April 18, 2024 • 45 mins
Dramos deep dives into trending stories from this last week including a Selena tribute that her family wasn't a fan of, farmchella vs. Coachella, Latinas take the WNBA and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He said, you live in life as a ringo where
you question where you fit in every time you mingle,
they say you do this with not of that. Yes, Hello,
and welcome to another episode of Life as a Gringo.
I am dramas of course, and it is Thursday, so
it means it's time fat with Thursday Trends episode. I
(00:31):
am flying on today's show because, as I've been mentioning,
I don't feel like I have to explain it anymore.
But for those you know who are are curious why
I haven't had many guests on Thursday Trends as of late,
we've had a lot of guests on the Tuesday episode.
So I just like to kind of be a little greedy,
you know, and and get these bars in solo when
(00:51):
I get the chance to write. So that is what's
happening today. We're flying solo. Also, just the heads up,
we're let's uh, let's let's listen house keeping here some
life is a get to go housekeeping before we get
into today's show. And what we're talking about today obviously Thursday. Yeah,
we got to that. Next week I'm gonna be traveling,
so there will be no podcast. I was. I was
(01:16):
going back and forth on whether or not I would
do it while I was traveling. I'm going to Porto
Rico next week to just visit some family, shoot some content,
meet up with some people, just get away. Basically, I
need to get away for a little bit. And yeah,
so no podcast next week. I would just probably end
up having to like rush it half ass it in
some sort of way. It wouldn't sound good. I'd rather
just not do that to y'all. So no podcast next week.
(01:40):
We'll be back the following week. Of course, what else
we got going on? Also in the world of just Be,
my like wellness lifestyle brand community that we are building
like minded individuals coming together to change our lives. We are,
in a very scary way, getting very close to the
launch of the new iteration of just Be Social Club.
(02:01):
Now I've you know, sort of mentioned it out here before.
I apologize if I sound like a broken record, but
we are launching on April thirtieth, which is a Tuesday.
And in previous sessions, we've done two different groups before
and it's more just like a Mastermind group, which has
been absolutely amazing. We would meet up once a month
via zoom and I talk about the four pillars of
conscious living, which is kind of my philosophy, and in general,
(02:25):
just bouncing ideas off one another about life and all
that we're going through and how can we, you know,
become better at the end of the day. And then
we would also have like these expert calls where I
would interview people who are doing their thing and their
respective fields and you would be able to pick their
brain on how they got there and all those different things.
So that has been amazing. We've seen some incredible results.
I mean, people have launched their own podcast, they have
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started their businesses, you know, they have just sort of
found some inner peace or found community. It's been incredible
to just see everybody's personal growth. Everybody I feel like,
got something out of it. And that has been absolutely
amazing to watch. And you know, my partner and I, Brenda,
we're always just like, man, how do we grow it though?
How do we touch more people's lives? How do we
help more people who look like you and I who
came up in a similar background, or those who are
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just looking for other like minded individuals, you know, who
are growth oriented. And the new iteration of the Just
Be Social Club. It's not going to be like a
closed off group how these other ones were. It's really
going to be a bit more open. It's going to
be ongoing. It is going to include like the live
talks how we had done, but it's also going to
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allow you to genuinely be in community with other people
twenty four hours a day. We're going to do it
through Patreon, and you know, there's going to be you know,
pre recording modules, you can go back to all the
previous Just Be Social Club recordings. Will do a live
stream like we had been doing, you know, where you
can talk to me in real time. We'll do questions,
you know via you know, we'll have different prompts or
(03:52):
office hours where you could ask us questions. We'll have
you know, some custom podcasts we're talking about, like exclusively
just for Just Be Social Club members. And again it's
also you're going to be able to interact with other
people who are from your background or have similar interests.
My hope with this is to create like a hub
for those of us in our community and communities of
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color to be able to like have a one stop
shop to connect with people who do amazing work right
if you are somebody who is I'm going to use
creative field just because obviously that's what ideal in But
you're like, oh, I want to start a podcast, I
need a logo and cover art. The beauty of like
to just be social club would be We're going to
have a community hub where you can put that out there,
and then we'll have people who are graphic designers you
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know and be like, oh, I actually do that for
a living. I can help you out. Now you're supporting
one another who are within the community. You're easily connecting
with people who you know are skilled at the things
that you want to do, or getting feedback in real time,
Hey I'm working on this, what do you guys think?
And being able to have that real time, genuine community aspect,
right of people who want to see you succeed, who
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understand you, know where you come from, and want nothing
but the best for you. That's what we're building with
it again. It launches April thirtieth. If you want to
be added to the sort of waiting list, we're going
to email a bunch of people when the link goes
live so that you can join it. You can email
Brenda brendatmindevyong woorld dot com. I'll put it in the
show notes or just send me a DM on Instagram
(05:17):
at DJ Dramos. We're going to keep it kind of
old school and family oriented here. We just reach out
to us directly and I'll add just the list once
we launch it. But everything has some grandiose ideas for this,
for this to just be like a lifetime thing where
we're all just in community. Right for me, I'm building
what I always wanted to see, and I'm not. I
don't want to go on too long of a s
feel here, but for me, I felt very lonely in
(05:40):
my journey coming up, you know, where I didn't have
a lot of people who saw life the way that
I did or understood me, and you know, I struggled
a lot as a result, you know, and being able
to have others to bounce ideas off of or to
just feel a little bit less alone. And I'm trying
to read this hub where we no longer have to
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feel like that, even if we live in you know,
bumblefuck whatever, and there's nobody that looks like us or
understands us. At least you can go on this you
know Patreon and in this community, and you feel seen
and feel heard and feel like you're a part of
something right and connect with other people so that you
no longer have to be going about all this stuff alone.
And that's sort of the idea with this, and that's
(06:22):
what we're trying to build out with with the new
just b social club, So able thirty if that launches again,
reach out in some sort of way if you want
to be put on the waiting list, so we can
send you an email when it launches. And that's it.
Oh merch, if you're watching the video of this, I
just we drop some merch that I'm really proud of.
I have the BET right now, and we have the
Bu sweatshirts that are beautifully embroidered, just amazing. I'm really
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excited about how it all turned out. I think I've
been wearing about a lot in the streets and people
have been like connecting with especially like the BU sweater.
I just see how it like makes people kind of
stop in place and think for a second. Or I
was at a coffee shop the other day and I
was about to sit down and this woman was just like
staring at me, and then she was like, I'm so sorry.
I just saw your hat and you know that it
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just saying b was so timely and poignant for me,
Like it was just a reminder, so thank you. So yeah,
I don't know, just just cool stuff's happening, Man, just
beat at NYC if you want to pick some stuff
up or check it out. Now, with that said, let's
get to the episode Man Thursday Trends. We are talking
about a lot of positive stuff today. I actually only
really want to talk about positive stuff. There's only one
story that I want to get into that it's not
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even super negative, but I feel like the news cycle
has been so negative we deserve some positivity. But there's
one story that is a little you know, I want
to say controversial. It's just, you know, it's not necessarily
a positive one. So we'll talk about a brewery that
tried to honor Selena with a limited release and her
family actually sent them a cease and desist. So we'll
touch on that and then it's all positivity from there.
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You had Man Coachella happening this last weekend, and actually
I think this one was well it's a two weekend thing.
So we'll talk about all of the Latin representation that
was there. You had the w NBA dream that you
actually have Latinos who are part of that draft as well.
We'll talk about that and honor them. And then Farmchella
Festival is a place to honor and celebrate farm workers,
which is just amazing stuff. So we're gonna get into
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all that. We're just gonna keep it really positive, really
light for the most part. Today we'll do our one
little story that you know, has a little bit of
a you know, maybe not such a happy ending for
everybody involved, all right, So we'll do that in a second.
We call for the people in the back, say a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
For the people in the say a lot for the
people in the say a lot for the people in the.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, So let's talk about this story. We Army
two dot com is the source, of course, Lincoln Show notes.
You want to read the full thing. But we actually
sadly just had the anniversary of Selena's death at the
end of March. It's crazy, almost thirty years later and
people are rightfully honoring this woman, but it's crazy that
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it happened almost thirty years ago, that she was sadly
just just murdered and people still do a lot of
different things obviously, when in just general, I think Selena
is one of those just iconic cultural figures that I
think is larger than life at this point. You know,
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it means so much to people who maybe didn't even
grow up when she was even alive. You know. I
feel like she's kind of like Elvis status for us,
you know, like Elvis is just like this legendary figure,
and I think Selena is that for us. Latinos. So,
you had this Highland Park based Chicago, Chicano sorry, Chiicano
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lifestyle boutique. This is Highland Park, California, and the boutique
is called me Viva, and they had an idea to
celebrate the life of Selena. They actually teamed up with
a POC owned craft brewery called Bruheria for a limited
beer release called Which is Beautiful. And according to them,
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the idea was conceived to like pair pizza and beer together,
honoring Selena's favorite food, which is pizza. And what they
say is actually that meviv that which is the lifestyle
boutique that they actually honor and celebrate Selena's birthday at
their shop every year. And the shop is in California.
