I'm wondering how y'all are finding

787
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: joy right now? Go ahead you In the beginning, honestly,

788
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:30,040
Speaker 1: for me, with social media means, I was like fucking

789
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,920
Speaker 1: means where like I love the Internet, Like, as you know,

790
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,800
Speaker 1: that was deep a minute ago, but I can you know,

791
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 1: I like my jokes, so just like being online and

792
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 1: seeing people just that where I love is like when

793
00:45:42,080 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: when we the internet has shown me how funny the

794
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: world is. Like people are like so many people out

795
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: there who are so brilliant, who are so creatively funny,

796
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:53,239
Speaker 1: who don't have like they don't have a TV writer's room,

797
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:56,000
Speaker 1: they don't have all these things that you see in media,

798
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 1: but they have a Twitter on Instagram account and they

799
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 1: gotta meme generator and they're just out here pumping out

800
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: things that I'm just like cracking up. And all the

801
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: last week, the first first half of last week, I

802
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,440
Speaker 1: was just like devouring internet means and and reposting them

803
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: and writing my own on Twitter, and I was just

804
00:46:13,360 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: like finding the funny and all of this whole situation right,

805
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: And I think that that's that brings joy and that

806
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 1: brings happiness, and and also running I've been I took

807
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: up running in October, so I've been trying to use

808
00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:27,000
Speaker 1: that as a way to like go out and clear

809
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: my mind and look at the sky and and stay

810
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 1: with the reality that the world is still here, We're

811
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: all okay. So that bringing me a lot of joy. Yeah, beautiful,

812
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 1: I was read to say. I was like, what are

813
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: righting for joy? A lot more. I've been playing with

814
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: my my, my, my daughter, my human daughter Coco. Um

815
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 1: that the dog is a dog that people don't know.

816
00:46:55,520 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: People know my human daughter Coco is a dog species scientifically,

817
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: but um, but in my heart a human child. No her.

818
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:13,160
Speaker 1: But also last week, like my girlfriend, I were cooking

819
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 1: a lot. We were having the best time. I was

820
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: gonna say, you're cooking, man, I was so jealous. We

821
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: were cooking up a fucking we were eating like gods

822
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: in this house and it was really nice. We were

823
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: just because I don't never really get to do that

824
00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: or have that time to slow down enough to actually

825
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:33,560
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Um, and your girlfriend she's an incredible cook.

826
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,880
Speaker 1: She's a master chef. Like, she's a master chef. No, like,

827
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,399
Speaker 1: I'm not even Like. We will go to like these

828
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: restaurants that are on people's lists, like top like ten lists,

829
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,560
Speaker 1: and we'll try something. This is great, come home. She

830
00:47:45,600 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 1: wants to recreate it. We'll do it better, like every

831
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: time I swear to you, I swear to you. I'm

832
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:52,880
Speaker 1: so lucky. Um, and I just get to eat like

833
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 1: that and um. And then I have a stack of

834
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: DVDs that I've been dying to get too, and I've

835
00:47:57,520 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: just been watching all these movies that I haven't had

836
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: I watch. So that's, you know, the simple, the simple things.

837
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 1: But I think because we've worked so crazy some crazy hours,

838
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: I don't get to do the simple things like binging anything.

839
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 1: So that's that's true, you know, watching stuff that I'm

840
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,479
Speaker 1: just like, wow, how did they? Well, I've been watching

841
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 1: a lot of behind I bought a bunch of stuff

842
00:48:18,640 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: on iTunes and I've been watching all the behind the

843
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: scenes feature That's that's what I've been doing. I'm I'm

844
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,640
Speaker 1: a moving nerd. I'm a moving nerd like that. Yeah, yeah,

845
00:48:27,880 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 1: it's like, um, I mean it's kind of what you

846
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:34,480
Speaker 1: were talking about, Linda, that weird balance of this is

847
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: a global crisis and people are suffering, but I can

848
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: also like use this time to do things that I've

849
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: been wanting to do because I'm stuck in my house

850
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: and I can't go anywhere, and like, I know that

851
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: they're suffering happening and there's more coming, but I'm stuck

852
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:53,920
Speaker 1: in my home and I have to do something to

853
00:48:54,040 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: keep myself occupied, and it's just like for me, the

854
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 1: biggest mind funk right now of feeling just sort of

855
00:49:01,400 --> 00:49:04,719
Speaker 1: like I don't know, it's very like this limbo that

856
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:09,160
Speaker 1: it's it's it's I'm waiting to see what like the

857
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: next couple of weeks springs. Yeah, yeah, it's a trip.

858
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: I mean it is. I think That's what I what

859
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: I was talking about with this last week being so

860
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:22,279
Speaker 1: like I was enjoying it is because I definitely wasn't

861
00:49:22,320 --> 00:49:24,520
Speaker 1: a place in my life where I needed to hit

862
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:27,839
Speaker 1: cos I like really wanted to be a person again,

863
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: Like I really was, like I wanted to go to

864
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: be home and watch TV and cook and hang out

865
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: with my dog and like like all those things that

866
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:36,560
Speaker 1: like you know, I didn't get to have for a

867
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: couple of months. Um, and now that I've had a

868
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:42,120
Speaker 1: week of it and like you know, been able to

869
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: like just like kind of disconnect and be like Okay,

870
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:47,200
Speaker 1: I got my film of being a person and rejuvenated

871
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:50,399
Speaker 1: to take care of myself. Uh and then checking back

872
00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:52,440
Speaker 1: like lind Like Linda was saying, like she goes to

873
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:54,120
Speaker 1: it right away, and for me, it took a week

874
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: of like, you know, my self care before I realized

875
00:49:56,880 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, ye know, this is like a real like

876
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:01,839
Speaker 1: this is for real, Like this is like we're only

877
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:03,680
Speaker 1: a weekend and it's gonna be a while. And I

878
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna just be a few weeks, Like

879
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 1: I think it might end up being like two months,

880
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,440
Speaker 1: the way that it was for like China, and like

881
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: I think it's just gonna keep going. And I started

882
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: to like to you know, like today and yesterday was

883
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 1: starting to be like okay, like what are we doing?

884
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: What's going on? There's all these stuff, All these funds

885
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: are going around like I know, uh, I just posted

886
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 1: about them today with inclusive Valet are raising funds for

887
00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:34,320
Speaker 1: like street vendors um, Like there's also there's like I forget.

888
00:50:34,800 --> 00:50:40,760
Speaker 1: I think it's the people that heights, Yeah, is doing something,

889
00:50:40,880 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 1: and I think also the Gumbiaton Collective. Are they going

890
00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:46,399
Speaker 1: to do something? Oh that's really great. Yeah, we're doing

891
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: like virtual brunches uh at Chelas. You can like tip

892
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:57,319
Speaker 1: the DJs as they play live virtually awesome. Yeah, yeah,

893
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 1: we gotta promote that. I have Stephanie like collecting but

894
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: I didn't tell you this, Marvin, but I have stuffingly

895
00:51:02,960 --> 00:51:06,440
Speaker 1: collecting a bunch of fundraiser things to like post about

896
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:10,160
Speaker 1: and like alive about because yeah, it's like stuff like that, right,

897
00:51:10,239 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 1: Like how do we support each other as a community

898
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: is That's what's on my mind this whole time. It's

899
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: like I don't trust that this government is doing that

900
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: for us, and that like this is a time for

901
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: us to like show up for each other, especially the

902
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: most vulnerable amongst us, and like how do we do that?

903
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 1: And you know, like from Marvin and I were just

904
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: barely coming into this space of having a small amount

905
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,480
Speaker 1: of like notoriety and power, and it's like how do

906
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:37,839
Speaker 1: we utilize that? And because it's so new to us,

907
00:51:37,920 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, how do we how do we how

908
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: do we leverage that to like make some sort of

909
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: impact and create change during this time, because it is

910
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: going to be a long haul, Like this is not

911
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 1: just you know like ures I think he gets have been.

912
00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:54,879
Speaker 1: He had just posted today about his grandma and then

913
00:51:55,040 --> 00:51:58,719
Speaker 1: getting a notice about you guys have to pay your rent,

914
00:51:58,800 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: like and if you don't pay it and accumulate and

915
00:52:01,560 --> 00:52:04,319
Speaker 1: once like you know, this quarantine is over, you're gonna

916
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:05,919
Speaker 1: have to pay all of it. And he's like trying

917
00:52:06,000 --> 00:52:09,279
Speaker 1: really hard to call and like you know, you know,

918
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 1: bite them on that, and it's just stuff like that

919
00:52:11,520 --> 00:52:14,719
Speaker 1: that I'm like, yeah, like this is we need to have,

920
00:52:14,920 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 1: like waste is support people for a minute, like and

921
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,120
Speaker 1: it's the government's not really showing up and the way

922
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: we need them to. I mean, we're gonna keep forcing them, right,

923
00:52:22,200 --> 00:52:25,399
Speaker 1: but like how are we? It's a it's a it's

924
00:52:25,440 --> 00:52:28,239
Speaker 1: a trying time. It's also kind of beautiful in a

925
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: lot of ways to like for people because there's so

926
00:52:30,840 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: many people out there who have been doing this work

927
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: already for so long rite and are doing that are

928
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: showing up. But I think it's also forcing other people

929
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:42,920
Speaker 1: to be very are fully aware of it and to

930
00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,040
Speaker 1: be called to action in ways that I don't think

931
00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 1: they would have ever been moved to in the past,

932
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: to know very clearly that like where you need to

933
00:52:50,680 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: invest your money and time and and why. I don't know,

934
00:52:54,320 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: like I think it's important. I don't know how I

935
00:52:56,200 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 1: got back into all this, but yeah, yeah, no, but

936
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 1: I think it's really it's refreshing to hear. I mean, okay, right, so,

937
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 1: like you're talking about Hollywood and you know, whatever level

938
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:11,600
Speaker 1: of celebrity or name recognition. And I've been seeing so

939
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: much conversation on Twitter, for example, about how people are

940
00:53:14,520 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: just fed up with celebrities just you know, I'm just

941
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,279
Speaker 1: gonna give you a little performance in the midst of

942
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:23,160
Speaker 1: chaos and ask you who are all out of work

943
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:27,800
Speaker 1: to donate, right, Like, folks are above it and beyond

944
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: it now. And um, I think it's so important that

945
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:35,000
Speaker 1: celebrities and folks and entertainment and with platforms kind of

946
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:38,239
Speaker 1: go back to the days in the past where celebrities

947
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:41,680
Speaker 1: were straight up activists and like putting themselves on the

948
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 1: line and using their platform and their money for good.

949
00:53:44,920 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I think of Muhammad Ali and like celebs

950
00:53:48,160 --> 00:53:50,920
Speaker 1: doing some legit shit, you know, so I think that,

951
00:53:51,080 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: like that's the type of conversation that I would like

952
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: for folks with platforms to be having, Like you're like

953
00:53:57,200 --> 00:54:01,200
Speaker 1: resource distribution, like you're talking about Linda, Yeah, I under saying.

954
00:54:01,239 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: You know, in my background, like my my art to beginnings,

955
00:54:05,560 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: like my very first thing that brought me into writing

956
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 1: as a professional in college as a social purchase theater class,

957
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: and like for me, like my foundation is around activism

958
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:19,840
Speaker 1: in the arts and so finding ways to like not

959
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: only be you know, like I think storytellers are so vital,

960
00:54:22,840 --> 00:54:24,759
Speaker 1: but we're in an age now that we need to

961
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: have the conversation around like, Okay, we're telling stories, but

962
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,680
Speaker 1: how are we leveraging those stories to really make a

963
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: full impact. There is there's the impact of being seen

964
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: as the impact of the story being out there that

965
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,040
Speaker 1: that is tangible. There's statistics around what that impact can be.

