August 18, 2021 • 46 mins
Welcome back, locamores! On this episode, Diosa & Mala discuss the mystery of why *certain* people don't bathe.
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thank you for rocking with us. Thank you for rocking
with us. Truth be told, we're overwhelmed. We're overwhelmed. UM,
we're gonna talk. That's like a good that's a good
segment segue, Like, we're overwhelmed, y'all, We're overwhelmed. We are
low key burned out. We have to admit that Considering
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was a intense year for all of us, UM, and
it affected us financially as well, like for the podcast.
Like if you're a listener, you know that we've gone
on university circuits. That's like a big way that we
made our money and are on our income. So that
was greatly affected UM. But it also you know, gave
us that room to get creative and level up in
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different ways than One of those ways was selling app space,
which meant producing more content, being more on social media.
It's when we had our l a Times feature, so
we got verified. A lot of really big, incredible things
happened to us in as a project as look at
our radio and so I think that we're a little
burned out this year. You know. One, I think it's
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all settling. It's all settling in. We did a lot
with what we could and so that's where we're at. Yeah,
I agree completely, I echo all of that. I mean,
you know, we have two weekly shows now and a
running a weekly show getting our LLC. We are now
look at thought our productions LLC. Mind you, we are
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now a true production company because we are a company
formerly in the lives in the eyes of the federal government.
We are formally a company. So that took time and
we're still working on that because now that's another layer,
that's an ongoing thing. Any business owners out there will
know that you have your LLC. So that means now
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you have a lot more work. Now the work is
ramping up. And I think part of it is, you know,
the work is ramping up. We have more responsibilities. You
also is still working full time. You guys like you
have no idea, the lengths that we go to, like
the way that we run ourselves raggedy to deliver this
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supreme content to you guys, Like this is good stuff,
you know, um, and we really do give it are all.
So we love it and that's why we do it.
But it's a lot. So we're a little overwhelmed, we're
a little burnt out. But we do have tons of help.
I mean, our audio editor, Jordan's, is everythinging. Jordan's came
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on to our team onto team look at like this
time last year, and since then, the audio on the
podcast has leveled all the way up. We're able to
produce more shows, were able to be a weekly show.
We're able to like do more with our segments and
with our guests, and and we know that it's in
good hands and that our audio editor is going to
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make it sound good. And it just also is like
so much hard work that the also was doing to
edit the audio, and so we're so grateful for Jordan's
and it's like so much, it's like so much, you know, Yeah, yeah,
it's a lot, it's a lot, And I think Jordan
was one of our first hires of which was really
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exciting for us because yeah, it like got overwhelming for
me to be putting out the edits and the shows
and then our deadlines would like I would want to
put an episode out all one day, but I wouldn't
be able to edit it in time, and then it
would do it was it was just a cycle. So
it was really great to be able to bring her on. UM.
And we have, you know, more folks on our team
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is growing, and even though the team is growing, the
workload is also growing, and though we are still doing
a lot, even in different ways. And so yeah, we
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like like we'll see, like we're gonna we're gonna revamp
season it's six. That feels wild to say, but season
six there will be some changes. We're already talking about it. UM.
But yeah, I mean we're we're almost like we're more
than halfway through one, which is intense, which is wild.
We're still in a pandemic, we're still dealing with all
the aftermath. There's a variant, you know, and so we're
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we're doing the best that we can. I think we
all are and every everyone listening, we're doing the best
weekend and so just yeah, we're gonna keep it pushing.
We're gonna keep it pushing, um A, because we have
some pretty lofty goals. And mind you guys, we don't
share all of our hope streams, aspirations and schemes with
you all because like the mother oo is real. Um So,
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we like to guard our secrets. We share them with
the right people, and then the right people help us
to like make them come to fruition, you know what
I mean. So just know there's more. There's always more,
and that's what we want, is we want to make
more podcasts. We want to do more. So while we're overwhelmed,
it's a good exciting kind of overwhelmed and you know
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what's next and just pushing to that next level and
what's the next thing. So expect some announcements. Yeah, you know,
I think when you're juggling so many things, like you
have your days where you feel like really low and
really down, Like I know I've definitely had those in
the last couple of weeks where it's like, now, why
are things? Why is my life this busy, you know,
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why am I still working my nine to five? And
then there's other days where it's things just roll and
it's seamless, and it's like, yeah, this is just my
life right now. Um. And so I think anyone that
is juggling tons of things, working multiple jobs, are going
to school or everything right because we're all busy people. Um,
we think anyone can relate that. You know, you have
your you find your rhythm and then you lose it
and then you find it again. Yeah, it's very true.