But this year they wanted to go a bit bigger,
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and obviously that's why they paired up with the brewing
company to come up with a beer. And apparently the
family of Selena, the Kintania family wasn't happy about this. Right,
so the brands actually made a thousand cans of the
pale ale quickly sold out, and right when they were
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thinking about making more, they actually received a letter from
the family of Selena and it was a season to say,
basically asking them to stop what they were doing, you know,
or else basically. And the article also goes on to
say that this is not the first time that the
family has reached out to people and threatened legal action
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against them using any sort of potential likeness of hers.
There was also a legal fight with the late husband
of hers over profits from her career. I mean, just
a lot of different things. And I think it's an
interesting conversation now the the brands talk about how they
never actually say Selena's name out loud or put her
name on the the cans, right, so they're saying that
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they don't feel like they crossed into any sort of
copyright issue. They just called it right, and there is
like an artist, like a cartoon drawing that looks like
Selena wearing a necklace that says right. And I think
people are going back and forth on you know, is
does the family and you know they justified here uh,
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and they're they're basically, you know, saying that the way
that the family has set up, it's as if no
one can profit from Salida's legacy but her father essentially right.
And I think this is an interesting topic of conversation
at the end of the day, I think, Ay, this
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is beautiful that people are honoring an icon like this
years years later, and I guess there's a controversy or
topic of conversation happening of like should the family just
chill the fuck out a little bit? I think it's
beautiful that it is communities of color coming together, Like
you have two brands that are POC owned and collaborating
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and doing beautiful things like this, right first and foremost,
that's just awesome. Shout out to the Bluehodie Craft Uh,
the craft brewery company. I want to check that out
next time I am in Puerto Rico and the Chicano
Lifestyle boutique. You you that next time in Puerto Rico. Jeez,
I'm ready Rico mentally right now, guys, California. Next time
in California, in the LA area. I want to go
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check that out. Anyway. I just think there's it's easy
to paint the family out to be the bad guy.
It's like, oh, we're just trying to honor this, you know,
the life of Selena and Rafillly, So as fans, I
get it. I think there's probably just I don't I mean,
I don't want to make it like it's all about money.
I think there's probably also a lot of trauma for
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that family around the idea of their daughter, and even
us as fans. If we're trying to honor her, you know,
it has to feel a bit I don't know what
the proper wording would be, it has to feel a
bit invasive. I think that people are are sort of
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running with her legacy and doing with it as they
see fit. And again, this is a positive one to
celebrate her. But I guess I guess what I'm getting
at is for them because I feel like the article
to a degree, and you can tell me if I'm
wrong here, I feel like the tone of it seemed
like it painted the family out to be a little
bit you know, money hungry and and you know, overly protective.
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But I think we have to look at it from
the perspective of it's probably one of the few things
that they get to control when it comes to their
daughter at the end of the day, or her sister
you know, saidy they had no control over the way
that her life ended, and I'm sure that haunts them
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till this day, right the idea that she's gone. There's
nothing they could do about it. There was no preparation,
there was nothing they could do to protect her. Right.
So I think when they see things like this, and
obviously I'm not in their head, and nor am I
a therapist or something like that, but I think we
sort of have to have a bit of empathy where
it's you know, I'm gonna give the benefit of doubt,
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it's not just about money that it's also about like, man,
we had no control over the way this life has
sort of turned out with our beloved you know, daughter,
and now as a result, like the trauma response is
I need to be in as much control as possible
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when it comes to anything dealing with her, right like that,
this is the only thing that I have Now I
don't have my daughter anymore. I just basically have her
likeness and her legacy, and you know, I think that
that is man, it's just heartbreaking at the end of
the day, I hear that, and I know people will
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be like, what the fuck? You know these they were
they just ruined a cool thing. But I also just
see it as, man, this is like a trauma response
of people who are still in a lot of pain
from losing their loved one and you know, the life
that that she was robbed of, you know what I mean,
and that that's just an incredibly sad thing to like
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visualize in my head. So I empathize with them. Outside
of that, though, I just think I love seeing stuff
like this, like brands coming together like that, Like I
would love I would love to actually do some collaborations,
you know. I'm like, uh, I'm just be obsessed right now.
Like I have so much in my heart for the brand,
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and I feel like I keep talking about it, but
I'm just so excited about it. I want to I
want to just like I really want this to be
a big thing, and not big in terms of like
I'm trying to be famous. I mean big in terms
of impact and connection. So like I see stuff like
this and like, you know, my brain just starts going
by the way, Like I'm I I love to like
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I'll watch YouTube videos. I'll just put on random shit
just to like trigger a creative like you know, a
bolt of energy inside of me. And that's what's happening
right now is we're live recording this. I love this
idea of collaboration and coming together and doing cool shit
like this. I think it's just amazing. I would love
to do that. Maybe as a brand or whatever you're
working on, maybe we could collaborate in some sort of way.
Would just be if it makes sense. I'm open to
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those ideas. I just I love this type of stuff.
I think that's all the story that I look at
from here. I'm like, man, like, look at this. In
a small way. You have this boutique lifestyle company who's
you know, celebrate Chicago culture. You have this POC owned
brewery and they're coming together create cool products like this.
I just I don't know. That type of stuff just
fires me the fuck up, and I think I just
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like that's that's the power we have right the internet connection.
We literally could be like dming people to create cool
shit like this and bring it into the world, you
know what I mean, Like, we don't have to be
boots on the ground anymore. And that's like what I
want to do is just be where it's like, Oh,
we have this hub of beautiful, amazing, growth minded people
who are all doing different things that are cool as fuck.
And you might be able to find your next collaborator,
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your next business partner, right whatever, it might be, your
next inspira, a person of inspiration like that. That's what
I'm trying to build. Like my business partner Brenda and
I she was a listener of this podcast, and we've
come to get other virtually. We've never actually met in person,
but we've created so much together in the last year
and a half. And that's what I want other people
to be able to have via just b where it's like, oh,
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I'm like, you know, interacting with this person via the community.
I like the way they think or their ideas. I
think we could possibly work together on something, and boom,
now you have this beautiful, you know, working relationship that
wouldn't have existed prior to And I think that that's
what we're trying to create with it. And I apologize
this as sounding like inn ad. I'm just like really
excited about what we're doing and really energized by it.
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It's just a it's a beautiful place to be right
now mentally anyway. So that's the one, you know story
that was a little bit not negative, but just you know,
was it's like a feel good story. With that said,
we're gonna get into all field good stories for the
rest of the show. Well that army hint that segment.
But first it's take a quick break and then we'll
be right back. All right. You have heard of Coachella.
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That happened this last weekend. It's happening again this upcoming weekend.
But have you heard of farm Cella? Okay? Now, Farm
Cella Festival is a place to celebrate farm workers. Okay,
And actually, what's amazing again? People just doing cool shit.
You had a Latina who decided to celebrate the coach
Halla Valley differently, the Coachella Valley different than why I
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said it like that. So a lot of the like
I don't want to say, like this is not backlash
the topics of conversation. It's like you have all these
people who fled to Coachella Valley, that the part of
California for this festival. But there are actually people who
are out there in the desert working every day, farm
workers you know, who are helping keep the local economy
alive basically right, and this Latino wanted to honor those
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who helped put food on the table. So this is
actually the second year you had Florida martinezsap who launched
the farm Cella Festival and Perha. It's an all out
celebration of the contributions of farm workers in the Coachella Valley.
Now it is actually happening today. So unfortunately, if you
didn't know about this prior, I don't think you could
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make it. But it's happening today. They're saying hundreds of
people will enjoy entertainment, giveaways, live concerts, and the farmers
are actually the headliners of this festival. And again it's
just beautiful, Like this is the type of shit like
we're gonna get in too. A couple of conversations sort
of based around this today. But like if you just
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if you have an idea, just bring it to life,
you know, like that's this is what life is all about.
