February 15, 2021 • 52 mins
Welcome to Season 5 of Locatora Radio. Listen at your own risk.
On this first capítulo of our radiophonic novela, we bring back some of our favorite segments: Oye Locas & Weird Things White Women Did This Week. For the second half of this capítulo, we discuss influencers, traveling during a pandemic, and how we're coping with all of it!
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On this first capítulo of our radiophonic novela, we bring back some of our favorite segments: Oye Locas & Weird Things White Women Did This Week. For the second half of this capítulo, we discuss influencers, traveling during a pandemic, and how we're coping with all of it!
Learn about Planned Parenthood's Telehealth Services here.
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Log radio radio Radio Commi's a myth and bullshit. A
radio phonic novella Local Radio hosted by Mala Locomotives. Welcome
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to season five of local radio podcast Rosas. Listen at
your own risk. Local Radio is a radio phonic novella,
which is just a very extra way of saying, ahast,
I'm Theosa and I'm Mala. Welcome to season five, the
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start first Law of one. We're so excited to be back.
We're super excited. We took a tiny little break, but
while we were on our break, we did relaunch some
of our remastered classic look at our radio, got beat
the loss, and I hope you had a chance to
tune in to those vintage local sounds. Yes, vintage local,
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I love it. It's only been four years, but we
have vintage episodes. We do. We really do, We really do.
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excited to you know, get back into the swing of
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things and also bring back a listener favorite one of
our favorite segments, Oya Lokas. It's been a while since
we've done in Oya Loka, so I'm excited we do
have a couple of questions from our listeners, and the
first one is how do you stay happy and sane
during the pandemic. That's a great question, and now that
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we're a year into it, maybe our answers have changed
the asa how do you stay happy and same in
the pandemic? You know, I think I'm figuring this out.
This is like an ongoing question that I asked myself
because it changes, and I think giving yourself that flexibility
is fine, Like some things that worked over the summer
of last year may not work now. I spent a
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lot of like being very active in the sense that
I was like doing projects, working out daily, working out
two times a day, walking the dogs, doing the whole thing.
I felt like to fill a lot of the spaces
during my day. I would schedule a lot of things
for myself and that was really helpful for me. Now
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I'm like slowing things down, you know. And it's really
interesting to start a new year with that kind of
mindset because I think in the before times, for me,
a new year always met like the top of the
new year was all about like hustling, sending my goals,
feeling motivated. But because we're in a pandemic, and a
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lot happened for me, like the end of that. I
just started this year like taking a day by day,
you know, easing into things and just allowing myself that
grace and literally reminding myself that it is okay to
have downtime, to take it easy, and really like push
back on that like girl boss mindset, you know, that
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toxic positivity that go get it, hustle and go get
it mentality. It doesn't work all the time, and it's
not always productive or conducive to our mental health. Very true,
Very true. I agree with you that maybe some of
the things that we're working before are not even really
an option right now. So there was still some level
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of for me anyways, comfort with like going on a
picnic or like doing more older skate meetups. I'm still
roller skating. That's still keeping me staying and happy. But
things are just more and more like individual and done
in isolation and done alone as we progress, because things
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haven't been getting better in l A as far as
COVID numbers. In the pandemic. It was raining a lot,
like a week or two ago, and it was raining
like torrential downpours like and as ANGELINEO. As we exaggerate
about the weather a lot, but they were torrential downpours,
so we were inside. Um, I was inside and leave
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that whole week while it was raining, I just stayed in. Yeah,
what is the point honestly that I feel like Angelino's
shut down when it rains, and I see it every
time it rains. And you know that's compounded by a pandemic.
You really see less and less people outside when it's raining.
Pull us a pandemic. But yeah, I feel like in
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a if in l A, people forget how to drive,
or people would want to drive super fast as if
the roads aren't wet. Um, And it's very interesting. We
really don't know how to function when it's not sunny outside.
So I will say that that stereotype is true about Erine.
It's really I own it as just part of our
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identity and our global brand has people from l A County,
the Greater l A area. It's just how we roll. Yeah,
you know, not to veer off of subject too much.
Did you feel we're in February now we're at the
top of February. Did you feel like we did not
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have a winter this year? Interesting? I felt like for me,
the things that really make the season winter time are
the holidays and the gatherings. Without them, there's not much
besides some rain and pulling out my little space heater
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that like makes it winter. That's it. So it didn't
really feel like the winters that we induce that we're
used to. I would say, yeah, okay, So we have
another question for our Oya look As segment, and it's
about Valentine's Day. How do we plan on celebrating Valentine's
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Day this year? Mala? Do you want to start? Yeah,
I'll start as the residents single of Look at the Radio.
I'm actually going to be co moderating a clubhouse room
called Very Much Single on Valentine's Day February fourteenth with
my friend and co moderator Lorian Stacy the l A Stacy.
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This clubhouse room Sundays six pm Pacific time, nine pm
Eastern time every Sunday and on Valentine's Day, We're just
gonna be talking to all the single souls who show up,
and if they're any unsingles a k a. Couples in there.
I would also love that because what's going on on
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your ends that you're in the Singles Clubhouse room, but
all are welcome, and if you are in a couple,
come and be helpful, like come with advice, come with tips,
come with referrals, come with a network of other singles
that you're trying to share. But That's what I'm going
to be doing. Also in my family, and my mom
has always been the type to give us little Valentine's
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and give us cards and chocolates and stuff within the family.
And we've always done that, is like give each other
little gifts. So that's what I'll be doing with my family. Same.
My mom is the same way she when I was
little for Valentine's Day. I mean even now as an adult,
she like has always given me like a card, a
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little like the and Valentine's Day. It's always very thematic,
you know, Valentine's Day related. It's not just like a
random gift. It's specific to Valentine's Day. Um So yeah,
I think that I've practiced that with my loved ones
as well, like with my friends and with my family. Um,
I like to give little little presents on Valentine's Day.
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So I'll be doing that. I kind of want to
get a little creative this year and like make something
so we'll see. I'm like thinking about it. And then
in terms of like Valentine's Day itself, I mean, it's
obviously very different this year because you're not going out
to dine. We're not going out to dine. Um, last
year we went to this like little Boogie Proving restaurant
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that had just opened, and then we went to Soho House.
So so you know, yes, I remember your Valentine's Day. Yeah,
so like very different this year. Um. I also live
here with my family, so it's like not like we
can have I mean, we could have dinner here, but
family dinners, so which is fine. So I don't really
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know what that's like, but I know that I will
be making stuff for my friends and figuring that out.
That's really cute. I love when you get into your
craft mode because I'm like, Okay, what is she gonna
whip up next? Like what can we expect? I'm excited. Yes,
thank you. I will keep you posted. I mean, you
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would be on the receiving end of the presence of
the craft. So thank you, Thank you so much. So
that was Aya Locas. Remember you guys can always send
us questions via email. A local thought Radio dot com.
You can d m us on Instagram at Local Underscore Radio.
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Email is best and you can always add the subject
line Oya loca. So we know that you want your
question to be featured on a cup. Yes. Um, if
you have been following us since, you know that we
were hosting Aya lokas on our i G Live and
you know we did that because we thought the pandemic
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was gonna last a couple of months, not the entire year.
So now you know we're bringing it back to the
Guppy the Laws. Yeah, we will talk more about the
pandemic in uh later in the episode, but there's a
few things that we really thought, Okay, we're gonna do
some short coverage of this thing, but it's still here, right,
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So we're kind of going back to our regularly scheduled
programming in many ways because suck it. What can we do?