966
00:54:42,239 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 1: But I think that we could take it even a

967
00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:49,000
Speaker 1: step further and use use our work to create calls

968
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 1: to action and to have real movements and to do more,

969
00:54:52,960 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 1: Like you said, where we've seen in the past and

970
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: other artists and celebrities have used their work for that,

971
00:54:57,960 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: And I'm trying to think of examples off the top

972
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: of hand a camp but have used their work in

973
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: those ways and words in ways that we're so impactful

974
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:09,480
Speaker 1: and really, you know, you know, that's like one equipment

975
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: that's really working with the community, really working with active activists,

976
00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 1: and I think Hollywood, you know, and kind of separate

977
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: themselves from that. But there's a lot of content coming out,

978
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: especially in this renaissance of media that is around the

979
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,359
Speaker 1: politics that we're living because the politics that we're living

980
00:55:27,400 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: in are so intense, like it's so well, it's always

981
00:55:30,160 --> 00:55:34,239
Speaker 1: been intense, but it's extremely like been amplified right in

982
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: the last four years under this presidency, um, and so

983
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:39,520
Speaker 1: you have a lot of media coming out that is

984
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:43,200
Speaker 1: pretty transgressive and like it's new and it's like it's

985
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:45,360
Speaker 1: speaking to these times and it's like okay, but how

986
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 1: do we now take it even further? That's always on

987
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: my mind and I'm almost time Marvin about that. Well,

988
00:55:51,120 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 1: I feel like what we've experienced and like, well, one

989
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:55,920
Speaker 1: of the biggest barriers with them, and like, I mean

990
00:55:55,960 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: it's starting to yeah, like you're saying, like in the

991
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: last four years and with this administration, it's like active

992
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: there are a lot of people to it. But I

993
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,880
Speaker 1: think that what we found is like it's so hard.

994
00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:07,239
Speaker 1: There's a disconnect because Hollywood is in their own little

995
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:08,879
Speaker 1: bubble in a lot of ways, and I think there's

996
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:14,239
Speaker 1: a lot of, um, you know, implicit biases that kind

997
00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: of end up being like there's just class differences and

998
00:56:16,480 --> 00:56:18,800
Speaker 1: there's just some things like where they do separate themselves

999
00:56:18,840 --> 00:56:21,240
Speaker 1: so much. I mean, you know when you talk about

1000
00:56:21,320 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: remember like when they would talk about going to college,

1001
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 1: and like when you hear people you tell people you're

1002
00:56:27,280 --> 00:56:29,040
Speaker 1: from l A and they're just like, oh La so

1003
00:56:29,239 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 1: Javid or like you know, they don't like l A.

1004
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 1: And it's just like, well, we're talking about two different

1005
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: l as here. Um, I'm like, yeah, at least I

1006
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: grew up in that's where I had My family were

1007
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 1: Like I was like, it wasn't that l A. Like

1008
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: you know when I go to those like being in

1009
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: high school and going to like Beverly Hills for the

1010
00:56:48,680 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: first time, been feeling so fucking out of place, and um,

1011
00:56:51,640 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: like you know, and my mom would just being able

1012
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:55,560
Speaker 1: to just like be a tourist, like being a tourison

1013
00:56:55,560 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: in our own damn city, you know what I mean. Um,

1014
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: But that's like the one of the things, one of

1015
00:57:01,080 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: those barriers and one of the things that like Lynn

1016
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: and I are definitely always kind of bumping up against.

1017
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:10,440
Speaker 1: And we know that we then try that. We know

1018
00:57:10,560 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: that we're like out here, we're like, okay, cool, Like

1019
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 1: we gotta represent that in like um as hard as

1020
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: we can and constantly and always implementing it in the

1021
00:57:17,640 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: work when we talk about the show and the premier

1022
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: needing to be in boil hights Er or in in

1023
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,240
Speaker 1: the in the like you know, uh proper versus you know,

1024
00:57:26,440 --> 00:57:28,760
Speaker 1: anywhere else in l a like being able to come

1025
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: like at every level, always incorporating community. And we did,

1026
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 1: you know, we've only scratched the surface of what we're

1027
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,880
Speaker 1: able to do and what we can do with the

1028
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 1: you know, the little influence that we had show. But

1029
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 1: it's like it's one of those things where we're like, okay,

1030
00:57:44,840 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: Like we just gotta keep leading by example because of

1031
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: everybody's place, everybody's hearts in the right place, everybody wants

1032
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 1: to do the right thing. But there tends to be

1033
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: we find that disconnect because a lot of folks that

1034
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 1: are have been have the privilege of working in this

1035
00:57:56,560 --> 00:57:59,680
Speaker 1: industry don't come from the backgrounds like low income backgrounds

1036
00:57:59,720 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: that we up or having you know, immigrant parents or

1037
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:07,000
Speaker 1: growing up with undocumented parents, and I can really understand

1038
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:10,440
Speaker 1: it and connect with them apparent Um it's still there's

1039
00:58:10,480 --> 00:58:15,880
Speaker 1: still like a filter that they're looking at, uh, their

1040
00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 1: activism through that I think is removed from the reality

1041
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,440
Speaker 1: of it. So I don't know where exactly where I'm

1042
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 1: going with that, But that's just like an observation. I

1043
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: guess of what we've found why it can be um modeled,

1044
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: and I guess why people you know, are calling celebrities

1045
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,960
Speaker 1: out of just like what there's some there look like, well,

1046
00:58:35,080 --> 00:58:41,360
Speaker 1: just like that that imagined video Like like I remember, yeah,

1047
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,360
Speaker 1: just watching it and being like the first time I

1048
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 1: watched I was like, Okay, I don't get it, and

1049
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:47,960
Speaker 1: then I didn't really think too deeply on it, and

1050
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: then as I saw people's reactions to it, I was like, oh,

1051
00:58:50,600 --> 00:58:53,680
Speaker 1: that's the feeling I was having. I was like, okay,

1052
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:56,720
Speaker 1: math and all the people doing okay. But and then

1053
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,120
Speaker 1: someone to cut a video together where they like put

1054
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:01,600
Speaker 1: everyone's back you and worth did you guys see that one?

1055
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,400
Speaker 1: I actually haven't seen that, but yeah, that's impactful, Like

1056
00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,240
Speaker 1: literally what you're thinking as they're singing, like what the funk?

1057
00:59:08,240 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 1: Why don't y'all buy protective gear instead of asking us

1058
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:15,960
Speaker 1: unemployed to do that? Like then you see each one

1059
00:59:16,120 --> 00:59:18,240
Speaker 1: is like a hundred and sixty three million worth, like

1060
00:59:18,400 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: thirty million worth, And I'm just like, oh, yeah, like

1061
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:25,280
Speaker 1: this is it's just yeah, that type of thinking and

1062
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 1: and and you know, Cardi B put out that video today.

1063
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:34,920
Speaker 1: Did you guys see that? Yeah? Like down love her. Yeah,

1064
00:59:35,000 --> 00:59:38,120
Speaker 1: she's so real. And I mean because she grew up

1065
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: again with a similar background and being able to speak

1066
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: and has educated herself in a lot of ways on

1067
00:59:44,440 --> 00:59:46,919
Speaker 1: capitalism and the way it works. And even though she's

1068
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: living within it, right because she's still we're also living

1069
00:59:49,760 --> 00:59:53,479
Speaker 1: within the that institute, those structures of capitalism, but she's

1070
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: able to still use that power to speak to like

1071
00:59:56,560 --> 00:59:59,560
Speaker 1: the injustices in that way. And yeah, I mean, I

1072
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,000
Speaker 1: don't know a celebrities are wild, Like this is what

1073
01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: we're I think that's what we're experiencing right now, Like

1074
01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:05,840
Speaker 1: the ridiculousness of a lot of the ship that we've

1075
01:00:06,000 --> 01:00:08,920
Speaker 1: all been in this matrix for a long time and

1076
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:12,720
Speaker 1: we're seeing how ridiculous. It is, Yeah, definitely like the

1077
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 1: Hunker games when you like look at the different districts

1078
01:00:15,680 --> 01:00:19,320
Speaker 1: and like the celebrities are in the first district like

1079
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: sing like all the delicious, you know, grandose foods and

1080
01:00:24,400 --> 01:00:26,720
Speaker 1: wearing all the beautiful gowns and all of that ship

1081
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:32,480
Speaker 1: and we're like, what the met gala right? The capital?

1082
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,960
Speaker 1: I know, but some of those dresses are cute. Sometimes

1083
01:00:40,320 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: would like this, but there's still the capital. It's real.

1084
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't know's it was like, I love the Hunger Gud.

1085
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,560
Speaker 1: I remember devouring those books and like like a few

1086
01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: nights um. But remember when they put at the makeup

1087
01:00:57,120 --> 01:01:02,320
Speaker 1: that I read that they read books don't feel fast

1088
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 1: that I said, It's like I really loved them. I

1089
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 1: was like so obsessed with them. But I remember they

1090
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 1: put out the makeup line like after they released the movies,

1091
01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking like, wow, this is like so

1092
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:16,240
Speaker 1: not what these books. The intention of these books were,

1093
01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:19,760
Speaker 1: like it's like for them to then create these movies,

1094
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,160
Speaker 1: they're the makeup line. And then the makeup line is

1095
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:25,920
Speaker 1: like the capital of pan Pano pant what was the

1096
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 1: name of that? I think it was like and then yeah,

1097
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,000
Speaker 1: and it was like, look like pen and I was like,

1098
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 1: this is wow. I don't think that was the intention

1099
01:01:34,400 --> 01:01:40,480
Speaker 1: of the hydricaine. Like we just had such with this

1100
01:01:40,600 --> 01:01:43,640
Speaker 1: cognitive dissonance, you know, like we're always we're living right

1101
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: now exactly. Yeah, damn. I do want eventually my custom

1102
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: like fashion stricle masks, because I'm sure they're coming, so girl,

1103
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 1: I'm planning what's mine gonna look like. I'm sure there's

1104
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: gonna be like get your get your custom like online,

1105
01:02:05,960 --> 01:02:12,320
Speaker 1: like what are you gonna do? I'm just well, just no,

1106
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: I don't know. I I think I want something that

1107
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,200
Speaker 1: has like Mala on it, you know what I mean.

1108
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:21,840
Speaker 1: We're gonna from belts with our names to name plates

1109
01:02:21,880 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: to the surgical masks with our names, like like airbrushed

1110
01:02:25,480 --> 01:02:32,000
Speaker 1: Mala probably airbrush. Maybe they cannot. I don't know, croche,

1111
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:37,640
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever that metaful. I'm waiting. I'm sure

1112
01:02:37,640 --> 01:02:39,120
Speaker 1: we're going to see it eventually. It might not not

1113
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:40,880
Speaker 1: be me, but I'm sure eventually we're gonna see the

1114
01:02:40,880 --> 01:02:45,080
Speaker 1: sun up there. I'm sure I would be you that

1115
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 1: would be you know, We're gonna I would get like

1116
01:02:51,440 --> 01:02:53,760
Speaker 1: pink with like love eating on it, just to protect

1117
01:02:53,840 --> 01:03:00,360
Speaker 1: you know, protect this map from the germs. What you know,

1118
01:03:00,920 --> 01:03:02,960
Speaker 1: you know that they're coming. And the d I Y

1119
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:08,200
Speaker 1: tutorials to make your own already seen though they're already

1120
01:03:08,240 --> 01:03:14,440
Speaker 1: out there there you go. I watched on tid to

1121
01:03:14,440 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: make one out of paper towel. I was like, okay, cool,

1122
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:21,520
Speaker 1: I can do that, you go. I don't know, so

1123
01:03:22,080 --> 01:03:31,840
Speaker 1: um okay. Pantified. H Linda, you mentioned right there's a

1124
01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:37,720
Speaker 1: Casa Fina. Casafina and Mama FINA's restaurant are like two

1125
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:42,640
Speaker 1: separate but existing at like fixtures. We've got Casafina in

1126
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:45,840
Speaker 1: Boil Heights, which is the restaurant owned by Cosafina Lopez,

1127
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:50,480
Speaker 1: and there's Mama Finas, which is the restaurant in Pentified. Right.