You have somebody here in this woman floor who is
like watching everybody flood in for Coachella and all the things,
and that has this idea like, you know, what would
be cool if we celebrate the everyday workers here who
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obviously are primarily Latino, if not all, and we make
a day where we thank them for all of the work,
the backbreaking work that they put in day in and
day out, and let them know that they're seen. Right,
especially in today's climate where you know, there's so much
like anti immigrant narrative happening, particularly when it comes to
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those of Latin descent. You see things like this and
it brings you a bit of hope, right, And I
think if all of us were doing little things like
this to bring bits of hope and put it out
there into the world, I think it would feel like
a lot less of a scary and hopeless place at
the end of the day. Right, And I empower and
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challenge everybody listening, like this is what doing your part
looks like. And it doing your part doesn't necessarily mean,
like you know, you doing backbreaking volunteering work. It could
that's beautiful, it's amazing, but also it could be just
creating what's in your heart and creating something that's positive, right,
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that is fulfilling for you internally, but also or even
maybe some sort of monetary thing. But at the same time,
it puts something positive into the world. Right. And again,
if everybody was doing something that they're passionate about, it's
a trickle down effect, you know. I think even beyond
just like the fact that we all would have a
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place to feel seen and heard, I truly do believe
that the biggest trickle do effect is us just being
happier individuals going about our everyday lives. Like I know,
for me, I'm a much happier person today than I
was five years ago. So as a result, my interactions
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with others are more positive. And I truly do believe
it's a domino effect where I have a positive experience
with another person, then they feel good and they go
home with their family and have a positive experience, and
then that trickles down to every they interact with, right,
And I think that is sort of the beauty of
all of us, sort of doing the ideas and creating
the things that you know, light the fire within us.
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Is the trickle dat effect that inevitably happens regardless of
monetary thing, regardless of attendance, viewership, whatever it might be,
regardless of like the tangible statistics of whether or not
something was a quote unquote success. If it makes you
feel good and puts you in a better mood, it's
a success because that, right there is intoxicating. That right
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there is something that can be passed down to the
next person just by you interacting with somebody in your
everyday life. If you're in a good place mentally, your
interactions will be that much more positive. I think that's
the beauty of chasing after all that you want and
doing what you want and putting out a positive sort
of event like this one, I think is more of that,
which is really beautiful. Now onto the actual festival that
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is Coachella. Let's talk talk about the iconic Latin X
moments and this is thanks to Hip Latina. So there
are a few different Latin performers doing this on a
big level and it's a beautiful thing to see. It's
actually funny to me. I watched like clips that were
popping up on TikTok throughout the weekend and it's as
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much as I'm not like, you know, mister you have
to speak Spanish to be Latino. Obviously. It also is
like funny to me to see these artists on the
Coachella stage just speaking Spanish, like even between songs, addressing
the audience in Spanish, and it warms my heart. You know,
the idea that you have this festival that is pop
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culture essentially, and here are these Latin artists not only
performing their music, but at the same time showing up
authentically and being able to address the crowd in their
native tongue, and they're having the support of said crowds.
I think it's just amazing. So you actually had a
Puerto Rican rapper, Young Miko, who I'm a big fan of.
She made her coach Hella debut. I saw TikTok videos
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of her. It's just amazing to sort of see her
growth over the last like year or so, and obviously
as a Puerto Rican I gotta I gotta give a
shout out to her. You also had Shakira joining Bizarre
Rap on stage and announcing that she is going to
be going on her world tour. I mean, she's already
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a fucking legend and now is going to be be
back out on the road going around the Globe touring,
which is obviously incredible. I mean at her age, still
looking phenomenal, still killing it on stage, living her dream out.
It's an inspiration right there. You actually had j Balvin
performing and one of the big moments that was going
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viral was Will Smith joining him on stage performing Men
in Black. Is it Courtney a little bit? It's a
little corny, but you know what, for the nostalgia for
all of us out there, I enjoy it. Well. They
actually did like a a pretty It wasn't even like
Will Smith just showed up and just did it. He
had the whole suit on. They had like an alien
set up. They had like dancers in the suit and
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then like he pretended to like erase people's memory. So
it was like a well thought out, well planned thing,
you know, and tugs at our nostalgia, even if it's
a little bit corny. You actually had the Brazilian singer
Lumilla making their Coachella debut, including including a recorded introduction
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by none other than fucking Beyonce. So we out here, man,
like Beyonce is talking to you. Is your intro? You
are officially out here. So a big shot to lu
Milla for that again, and I just love that support
happening from from you know, all of these different communities
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of colors. Just amazing. You had also Caliucci's making a
surprised appearance performing with one of the headliners, Toddler the Creator. Amazing, amazing.
You got to walk onto the biggest stage of Coachella
with one of the headliners. And then you also had
Mexican Gorrido singer Beso ploma right out there and he
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brought on Becky g if I'm Not Mistaken onto stage.
He also did a tribute to the Mexican singers who
paved the way, including La Diva, the Labanda and Jenny Rivera.
So you had I love this too. I think who
did this the other I think Carol g did this
a couple of years ago. If I'm a mistaken or
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last year. I love when the next generation makes it
a point to stop for a second and share their
moment with the previous generation who made it possible for
them to even be there, right to say, hey, this
isn't just for me, but this is a moment for
our entire community. I love that. And that's like so
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much of what I speak to this is this type stuff.
That gets me energized to get at a bed in
the morning. It's like, we're all here together, and everything
we do it truly means something because so many people
have sacrificed so much just for us to have the
opportunity to even do what we do and to have
the ability to say, hey, I know you never got
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the opportunity to step out onto a stage like Coachella
and perform for the masses of pop culture. You know,
on arguing the biggest festival stage in the United States
of America. But you are here with us, right, Like,
I recognize all that you did in order for me
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to get to be here today. And I love that
sort of celebration of legacy like that. I think it's
just amazing and yeah, just beautiful stuff. And I also
want to touch on one more thing, another positive story.
We'll talk about the w NBA. We'll take a quick
break now though. We'll do that and then and then
we're back with another story for our behead this segment.
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All right, we are back, and I want to touch
on also the w NBA draft, because you actually had
some Latina players being drafted. This happened this last week. Obviously,
you had Caitlin Clark has been a big story of
the twenty twenty four I mean just in general. We
talked about their record numbers. That happened with the with
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the the WNBA n Cuba Finals wmit, that's double on
topic with the women's w with the Women's nc double
A Finals tournament. That happened, right, And of course you
had Kitlin Clark being the big name here, but they
also had a handful of Latina college basketball players being
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chosen to live out their dreams as professional basketball players
in the WNBA. So let's say you had Camilla Tho
So she is a Brazilian basketball player drafted by the
Chicago Sky at number three in the first round. Let's go.
You also had Celeste Taylor, who is Puerto Rican and Colombian.
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What a combination, drafted by the Indiana Fever at number
fifteen in the second round. And you also had s
Marie Martinez who is originally from the dr and was
selected by the New York Liberty at number seventeen in
the second round. I'm sure she What a perfect place
(30:36):
you are Dominican and you end up getting drafted into
New York. What a lucky situation. They're will love you
over there, so have to of course give a big shots.
And then also you had le Lani Gorrez right, and
the Indiana Fever drafted her at number twenty seven in
the third round of the draft, and I don't know,
didn't say where she is from. No, didn't say were
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she's from. But Gorz, that's Latin sounds Latin beautiful stuff.
We out here, man, we are. We are out here,
little by little making waves. We are out here infiltrating
every damn industry, every damn league, every everything, man because
we can do it all as Latinos. We are proud
and talented and gifted and it's amazing to see. Also,
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this is like a whole topic of conversation with the WNBA.
I talked about this on about Instagram. But you had
a lot of people outrage when they started seeing what
the rookie contract or like the salaries for these women
would be, especially Caitlin Clark going number one. A lot
of people were like, bro, she's only making like I
think it's like seventy five thousand dollars her rookie year.
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A lot of people were outraged, and then they compare
it to like NBA salaries, which are obviously in the millions,
And if you're upset about it, just like we talked
about kind of earlier the show, do something about it.
The I'm not I don't want to make this a negga,
but I think with these conversations that begin happening, people
love to just fucking talk and it's like, yeah, do
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these women deserve more? One hundred and ten percent. They
are gifted, they are professional athletes. They do deserve better.
But you also have to do your part to support
because this is the other point, Like we all can
complain till the cows come home about lack of representation,
lack of opportunity, all these different things, and they are
very real complaints, but we also have to look ourselves
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in the mirror and say, when one of us does
get the opportunity, are we all truly running out there
to support them to make sure that another person then
gets the opportunity, Because that's the only way this works.
So if you want to see the WNBA players getting
the pay that they deserve, you have to start buying
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tickets to the games. You have to turn on the
television and watch the games. Give them the ratings you
have to buy some jerseys, right, That is how the
lead begins to grow and then generate the income and
revenue needed in order to be able to pay these
women what they deserve. But they can't just be dumping
millions of dollars into salary when they're not recouping it
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in any way, shape or form. It is a business
at the end of the day. Right, And that's just
like with entertainment and movies and television. Yeah, there's a
problem where our stories aren't being told or they're traditionally
has been. But we then have to do our part
and support them when they are told. Give them the ratings,
go buy the movie ticket, go go do whatever it is, right,
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like it go even on a smaller scale, So many
of us will will like be like, oh, I'm so
proud of my friend. They're doing the thing, but you're
never actually supporting them, right, we have no problem this,
I mean this kind of deviates to a whole other thing,
but like, we have no problem supporting complete strangers and
buying their clothing and buying their products. Meanwhile, the people
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we know who are are aspiration show and trying to
build something else for their life, we're not rushing to
support them in that same way. And again I'm generalizing.
