July 8, 2025 • 46 mins
On this episode of Hasta Abajo, Meli updates us from the road covering soccer, while Cami shares her closet purging journey and why summertime is her favorite time! Also, the ladies discuss why it’s never too late to pivot in life and they let us in on their mindset and game plan when goal setting. Plus, Meli introduces us to the concept of “Waffle Wednesday”.
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
What's up? What's up everyone? I'm Melissa Ortiz, I'm Gamila
Ramon and this is asta who Okay, come me.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I I have to go record after. This is why
I look this way. All right? Oh I got my
I got my new rolo on. Yeah. First I'm doing this.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I wanted to ask what is that called?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know. I just call her my roalto.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
If you're not listening, if you're not watching the video
version of this podcast, Kamila literally just popped on this
video podcast recording with like a mini bang. I want
to call it a mini bang maybe an inch long.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, it's just like a little Selena inspired a little
hair moment.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And it's so cute.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And this girl, you just you're giving me a tip
right now without even knowing it. I legit, look at
this shit. Hold on, I have hair breakage from last
week in the hair and makeup studio. Do you see this?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah? I mean rest in peace at a little twirl
Laru call it a day. Mattie was like, this is disrespectful.
I was like, bitch, if you wanted to get ready,
you would have woken up earlier and you would have
gotten your ass ready. That doesn't mean I need to
show up like I just rolled out of bed, bitch.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I arrived at Denver, yes today, and I have two
hours behind you, so you clearly know I'm gonna roll
out of bed, brush my teeth, put on a little blush,
and put on this I'm in like New City, same sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
At this point, Mellie's died. Melli has been like this
is like the craziest month for her. She's like back
to back to back to back to back to back stuff,
and I'm so proud of her. The other day I
was like talking to her on the phone finally we
hadn't been able to chat for a minute, and she
was like.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I am like the only woman right now. Can you
explain to us, like what's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So for the FIFA Club World Cup, there's the studio
that we work out of Atlanta and it's TNT and
to Zone and there's a huge roster of amazing talent
and former players and analysts, game commentators, hosts, and the
host are three women. It's one of them is Alex Scott,
(02:19):
who is like a legend in women's soccer. She played
for English, she played for Arsenal, She is the go
to presenter and like soccer media personality in England. Literally
she told me the today. She's like, she's like, I've
gotten to the career.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
She goes malely.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's crazy, like from being a female soccer player where
we used to not get any attention to now she's like,
I can't walk around the streets like without people coming
up to me in London. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an Yeah,
she's awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It was super cool.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And then I am the only female game Like I'm
the only female analyst in studio, which I was. I
didn't realize it until someone told me. I was like,
holy shit, you're right, Like this is crazy. It's like
I'm alongside like Luis Garcia, Steve acmdaman who used to
play for Liverpool. They both used to play for Liverpool,
j used to play for River Plates and Aston Villa.
Like there's a bunch of amazing, incredible talent and I'm
(03:09):
literally the only woman at the desk and at all
these like shows as an analyst, not only woman, but
as an analyst because we also have the incredible host.
But yeah, that's it's it's been. It's been awesome, Like
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Congratulations, my girl there is You know, I'm always very
proud of you, but I just love to hear that
you are the only woman in like so many spaces
and the only Latina and so many spaces.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So go off, queen. Represent You were also hanging out
with my boy Andres Cantor right.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes, yes, he loves you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
By the way, y'all, I've also get like, da, that's
my boy. If y'all don't know who Andres Contor is,
he is like this legendary game commentator.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
If you don't know him, your.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Dad and mom definitely know him because he's been around
the game covering soccer for I don't know, thirty years
and like in this country, in the US, and he's
the guy who literally was like go.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's like the voice of Spanish language football, like hands down, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And so we've been able to work with him in
this tournament. So he's been hanging out with me in
the studio. We all are at the same hotel. We're
in Atlanta, and I go to the gym and I
walk into him and we're catching up real quick, and
the first thing he's like, I'm about to take a
Camilla Ramont class I'm like, of course you, I love it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
When I tell you that, I screamed because when a
Hantina like won the World Cup, like obviously, like he
posted that video of him like breaking down in tears
and he was just like cry, cry, crying. I was
like watching it. I was crying. For the record, I
will repeat this till the day I died. But that
happened on my birthday. So essentially I also won the
World Cup myself.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I had a part in it. And I was like
watching his video, we were all crying.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He was like the person that we that we would
listen to to watch all the games because he was.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Commentating on them, and.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
He like posted a story and he was like taking
my and he was like telling everybody to take my class.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Right afterwards, my dad, I was like.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Look and he's like again and I was like, oh no,
I s.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Like he loves him too.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's a hall of Famer by the way, like US
Soccer Federation made him a hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
He's that legendary, such.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
A nice guy.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Uh he also you love this too.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Uh So a few days later, we're in the hair
and makeup room, he comes up to you. He's like,
because I've been posting about Cattle G's new album on
social media and he's like, Mellie, have you have you
listened to the full cattle album? And I was like
at the time, I was like, not all of it,
but most of it. And he's like, I'm obsessed. He's
like the woman man Uchao, like I can't and so
so I play it in the hair and makeup room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And he's just like vibing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's like, this is vibing the hair and makeup like
the artist is like twirling him in his like seat
and he's just vibing to it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
We're all cracking up.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh, by the way, that Cattle g album girl Friend.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Okay, So now I'm fel better about it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I am, honestly okay, I'm glad you came around.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I knew I would come around.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I was only that one song that Latina Forever After,
like an incredible documentary that she did right about like
female empowerment. So when that song slapped right off the
bat of that release of that Netflix thing, it was
I was just like, I love the beat, I do,
but it doesn't like the lyrics for me just didn't
hit it didn't match what I left the documentary with
(06:27):
documentary with I can't even say that word.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And so this album, oh girl, documentary, thank you Arlene
our producer, I needed that. Honestly, I'm like, document I
was just gonna correct you.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But then I was like, I don't think it don't
come out right. Actually I was afraid. I stayed silent.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because I was afraid to mispronounce it as well.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That word fucks me all the time. To be honest
with you, this is like an ongoing thirty five year
battle with this word. So that's okay. Though it's okay.
We have some words plattened down, some other English words not.
I think my parents also always struggled to So it
just goes down the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know, you say, do you say uh, salmon?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, I don't, I say salmon.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Here's my thing about salmon and salmon. If it's salmon,
it should also be ammen. It should not be almond
and salmon. Like, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
They're literally spelled the same as somebody like whose first
language was Spanish versus English.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Like, that'll make no sense. You got to figure it out.
It's either salmon and almond or it's ammon and salmon, okay,
and that's where I'll leave that.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're so right.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I never realized that, Oh my god, oh it's crazy salmon.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, I'm glad it came around the cattle gee hit
because I'm fully obsessed. Like there's zero percent of me.
It's like for every every generation, we all got something.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And I'm just you know, accepting the energy that it's
like bringing into my life. Especially for this summer.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It has been one hundred degrees here in New Yoris
and everyone else has been miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I'm like, this is the best. I have loved it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
The only bad thing has been the like has to
like spread across the street because this asphalt gets like
really hotter. You has to wear like little shoes. But
it has been it has been like just amazing. Like
I'm I have fully defrosted. It is Susia season. I
have fully defrosted. It's like, you know, ha, Mariah Harry
defrost in the winter time for Christmas, Like I defrost
(08:23):
right now for the summertime.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm wearing a tube top right now.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The the podcast started and I was like this, and
then I was like, I told my our producer I
was like, I look naked, how I like it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And you got and I got my roulito. I'm really
living the Latina fantasy.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I love it. I love it, I love I love
summer vibe. I love summer comedy too. I mean, I
love full year comedy, but like summer comedy hits. You know,
I feel like I've just been my move to Miami.
I've just been. You know, it's been sunny all year
round now, so now I'm all of a sudden tan
and happy and in my in my aura. And then
when you would come visit me, You're like, oh, I
wish I could live this life. And now I feel
(09:04):
like we're all living this summer, hot, sisly sexy life.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I'm down for all of that.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
You know that I'm my best when I'm borderline to
my naked. I know. The last time that I went
to Miami, I just remember like walking to your apartment
and I was like, oh my god, this bitch has
so much fucking space.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'm so jealous, Like there's so much light coming in here.
And you'd be very proud of me.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Because our friend Adelena, who's also my stylist, Emelie, actually
introduced me to her.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She came over to the.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
House and I'm like, making space for shit, okay, making
space for things. I'm tired of living in a clutter.
I'm borderline a hoarder. I have emotional attachment to clothing
into things. Like every single bouffanda that Mayouela has made
me is still in my house and they're huge, like
she like knits them.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's like thick lana and they're beautiful and amazing. But
I have all of them, and I'm like, I need a.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
My grandma does that too.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
By the way, we have something else in common, so
cute not vacuum suck.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What are you talking?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Vacuum seal, vacuum seal. I vacuum seal them and I
put them under my bed. So I recommend that if
you have a lot of bufanda's from Yahlida to like
vacuum seal them and it creates a lot more space.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I clean up my closet. Alena came over. I give
I have like.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Six bags of clothes that I'm going to donate or
give it away to friends.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And I realized, my husband is really amazing. You've met Lutano.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
We all love Luciano, but he has been so supportive
throughout my fashionista journey. But if there's one thing that
does not go hand in hand with a fashionista journey
is a one bedroom apartment in New York City that
has like one square foot and a large dog in it,
as well as like my husband and all his jiu
jitsu clothes and all of our gym equipment, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Your treadmill and your treadmill in the internt and.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
My huge tread my peloton tread in that right in
the entrance of my house. Priorities decor. Literally, that's that's
punctu imhach ah. I came to the realization that my
husband has repeating over and over, You're like, I kind
of want to get rid of clothes, Like I want
to get rid of some clothes. And then I was like,
why do you want to get rid of all your clothes?