1128
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: Is there a direct correlation or inspo there or is

1129
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,760
Speaker 1: it just coincidence? We want to get into the origins,

1130
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 1: the making of and out in all these different characters

1131
01:04:01,880 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 1: and storylines come about. Where did you find your instafo? Yeah?

1132
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 1: I mean, like, we love Gasafinez and we know and

1133
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: we met with jo Sefina early on in the process.

1134
01:04:11,400 --> 01:04:13,960
Speaker 1: She was on our panel for our digital series and

1135
01:04:14,040 --> 01:04:16,880
Speaker 1: she's incredible, But it was actually a coincidence that we

1136
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 1: realized afterwards because in the process developing the characters, we

1137
01:04:22,000 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: were naming the grandmother, and Marvin Um was like, why

1138
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 1: don't we name her after your grandmother because my mom

1139
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,360
Speaker 1: Afina like for me, had been a big part of

1140
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:35,720
Speaker 1: getting me to this in spirit, because she passed away

1141
01:04:35,760 --> 01:04:39,160
Speaker 1: about twelve years ago. Thirteen years ago. It was a

1142
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,200
Speaker 1: big part of getting me to fantified and getting me

1143
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:44,560
Speaker 1: through this process. And I had talked a lot about

1144
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:47,400
Speaker 1: her and Um we talked a lot about loss and

1145
01:04:47,560 --> 01:04:49,800
Speaker 1: like had the loss of her as a matriarch in

1146
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: our family, and how I affected my mom and infected

1147
01:04:52,280 --> 01:04:54,800
Speaker 1: my family. And she was also a great cook, like

1148
01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:59,880
Speaker 1: an incredible chef, and how food really just was from

1149
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 1: for all of us honestly, like when when losing herman

1150
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 1: losing that her food as well, which sounds crazy but

1151
01:05:07,120 --> 01:05:10,240
Speaker 1: was such a hard thing to lose, so us recreating

1152
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:15,000
Speaker 1: her meals every holiday is like such an honoring process

1153
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:17,000
Speaker 1: for us, Like when we do the monest every year,

1154
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:19,120
Speaker 1: which was her signature, Like you know, we have the candle,

1155
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: We put her a photo and we asked her to

1156
01:05:20,800 --> 01:05:22,320
Speaker 1: police BLUs Us so that we could try to make

1157
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 1: them close to her and Andy a little bit close

1158
01:05:25,280 --> 01:05:28,160
Speaker 1: to how she did it because they were so delicious. Um,

1159
01:05:28,240 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 1: and so that Marvin told, you know, was like, can

1160
01:05:29,960 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: we should we name her after your grandma? And I

1161
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,080
Speaker 1: was like so moved. It meant so much to me

1162
01:05:35,200 --> 01:05:38,000
Speaker 1: that he offered that, and and I was like, yeah,

1163
01:05:38,040 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 1: I would love that, And so we named her named

1164
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 1: the character Mo Mafina. And as we were developing the storyline,

1165
01:05:43,800 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 1: we felt like the structure of the restaurant for Pop

1166
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 1: needed to reen it used to be Pops tacos So

1167
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,600
Speaker 1: in the digital series, to be called Pops tacos Um.

1168
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: But because we wanted the restaurant to be emblematic or

1169
01:05:57,760 --> 01:06:01,600
Speaker 1: symbol of of his loss around his wife. We wanted

1170
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:04,400
Speaker 1: it his release, his need to go through this change

1171
01:06:04,720 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 1: in his restaurant and his community. He needed to represent

1172
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 1: him grieving his wife and finally releasing her. Um, we

1173
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: felt like, okay, we should name the restaurant after his

1174
01:06:16,080 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 1: wife so that it's very clear to people like, this

1175
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:20,479
Speaker 1: is what he's letting go. He's letting go of something

1176
01:06:20,560 --> 01:06:23,600
Speaker 1: that meant so much to her and therefore meant so

1177
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,240
Speaker 1: much to him, and what this really means for him,

1178
01:06:26,800 --> 01:06:28,560
Speaker 1: and then and then I think somewhere along the way

1179
01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,840
Speaker 1: I were thinking production, it occurred to me. I was like,

1180
01:06:30,880 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 1: oh my god, there's and I was like, I didn't

1181
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:35,160
Speaker 1: we didn't even think about the connection to it. But

1182
01:06:35,600 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 1: my grandmother's name was actually the Fina, and so she was,

1183
01:06:38,560 --> 01:06:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, Mama Fina is like she just is the

1184
01:06:41,080 --> 01:06:43,360
Speaker 1: heart of my family, the modest family, which is like

1185
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: my extended family called the mode of his family on

1186
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 1: my mom my grandma's side. So we also named the

1187
01:06:48,920 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: family after these my family's name for that. But yeah,

1188
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 1: but it was a coincidence. But we love Coasafina. We

1189
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,400
Speaker 1: love you know. She was the you know, obviously real

1190
01:06:58,440 --> 01:07:01,920
Speaker 1: women have curves as her her film and that was

1191
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 1: America's first film and it was shotting Boil Heights and

1192
01:07:04,440 --> 01:07:06,760
Speaker 1: it was it's such a beautiful, like bookend to her

1193
01:07:06,960 --> 01:07:09,320
Speaker 1: and her career and going from like first time features

1194
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:12,680
Speaker 1: and actress to like her first series that she executive produced,

1195
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,080
Speaker 1: like it's such a failful journey to see and to witness.

1196
01:07:16,360 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: Um yeah, that did you have anything else? My hm?

1197
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 1: But that was that was the inception of that. No, no,

1198
01:07:22,280 --> 01:07:24,520
Speaker 1: I mean it was like we were like when we

1199
01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:26,640
Speaker 1: realized that the coincidence. I was like, oh, people are

1200
01:07:26,640 --> 01:07:29,160
Speaker 1: definitely gonna think like it's a it's after Casafina. But

1201
01:07:29,280 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 1: we're like, well, you know, that's not a bad connection

1202
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:34,280
Speaker 1: to be making at all. Definitely have like you know,

1203
01:07:34,440 --> 01:07:40,200
Speaker 1: there's clearly inspired by completely other, much more personal connection

1204
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:42,360
Speaker 1: to it, and so um and I think that's what

1205
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,720
Speaker 1: we always were trying to do throughout this script, like

1206
01:07:45,320 --> 01:07:47,600
Speaker 1: so many of the characters named, so many of the

1207
01:07:47,760 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 1: specifics throughout, and the characters, the mentions of bakers who like,

1208
01:07:51,520 --> 01:07:54,800
Speaker 1: we just put so much of our families and ourselves

1209
01:07:54,840 --> 01:07:57,360
Speaker 1: and like just in every possible place that we could,

1210
01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:01,000
Speaker 1: because oh, it's about our families, it's about our community,

1211
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:02,800
Speaker 1: and we wanted to like make it as personal as

1212
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:05,560
Speaker 1: we could, and so we might have just all our families,

1213
01:08:05,640 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 1: like names are in there throughout. I have my aunt,

1214
01:08:10,560 --> 01:08:13,320
Speaker 1: I have a named of Phillis. She's like, I'm not

1215
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:16,040
Speaker 1: like that, and I was like, yeah, she's not named

1216
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: after you, like the liquor store owner. How many people,

1217
01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:23,800
Speaker 1: how many people have told us like someone so let's

1218
01:08:23,840 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: be some me, right, And I was just like, like

1219
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:30,400
Speaker 1: a writer gave that character name and it was so funny.

1220
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:32,960
Speaker 1: The ones that like are like negative portrayals are like

1221
01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:35,240
Speaker 1: what's I'm not like that, And I'm like, is that

1222
01:08:35,320 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 1: about you, guys, It's not about you. Pop is named

1223
01:08:39,080 --> 01:08:42,920
Speaker 1: after my grand my grand and my girlfriend's grandfather, like

1224
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:46,320
Speaker 1: Needle and like. But he he used to have a

1225
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:48,240
Speaker 1: bakery in Long Beach and like so there was like

1226
01:08:48,320 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 1: the black community there would start calling him Pop or

1227
01:08:50,439 --> 01:08:52,040
Speaker 1: like they started calling him the poppets some what. It

1228
01:08:52,160 --> 01:08:54,080
Speaker 1: just stuck and they still call him Pop. And I'd

1229
01:08:54,120 --> 01:08:56,040
Speaker 1: never heard that. I was like, that's such a fun name,

1230
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,840
Speaker 1: Like I've never heard of Mexican grandfather named pop, like

1231
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,360
Speaker 1: you know, and I'm just so such a fun and

1232
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:03,280
Speaker 1: cast you know, such a unique name. And I was like,

1233
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:04,760
Speaker 1: I was like we Like, I was like, I love

1234
01:09:04,840 --> 01:09:07,760
Speaker 1: to name it after after her grandfather because it's like

1235
01:09:07,880 --> 01:09:10,640
Speaker 1: this patriarch of the family that's just like such a

1236
01:09:12,240 --> 01:09:13,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it's such a beautiful family. I didn't grow

1237
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:15,280
Speaker 1: up with any men in my family, so it was

1238
01:09:15,320 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 1: just like one of the only grandfather figure that I've

1239
01:09:17,840 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: ever had around that you know, it is him, and uh.

1240
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 1: And I was just like, yeah, like we should totally

1241
01:09:22,160 --> 01:09:24,840
Speaker 1: name them, you know. Uh And so like there's just

1242
01:09:24,920 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 1: so many different like things that we wanted to just keep.

1243
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,759
Speaker 1: We just like are constantly just trying to honor everybody

1244
01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:35,439
Speaker 1: we know, and yeah, this is beautiful and okay, okay,

1245
01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:38,519
Speaker 1: this is actually perfect because I feel like we are,

1246
01:09:39,120 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 1: you know, born and raised in l A. We record

1247
01:09:41,280 --> 01:09:44,439
Speaker 1: at Espasio eighteen thirty nine in boil Hikes, what we

1248
01:09:44,560 --> 01:09:48,880
Speaker 1: used to record in boil hid in the old days

1249
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 1: before days, before days. Um, in the before days. We

1250
01:09:56,040 --> 01:10:00,720
Speaker 1: recorded on First Street in Mariachi Plaza at nine, and

1251
01:10:00,840 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: I know that there's like Espasio gear that shows defied, right. Um,

1252
01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,479
Speaker 1: we see Mariachi Plaza very prominently, and we know Mariachi

1253
01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:12,360
Speaker 1: Plaza very well. And I feel like there was just

1254
01:10:12,479 --> 01:10:16,599
Speaker 1: little nods throughout to what we believe maybe we're catching

1255
01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,960
Speaker 1: onto like oh this is like based on this person

1256
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,800
Speaker 1: or so, and so we're this and that. So this

1257
01:10:20,960 --> 01:10:23,200
Speaker 1: is this is cool because we have our inklings and

1258
01:10:23,280 --> 01:10:27,519
Speaker 1: let's run them by you and see you. I like this,

1259
01:10:27,960 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 1: let's see it. Okay, So okay, so boil Heights, right.