I'm not saying any you know, all of us are
like that, but I think we often get a bit better.
Myself included at not just talking the talk, but also
walking the walk. What am I really doing to contribute
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to the change I want to see? Because complaining on
social media, Yes, conversation is needed. It's the start, but
it means nothing if it's not followed by action. So
if you are upset about something like the WNBA's you know,
wage gap, do something to help the problem again, watch
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it on TV, give it the ratings, go to a
game by a Jersey. All of this is us doing
little things to contribute to fixing a problem. Right, And
it's easy. It's simple. I mean, you can't that much
simpler than just turning on the fucking TV when a
game is on. Right, But unfortunately we live in like
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this culture that complains and then never does anything about it.
And that's human nature in general. Many of us are
kind of like that. We were like, oh, I hate
my job, I hate my life, blah blah blah, and
then that's as far as we get. And I'm sorry
if this is like coming off as I feel like
I'm like David Goggins, just fucking calling people out right now.
But I say this to myself. I'm saying it to
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myself as well, and I constantly have the voice in
my head of like, you don't like what you see,
you are envious of what somebody else has. What are
you doing to correct that? It comes down to you,
what are you playing your part to fix this issue
that you have deemed, you know, to be an issue without,
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you know, for the sake of signing redundant. That's what
we have to ask ourselves. It's great be outraged, be
energized for a cause, but then follow it up with action.
And that's what we need more of it in our
lives and in society in general. If you know, if
you're really if we really want to see change happen,
we really want to see people get what they deserve,
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you know, we have to follow our outrage up with
action and not just let it live and die on
social media. That's my two cents. With that said, we
had a positive show today. Love it. Love having a
positive show. Let's let's tie a neat little ball and
all we talked about today and we'll do it in
a second. We call conclusion. STU, time for come all right,
(36:38):
So recap all we talked about today. You have that
Selena story with the the boutique company who came together
the boutique lifestyle brand, I should say, who came together
with the Blue Brewery company, who also is POC owned.
And I want to make sure the lifestyle boutique called
me viva and they came up with this collaboration to
honor Selena in the form of a beer family. Will
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is it having it again? I think this is like
a two headed monster story. I am beyond excited to
see the type of collaborations I want to do collaborations
like this one. I actually would love to do it
just be beer. I'm a big beer fan. I would
love to do something like that, putting that out there
into the universe. Brenda, if you are listening, I need
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I need your childlike energy in a good way. When
I say that your childlike energy, that anything is possible,
and I need you to help push my jaded as
to make this collaboration possibly happen. Because I'm a big
beer for person and I think would be the coolest
thing ever to have collaborate with a brand like this
one who is POC owned and doing amazing things. So
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just love that. And also I just want to collaborate
more people. I love seeing collaboration. I love seeing us
all come together and help build each other up. People
were doing cool shit from our community building each other up.
And if her family listen, I get it. I'm not
going to villainize them as just being money hungry. I'm
sure there's a lot of trauma and triggers that come
around anybody doing anything associated with her name, and I
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can only imagine the lack of control you feel like
when the person you love is taken away from you
and there was nothing you could do about it. You know,
it was so out of your control. So I think
it's normal that in you know, the years following, they're
very protective about her name brand likeness because it's the
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only thing they have now of her, basically, right, the
only thing they have left, and it's the only thing
they're actually in control of. So I get it, Farmceella,
love it again. I think a the message of honoring people,
especially in today's climate where you have anti immigrant narrative,
you have people talking down on the type of work
that many migrant people end up doing when they come
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to this country. It's beautiful to see them propped up
and celebrated. And also it's beautiful that a Latina just
decided to take it upon herself to create something beautiful
and have an idea in her head and then actually
bring it out into life second year in a row.
Just amazing to see actual Coachella. Listen. I don't think
I personally want to be out in the desert at
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a festival, you know, all day long. But when I
see this Latin representation happening at this festival and people
are not only receptive to it, but coming out in
big numbers, dude against me, so fucking excited, like so excited,
and obviously like I'm a music person as well. And
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I've existed not in the world of Coachella, but festivals
like that where there are more pop culture festivals, right,
and it's always frustrated me that we've been left at
a lot of those conversations. So to see us operating
at high levels, to see somebody like j Balvin bringing
out somebody like Will Smith, you know, I think is incredible.
Or to see Tyler Creator headlining and Kalie UCI's is
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one of his guests, is just amazing and obviously just
everything everything about it. I love it and the WNBA.
I love the fact that these are conversations I've never
talked about the WNBA. I think a day of my
life when it comes to content. And I love the
fact that now it's become such a topic of conversation
women's basketball in general, that now I have no choice
(40:16):
but to talk about it, right or but to be
interested in it. And not that I'm like it was
ever against it, but I mean what I'm saying is
it's becomes a part of pop culture now that it's
like naturally like yeah, of course I'm going to talk
about women's basketball in some sort of way or the WNBA.
That's growth, that change, and if you want to see
it really become what it deserves to be, we just
have to continue to support it, talk about it, go
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to games, watch games by the merge, all that kind
of stuff. I think that is, you know, very powerful,
to feel like we have power, you know, that sort
of like power I feel. I don't wan to use
that word too much. We have it in our hands.
We just have to show up all of us just
have to take little actions right, just like Farmchella. You
have an idea, just do it. It's something that excites you,
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just put it out there into the world and create
it and do it, and you're making this world a
better place. No matter how big or small. The thing
that you're doing is just by putting that positive energy
out there in the world. Just amazing stuff. I'm fucking
energized right now. I feel good. I'm going to go
into like a creative cave and just go wild right
now for the rest of the day. I have hype
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the fuck up. So thank y'all for giving me the
platform to do so again. Just be social club. We
are opening up April thirtieth, if you want to be
part of it. This is community. We are building it.
Y'all are geting me the first once get in on
the ground floor. We are literally building this together. I'm
calling you out like if you really believe in the
power of our community, and I'll just mean like just
(41:40):
be community or life as a Gettago community. I mean
the power of us as Latinos, as people of color,
as allies within all of that, as people who want
more out of life. This is our opportunity to all
come together in one place and collaborate and inspire one
another on a consistent basis. This is a place for
(42:01):
all of us to finally feel seen and heard often,
or for many of us it might be for the
first time in our lives. So that's what we are
building with this just be social club again. I want
it to be a hub for creativity, for collaboration, for inspiration,
for motivation, for just people feeling at home. That's the
(42:22):
goal of it. So April thirtieth, we are launching. You
want to be on the waiting list, so we could
send you a link to launch. Email Brenda at mindofayong
Lord dot com. I'll put the link in the show notes,
or just DM me on Instagram. I'm going to be
checking my dms and just reach out and let me
know how I want to be a part of it,
or just follow us at justb dot NYC. You could
DM that as well. Any of those things. We're going
(42:44):
to be checking them and we will add you to list. Again,
like we're all building something and I feel like this
is going to be a really big thing for our community.
But it takes all of us coming together. This isn't
just about me, This isn't about Brenda. This is literally
only works if all of us are on the same
page and have the same goal in mind of wanting
(43:05):
to be around like minded people and empower one another. Right,
that's what its. I want this to be thousands of
people together who you're like, Oh, I'm thinking about starting
a business, but I don't have a I don't know
how to write a business plan. Boom, all of a sudden,
you know, there's somebody in the community is like, Hey,
I actually do that for a living. I help people
write business plans. Let's let's connect. I'll coach you through it.
(43:26):
How amazing would that be. I don't have to fucking Google,
I don't have to be looking at strangers. I don't
have to you know, pay a random, you know, white
person to do this. I can say, oh shit, there's
actually somebody from my community who's doing this work. Let
me support them at the end of the day, right,
let me let me use their services, because not only
(43:47):
am I getting something I need, like graphic design or
whatever it might be, but now I'm also empowering somebody
from our community to continue living out their dream. We're
all helping each other at the day. That's what I'm
trying to build with this whole just be social club.
I'm really amped up about it, as you can tell.
So yeah, reach out in some sort of way and
we will add you to the list so you can
be a part of it. Help us build this beautiful,
(44:08):
beautiful thing that I just have in my head right now.
But that said, thank y'all so much for tuning in again.
No shows next week. I'm gonna be traveling follow me
at the dramas. I'll be posting content a bunch, so
if you want to, you want to get a peek
into what it's like when I touched down on in
the Motherland, I'll be posting about that. And if not,
I'll just catch you when we bring the show back
(44:30):
the following week, which will be the week of the
twenty ninth April. Is just a bet done, which is
absolutely crazy. Here we are, man, love it, love it.
Thank you so much for tuning in. I will catch
you next time in about a weekend, yeah, but a
week so week and a half, so then stay safe.
We'll talk soon. Race Life as a Good Ingo is
(44:53):
a production of the micro Thura podcast network and iHeartRadio,
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He said, you live in life as a ringo where
you question where you fit in every time you mingle,
they say you do this with not of that. Yes, Hello,
and welcome to another episode of Life as a Gringo.
I am dramas of course, and it is Thursday, so
it means it's time fat with Thursday Trends episode. I
(00:31):
am flying on today's show because, as I've been mentioning,
I don't feel like I have to explain it anymore.
But for those you know who are are curious why
I haven't had many guests on Thursday Trends as of late,
we've had a lot of guests on the Tuesday episode.
So I just like to kind of be a little greedy,
you know, and and get these bars in solo when
(00:51):
I get the chance to write. So that is what's
happening today. We're flying solo. Also, just the heads up,
we're let's uh, let's let's listen house keeping here some
life is a get to go housekeeping before we get
into today's show. And what we're talking about today obviously Thursday. Yeah,
we got to that. Next week I'm gonna be traveling,
so there will be no podcast. I was. I was
(01:16):
going back and forth on whether or not I would
do it while I was traveling. I'm going to Porto
Rico next week to just visit some family, shoot some content,
meet up with some people, just get away. Basically, I
need to get away for a little bit. And yeah,
so no podcast next week. I would just probably end
up having to like rush it half ass it in
some sort of way. It wouldn't sound good. I'd rather
just not do that to y'all. So no podcast next week.
(01:40):
We'll be back the following week. Of course, what else
we got going on? Also in the world of just Be,
my like wellness lifestyle brand community that we are building
like minded individuals coming together to change our lives. We are,
in a very scary way, getting very close to the
launch of the new iteration of just Be Social Club.
(02:01):
Now I've you know, sort of mentioned it out here before.
I apologize if I sound like a broken record, but
we are launching on April thirtieth, which is a Tuesday.
And in previous sessions, we've done two different groups before
and it's more just like a Mastermind group, which has
been absolutely amazing. We would meet up once a month
via zoom and I talk about the four pillars of
conscious living, which is kind of my philosophy, and in general,
(02:25):
just bouncing ideas off one another about life and all
that we're going through and how can we, you know,
become better at the end of the day. And then
we would also have like these expert calls where I
would interview people who are doing their thing and their
respective fields and you would be able to pick their
brain on how they got there and all those different things.
So that has been amazing. We've seen some incredible results.
I mean, people have launched their own podcast, they have
(02:48):
started their businesses, you know, they have just sort of
found some inner peace or found community. It's been incredible
to just see everybody's personal growth. Everybody I feel like,
got something out of it. And that has been absolutely
amazing to watch. And you know, my partner and I, Brenda,
we're always just like, man, how do we grow it though?
How do we touch more people's lives? How do we
help more people who look like you and I who
came up in a similar background, or those who are
(03:10):
just looking for other like minded individuals, you know, who
are growth oriented. And the new iteration of the Just
Be Social Club. It's not going to be like a
closed off group how these other ones were. It's really
going to be a bit more open. It's going to
be ongoing. It is going to include like the live
talks how we had done, but it's also going to
(03:31):
allow you to genuinely be in community with other people
twenty four hours a day. We're going to do it
through Patreon, and you know, there's going to be you know,
pre recording modules, you can go back to all the
previous Just Be Social Club recordings. Will do a live
stream like we had been doing, you know, where you
can talk to me in real time. We'll do questions,
you know via you know, we'll have different prompts or
(03:52):
office hours where you could ask us questions. We'll have
you know, some custom podcasts we're talking about, like exclusively
just for Just Be Social Club members. And again it's
also you're going to be able to interact with other
people who are from your background or have similar interests.
My hope with this is to create like a hub
for those of us in our community and communities of
(04:13):
color to be able to like have a one stop
shop to connect with people who do amazing work right
if you are somebody who is I'm going to use
creative field just because obviously that's what ideal in But
you're like, oh, I want to start a podcast, I
need a logo and cover art. The beauty of like
to just be social club would be We're going to
have a community hub where you can put that out there,
and then we'll have people who are graphic designers you
(04:35):
know and be like, oh, I actually do that for
a living. I can help you out. Now you're supporting
one another who are within the community. You're easily connecting
with people who you know are skilled at the things
that you want to do, or getting feedback in real time,
Hey I'm working on this, what do you guys think?
And being able to have that real time, genuine community aspect,
right of people who want to see you succeed, who
(04:55):
understand you, know where you come from, and want nothing
but the best for you. That's what we're building with
it again. It launches April thirtieth. If you want to
be added to the sort of waiting list, we're going
to email a bunch of people when the link goes
live so that you can join it. You can email
Brenda brendatmindevyong woorld dot com. I'll put it in the
show notes or just send me a DM on Instagram
(05:17):
at DJ Dramos. We're going to keep it kind of
old school and family oriented here. We just reach out
to us directly and I'll add just the list once
we launch it. But everything has some grandiose ideas for this,
for this to just be like a lifetime thing where
we're all just in community. Right for me, I'm building
what I always wanted to see, and I'm not. I
don't want to go on too long of a s
feel here, but for me, I felt very lonely in
(05:40):
my journey coming up, you know, where I didn't have
a lot of people who saw life the way that
I did or understood me, and you know, I struggled
a lot as a result, you know, and being able
to have others to bounce ideas off of or to
just feel a little bit less alone. And I'm trying
to read this hub where we no longer have to
(06:02):
feel like that, even if we live in you know,
bumblefuck whatever, and there's nobody that looks like us or
understands us. At least you can go on this you
know Patreon and in this community, and you feel seen
and feel heard and feel like you're a part of
something right and connect with other people so that you
no longer have to be going about all this stuff alone.
And that's sort of the idea with this, and that's
(06:22):
what we're trying to build out with with the new
just b social club, So able thirty if that launches again,
reach out in some sort of way if you want
to be put on the waiting list, so we can
send you an email when it launches. And that's it.
Oh merch, if you're watching the video of this, I
just we drop some merch that I'm really proud of.
I have the BET right now, and we have the
Bu sweatshirts that are beautifully embroidered, just amazing. I'm really
(06:45):
excited about how it all turned out. I think I've
been wearing about a lot in the streets and people
have been like connecting with especially like the BU sweater.
I just see how it like makes people kind of
stop in place and think for a second. Or I
was at a coffee shop the other day and I
was about to sit down and this woman was just like
staring at me, and then she was like, I'm so sorry.
I just saw your hat and you know that it
(07:08):
just saying b was so timely and poignant for me,
Like it was just a reminder, so thank you. So yeah,
I don't know, just just cool stuff's happening, Man, just
beat at NYC if you want to pick some stuff
up or check it out. Now, with that said, let's
get to the episode Man Thursday Trends. We are talking
about a lot of positive stuff today. I actually only
really want to talk about positive stuff. There's only one
story that I want to get into that it's not
(07:28):
even super negative, but I feel like the news cycle
has been so negative we deserve some positivity. But there's
one story that is a little you know, I want
to say controversial. It's just, you know, it's not necessarily
a positive one. So we'll talk about a brewery that
tried to honor Selena with a limited release and her
family actually sent them a cease and desist. So we'll
touch on that and then it's all positivity from there.
(07:49):
You had Man Coachella happening this last weekend, and actually
I think this one was well it's a two weekend thing.
So we'll talk about all of the Latin representation that
was there. You had the w NBA dream that you
actually have Latinos who are part of that draft as well.
We'll talk about that and honor them. And then Farmchella
Festival is a place to honor and celebrate farm workers,
which is just amazing stuff. So we're gonna get into
(08:11):
all that. We're just gonna keep it really positive, really
light for the most part. Today we'll do our one
little story that you know, has a little bit of
a you know, maybe not such a happy ending for
everybody involved, all right, So we'll do that in a second.
We call for the people in the back, say a lot.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
For the people in the say a lot for the
people in the say a lot for the people in the.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
All right, So let's talk about this story. We Army
two dot com is the source, of course, Lincoln Show notes.
You want to read the full thing. But we actually
sadly just had the anniversary of Selena's death at the
end of March. It's crazy, almost thirty years later and
people are rightfully honoring this woman, but it's crazy that
(09:05):
it happened almost thirty years ago, that she was sadly
just just murdered and people still do a lot of
different things obviously, when in just general, I think Selena
is one of those just iconic cultural figures that I
think is larger than life at this point. You know,
(09:26):
it means so much to people who maybe didn't even
grow up when she was even alive. You know. I
feel like she's kind of like Elvis status for us,
you know, like Elvis is just like this legendary figure,
and I think Selena is that for us. Latinos. So,
you had this Highland Park based Chicago, Chicano sorry, Chiicano
(09:48):
lifestyle boutique. This is Highland Park, California, and the boutique
is called me Viva, and they had an idea to
celebrate the life of Selena. They actually teamed up with
a POC owned craft brewery called Bruheria for a limited
beer release called Which is Beautiful. And according to them,
(10:10):
the idea was conceived to like pair pizza and beer together,
honoring Selena's favorite food, which is pizza. And what they
say is actually that meviv that which is the lifestyle
boutique that they actually honor and celebrate Selena's birthday at
their shop every year. And the shop is in California.