And I don't understand. He's like to mix space for yours.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Isn't that so fucking cute?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Oh? Cry, that is adorable. That is so adorable. He
like genuinely said that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I'm like, baby, you're not gonna have clothes, baby, He
already has you're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Naked, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What you're gonna tell He already has.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Only like one short, like he has like one shot
and he has like two t shirts. Now he started
buying himself like his new thing is like he finally
started buying himself some clothes that he has, like more
dress pants for work because he's not going to an office.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Obviously has his suits and stuff. But he started getting
himself some like shirts from kids that.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm like, okay, okay, he's making decisions, creative decisions.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I like that for him.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I've been sending him things that I want him to
like style, so he's been wearing like trousers with a
tucked in tea of the evolution, the fashion evolution that
has happened from us living in Miami or growing up
in Miami, so then moving to LA and him still
wearing like little boat shoes to like moving to New
(12:13):
York City and now him experimenting with with the.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Fashion has been incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And also yesterday when I was cleaning out I have,
I realized that I had just left him like a
literal like crumb of closet.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It was a little sliver of closet. It was a
slice of closet.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's so disrespectful that the poor man has been living
in under those conditions.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Closet ratio, let's talk closet ratio. We're talking ninety nine
percent coming to ramone to one percent.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Luciano, he has drawers, but I have an entire like
dresser with just like Peloton clothes. Because it's impossible, Like
it's just we get so much and and I've been
like trying to be better about it. But like I've
I have an entire dresser.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Of six drawers now six seven eight, it's eight doors
because I have two more drawers in another place that
are just.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like fitness clothes. And then I have clothes in the studio.
It's a lot, and it's hard to like, No.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I feel you. I feel like, no, sure seriously, but
I feel you too. Like my closet is. I mean,
it's that ninety nine to one, but it's like a
solid Maybe I'm being generous here seventy thirty. I want
to say, yeah, I'm being a little bit generous maybe
like eighty twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You guys have a lot of like kids, you have
a lot of jerseys, so like, technically that's both of
you yours, right, Oh, we have different ways.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We have a whole closet just for soccer kids, and
that's both of ours. But then but then, like I
have like fifty pairs of ten like sneakers in there,
so like I can't. Yeah, it's still like kind of
all mine. But then we have a walking closet where
it's it's like eighty twelve seventy thirty.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
But.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Walking class ragging. They're ragging.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh. That was a first because girl, you know, I
lived at New York City Life as well. You know,
I had like T shirts under the bed and I
don't know every every.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Little sah, but you were still exto me with the
terrace facts.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That was. I missed that terrace, the terrasts overlooking the
Empire State.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I love missed that baby. Uh yeah, so I love
that you did that. And I saw your story that
you posted. You had like six bags of clothes to donate.
It's just like it's not spring cleaning again, it's summer, Camela,
and I'm like, fuck, like, what are you doing with
all those clothes? I'm like, I hope, like I want.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
To get into that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I want to get into those bags like you want some.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I mean, I'm not gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You gotta come suits.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I know it's probably be too late and you're you're
wanting to purge, so I don't want to pause that pers.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm saving some bags from my besties so they can like, come, look,
but I'm gonna separate the best ones. You don't need
my old.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Dog das from twenty thirteen. That my Dogna bathing suits.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You're gonna pass on most.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna pass some pass yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, okay, what else? Okay, coming, I have to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
A sur probably go for a lot on eBay, though
I'm disgusted. Should I make some of my your bread?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Girl, get that bag? Get that back?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I told Luciana. I was like, Yo, if there's anything
about me that you should know is that like I
got the ugliest feet in the world, but I also
have Luciana, I run my only fans accounts and makes
the mixture cash so I could buy reck treats.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It's so funny. I've I had this conversation recently because like,
obviously Miami is like the only fans capital of the world,
and my friends and I were just joking like man
like imagine like being only fans. They're like bank it
in gazillions of dollars and I'm like, ugh.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Means pop bus.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Like I'm like my parents put me in Catholic school.
I have too many ethics, like I have my ethics,
like I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I'm just like, hear me out, hear me out, Like
what if we start an only fans of your feet
and then I just manage it so like you don't
have to see the comments, you don't have to see
Like all you gotta do is like let me take
videos of your feet like playing on like Plato, and
then I'll just manage the funds.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
The only upside to my feet is that I have
Olympic ring on my ankle up. Apart from that, I
got soccer fee exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oh my god, we can charge exclusive. Oh this is
if all else fails many Like I'm moving next to
you and we're just creating foot content.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I love that for with my right foot only because
it's the perfect tattoo.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Perfect that's that that would be a pivot.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'm dead. Oh I love this so much. I wanted
to share with you something that my friends and I
are doing, and I feel like you're gonna love this. So,
you know, when you have friends like scattered all over
the place, I don't know if I tell you about this,
like the waffles, I tell you about this. No, I didn't. Okay, sorry,
(16:45):
Obviously I've been in like twenty cities and my mind's
just doing circles at this white. So I have like
my best friends all in different cities.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, that's a little rude that you didn't include me
in the fucking waffle thing. You're including all your best
friends but not me, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Hold it right there, Hold it right there.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I didn't start it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I didn't start it, Okay, Okay. So, like one of
them is Morgan. She's in Jersey, Anna's in Chicago, Gilda's
in Boston, and these are like friends from like soccer
days that I grew up with. So one day Anna,
She's like, ladies, I feel like we just don't talk anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And I'm like, facts, like we like we don't talk.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You know when you used to like talk on the phone,
used to like even in COVID, Like I don't know
FaceTime parties, like all this stuff. So it's true, like
apart from like going to someone's birthday or like flying
in for like a girl's trip. Like we're not talking,
we're like quickly sending Instagram videos that I send you
on the daily.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I do that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I send you Instagram videos with the daily.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yes, you do, And so I don't watch all of them.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, thanks bitch.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'm like I was waiting for a reaction at least
emoji send me signals something.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And so Anna.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Anna She's like, guys, I like I miss us, Like
I want to start something and I'm gonna call it
waffle once day. And I'm like, oh cool, Like we're
all like, oh, what's that. She's like, We're literally gonna
send each other like if it's a one minute video,
a two minute video.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
If it's a cool recap, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
A six minute video that's usually me and we just
send it to each other on Wednesdays and that's our
waffle Wednesday. So like now we know what each and
every one of us is doing, so it's like a
catchup way. But then like if someone says, oh, I
went so I went on this date last night, you know,
and then chimes into it, then like we respond via
text or via video, like we'll be like, oh cool, comy,
like like so happy for you that you know you
(18:31):
went on this that you're purging all your clothes, like, oh,
I don't know. There's like it's it's all through videos
so we like see each other too. But dude, it's
been so fun. We've been doing it for like I
want to say, two months, and we call it waffle Wednesday.
So every waffle you.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Get it, what was it waffle?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I don't know that's on I don't know. Again, I
didn't started like honest, honest, called it waffle Wednesday. So
then I had this really great like thing on a Tuesday,
I think, and it wasn't waffle Wednesday, but I had
to get it off my chest. I was like, girl,
I got a treat for Tuesday, you know, or something
like that. Just a little teaser, but I highly recommend
this if like even you all are listeners, like are
(19:10):
missing your friends, like missing your girlies, missing your guys.
Like I've loved it so far, and it's been two
months in the making, and it's like I all of
a sudden, I'll get a text on wednesdite. It's like
Waffle Wednesday, and I'm like, fuck, yeah it is. It's
Waffle Wednesday. Like I want to know what everybody's up to.
I've genuinely loved it, and it's like it's the real real.
By the way, we're sending videos, like last night, I
sent a video in my bed. I'm I look like shit,
(19:34):
I'm so tired from traveling, and I gave a six
minute video because it was really fun.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And I hate you, I know. And then a six
minute video you can't even fast forward?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah you can because it's like on iPhone. Oh really
yeah yeah, but girl, don't fast forward my videos. My
they it was a good one, it was. That's why
I was saying, to.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Listen to all your all your audio messages on two times, speeding.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The audacity of what I just learned.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Why would I listen to my at one time speed
when I could be more efficient with my time and
listens to it at two daye speed.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's so true. That's so true. It hurts, but it's
so true. And I'm a voice note Girly.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I am all right, Well, I'm gonna start titty Tuesday
with my friends like Eurly.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Pops again, Cailin In her Summer Elements Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You know though, that I like FaceTime harass my friends,
Like I will FaceTime you back to back to back
back until you answer. That's why we actually FaceTime a
lot because you also FaceTime me, but I FaceTime you
all the time. Yeah, And catching up with friends is
so important, especially if you're far away. Like yesterday, I
was having a conversation with.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
One of my besties who she's like having like a
big pivoting moment where she's like she's.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Like kind of in between.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
She's like, I don't know if I want to continue
to do what I was doing, and I don't know
if I want to like make a change, like if
I I want to take a leap, And she was
like asking me a lot of a lot of like
it for a lot of like input, I guess, or
advice or just like for somebody to hear her out,
which is sometimes all you need. And I think that
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one of the biggest takeaways that I had, like from
being in a space where I too was at where
I like didn't know what I wanted to do, what
I like, which direction I wanted to head in, where
I felt like lost creatively or a little bit like
strained emotionally, was like I just personally like I write
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everything down.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, you have a journal, you like journaling?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I journal, but like some people journal with like specific prompts,
I sometimes just journal and just write and write and
write and write and write and write and write, and
sometimes I don't even make sense of what I'm writing.
But sometimes while I'm writing, the process kind of happens
on its own. And then I come back to something
and I'll like circle it. It's a disaster, my journal.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And then I'll the next day I'll like right right right, right,
right right right, and then like I'll come back to
something similar, but it'll be different, be like, no, you
know what, yesterday I thought it was this, but like
the reality is that this is how I feel.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And then I'll like circle it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And then slowly what I do is that I start
to like kind of like narrow things down a little
bit more until I like realize, Okay, like this is
this is what I'm feeling, this is where it's coming from.