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Speaker 1: I think of especially with like DJs and parties of

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01:10:35,000 --> 01:10:38,680
Speaker 1: like DJ Sizzle and Funky Catamello and Collective, which we

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01:10:38,760 --> 01:10:42,479
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier. So there's a DJ in HNT defied. What

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01:10:42,920 --> 01:10:46,160
Speaker 1: is she called? DJ MI? Huh? I think so he

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01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 1: name on her laptop. Yeah, so she When I saw

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01:10:50,720 --> 01:10:53,800
Speaker 1: her playing and whatever episode it was, I immediately was like,

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01:10:54,200 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 1: this feels like DJ Sizzle or Zuri or Funky Cattamelo

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01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:00,200
Speaker 1: to me or Chili the Vinyl Club. Like how did

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01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:03,479
Speaker 1: you these kind of little like very very boil Heights

1269
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:06,360
Speaker 1: characters who who how did you come up with them?

1270
01:11:06,400 --> 01:11:09,720
Speaker 1: And what was the inspoke behind them? M m do

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01:11:09,840 --> 01:11:12,280
Speaker 1: you want to speak to that one? Yeah? I mean

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01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,320
Speaker 1: we I mean when we did the digital series, we

1273
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 1: wrote the whole thing at um, what was on First

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01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 1: Street like that every day for like three or four months, um,

1275
01:11:24,200 --> 01:11:26,320
Speaker 1: because we're like, well, let's be in the like, let's

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01:11:26,360 --> 01:11:28,200
Speaker 1: be on the streets, like, let's be in the neighborhood.

1277
01:11:28,240 --> 01:11:30,560
Speaker 1: Like let's like let the streets inspire us as we

1278
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:33,240
Speaker 1: are working on this and creating it, and like everybody

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01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:36,799
Speaker 1: is based on like we said, there's specific family members

1280
01:11:36,920 --> 01:11:40,679
Speaker 1: and ourselves are We're so our own psyches are ingrained

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01:11:40,720 --> 01:11:42,519
Speaker 1: in so many different characters and like so there's a

1282
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,200
Speaker 1: lot of connections there from just our own personal stories

1283
01:11:45,320 --> 01:11:49,160
Speaker 1: like um, and but being in the community and like

1284
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:51,639
Speaker 1: trying to and through all the research that we were doing,

1285
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 1: I think there is like boil Heights is so eclectic

1286
01:11:57,120 --> 01:11:59,879
Speaker 1: and beautiful and diverse and like in so many different personnel.

1287
01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: And I think like even whether it was subconscious or

1288
01:12:03,120 --> 01:12:05,519
Speaker 1: or or not, like there was just a lot of people,

1289
01:12:05,600 --> 01:12:08,200
Speaker 1: like a lot of images or little things and bits

1290
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 1: and pieces that were just like I've never seen this

1291
01:12:10,200 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: before on a TV show where it isn't like you

1292
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,080
Speaker 1: know about like a show set in in e. S

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01:12:16,200 --> 01:12:17,639
Speaker 1: l A Or Ball high schools because I know they're

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01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: separate at all. Um, that isn't about a Latino neighborhood.

1295
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:23,400
Speaker 1: That isn't just full of just Cholipos, you know, like

1296
01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:26,240
Speaker 1: it is just that like or that isn't just um,

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01:12:26,680 --> 01:12:29,160
Speaker 1: you know, gang thing or whatever. It is like all

1298
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,600
Speaker 1: the stereotypes that were just so used to seeing and

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01:12:31,640 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 1: there's just never that diversity. So I think we were

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01:12:34,120 --> 01:12:38,040
Speaker 1: we were always just letting ourselves be inspired by you know,

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01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:40,680
Speaker 1: like there the Chiliita Baticle. I don't know that that

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01:12:40,840 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: was a specific reference. I don't even remember how because

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01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,559
Speaker 1: I don't think the DJ because that was from episode six.

1304
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 1: I believe when the money Actually I don't remember if

1305
01:12:51,120 --> 01:12:52,560
Speaker 1: that was in the script. I think it might have

1306
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 1: just a DJ and like the director probably just cast

1307
01:12:54,680 --> 01:12:57,160
Speaker 1: somebody and wanted to pick a female DJ, which I

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01:12:57,200 --> 01:12:59,320
Speaker 1: was like, I think, I don't. I remember showing up

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01:12:59,360 --> 01:13:00,439
Speaker 1: and be like I was like, oh cool, like if

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01:13:00,479 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: you like that cool long trade, I was like yeah, yeah,

1311
01:13:03,479 --> 01:13:06,120
Speaker 1: And and so I think that there's a lot of stuff.

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01:13:06,160 --> 01:13:09,320
Speaker 1: But what is so exciting is when we hear from

1313
01:13:09,400 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 1: my hiding, they're like, oh my god, like this has

1314
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 1: to be is this, this has to be a direct

1315
01:13:12,600 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 1: relationship with this and this has to be I'm like, well,

1316
01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:19,320
Speaker 1: I just feel like a great um uh not to

1317
01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:23,040
Speaker 1: like how we let just all the different personalities and

1318
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:26,360
Speaker 1: and and the vibes and the subculture is really influenced

1319
01:13:26,400 --> 01:13:30,439
Speaker 1: and penetry throughout the season. But I say the little

1320
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:33,640
Speaker 1: the little taco shop, not the talk shop. Sorry, um.

1321
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 1: Bancho's Bar was inspired for us by the bar across

1322
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 1: the street from Peter Prim's. How that is right next Toro.

1323
01:13:44,640 --> 01:13:46,720
Speaker 1: I'm forgeting Why am I forgetting the name of the bar?

1324
01:13:47,400 --> 01:13:51,240
Speaker 1: Is it looks is that what it's called? I don't

1325
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: think it's almost I'm forgetting the name and now. It

1326
01:13:54,680 --> 01:13:56,400
Speaker 1: was crazy is while we were there, we saw a

1327
01:13:56,479 --> 01:14:02,280
Speaker 1: transition from like a more more like for the older

1328
01:14:02,360 --> 01:14:05,479
Speaker 1: generation or for immigrant generation, immigrant folk who were going

1329
01:14:05,560 --> 01:14:10,400
Speaker 1: there after work to drink um. But we saw I

1330
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:12,720
Speaker 1: think it was the owners when and like revamped it

1331
01:14:12,800 --> 01:14:15,160
Speaker 1: while we were still working on the original digital series.

1332
01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 1: So we saw it closed down and then we were like,

1333
01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 1: oh no, it actually closed down as we were writing

1334
01:14:20,400 --> 01:14:23,200
Speaker 1: in the original digital series partial storyline, and then they

1335
01:14:23,280 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: revamped it. And then on the other side we came

1336
01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:28,559
Speaker 1: in and we're like, oh, they like actually like changed

1337
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:30,519
Speaker 1: it around because they were trying to do the thing

1338
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,920
Speaker 1: that we had like been writing about already, so they

1339
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 1: were they were trying to Yeah, they're trying to revamp

1340
01:14:38,720 --> 01:14:41,160
Speaker 1: to bring in new client tell which was crazy because

1341
01:14:41,160 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 1: we were in the process of writing that storyline in

1342
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:47,280
Speaker 1: our script and to see them actually doing that it

1343
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,000
Speaker 1: was like it was a while a lot of stuff

1344
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:51,000
Speaker 1: like that would happen where we would like discuss a

1345
01:14:51,040 --> 01:14:53,960
Speaker 1: lot of stuff and then um, it would like come

1346
01:14:54,040 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 1: to be or someone would tell us like that happened

1347
01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 1: to me, and we'd be like, oh, shoot, well we

1348
01:14:59,200 --> 01:15:02,360
Speaker 1: put that together. There was like an a storyline with

1349
01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 1: them with the landlord that was inspired by a story

1350
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:08,599
Speaker 1: we heard, we read about or heard about in New

1351
01:15:08,680 --> 01:15:14,960
Speaker 1: York where landlord had um done something to this building

1352
01:15:15,040 --> 01:15:18,639
Speaker 1: where his tenant who was an immigrant woman. It wasn't

1353
01:15:18,680 --> 01:15:20,560
Speaker 1: a mural or anything like that, but he basically in

1354
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:22,479
Speaker 1: the in the article or whatever we read, was like

1355
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:25,439
Speaker 1: I'm in charge, Like I say what goes. And I

1356
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:27,720
Speaker 1: remember that stuff with us as we were you know,

1357
01:15:28,320 --> 01:15:32,640
Speaker 1: thinking about landlord characters. Yeah, like that, we were like,

1358
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:35,040
Speaker 1: you know, that's that's how a lot of landlords come

1359
01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:37,880
Speaker 1: into spaces, as in like, you know, I own the building,

1360
01:15:38,000 --> 01:15:42,200
Speaker 1: therefore I get to choose what happens versus seeing how

1361
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: the tenant who's been there for so many years is

1362
01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:47,120
Speaker 1: really the fabric of the community, not you, not you

1363
01:15:47,240 --> 01:15:49,320
Speaker 1: with the money who go into the building. And and

1364
01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: that was a big discussion we had and then we

1365
01:15:51,200 --> 01:15:53,560
Speaker 1: you know, it was really a lot of pieces of

1366
01:15:53,680 --> 01:15:56,360
Speaker 1: different things, like we would hear stories from community members

1367
01:15:56,400 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 1: and our research, and then we would like take what

1368
01:15:59,120 --> 01:16:02,000
Speaker 1: we felt was like the heart of that and bring

1369
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:06,080
Speaker 1: it into certain storylines and in different episodes, and the

1370
01:16:06,160 --> 01:16:09,600
Speaker 1: Maniati episode Obviously for us, there was a lot for

1371
01:16:09,760 --> 01:16:14,040
Speaker 1: Aviat around like the Mariachi rent strike that we got

1372
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:16,280
Speaker 1: to experience when we're doing the digital series, and we

1373
01:16:16,360 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 1: were able to bring Mariachi from that particular building to

1374
01:16:20,200 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: our premier for Sundance when we wanted again to have

1375
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:26,160
Speaker 1: the community involved, and they played and we kind of

1376
01:16:26,200 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 1: did a little bit of a social protest later situation

1377
01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: where they were performing, like you know the way that

1378
01:16:30,520 --> 01:16:34,080
Speaker 1: you see Mariati performing all the time, thinking oh, how

1379
01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:36,840
Speaker 1: nice they have performers, but then they coming on stage

1380
01:16:36,840 --> 01:16:38,599
Speaker 1: and they're like, by the way, we're about to lose

1381
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,080
Speaker 1: their homes and like letting people know. And so when

1382
01:16:41,160 --> 01:16:43,960
Speaker 1: we got to hear about their experience next to uh

1383
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:47,920
Speaker 1: Nancy mess up from different ball heights, like we got

1384
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: to release only in the Vestinos at the time, UM,

1385
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:54,000
Speaker 1: we got to really see what they were experiencing it

1386
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,679
Speaker 1: and that definitely inspired for us VS. But we already

1387
01:16:57,720 --> 01:17:01,799
Speaker 1: had the Mariachi um episode in the in the digital series,

1388
01:17:02,720 --> 01:17:04,680
Speaker 1: so we already were talking about that, but as we

1389
01:17:04,760 --> 01:17:07,680
Speaker 1: went into the TV series, we had much more context

1390
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,719
Speaker 1: for like what that I really was looking at because

1391
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: we got to get even deeper into that conversation with

1392
01:17:13,240 --> 01:17:15,519
Speaker 1: with all of them and oh, but I have to

1393
01:17:15,560 --> 01:17:17,400
Speaker 1: say this, like I just remembered. I was like, but

1394
01:17:17,560 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: you guys totally inspired us. And we even there was

1395
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:22,680
Speaker 1: a scene that we had to cut and we like

1396
01:17:22,920 --> 01:17:24,519
Speaker 1: there was a line that we're like, oh my God

1397
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:27,160
Speaker 1: would be amazing for this, and like they would have

1398
01:17:27,240 --> 01:17:29,559
Speaker 1: to be there. It was like what was the line?