But this year they wanted to go a bit bigger,
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and obviously that's why they paired up with the brewing
company to come up with a beer. And apparently the
family of Selena, the Kintania family wasn't happy about this. Right,
so the brands actually made a thousand cans of the
pale ale quickly sold out, and right when they were
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thinking about making more, they actually received a letter from
the family of Selena and it was a season to say,
basically asking them to stop what they were doing, you know,
or else basically. And the article also goes on to
say that this is not the first time that the
family has reached out to people and threatened legal action
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against them using any sort of potential likeness of hers.
There was also a legal fight with the late husband
of hers over profits from her career. I mean, just
a lot of different things. And I think it's an
interesting conversation now the the brands talk about how they
never actually say Selena's name out loud or put her
name on the the cans, right, so they're saying that
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they don't feel like they crossed into any sort of
copyright issue. They just called it right, and there is
like an artist, like a cartoon drawing that looks like
Selena wearing a necklace that says right. And I think
people are going back and forth on you know, is
does the family and you know they justified here uh,
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and they're they're basically, you know, saying that the way
that the family has set up, it's as if no
one can profit from Salida's legacy but her father essentially right.
And I think this is an interesting topic of conversation
at the end of the day, I think, Ay, this
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is beautiful that people are honoring an icon like this
years years later, and I guess there's a controversy or
topic of conversation happening of like should the family just
chill the fuck out a little bit? I think it's
beautiful that it is communities of color coming together, Like
you have two brands that are POC owned and collaborating
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and doing beautiful things like this, right first and foremost,
that's just awesome. Shout out to the Bluehodie Craft Uh,
the craft brewery company. I want to check that out
next time I am in Puerto Rico and the Chicano
Lifestyle boutique. You you that next time in Puerto Rico. Jeez,
I'm ready Rico mentally right now, guys, California. Next time
in California, in the LA area. I want to go
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check that out. Anyway. I just think there's it's easy
to paint the family out to be the bad guy.
It's like, oh, we're just trying to honor this, you know,
the life of Selena and Rafillly, So as fans, I
get it. I think there's probably just I don't I mean,
I don't want to make it like it's all about money.
I think there's probably also a lot of trauma for
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that family around the idea of their daughter, and even
us as fans. If we're trying to honor her, you know,
it has to feel a bit I don't know what
the proper wording would be, it has to feel a
bit invasive. I think that people are are sort of
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running with her legacy and doing with it as they
see fit. And again, this is a positive one to
celebrate her. But I guess I guess what I'm getting
at is for them because I feel like the article
to a degree, and you can tell me if I'm
wrong here, I feel like the tone of it seemed
like it painted the family out to be a little
bit you know, money hungry and and you know, overly protective.
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But I think we have to look at it from
the perspective of it's probably one of the few things
that they get to control when it comes to their
daughter at the end of the day, or her sister
you know, saidy they had no control over the way
that her life ended, and I'm sure that haunts them
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till this day, right the idea that she's gone. There's
nothing they could do about it. There was no preparation,
there was nothing they could do to protect her. Right.
So I think when they see things like this, and
obviously I'm not in their head, and nor am I
a therapist or something like that, but I think we
sort of have to have a bit of empathy where
it's you know, I'm gonna give the benefit of doubt,
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it's not just about money that it's also about like, man,
we had no control over the way this life has
sort of turned out with our beloved you know, daughter,
and now as a result, like the trauma response is
I need to be in as much control as possible
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when it comes to anything dealing with her, right like that,
this is the only thing that I have Now I
don't have my daughter anymore. I just basically have her
likeness and her legacy, and you know, I think that
that is man, it's just heartbreaking at the end of
the day, I hear that, and I know people will
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be like, what the fuck? You know these they were
they just ruined a cool thing. But I also just
see it as, man, this is like a trauma response
of people who are still in a lot of pain
from losing their loved one and you know, the life
that that she was robbed of, you know what I mean,
and that that's just an incredibly sad thing to like
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visualize in my head. So I empathize with them. Outside
of that, though, I just think I love seeing stuff
like this, like brands coming together like that, Like I
would love I would love to actually do some collaborations,
you know. I'm like, uh, I'm just be obsessed right now.
Like I have so much in my heart for the brand,
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and I feel like I keep talking about it, but
I'm just so excited about it. I want to I
want to just like I really want this to be
a big thing, and not big in terms of like
I'm trying to be famous. I mean big in terms
of impact and connection. So like I see stuff like
this and like, you know, my brain just starts going
by the way, Like I'm I I love to like
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I'll watch YouTube videos. I'll just put on random shit
just to like trigger a creative like you know, a
bolt of energy inside of me. And that's what's happening
right now is we're live recording this. I love this
idea of collaboration and coming together and doing cool shit
like this. I think it's just amazing. I would love
to do that. Maybe as a brand or whatever you're
working on, maybe we could collaborate in some sort of way.
Would just be if it makes sense. I'm open to
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those ideas. I just I love this type of stuff.
I think that's all the story that I look at
from here. I'm like, man, like, look at this. In
a small way. You have this boutique lifestyle company who's
you know, celebrate Chicago culture. You have this POC owned
brewery and they're coming together create cool products like this.
I just I don't know. That type of stuff just
fires me the fuck up, and I think I just
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like that's that's the power we have right the internet connection.
We literally could be like dming people to create cool
shit like this and bring it into the world, you
know what I mean, Like, we don't have to be
boots on the ground anymore. And that's like what I
want to do is just be where it's like, Oh,
we have this hub of beautiful, amazing, growth minded people
who are all doing different things that are cool as fuck.
And you might be able to find your next collaborator,
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your next business partner, right whatever, it might be, your
next inspira, a person of inspiration like that. That's what
I'm trying to build. Like my business partner Brenda and
I she was a listener of this podcast, and we've
come to get other virtually. We've never actually met in person,
but we've created so much together in the last year
and a half. And that's what I want other people
to be able to have via just b where it's like, oh,
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I'm like, you know, interacting with this person via the community.
I like the way they think or their ideas. I
think we could possibly work together on something, and boom,
now you have this beautiful, you know, working relationship that
wouldn't have existed prior to And I think that that's
what we're trying to create with it. And I apologize
this as sounding like inn ad. I'm just like really
excited about what we're doing and really energized by it.
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It's just a it's a beautiful place to be right
now mentally anyway. So that's the one, you know story
that was a little bit not negative, but just you know,
was it's like a feel good story. With that said,
we're gonna get into all field good stories for the
rest of the show. Well that army hint that segment.
But first it's take a quick break and then we'll
be right back. All right. You have heard of Coachella.
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That happened this last weekend. It's happening again this upcoming weekend.
But have you heard of farm Cella? Okay? Now, Farm
Cella Festival is a place to celebrate farm workers. Okay,
And actually, what's amazing again? People just doing cool shit.
You had a Latina who decided to celebrate the coach
Halla Valley differently, the Coachella Valley different than why I
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said it like that. So a lot of the like
I don't want to say, like this is not backlash
the topics of conversation. It's like you have all these
people who fled to Coachella Valley, that the part of
California for this festival. But there are actually people who
are out there in the desert working every day, farm
workers you know, who are helping keep the local economy
alive basically right, and this Latino wanted to honor those
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who helped put food on the table. So this is
actually the second year you had Florida martinezsap who launched
the farm Cella Festival and Perha. It's an all out
celebration of the contributions of farm workers in the Coachella Valley.
Now it is actually happening today. So unfortunately, if you
didn't know about this prior, I don't think you could
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make it. But it's happening today. They're saying hundreds of
people will enjoy entertainment, giveaways, live concerts, and the farmers
are actually the headliners of this festival. And again it's
just beautiful, Like this is the type of shit like
we're gonna get in too. A couple of conversations sort
of based around this today. But like if you just
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if you have an idea, just bring it to life,
you know, like that's this is what life is all about.