This is what I can do to like at least
make myself feel better or feel like I'm moving in
a different direction or I'm trying something, not that it's
going to be the right direction, because there's always so
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many different things that we could do when we're faced
with like a what what should I do? What will
and we never really know what the outcome is going
to be. But at least you're put in a position
where you can like try something new instead of feeling stuck.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I love that that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What have you had like an experience like that where
you've like worked through something and like what's your process?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like, yeah, I mean as like athletes, when you retire,
you have like a huge identity crisis, you have an
identity loss. And so when I stopped playing, I was like,
what am I going to do with my life and
what's next? And I kind of had an idea that
I wanted to get into broadcasting, and while I was
working like a full time job in marketing, I was
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like trying to figure out, cool, how am I going
to get started in this industry and everything. I never
was a big journal person, but I like one verbally
saying it. I do like write, I do like writing it,
but like when I say writing it, I'm just like
literally beginning of the year, for instance, I'll have Hey,
these are my goals for the year.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I love a beginning of the year goal thing because
then you look back on it next year and be like, okay,
like I got like two three of these, like that's dope, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Right, just one yeah yeah. So I'm a big I'm
a big like goal setter like that. And you know
what I did also, like two years ago, I did
a vision board, but like a more elaborate one, and
I did the one using like notion and so I
just like grab like inspo things, be it like what
what I wanted to do with my career, be it
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like even fitness wise, health wise, all that stuff. And
I just made this really cool fitness vision board. And
I actually really like that because then you could start
like visualizing yourself in it. And I'm big on visualizations,
like big. That was something that like not no dude,
like before playing in soccer games, for instance, and I
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would be in the bus. We'd be on the way
the studio a studio. Oh my god, this is on
the way to the studio. Literally, oh the way the
stadium stadium to studio. That's how my life has changed.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And we'd be on the way the stadium and I
would close my eyes like this. I'd have my headphones
on and I would visualize myself in my best meaning
like if I was a forward or a striker, I'd
be like taking on players, juke in them left and
right and scoring goals. If I was a defender, I
was like tackling the shit out of someone, you know,
I was being really strong in the air and heading
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ball out like I would. I would always visualize myself,
and I feel like I've carried that into my now
different career, like making sure I visualize myself like confident
in moments where I'm like a nervous and I'm like
breathing and I'm like like I could see myself like
crushing it, you know. So for me like visualizations, I've
really really i feel like honed in on in like
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those times when you're going through big changes.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Can I tell you a secret?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Of course, whenever I've visualized like myself doing like really
great on like a race or like a sports performance,
I've like failed miserably.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Really yeah, it has like the opposite affect of me.
I think it's because I have like very high expectations,
because my dream is like I'm running through the finish
line and I'm like, yeah, I feel amazing whatever whatever,
and then like that's like what I wanted to feel
like and what I wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So I have I like set myself up with like expectations,
and that's something that I kind of staying class.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like expectation leads to disappointment. Like when you're cooking spinach,
Like you cook a large thing of spinach, you expect
for it to be a natural portion, so I know,
the fuck it's not, it's going to be tiny. So
like I have the lowest expectations and then I always
surprise myself.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
But I think that's the difference because I like misunderstood
the assignment and I was visualizing with expectations instead of
just for like motivation.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah maybe that's it. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I think that's
exactly it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
What about like day to day stuff, Like let's say,
for example, I know that you recently, like after moving
to Miami, you like really picked up your training. You've
been honing in a little bit more on your nutrition
and things like that. Like how is it that when
you're like faced with the external distractions or like let's say,
for example, you're on the road, how do you stick
to these like new goals that you have.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So I want to also be completely honest with everyone.
I'm usually like very on game with like my routine
with like working out, with like eating good, and this
past two months, especially this last month, because I've been
traveling so much and studying so much, I haven't I
literally was like telling my friends in my waffle Wednesday,
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I was like, I am so out of routine, just
so completely out of routine. And then like one of
my best friends literally just says, really, like that's okay,
Like you're always in a routine if you're just focusing
on something right now, this is a this is a
I don't know, five percent or ten percent of the year,
like you're.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, consistency is the most important thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah. So I had been stressed out a little bit
about that. But apart from this month, like what I
do like to do is obviously make right toory rite
decisions and write choices. Eating wise, like I don't like
to like, however, how whatever I'm gonna eat, it's gonna
how it's gonna reflect how I feel. So like if
it's like fried shit and all that stuff, Like I
don't like it like it's too much desserts or yeah,
(27:57):
I don't, I don't do that. And then working out
the other day, like I said, I've been not on
a rut, like I've been out of my usually routine,
but I'm like, god, I gotta do something. So there
was one day I literally just went on a walk
for like twenty five minutes, just one at a walk,
that's it. And I was like, wow, I never thought
like being outside and being going on a walk would
(28:18):
make me feel like better or at least some sort
of feeling of accomplishment. And then there was another morning
where I had to get up early to go to
the studio and I went to bed late in the
studio and I didn't get in a workout, but you
know what I did in my room. I was like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna just ramp out twenty push ups,
and that's what I did.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The thing about you is that you always do something
like yeah you instead of being like, oh, I'm not
gonna do anything like you always kind of do something.
And my husband's the same way.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I'm more of like an all or nothing girly, which
is something I need to fix with myself. But if
I'm like if I don't set up part the time
and I'm not going to do like a twenty minute
run or something that I can never just like use
the floor to do things which I can, Like I
don't know why that's just not a part of of
my conversation with myself, but that needs to change, because
it's like so easy to get something, especially when you're
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like on your phone scrolling for like twenty five thousand
hours at a time.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
That's so true, say the least.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Something I was reading the other day, which is like
as it pertains to like like breaking habits and like
making changes that are like completely different from the lifestyle
that you're living right now.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Whether that's choosing to like not consume alcohol anymore, whether
that's choosing to go from not training to training, whether
that's choosing to fuel yourself properly for movement and for
your workouts, whether that is picking up a hobby or
something that or like a secondary source of income or
(29:49):
like trying to find another source of work or like
follow your passion aside from like your primary like income
that maybe you're working at an office job and you
want to really pursue your passion is that obsession has
kind of a lot to at play there.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
And it's not obsession about like all the little things
and that in a way that gives you anxiety.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's more so obsession in the consistency and the continuously
showing up for yourself and like making those changes where
it's like you are not just saying that you're going
to do these things or like negotiating with yourself. You're
taking action and you're viewing it as a part of
your identity. Right So, for example, like I am a
person that shows up.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
To for example, just look at us right now.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
For example, like I'm a person that shows up well
prepared for work.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I am a person, I am an athlete, I am confident,
I am creative, I am willing to make mistakes. Those
are all things that have really shifted all so my
perspective as I continue to you know, explore so many
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different avenues outside of like my primary source of work
that have been really freeing also to like give myself
the space for but also making sure making sure that like,
for example, I was having this conversation with my husband
about like his hobbies and my hobbies, right, so something
(31:24):
that we really do align in is like we we
both love training, and training is like our has always
been a component of our mental health. Now training for
me is there has been a little a slight shift
in my life where there's something else that's contributing to
(31:45):
my mental health. Like I.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Have been taking like singing lessons and singing classes, and
like singing is something that's very near and dear to
my heart now and it helps me so much because
I feel like it's a form of meditation, it's a
form of creative expression. It's made me feel so much
much better.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And I feel like it really has saved me, especially
during the New York City winters that have been so
rough on me, Like mentally has provided a beautiful outlet.
But I had to like sit my husband down and
explain to him and be like because many we live
in a one bedroom apartment, so like i'd be singing
in the jasure room, and like he's studying for law
school like the fucking angel that he is, but he's
like going to jiu jitsu and I'm like, okay, well
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I need to sing, and then he's like okay, and
I'm like no, no, no, Like you don't understand, Like
this is like, how you have your jiu jitsu, how
you have your training?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
This is that for me now? And he was like, oh, okay, okay,
Like I tortually get and I respect that, but also
like I had to set aside time to make time
for myself and make my mental health and my emotional
health and my creative health a priority, because if not,
I would have kept feeling the same way that I
was feeling before, which was a little bit more creatively lost,
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a little bit more depressed in the winter, and making
time for yourself is super important.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
How did you How did you realize that it was singing?
Because I feel like a lot of people are like,
are I can't wait to get this? A lot of
people are like I wish I had a hobby. I
wish I was passionate about something, but like don't know
what it is, you know, so like how do you
find what's your thing?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I just I tried so many different things I would
love to do, like ceramics too, but like it's it's
more challenging because you have to like go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
There's not that many places to offer it, and like
in New York's like so fucking expensive for somewhere that reason. Yeah,
so I was like, okay, not doing that.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
But I took I did some acting classes, and I
was like, Okay, this is very interesting. I like it,
but it wasn't something that like I pulled me in immediately.
And also it's so challenging, especially to do like by yourself.
The second thing that I did is I took some
improv classes.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I thought it was so fun, like it was like
super super super amazing. Yeah. But then at the same
time that I was doing like improv class, I like
picked up like singing stuff and I was like I
remember like the first time that I was like, I'm
in love with this, but I was like seeing it
got like so emotional, like started crying on Zoom with
my singing teacher.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Are you seriously but alone?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, because it's like an emotional release for sure, and
I had he had he knew me at this point,
but I was like, I was like, oh my god,
I gotta I gotta go. I'm so sorry, and then
like he's like, no, it's okay, like it happens all
the time obviously, Wow, Really, which is you know I
cry a lot?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah? I love that though. No, but you said it
happens a lot. I'm like, damn, maybe I should start singing.
