January 3, 2024 • 25 mins
For the first episode of 2024, Mala and Diosa ease into the year by playing We All Grow's bilingual card deck called, "Amigas Circle." They discuss the new beginnings 2024 brings, like grad school, new routines, and
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Loka Tora Radio is a radiophonic novella.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Which is just a very extra way of saying a podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm diosa m.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
And I am Mala Munos.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Lokatra Radio is yr Brima's favorite podcast, hosted by us
Mala and Viosa.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We're two ig friends turned podcast partners, breaking down pop culture, feminism,
sexual wellness, and offering fresh takes on trending topics through
nuanced interviews with up and coming LATINX creatives.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Known as Las Lokatas, Las Mammis of Myth and Bullshit
and Las Borgass Prosas. We were podcasting independently since twenty sixteen,
but joined iHeartMedia's Microtura network in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
This year, we're continuing to share stories from the LATINX community.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Barto el Mundo, Welcome to season eight.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Are you listening.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
All La La lokamotives. Welcome to Season eight of lok
at Tota Radio. I'm Theosa and I am Mala. You're
tuning into Capitol one eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Last time on look at Thota Radio, we interviewed Raquel Richard,
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Speaker 1 (01:25):
So this is our first episode of the new year.
So happy twenty twenty four, lokamotives. By the time this
episode airs, we will be in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's exciting. It's exciting, exciting to be here on the
other side. We made it. We survived another year. We
really did.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I mean tune into our end of year recap of
twenty twenty three. Last last year, last episode where we
really get into like how are your wet, the the personal,
the highs, the lows, all that, all that stuff that happens.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was a lot. We did a lot of things
last year and we talked about all of it. Yeah,
on that recap episode, we went through month by month,
event by event. Yes, really fun episode. Make sure you
tune in and yeah, it's I Love Well, I'm a
I'm a January baby, Yes you are. It's Capricorn season.
This is my time, this is my era. Yes, you know,
(02:16):
so it's I feel empowered, I feel powerful good.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Capricorns are powerful.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Very powerful. Everybody talks about us. But to quote Beiance,
you know you're that bitch when you cause all this conversation, right,
and everybody's always talking about Capricorns, Capricorns, this capricorn is that.
I'm like, I know, you're obsessed. I gotta, I gotta,
I gotta.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Maybe because you're a Capricorn, you feel like the Capricorn slander.
But I feel like I never hear people say bad
things about Capricorns. I feel like it's always the Geminis
and the scorpios.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, definitely the Geminis. The Geminis are worse. They're worse.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
My mother's a Gemini. It's an ongoing conversation of how
terrible they are. They really are little sour patch kids.
They're like evil and then sweet and you don't know
which one you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, you gotta be careful with them. Prickly pears, yes,
prickly pairs they are. But I just want to say,
you know, it's the first month of the year. Capricorns
are the first sign of the zodiac. And then I
started thinking about it, first month of the year, first
sign of the zodiac. I am the firstborn child and
the first grandchild, and I am the first daughter born
(03:22):
to a first daughter.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You're the chosen one.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I've just always been a winner from out the womb,
bitch a winner. So you guys are so lucky to
be here listening to us, because I.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Mean, we really are in the Capricorn era clearly, rarely
we are.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We are AnyWho, what are we talking about today?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How are you feeling before we get into that, how
are you feeling about twenty twenty four? Like, how do
you I know it's your your Capricorn you're in Like
this is like you're all your powers are activated right now, truly,
you know. But like do you enter like how do
you enter a year? Typically? Do you feel like full energetic?
Do you feel like we're still in winter? So like
calendar year starts, but seasons we're in the middle of
(04:06):
a slow season, you know. So I always feel it's
really weird that we start like we want to hit
the ground running calendar January twenty twenty four, the brand
new year, but really we're still like kind of hibernating,
So like how do you approach a new year?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So I have like been reflecting on this. I've never
been super hyped up about like celebrating my birthday, for example,
because it's right after New Year it's right after Christmas,
it's in the middle of winter. It's January. Like back
when I was in school. That's people are like still
on winter break or just getting back from winter break.
It's like a cold, desolate, isolated, sad time of year.
(04:43):
So it's never for me, like I never feel like, like, God,
I'm so excited to celebrate my birthday, like I'll do
a little something, But other than that, I just feel
like I'm just charging up and just getting ready to
take on the year. I'm starting grad school now. Yeah,
I think by the time the episode's out, I will
already have started my classes something like that, something like that.
So I've just mostly been focusing on that because I
(05:06):
haven't been to school in ten years. Yes, I mean yeah,
I was taking improv classes at the Groundlings, but it's
not the same and it's only I was thinking classes at UCB.
It's not the same five days a week I'm on
campus now I have a class at nine am. I
haven't had a nine am anything in like a very
long time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Nine am. Grad school classes were rough. I don't know
how we did a K through twelve.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Honestly, we were up so early, like in our seats
learning at like eight.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Ams wild that we do that to the little children.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Inhumane. Yeah, the poor things, the poor babes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, not to get too deep into it, right, but
it's also like a system of capitalism obviously, because like
the children, the parents have to clock in nine o'clock,
nine to five, so the kids have to be at school,
but eight, like it's all embedded in our society. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's terrible. It's terrible. So yeah, that's been. That's been.