You have somebody here in this woman floor who is
like watching everybody flood in for Coachella and all the things,
and that has this idea like, you know, what would
be cool if we celebrate the everyday workers here who
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obviously are primarily Latino, if not all, and we make
a day where we thank them for all of the work,
the backbreaking work that they put in day in and
day out, and let them know that they're seen. Right,
especially in today's climate where you know, there's so much
like anti immigrant narrative happening, particularly when it comes to
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those of Latin descent. You see things like this and
it brings you a bit of hope, right, And I
think if all of us were doing little things like
this to bring bits of hope and put it out
there into the world, I think it would feel like
a lot less of a scary and hopeless place at
the end of the day. Right, And I empower and
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challenge everybody listening, like this is what doing your part
looks like. And it doing your part doesn't necessarily mean,
like you know, you doing backbreaking volunteering work. It could
that's beautiful, it's amazing, but also it could be just
creating what's in your heart and creating something that's positive, right,
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that is fulfilling for you internally, but also or even
maybe some sort of monetary thing. But at the same time,
it puts something positive into the world. Right. And again,
if everybody was doing something that they're passionate about, it's
a trickle down effect, you know. I think even beyond
just like the fact that we all would have a
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place to feel seen and heard, I truly do believe
that the biggest trickle do effect is us just being
happier individuals going about our everyday lives. Like I know,
for me, I'm a much happier person today than I
was five years ago. So as a result, my interactions
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with others are more positive. And I truly do believe
it's a domino effect where I have a positive experience
with another person, then they feel good and they go
home with their family and have a positive experience, and
then that trickles down to every they interact with, right,
And I think that is sort of the beauty of
all of us, sort of doing the ideas and creating
the things that you know, light the fire within us.
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Is the trickle dat effect that inevitably happens regardless of
monetary thing, regardless of attendance, viewership, whatever it might be,
regardless of like the tangible statistics of whether or not
something was a quote unquote success. If it makes you
feel good and puts you in a better mood, it's
a success because that, right there is intoxicating. That right
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there is something that can be passed down to the
next person just by you interacting with somebody in your
everyday life. If you're in a good place mentally, your
interactions will be that much more positive. I think that's
the beauty of chasing after all that you want and
doing what you want and putting out a positive sort
of event like this one, I think is more of that,
which is really beautiful. Now onto the actual festival that
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is Coachella. Let's talk talk about the iconic Latin X
moments and this is thanks to Hip Latina. So there
are a few different Latin performers doing this on a
big level and it's a beautiful thing to see. It's
actually funny to me. I watched like clips that were
popping up on TikTok throughout the weekend and it's as
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much as I'm not like, you know, mister you have
to speak Spanish to be Latino. Obviously. It also is
like funny to me to see these artists on the
Coachella stage just speaking Spanish, like even between songs, addressing
the audience in Spanish, and it warms my heart. You know,
the idea that you have this festival that is pop
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culture essentially, and here are these Latin artists not only
performing their music, but at the same time showing up
authentically and being able to address the crowd in their
native tongue, and they're having the support of said crowds.
I think it's just amazing. So you actually had a
Puerto Rican rapper, Young Miko, who I'm a big fan of.
She made her coach Hella debut. I saw TikTok videos
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of her. It's just amazing to sort of see her
growth over the last like year or so, and obviously
as a Puerto Rican I gotta I gotta give a
shout out to her. You also had Shakira joining Bizarre
Rap on stage and announcing that she is going to
be going on her world tour. I mean, she's already
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a fucking legend and now is going to be be
back out on the road going around the Globe touring,
which is obviously incredible. I mean at her age, still
looking phenomenal, still killing it on stage, living her dream out.
It's an inspiration right there. You actually had j Balvin
performing and one of the big moments that was going
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viral was Will Smith joining him on stage performing Men
in Black. Is it Courtney a little bit? It's a
little corny, but you know what, for the nostalgia for
all of us out there, I enjoy it. Well. They
actually did like a a pretty It wasn't even like
Will Smith just showed up and just did it. He
had the whole suit on. They had like an alien
set up. They had like dancers in the suit and
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then like he pretended to like erase people's memory. So
it was like a well thought out, well planned thing,
you know, and tugs at our nostalgia, even if it's
a little bit corny. You actually had the Brazilian singer
Lumilla making their Coachella debut, including including a recorded introduction
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by none other than fucking Beyonce. So we out here, man,
like Beyonce is talking to you. Is your intro? You
are officially out here. So a big shot to lu
Milla for that again, and I just love that support
happening from from you know, all of these different communities
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of colors. Just amazing. You had also Caliucci's making a
surprised appearance performing with one of the headliners, Toddler the Creator. Amazing, amazing.
You got to walk onto the biggest stage of Coachella
with one of the headliners. And then you also had
Mexican Gorrido singer Beso ploma right out there and he
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brought on Becky g if I'm Not Mistaken onto stage.
He also did a tribute to the Mexican singers who
paved the way, including La Diva, the Labanda and Jenny Rivera.
So you had I love this too. I think who
did this the other I think Carol g did this
a couple of years ago. If I'm a mistaken or
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last year. I love when the next generation makes it
a point to stop for a second and share their
moment with the previous generation who made it possible for
them to even be there, right to say, hey, this
isn't just for me, but this is a moment for
our entire community. I love that. And that's like so
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much of what I speak to this is this type stuff.
That gets me energized to get at a bed in
the morning. It's like, we're all here together, and everything
we do it truly means something because so many people
have sacrificed so much just for us to have the
opportunity to even do what we do and to have
the ability to say, hey, I know you never got
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the opportunity to step out onto a stage like Coachella
and perform for the masses of pop culture. You know,
on arguing the biggest festival stage in the United States
of America. But you are here with us, right, Like,
I recognize all that you did in order for me
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to get to be here today. And I love that
sort of celebration of legacy like that. I think it's
just amazing and yeah, just beautiful stuff. And I also
want to touch on one more thing, another positive story.
We'll talk about the w NBA. We'll take a quick
break now though. We'll do that and then and then
we're back with another story for our behead this segment.
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All right, we are back, and I want to touch
on also the w NBA draft, because you actually had
some Latina players being drafted. This happened this last week. Obviously,
you had Caitlin Clark has been a big story of
the twenty twenty four I mean just in general. We
talked about their record numbers. That happened with the with
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the the WNBA n Cuba Finals wmit, that's double on
topic with the women's w with the Women's nc double
A Finals tournament. That happened, right, And of course you
had Kitlin Clark being the big name here, but they
also had a handful of Latina college basketball players being
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chosen to live out their dreams as professional basketball players
in the WNBA. So let's say you had Camilla Tho
So she is a Brazilian basketball player drafted by the
Chicago Sky at number three in the first round. Let's go.
You also had Celeste Taylor, who is Puerto Rican and Colombian.
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What a combination, drafted by the Indiana Fever at number
fifteen in the second round. And you also had s
Marie Martinez who is originally from the dr and was
selected by the New York Liberty at number seventeen in
the second round. I'm sure she What a perfect place
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you are Dominican and you end up getting drafted into
New York. What a lucky situation. They're will love you
over there, so have to of course give a big shots.
And then also you had le Lani Gorrez right, and
the Indiana Fever drafted her at number twenty seven in
the third round of the draft, and I don't know,
didn't say where she is from. No, didn't say were
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she's from. But Gorz, that's Latin sounds Latin beautiful stuff.
We out here, man, we are. We are out here,
little by little making waves. We are out here infiltrating
every damn industry, every damn league, every everything, man because
we can do it all as Latinos. We are proud
and talented and gifted and it's amazing to see. Also,
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this is like a whole topic of conversation with the WNBA.
I talked about this on about Instagram. But you had
a lot of people outrage when they started seeing what
the rookie contract or like the salaries for these women
would be, especially Caitlin Clark going number one. A lot
of people were like, bro, she's only making like I
think it's like seventy five thousand dollars her rookie year.
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A lot of people were outraged, and then they compare
it to like NBA salaries, which are obviously in the millions,
And if you're upset about it, just like we talked
about kind of earlier the show, do something about it.
The I'm not I don't want to make this a negga,
but I think with these conversations that begin happening, people
love to just fucking talk and it's like, yeah, do
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these women deserve more? One hundred and ten percent. They
are gifted, they are professional athletes. They do deserve better.
But you also have to do your part to support
because this is the other point, Like we all can
complain till the cows come home about lack of representation,
lack of opportunity, all these different things, and they are
very real complaints, but we also have to look ourselves
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in the mirror and say, when one of us does
get the opportunity, are we all truly running out there
to support them to make sure that another person then
gets the opportunity, Because that's the only way this works.
So if you want to see the WNBA players getting
the pay that they deserve, you have to start buying
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tickets to the games. You have to turn on the
television and watch the games. Give them the ratings you
have to buy some jerseys, right, That is how the
lead begins to grow and then generate the income and
revenue needed in order to be able to pay these
women what they deserve. But they can't just be dumping
millions of dollars into salary when they're not recouping it
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in any way, shape or form. It is a business
at the end of the day. Right, And that's just
like with entertainment and movies and television. Yeah, there's a
problem where our stories aren't being told or they're traditionally
has been. But we then have to do our part
and support them when they are told. Give them the ratings,
go buy the movie ticket, go go do whatever it is, right,
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like it go even on a smaller scale, So many
of us will will like be like, oh, I'm so
proud of my friend. They're doing the thing, but you're
never actually supporting them, right, we have no problem this,
I mean this kind of deviates to a whole other thing,
but like, we have no problem supporting complete strangers and
buying their clothing and buying their products. Meanwhile, the people
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we know who are are aspiration show and trying to
build something else for their life, we're not rushing to
support them in that same way. And again I'm generalizing.