1399
01:17:29,600 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: It was like he don't want to scrub? Oh no,

1400
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:35,840
Speaker 1: she don't want to screw. Okay, So we really did

1401
01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:39,040
Speaker 1: talk about this. So like Eric and Lydia, you know

1402
01:17:39,120 --> 01:17:40,680
Speaker 1: that scene where she's like, I don't you know, go

1403
01:17:40,840 --> 01:17:42,800
Speaker 1: take care of Pop. It's like the second episode where

1404
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:44,960
Speaker 1: she's like He's like, yeah, I'm not your baby anymore.

1405
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:46,600
Speaker 1: You but no, I'm talking about the baby like that.

1406
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:51,000
Speaker 1: That's in the bar at on the street and there

1407
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:54,000
Speaker 1: was these two women who are outside and then like

1408
01:17:54,080 --> 01:17:56,599
Speaker 1: they basically talked on Eric and they're like you don't

1409
01:17:56,720 --> 01:17:58,680
Speaker 1: she don't want to scrub or something else? Did they

1410
01:17:58,720 --> 01:18:01,680
Speaker 1: say something really any to each other? To him and

1411
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,600
Speaker 1: he's just like man and like so and Marvin was

1412
01:18:04,640 --> 01:18:06,120
Speaker 1: always like I want to I want to give money,

1413
01:18:06,120 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 1: also have to do that. I think they would really

1414
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 1: be really funny there. I think it was supposed to.

1415
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: It was just one girl in the scene and the

1416
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:21,960
Speaker 1: season two definitely I listen, I saw I saw that

1417
01:18:22,080 --> 01:18:27,240
Speaker 1: Twitter Twitter thread. I was like, okay, ready, it's a

1418
01:18:27,400 --> 01:18:29,280
Speaker 1: brandy every but I was like, okay, no. But we

1419
01:18:29,439 --> 01:18:31,920
Speaker 1: are like that. We very much are always thinking about

1420
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:34,719
Speaker 1: who can we put into things from the community because

1421
01:18:35,320 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 1: I don't know, because it's it's more it's cool, it's fun,

1422
01:18:37,640 --> 01:18:40,040
Speaker 1: but it's just I think for us, we wish we

1423
01:18:40,080 --> 01:18:41,679
Speaker 1: could have done even more of it in for a season.

1424
01:18:41,800 --> 01:18:43,519
Speaker 1: We hope we can if we get a second season,

1425
01:18:43,640 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: do more. But like being able to show the real

1426
01:18:45,720 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: the real folks from the community in the series, I

1427
01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:51,160
Speaker 1: think is really important. And I think we had a

1428
01:18:51,240 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 1: scene early on there was similar to Up in the Air,

1429
01:18:55,520 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 1: Up in the Air, the movie Up in the Air. Yeah,

1430
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:01,479
Speaker 1: I mean we we did a little bit of it

1431
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:03,160
Speaker 1: in the digital series and we never got to kind

1432
01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: of red redo it in the show. But um, up

1433
01:19:06,320 --> 01:19:08,720
Speaker 1: in the Air the George Clooney movie where he has

1434
01:19:08,760 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: to fly around firing people and all that. Um, they

1435
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:14,000
Speaker 1: did this like it's like, I mean, it's not It's

1436
01:19:14,040 --> 01:19:15,240
Speaker 1: not the first time they had done it, but he

1437
01:19:15,320 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 1: did this documentary kind of style opening where they had

1438
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: real people that got fired from their like long time

1439
01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:26,200
Speaker 1: jobs on camera, like kind of pretending like what would

1440
01:19:26,200 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 1: you say to your boss, Like if you could, like

1441
01:19:28,160 --> 01:19:29,639
Speaker 1: if you could go back and do that over again,

1442
01:19:29,680 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 1: what we just say, and like you get people like

1443
01:19:31,960 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 1: they're not actors, they're real people, but they're like did

1444
01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: they get into it? One person broke out into hives,

1445
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 1: Like you can see it if you watch the movie again,

1446
01:19:39,439 --> 01:19:42,640
Speaker 1: because like just living that the trauma of that and

1447
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:44,920
Speaker 1: like having to get like go from there, like you know,

1448
01:19:45,040 --> 01:19:47,160
Speaker 1: and freaking out and thinking about how they're gonna take

1449
01:19:47,160 --> 01:19:49,280
Speaker 1: care of their families and all that stuff. And I

1450
01:19:49,360 --> 01:19:51,760
Speaker 1: mean we we ended up doing something like it in

1451
01:19:51,800 --> 01:19:53,880
Speaker 1: the digital series. It was such an inspiration where like

1452
01:19:53,920 --> 01:19:57,240
Speaker 1: we're talking about like landed that are dealing with displacement

1453
01:19:57,280 --> 01:19:59,639
Speaker 1: and rant and all the stuff, and it's just something

1454
01:19:59,720 --> 01:20:02,240
Speaker 1: we're like, you know, especially because we are so conscious

1455
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:05,200
Speaker 1: of the fact that like we are telling a story

1456
01:20:05,240 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: that's very specific about a very specific neighborhood, about an

1457
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:12,320
Speaker 1: issue that is currently going on and in the community

1458
01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 1: that like loves themselves and has a lot to say

1459
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:15,920
Speaker 1: about it, and we're like we want to, like we

1460
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 1: did with the premier of the digital series, and we're

1461
01:20:18,520 --> 01:20:20,160
Speaker 1: always trying to figure out, like how can we like

1462
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:22,160
Speaker 1: hand off the mic, Like how can we let the

1463
01:20:22,200 --> 01:20:24,280
Speaker 1: community speak for themselves? And like that's one way that

1464
01:20:24,360 --> 01:20:26,560
Speaker 1: we keep thinking about, like what are those ways that

1465
01:20:26,640 --> 01:20:30,240
Speaker 1: we're going to be infusing the real hint they into

1466
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:32,600
Speaker 1: the show and so that we're always kind of like

1467
01:20:32,680 --> 01:20:38,240
Speaker 1: so that we are we're not just contributing to the

1468
01:20:38,479 --> 01:20:40,680
Speaker 1: problem or just amplifying and letting people think like, oh,

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01:20:40,720 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: wells is cool, like I should move there. I'm like,

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01:20:42,560 --> 01:20:45,519
Speaker 1: that's not accomplished, Like we want people to really and

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01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 1: I think we are accomplishing it. We've seen so many

1472
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:51,960
Speaker 1: people start to talk about I'm thinking about getrification differently.

1473
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: I'm seeing my neighbors in a different way. I'm looking

1474
01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:56,639
Speaker 1: at this issue in a way that I didn't understand

1475
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: it before because it's become so human, it's so personal

1476
01:20:59,000 --> 01:21:01,040
Speaker 1: to me. Like I just because I've watched you know,

1477
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:04,280
Speaker 1: this family, this small business, like they're thinking about small

1478
01:21:04,320 --> 01:21:06,000
Speaker 1: business in a different way, and like I think that

1479
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: that is what we want and that is what we're

1480
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:11,639
Speaker 1: tending Like that is where our activism and comes through

1481
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:15,200
Speaker 1: in our artwork of like where our responsibility as storytellers

1482
01:21:15,320 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: is not too like we're not here to we want to.

1483
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:21,560
Speaker 1: We'd like we were good at cracking jokes and we

1484
01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:23,680
Speaker 1: want to entertain, you know. At the same time, like

1485
01:21:24,120 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 1: we hope that we're leaving people with questions and especially

1486
01:21:27,680 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 1: some uncomfortable ones that people need to be asking themselves, uh,

1487
01:21:32,000 --> 01:21:34,960
Speaker 1: and and thinking about about where what our roles are

1488
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:38,120
Speaker 1: in this and like what are we doing and are

1489
01:21:38,160 --> 01:21:41,200
Speaker 1: we being complicit or in how do we work against them?

1490
01:21:41,240 --> 01:21:43,320
Speaker 1: Like how do we how do we help versus? How

1491
01:21:43,360 --> 01:21:45,679
Speaker 1: do you be better neighbors? Is what I always say,

1492
01:21:45,720 --> 01:21:50,240
Speaker 1: and so um so yeah, I think, Uh, that's like

1493
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:52,280
Speaker 1: I think that's always the goal for us. It's always

1494
01:21:52,320 --> 01:21:54,920
Speaker 1: the goal of like what we're doing and how like

1495
01:21:55,160 --> 01:21:58,519
Speaker 1: Annah for me and Linda, where the intersection of our

1496
01:21:58,640 --> 01:22:01,439
Speaker 1: art and activism really always fall trying to find that

1497
01:22:01,520 --> 01:22:04,640
Speaker 1: balance between the two. Yeah, I think that's such an

1498
01:22:04,680 --> 01:22:09,800
Speaker 1: important conversation, the piece about antification within our age group

1499
01:22:10,360 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 1: because we're statistically I believe we're making more money than

1500
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,080
Speaker 1: our parents have ever made and so we have different

1501
01:22:17,120 --> 01:22:20,360
Speaker 1: opportunities now and we're able to maybe leave our neighborhoods

1502
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:23,960
Speaker 1: and move elsewhere. So how are we as brown people

1503
01:22:24,080 --> 01:22:27,560
Speaker 1: or people of color playing the role in gentrification? Right? So,

1504
01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: I like, I love that you talked you mentioned right

1505
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:33,240
Speaker 1: now that folks are thinking about their neighbors and their

1506
01:22:33,280 --> 01:22:37,120
Speaker 1: neighborhood and small businesses differently, because I mean ultimately, like

1507
01:22:37,320 --> 01:22:39,840
Speaker 1: I I can't speak for you, obviously, obviously, but I

1508
01:22:39,920 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 1: feel like that's a part of your goal for the

1509
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:46,320
Speaker 1: series of Antified is to get part of the conversation

1510
01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:51,200
Speaker 1: right and have people look at even like what they're doing. Yeah,

1511
01:22:51,800 --> 01:22:53,960
Speaker 1: I know all the questions that we pose in the

1512
01:22:54,080 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: series are questions that we were asking ourselves the whole time.

1513
01:22:57,400 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: Like it's what brought us to the series, you know,

1514
01:23:00,479 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: like asking ourselves like because we grew up um like

1515
01:23:05,640 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 1: CARDI B. I grew up very close to like let

1516
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: me preface that with like like the home Girl, Now,

1517
01:23:12,040 --> 01:23:14,120
Speaker 1: we grew up very close to being poor, you know,

1518
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:15,920
Speaker 1: Like I know what it's like to be like mom wise,

1519
01:23:15,960 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 1: the water so like our whys the milk so clear

1520
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:21,240
Speaker 1: that you poured water into it's that could last longer, Like,

1521
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:23,000
Speaker 1: you know, I know what it's like to turn on

1522
01:23:23,040 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 1: the lights and see this cock roaw just scat scatter,

1523
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: and and to be embarrassed because I've been wearing the

1524
01:23:27,200 --> 01:23:29,360
Speaker 1: same pair of sneakers for the second year in a row.

1525
01:23:29,520 --> 01:23:32,240
Speaker 1: Like I know the feeling of what it means to

1526
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: be poor, and I know what it means to see

1527
01:23:34,800 --> 01:23:36,960
Speaker 1: my parents mia those or I don't know what the

1528
01:23:37,000 --> 01:23:39,800
Speaker 1: word is in English, like me to feel less than

1529
01:23:39,880 --> 01:23:41,640
Speaker 1: like I've seen them be made to feel less than

1530
01:23:41,680 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 1: in front of me. I I've I've had to experience

1531
01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,680
Speaker 1: like being the voice for them and difficult situations, and

1532
01:23:47,760 --> 01:23:50,960
Speaker 1: I know what oppression looks like. And because of that,

1533
01:23:51,240 --> 01:23:53,120
Speaker 1: and and Marmon does too, and and I think because

1534
01:23:53,160 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 1: of that, when you do come into power or money

1535
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,880
Speaker 1: or um, you know, just upward mobility, and you're doing

1536
01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:01,960
Speaker 1: in And we talked about this a lot, because you've

1537
01:24:02,040 --> 01:24:04,400
Speaker 1: been instilled with that American dream of like, we gotta

1538
01:24:04,520 --> 01:24:07,720
Speaker 1: help our families out of this poverty. UM. You start

1539
01:24:07,800 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 1: to come into that and then you see the world differently.

1540
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:11,960
Speaker 1: You're like, oh, I get my contributing to this issue.

1541
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 1: And and that was the place where it suddenly it

1542
01:24:15,240 --> 01:24:18,680
Speaker 1: becomes like it's becomes a little tortures because you're you're

1543
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,639
Speaker 1: working within this system that like you don't have control over,

1544
01:24:21,840 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: Like you're you're not the one who created capitalism, You're

1545
01:24:24,800 --> 01:24:27,080
Speaker 1: not the one who created all these structures, but you're

1546
01:24:27,080 --> 01:24:29,880
Speaker 1: being asked to perform in them. You know, it's a

1547
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:34,000
Speaker 1: very performative experience. But then also you know what that

1548
01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:38,880
Speaker 1: impact means for communities that have less than you, because

1549
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:41,559
Speaker 1: you've lived it. So it's like, how do you reconcile

1550
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:44,960
Speaker 1: about how do you live between those worlds, between between

1551
01:24:45,040 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: those class class stratas or whatever. And it's something that

1552
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:52,040
Speaker 1: we're all familiar with, especially because we live between worlds

1553
01:24:52,080 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: like since birth, like being you know, let you know

1554
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 1: Latino and or whether you're Mexican or I don't know

1555
01:24:57,800 --> 01:25:00,920
Speaker 1: your specific backgrounds, but like from my Mexican watermelon and

1556
01:25:01,120 --> 01:25:03,840
Speaker 1: an American like us, living between boarders is like kind

1557
01:25:03,880 --> 01:25:06,559
Speaker 1: of the core of who we are and we're always

1558
01:25:06,600 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 1: trying to straddle those two and and it's it's, uh,

1559
01:25:10,560 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 1: takes a toll. And so I think, like when we

1560
01:25:13,080 --> 01:25:14,680
Speaker 1: started thinking about the series, it was like, how do

1561
01:25:14,800 --> 01:25:18,719
Speaker 1: we pose these questions in a way that allows people

1562
01:25:18,760 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 1: to have empathy, compassion and also hold themselves accountable in

1563
01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:27,439
Speaker 1: this process because you know, for us, it's always the

1564
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:30,000
Speaker 1: series first and foremost is for our community, and for

1565
01:25:30,040 --> 01:25:31,880
Speaker 1: the community of Bottle Heights always is going to be

1566
01:25:31,960 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: first for them, and then secondary is folks who are

1567
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:41,680
Speaker 1: complicit and and some of these violent displacing situations that

1568
01:25:41,800 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: happen and it's not you know a lot of times

1569
01:25:44,320 --> 01:25:46,559
Speaker 1: people are unaware of how it's happening and how they're

1570
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:48,640
Speaker 1: doing it, and it's like, Okay, well, here's here's some

1571
01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:52,840
Speaker 1: here's some information for you, like in a digestible, little

1572
01:25:53,120 --> 01:25:56,840
Speaker 1: thirty minute episode, and like, now go ask yourself these

1573
01:25:56,920 --> 01:25:58,720
Speaker 1: questions because you're a good person, Like, you know, I

1574
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 1: think we come from this place that we think most

1575
01:26:00,400 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 1: people are good people. Like there's a few villains out

1576
01:26:02,840 --> 01:26:04,800
Speaker 1: there who are real evil people, one of them in

1577
01:26:04,840 --> 01:26:07,880
Speaker 1: the White House. Like you know that most people are

1578
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 1: good people and most people don't want to hurt others.

1579
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:12,640
Speaker 1: And so when you put that in front of them

1580
01:26:12,680 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 1: and say, hey, now you have this info, what are

1581
01:26:14,360 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 1: you gonna do with it? Um, you hope that things

1582
01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:19,680
Speaker 1: will change. And I think that was our intention from

1583
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:22,600
Speaker 1: the beginning, that we reach people in different in a

1584
01:26:22,680 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 1: different way than they're usually reached and hopefully that makes

1585
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 1: an impact of some sort, and it looks like it has,

1586
01:26:28,520 --> 01:26:31,280
Speaker 1: which is the wild part thing for us. We always

1587
01:26:31,680 --> 01:26:33,559
Speaker 1: like when we start seeing people like having up their

1588
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:38,320
Speaker 1: small businesses and seeing small businesses like hashtag not for

1589
01:26:38,439 --> 01:26:41,759
Speaker 1: sale and like start to say, like, you know, come support.

1590
01:26:41,800 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a screening and everyone's bringing their their

1591
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: favorite dish from their local business because we're gonna help support.

1592
01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,400
Speaker 1: Like that ship was beautiful, like it Like that's the

1593
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,439
Speaker 1: stuff that for us is like that matters more than

1594
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:56,639
Speaker 1: any of the Hollywood bullshit or interviews or photo shoots,

1595
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: Like we do all that steps to like you know,

1596
01:26:58,160 --> 01:26:59,800
Speaker 1: promote the show, but at the end of the day,

1597
01:26:59,840 --> 01:27:03,280
Speaker 1: we hear from our people how it's impacting them. That's

1598
01:27:03,439 --> 01:27:06,559
Speaker 1: that's the beautiful. So that's what keeps us going. You know, Yeah,

1599
01:27:07,080 --> 01:27:12,280
Speaker 1: that's amazing. Marvin, would you like to add I was

1600
01:27:12,320 --> 01:27:14,680
Speaker 1: gonna I was, No, Lynda ended up hitting exactly what

1601
01:27:14,760 --> 01:27:17,559
Speaker 1: I was gonna add, which is the idea of I mean,

1602
01:27:17,560 --> 01:27:19,599
Speaker 1: because there are you know, we we have these were

1603
01:27:19,680 --> 01:27:22,040
Speaker 1: heavy as fucking We're constantly thinking about like, oh my god,

1604
01:27:22,080 --> 01:27:23,599
Speaker 1: are we doing the right thing. But then I think

1605
01:27:23,640 --> 01:27:27,160
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of people we're our parents, especially

1606
01:27:27,160 --> 01:27:29,000
Speaker 1: if you have parents, but it just in general, we're

1607
01:27:29,120 --> 01:27:32,000
Speaker 1: taught to chase that American dream, and like we chase

1608
01:27:32,120 --> 01:27:34,880
Speaker 1: it so hard and we it's ingrained in us to

1609
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:38,120
Speaker 1: chase it. And then there's a lot of people that

1610
01:27:39,000 --> 01:27:42,040
Speaker 1: haven't even stopped to even consider some of these questions.

1611
01:27:42,080 --> 01:27:44,800
Speaker 1: And so we you know, we definitely have our opinions,

1612
01:27:45,160 --> 01:27:47,320
Speaker 1: but we were hoping that with the show, we were

1613
01:27:47,400 --> 01:27:49,280
Speaker 1: trying to like, let's just pose the questions and we're

1614
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:50,920
Speaker 1: not going to try and assume any answers because we

1615
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: want people to walk away from me. Like Linda was

1616
01:27:53,520 --> 01:27:56,240
Speaker 1: just saying, like for these for some folks for the

1617
01:27:56,280 --> 01:27:58,640
Speaker 1: first time asking the question of like oh ship, like

1618
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: it might participating even this way, like what is my

1619
01:28:02,280 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 1: role in this? And so um, because like like Linda

1620
01:28:06,280 --> 01:28:08,400
Speaker 1: was saying, like, yeah, I think most people once they're

1621
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:10,800
Speaker 1: aware of it. Yeah, I mean, look, I just put

1622
01:28:10,840 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 1: it perfectly. I was like, I don't know what else

1623
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:14,680
Speaker 1: I have to add to that. It was just, um,

1624
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:17,320
Speaker 1: such a it was just everything that we wanted. It

1625
01:28:17,439 --> 01:28:18,920
Speaker 1: was everything that we intended it for it to be,

1626
01:28:19,120 --> 01:28:21,519
Speaker 1: like you're saying, like for it to like then all

1627
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 1: the tweets coming back and seeing like, oh my god,

1628
01:28:23,479 --> 01:28:27,519
Speaker 1: before like like are saying and asking all the things

1629
01:28:27,600 --> 01:28:29,080
Speaker 1: that we were hoping that they would ask her, like

1630
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:31,800
Speaker 1: feeling all the ways that we intended them to feel

1631
01:28:31,880 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: Like it's overwhelming. Like we had the vision of like,

1632
01:28:35,040 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 1: this is what we think we're gonna be able to

1633
01:28:36,320 --> 01:28:37,559
Speaker 1: do what we can do, and we sort of guy,

1634
01:28:37,560 --> 01:28:39,160
Speaker 1: we're gonna make this thing that we've never seen before,

1635
01:28:39,200 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 1: and then for it to like start to hit, we're like,

1636
01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:43,800
Speaker 1: oh ship, Like okay, Like it feels weird. It was

1637
01:28:43,800 --> 01:28:46,880
Speaker 1: like a dream. It feels surreal. So um, we're incredibly

1638
01:28:46,920 --> 01:28:48,240
Speaker 1: fortunate to be able to get to do it on

1639
01:28:48,320 --> 01:28:49,880
Speaker 1: a place like the Netflix where we get to like

1640
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:53,600
Speaker 1: literally all over the world. Um, and it's doing so

1641
01:28:53,720 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 1: damn well here in Mexico and like fucking it's just

1642
01:28:57,200 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 1: amazing where I feel like Selena, you know what I mean,

1643
01:29:01,760 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 1: wow here, like he evokes Lina's over here, making making big,

1644
01:29:14,080 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 1: making it happen, and both so yes or no, we

1645
01:29:21,240 --> 01:29:24,120
Speaker 1: are in the midst of like a Latin X film

1646
01:29:24,200 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: and television art renaissance. Yeah, I think so. I mean

1647
01:29:29,080 --> 01:29:31,280
Speaker 1: when we started, when we started this process like there

1648
01:29:31,400 --> 01:29:35,840
Speaker 1: was like one no, not even because Gloria had to

1649
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 1: come out. We met Gloria right before her show launch.

1650
01:29:39,200 --> 01:29:42,600
Speaker 1: Remember she was she was, she was almost There was

1651
01:29:42,720 --> 01:29:46,240
Speaker 1: one before that. There was the one which was the

1652
01:29:46,320 --> 01:29:49,280
Speaker 1: only thing, but that was on the streaming but that

1653
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 1: was a streaming SERI yeah, it was. It wasn't. It

1654
01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:56,920
Speaker 1: wasn't technically like it kind of turned into a half hour.

1655
01:29:57,080 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 1: We did, it turned into a half hour. It's most

1656
01:30:03,160 --> 01:30:11,439
Speaker 1: high walked, so everyone else corrupt exactly. I mean, for

1657
01:30:12,479 --> 01:30:14,479
Speaker 1: that was a huge part of the inspiration for for

1658
01:30:14,600 --> 01:30:16,759
Speaker 1: making the digital series, where I was like, I was like, Okay,

1659
01:30:16,920 --> 01:30:19,920
Speaker 1: this is a show, like I want to make something.

1660
01:30:20,000 --> 01:30:21,360
Speaker 1: Let me make something. Let me make the thing I

1661
01:30:21,439 --> 01:30:25,120
Speaker 1: want to watch for sure. Yeah, that's really Yeah, Like

1662
01:30:25,320 --> 01:30:31,000
Speaker 1: when we started local in there were very few Latina

1663
01:30:31,560 --> 01:30:36,360
Speaker 1: duo podcasts, just like general, like there were very few,

1664
01:30:36,520 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 1: and now there's like there's been like people say, like

1665
01:30:39,160 --> 01:30:42,360
Speaker 1: a podcast boom, you know, even though podcasting has been

1666
01:30:42,360 --> 01:30:44,840
Speaker 1: around for many years, um, but I think in the

1667
01:30:44,960 --> 01:30:47,280
Speaker 1: last couple of years and there's definitely been a boom.

1668
01:30:47,920 --> 01:30:50,559
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean when we started there were very few,

1669
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 1: and like now there's a ton which you know, for

1670
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:56,599
Speaker 1: better or for worse, better for better for worse. There's

1671
01:30:56,640 --> 01:30:58,920
Speaker 1: a ton you know. And I mean that in the

1672
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:05,240
Speaker 1: best say. I don't mean listen, I didn't like, we'll

1673
01:31:05,280 --> 01:31:07,439
Speaker 1: get drinks at some point and we'll really get into

1674
01:31:07,479 --> 01:31:11,599
Speaker 1: it all the all the all the shame faddle um,

1675
01:31:12,160 --> 01:31:14,040
Speaker 1: because that's all what I love to do. That's my

1676
01:31:14,120 --> 01:31:21,880
Speaker 1: love language faddle. But what I what what has happened

1677
01:31:21,960 --> 01:31:24,479
Speaker 1: is like I mean, things like me to, things like battle,

1678
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,920
Speaker 1: like all the all the stuff that shot that next

1679
01:31:28,000 --> 01:31:32,000
Speaker 1: has been being able to gather you guys, the the

1680
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:35,479
Speaker 1: culture that is now that we have, like for the

1681
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:38,560
Speaker 1: Latin X community, that was just not that was not

1682
01:31:38,760 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 1: a thing growing up And for me personally, I talked

1683
01:31:41,439 --> 01:31:42,600
Speaker 1: about this all the time because this is where I

1684
01:31:42,640 --> 01:31:45,120
Speaker 1: differ from I'm very much a Chris. I'm the whitewashed one.

1685
01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:47,120
Speaker 1: I'm the one that grew up being like I don't

1686
01:31:47,120 --> 01:31:49,000
Speaker 1: want to be Mexican like that means I don't want

1687
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:50,880
Speaker 1: to be successful. That means I don't want to be

1688
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:54,360
Speaker 1: stuck in Bakersfield like that. Those things that I internalized

1689
01:31:54,760 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 1: because we didn't have things like me to, because all

1690
01:31:57,200 --> 01:32:00,479
Speaker 1: we had, which I credit with so much. But all

1691
01:32:00,520 --> 01:32:02,920
Speaker 1: we had was George Lopez, which like, you know, there's

1692
01:32:02,920 --> 01:32:06,720
Speaker 1: a ceiling to that. Um, I mean he opened up

1693
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:12,720
Speaker 1: so much for my fiddle. Um. The George has also

1694
01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:18,720
Speaker 1: had yes, he yes, um. The but this culture that

1695
01:32:18,800 --> 01:32:20,320
Speaker 1: we've had, I mean, like we're just so excited that

1696
01:32:20,400 --> 01:32:23,040
Speaker 1: we're like, oh, like when the years started and all

1697
01:32:23,080 --> 01:32:24,720
Speaker 1: these shows started to drop, We're like, holy sh it,

1698
01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:27,720
Speaker 1: Like we thought we would be like one more on

1699
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: top of what to three other shows that that were around,

1700
01:32:30,040 --> 01:32:32,200
Speaker 1: and now we're like like it's like upwards to ten,

1701
01:32:32,280 --> 01:32:33,960
Speaker 1: I mean, and it can still be like we need more.

1702
01:32:34,120 --> 01:32:36,080
Speaker 1: We need more because like I want my sci fis,

1703
01:32:36,080 --> 01:32:40,680
Speaker 1: I want my like my like alms on all the genres.

1704
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:42,559
Speaker 1: And this is something that we've been saying in other interviews.

1705
01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 1: It's like it's a little frustrating for us because I'm like, yo,

1706
01:32:46,000 --> 01:32:48,639
Speaker 1: like you know, there's some press and there's some reviews

1707
01:32:48,680 --> 01:32:51,360
Speaker 1: where I'm like, we get compared to other Latin X shows,

1708
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:53,679
Speaker 1: and I'm like, latin X is in the genre, Like well,

1709
01:32:53,680 --> 01:32:56,679
Speaker 1: I don't know why just because it's like starring brown

1710
01:32:56,760 --> 01:32:59,800
Speaker 1: folks like doesn't mean that it's even like in this

1711
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,400
Speaker 1: same ballpark of tone, you know, like, and it's so

1712
01:33:02,479 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 1: frustrating that that's the box that we end up getting

1713
01:33:04,960 --> 01:33:07,800
Speaker 1: put in, especially when like the shows that were so inspiring,

1714
01:33:08,320 --> 01:33:10,800
Speaker 1: like for our specific tone and our specific show and

1715
01:33:10,920 --> 01:33:13,200
Speaker 1: stories that we were telling was like Master of None,

1716
01:33:13,720 --> 01:33:18,160
Speaker 1: uh Atlanta, you know, Insecure, like it was like these

1717
01:33:18,200 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 1: other drama tase that like we we were were speaking

1718
01:33:21,320 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 1: to us as like first game kids, as kids that

1719
01:33:23,479 --> 01:33:26,559
Speaker 1: come from low income backgrounds, like you know, it spoke

1720
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:29,160
Speaker 1: to us in a very different way because we hadn't

1721
01:33:29,200 --> 01:33:32,760
Speaker 1: seen our stories told that way yet. And so anyways,

1722
01:33:32,840 --> 01:33:35,479
Speaker 1: all that to say what you guys are doing was

1723
01:33:35,840 --> 01:33:37,840
Speaker 1: at least for myself and I'm sure for Linda. I'm

1724
01:33:37,880 --> 01:33:40,560
Speaker 1: not trying to exclude her. I'm sure I'm speaking I

1725
01:33:40,680 --> 01:33:43,800
Speaker 1: say this um is so inspirational. It has been a

1726
01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:46,120
Speaker 1: huge part of like, oh, I want to do that

1727
01:33:46,200 --> 01:33:48,080
Speaker 1: with my work too. I want to create and I

1728
01:33:48,160 --> 01:33:50,960
Speaker 1: want to so the culture in the same way that

1729
01:33:51,000 --> 01:33:53,120
Speaker 1: you guys are doing it. Because you guys are doing

1730
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:55,519
Speaker 1: and this is also like me as a picky motherfucker,

1731
01:33:55,880 --> 01:33:58,240
Speaker 1: like you guys have done it so well. You guys

1732
01:33:58,280 --> 01:33:59,880
Speaker 1: have done so Like when I was doing my dig

1733
01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:01,719
Speaker 1: th stuff like I was doing a lot of digital

1734
01:34:01,800 --> 01:34:04,479
Speaker 1: sketch comedy and everything, but my gold was always like,

1735
01:34:04,600 --> 01:34:06,519
Speaker 1: I need to make this even if I have no money,

1736
01:34:06,520 --> 01:34:08,639
Speaker 1: I need to make it look as expensive as possible.

1737
01:34:08,960 --> 01:34:11,040
Speaker 1: And you guys, I don't know what your budgets are.

1738
01:34:11,160 --> 01:34:17,599
Speaker 1: I'm spending all this ship, but it looks expensive it always. Yeah,

1739
01:34:18,000 --> 01:34:21,200
Speaker 1: that's how you do it. That's how you make it

1740
01:34:21,320 --> 01:34:23,519
Speaker 1: look baller, you know what I mean? And so, and

1741
01:34:23,640 --> 01:34:25,599
Speaker 1: that's what makes everybody want to show the like yo,

1742
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:28,240
Speaker 1: like hold on, like this is a this is like

1743
01:34:28,280 --> 01:34:29,840
Speaker 1: a Latino thing or a Latin next thing, but it

1744
01:34:29,880 --> 01:34:31,720
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it looks like money, Like I want

1745
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:33,560
Speaker 1: to go like, you know what I mean, This is

1746
01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:39,040
Speaker 1: like essence festive. Thank you for that. We call it

1747
01:34:39,160 --> 01:34:45,720
Speaker 1: dollar treat d I y um. We make it look

1748
01:34:45,760 --> 01:34:49,320
Speaker 1: good no matter what. Um, so thank you. Do have

1749
01:34:49,680 --> 01:34:54,680
Speaker 1: one final question? Okay, So I was on Instagram right

1750
01:34:54,720 --> 01:34:57,880
Speaker 1: before the premiere, beforehand if I drop, and there's a

1751
01:34:57,960 --> 01:35:02,880
Speaker 1: clip right where um where they're talking about oh uh

1752
01:35:03,280 --> 01:35:05,240
Speaker 1: chi kind of feminist podcast. And then we watched the

1753
01:35:05,280 --> 01:35:08,240
Speaker 1: show and we hear that she kind of feminist podcast voiceover,

1754
01:35:08,400 --> 01:35:10,920
Speaker 1: and I send it to Yosa and I'm like, so

1755
01:35:11,520 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 1: is this us or I mean we wrote it when

1756
01:35:18,200 --> 01:35:20,120
Speaker 1: we started recording, or like does this sound like look

1757
01:35:20,640 --> 01:35:24,760
Speaker 1: like we're like pe, So it was. I mean, I'm

1758
01:35:24,760 --> 01:35:27,479
Speaker 1: sure there's a little bit of inspider, like subconsciously it's

1759
01:35:27,760 --> 01:35:33,720
Speaker 1: inspired by you guys. Really, Yes, it's somebuddy that is

1760
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:36,960
Speaker 1: my cameo that nobody catches. Me and Stephanie are the

1761
01:35:37,040 --> 01:35:41,400
Speaker 1: voices of that podcast. Yeah, I have to go back

1762
01:35:41,439 --> 01:35:44,040
Speaker 1: and listen. Yeah, I go back and listen because we

1763
01:35:44,120 --> 01:35:46,479
Speaker 1: got into it, like Marmon directed us in the in

1764
01:35:46,560 --> 01:35:49,160
Speaker 1: the post room for that, and like I remember, it

1765
01:35:49,320 --> 01:35:51,760
Speaker 1: was just like we needed to talk about just like

1766
01:35:51,920 --> 01:35:54,360
Speaker 1: men being trashed and we're like, oh, that's easy, it's

1767
01:35:54,360 --> 01:35:58,800
Speaker 1: pretty Yes. So I'm show we channeled a lot of

1768
01:35:59,080 --> 01:36:01,479
Speaker 1: a lot of y'all in a lot of inglewood in

1769
01:36:01,560 --> 01:36:05,240
Speaker 1: our walk, you know, because that's where it stops from. Absolutely,

1770
01:36:05,439 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 1: you heard it here first. Next time, next time we'll

1771
01:36:10,960 --> 01:36:19,960
Speaker 1: get the real deal. I will say, Like it was

1772
01:36:20,640 --> 01:36:22,000
Speaker 1: like it took him a couple of deck The first

1773
01:36:22,040 --> 01:36:23,559
Speaker 1: couple of takes, they were a little nervous, and then

1774
01:36:23,600 --> 01:36:24,920
Speaker 1: they really got into it and then they like just

1775
01:36:24,960 --> 01:36:27,120
Speaker 1: wouldn't stop. And I was like, oh, I want to

1776
01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:29,920
Speaker 1: see this. I was like Stephan Linda doing a podcast.

