Speaker 1: I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and
Speaker 1: I'm a body positive advocate. I'm Carolina Bermudez, but i
Speaker 1: was born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama,
Speaker 1: and a worker being. This is life in English. Hey,
Speaker 1: what's up a honey and Carolina and we are doing
Speaker 1: this little mini episode thing because we want you guys
Speaker 1: to know what life in Spanglish is really like. So,
Speaker 1: growing up, my mother used a word all the time.
Speaker 1: What word was this? The word is gonzejo. Gonzejo is well,
Speaker 1: by the dictionary, it means advice. In our house, it
Speaker 1: meant something you're not gonna like. It meant I'm about
Speaker 1: to tell you you're fat, I'm about to tell you
Speaker 1: you're out of control or how and you're like, fuck,
Speaker 1: here we go now all bets are off. So no
Speaker 1: gonzejo is advice. So if somebody's gonna give you one,
Speaker 1: you want to brace yourself because you never know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get. You really don't. It's and it's usually
Speaker 1: an unsolicited exactly it's like, well, wait a minute, I
Speaker 1: didn't even ask for this but you're about to give
Speaker 1: me one, all right, And it can be about anything
Speaker 1: from your relationship, to school, to work to anything. They decide.
Speaker 1: Moms decide, they really do. My mom's always had to
Speaker 1: do with eating and weight loss. Yeah, well, my mom
Speaker 1: to this day she'll look at my and I know
Speaker 1: when one is coming to because like the other day
Speaker 1: she was with my boys and they were playing together
Speaker 1: and she's like, yeah, ha, Gonzelo, you have to put
Speaker 1: a time limit. You gotta just told me to put
Speaker 1: a time limit on their Nintendo DS. Mom. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: the SA. So that's it. That's it, So use it
Speaker 1: in a sentence today, gonzejo, I wish my word was
Speaker 1: just as fancy as yours is. Why what do you mean, listen,
Speaker 1: we have we have this word choppiadoda. Choppiadoda is that
Speaker 1: a person who talks too much? And you could be
Speaker 1: a choppiado too if you're a male. What is it?
Speaker 1: This is a person that uses other people for financial gain. Okay,
Speaker 1: and it's levels to choppiaoa, like you could be like
Speaker 1: a choppy choppies for short. This is like a whole
Speaker 1: new thing. Is this a Dominican thing? This is a
Speaker 1: this is like a street Dominican thing. But you know
Speaker 1: there's levels to the choppies. You know, you got people
Speaker 1: over here chapiando for dinners, and you got bitch just
Speaker 1: choppy on the surgeries and Mercedes Benzes. Damn at its
Speaker 1: levels that skills. It's like Choppiado with a maximum. That's
Speaker 1: like you at the top of the chain. Got apartments,
Speaker 1: you got benses, You've got surgeries, and you ain't pay
Speaker 1: for none of them. Man, I am in the wrong business.
Speaker 1: So you know you have like baby choppiadoas and you
Speaker 1: know they just getting Mom's coming and sneakers. You know,
Speaker 1: she's just learning the ropes. But you know in Dominican Republic,
Speaker 1: there's like full blown like they will talk about it.
Speaker 1: They will get when I saw like an interview and
Speaker 1: they were talking on the radio and they were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't get up in here if you're not paying
Speaker 1: my rent and if you're not buying me my cars
Speaker 1: and my surgeries need to be on point. That's like
Speaker 1: a full blown Chappia. And she's open to it. And
Speaker 1: sometimes your family members can choppy you, Like last night
Speaker 1: we went to dinner and and and Bella was Chappiano man.
Speaker 1: She made me pay for the something he kind of
Speaker 1: she was like, yeah, you got this bill and people
Speaker 1: left me a message. They were like the that means
Speaker 1: like you let somebody choppy you take your money from
Speaker 1: take it. So that's my word I would explain to
Speaker 1: you guys. So if I go out to lunch with
Speaker 1: Andrew and I'm like, yeah, you know I'm not doing good.
Speaker 1: You got this, and He's like, I got this, Andrew,
Speaker 1: So okay, let me take the money from and then
Speaker 1: if you get like a trip, yes, if you get
Speaker 1: a surgery, you the queen choppy surgery. Now what are
Speaker 1: what are these women that are having multiple surgeries by
Speaker 1: the way, everywhere You're just not following them, Like, if
Speaker 1: you don't tag your doctor in Colombia, I'm doing this,
Speaker 1: they'll get them fake abbs to you. So my word
Speaker 1: of the day was choppy. Orda