I feel like because you know, like for the past
couple of years and I've talked about this, I've been
like I've been a real hippie, real hippie dippy, like
when we record, we record, I'm you know, shows nights
and weekends. And now I feel like I'm I'm rejoining
(06:14):
like the Land of the Living, you know, I'm like
with the day Walkers now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Like you're rejoining society.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And rejoining society. It's so it's cool.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I mean, I personally love being a student, So
I'm excited to see you as a student, Yeah, totally,
and see what is like Mala as a student, you know,
you know what I mean, Like what how who is she?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah? I'm curious. I'm curious too. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So today we are getting a little playful literally, you know,
we're going to be playing a game today, and I
want to call back to I think season seven, which
was Valentine's twenty twenty three. We played a wordiful card
game and asked each other all kinds of intimate questions.
So I'm gonna that episode in the show notes, and
(07:01):
for this episode, we're gonna do something similar. We thought
it would be fitting to start the year with an intimate,
probably vulnerable convo facilitated by we all grows new card
game called Amiga's Circle. They sent us this game, and
we just thought it would be a really fun way
to start the new year. And this card game is
a bilingual game with ninety nine prompt cards intentionally designed
(07:25):
to strengthen your relationships by igniting conversations that nurture intimacy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We're gonna play with each other, and I'm so excited.
I love getting intimate with Yosa on camera. So here
we get, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I mean, can we get any more intimate?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Honestly, we could, we just haven't tried and chosen not to.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But I guess we could.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Season ten, Season ten our.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Sex tape this season ten. Okay, putting it out there. Now, okay,
let's look at this deck. So there's like three categories heal, Commune, grow, ooh,
and the deck is very beautiful. By the way, this
is not a sponsored We love our friends over it.
We all grow. But you know they just sent us
(08:11):
this and so here we are.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Thank you, Thank you friends, thank you ladies. Beautiful deck.
So how do we start?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Draw from nine to nine prompt cards to dive into
meaningful conversations, Gather your circle, create a sacred space, and begin.
So I think maybe let's grab like one from each deck.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, this is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's what I'm thinking. Do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah? Should we start with Hell's just start with grow?
Do it a grow? Should it just pull straight from
the top?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
However you want to do it, Amiga, do it in Spanish.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. You can do it in English.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I will do it in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Actually, okay, she can, she can do it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's written in Spanish. So I can Amiga get a
Ustaria Creer on thre in estanueve at that movie.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh, that's so cute. That really is a fitting question
for the beginning of the year. I want to further.
I want to create a more holistic but disciplined life,
which sounds wild because I feel I'm already pretty disciplined.
But there are things I've been trying to implement into
my life for years that I just don't I can
(09:22):
never I don't follow through with them. And one of
them is like the morning pages, the journaling, like waking
up and just writing right I wake up, and I'm
very much like a slow morning person. I'm like two extremes.
I'm a slow morning or I'm at the gym at
six am. It's like I'm there's no one between for me,
and so I think this year, I want to really
dedicate my mornings to writing, to creativity. But I've also
(09:47):
accepted that I'm kind of a night owl, and I
think that that I wasn't always a night owl, but
I think because of Loka, I became like a night
time creative person because we were always doing creative work
on our second shift during our after our day jobs.
And so I'm kind of trying to retrain myself to
(10:08):
foster creativity during the day to do it in the
morning so that I can actually go to bed early,
so I can be off in the evening spend time
with my family. And so I think that's what I'm
going to be working on this year.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love that. Also. Can I just say, if you
were any more disciplined, you would be a soldier? Like
your levels of discipline are already through the room, so
I can't even imagine. And for the Nasabos, I will
read the prompt in English. Now, So, Amiga, what would
you like to build, create or nurture for this new
phase in your life? For me, I need to build
any discipline at all. I need some discipline. So I'm
(10:43):
literally working on that. On routine, on getting back into
like getting back into like going to the gym. I
used to go to the gym all the time. There
was a time where I was roller skating every day.
I've been a lot more sedentary the past few months,
and I want to get back into like getting active
and in my body and all that good stuff. I also,
(11:03):
you know, I want to. I want to. I mean
the reason I'm going to grad school is for film
and television and just expanding that side of things, you know,
with look at lot our productions, with our media, with
the things that we make, and just also personally. There
have been some scripts and some stories and some ideas
(11:24):
that I've kind of slowly been chipping away at. But
I'm excited to bring them to fruition and get these
things made.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's exciting, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And so that's really where I'm at. As far as
the stand up comedy and stuff, I also like would
love to build towards like a thirty minute like a
half hour special, you know, like maybe self producing something,
but I would love to get I would love to
film something for stand up. I feel like I'm getting
there where I have a solid thirty minutes that I
(11:54):
think could be cool, you know, on camera. So yeah,
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I would love to see that. Thank you Yes, produced
by Loka Production.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Literally. You see how we work, You see how we
do things.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You see our minds, we feed everything back into the project.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes we do.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, next card, Okay, Yes, this is the Commune deck. Okay,
I don't I don't know, let's see. Okay, it's not bad,
it's not fair. I'm just kind of like, do we
have to talk about this again? But yes, Okay, Okay, Amiga,
what helps you feel empowered?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You go first? No, you go first, I asked the question.
Oh that's right, I'm the Amiga. I'm the Amiga here, dang.
What makes me feel empowered? I mean I feel empowered when, like,
you know, when I have a good day and things
just go well and yes, you know, you do a
good job and everybody's happy and all the things get accomplished,
(12:48):
like that is an empowering moment, you know. For me, Yeah, like, okay,
this was a we did a good job and I'm happy,
and that that's for me is empowerment. If I can
get everything done, I'm like wow, like I'm just killing
it and stop allowing at Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, I agree. I agree, even like the little things
like okay, I sent a bunch of emails, like I
crossed off a lot of things on my to do
list today. I think what makes me feel empowered? I agree,
Like having a really good day in terms of like productivity,
I think is can be really empowering. I think for us,
because we're our own bosses and so it's like okay,
(13:24):
I can run a business. I can do this, So
I think, yeah, for me, it does feel very empowering
to be able to be self employed and be successful
at it, be good at it. I think something else
that makes me feel empowered is I think like running
and working out. I'm in like the beginning, like six
(13:44):
weeks of marathon training. By the time this episode is out,
I will be like deep in marathon training. And so
I think for me, like testing the limits of like
my physical fitness and like really like feeling so much
gratitude that I get to move my body in this way.
I get to put on my running shoes every day
and go out there and like log a bunch of miles.
(14:05):
Like that makes me feel really empowered because nobody's making
me do it. I'm doing it myself. I'm paying to run,
which I think is always so wild, but it has
really been a really big part of my creative process,
which I think I've talked about here. I think I've
talked about that on here before. But I like will
send Mala voice memos while I'm running because I have
(14:25):
this idea and so it really does help me. And
so yeah, I think that that also helps me feel
really empowered.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean definitely, I can see
how that would be like I said, you're practically.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Please don't insult me.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm not a soldier, a soldier for good. It's a
soldier for a womanhood and a soldier in the fight
against depression. That kind that kind all right, Okay, okay,
a mercenary.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Anyhow, anyway, next card, next card, I think this, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
How is your heart doing today?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Oh? Today, it feels it feels good. It feels like
I mean, how by the time this episode is out,
will be beginning, like we said at top of twenty
twenty four, but I think right now we're still when
we're recording. We're at the end of the year, end
of twenty twenty three, and I'm feeling I think grounded.
I'm feeling like happy with just the way this year
(15:31):
is kind of rounding out, and it's been a really
tough year. But I'm like, I'm happy that it's we're
as all things like it's cyclical. The cycle is hopefully ending,
and I'm going to start the new year on a goodfoot,
is how I'm feeling. So I'm I think my heart
is feeling good, like kind of Eddie's comfortable with like
how things have shaped out and just looking for the
(15:52):
next best thing.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
My heart is singing because we're being renewed for another
season by Heart with Michael bud. We are not being
dropped from the network. That makes my heart really really happy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
She says. Yes, season nine coming soon in twenty twenty four. Yeah,
so yes, we will share more once we can. But yeah,
season nine is coming.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
We're not anywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hell yeah, Okay, should we do like one more round? Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna pick from the middle. Okay, all right, so
this is the grow Okay, Oh, I don't know if
I want to talk about that on the air. Do
you want to talk about manifesting on air? Like, doesn't
that Oh I don't want people to know what we're manifesting.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Keep it a secret?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah no, no, no, okay, a new one. This is
like this really is for you to play with your
your best amiga in the comfort of your home, not
on air. So but here we are.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
But we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We're gonna do it. Where in your life have you
placed walls to guard your.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Everywhere? It's a a fortress. A fortress. There's barbed wire
on top the barbed wire fence. Also, you will get
electrocuted if you touch it. It's like in Jurassic Park,
you know the enclosure or the t Rex. That's my
heart is the t rex, and then the electrified enclosure
(17:19):
is the wall. Okay, And to protect from what will
you guys? Guess? You guys guess, take a wild guess?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
From love? Okay, from true love, from happiness. That's what
I'm protecting my heart against. How about you?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Where in your Okay, I'm going to repeat the question,
where in your life have you placed walls to guard
your godsan Oh? I think I think with some of
some family members, I have learned to like kind of
guard myself for my own protection, like my own feelings,
mount emotions, to not get hurt, to not set expectations
that I know aren't going to be met. So I
(17:58):
think for me, that's where it is, for like protecting
myself from certain family members so that I don't get
hurt and that I you know, I'm happy and healthy
on my own without them necessarily.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Very fair, Very fair. This is a big topic too
on TikTok Yes, is boundaries with families or even just
cutting off family members altogether. We've talked about talking about
that on a future episode of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, you know, I think, you know, yeah, this definitely
deserves its own episode. But you know, my therapist and
I have been talking about, you know, potentially cutting a
certain family member off from having access to me, and
that is not something that I take lightly and that's
not something that I would do just on a whim.
(18:47):
But I do think that Latinos, Latinos and specifically are
like talking more and more about it because we are
kind of expected to just endure, like endure the family drama,
endure the mistreatment, and enough is enough. I think a
lot of us that are in therapy or having these
conversations with our friends and more openly are at this
point we're like, yeah, basta, no more. And I've also
(19:11):
seen people talk about estrangement and like, actually, we do
it more often than we even realize, because we will
have family members that are in the same room not
speaking to each other.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So we might not even say like, oh that's estrangement,
Oh you have you've cut them off from you, But
actually we do it more often than I think we
want to name it. And I think that is just
so dysfunctional and I'm not here for that anymore. Like
if you don't want to talk to a certain person,
like don't be around them. Yeah, you know, but I
(19:43):
think being in the same room we know since Lulan, Like,
come on.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I've had that, I've had that. I just had that.
I think we've all been there.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think we've all been there and one we or another,
So I think that we practiced estrangement more than we
even realize, and we don't but we just don't call
it that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
No, It's like, if you don't want to see me,
then don't see me. I'm not gonna I'm not going
to put you through the discomfort of seeing me if
you don't want to see me. Yes for what?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
AnyWho next card commune, Yes, go from the middle. When
was the last time? When was the last time you
felt beautiful? Smart? Powerful?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh that's hard. I think I've really struggled with that
this year a lot so or in twenty twenty three,
I've really struggled with feeling beautiful, with feeling I think
I've just been dealing with health stuff and so I've
felt kind of just not myself this year, and I
think that that has made me feel like not as
(20:50):
beautiful or not as powerful as I have in the past.
But I think smart. I feel smart all the time.
I know that I'm smart, and I do things to
like maintain a level of like smartness or intelligence, right
like reading a lot, listening to podcasts, reading from people
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smarter than me, talking to people that are smarter than
I am. I think those are things that I do
to like be smarter or just be able to have
a thoughtful conversation and also know when to say I
don't know enough about this to talk about it, and
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, hell yeah. Also, you know, have you seen a
more beautiful face? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Even perfect ten struggle, it happens, It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
What about you? Whenever I felt I feel beautiful. Every
time I leave my apartment. Because I live downtown and
I'm very popular down there, of course I get a
lot of compliments. The security guy in my building is
so sweet. He like brought me a big lasagna the
other day. That made me feel beautiful. Whenever somebody like
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wants to smoke me out, that makes me feel gorgeous,
that I'm powerful. And then I had I had a
show out on Sunday at Chatterbox and the host Jessica Sili,
when she brought me up, she was like, she's pretty
and funny. Can you believe it? It was a great night.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Other people's compliments and stuff like really help. Yes, And
so when that stops, it's over for me. When the
compliments stop, it's the end. That's what keeps me going.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, there's many compliments to give. Compliments come a plenty,
so I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Leave us a compliment, leave us a review, but make
it be a compliment. Yes, make it a compliment.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yes, we will post it. We will talk about it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes we will, Yes, we will.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, next, Okay. In moments of stress, what helps you
to slow down marijuana?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
How about you can of my dog m shout out tea.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yes, shout outs to the hein. I'm a big oh.
I nap, I nap, I like I treat myself like
an infant. I've been saying this for years. I treat
myself like an infant. I give myself snacks. I have
to have snacks in my purse. I have I have
to drink water constantly, and I have to take a
nap like twenty thirty minutes a day. An hour. If
I'm lucky like that is what keeps me going, That
(23:27):
is what makes me a kinder person. The snacks and
a nap and my dog.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
That's perfect.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, get mosquito, I mean come, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's luxury. Yeah, that's luxury right there. I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I love it. Well, this was fun, This was cute,
something chill, something light. Yes, and we will we will
play this again in the comfort of our own home
with our friends. I think, Yes, this is a good
way to play this.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yes, yes, pick pick, pick up your own edition of
the Mega Circle. Shout out to we all grow love
this idea. So the next time you guys do like
a girl's night with a sharcoterie, you could pull these
up and get deep.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Get deep. Do it all right, y'all, thank you for
listening to the first episode of Look at Radio Season
eight in twenty twenty four. We have so much more
in store for you before our season wraps. We have
a couple episodes to go before we go on break,
but we still have more in store for you, So
keep listening, Share with a friend, share with your primas,
(24:27):
and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
BASAs look at Radio. A radio fan in Novela is
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Speaker 1 (24:39):
Fam Story editing by Me Fiosa.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Audio editing by Stephanie Franco.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Thank you to our locomotives, our listeners for all of
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Speaker 3 (24:54):
Besifus look at radio a radiophonic Novela.
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Hosted by Mala Munyas and
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Loka Tora Radio is a radiophonic novella.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Which is just a very extra way of saying a podcast.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I'm diosa m.
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And I am Mala Munos.
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Lokatra Radio is yr Brima's favorite podcast, hosted by us
Mala and Viosa.
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We're two ig friends turned podcast partners, breaking down pop culture, feminism,
sexual wellness, and offering fresh takes on trending topics through
nuanced interviews with up and coming LATINX creatives.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
Known as Las Lokatas, Las Mammis of Myth and Bullshit
and Las Borgass Prosas. We were podcasting independently since twenty sixteen,
but joined iHeartMedia's Microtura network in twenty twenty two.
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This year, we're continuing to share stories from the LATINX community.
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Barto el Mundo, Welcome to season eight.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Are you listening.
Speaker 1 (01:03):
All La La lokamotives. Welcome to Season eight of lok
at Tota Radio. I'm Theosa and I am Mala. You're
tuning into Capitol one eighty eight.
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Speaker 1 (01:25):
So this is our first episode of the new year.
So happy twenty twenty four, lokamotives. By the time this
episode airs, we will be in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
It's exciting. It's exciting, exciting to be here on the
other side. We made it. We survived another year. We
really did.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
I mean tune into our end of year recap of
twenty twenty three. Last last year, last episode where we
really get into like how are your wet, the the personal,
the highs, the lows, all that, all that stuff that happens.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was a lot. We did a lot of things
last year and we talked about all of it. Yeah,
on that recap episode, we went through month by month,
event by event. Yes, really fun episode. Make sure you
tune in and yeah, it's I Love Well, I'm a
I'm a January baby, Yes you are. It's Capricorn season.
This is my time, this is my era. Yes, you know,
(02:16):
so it's I feel empowered, I feel powerful good.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Capricorns are powerful.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Very powerful. Everybody talks about us. But to quote Beiance,
you know you're that bitch when you cause all this conversation, right,
and everybody's always talking about Capricorns, Capricorns, this capricorn is that.
I'm like, I know, you're obsessed. I gotta, I gotta,
I gotta.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
Maybe because you're a Capricorn, you feel like the Capricorn slander.
But I feel like I never hear people say bad
things about Capricorns. I feel like it's always the Geminis
and the scorpios.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I mean, definitely the Geminis. The Geminis are worse. They're worse.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
My mother's a Gemini. It's an ongoing conversation of how
terrible they are. They really are little sour patch kids.
They're like evil and then sweet and you don't know
which one you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, you gotta be careful with them. Prickly pears, yes,
prickly pairs they are. But I just want to say,
you know, it's the first month of the year. Capricorns
are the first sign of the zodiac. And then I
started thinking about it, first month of the year, first
sign of the zodiac. I am the firstborn child and
the first grandchild, and I am the first daughter born
(03:22):
to a first daughter.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
You're the chosen one.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I've just always been a winner from out the womb,
bitch a winner. So you guys are so lucky to
be here listening to us, because I.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Mean, we really are in the Capricorn era clearly, rarely
we are.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
We are AnyWho, what are we talking about today?
Speaker 1 (03:44):
How are you feeling before we get into that, how
are you feeling about twenty twenty four? Like, how do
you I know it's your your Capricorn you're in Like
this is like you're all your powers are activated right now, truly,
you know. But like do you enter like how do
you enter a year? Typically? Do you feel like full energetic?
Do you feel like we're still in winter? So like
calendar year starts, but seasons we're in the middle of
(04:06):
a slow season, you know. So I always feel it's
really weird that we start like we want to hit
the ground running calendar January twenty twenty four, the brand
new year, but really we're still like kind of hibernating,
So like how do you approach a new year?
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So I have like been reflecting on this. I've never
been super hyped up about like celebrating my birthday, for example,
because it's right after New Year it's right after Christmas,
it's in the middle of winter. It's January. Like back
when I was in school. That's people are like still
on winter break or just getting back from winter break.
It's like a cold, desolate, isolated, sad time of year.
(04:43):
So it's never for me, like I never feel like, like, God,
I'm so excited to celebrate my birthday, like I'll do
a little something, But other than that, I just feel
like I'm just charging up and just getting ready to
take on the year. I'm starting grad school now. Yeah,
I think by the time the episode's out, I will
already have started my classes something like that, something like that.
So I've just mostly been focusing on that because I
(05:06):
haven't been to school in ten years. Yes, I mean yeah,
I was taking improv classes at the Groundlings, but it's
not the same and it's only I was thinking classes at UCB.
It's not the same five days a week I'm on
campus now I have a class at nine am. I
haven't had a nine am anything in like a very
long time.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Nine am. Grad school classes were rough. I don't know
how we did a K through twelve.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Honestly, we were up so early, like in our seats
learning at like eight.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Ams wild that we do that to the little children.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Inhumane. Yeah, the poor things, the poor babes.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Well, not to get too deep into it, right, but
it's also like a system of capitalism obviously, because like
the children, the parents have to clock in nine o'clock,
nine to five, so the kids have to be at school,
but eight, like it's all embedded in our society. It's terrible.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
It's terrible. It's terrible. So yeah, that's been. That's been.