1777
01:36:29,960 --> 01:36:31,400
Speaker 1: I want to see that too. I was like, it

1778
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:37,080
Speaker 1: needs to be a mashup. Yea the super podcast. Let's

1779
01:36:37,080 --> 01:36:40,200
Speaker 1: see the podcast some of the podcasts for Better for Worse?

1780
01:36:40,439 --> 01:36:48,479
Speaker 1: You know we lost, Yes, that is the queen, happy

1781
01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:52,800
Speaker 1: for her out of her Yes, I'm like, you know,

1782
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,839
Speaker 1: I know we're wrapping up, but that's like another example

1783
01:36:55,000 --> 01:36:58,439
Speaker 1: of how y'all brought in a like real last community member,

1784
01:37:00,120 --> 01:37:03,040
Speaker 1: you know that, And it's like up in common. You know,

1785
01:37:03,439 --> 01:37:05,840
Speaker 1: we met stefinitely through me too, and like just when

1786
01:37:05,880 --> 01:37:09,439
Speaker 1: we met her, we were like we just really saw

1787
01:37:09,880 --> 01:37:12,360
Speaker 1: a lot of ourselves in her and also saw the

1788
01:37:12,520 --> 01:37:15,920
Speaker 1: hustle like there's just like there's something in I mean,

1789
01:37:16,040 --> 01:37:17,600
Speaker 1: this is good advice, I think for folks out there

1790
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:19,479
Speaker 1: who are trying to get into filmmaking and stuff, like

1791
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:22,280
Speaker 1: if you can show that you are going to get

1792
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,640
Speaker 1: it done, like, those are the people that like I

1793
01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:28,479
Speaker 1: like to invest in because you know, like we can't

1794
01:37:29,040 --> 01:37:31,320
Speaker 1: you know, do things for people, Like we can't take

1795
01:37:31,360 --> 01:37:33,800
Speaker 1: people's hands and force them to do things. We can

1796
01:37:33,880 --> 01:37:36,240
Speaker 1: mentor and we can give advice, but when you see

1797
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:39,960
Speaker 1: people who like hustle and get it done. Like, those

1798
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:41,720
Speaker 1: are the people that I love to mentor because I

1799
01:37:41,880 --> 01:37:45,080
Speaker 1: know that they're gonna be evolving, they're gonna take the advice,

1800
01:37:45,120 --> 01:37:47,960
Speaker 1: they're gonna use it. It's gonna like really help build them.

1801
01:37:48,920 --> 01:37:50,920
Speaker 1: Not that I'm not gonna like mentor folks who aren't

1802
01:37:50,960 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 1: hustling like that. There's that too right there where you

1803
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:55,720
Speaker 1: need support and help in that area too. But um,

1804
01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 1: you know, Stephanie was just like such a little badass

1805
01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:00,719
Speaker 1: and we're like, we would like you, let's let's let's

1806
01:38:00,880 --> 01:38:02,559
Speaker 1: you know, start working today. It has been like go, god,

1807
01:38:02,600 --> 01:38:06,880
Speaker 1: I don't know, like three years now probably right, yeah, yeah,

1808
01:38:06,920 --> 01:38:08,680
Speaker 1: And then we just you know, for us to bring

1809
01:38:08,760 --> 01:38:11,880
Speaker 1: her into every space and also you know, being who

1810
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:14,200
Speaker 1: we are, like in this industry, like there's not a

1811
01:38:14,280 --> 01:38:16,639
Speaker 1: lot of us. And and when I say us, it's

1812
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:20,200
Speaker 1: not only being Latino Latino X, it's also having a

1813
01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:24,920
Speaker 1: low income background, feeling that connection to um otherness that's

1814
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:27,280
Speaker 1: in a very different way. Um, there's not a lot

1815
01:38:27,360 --> 01:38:30,120
Speaker 1: of those type of Latin X in the industry necessarily

1816
01:38:30,240 --> 01:38:32,439
Speaker 1: or who speak our type of language. You talk about

1817
01:38:33,280 --> 01:38:35,680
Speaker 1: things in a very different way. And I think for us,

1818
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:40,000
Speaker 1: Like we've leaned really hard into trying to mentor folks

1819
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 1: who have those backgrounds because it's a lot harder for

1820
01:38:42,439 --> 01:38:44,720
Speaker 1: us to get in, like to this industry, we don't

1821
01:38:44,760 --> 01:38:48,680
Speaker 1: have the same privileges or access or money or connections.

1822
01:38:48,880 --> 01:38:51,519
Speaker 1: And so you know, we're always trying to mentor in

1823
01:38:51,560 --> 01:38:53,080
Speaker 1: that space. And that's why we always talk about being

1824
01:38:53,080 --> 01:38:54,679
Speaker 1: a low income because we want to take the shame

1825
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:56,599
Speaker 1: out of that. We want to say like like that's

1826
01:38:56,640 --> 01:38:58,760
Speaker 1: not a bad thing, Like I'm going to claim that

1827
01:38:58,920 --> 01:39:01,719
Speaker 1: hard and you know what, like there are certain obstacles

1828
01:39:01,760 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 1: that are that we have to come up again so

1829
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:05,800
Speaker 1: you don't and so we need to talk about those

1830
01:39:05,840 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 1: things so that we can get our people into these

1831
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:09,720
Speaker 1: spaces so they can tell their stories. Because if we

1832
01:39:09,760 --> 01:39:12,519
Speaker 1: don't acknowledge the walls that are there, the walls are

1833
01:39:12,560 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 1: never gonna come down. Like we gotta we gotta talk

1834
01:39:14,720 --> 01:39:17,280
Speaker 1: about the walls and and we have to bring those

1835
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:20,000
Speaker 1: people up. So for me, like Steven has become the

1836
01:39:20,040 --> 01:39:21,640
Speaker 1: home like she's like a best see now like she

1837
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 1: we we talked about everything, and I can't wait for

1838
01:39:24,520 --> 01:39:26,960
Speaker 1: neither one of us can't wait for her, for her show,

1839
01:39:27,040 --> 01:39:29,760
Speaker 1: for her movie and so many others like her, and

1840
01:39:29,880 --> 01:39:32,840
Speaker 1: then for us, like we we always tell people will

1841
01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:39,320
Speaker 1: be he says, don't just like that. I always saying.

1842
01:39:39,439 --> 01:39:43,000
Speaker 1: Then I'm like girl, I'm a pretty much and that

1843
01:39:43,400 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 1: it was like that, damn I tell her to seven

1844
01:39:46,240 --> 01:39:48,639
Speaker 1: will be like the industry like no, no, no, no, girl.

1845
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:55,200
Speaker 1: I know. I was like I gotta stop, but no,

1846
01:39:55,360 --> 01:39:57,640
Speaker 1: but wanting to be that for people because you know,

1847
01:39:57,800 --> 01:40:00,439
Speaker 1: we didn't have anybody coming into the US, and like

1848
01:40:00,760 --> 01:40:03,080
Speaker 1: we always tell folks like, we know how scary it

1849
01:40:03,200 --> 01:40:05,000
Speaker 1: is again with the backgrounds that you have, like how

1850
01:40:05,040 --> 01:40:07,759
Speaker 1: do you blow through these spaces that are so foreign

1851
01:40:07,840 --> 01:40:11,240
Speaker 1: and sometimes come with their own form of shaming because

1852
01:40:11,240 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 1: we've grown up feeling that we have to be ashamed

1853
01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:14,960
Speaker 1: of who we are, right and how do you manage

1854
01:40:15,080 --> 01:40:17,040
Speaker 1: how do you navigate that? So you can't succeed in

1855
01:40:17,160 --> 01:40:21,479
Speaker 1: these spaces and and so we we just we yeah. Yeah,

1856
01:40:21,479 --> 01:40:23,960
Speaker 1: that's why that's why we mention folks like Stephanie. We

1857
01:40:24,200 --> 01:40:26,960
Speaker 1: we need we need them. There can only be two

1858
01:40:27,000 --> 01:40:28,720
Speaker 1: of us out there, like we need more and more

1859
01:40:28,800 --> 01:40:33,800
Speaker 1: people and and it's important. So yeah, anyways, I love her. Yeah,

1860
01:40:36,439 --> 01:40:40,000
Speaker 1: great advice for folks listening that are trying to break

1861
01:40:40,080 --> 01:40:43,200
Speaker 1: into the industry or just starting their careers. So thank

1862
01:40:43,240 --> 01:40:48,040
Speaker 1: you for that. So Arvin Lemos and Linda Yvette Chavis,

1863
01:40:48,120 --> 01:40:53,200
Speaker 1: thank you so much, the creators, directors, writers, producers, UM,

1864
01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:56,439
Speaker 1: you both have cameo rules also in little ways. You

1865
01:40:56,560 --> 01:41:00,960
Speaker 1: were there throughout and stars have anthified for joining us,

1866
01:41:01,200 --> 01:41:03,920
Speaker 1: UM for chatting with us in the midst of this pandemic.

1867
01:41:04,520 --> 01:41:07,320
Speaker 1: We recorded straight from quarantine, which I think you know

1868
01:41:07,640 --> 01:41:10,280
Speaker 1: is something. So thanks for being here and rocking with us.

1869
01:41:10,720 --> 01:41:13,920
Speaker 1: Is there anything any other announcements? Last words that you

1870
01:41:13,920 --> 01:41:19,400
Speaker 1: would like to share with our listeners? Last words, Oh,

1871
01:41:19,640 --> 01:41:26,160
Speaker 1: follow me on Instagram, wait for it, L Martin Lemus

1872
01:41:26,280 --> 01:41:32,559
Speaker 1: E L Marvin Lemus, l E m Us me too.

1873
01:41:32,640 --> 01:41:35,200
Speaker 1: You can follow me at Linda Eva Chavis on Instagram

1874
01:41:35,240 --> 01:41:38,639
Speaker 1: and Linda even on Twitter. And final words, go watch

1875
01:41:38,720 --> 01:41:42,920
Speaker 1: handa fight and we love y'all. Let's keep making it

1876
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:44,960
Speaker 1: all right. Look, I'm what is Thank you for tuning

1877
01:41:44,960 --> 01:41:51,120
Speaker 1: into a another look at that our radio Quarantine Confidential. UM.

1878
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:53,920
Speaker 1: As you know, we'll be bringing you content from the

1879
01:41:54,040 --> 01:41:56,920
Speaker 1: safety of our homes and we're gonna be talking about

1880
01:41:57,880 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 1: all things that we would on the podcast. Pull up

1881
01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:05,280
Speaker 1: quarantine topics. So if you would like to support uh,

1882
01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:08,280
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1883
01:42:08,479 --> 01:42:12,519
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