Maybe I shouldn't, though you should, you should wait.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, I love that. I love that so much. And
I've heard your voice before, and you sing so good. Honestly,
it's not like mine. I mean, I have to have
a I have to have liquor courage to to.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Get on your level, not even on your level? What
the I am I even saying?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Okay, so you guys found out I've been really into
paddle pil I don't know how to say it, paddle
badell one thing?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
How don't ask me?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I already butchered the word documentary. So here we go.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We're just this is a song gooing, uh, And I've
loved it so much, And like you, guys like you,
like Luciano has something like an outlet jiu jitsu. Christian
is obsessed with it. When I tell you, obsessed. He's
also so good, isn't he so good?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
He's so good? He's so good. This is so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
In Atlanta, on our day off, I went to go play,
and you need four people to play.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
We only had three.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
One person couldn't make it, and so it was me,
my friend Natalie and him, and right before like we're
super competitive, super competitive. He's like, it's okay, we have three,
it's like two of e one, you too, play against
me and I'll still beat you. And I'm like this, bitch,
I'm like, I lit. I'm like telling Natalie, I'm like,
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he thinks he could beat the both of us, Like
this ain't happening.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
This ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're so competitive, yes, And I never I never want
to play on Milly's team for anything, because I know
that my handour coordination is zero percent child like I'm terrible.
And I already told her. I was like, I will
not play paddle with you.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That's so true. I think Luciattle told me that. So
I think we were like just getting to know each other.
We were talking about we should go play I don't
know whatever it was together. He's like, yeah, Commy's not
gonna do that. So we played paddle against Christian and
we lost. We won one game, I think, but we
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lost and it hurt. It hurt the ego. We had
to buy him a bottle whiskey. We bought on a
bottle whiskey and we bought him the bottle whiskey and
that was that's well, he deserves it. He does, he does.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
He's an incredible paddle uh, paddler. Paddler, He's an incredible paddler.
On that note, we're gonna toss the break. We'll be
right back with her My Fuemal sas section. Welcome back everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Every episode A many and I do my fanma saw
where we give you an assist on what's hot and
popping in the music space and also in football many
do you want to let us know since you're hot
off the press.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
I am hot off the press.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, So the Women's Euro is starting and the Women's
Euro is being hosted in Switzerland, and it's going to
be a massive tournament because you have the best European
women's soccer teams facing off against each other. The last
time the Euro happened, England won it and it was
let's just say, England partied hard. It was a huge celebration.
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It was also a really really big turning point in
women's sports. So let's hope that this party continues. And
since it already kicked off, the games that are coming up,
some big ones that stand up to me England, Netherlands, Massive,
another one is Italy, Spain, Netherlands, France. Like, guys, these
are all really great games with like top top top
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women's soccer players. And these games are being aired on
Fox if you're wondering where to where to watch them.
And then in addition to that, because soccer never ends
and I never get sleep because I love it so much,
it's the FIFA Club World Cup semi final and final
and that's this weekend, this weekend, and they're both being
played at MetLife in New York or actually New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
And so the traffic, oh, it's so bad.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
But also if you also love music and foot bood
like we do, the halftime, guess who's gonna be on it?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
J Balvin and I think storm Z is gonna be
on it and someone else. Yeah, no, it's gonna be late.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I love storm Z obviously, Nashally you have, yeah, but
who else you don't know?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Oh I gotta look that up. Yeah yeah okay, but wait,
I'll clip back, I'll clip back, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
How about in the in the Music's Our boy gob
who If you have not listened to that interview that
we did with him.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
You need to listen to it. It's all in Spanish,
so if don't speak Spanish, I'm not sorry. He's just
an icon. He's dropping an album. I think by this point,
by the time this airs, the album will be dropped.
But it's gonna be I can already tell by some
of the songs that came out that are gonna be
on the album. It's always a vibe with him. He's
just like such an amazing energetic person that just like
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the it's all just gonna be like the vibes are right, Okay,
it's called.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
It's going to be so and.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That's met absolutely, And then also like how can we
ever stop talking about our girl? G don't that? I
think is.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Like the Latina anthems, all of them is for every
single decade, Like it doesn't matter who you are, You're
going to find a track that you love on this album.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I want to know what your favorites are.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Many then we'll do the humming part since you don't
like my humming and no no no no no no
no no no no no no, no, yes.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Okay, that's that's one of my that's one of my
top five. I think for sure.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Student hits like that, I could just I you know,
we talked a lot about visualizations in this podcast. I
could visualize myself in the club like work and work
into that song. Oh in my vibe.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Yeah, the other one.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I guess what my second favorite is though, And you know.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I do think I do think always like the Susia anthem.
It's like the bat signal, like the the like you
if you if you hear it then like it's like automatically,
like all the Sushia's are summoned to that part of
town immediately, like we will find our way there. I
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think I think you're next favorite is because I know
how much you love Gracey.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
That's so true. Yes, you know it. You know me.
Hey guys, I love Gracie so much.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I really just obsessed with her. And she seems like
a really like a really dope person.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah that's why, Like whenever I see her videos or interviews,
like she's just funny, she's true, she's authentic. She'll like
say the craziest shit and I'm like, did she just
say that? I'm obsessed. And then also I mean she
has a voice of a goddess. And that song is
also about like giving advice to your best friend in
like a time I think of.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I only heard this on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
I didn't really get into the lyrics, but it's like
giving advice to your best friend of like like leave them,
like do better for yourself. Yeah yeah, and so I
love that. And one of my best friends is going
through that right now. So I wish she spoke Spanish,
but she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Oh you have to translate it for her.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
I know, Okay, I want to.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I want to give you a couple of my faves today.
I was at the gym and I was listening to
and I.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Love that one.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
It's just like a story of a hot ass woman
just like living her life.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
It's like you and New York Heart now.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Bless.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
The other one is because you know, I'm a Ferritual
fan and I just love them together.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
They're just the best.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
I also really love Bandida Andrena because it's like by
La Fonk and I love like high energy music and
music that's gonna make me want to shake my ass.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And then fucking movie because Maria Angelique.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
I love her voice and I love how she sounds
on any track. So that has been a good one.
And then wait, sorry, I was just there are all
my favorites.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Let's just throw the whole album.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
No literally, Manuchau, Like I have a Manuchaw record. I'm
a big fan of Manuchaw, so like that energy is
just so great, and also like the lyrics on that
track are incredible, Like it just talks about like like
what you want out of like the world or like
your life, and it's just I just love the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
You know which you know which one like also set
me back, like Nostalia. Uh, my grandma loves the one
that she has with Mars, Like I didn't even it
was just I was like in the shower listening to
the album. So I don't even know who's like singing, right,
I'm not like looking at the names of the tracks,
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and I hear his voice and I'm like, I have
mar and then I'm like listen, No, literally, literally, that
one just gave me. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
That's what I mean by there's there's something for everyone.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I have.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I haven't even really gotten to dive into like all
the tracks because the album just like recently came.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Out, but I'm slowly like like listening to all of
them and and I'm excited. I'm excited for for the
energy and like I'm really hyped for the tour because
I missed.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Man, we miss it.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm having my outfit.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
We're gonna plan our outfits many I'm gonna like, we're
gonna sit down, We're gonna plan throw go, get the outfits.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
The ass is gonna be out that that wasn't gonna
be out. I don't care if there's a.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
I don't care if there's a baby like a Berth like,
I'm gonna be there, like there's I'm not missing this
one again.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
I'm not missing it.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
We have to go together, yes, for sure, and we
have to do Bad Bunny, but more on that to come.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Wait for sure, we.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Have to uh have to revisit because I have to.
I have to make a correction here. That FIFA Club
World Cup halftime show. It's headline. I was right about
Jay Balvin, J Balvin Doja Cat and it's not storm Zy,
but it is tens It's tensh Love. Yeah, So I
mean both were gonna be great and I love both,
but yeah, I got them mixed up. I saw Stormsy
(44:44):
on another headline for something else, but Yeah, Jay Balvin
Doja kat Time. So if you love musika, if you
love music, like tune in to that halftime show or
obviously go to the stadium and watch the game.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
But it's it's also.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Gonna be like curated by Chris Martin enough Coldplay, and
it's all part of the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund,
So there's also like a give back component to all
these FIFA World Cup entertainment pieces to the games, you
know what I mean. So they'll do it for the
World Cup next year too. But yeah, it's like it's
really cool. I love this connection in between football and musica, something.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
That we do on the daily. Yeah, yeah, now we're
seeing it. Yeah on the big stage.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
A cold Play show is like a spiritual experience.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
So I'm just so excited to see like what they
come up with. It's gonna be, it's gonna be so dope.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Well, Mellie, I have to go teach at the studio,
So that's gonna be the end of this episode. Thank
you so much for joining us. Anything else you want
to add, No, amazing. He's like, I gotta go report
forty five thousand more games today. Literally, I like.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Guys so much. For I gotta go to the stadium
all right.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Love you, Thank you guys, so love you guys so much.
This is catch you next week. I See The.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
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Speaker 1 (45:59):
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What's up? What's up everyone? I'm Melissa Ortiz, I'm Gamila
Ramon and this is asta who Okay, come me.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I I have to go record after. This is why
I look this way. All right? Oh I got my
I got my new rolo on. Yeah. First I'm doing this.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
I wanted to ask what is that called?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I don't know. I just call her my roalto.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
If you're not listening, if you're not watching the video
version of this podcast, Kamila literally just popped on this
video podcast recording with like a mini bang. I want
to call it a mini bang maybe an inch long.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, it's just like a little Selena inspired a little
hair moment.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And it's so cute.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
And this girl, you just you're giving me a tip
right now without even knowing it. I legit, look at
this shit. Hold on, I have hair breakage from last
week in the hair and makeup studio. Do you see this?
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yeah? I mean rest in peace at a little twirl
Laru call it a day. Mattie was like, this is disrespectful.
I was like, bitch, if you wanted to get ready,
you would have woken up earlier and you would have
gotten your ass ready. That doesn't mean I need to
show up like I just rolled out of bed, bitch.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
I arrived at Denver, yes today, and I have two
hours behind you, so you clearly know I'm gonna roll
out of bed, brush my teeth, put on a little blush,
and put on this I'm in like New City, same sweatshirt.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
At this point, Mellie's died. Melli has been like this
is like the craziest month for her. She's like back
to back to back to back to back to back stuff,
and I'm so proud of her. The other day I
was like talking to her on the phone finally we
hadn't been able to chat for a minute, and she
was like.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
I am like the only woman right now. Can you
explain to us, like what's happening?