I feel like because you know, like for the past
couple of years and I've talked about this, I've been
like I've been a real hippie, real hippie dippy, like
when we record, we record, I'm you know, shows nights
and weekends. And now I feel like I'm I'm rejoining
(06:14):
like the Land of the Living, you know, I'm like
with the day Walkers now.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Like you're rejoining society.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
And rejoining society. It's so it's cool.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah, I mean, I personally love being a student, So
I'm excited to see you as a student, Yeah, totally,
and see what is like Mala as a student, you know,
you know what I mean, Like what how who is she?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah? I'm curious. I'm curious too. We'll see, we'll see.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
So today we are getting a little playful literally, you know,
we're going to be playing a game today, and I
want to call back to I think season seven, which
was Valentine's twenty twenty three. We played a wordiful card
game and asked each other all kinds of intimate questions.
So I'm gonna that episode in the show notes, and
(07:01):
for this episode, we're gonna do something similar. We thought
it would be fitting to start the year with an intimate,
probably vulnerable convo facilitated by we all grows new card
game called Amiga's Circle. They sent us this game, and
we just thought it would be a really fun way
to start the new year. And this card game is
a bilingual game with ninety nine prompt cards intentionally designed
(07:25):
to strengthen your relationships by igniting conversations that nurture intimacy.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
We're gonna play with each other, and I'm so excited.
I love getting intimate with Yosa on camera. So here
we get, Here we go.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Yeah, I mean, can we get any more intimate?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Honestly, we could, we just haven't tried and chosen not to.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
But I guess we could.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Season ten, Season ten our.
Speaker 1 (07:51):
Sex tape this season ten. Okay, putting it out there. Now, okay,
let's look at this deck. So there's like three categories heal, Commune, grow, ooh,
and the deck is very beautiful. By the way, this
is not a sponsored We love our friends over it.
We all grow. But you know they just sent us
(08:11):
this and so here we are.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Thank you, Thank you friends, thank you ladies. Beautiful deck.
So how do we start?
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Draw from nine to nine prompt cards to dive into
meaningful conversations, Gather your circle, create a sacred space, and begin.
So I think maybe let's grab like one from each deck.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Okay, this is what I'm thinking.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
That's what I'm thinking. Do you want to start?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Yeah? Should we start with Hell's just start with grow?
Do it a grow? Should it just pull straight from
the top?
Speaker 1 (08:39):
However you want to do it, Amiga, do it in Spanish.
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. You can do it in English.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I will do it in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Actually, okay, she can, she can do it.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's written in Spanish. So I can Amiga get a
Ustaria Creer on thre in estanueve at that movie.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Oh, that's so cute. That really is a fitting question
for the beginning of the year. I want to further.
I want to create a more holistic but disciplined life,
which sounds wild because I feel I'm already pretty disciplined.
But there are things I've been trying to implement into
my life for years that I just don't I can
(09:22):
never I don't follow through with them. And one of
them is like the morning pages, the journaling, like waking
up and just writing right I wake up, and I'm
very much like a slow morning person. I'm like two extremes.
I'm a slow morning or I'm at the gym at
six am. It's like I'm there's no one between for me,
and so I think this year, I want to really
dedicate my mornings to writing, to creativity. But I've also
(09:47):
accepted that I'm kind of a night owl, and I
think that that I wasn't always a night owl, but
I think because of Loka, I became like a night
time creative person because we were always doing creative work
on our second shift during our after our day jobs.
And so I'm kind of trying to retrain myself to
(10:08):
foster creativity during the day to do it in the
morning so that I can actually go to bed early,
so I can be off in the evening spend time
with my family. And so I think that's what I'm
going to be working on this year.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I love that. Also. Can I just say, if you
were any more disciplined, you would be a soldier? Like
your levels of discipline are already through the room, so
I can't even imagine. And for the Nasabos, I will
read the prompt in English. Now, So, Amiga, what would
you like to build, create or nurture for this new
phase in your life? For me, I need to build
any discipline at all. I need some discipline. So I'm
(10:43):
literally working on that. On routine, on getting back into
like getting back into like going to the gym. I
used to go to the gym all the time. There
was a time where I was roller skating every day.
I've been a lot more sedentary the past few months,
and I want to get back into like getting active
and in my body and all that good stuff. I also,
(11:03):
you know, I want to. I want to. I mean
the reason I'm going to grad school is for film
and television and just expanding that side of things, you know,
with look at lot our productions, with our media, with
the things that we make, and just also personally. There
have been some scripts and some stories and some ideas
(11:24):
that I've kind of slowly been chipping away at. But
I'm excited to bring them to fruition and get these
things made.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
It's exciting, you know.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And so that's really where I'm at. As far as
the stand up comedy and stuff, I also like would
love to build towards like a thirty minute like a
half hour special, you know, like maybe self producing something,
but I would love to get I would love to
film something for stand up. I feel like I'm getting
there where I have a solid thirty minutes that I
(11:54):
think could be cool, you know, on camera. So yeah,
I think that's it.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
I would love to see that. Thank you Yes, produced
by Loka Production.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Literally. You see how we work, You see how we
do things.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
You see our minds, we feed everything back into the project.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yes we do.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Yes, next card, Okay, Yes, this is the Commune deck. Okay,
I don't I don't know, let's see. Okay, it's not bad,
it's not fair. I'm just kind of like, do we
have to talk about this again? But yes, Okay, Okay, Amiga,
what helps you feel empowered?