We gotta keep going. And on that note, we are
bringing back another listener favorite called Weird Things the White
Women Did this week Mama get us started. Please. Yes,
to be quite honest with you, there are so many
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examples that we could have pulled from to populate this
gup Beat the Laws installment of weird things white women
did this week, but we decided to focus specifically, maybe
on the weirdest white woman um of the current news cycle,
and that's Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. She's a que and
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on darling and honestly a raving right wing ship stir.
She has been making comments about basically endorsing assassinations of Democrats,
including Nancy Pelosi. She's also been on video harassing school
shooting survivors from Parkland, including David Hogg. And you know,
we recently watched AOC's I G Live where she detailed
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the horrific experience she had during the Capital insurrection and
how unsafe she felt, she wasn't sure if the Capitol
police were there to help her harm her, and how
she was generally genuinely concerned that her fellow elected officials,
especially Republican elected officials, were seeking to do harm to
her and other Democrats. So to then have this Congresswoman
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Marjorie Taylor Green speaking very plainly about how, yeah, she
endorses the assassination of Democrats. It's wild, it's dangerous, it's
not cool, right, I mean, this is a great example
for lack of a or phrase, right, of the conspiracy
theorists having real life repercussions, right, Um, that all of
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the victual and hate that is directed at congressmen has
real life consequences, right and the and for us on
and not even just on the far left right, for
us as women, as survivors, as Latin, as a woman
of color, the death threats like are outrageous, Like we're
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not like shocked, We're not surprised, and that's sad. Right,
there are people that there are conservatives, there are conspiracy
theorists that believe that she's making this up. And for us,
we're like, yeah, it makes sense, you know, it's awful.
It doesn't make it right, but we don't doubt her story,
Like this is like common Unfortunately, this isn't that, this
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isn't that wild or far fetched for us, like, we
know that this is plausible based on the vitriol that's
directed at her. Absolutely and also you know, backed up
and felt by other women of color who are our
who holds public office, for example Aana Pressley. Like these
women have also spoken to how unsafe they have felt,
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how they have they felt targeted, and not only that
they felt unsafe or targeted, but like the evidence being
there that right wing Trump supporters were genuinely and actively
targeting them. Right this is like beyond individual women feeling
paranoid or just feeling unsafe, it's them acknowledging that you know,
there are truly attempts at their lives being organized and
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made and encouraged by people in high places, like Marjorie
Taylor Green. And she's not the only one, but she
her name has been in the news a lot recently. Luckily,
it looks like the House did exile Representative Marjorie Taylor
Green from congressional committees, blacklisting her. She's the first term
Georgian Um black staying for endorsing the executions of Democrats
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and spreading dangerous and bigoted misinformation even as fellow Republicans
rallied around her. And that's from the New York Times.
So it's also important, I think, for us to talk
about all the complicity around Marjorie Taylor Green, how many
Republicans are basically very comfortable giving her the keys to
the kingdom. And as a reminder, nobody took Donald Trump
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seriously at first, but the Republican endorsement of him and
the enabling of his function got us to where we
are now. So I think Marjorie is one to watch.
Let's be careful with this one. I agree. I also
want to add for I want to add another white
woman too, weird things white women did, because we brought
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up a congresswoman is live stream or her I g live.
Alissa Milano was in the comments and she, you know,
we left a comment like holding space acknowledging CONGRESSOMANNOC and
the trauma she was airing and what she went through.
And then at one point when AOC brings up that
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she went to Congresswoman Katie Porter's office, Elissa Milano in
the comments is like, oh, did she have her white
board with her? And I'm like, why are you making
a joke right now? Like even like you can't make
a lighthearted joke, you can't joke at all when someone
is sharing their trauma and their lived experience and it's
visibly shaken up, you know, as their detailing this very
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traumatic event. And so I want to add her to
the list of weird things why women did. Don't ever
do that, regardless if you're white or not. Don't ever
make a joke like that when someone is sharing their
trauma and on such a public stage. I don't know
how many hundreds of thousands of people were tuned in
and watching AOC's live stream, But Elissa Milano, being a
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celebrity and being in the public sphere, she knows what
it's like to have a bunch of eyes on her.
And I agree with you, very uncool for her to
do that, and not funny, like nobody laugh, not funny
at all. Anyway, if you have a weird Things White
Women did story, also feel free to email us. Y'all
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have shared some weird ship in the past that white
women have done, so feel free to keep those coming again.
You could email us at all that local radio dot
com and put that in the subject line weird things
White women did. And just to let you all know,
we have been monitoring the wave of fake Tina's, the
fake latinas the white ladies literally pretending to be of
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Latin American descent in different ways. We are keeping track,
we are monitoring the situation we will be putting out
of Fake Tina's episode in the future, So just f
y on that. Yes, we are aware it's coming, alright, y'all,
So we're going to go into a quick song break
and then we will be right back to get into
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So some updates. Almost a year ago, when the pandemics started,
we began to call our podcast Quarantine Confidential. We assume
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that it would be a temporary broadcast, only lasting the
lifespan of the pandemic. However, the pandemic is still here.
So this is our way of life for the foreseeable future,
and we're gonna do what we do best and we're
just gonna podcast through it. So thank you for being
here and continuing to rock with us even in the
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midst of global collapse. We really appreciate it. Yeah, thank
you for rocking with us through all of this. And
if you're a new listener, welcome, Welcome to the best side,
the dark side, the white I don't know, but welcome
you have arrived. Welcome to look a Lambia. It's comfy here,
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it's cute here. But you know it's not all doom
and gloom. Life continues, Life finds a way. As my
favor Jeff Goldbloom said in Jurassic Park Number one, right,
he's like life is chaos, life finds a way, Like
life is going to continue. And I keep that wisdom
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with me always everywhere I go, and so like with
that energy, I'm on only Fans. I started my Only
Fans in December. I said, you know what, I'm at home.
I'm at home, and I'm at home, and I have
WiFi and only Fans is a thing. And I have
some cute like lingerie, boudoir and bikini photos to share
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with the world. So I said on my only Fans account,
I love it. I love it. I love it, I
love it. Subscribe. I'm at Mala Underscore Munos. You can
also DM me on Instagram, but I can send you
my profile link if you would like to subscribe. I
put a lot of my skating videos on there, my
twerking videos. It's a cute time. Yeah. When Mama told
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me about creating an only Fans, I was like, well,
your employer, look at the radio, approves this. You could.
You should do it because your employer will not be angry.
Go ahead, and I appreciate ate that. Since Fiosa is
technically my boss, I was like, Biosa, do I have
your blessing? No looks yes, but I have to have
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the Diosa blessing before I pursue a new venture. So
I got it. And at one point I had gotten
my rating to the top one point eight percent of
Only Fans creators. I'm currently back at like the two
percent of Only Fans creators. You've got to really work
with it to maintain your rating. But um, it's a
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lot of fun. I'm not going to share with you
guys how much money I've made. I'm thinking I'm going
to do down the line some type of a reveal,
but only after I've made a substantial amount of money.
So help me towards that goal. Subscribe, Yes, head on
over to Mala's Only Fans, especially if you have a
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man that follows her. Anyway, maybe you both follow and
you both watch facts. You know what, you make a
really good point. Might as No, you might as well. Okay,
you know, yes, you make a fabulous point. The other
thing that's new that I mentioned a little bit earlier
in the episode is room on Clubhouse that I'm co
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modering co moderating with my friends Lorien Stacy, a k a.
The l A Stacy. It's called very Much Single and
it's for the chronically self partnered Sunday, six pm Pacific
time slash nine pm Eastern Time on Clubhouse all right,
and so getting into the main gotten a content of
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today's episode. Um, I'm going to reveal on look at
the Radio. I have shared on my personal I g
only on my personal Instagram, but at the end of December,
around Christmas time, I tested positive for COVID and it
was a very intense time. I like don't even know
how to describe it. It was awful. I doubt any
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like COVID nonbelievers listen to the podcast, you know, but like,
this ship is really it's real. It's real, and it
was horrible. And one of the only things that got
me through it was my friends and my family that
literally brought me meals. Mala included UM. Mala came multiple
times in left food at my doorstep, and she brought
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me the mold is she brought me, she brought me groceries. Um.
And those are things that really kept me going. So
just I share that because maybe you you don't have COVID,
maybe you have never had COVID, but if you know
someone that does, that's something that's really helpful because even
asking for help is really difficult because you're so exhausted
that it's hard to just pick up the phone. It's
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hard to call, it's hard to text all those things.
So um and I would say I had like a
mild case, mild ish case of COVID and it was
still really awful. And so that's also what delayed the
launch of season five, and so we took our time.
You know, usually in December we'd be planning, we'd be plotting,
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we'd be scheduling the photo shoots, all of that so
that we can launch in January. But we both decided
it would be best to take it easy, uh, to
delay the launch, because we are our own bosses. Well,
I guess y'all are kind of our bosses. Our listeners
are a little bit of our bosses, and they're a
little bit sometimes bossy. Y'all asked us when is the
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new season coming? It's here, it's here, but yeah, that's
the reason, Um, things have to just be delayed for
a little bit. But here we're back. And that also
is what inspired the content for today's episode, Influencers traveling
in the pandemic and the the pandemic in Los Angeles,
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especially because that's where we're reporting from, where we're recording from,
and also just globally, the pandemic is not over. It's
really not. It's like really nowhere close to being over.
I saw some predictions floating around in different places that
we really will not be out of this until, you know,
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this is like a long haul situation unless by some miracle,
we we turn it around completely. I have my doubts
just given you know, the past year. But it's really
not customary for us on local thora to necessarily do
like community call out or like community drags, and that's
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really not what this is. But we are gonna ask
some questions out loud and talk about some of the
observations we've made. We're also going to bring in a
little bit of research about the state of COVID here
in Los Angeles where we are based. And one of
the things that I want to ask of like our
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influencer community, because we are considered influencers micro influencers technically,
but we've gotten pressed. We sell merge, we we we
do speaking gigs, we have a following, we have people
who call themselves our fans. And there are other creatives
and influencers who are like us right who are l
A based or who are from other major cities, who
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have products that they sell, who market predominantly to a
Latin next demographic, who are heavily active on social media,
who have a lot of followers, who have a lot
of self proclaimed fans, who have influence, who have impact,
and who have platforms. And we think it's really important
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to talk about if if we have so much influence
and um impact in our communities and we engage in
commerce with our communities, what responsibilities do we have to
the people were selling to to, the people were marketing
to to, the people were speaking to when it comes
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to the pandemic, Like, what are our responsibilities as influencers
pandemic wise and the things that we share Because I've
noticed that we have some influencers in our community who
seemingly have been on NonStop vacations since the beginning, since
this thing started, flights airbnbs, but like all over the place,
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like a lot of like over and over and all
of it documented online. You know, it confuses me And
you've noticed something similar to right, Yeah, I think like
one thing is and granted everyone has everyone is able
to set their own rules, their own standards of what
is safe to them. Some people feel comfortable renting an
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airbnb somewhere in their city right, they want a little
staycation to get away, and they feel that that's relatively safe. Uh,
maybe it is right. And so I think that's one
thing because I did do a poll on my Instagram
asking folks if they felt it was safe to travel
right now, and I didn't clarify via airplane, via internationally,
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and so I did have some conversations with people about that,
and they expressed to me that they felt road trips
were safe if you make very few stops. Um. Getting
an airbnb maybe in a cat like in Big Bear,
in a cabin like is relatively safe if it's with
someone in your household. Um. But specifically I want to
clarify we're talking about airplane travel, international travel going to
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Latin America, because that's what we've seen going to the Caribbean.
And yeah, there's lots of thoughts, there's lots of feelings.
I think that it's very interesting to see what folks
are willing to call out. Not that I condone call out,
encourage call out. I don't think that they're actually productive.
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But I think that during a pandemic, when people are
literally dying, no one is willing to say anything. And
that is where I have questions because it's not it's
really not hyperbole to say people are dying. You know,
I think I think as millennials, like we really do
speak in hyperbole a lot of the times. But it's
really not hyperbole to say people are dying, right Like
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that that meme of Kim or is it Chloe or
Courtney saying Kim people are dying? It's true people are dying.
It's not hyperbole. And so I that it for me,
like that is the energy that I UM am feeling
right now, like people are dying and are are people
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within our community that have influence are traveling. And I've
had people say to me in my d M s um,
it's interesting that it's community when it's for profit, when
you want to sell something, um, but not when it
comes to keeping our community safe. And I think that
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that is one thousand percent valid and real. And she
questioned and challenged, I agree with you and literally speaking
of one thousand percent. Since no from the l A Times,
since November, deaths of Latinos due to COVID have increased
by one thousand percent. To quote l A County Public
Health Director Barbara for Rare, our Latinox community is in
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fact bearing the worst of this pandemic. From the same
l A Times article, right, Latinos make up over fifty
percent of waitress waiters and waitresses, cashiers, janitors. I mean,
the service industry is very, very, very heavily populated by
Latin X people, which is why so many folks in
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our communities are dying and are struggling. And it is
so disappointing to see what appears to be just either
ignorance of the situation or disregard and lack of care
for the situation. And you're right, everybody's gonna do what
they want to do. But we've been online and creating
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for long enough that we have seen and been on
the receiving end of as have our friends on the
receiving end of like really really like intense angry like
callouts and drags for things like I remember I was
in Mexico City last year, like this time last year,
and me and Monica were on the phone with Yessica
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because she was being horrifically dragged on Twitter for days
because of a high ku she wrote because people didn't
like that she was writing poetry about the experience of
her immigrant mother. Right, something like that is honestly so
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ridiculous list to me because it's a hi kup, you know.
And for everyone reader who doesn't like the Hiku, there's
gonna be a hundred other readers who do like the Hiku.
But for whatever reason, something is benign as a high
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Ku shared on Twitter, or using one wrong word in
a campaign um or maybe not presenting a project in
a way that is completely in alignment with the views
of every single Instagram user has been enough of a
reason to really like call women every name in the book,
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to drag them through the fucking mud across multiple platforms.
And we've seen it happen. But what's the point. What's
the goal? Did did any of those drags correct social
injustice to the point that we could avoid a global
disaster like the one we have now? All those drags
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took place, all those callouts took place. They were intense,
they were vicious, and they were fucking mean, we still
ended up in a place where Latinos are dying at
the highest rates, where people of color and immigrant people
are suffering the most, poor people are suffering the most.
All of those drags happened, not one of them contributed
to a safer or more stable world for the most
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impacted individuals. And when I see non black latinos like
doing these ridiculous drags all the time, I'm like, what
are you building? What are you contributing to? And who
are you speaking for or on? Behalf of? Really and honestly,
and those same folks who had so much energy repeatedly
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for such benign stuff like you said, are nowhere to
be found when now we're dealing with literal death like
mass death. Where's the anger, Where's the energy? Where the drags?
It's really revealing because if they worked, if they made
life better for people, if they brought about justice, then
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we would be employing them right now. But they don't work. Right.
They are good for exposing people, They're good for letting
large amounts of people know that something is happening. But
there are also sites of performance. All of these platforms
are performance spaces. Even the most self righteous, um you know,
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woke Twitter or Instagram user engaging in a drag, that
person is engaging in a performance. That person is performing,
and that person is often cloud chasing because a lot
of people have learned that if you engage in drags,
you can increase your own social media presence, and you
can establish a name for yourself as being woker than
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the last one. Right, It's a tactic that a lot
of people use, and it's just interesting that that tactic
is not useful for people right now. And I think
that's one reason why people are not doing it, because
it's not useful and they're really not engaging in the
drags for the betterment of any Benny, I don't know,
it's crazy, it's too much. Yeah, it's wild, because I
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mean I don't follow a lot of white influencers. I
mean I follow I do follow quite a few beauty influencers.
They're all um, black women or Latina latinas in the
beauty space. Um. And so my point is that even
influencers not in our community, like the ones that are
still traveling, are still like the people of color. And
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so it's not like I can it's not like we
can sit here and be like, oh, yeah, like white
people are traveling to Mexico and the Bahamas and Puerto Rico.
Yeah they are, but it's not just them, you know,
it's also it's our own people. It's like the Latin
X community that I've seen that I follow that are
also travel ling right now, and it just really disappoints me,
(37:05):
shocks me. There is there. Whenever things like this happened,
I always ask myself, like, who's in your circle? Like
I asked myself about the other person, because if I'm
doing some dumb ship, I know my friends are going
to be like girl, no, Like, first of all, don't
do it. The second of all, don't post. Don't post
(37:26):
that what you're doing, you know, and that I mean
the fact that you're on a trip and you're consciously
posting like tells me like you really don't care, truly, truly,
at minimum, don't post, at minimum, post yourself wearing a
damn mask, like you're pretending to participate in the public
(37:50):
safety and public health measures that have been recommended. Like again,
it's a performance space, so the performance that you're putting
on is one of someone who doesn't give a ship.
You could perform and pretend to care, you know, So
all the choices being made her fascinating. We're talking about
multiple people, multiple people. This is a trend across across fields,
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across influencers, spaces, not like just one particular, like not
just media, right, lots of people earlier, I stated that
I posted a poll or I did a poll on
my Instagram stories and I had like a little over
a thousand people respond and like nine percent of the
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people that answers said that influencers do encourage people to
travel during the pandemic. With their post, I for one,
don't feel I would be influenced to travel right now.
I would I may be influenced to purchase something. So
I was curious to see or to ask, like what
(38:54):
do people think right now, Like do influencers actually encourage
people to travel during a path endemic? We know that
influencers do encourage people to purchase a particular product, but
how does it work out? What does it look like
in a pandemic when it comes to traveling. And of
the people that answers said, yeah, it does encourage traveling,
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It does make it look safe, or does make it
seem like a lot of fun, And like maybe I
should be doing that too. And I feel like there's
a form of gas lighting that's happening right now when
we see people living their life like they're not in
a pandemic um, Because if you're on the end where
you've been really cautious you haven't You've been you haven't
(39:36):
been going anywhere, you haven't been dining out, you've been
literally safer at home. Um, it can kind of feel
like what have I been doing for the past year?
If these people are out at a restaurant and literally
traveling to another country, and it feels like you're a
little crazy. I agree completely because I have felt that way. Right,
(39:59):
Like I turned twenty line this year, I'm gonna turn
thirty within the pandemic, Like this is dragging on and
we're losing our years of our life, right, I mean,
our twenties are not necessarily the end all be all,
but it's an important decade, you know. And I've I've
had the exact same thoughts, like, am I being ridiculous
(40:21):
by not traveling? But no, that's not the reality. It's
it's And there's also a difference between folks who have
to travel for work, you know, it's the thing has
dragged on for so long that again, life has to continue.
People have to work because we are being forced to write.
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But there is a huge difference between traveling for work,
traveling out of necessity, traveling in an emergency, and literally
vacation hopping for months, it's different. I also think it's
so irrisponsible, not only I mean one thing is the family,
(41:05):
the coworkers, the space you're going to return to after traveling.
But you don't have to care or think about the
people that you left behind that served you your food,
served major drinks, served your water, cleaned your hotel room.
You know, all the people that you've interacted with at
the airport, at the hotel, wherever it is that you go.
(41:27):
You don't have to care about them, you know. Like
for me, like, that's what it tells me when people
do that, Like you don't care about all the service
workers that you interacted with while on this trip. And
they may not have the infrastructure their countries, their cities,
their states, wherever it is that they live, may not
have the infrastructure to handle COVID And that's just the reality.
(41:52):
And to me, that's like one of the most heartbreaking
things is you get to go on your vacation, have fun,
do it in the name of self care and mental
health return and who gives a funk about the people
that were They lived there daily truly, and to be clear,
we're not perfect people. We're doing our best. We are
(42:15):
learning along the way, and we're trying to survive this
thing too. We have also been affected and impacted by
the pandemic. The also literally just got through talking about
how she survived and her household survived, because he also
comes from a household full of essential workers, you know.
(42:37):
And I lost a coworker at the beginning of the pandemic,
like the second week into it, you know, like I
lost a family friend a couple of months ago to
the pandemic. We're losing people, you know, we are the
people that we know are getting sick. We are not
speaking about this from a place of distance, you know,
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we're not far away from this issue. We're in l a,
We're like in the center of it all, and we're
trying to survive and we are being impacted too. So
for all of those reasons, we've been talking about this
and making these observations just andres and just talking in
the d m s and texts. But we really felt like,
you know what we are and you are tuning in
(43:21):
at your own risk. So let's talk about this. Because
if you if you don't stand up for anything, you
stand for nothing right, and if nobody's going to bring
the the anger, because I think we're really talking about genuine, genuine,
heartfelt anger, you know. And sometimes it's okay to hear
(43:42):
here when women are angry, when it's justified, when it's realistic,
and we just want to put out a call to
our folks to do better, do better, be better, do
better because people are dying, people are dying dying. I
literally see a go fund me, a new go fund
me daily from either someone that I know that has
(44:05):
lost a relative here or in Latin America. I have
a thea in Fidu that is non ambulatory. Her caregiver
has COVID, so she had nobody caring for her, and
we were like figuring out care here in the US
via WhatsApp. We were all like coordinating with our potmos
that live in Fidu. And everyone is affected in some
(44:26):
way or another. Um and if you haven't been, I'm
happy for you. Keep like keeps staying safe, keeping safe,
make right choices, you know, Like it really comes down
to a lot of the choices that we make because
we have been left alone to handle this, to be safe,
to be healthy, to keep going because our state, our
(44:49):
state government left has left us, our federal government all
of last year, didn't care, left us literally left us
to die. And so a lot of it has come
down to into dual individual choices. So what you do
does matter. Yeah, I mean indoor dining has been opened
up again. Um, they opened up indoor dining and the
(45:12):
malls were already open, the shopping was still happening. They
opened the indoor dining after the city lifted the daily
limit on cremations because there are so many dead bodies
piling up in l A that the crematory, the crematoriums
needed to cremate more bodies than they're even allowed to.
(45:35):
And that's why are already horrible air quality beyond the wildfires,
beyond the smog, we've been breathing crematorium air because they're
cremating so many bodies in l A. But you want
to go on non stop vacations. You want to go
to Toloom. No, right, you want to go to the loom. Also,
(46:00):
like one day, not today. One day we will unpack
like tourism as colonialism will unpack that one day. But
I want to like just mention that because that is
all related. Um, you're literally going which you're colonize your
energy to other parts of the world. Um, and you
(46:23):
can come back and get your health care and get
your vaccine or get your COVID test when not everybody
even has access to COVID test. And we're still in
the thick of it. We are still in the thick
of it. And like, keep in mind pre pandemic, right,
funeral costs we're so expensive and now like because funeral
homes are so impacted, Like I hate to say this
(46:46):
because it's awful, because just the idea of it is horrible.
But people are having to pay daily to keep their
loved ones at the mortuary because there's no space at
the funeral home to have a service to bury their
loved one. So they're paying to store their loved store
keep the keep the body of their loved one at
(47:09):
a mortuary daily. That daily cost is like a hundred
plus dollars. I saw a go fund me literally because
someone was saying, we have to pay for a month
to keep our loved one out of mortuary. And so
this is just the hard reality. This is the hard reality.
And um, we are sitting in our houses and working
(47:32):
through it and podcasting through it, and just what else
can we do but talk about it, you know, but
stay inside and disinfect and just talk about it. We're podcasters.
We speak about the world around us, and so we
felt an obligation to bring this conversation to our very
first episode of season five, like we needed to prioritize
(47:55):
this talk. Yeah. Absolutely, we had some other things slated,
but things got got moved around because we saw so
many of our community traveling and so we had to
bring this to y'all's attention. There are times where we
do not cover everything. I don't want our lack of
an episode to signify we don't care about something I don't.
(48:17):
I don't want it to ever appear that way. There
are times where we can't move things around. UM, timing
doesn't work out. We record later than things have happened.
Things there's always a reason, right, But because it's the
first episode of the season, we're still in a pandemic,
we're in a new year. We felt called to do this.
So thank you for listening and rocking with us. We
(48:39):
know this episode or this content isn't easy, especially if
you've lost a loved one. Uh, take care of yourself.
If this was a hard episode for you, UM, if
you're recovering from covid. I'm with you. You know we
got this. Take it easy. Uh, you know, we'll we'll
feel like we're on the other side at some point. Absolutely,
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Thank you for listening, Thank you for holding space. We
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(49:22):
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our favorite segments, Oya Lokas. It's been a while since
we've done in Oya Loka, so I'm excited we do
have a couple of questions from our listeners, and the
first one is how do you stay happy and sane
during the pandemic. That's a great question, and now that
(03:00):
we're a year into it, maybe our answers have changed
the asa how do you stay happy and same in
the pandemic? You know, I think I'm figuring this out.
This is like an ongoing question that I asked myself
because it changes, and I think giving yourself that flexibility
is fine, Like some things that worked over the summer
of last year may not work now. I spent a
(03:24):
lot of like being very active in the sense that
I was like doing projects, working out daily, working out
two times a day, walking the dogs, doing the whole thing.
I felt like to fill a lot of the spaces
during my day. I would schedule a lot of things
for myself and that was really helpful for me. Now
(03:46):
I'm like slowing things down, you know. And it's really
interesting to start a new year with that kind of
mindset because I think in the before times, for me,
a new year always met like the top of the
new year was all about like hustling, sending my goals,
feeling motivated. But because we're in a pandemic, and a
(04:06):
lot happened for me, like the end of that. I
just started this year like taking a day by day,
you know, easing into things and just allowing myself that
grace and literally reminding myself that it is okay to
have downtime, to take it easy, and really like push
back on that like girl boss mindset, you know, that
(04:31):
toxic positivity that go get it, hustle and go get
it mentality. It doesn't work all the time, and it's
not always productive or conducive to our mental health. Very true,
Very true. I agree with you that maybe some of
the things that we're working before are not even really
an option right now. So there was still some level
(04:52):
of for me anyways, comfort with like going on a
picnic or like doing more older skate meetups. I'm still
roller skating. That's still keeping me staying and happy. But
things are just more and more like individual and done
in isolation and done alone as we progress, because things
(05:16):
haven't been getting better in l A as far as
COVID numbers. In the pandemic. It was raining a lot,
like a week or two ago, and it was raining
like torrential downpours like and as ANGELINEO. As we exaggerate
about the weather a lot, but they were torrential downpours,
so we were inside. Um, I was inside and leave
(05:37):
that whole week while it was raining, I just stayed in. Yeah,
what is the point honestly that I feel like Angelino's
shut down when it rains, and I see it every
time it rains. And you know that's compounded by a pandemic.
You really see less and less people outside when it's raining.
Pull us a pandemic. But yeah, I feel like in
(05:58):
a if in l A, people forget how to drive,
or people would want to drive super fast as if
the roads aren't wet. Um, And it's very interesting. We
really don't know how to function when it's not sunny outside.
So I will say that that stereotype is true about Erine.
It's really I own it as just part of our
(06:19):
identity and our global brand has people from l A County,
the Greater l A area. It's just how we roll. Yeah,
you know, not to veer off of subject too much.
Did you feel we're in February now we're at the
top of February. Did you feel like we did not
(06:40):
have a winter this year? Interesting? I felt like for me,
the things that really make the season winter time are
the holidays and the gatherings. Without them, there's not much
besides some rain and pulling out my little space heater
(07:02):
that like makes it winter. That's it. So it didn't
really feel like the winters that we induce that we're
used to. I would say, yeah, okay, So we have
another question for our Oya look As segment, and it's
about Valentine's Day. How do we plan on celebrating Valentine's
(07:25):
Day this year? Mala? Do you want to start? Yeah,
I'll start as the residents single of Look at the Radio.
I'm actually going to be co moderating a clubhouse room
called Very Much Single on Valentine's Day February fourteenth with
my friend and co moderator Lorian Stacy the l A Stacy.
(07:46):
This clubhouse room Sundays six pm Pacific time, nine pm
Eastern time every Sunday and on Valentine's Day, We're just
gonna be talking to all the single souls who show up,
and if they're any unsingles a k a. Couples in there.
I would also love that because what's going on on
(08:07):
your ends that you're in the Singles Clubhouse room, but
all are welcome, and if you are in a couple,
come and be helpful, like come with advice, come with tips,
come with referrals, come with a network of other singles
that you're trying to share. But That's what I'm going
to be doing. Also in my family, and my mom
has always been the type to give us little Valentine's
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and give us cards and chocolates and stuff within the family.
And we've always done that, is like give each other
little gifts. So that's what I'll be doing with my family. Same.
My mom is the same way she when I was
little for Valentine's Day. I mean even now as an adult,
she like has always given me like a card, a
(08:49):
little like the and Valentine's Day. It's always very thematic,
you know, Valentine's Day related. It's not just like a
random gift. It's specific to Valentine's Day. Um So yeah,
I think that I've practiced that with my loved ones
as well, like with my friends and with my family. Um,
I like to give little little presents on Valentine's Day.
(09:10):
So I'll be doing that. I kind of want to
get a little creative this year and like make something
so we'll see. I'm like thinking about it. And then
in terms of like Valentine's Day itself, I mean, it's
obviously very different this year because you're not going out
to dine. We're not going out to dine. Um, last
year we went to this like little Boogie Proving restaurant
(09:31):
that had just opened, and then we went to Soho House.
So so you know, yes, I remember your Valentine's Day. Yeah,
so like very different this year. Um. I also live
here with my family, so it's like not like we
can have I mean, we could have dinner here, but
family dinners, so which is fine. So I don't really
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know what that's like, but I know that I will
be making stuff for my friends and figuring that out.
That's really cute. I love when you get into your
craft mode because I'm like, Okay, what is she gonna
whip up next? Like what can we expect? I'm excited. Yes,
thank you. I will keep you posted. I mean, you
(10:13):
would be on the receiving end of the presence of
the craft. So thank you, Thank you so much. So
that was Aya Locas. Remember you guys can always send
us questions via email. A local thought Radio dot com.
You can d m us on Instagram at Local Underscore Radio.
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Email is best and you can always add the subject
line Oya loca. So we know that you want your
question to be featured on a cup. Yes. Um, if
you have been following us since, you know that we
were hosting Aya lokas on our i G Live and
you know we did that because we thought the pandemic
(10:55):
was gonna last a couple of months, not the entire year.
So now you know we're bringing it back to the
Guppy the Laws. Yeah, we will talk more about the
pandemic in uh later in the episode, but there's a
few things that we really thought, Okay, we're gonna do
some short coverage of this thing, but it's still here, right,
(11:17):
So we're kind of going back to our regularly scheduled
programming in many ways because suck it. What can we do?
We gotta keep going. And on that note, we are
bringing back another listener favorite called Weird Things the White
Women Did this week Mama get us started. Please. Yes,
to be quite honest with you, there are so many
(11:37):
examples that we could have pulled from to populate this
gup Beat the Laws installment of weird things white women
did this week, but we decided to focus specifically, maybe
on the weirdest white woman um of the current news cycle,
and that's Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green. She's a que and
(11:58):
on darling and honestly a raving right wing ship stir.
She has been making comments about basically endorsing assassinations of Democrats,
including Nancy Pelosi. She's also been on video harassing school
shooting survivors from Parkland, including David Hogg. And you know,
we recently watched AOC's I G Live where she detailed
(12:23):
the horrific experience she had during the Capital insurrection and
how unsafe she felt, she wasn't sure if the Capitol
police were there to help her harm her, and how
she was generally genuinely concerned that her fellow elected officials,
especially Republican elected officials, were seeking to do harm to
her and other Democrats. So to then have this Congresswoman
(12:46):
Marjorie Taylor Green speaking very plainly about how, yeah, she
endorses the assassination of Democrats. It's wild, it's dangerous, it's
not cool, right, I mean, this is a great example
for lack of a or phrase, right, of the conspiracy
theorists having real life repercussions, right, Um, that all of
(13:10):
the victual and hate that is directed at congressmen has
real life consequences, right and the and for us on
and not even just on the far left right, for
us as women, as survivors, as Latin, as a woman
of color, the death threats like are outrageous, Like we're
(13:32):
not like shocked, We're not surprised, and that's sad. Right,
there are people that there are conservatives, there are conspiracy
theorists that believe that she's making this up. And for us,
we're like, yeah, it makes sense, you know, it's awful.
It doesn't make it right, but we don't doubt her story,
Like this is like common Unfortunately, this isn't that, this
(13:54):
isn't that wild or far fetched for us, like, we
know that this is plausible based on the vitriol that's
directed at her. Absolutely and also you know, backed up
and felt by other women of color who are our
who holds public office, for example Aana Pressley. Like these
women have also spoken to how unsafe they have felt,
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how they have they felt targeted, and not only that
they felt unsafe or targeted, but like the evidence being
there that right wing Trump supporters were genuinely and actively
targeting them. Right this is like beyond individual women feeling
paranoid or just feeling unsafe, it's them acknowledging that you know,
there are truly attempts at their lives being organized and
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made and encouraged by people in high places, like Marjorie
Taylor Green. And she's not the only one, but she
her name has been in the news a lot recently. Luckily,
it looks like the House did exile Representative Marjorie Taylor
Green from congressional committees, blacklisting her. She's the first term
Georgian Um black staying for endorsing the executions of Democrats
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and spreading dangerous and bigoted misinformation even as fellow Republicans
rallied around her. And that's from the New York Times.
So it's also important, I think, for us to talk
about all the complicity around Marjorie Taylor Green, how many
Republicans are basically very comfortable giving her the keys to
the kingdom. And as a reminder, nobody took Donald Trump
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seriously at first, but the Republican endorsement of him and
the enabling of his function got us to where we
are now. So I think Marjorie is one to watch.
Let's be careful with this one. I agree. I also
want to add for I want to add another white
woman too, weird things white women did, because we brought
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up a congresswoman is live stream or her I g live.
Alissa Milano was in the comments and she, you know,
we left a comment like holding space acknowledging CONGRESSOMANNOC and
the trauma she was airing and what she went through.
And then at one point when AOC brings up that
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she went to Congresswoman Katie Porter's office, Elissa Milano in
the comments is like, oh, did she have her white
board with her? And I'm like, why are you making
a joke right now? Like even like you can't make
a lighthearted joke, you can't joke at all when someone
is sharing their trauma and their lived experience and it's
visibly shaken up, you know, as their detailing this very
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traumatic event. And so I want to add her to
the list of weird things why women did. Don't ever
do that, regardless if you're white or not. Don't ever
make a joke like that when someone is sharing their
trauma and on such a public stage. I don't know
how many hundreds of thousands of people were tuned in
and watching AOC's live stream, But Elissa Milano, being a
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celebrity and being in the public sphere, she knows what
it's like to have a bunch of eyes on her.
And I agree with you, very uncool for her to
do that, and not funny, like nobody laugh, not funny
at all. Anyway, if you have a weird Things White
Women did story, also feel free to email us. Y'all
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have shared some weird ship in the past that white
women have done, so feel free to keep those coming again.
You could email us at all that local radio dot
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White women did. And just to let you all know,
we have been monitoring the wave of fake Tina's, the
fake latinas the white ladies literally pretending to be of
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Latin American descent in different ways. We are keeping track,
we are monitoring the situation we will be putting out
of Fake Tina's episode in the future, So just f
y on that. Yes, we are aware it's coming, alright, y'all,
So we're going to go into a quick song break
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and so getting into the main gotten a content of
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today's episode. Um, I'm going to reveal on look at
the Radio. I have shared on my personal I g
only on my personal Instagram, but at the end of December,
around Christmas time, I tested positive for COVID and it
was a very intense time. I like don't even know
how to describe it. It was awful. I doubt any
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like COVID nonbelievers listen to the podcast, you know, but like,
this ship is really it's real. It's real, and it
was horrible. And one of the only things that got
me through it was my friends and my family that
literally brought me meals. Mala included UM. Mala came multiple
times in left food at my doorstep, and she brought
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me the mold is she brought me, she brought me groceries. Um.
And those are things that really kept me going. So
just I share that because maybe you you don't have COVID,
maybe you have never had COVID, but if you know
someone that does, that's something that's really helpful because even
asking for help is really difficult because you're so exhausted
that it's hard to just pick up the phone. It's
(24:49):
hard to call, it's hard to text all those things.
So um and I would say I had like a
mild case, mild ish case of COVID and it was
still really awful. And so that's also what delayed the
launch of season five, and so we took our time.
You know, usually in December we'd be planning, we'd be plotting,
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we'd be scheduling the photo shoots, all of that so
that we can launch in January. But we both decided
it would be best to take it easy, uh, to
delay the launch, because we are our own bosses. Well,
I guess y'all are kind of our bosses. Our listeners
are a little bit of our bosses, and they're a
little bit sometimes bossy. Y'all asked us when is the
(25:32):
new season coming? It's here, it's here, but yeah, that's
the reason, Um, things have to just be delayed for
a little bit. But here we're back. And that also
is what inspired the content for today's episode, Influencers traveling
in the pandemic and the the pandemic in Los Angeles,
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especially because that's where we're reporting from, where we're recording from,
and also just globally, the pandemic is not over. It's
really not. It's like really nowhere close to being over.
I saw some predictions floating around in different places that
we really will not be out of this until, you know,
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this is like a long haul situation unless by some miracle,
we we turn it around completely. I have my doubts
just given you know, the past year. But it's really
not customary for us on local thora to necessarily do
like community call out or like community drags, and that's
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really not what this is. But we are gonna ask
some questions out loud and talk about some of the
observations we've made. We're also going to bring in a
little bit of research about the state of COVID here
in Los Angeles where we are based. And one of
the things that I want to ask of like our
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influencer community, because we are considered influencers micro influencers technically,
but we've gotten pressed. We sell merge, we we we
do speaking gigs, we have a following, we have people
who call themselves our fans. And there are other creatives
and influencers who are like us right who are l
A based or who are from other major cities, who
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have products that they sell, who market predominantly to a
Latin next demographic, who are heavily active on social media,
who have a lot of followers, who have a lot
of self proclaimed fans, who have influence, who have impact,
and who have platforms. And we think it's really important
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to talk about if if we have so much influence
and um impact in our communities and we engage in
commerce with our communities, what responsibilities do we have to
the people were selling to to, the people were marketing
to to, the people were speaking to when it comes
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to the pandemic, Like, what are our responsibilities as influencers
pandemic wise and the things that we share Because I've
noticed that we have some influencers in our community who
seemingly have been on NonStop vacations since the beginning, since
this thing started, flights airbnbs, but like all over the place,
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like a lot of like over and over and all
of it documented online. You know, it confuses me And
you've noticed something similar to right, Yeah, I think like
one thing is and granted everyone has everyone is able
to set their own rules, their own standards of what
is safe to them. Some people feel comfortable renting an
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airbnb somewhere in their city right, they want a little
staycation to get away, and they feel that that's relatively safe. Uh,
maybe it is right. And so I think that's one
thing because I did do a poll on my Instagram
asking folks if they felt it was safe to travel
right now, and I didn't clarify via airplane, via internationally,
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and so I did have some conversations with people about that,
and they expressed to me that they felt road trips
were safe if you make very few stops. Um. Getting
an airbnb maybe in a cat like in Big Bear,
in a cabin like is relatively safe if it's with
someone in your household. Um. But specifically I want to
clarify we're talking about airplane travel, international travel going to
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Latin America, because that's what we've seen going to the Caribbean.
And yeah, there's lots of thoughts, there's lots of feelings.
I think that it's very interesting to see what folks
are willing to call out. Not that I condone call out,
encourage call out. I don't think that they're actually productive.
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But I think that during a pandemic, when people are
literally dying, no one is willing to say anything. And
that is where I have questions because it's not it's
really not hyperbole to say people are dying. You know,
I think I think as millennials, like we really do
speak in hyperbole a lot of the times. But it's
really not hyperbole to say people are dying, right Like
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that that meme of Kim or is it Chloe or
Courtney saying Kim people are dying? It's true people are dying.
It's not hyperbole. And so I that it for me,
like that is the energy that I UM am feeling
right now, like people are dying and are are people
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within our community that have influence are traveling. And I've
had people say to me in my d M s um,
it's interesting that it's community when it's for profit, when
you want to sell something, um, but not when it
comes to keeping our community safe. And I think that
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that is one thousand percent valid and real. And she
questioned and challenged, I agree with you and literally speaking
of one thousand percent. Since no from the l A Times,
since November, deaths of Latinos due to COVID have increased
by one thousand percent. To quote l A County Public
Health Director Barbara for Rare, our Latinox community is in
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fact bearing the worst of this pandemic. From the same
l A Times article, right, Latinos make up over fifty
percent of waitress waiters and waitresses, cashiers, janitors. I mean,
the service industry is very, very, very heavily populated by
Latin X people, which is why so many folks in
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our communities are dying and are struggling. And it is
so disappointing to see what appears to be just either
ignorance of the situation or disregard and lack of care
for the situation. And you're right, everybody's gonna do what
they want to do. But we've been online and creating
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for long enough that we have seen and been on
the receiving end of as have our friends on the
receiving end of like really really like intense angry like
callouts and drags for things like I remember I was
in Mexico City last year, like this time last year,
and me and Monica were on the phone with Yessica
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because she was being horrifically dragged on Twitter for days
because of a high ku she wrote because people didn't
like that she was writing poetry about the experience of
her immigrant mother. Right, something like that is honestly so
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ridiculous list to me because it's a hi kup, you know.
And for everyone reader who doesn't like the Hiku, there's
gonna be a hundred other readers who do like the Hiku.
But for whatever reason, something is benign as a high
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Ku shared on Twitter, or using one wrong word in
a campaign um or maybe not presenting a project in
a way that is completely in alignment with the views
of every single Instagram user has been enough of a
reason to really like call women every name in the book,
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to drag them through the fucking mud across multiple platforms.
And we've seen it happen. But what's the point. What's
the goal? Did did any of those drags correct social
injustice to the point that we could avoid a global
disaster like the one we have now? All those drags
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took place, all those callouts took place. They were intense,
they were vicious, and they were fucking mean, we still
ended up in a place where Latinos are dying at
the highest rates, where people of color and immigrant people
are suffering the most, poor people are suffering the most.
All of those drags happened, not one of them contributed
to a safer or more stable world for the most
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impacted individuals. And when I see non black latinos like
doing these ridiculous drags all the time, I'm like, what
are you building? What are you contributing to? And who
are you speaking for or on? Behalf of? Really and honestly,
and those same folks who had so much energy repeatedly
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for such benign stuff like you said, are nowhere to
be found when now we're dealing with literal death like
mass death. Where's the anger, Where's the energy? Where the drags?
It's really revealing because if they worked, if they made
life better for people, if they brought about justice, then
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we would be employing them right now. But they don't work. Right.
They are good for exposing people, They're good for letting
large amounts of people know that something is happening. But
there are also sites of performance. All of these platforms
are performance spaces. Even the most self righteous, um you know,
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woke Twitter or Instagram user engaging in a drag, that
person is engaging in a performance. That person is performing,
and that person is often cloud chasing because a lot
of people have learned that if you engage in drags,
you can increase your own social media presence, and you
can establish a name for yourself as being woker than
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the last one. Right, It's a tactic that a lot
of people use, and it's just interesting that that tactic
is not useful for people right now. And I think
that's one reason why people are not doing it, because
it's not useful and they're really not engaging in the
drags for the betterment of any Benny, I don't know,
it's crazy, it's too much. Yeah, it's wild, because I
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mean I don't follow a lot of white influencers. I
mean I follow I do follow quite a few beauty influencers.
They're all um, black women or Latina latinas in the
beauty space. Um. And so my point is that even
influencers not in our community, like the ones that are
still traveling, are still like the people of color. And
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so it's not like I can it's not like we
can sit here and be like, oh, yeah, like white
people are traveling to Mexico and the Bahamas and Puerto Rico.
Yeah they are, but it's not just them, you know,
it's also it's our own people. It's like the Latin
X community that I've seen that I follow that are
also travel ling right now, and it just really disappoints me,
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shocks me. There is there. Whenever things like this happened,
I always ask myself, like, who's in your circle? Like
I asked myself about the other person, because if I'm
doing some dumb ship, I know my friends are going
to be like girl, no, Like, first of all, don't
do it. The second of all, don't post. Don't post
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that what you're doing, you know, and that I mean
the fact that you're on a trip and you're consciously
posting like tells me like you really don't care, truly, truly,
at minimum, don't post, at minimum, post yourself wearing a
damn mask, like you're pretending to participate in the public
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safety and public health measures that have been recommended. Like again,
it's a performance space, so the performance that you're putting
on is one of someone who doesn't give a ship.