Speaker 1 (01:59):
So for the FIFA Club World Cup, there's the studio
that we work out of Atlanta and it's TNT and
to Zone and there's a huge roster of amazing talent
and former players and analysts, game commentators, hosts, and the
host are three women. It's one of them is Alex Scott,
(02:19):
who is like a legend in women's soccer. She played
for English, she played for Arsenal, She is the go
to presenter and like soccer media personality in England. Literally
she told me the today. She's like, she's like, I've
gotten to the career.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
She goes malely.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
It's crazy, like from being a female soccer player where
we used to not get any attention to now she's like,
I can't walk around the streets like without people coming
up to me in London. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's an Yeah,
she's awesome.
Speaker 4 (02:45):
It was super cool.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
And then I am the only female game Like I'm
the only female analyst in studio, which I was. I
didn't realize it until someone told me. I was like,
holy shit, you're right, Like this is crazy. It's like
I'm alongside like Luis Garcia, Steve acmdaman who used to
play for Liverpool. They both used to play for Liverpool,
j used to play for River Plates and Aston Villa.
Like there's a bunch of amazing, incredible talent and I'm
(03:09):
literally the only woman at the desk and at all
these like shows as an analyst, not only woman, but
as an analyst because we also have the incredible host.
But yeah, that's it's it's been. It's been awesome, Like
I loved it.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Congratulations, my girl there is You know, I'm always very
proud of you, but I just love to hear that
you are the only woman in like so many spaces
and the only Latina and so many spaces.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So go off, queen. Represent You were also hanging out
with my boy Andres Cantor right.
Speaker 4 (03:35):
Yes, yes, he loves you.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
By the way, y'all, I've also get like, da, that's
my boy. If y'all don't know who Andres Contor is,
he is like this legendary game commentator.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
If you don't know him, your.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Dad and mom definitely know him because he's been around
the game covering soccer for I don't know, thirty years
and like in this country, in the US, and he's
the guy who literally was like go.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He's like the voice of Spanish language football, like hands down, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
And so we've been able to work with him in
this tournament. So he's been hanging out with me in
the studio. We all are at the same hotel. We're
in Atlanta, and I go to the gym and I
walk into him and we're catching up real quick, and
the first thing he's like, I'm about to take a
Camilla Ramont class I'm like, of course you, I love it.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
When I tell you that, I screamed because when a
Hantina like won the World Cup, like obviously, like he
posted that video of him like breaking down in tears
and he was just like cry, cry, crying. I was
like watching it. I was crying. For the record, I
will repeat this till the day I died. But that
happened on my birthday. So essentially I also won the
World Cup myself.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
I had a part in it. And I was like
watching his video, we were all crying.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
He was like the person that we that we would
listen to to watch all the games because he was.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Commentating on them, and.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
He like posted a story and he was like taking
my and he was like telling everybody to take my class.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Right afterwards, my dad, I was like.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Look and he's like again and I was like, oh no,
I s.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Like he loves him too.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
It's amazing.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's a hall of Famer by the way, like US
Soccer Federation made him a hall of Famer.
Speaker 4 (05:20):
He's that legendary, such.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
A nice guy.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Uh he also you love this too.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Uh So a few days later, we're in the hair
and makeup room, he comes up to you. He's like,
because I've been posting about Cattle G's new album on
social media and he's like, Mellie, have you have you
listened to the full cattle album? And I was like
at the time, I was like, not all of it,
but most of it. And he's like, I'm obsessed. He's
like the woman man Uchao, like I can't and so
so I play it in the hair and makeup room.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
And he's just like vibing.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's like, this is vibing the hair and makeup like
the artist is like twirling him in his like seat
and he's just vibing to it.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
We're all cracking up.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Oh, by the way, that Cattle g album girl Friend.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Okay, So now I'm fel better about it.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I am, honestly okay, I'm glad you came around.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
I knew I would come around.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
I was only that one song that Latina Forever After,
like an incredible documentary that she did right about like
female empowerment. So when that song slapped right off the
bat of that release of that Netflix thing, it was
I was just like, I love the beat, I do,
but it doesn't like the lyrics for me just didn't
hit it didn't match what I left the documentary with
(06:27):
documentary with I can't even say that word.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
And so this album, oh girl, documentary, thank you Arlene
our producer, I needed that. Honestly, I'm like, document I
was just gonna correct you.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
But then I was like, I don't think it don't
come out right. Actually I was afraid. I stayed silent.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because I was afraid to mispronounce it as well.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
That word fucks me all the time. To be honest
with you, this is like an ongoing thirty five year
battle with this word. So that's okay. Though it's okay.
We have some words plattened down, some other English words not.
I think my parents also always struggled to So it
just goes down the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
You know, you say, do you say uh, salmon?
Speaker 1 (07:06):
No, I don't, I say salmon.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Here's my thing about salmon and salmon. If it's salmon,
it should also be ammen. It should not be almond
and salmon. Like, it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
They're literally spelled the same as somebody like whose first
language was Spanish versus English.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Like, that'll make no sense. You got to figure it out.
It's either salmon and almond or it's ammon and salmon, okay,
and that's where I'll leave that.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You're so right.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
I never realized that, Oh my god, oh it's crazy salmon.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Well, I'm glad it came around the cattle gee hit
because I'm fully obsessed. Like there's zero percent of me.
It's like for every every generation, we all got something.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
And I'm just you know, accepting the energy that it's
like bringing into my life. Especially for this summer.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
It has been one hundred degrees here in New Yoris
and everyone else has been miserable.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
I'm like, this is the best. I have loved it.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
The only bad thing has been the like has to
like spread across the street because this asphalt gets like
really hotter. You has to wear like little shoes. But
it has been it has been like just amazing. Like
I'm I have fully defrosted. It is Susia season. I
have fully defrosted. It's like, you know, ha, Mariah Harry
defrost in the winter time for Christmas, Like I defrost
(08:23):
right now for the summertime.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
I'm wearing a tube top right now.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
The the podcast started and I was like this, and
then I was like, I told my our producer I
was like, I look naked, how I like it?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
And you got and I got my roulito. I'm really
living the Latina fantasy.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
I love it. I love it, I love I love
summer vibe. I love summer comedy too. I mean, I
love full year comedy, but like summer comedy hits. You know,
I feel like I've just been my move to Miami.
I've just been. You know, it's been sunny all year
round now, so now I'm all of a sudden tan
and happy and in my in my aura. And then
when you would come visit me, You're like, oh, I
wish I could live this life. And now I feel
(09:04):
like we're all living this summer, hot, sisly sexy life.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Yeah, I'm down for all of that.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
You know that I'm my best when I'm borderline to
my naked. I know. The last time that I went
to Miami, I just remember like walking to your apartment
and I was like, oh my god, this bitch has
so much fucking space.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I'm so jealous, Like there's so much light coming in here.
And you'd be very proud of me.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Because our friend Adelena, who's also my stylist, Emelie, actually
introduced me to her.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
She came over to the.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
House and I'm like, making space for shit, okay, making
space for things. I'm tired of living in a clutter.
I'm borderline a hoarder. I have emotional attachment to clothing
into things. Like every single bouffanda that Mayouela has made
me is still in my house and they're huge, like
she like knits them.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
It's like thick lana and they're beautiful and amazing. But
I have all of them, and I'm like, I need a.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
My grandma does that too.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
By the way, we have something else in common, so
cute not vacuum suck.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
What was it?
Speaker 1 (10:06):
What are you talking?
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Vacuum seal, vacuum seal. I vacuum seal them and I
put them under my bed. So I recommend that if
you have a lot of bufanda's from Yahlida to like
vacuum seal them and it creates a lot more space.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I clean up my closet. Alena came over. I give
I have like.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Six bags of clothes that I'm going to donate or
give it away to friends.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
And I realized, my husband is really amazing. You've met Lutano.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
We all love Luciano, but he has been so supportive
throughout my fashionista journey. But if there's one thing that
does not go hand in hand with a fashionista journey
is a one bedroom apartment in New York City that
has like one square foot and a large dog in it,
as well as like my husband and all his jiu
jitsu clothes and all of our gym equipment, et cetera,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
Your treadmill and your treadmill in the internt and.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
My huge tread my peloton tread in that right in
the entrance of my house. Priorities decor. Literally, that's that's
punctu imhach ah. I came to the realization that my
husband has repeating over and over, You're like, I kind
of want to get rid of clothes, Like I want
to get rid of some clothes. And then I was like,
why do you want to get rid of all your clothes?
And I don't understand. He's like to mix space for yours.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Girl.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Isn't that so fucking cute?
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Oh? Cry, that is adorable. That is so adorable. He
like genuinely said that.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
I'm like, baby, you're not gonna have clothes, baby, He
already has you're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Naked, and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
What you're gonna tell He already has.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Only like one short, like he has like one shot
and he has like two t shirts. Now he started
buying himself like his new thing is like he finally
started buying himself some clothes that he has, like more
dress pants for work because he's not going to an office.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Obviously has his suits and stuff. But he started getting
himself some like shirts from kids that.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
I'm like, okay, okay, he's making decisions, creative decisions.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I like that for him.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
I've been sending him things that I want him to
like style, so he's been wearing like trousers with a
tucked in tea of the evolution, the fashion evolution that
has happened from us living in Miami or growing up
in Miami, so then moving to LA and him still
wearing like little boat shoes to like moving to New
(12:13):
York City and now him experimenting with with the.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Fashion has been incredible.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And also yesterday when I was cleaning out I have,
I realized that I had just left him like a
literal like crumb of closet.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
It was a little sliver of closet. It was a
slice of closet.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
It's so disrespectful that the poor man has been living
in under those conditions.
Speaker 1 (12:32):
Closet ratio, let's talk closet ratio. We're talking ninety nine
percent coming to ramone to one percent.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Luciano, he has drawers, but I have an entire like
dresser with just like Peloton clothes. Because it's impossible, Like
it's just we get so much and and I've been
like trying to be better about it. But like I've
I have an entire dresser.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
Of six drawers now six seven eight, it's eight doors
because I have two more drawers in another place that
are just.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
Like fitness clothes. And then I have clothes in the studio.
It's a lot, and it's hard to like, No.
Speaker 1 (13:06):
I feel you. I feel like, no, sure seriously, but
I feel you too. Like my closet is. I mean,
it's that ninety nine to one, but it's like a
solid Maybe I'm being generous here seventy thirty. I want
to say, yeah, I'm being a little bit generous maybe
like eighty twenty.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
You guys have a lot of like kids, you have
a lot of jerseys, so like, technically that's both of
you yours, right, Oh, we have different ways.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
We have a whole closet just for soccer kids, and
that's both of ours. But then but then, like I
have like fifty pairs of ten like sneakers in there,
so like I can't. Yeah, it's still like kind of
all mine. But then we have a walking closet where
it's it's like eighty twelve seventy thirty.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
But.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
Walking class ragging. They're ragging.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Uh. That was a first because girl, you know, I
lived at New York City Life as well. You know,
I had like T shirts under the bed and I
don't know every every.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Little sah, but you were still exto me with the
terrace facts.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
That was. I missed that terrace, the terrasts overlooking the
Empire State.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
I love missed that baby. Uh yeah, so I love
that you did that. And I saw your story that
you posted. You had like six bags of clothes to donate.
It's just like it's not spring cleaning again, it's summer, Camela,
and I'm like, fuck, like, what are you doing with
all those clothes? I'm like, I hope, like I want.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
To get into that.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I want to get into those bags like you want some.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
I mean, I'm not gonna be there.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
You gotta come suits.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
I know it's probably be too late and you're you're
wanting to purge, so I don't want to pause that pers.
Speaker 2 (14:36):
I'm saving some bags from my besties so they can like, come, look,
but I'm gonna separate the best ones. You don't need
my old.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Dog das from twenty thirteen. That my Dogna bathing suits.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
You're gonna pass on most.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Yeah, I'm gonna pass some pass yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Yeah, okay, what else? Okay, coming, I have to.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
A sur probably go for a lot on eBay, though
I'm disgusted. Should I make some of my your bread?
Speaker 4 (15:02):
Girl, get that bag? Get that back?
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I told Luciana. I was like, Yo, if there's anything
about me that you should know is that like I
got the ugliest feet in the world, but I also
have Luciana, I run my only fans accounts and makes
the mixture cash so I could buy reck treats.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
It's so funny. I've I had this conversation recently because like,
obviously Miami is like the only fans capital of the world,
and my friends and I were just joking like man
like imagine like being only fans. They're like bank it
in gazillions of dollars and I'm like, ugh.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
Means pop bus.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Like I'm like my parents put me in Catholic school.
I have too many ethics, like I have my ethics,
like I couldn't do it. I couldn't do it, you
know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I'm just like, hear me out, hear me out, Like
what if we start an only fans of your feet
and then I just manage it so like you don't
have to see the comments, you don't have to see
Like all you gotta do is like let me take
videos of your feet like playing on like Plato, and
then I'll just manage the funds.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
The only upside to my feet is that I have
Olympic ring on my ankle up. Apart from that, I
got soccer fee exactly.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
Oh my god, we can charge exclusive. Oh this is
if all else fails many Like I'm moving next to
you and we're just creating foot content.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
I love that for with my right foot only because
it's the perfect tattoo.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Perfect that's that that would be a pivot.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'm dead. Oh I love this so much. I wanted
to share with you something that my friends and I
are doing, and I feel like you're gonna love this. So,
you know, when you have friends like scattered all over
the place, I don't know if I tell you about this,
like the waffles, I tell you about this. No, I didn't. Okay, sorry,
(16:45):
Obviously I've been in like twenty cities and my mind's
just doing circles at this white. So I have like
my best friends all in different cities.
Speaker 2 (16:53):
Okay, that's a little rude that you didn't include me
in the fucking waffle thing. You're including all your best
friends but not me, all right.
Speaker 1 (17:02):
Hold it right there, Hold it right there.
Speaker 4 (17:04):
I didn't start it.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I didn't start it, Okay, Okay. So, like one of
them is Morgan. She's in Jersey, Anna's in Chicago, Gilda's
in Boston, and these are like friends from like soccer
days that I grew up with. So one day Anna,
She's like, ladies, I feel like we just don't talk anymore.
Speaker 4 (17:21):
And I'm like, facts, like we like we don't talk.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
You know when you used to like talk on the phone,
used to like even in COVID, Like I don't know
FaceTime parties, like all this stuff. So it's true, like
apart from like going to someone's birthday or like flying
in for like a girl's trip. Like we're not talking,
we're like quickly sending Instagram videos that I send you
on the daily.
Speaker 4 (17:40):
I do that.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
I send you Instagram videos with the daily.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Yes, you do, And so I don't watch all of them.
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Yeah, thanks bitch.
Speaker 1 (17:47):
I'm like I was waiting for a reaction at least
emoji send me signals something.
Speaker 4 (17:53):
And so Anna.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Anna She's like, guys, I like I miss us, Like
I want to start something and I'm gonna call it
waffle once day. And I'm like, oh cool, Like we're
all like, oh, what's that. She's like, We're literally gonna
send each other like if it's a one minute video,
a two minute video.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
If it's a cool recap, I don't care.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
A six minute video that's usually me and we just
send it to each other on Wednesdays and that's our
waffle Wednesday. So like now we know what each and
every one of us is doing, so it's like a
catchup way. But then like if someone says, oh, I
went so I went on this date last night, you know,
and then chimes into it, then like we respond via
text or via video, like we'll be like, oh cool, comy,
like like so happy for you that you know you
(18:31):
went on this that you're purging all your clothes, like, oh,
I don't know. There's like it's it's all through videos
so we like see each other too. But dude, it's
been so fun. We've been doing it for like I
want to say, two months, and we call it waffle Wednesday.
So every waffle you.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
Get it, what was it waffle?
Speaker 1 (18:47):
I don't know that's on I don't know. Again, I
didn't started like honest, honest, called it waffle Wednesday. So
then I had this really great like thing on a Tuesday,
I think, and it wasn't waffle Wednesday, but I had
to get it off my chest. I was like, girl,
I got a treat for Tuesday, you know, or something
like that. Just a little teaser, but I highly recommend
this if like even you all are listeners, like are
(19:10):
missing your friends, like missing your girlies, missing your guys.
Like I've loved it so far, and it's been two
months in the making, and it's like I all of
a sudden, I'll get a text on wednesdite. It's like
Waffle Wednesday, and I'm like, fuck, yeah it is. It's
Waffle Wednesday. Like I want to know what everybody's up to.
I've genuinely loved it, and it's like it's the real real.
By the way, we're sending videos, like last night, I
sent a video in my bed. I'm I look like shit,
(19:34):
I'm so tired from traveling, and I gave a six
minute video because it was really fun.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
And I hate you, I know. And then a six
minute video you can't even fast forward?
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Yeah you can because it's like on iPhone. Oh really
yeah yeah, but girl, don't fast forward my videos. My
they it was a good one, it was. That's why
I was saying, to.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Listen to all your all your audio messages on two times, speeding.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
The audacity of what I just learned.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Why would I listen to my at one time speed
when I could be more efficient with my time and
listens to it at two daye speed.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
That's so true. That's so true. It hurts, but it's
so true. And I'm a voice note Girly.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I am all right, Well, I'm gonna start titty Tuesday
with my friends like Eurly.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Pops again, Cailin In her Summer Elements Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
You know though, that I like FaceTime harass my friends,
Like I will FaceTime you back to back to back
back until you answer. That's why we actually FaceTime a
lot because you also FaceTime me, but I FaceTime you
all the time. Yeah, And catching up with friends is
so important, especially if you're far away. Like yesterday, I
was having a conversation with.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
One of my besties who she's like having like a
big pivoting moment where she's like she's.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Like kind of in between.
Speaker 3 (20:54):
She's like, I don't know if I want to continue
to do what I was doing, and I don't know
if I want to like make a change, like if
I I want to take a leap, And she was
like asking me a lot of a lot of like
it for a lot of like input, I guess, or
advice or just like for somebody to hear her out,
which is sometimes all you need. And I think that
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one of the biggest takeaways that I had, like from
being in a space where I too was at where
I like didn't know what I wanted to do, what
I like, which direction I wanted to head in, where
I felt like lost creatively or a little bit like
strained emotionally, was like I just personally like I write
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everything down.
Speaker 4 (21:39):
Yeah, you have a journal, you like journaling?
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Right?
Speaker 2 (21:41):
I journal, but like some people journal with like specific prompts,
I sometimes just journal and just write and write and
write and write and write and write and write, and
sometimes I don't even make sense of what I'm writing.
But sometimes while I'm writing, the process kind of happens
on its own. And then I come back to something
and I'll like circle it. It's a disaster, my journal.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
And then I'll the next day I'll like right right right, right,
right right right, and then like I'll come back to
something similar, but it'll be different, be like, no, you
know what, yesterday I thought it was this, but like
the reality is that this is how I feel.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
And then I'll like circle it.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
And then slowly what I do is that I start
to like kind of like narrow things down a little
bit more until I like realize, Okay, like this is
this is what I'm feeling, this is where it's coming from.
This is what I can do to like at least
make myself feel better or feel like I'm moving in
a different direction or I'm trying something, not that it's
going to be the right direction, because there's always so
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many different things that we could do when we're faced
with like a what what should I do? What will
and we never really know what the outcome is going
to be. But at least you're put in a position
where you can like try something new instead of feeling stuck.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I love that that.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
What have you had like an experience like that where
you've like worked through something and like what's your process?
Speaker 1 (22:58):
Like, yeah, I mean as like athletes, when you retire,
you have like a huge identity crisis, you have an
identity loss. And so when I stopped playing, I was like,
what am I going to do with my life and
what's next? And I kind of had an idea that
I wanted to get into broadcasting, and while I was
working like a full time job in marketing, I was
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like trying to figure out, cool, how am I going
to get started in this industry and everything. I never
was a big journal person, but I like one verbally
saying it. I do like write, I do like writing it,
but like when I say writing it, I'm just like
literally beginning of the year, for instance, I'll have Hey,
these are my goals for the year.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
I love a beginning of the year goal thing because
then you look back on it next year and be like, okay,
like I got like two three of these, like that's dope, yeah.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Right, just one yeah yeah. So I'm a big I'm
a big like goal setter like that. And you know
what I did also, like two years ago, I did
a vision board, but like a more elaborate one, and
I did the one using like notion and so I
just like grab like inspo things, be it like what
what I wanted to do with my career, be it
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like even fitness wise, health wise, all that stuff. And
I just made this really cool fitness vision board. And
I actually really like that because then you could start
like visualizing yourself in it. And I'm big on visualizations,
like big. That was something that like not no dude,
like before playing in soccer games, for instance, and I
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would be in the bus. We'd be on the way
the studio a studio. Oh my god, this is on
the way to the studio. Literally, oh the way the
stadium stadium to studio. That's how my life has changed.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
And we'd be on the way the stadium and I
would close my eyes like this. I'd have my headphones
on and I would visualize myself in my best meaning
like if I was a forward or a striker, I'd
be like taking on players, juke in them left and
right and scoring goals. If I was a defender, I
was like tackling the shit out of someone, you know,
I was being really strong in the air and heading
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ball out like I would. I would always visualize myself,
and I feel like I've carried that into my now
different career, like making sure I visualize myself like confident
in moments where I'm like a nervous and I'm like
breathing and I'm like like I could see myself like
crushing it, you know. So for me like visualizations, I've
really really i feel like honed in on in like
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those times when you're going through big changes.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Can I tell you a secret?
Speaker 3 (25:28):
Of course, whenever I've visualized like myself doing like really
great on like a race or like a sports performance,
I've like failed miserably.
Speaker 2 (25:40):
Really yeah, it has like the opposite affect of me.
I think it's because I have like very high expectations,
because my dream is like I'm running through the finish
line and I'm like, yeah, I feel amazing whatever whatever,
and then like that's like what I wanted to feel
like and what I wanted to be.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
So I have I like set myself up with like expectations,
and that's something that I kind of staying class.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Like expectation leads to disappointment. Like when you're cooking spinach,
Like you cook a large thing of spinach, you expect
for it to be a natural portion, so I know,
the fuck it's not, it's going to be tiny. So
like I have the lowest expectations and then I always
surprise myself.
Speaker 3 (26:14):
But I think that's the difference because I like misunderstood
the assignment and I was visualizing with expectations instead of
just for like motivation.
Speaker 1 (26:21):
Yeah maybe that's it. Yeah, Yeah, yeah, I think that's
exactly it.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
What about like day to day stuff, Like let's say,
for example, I know that you recently, like after moving
to Miami, you like really picked up your training. You've
been honing in a little bit more on your nutrition
and things like that. Like how is it that when
you're like faced with the external distractions or like let's say,
for example, you're on the road, how do you stick
to these like new goals that you have.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Yeah, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
So I want to also be completely honest with everyone.
I'm usually like very on game with like my routine
with like working out, with like eating good, and this
past two months, especially this last month, because I've been
traveling so much and studying so much, I haven't I
literally was like telling my friends in my waffle Wednesday,
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I was like, I am so out of routine, just
so completely out of routine. And then like one of
my best friends literally just says, really, like that's okay,
Like you're always in a routine if you're just focusing
on something right now, this is a this is a
I don't know, five percent or ten percent of the year,
like you're.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Yeah, consistency is the most important thing for sure.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah. So I had been stressed out a little bit
about that. But apart from this month, like what I
do like to do is obviously make right toory rite
decisions and write choices. Eating wise, like I don't like
to like, however, how whatever I'm gonna eat, it's gonna
how it's gonna reflect how I feel. So like if
it's like fried shit and all that stuff, Like I
don't like it like it's too much desserts or yeah,
(27:57):
I don't, I don't do that. And then working out
the other day, like I said, I've been not on
a rut, like I've been out of my usually routine,
but I'm like, god, I gotta do something. So there
was one day I literally just went on a walk
for like twenty five minutes, just one at a walk,
that's it. And I was like, wow, I never thought
like being outside and being going on a walk would
(28:18):
make me feel like better or at least some sort
of feeling of accomplishment. And then there was another morning
where I had to get up early to go to
the studio and I went to bed late in the
studio and I didn't get in a workout, but you
know what I did in my room. I was like,
I'm gonna I'm gonna just ramp out twenty push ups,
and that's what I did.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
The thing about you is that you always do something
like yeah you instead of being like, oh, I'm not
gonna do anything like you always kind of do something.
And my husband's the same way.
Speaker 3 (28:44):
I'm more of like an all or nothing girly, which
is something I need to fix with myself. But if
I'm like if I don't set up part the time
and I'm not going to do like a twenty minute
run or something that I can never just like use
the floor to do things which I can, Like I
don't know why that's just not a part of of
my conversation with myself, but that needs to change, because
it's like so easy to get something, especially when you're
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like on your phone scrolling for like twenty five thousand
hours at a time.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
That's so true, say the least.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
Something I was reading the other day, which is like
as it pertains to like like breaking habits and like
making changes that are like completely different from the lifestyle
that you're living right now.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Whether that's choosing to like not consume alcohol anymore, whether
that's choosing to go from not training to training, whether
that's choosing to fuel yourself properly for movement and for
your workouts, whether that is picking up a hobby or
something that or like a secondary source of income or
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like trying to find another source of work or like
follow your passion aside from like your primary like income
that maybe you're working at an office job and you
want to really pursue your passion is that obsession has
kind of a lot to at play there.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
And it's not obsession about like all the little things
and that in a way that gives you anxiety.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
It's more so obsession in the consistency and the continuously
showing up for yourself and like making those changes where
it's like you are not just saying that you're going
to do these things or like negotiating with yourself. You're
taking action and you're viewing it as a part of
your identity. Right So, for example, like I am a
person that shows up.
Speaker 1 (30:34):
To for example, just look at us right now.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
For example, like I'm a person that shows up well
prepared for work.
Speaker 3 (30:43):
I am a person, I am an athlete, I am confident,
I am creative, I am willing to make mistakes. Those
are all things that have really shifted all so my
perspective as I continue to you know, explore so many
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different avenues outside of like my primary source of work
that have been really freeing also to like give myself
the space for but also making sure making sure that like,
for example, I was having this conversation with my husband
about like his hobbies and my hobbies, right, so something
(31:24):
that we really do align in is like we we
both love training, and training is like our has always
been a component of our mental health. Now training for
me is there has been a little a slight shift
in my life where there's something else that's contributing to
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my mental health. Like I.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Have been taking like singing lessons and singing classes, and
like singing is something that's very near and dear to
my heart now and it helps me so much because
I feel like it's a form of meditation, it's a
form of creative expression. It's made me feel so much
much better.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
And I feel like it really has saved me, especially
during the New York City winters that have been so
rough on me, Like mentally has provided a beautiful outlet.
But I had to like sit my husband down and
explain to him and be like because many we live
in a one bedroom apartment, so like i'd be singing
in the jasure room, and like he's studying for law
school like the fucking angel that he is, but he's
like going to jiu jitsu and I'm like, okay, well
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I need to sing, and then he's like okay, and
I'm like no, no, no, Like you don't understand, Like
this is like, how you have your jiu jitsu, how
you have your training?
Speaker 2 (32:31):
This is that for me now? And he was like, oh, okay, okay,
Like I tortually get and I respect that, but also
like I had to set aside time to make time
for myself and make my mental health and my emotional
health and my creative health a priority, because if not,
I would have kept feeling the same way that I
was feeling before, which was a little bit more creatively lost,
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a little bit more depressed in the winter, and making
time for yourself is super important.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
How did you How did you realize that it was singing?
Because I feel like a lot of people are like,
are I can't wait to get this? A lot of
people are like I wish I had a hobby. I
wish I was passionate about something, but like don't know
what it is, you know, so like how do you
find what's your thing?
Speaker 3 (33:16):
I just I tried so many different things I would
love to do, like ceramics too, but like it's it's
more challenging because you have to like go somewhere.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
There's not that many places to offer it, and like
in New York's like so fucking expensive for somewhere that reason. Yeah,
so I was like, okay, not doing that.
Speaker 3 (33:31):
But I took I did some acting classes, and I
was like, Okay, this is very interesting. I like it,
but it wasn't something that like I pulled me in immediately.
And also it's so challenging, especially to do like by yourself.
The second thing that I did is I took some
improv classes.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
I thought it was so fun, like it was like
super super super amazing. Yeah. But then at the same
time that I was doing like improv class, I like
picked up like singing stuff and I was like I
remember like the first time that I was like, I'm
in love with this, but I was like seeing it
got like so emotional, like started crying on Zoom with
my singing teacher.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
Are you seriously but alone?
Speaker 2 (34:13):
Yeah, because it's like an emotional release for sure, and
I had he had he knew me at this point,
but I was like, I was like, oh my god,
I gotta I gotta go. I'm so sorry, and then
like he's like, no, it's okay, like it happens all
the time obviously, Wow, Really, which is you know I
cry a lot?
Speaker 4 (34:31):
Yeah? I love that though. No, but you said it
happens a lot. I'm like, damn, maybe I should start singing.
Maybe I shouldn't, though you should, you should wait.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, I love that. I love that so much. And
I've heard your voice before, and you sing so good. Honestly,
it's not like mine. I mean, I have to have
a I have to have liquor courage to to.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Get on your level, not even on your level? What
the I am I even saying?
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Okay, so you guys found out I've been really into
paddle pil I don't know how to say it, paddle
badell one thing?
Speaker 2 (35:06):
How don't ask me?