I'm not saying any you know, all of us are
like that, but I think we often get a bit better.
Myself included at not just talking the talk, but also
walking the walk. What am I really doing to contribute
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to the change I want to see? Because complaining on
social media, Yes, conversation is needed. It's the start, but
it means nothing if it's not followed by action. So
if you are upset about something like the WNBA's you know,
wage gap, do something to help the problem again, watch
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it on TV, give it the ratings, go to a
game by a Jersey. All of this is us doing
little things to contribute to fixing a problem. Right, And
it's easy. It's simple. I mean, you can't that much
simpler than just turning on the fucking TV when a
game is on. Right, But unfortunately we live in like
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this culture that complains and then never does anything about it.
And that's human nature in general. Many of us are
kind of like that. We were like, oh, I hate
my job, I hate my life, blah blah blah, and
then that's as far as we get. And I'm sorry
if this is like coming off as I feel like
I'm like David Goggins, just fucking calling people out right now.
But I say this to myself. I'm saying it to
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myself as well, and I constantly have the voice in
my head of like, you don't like what you see,
you are envious of what somebody else has. What are
you doing to correct that? It comes down to you,
what are you playing your part to fix this issue
that you have deemed, you know, to be an issue without,
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you know, for the sake of signing redundant. That's what
we have to ask ourselves. It's great be outraged, be
energized for a cause, but then follow it up with action.
And that's what we need more of it in our
lives and in society in general. If you know, if
you're really if we really want to see change happen,
we really want to see people get what they deserve,
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you know, we have to follow our outrage up with
action and not just let it live and die on
social media. That's my two cents. With that said, we
had a positive show today. Love it. Love having a
positive show. Let's let's tie a neat little ball and
all we talked about today and we'll do it in
a second. We call conclusion. STU, time for come all right,
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So recap all we talked about today. You have that
Selena story with the the boutique company who came together
the boutique lifestyle brand, I should say, who came together
with the Blue Brewery company, who also is POC owned.
And I want to make sure the lifestyle boutique called
me viva and they came up with this collaboration to
honor Selena in the form of a beer family. Will
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is it having it again? I think this is like
a two headed monster story. I am beyond excited to
see the type of collaborations I want to do collaborations
like this one. I actually would love to do it
just be beer. I'm a big beer fan. I would
love to do something like that, putting that out there
into the universe. Brenda, if you are listening, I need
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I need your childlike energy in a good way. When
I say that your childlike energy, that anything is possible,
and I need you to help push my jaded as
to make this collaboration possibly happen. Because I'm a big
beer for person and I think would be the coolest
thing ever to have collaborate with a brand like this
one who is POC owned and doing amazing things. So
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just love that. And also I just want to collaborate
more people. I love seeing collaboration. I love seeing us
all come together and help build each other up. People
were doing cool shit from our community building each other up.
And if her family listen, I get it. I'm not
going to villainize them as just being money hungry. I'm
sure there's a lot of trauma and triggers that come
around anybody doing anything associated with her name, and I
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can only imagine the lack of control you feel like
when the person you love is taken away from you
and there was nothing you could do about it. You know,
it was so out of your control. So I think
it's normal that in you know, the years following, they're
very protective about her name brand likeness because it's the
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only thing they have now of her, basically, right, the
only thing they have left, and it's the only thing
they're actually in control of. So I get it, Farmceella,
love it again. I think a the message of honoring people,
especially in today's climate where you have anti immigrant narrative,
you have people talking down on the type of work
that many migrant people end up doing when they come
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to this country. It's beautiful to see them propped up
and celebrated. And also it's beautiful that a Latina just
decided to take it upon herself to create something beautiful
and have an idea in her head and then actually
bring it out into life second year in a row.
Just amazing to see actual Coachella. Listen. I don't think
I personally want to be out in the desert at
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a festival, you know, all day long. But when I
see this Latin representation happening at this festival and people
are not only receptive to it, but coming out in
big numbers, dude against me, so fucking excited, like so excited,
and obviously like I'm a music person as well. And
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I've existed not in the world of Coachella, but festivals
like that where there are more pop culture festivals, right,
and it's always frustrated me that we've been left at
a lot of those conversations. So to see us operating
at high levels, to see somebody like j Balvin bringing
out somebody like Will Smith, you know, I think is incredible.
Or to see Tyler Creator headlining and Kalie UCI's is
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one of his guests, is just amazing and obviously just
everything everything about it. I love it and the WNBA.
I love the fact that these are conversations I've never
talked about the WNBA. I think a day of my
life when it comes to content. And I love the
fact that now it's become such a topic of conversation
women's basketball in general, that now I have no choice
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but to talk about it, right or but to be
interested in it. And not that I'm like it was
ever against it, but I mean what I'm saying is
it's becomes a part of pop culture now that it's
like naturally like yeah, of course I'm going to talk
about women's basketball in some sort of way or the WNBA.
That's growth, that change, and if you want to see
it really become what it deserves to be, we just
have to continue to support it, talk about it, go
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to games, watch games by the merge, all that kind
of stuff. I think that is, you know, very powerful,
to feel like we have power, you know, that sort
of like power I feel. I don't wan to use
that word too much. We have it in our hands.
We just have to show up all of us just
have to take little actions right, just like Farmchella. You
have an idea, just do it. It's something that excites you,
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just put it out there into the world and create
it and do it, and you're making this world a
better place. No matter how big or small. The thing
that you're doing is just by putting that positive energy
out there in the world. Just amazing stuff. I'm fucking
energized right now. I feel good. I'm going to go
into like a creative cave and just go wild right
now for the rest of the day. I have hype
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the fuck up. So thank y'all for giving me the
platform to do so again. Just be social club. We
are opening up April thirtieth, if you want to be
part of it. This is community. We are building it.
Y'all are geting me the first once get in on
the ground floor. We are literally building this together. I'm
calling you out like if you really believe in the
power of our community, and I'll just mean like just
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be community or life as a Gettago community. I mean
the power of us as Latinos, as people of color,
as allies within all of that, as people who want
more out of life. This is our opportunity to all
come together in one place and collaborate and inspire one
another on a consistent basis. This is a place for
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all of us to finally feel seen and heard often,
or for many of us it might be for the
first time in our lives. So that's what we are
building with this just be social club again. I want
it to be a hub for creativity, for collaboration, for inspiration,
for motivation, for just people feeling at home. That's the
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goal of it. So April thirtieth, we are launching. You
want to be on the waiting list, so we could
send you a link to launch. Email Brenda at mindofayong
Lord dot com. I'll put the link in the show notes,
or just DM me on Instagram. I'm going to be
checking my dms and just reach out and let me
know how I want to be a part of it,
or just follow us at justb dot NYC. You could
DM that as well. Any of those things. We're going
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to be checking them and we will add you to list. Again,
like we're all building something and I feel like this
is going to be a really big thing for our community.
But it takes all of us coming together. This isn't
just about me, This isn't about Brenda. This is literally
only works if all of us are on the same
page and have the same goal in mind of wanting
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to be around like minded people and empower one another. Right,
that's what its. I want this to be thousands of
people together who you're like, Oh, I'm thinking about starting
a business, but I don't have a I don't know
how to write a business plan. Boom, all of a sudden,
you know, there's somebody in the community is like, Hey,
I actually do that for a living. I help people
write business plans. Let's let's connect. I'll coach you through it.
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How amazing would that be. I don't have to fucking Google,
I don't have to be looking at strangers. I don't
have to you know, pay a random, you know, white
person to do this. I can say, oh shit, there's
actually somebody from my community who's doing this work. Let
me support them at the end of the day, right,
let me let me use their services, because not only
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am I getting something I need, like graphic design or
whatever it might be, but now I'm also empowering somebody
from our community to continue living out their dream. We're
all helping each other at the day. That's what I'm
trying to build with this whole just be social club.
I'm really amped up about it, as you can tell.
So yeah, reach out in some sort of way and
we will add you to the list so you can
be a part of it. Help us build this beautiful,
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beautiful thing that I just have in my head right now.
But that said, thank y'all so much for tuning in again.
No shows next week. I'm gonna be traveling follow me
at the dramas. I'll be posting content a bunch, so
if you want to, you want to get a peek
into what it's like when I touched down on in
the Motherland, I'll be posting about that. And if not,
I'll just catch you when we bring the show back
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the following week, which will be the week of the
twenty ninth April. Is just a bet done, which is
absolutely crazy. Here we are, man, love it, love it.
Thank you so much for tuning in. I will catch
you next time in about a weekend, yeah, but a
week so week and a half, so then stay safe.
We'll talk soon. Race Life as a Good Ingo is
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