You could perform and pretend to care, you know, So
all the choices being made her fascinating. We're talking about
multiple people, multiple people. This is a trend across across fields,
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across influencers, spaces, not like just one particular, like not
just media, right, lots of people earlier, I stated that
I posted a poll or I did a poll on
my Instagram stories and I had like a little over
a thousand people respond and like nine percent of the
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people that answers said that influencers do encourage people to
travel during the pandemic. With their post, I for one,
don't feel I would be influenced to travel right now.
I would I may be influenced to purchase something. So
I was curious to see or to ask, like what
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do people think right now, Like do influencers actually encourage
people to travel during a path endemic? We know that
influencers do encourage people to purchase a particular product, but
how does it work out? What does it look like
in a pandemic when it comes to traveling. And of
the people that answers said, yeah, it does encourage traveling,
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It does make it look safe, or does make it
seem like a lot of fun, And like maybe I
should be doing that too. And I feel like there's
a form of gas lighting that's happening right now when
we see people living their life like they're not in
a pandemic um, Because if you're on the end where
you've been really cautious you haven't You've been you haven't
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been going anywhere, you haven't been dining out, you've been
literally safer at home. Um, it can kind of feel
like what have I been doing for the past year?
If these people are out at a restaurant and literally
traveling to another country, and it feels like you're a
little crazy. I agree completely because I have felt that way. Right,
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Like I turned twenty line this year, I'm gonna turn
thirty within the pandemic, Like this is dragging on and
we're losing our years of our life, right, I mean,
our twenties are not necessarily the end all be all,
but it's an important decade, you know. And I've I've
had the exact same thoughts, like, am I being ridiculous
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by not traveling? But no, that's not the reality. It's
it's And there's also a difference between folks who have
to travel for work, you know, it's the thing has
dragged on for so long that again, life has to continue.
People have to work because we are being forced to write.
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But there is a huge difference between traveling for work,
traveling out of necessity, traveling in an emergency, and literally
vacation hopping for months, it's different. I also think it's
so irrisponsible, not only I mean one thing is the family,
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the coworkers, the space you're going to return to after traveling.
But you don't have to care or think about the
people that you left behind that served you your food,
served major drinks, served your water, cleaned your hotel room.
You know, all the people that you've interacted with at
the airport, at the hotel, wherever it is that you go.
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You don't have to care about them, you know. Like
for me, like, that's what it tells me when people
do that, Like you don't care about all the service
workers that you interacted with while on this trip. And
they may not have the infrastructure their countries, their cities,
their states, wherever it is that they live, may not
have the infrastructure to handle COVID And that's just the reality.
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And to me, that's like one of the most heartbreaking
things is you get to go on your vacation, have fun,
do it in the name of self care and mental
health return and who gives a funk about the people
that were They lived there daily truly, and to be clear,
we're not perfect people. We're doing our best. We are
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learning along the way, and we're trying to survive this
thing too. We have also been affected and impacted by
the pandemic. The also literally just got through talking about
how she survived and her household survived, because he also
comes from a household full of essential workers, you know.
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And I lost a coworker at the beginning of the pandemic,
like the second week into it, you know, like I
lost a family friend a couple of months ago to
the pandemic. We're losing people, you know, we are the
people that we know are getting sick. We are not
speaking about this from a place of distance, you know,
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we're not far away from this issue. We're in l a,
We're like in the center of it all, and we're
trying to survive and we are being impacted too. So
for all of those reasons, we've been talking about this
and making these observations just andres and just talking in
the d m s and texts. But we really felt like,
you know what we are and you are tuning in
(43:21):
at your own risk. So let's talk about this. Because
if you if you don't stand up for anything, you
stand for nothing right, and if nobody's going to bring
the the anger, because I think we're really talking about genuine, genuine,
heartfelt anger, you know. And sometimes it's okay to hear
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here when women are angry, when it's justified, when it's realistic,
and we just want to put out a call to
our folks to do better, do better, be better, do
better because people are dying, people are dying dying. I
literally see a go fund me, a new go fund
me daily from either someone that I know that has
(44:05):
lost a relative here or in Latin America. I have
a thea in Fidu that is non ambulatory. Her caregiver
has COVID, so she had nobody caring for her, and
we were like figuring out care here in the US
via WhatsApp. We were all like coordinating with our potmos
that live in Fidu. And everyone is affected in some
(44:26):
way or another. Um and if you haven't been, I'm
happy for you. Keep like keeps staying safe, keeping safe,
make right choices, you know, Like it really comes down
to a lot of the choices that we make because
we have been left alone to handle this, to be safe,
to be healthy, to keep going because our state, our
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state government left has left us, our federal government all
of last year, didn't care, left us literally left us
to die. And so a lot of it has come
down to into dual individual choices. So what you do
does matter. Yeah, I mean indoor dining has been opened
up again. Um, they opened up indoor dining and the
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malls were already open, the shopping was still happening. They
opened the indoor dining after the city lifted the daily
limit on cremations because there are so many dead bodies
piling up in l A that the crematory, the crematoriums
needed to cremate more bodies than they're even allowed to.
(45:35):
And that's why are already horrible air quality beyond the wildfires,
beyond the smog, we've been breathing crematorium air because they're
cremating so many bodies in l A. But you want
to go on non stop vacations. You want to go
to Toloom. No, right, you want to go to the loom. Also,
(46:00):
like one day, not today. One day we will unpack
like tourism as colonialism will unpack that one day. But
I want to like just mention that because that is
all related. Um, you're literally going which you're colonize your
energy to other parts of the world. Um, and you
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can come back and get your health care and get
your vaccine or get your COVID test when not everybody
even has access to COVID test. And we're still in
the thick of it. We are still in the thick
of it. And like, keep in mind pre pandemic, right,
funeral costs we're so expensive and now like because funeral
homes are so impacted, Like I hate to say this
(46:46):
because it's awful, because just the idea of it is horrible.
But people are having to pay daily to keep their
loved ones at the mortuary because there's no space at
the funeral home to have a service to bury their
loved one. So they're paying to store their loved store
keep the keep the body of their loved one at
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a mortuary daily. That daily cost is like a hundred
plus dollars. I saw a go fund me literally because
someone was saying, we have to pay for a month
to keep our loved one out of mortuary. And so
this is just the hard reality. This is the hard reality.
And um, we are sitting in our houses and working
(47:32):
through it and podcasting through it, and just what else
can we do but talk about it, you know, but
stay inside and disinfect and just talk about it. We're podcasters.
We speak about the world around us, and so we
felt an obligation to bring this conversation to our very
first episode of season five, like we needed to prioritize
(47:55):
this talk. Yeah. Absolutely, we had some other things slated,
but things got got moved around because we saw so
many of our community traveling and so we had to
bring this to y'all's attention. There are times where we
do not cover everything. I don't want our lack of
an episode to signify we don't care about something I don't.
(48:17):
I don't want it to ever appear that way. There
are times where we can't move things around. UM, timing
doesn't work out. We record later than things have happened.
Things there's always a reason, right, But because it's the
first episode of the season, we're still in a pandemic,
we're in a new year. We felt called to do this.
So thank you for listening and rocking with us. We
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know this episode or this content isn't easy, especially if
you've lost a loved one. Uh, take care of yourself.
If this was a hard episode for you, UM, if
you're recovering from covid. I'm with you. You know we
got this. Take it easy. Uh, you know, we'll we'll
feel like we're on the other side at some point. Absolutely,
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Thank you for listening, Thank you for holding space. We
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particular topic given everything, but we do want to hear
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thank you again for tuning in. We also want to
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Jackie on Thevedos on the hit Netflix series Mr Eagles. Yes,
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really fun show with an all star cast. Oscar from
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