Speaker 2 (12:26):
You go first? No, you go first, I asked the question.
Oh that's right, I'm the Amiga. I'm the Amiga here, dang.
What makes me feel empowered? I mean I feel empowered when, like,
you know, when I have a good day and things
just go well and yes, you know, you do a
good job and everybody's happy and all the things get accomplished,
(12:48):
like that is an empowering moment, you know. For me, Yeah, like, okay,
this was a we did a good job and I'm happy,
and that that's for me is empowerment. If I can
get everything done, I'm like wow, like I'm just killing
it and stop allowing at Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Yeah, I agree. I agree, even like the little things
like okay, I sent a bunch of emails, like I
crossed off a lot of things on my to do
list today. I think what makes me feel empowered? I agree,
Like having a really good day in terms of like productivity,
I think is can be really empowering. I think for us,
because we're our own bosses and so it's like okay,
(13:24):
I can run a business. I can do this, So
I think, yeah, for me, it does feel very empowering
to be able to be self employed and be successful
at it, be good at it. I think something else
that makes me feel empowered is I think like running
and working out. I'm in like the beginning, like six
(13:44):
weeks of marathon training. By the time this episode is out,
I will be like deep in marathon training. And so
I think for me, like testing the limits of like
my physical fitness and like really like feeling so much
gratitude that I get to move my body in this way.
I get to put on my running shoes every day
and go out there and like log a bunch of miles.
(14:05):
Like that makes me feel really empowered because nobody's making
me do it. I'm doing it myself. I'm paying to run,
which I think is always so wild, but it has
really been a really big part of my creative process,
which I think I've talked about here. I think I've
talked about that on here before. But I like will
send Mala voice memos while I'm running because I have
(14:25):
this idea and so it really does help me. And
so yeah, I think that that also helps me feel
really empowered.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean definitely, I can see
how that would be like I said, you're practically.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Please don't insult me.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I'm not a soldier, a soldier for good. It's a
soldier for a womanhood and a soldier in the fight
against depression. That kind that kind all right, Okay, okay,
a mercenary.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Anyhow, anyway, next card, next card, I think this, yes, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
How is your heart doing today?
Speaker 1 (15:06):
Oh? Today, it feels it feels good. It feels like
I mean, how by the time this episode is out,
will be beginning, like we said at top of twenty
twenty four, but I think right now we're still when
we're recording. We're at the end of the year, end
of twenty twenty three, and I'm feeling I think grounded.
I'm feeling like happy with just the way this year
(15:31):
is kind of rounding out, and it's been a really
tough year. But I'm like, I'm happy that it's we're
as all things like it's cyclical. The cycle is hopefully ending,
and I'm going to start the new year on a goodfoot,
is how I'm feeling. So I'm I think my heart
is feeling good, like kind of Eddie's comfortable with like
how things have shaped out and just looking for the
(15:52):
next best thing.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
My heart is singing because we're being renewed for another
season by Heart with Michael bud. We are not being
dropped from the network. That makes my heart really really happy.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
She says. Yes, season nine coming soon in twenty twenty four. Yeah,
so yes, we will share more once we can. But yeah,
season nine is coming.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
We're not anywhere.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Hell yeah, Okay, should we do like one more round? Yeah, okay,
I'm gonna pick from the middle. Okay, all right, so
this is the grow Okay, Oh, I don't know if
I want to talk about that on the air. Do
you want to talk about manifesting on air? Like, doesn't
that Oh I don't want people to know what we're manifesting.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Keep it a secret?
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah no, no, no, okay, a new one. This is
like this really is for you to play with your
your best amiga in the comfort of your home, not
on air. So but here we are.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
But we're gonna do it.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
We're gonna do it. Where in your life have you
placed walls to guard your.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Everywhere? It's a a fortress. A fortress. There's barbed wire
on top the barbed wire fence. Also, you will get
electrocuted if you touch it. It's like in Jurassic Park,
you know the enclosure or the t Rex. That's my
heart is the t rex, and then the electrified enclosure
(17:19):
is the wall. Okay, And to protect from what will
you guys? Guess? You guys guess, take a wild guess?
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (17:26):
From love? Okay, from true love, from happiness. That's what
I'm protecting my heart against. How about you?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
Where in your Okay, I'm going to repeat the question,
where in your life have you placed walls to guard
your godsan Oh? I think I think with some of
some family members, I have learned to like kind of
guard myself for my own protection, like my own feelings,
mount emotions, to not get hurt, to not set expectations
that I know aren't going to be met. So I
(17:58):
think for me, that's where it is, for like protecting
myself from certain family members so that I don't get
hurt and that I you know, I'm happy and healthy
on my own without them necessarily.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
Very fair, Very fair. This is a big topic too
on TikTok Yes, is boundaries with families or even just
cutting off family members altogether. We've talked about talking about
that on a future episode of the podcast.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Yeah, you know, I think, you know, yeah, this definitely
deserves its own episode. But you know, my therapist and
I have been talking about, you know, potentially cutting a
certain family member off from having access to me, and
that is not something that I take lightly and that's
not something that I would do just on a whim.