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And I think like for me since because I quit
my job right before the pandemic, you know, and you know,
I've had my own streams of income, like I've been
on only fans, if you guys keep up that I've
returned to all the fans, and I've honestly like supporting
myself and paying my bills has come from doing like
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my fun little odd jobs, whether it's only fans, freelance, writing,
influencer gigs, you know, different kind of speaking engagements. We
work with a team who helps us like bring us
gigs and stuff, um, and like sponsorships and collaborations. So
luckily and I have honestly, I have fewer expensive expenses.
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Then then the assa you know what I mean. So
I can kind of live like a very low key,
little like cheap life over here while like working on
look at our productions, you know, while working on the podcast.
So that's just kind of why if anybody was wondering
why it is that we like have this arrangement, it's
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just how it's worked out, you know. Um, because when
we do podcast gigs and when you guys donate that money,
we do not pay ourselves like off of the podcast.
We really don't. And the money goes quickly because we
have two weekly shows now and that means our expenses increased. Twofold,
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we have two audio editors now yeah, we have two
audio editors now. Um luckily you know, Mola is still
she Mola is handling the socials for all of the marijuana,
but we do have someone handling the look socials because
it's a lot um. And so yeah, the like like
I said earlier, like sure, we're growing and we have
more people, but we also have more work. And like
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I'm like, okay, Gideon Production Company, Okay, we literally asked
for this, We asked. Nobody forced us to do this. Um. Yeah,
and so, I mean it's an exciting place to be. Um,
I like always refer to this time as like the
growing pains and just like shout out to us because
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like we made it past a hundred episodes where five
seasons deep, they say businesses either like fail in the
first two to three years. We're entering year five. You know,
we've been an informal business for about five years. We're
now like a formal business very and it's not it's
not under the table. It's just in the venmo is
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what it is. It's it's just in the venmo. I mean,
in case anyone was wondering like the ins and outs
of it. It's like whenever we get a checkmate, we
will just te who was made to you. You can't
be doing that anymore. Our accountant was like, no more,
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I gotta do the LLC. Yeah, a lot of people
you have kind of told us for a few years
now and we knew. But you know, it's a lot
of work. Anybody if you're on Twitter and you're on
Instagram and just just go to ll just do this. No,
it's not just no, it is very involved. It is
very complicated. It costs money, and it takes time. It
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also depends where you live. Like we were chatting with
somebody that lives in upstate New York and she was like,
it's like I'm making a number up, but it was
really low. It was she was like, it's like eighty
dollars to do an lccene right in California. Any business
owners listening, you know, your your annual state tags that
you have to pay to the franchise board is eight
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hundred dollars and then there's still other fees that you
have to pay. So don't listen to LLC Twitter y'all
like they don't know. It's not it's not just that simple.
It depends where you live as a lot of different factors. Yeah,
and we're dealing with audio, you know what I mean,
there's a lot. There's a lot that goes into this. Um,
it's not just we're not just sell okay, like it's
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involved Okay, love, we love ours. We're not well, that's
not what we do. It's just not what we do.
So if you don't know, just listen and you might
learn something. So, um, you know, we just want to
give some updates on some things that we're working on
before we get into the garden. Of today's episode, we're
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turning a segment that y'all love into a full fledged
episode because there's so much going on, and so we're
going to get to that in a minute. But before
I just want to remind folks that our book of
the month for look Us is The Taste of Sugar
and it's a historical fiction novel and it's by Moddy
set Veda and she's actually going to be joining us
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at the end of the month to talk about it.
It's it is a long book, and so if you
don't finish it, that's okay. UM, if you feel intimidated
by the length, it's okay. Read what you can. I've
been super busy and haven't been able to really make
a dent, but I'm working on it, and so yeah,
just comment your own pace. Um, enjoy the book. It's
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not school, it's shouldn't feel stressful. So we'll be we'll
be chatting at the end of the month. So again,
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Productions to learn more. And for those of you who
maybe haven't heard the news, we launched a brand new show.