Speaker 4 (35:08):
I already butchered the word documentary. So here we go.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
We're just this is a song gooing, uh, And I've
loved it so much, And like you, guys like you,
like Luciano has something like an outlet jiu jitsu. Christian
is obsessed with it. When I tell you, obsessed. He's
also so good, isn't he so good?
Speaker 4 (35:26):
He's so good? He's so good. This is so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
In Atlanta, on our day off, I went to go play,
and you need four people to play.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
We only had three.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
One person couldn't make it, and so it was me,
my friend Natalie and him, and right before like we're
super competitive, super competitive. He's like, it's okay, we have three,
it's like two of e one, you too, play against
me and I'll still beat you. And I'm like this, bitch,
I'm like, I lit. I'm like telling Natalie, I'm like,
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he thinks he could beat the both of us, Like
this ain't happening.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
This ain't happening.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
You're so competitive, yes, And I never I never want
to play on Milly's team for anything, because I know
that my handour coordination is zero percent child like I'm terrible.
And I already told her. I was like, I will
not play paddle with you.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
That's so true. I think Luciattle told me that. So
I think we were like just getting to know each other.
We were talking about we should go play I don't
know whatever it was together. He's like, yeah, Commy's not
gonna do that. So we played paddle against Christian and
we lost. We won one game, I think, but we
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lost and it hurt. It hurt the ego. We had
to buy him a bottle whiskey. We bought on a
bottle whiskey and we bought him the bottle whiskey and
that was that's well, he deserves it. He does, he does.
Speaker 2 (36:44):
He's an incredible paddle uh, paddler. Paddler, He's an incredible paddler.
On that note, we're gonna toss the break. We'll be
right back with her My Fuemal sas section. Welcome back everybody.
Speaker 3 (37:09):
Every episode A many and I do my fanma saw
where we give you an assist on what's hot and
popping in the music space and also in football many
do you want to let us know since you're hot
off the press.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
I am hot off the press.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
Okay, So the Women's Euro is starting and the Women's
Euro is being hosted in Switzerland, and it's going to
be a massive tournament because you have the best European
women's soccer teams facing off against each other. The last
time the Euro happened, England won it and it was
let's just say, England partied hard. It was a huge celebration.
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It was also a really really big turning point in
women's sports. So let's hope that this party continues. And
since it already kicked off, the games that are coming up,
some big ones that stand up to me England, Netherlands, Massive,
another one is Italy, Spain, Netherlands, France. Like, guys, these
are all really great games with like top top top
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women's soccer players. And these games are being aired on
Fox if you're wondering where to where to watch them.
And then in addition to that, because soccer never ends
and I never get sleep because I love it so much,
it's the FIFA Club World Cup semi final and final
and that's this weekend, this weekend, and they're both being
played at MetLife in New York or actually New Jersey.
Speaker 2 (38:27):
And so the traffic, oh, it's so bad.
Speaker 1 (38:31):
But also if you also love music and foot bood
like we do, the halftime, guess who's gonna be on it?
Speaker 2 (38:37):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (38:39):
J Balvin and I think storm Z is gonna be
on it and someone else. Yeah, no, it's gonna be late.
Speaker 2 (38:45):
I love storm Z obviously, Nashally you have, yeah, but
who else you don't know?
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Oh I gotta look that up. Yeah yeah okay, but wait,
I'll clip back, I'll clip back, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (38:57):
How about in the in the Music's Our boy gob
who If you have not listened to that interview that
we did with him.
Speaker 2 (39:03):
You need to listen to it. It's all in Spanish,
so if don't speak Spanish, I'm not sorry. He's just
an icon. He's dropping an album. I think by this point,
by the time this airs, the album will be dropped.
But it's gonna be I can already tell by some
of the songs that came out that are gonna be
on the album. It's always a vibe with him. He's
just like such an amazing energetic person that just like
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the it's all just gonna be like the vibes are right, Okay,
it's called.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
It's going to be so and.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
That's met absolutely, And then also like how can we
ever stop talking about our girl? G don't that? I
think is.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Like the Latina anthems, all of them is for every
single decade, Like it doesn't matter who you are, You're
going to find a track that you love on this album.
Speaker 2 (40:03):
I want to know what your favorites are.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Many then we'll do the humming part since you don't
like my humming and no no no no no no
no no no no no no, no, yes.
Speaker 2 (40:15):
Okay, that's that's one of my that's one of my
top five. I think for sure.
Speaker 1 (40:20):
Student hits like that, I could just I you know,
we talked a lot about visualizations in this podcast. I
could visualize myself in the club like work and work
into that song. Oh in my vibe.
Speaker 4 (40:33):
Yeah, the other one.
Speaker 1 (40:34):
I guess what my second favorite is though, And you know.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
I do think I do think always like the Susia anthem.
It's like the bat signal, like the the like you
if you if you hear it then like it's like automatically,
like all the Sushia's are summoned to that part of
town immediately, like we will find our way there. I
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think I think you're next favorite is because I know
how much you love Gracey.
Speaker 1 (41:04):
That's so true. Yes, you know it. You know me.
Hey guys, I love Gracie so much.
Speaker 2 (41:11):
I really just obsessed with her. And she seems like
a really like a really dope person.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
Yeah that's why, Like whenever I see her videos or interviews,
like she's just funny, she's true, she's authentic. She'll like
say the craziest shit and I'm like, did she just
say that? I'm obsessed. And then also I mean she
has a voice of a goddess. And that song is
also about like giving advice to your best friend in
like a time I think of.
Speaker 4 (41:36):
I only heard this on the podcast.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
I didn't really get into the lyrics, but it's like
giving advice to your best friend of like like leave them,
like do better for yourself. Yeah yeah, and so I
love that. And one of my best friends is going
through that right now. So I wish she spoke Spanish,
but she doesn't.
Speaker 2 (41:51):
Oh you have to translate it for her.
Speaker 4 (41:52):
I know, Okay, I want to.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
I want to give you a couple of my faves today.
I was at the gym and I was listening to
and I.
Speaker 1 (41:58):
Love that one.
Speaker 3 (41:59):
It's just like a story of a hot ass woman
just like living her life.
Speaker 1 (42:05):
It's like you and New York Heart now.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
Bless.
Speaker 3 (42:10):
The other one is because you know, I'm a Ferritual
fan and I just love them together.
Speaker 2 (42:16):
They're just the best.
Speaker 3 (42:17):
I also really love Bandida Andrena because it's like by
La Fonk and I love like high energy music and
music that's gonna make me want to shake my ass.
Speaker 2 (42:28):
And then fucking movie because Maria Angelique.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
I love her voice and I love how she sounds
on any track. So that has been a good one.
And then wait, sorry, I was just there are all
my favorites.
Speaker 2 (42:39):
Let's just throw the whole album.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
No literally, Manuchau, Like I have a Manuchaw record. I'm
a big fan of Manuchaw, so like that energy is
just so great, and also like the lyrics on that
track are incredible, Like it just talks about like like
what you want out of like the world or like
your life, and it's just I just love the lyrics.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
You know which you know which one like also set
me back, like Nostalia. Uh, my grandma loves the one
that she has with Mars, Like I didn't even it
was just I was like in the shower listening to
the album. So I don't even know who's like singing, right,
I'm not like looking at the names of the tracks,
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and I hear his voice and I'm like, I have
mar and then I'm like listen, No, literally, literally, that
one just gave me. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:32):
That's what I mean by there's there's something for everyone.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
I have.
Speaker 2 (43:34):
I haven't even really gotten to dive into like all
the tracks because the album just like recently came.
Speaker 3 (43:39):
Out, but I'm slowly like like listening to all of
them and and I'm excited. I'm excited for for the
energy and like I'm really hyped for the tour because
I missed.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
Man, we miss it.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
I'm having my outfit.
Speaker 3 (43:55):
We're gonna plan our outfits many I'm gonna like, we're
gonna sit down, We're gonna plan throw go, get the outfits.
Speaker 2 (44:02):
The ass is gonna be out that that wasn't gonna
be out. I don't care if there's a.
Speaker 1 (44:09):
I don't care if there's a baby like a Berth like,
I'm gonna be there, like there's I'm not missing this
one again.
Speaker 4 (44:15):
I'm not missing it.
Speaker 2 (44:16):
We'll find out.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
We have to go together, yes, for sure, and we
have to do Bad Bunny, but more on that to come.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
Wait for sure, we.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Have to uh have to revisit because I have to.
I have to make a correction here. That FIFA Club
World Cup halftime show. It's headline. I was right about
Jay Balvin, J Balvin Doja Cat and it's not storm Zy,
but it is tens It's tensh Love. Yeah, So I
mean both were gonna be great and I love both,
but yeah, I got them mixed up. I saw Stormsy
(44:44):
on another headline for something else, but Yeah, Jay Balvin
Doja kat Time. So if you love musika, if you
love music, like tune in to that halftime show or
obviously go to the stadium and watch the game.
Speaker 4 (44:54):
But it's it's also.
Speaker 1 (44:55):
Gonna be like curated by Chris Martin enough Coldplay, and
it's all part of the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund,
So there's also like a give back component to all
these FIFA World Cup entertainment pieces to the games, you
know what I mean. So they'll do it for the
World Cup next year too. But yeah, it's like it's
really cool. I love this connection in between football and musica, something.
Speaker 4 (45:17):
That we do on the daily. Yeah, yeah, now we're
seeing it. Yeah on the big stage.
Speaker 2 (45:21):
A cold Play show is like a spiritual experience.
Speaker 3 (45:24):
So I'm just so excited to see like what they
come up with. It's gonna be, it's gonna be so dope.
Speaker 2 (45:29):
Well, Mellie, I have to go teach at the studio,
So that's gonna be the end of this episode. Thank
you so much for joining us. Anything else you want
to add, No, amazing. He's like, I gotta go report
forty five thousand more games today. Literally, I like.
Speaker 1 (45:43):
Guys so much. For I gotta go to the stadium
all right.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
Love you, Thank you guys, so love you guys so much.
This is catch you next week. I See The.
Speaker 3 (45:55):
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