(18:47):
But I do think that Latinos, Latinos and specifically are
like talking more and more about it because we are
kind of expected to just endure, like endure the family drama,
endure the mistreatment, and enough is enough. I think a
lot of us that are in therapy or having these
conversations with our friends and more openly are at this
point we're like, yeah, basta, no more. And I've also
(19:11):
seen people talk about estrangement and like, actually, we do
it more often than we even realize, because we will
have family members that are in the same room not
speaking to each other.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Oh yeah, and.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
So we might not even say like, oh that's estrangement,
Oh you have you've cut them off from you, But
actually we do it more often than I think we
want to name it. And I think that is just
so dysfunctional and I'm not here for that anymore. Like
if you don't want to talk to a certain person,
like don't be around them. Yeah, you know, but I
(19:43):
think being in the same room we know since Lulan, Like,
come on.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I've had that, I've had that. I just had that.
I think we've all been there.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
I think we've all been there and one we or another,
So I think that we practiced estrangement more than we
even realize, and we don't but we just don't call
it that.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
No, It's like, if you don't want to see me,
then don't see me. I'm not gonna I'm not going
to put you through the discomfort of seeing me if
you don't want to see me. Yes for what?
Speaker 1 (20:08):
Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
AnyWho next card commune, Yes, go from the middle. When
was the last time? When was the last time you
felt beautiful? Smart? Powerful?
Speaker 1 (20:28):
Oh that's hard. I think I've really struggled with that
this year a lot so or in twenty twenty three,
I've really struggled with feeling beautiful, with feeling I think
I've just been dealing with health stuff and so I've
felt kind of just not myself this year, and I
think that that has made me feel like not as
(20:50):
beautiful or not as powerful as I have in the past.
But I think smart. I feel smart all the time.
I know that I'm smart, and I do things to
like maintain a level of like smartness or intelligence, right
like reading a lot, listening to podcasts, reading from people
(21:12):
smarter than me, talking to people that are smarter than
I am. I think those are things that I do
to like be smarter or just be able to have
a thoughtful conversation and also know when to say I
don't know enough about this to talk about it, and
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Yeah, hell yeah. Also, you know, have you seen a
more beautiful face? Okay?
Speaker 1 (21:30):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Even perfect ten struggle, it happens, It's a thing.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:37):
What about you? Whenever I felt I feel beautiful. Every
time I leave my apartment. Because I live downtown and
I'm very popular down there, of course I get a
lot of compliments. The security guy in my building is
so sweet. He like brought me a big lasagna the
other day. That made me feel beautiful. Whenever somebody like
(21:58):
wants to smoke me out, that makes me feel gorgeous,
that I'm powerful. And then I had I had a
show out on Sunday at Chatterbox and the host Jessica Sili,
when she brought me up, she was like, she's pretty
and funny. Can you believe it? It was a great night.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Other people's compliments and stuff like really help. Yes, And
so when that stops, it's over for me. When the
compliments stop, it's the end. That's what keeps me going.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
Well, there's many compliments to give. Compliments come a plenty,
so I'm not worried about that.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Leave us a compliment, leave us a review, but make
it be a compliment. Yes, make it a compliment.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yes, we will post it. We will talk about it.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yes we will, Yes, we will.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Okay, next, Okay. In moments of stress, what helps you
to slow down marijuana?
Speaker 2 (22:57):
How about you can of my dog m shout out tea.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
Yes, shout outs to the hein. I'm a big oh.
I nap, I nap, I like I treat myself like
an infant. I've been saying this for years. I treat
myself like an infant. I give myself snacks. I have
to have snacks in my purse. I have I have
to drink water constantly, and I have to take a
nap like twenty thirty minutes a day. An hour. If
I'm lucky like that is what keeps me going, That
(23:27):
is what makes me a kinder person. The snacks and
a nap and my dog.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
That's perfect.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
Yeah, get mosquito, I mean come, yeah.
Speaker 2 (23:35):
That's luxury. Yeah, that's luxury right there. I love it.
Speaker 1 (23:39):
I love it. Well, this was fun, This was cute,
something chill, something light. Yes, and we will we will
play this again in the comfort of our own home
with our friends. I think, Yes, this is a good
way to play this.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Yes, yes, pick pick, pick up your own edition of
the Mega Circle. Shout out to we all grow love
this idea. So the next time you guys do like
a girl's night with a sharcoterie, you could pull these
up and get deep.
Speaker 1 (24:06):
Get deep. Do it all right, y'all, thank you for
listening to the first episode of Look at Radio Season
eight in twenty twenty four. We have so much more
in store for you before our season wraps. We have
a couple episodes to go before we go on break,
but we still have more in store for you, So
keep listening, Share with a friend, share with your primas,
(24:27):
and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
BASAs look at Radio. A radio fan in Novela is
executive produced and hosted by Me Mala Munos and Viosa.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
Fam Story editing by Me Fiosa.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Audio editing by Stephanie Franco.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Thank you to our locomotives, our listeners for all of
your support.
Speaker 3 (24:54):
Besifus look at radio a radiophonic Novela.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
Hosted by Mala Munyas and
Speaker 1 (25:08):
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