It's called Marijuana, a podcast for potheads. There is a
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It's called Smoking Tree Watching Reality TV. So I'm the
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talked to Ruby about Marijuanada, a podcast for potheads and
de stigmatizing cannabis in Latino communities. Go give it a read. Yes. Also,
can I just say, in my totally unbiased opinion, Marianada
podcaster Potheads is hilarious than funny. I listen weekly. I like,
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was able to listen to the first episode before anyone else,
but now like I listen with y'all, I listened with
the listeners, so I'm tuning in weekly. It's hilarious. There's
a lot to look forward to with either the guests
or with Mala's musings. Y'all know how Mala is. You're
you're a listener on the podcast. You know she's just funny.
You know she's dope, you know she's smart. So tune in,
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um and you know, just like, I'm here for the
destigmatizing in our communities. You know, my my mom for
a while was like sneaking like her cannabis used because
she didn't want my dad to know because she has
like ailments. And but she like finally told him and
she was like, what do you think about this? And
he was like it's fine. But for a while it
had to be like this little sneaky thing because she
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didn't want him to get mad. And so yeah, so
like our people are older folks are are her hint,
there are family members. Um, they need cannabis for many
different reasons, or maybe they don't. Maybe it's just for
fun and that's cool too. So yeah, I'm here for that.
We'll link the article in the show notes and will
also send it out in our newsletter. Yes, yes, yes,
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thank you Yosa. There's so much good stuff coming out
of the look At Multiverse Universe audio verse. We haven't
necessarily landed on which verse we are, yet we're one
of them, all of them, all over, all of them,
just interchangeable. We do contain multitudes, we really do, um
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And I would like to point out that everything look
At though our productions touches is successible because look us
Botros was like a wild success of a book club before,
like the first book was like even announced. I want
to say, like thinking, yeah, we're like sixty plus members deep,
and you know that's exciting considering we're just on our
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second book, and you know, maybe one day, like I
would love like, okay, well no, I don't want to
share too much, but one day I would love for
it to be sponsored by somebody in particular, right, I
would love for it to be a collaboration with like
a publishing house, right, Um, So we'll see And if
any folks that are working publishing are listening emails, like,
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we can definitely talk about that because it's We've already
gotten multiple emails from different publicists that want to want
there they wanted on the book club. So you know,
there's tons of possibilities. And if you would like to
sponsor any of our many many projects over at look
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at Thought our radio dot um We're down for a
collabor and and and and and and and and um
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um um um um um of it and the ship.
And now I think it's time to get into not
only weird things white women did this week, but weird
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things white people have been doing recently, namely with regard
it's to hygiene. Yes, so we wanted to take one
of y'all's favorite segments and turn it into a full
episode because you know, just let's start from the beginning.
A couple of years ago on the timeline on Twitter,
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white people were talking, in particular white people. I'm not generalizing.
This was actually a thing that white Twitter users were
admitting that they did not wash their legs because, in
their words, the soap that you use on the rest
of your body washes down onto your legs when you're rinsing,
so you do not need to scrub, right, this is
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this is a thing. If you were not familiar, haven't
heard of it, you can look that up. It's a thing.
So that happened a couple of years ago. Fast forward,
we're still in a pandemic. Hygiene is especially important right now,
and Mela Kunis and Ashton Coulture go onto a podcasts
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and ship volunteer to your information that they do not
shower daily. So there's so many layers here. Because I
don't think that I don't know if we chimed in
on the initial like washing your legs conversation. I don't
think we remarked upon it on the point. We were
just you know, horrified. Yeah, but now it's enough of
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a pattern. It's really just picking up speed. Honestly, Like
I feel like in the last two weeks, they just
boom boom, boom boom, more and more celebrities talking about
not bathing with the legs thing. Okay, you tell me,
because growing up, it was always a thing about like
fucking scrubbing the ship out of yourself, like vigorously your ankles,
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your feet, your toes, your legs, and especially because I'm like, um,
I've been shaving my legs for years now, and you
have to like scrub and ex foliate like before and
then also after, like I don't under scrubbing my knees.
Especially like being an athletic kid running around outside with
my mom. It was always like we cannot be running
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around sucking muro says with dirt caked on our legs.
So that sticks with you, Like we scrub we wear
sandals in California, we were shorts, