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Speaker 1: Eli's number one at music station. So I read Friday

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Speaker 1: Every Friday for the last three or four years, we

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Speaker 1: do the Hometown Hustle. Oh, it's on it posted right

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Speaker 1: here all right. Always guys knows that's fine. You have

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Speaker 1: you're organized today. I like it. So it's our hometown

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Speaker 1: Hustler segment spotlighting somebody actually had the courage to quit

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Speaker 1: a regular gig that they had the short thing and

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Speaker 1: go after something that they love to do. I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's a great story. Jiovanni Gonzalez joining us from Glendale. Now, Giovanni,

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Speaker 1: congrats your hometown hust or. How are you hey, I'm good.

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Speaker 1: How are you super good? Brus So, what was the

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Speaker 1: retail job you quit to pursue making toebags? Oh? What

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Speaker 1: kind of hopped over a little bit by my most

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Speaker 1: recent one. I worked that waistline in mel Road View.

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Speaker 1: The courage to say I'm gonna go after something I

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Speaker 1: love to do and make these are really really cool,

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Speaker 1: almost like nostalgic totes. Yeah, I appreciate, I thank you. Um. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: I basically worked retoil almost my entire like work career, um,

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Speaker 1: but with this it was just well, for one, I

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Speaker 1: make these bags myself, right, so it's very time consuming.

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Speaker 1: So I've always been the person was like, if I'm

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Speaker 1: put one into it. And it was kind of hard

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Speaker 1: to do that when I was happy my retail job

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Speaker 1: because it was a full time retail job. So I

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Speaker 1: was like, you know what, let me just take the chance.

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Speaker 1: Retoil is always gonna be there. I can always bounce

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Speaker 1: off into it. So yeah, I just made the decisions like,

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Speaker 1: let me just quit my retal job and see where

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Speaker 1: it goes with my toe bags and these bags you

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Speaker 1: can see them at a lot Sigunda brand on TikTok

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Speaker 1: and Instagram. But these bags are sort of like nostalgic

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Speaker 1: and they've got thematics to them, don't they. Yeah they do. Yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to say like they're very nostalgect because well,

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Speaker 1: for one, I get a lot of more material from

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Speaker 1: second hand shops and when you go to like rip

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Speaker 1: source and stuff, you find a lot of like vintage items,

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Speaker 1: so that where it falls where you're getting the nostalgia from, um,

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Speaker 1: but for mine right now, like the most popular ones

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Speaker 1: are like uh Mexican and bordered stowcases. Yeah, And just

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Speaker 1: seeing like the comments from my viewers and followers, they're like,

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Speaker 1: oh my god, my grandma used to have these growing up,

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Speaker 1: or like they still have them, or this world might

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Speaker 1: be so much on my aunt stuff like that, So

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Speaker 1: it just brings that nostalgia feeling to them. And how

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Speaker 1: you creatively figured out a way to connect with people

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Speaker 1: and think about their relatives and think about their memories

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Speaker 1: and think about their heritage and think about how they

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Speaker 1: were raised, just by really giving the this secondhand stuff

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Speaker 1: a new purpose. It really is, right right. I get

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Speaker 1: comments like that all the time, Like I would like

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Speaker 1: upload a topeac that I made out of like a

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Speaker 1: vintage Mickey bed sheet, and they alway feel a common

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Speaker 1: but like wait, I used to have that very same

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Speaker 1: bed sheet when I was like five six years old.

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Speaker 1: I was like, is that my bed sheet? I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, it could have been. Where did you

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Speaker 1: lose it? Sonny? Are you paying your bills by doing

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Speaker 1: this now? Like blessfully I can say, I am, that's incredible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's only been it's only been not even the years

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure any other small business alf that can't relate.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty hard in the beginning because you're still

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Speaker 1: like trying to like see how to work things out.

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Speaker 1: Um not everybody. I guess, like, really, I don't have

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Speaker 1: much exposure at the time. Um, So it was like

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Speaker 1: I was struggling here and there. But as of now,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I'm very glad. I can definitely say like,

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Speaker 1: if I could keep it going at this rate, I

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Speaker 1: can make it happen for sure. So well, listen, we

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Speaker 1: love these stories. Local friend of our Shavanni Gonzalez at

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Speaker 1: a Glendale following his dream quitting his regular retail job.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on Giovanni continued success and you

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Speaker 1: can check it out at La Segunda brand, on, TikTok

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Speaker 1: and Instagram. Take care of Vanni. Yes, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: That's funny. You see somebody with the bad g Wait,

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Speaker 1: is that my bed sheet? It's really cool that you

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Speaker 1: got that right. I mean I had Star Wars bed sheets.

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Speaker 1: If I saw Topack in the Star Wars bed sheets's.

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Speaker 1: I had Fraggle Rock. You had Fraggle Rock sheets of course,

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Speaker 1: the Fraggles remember the heap yep Rock. No, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if Fraggle Rock is. I had like flint Stones.

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Speaker 1: There's Gobi Mokey Wembley Boober remember Boober Bober. Oh, so

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Speaker 1: walk down memory Lane for us. That would be so cool.

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Speaker 1: If Givanni did a fraggle purse, I know I would

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Speaker 1: buy it. Fraggle Rock was the show. What was it?

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Speaker 1: Like the Muppets but a little right, I know, I

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Speaker 1: don't forgot about it. It was like cool, It's like puppets.

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Speaker 1: When he thought of bed she's, I'm like, those were

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Speaker 1: my bed sheets. All right, we're gonna pay a bell

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Speaker 1: in the nine on nine in one minute. Hang for

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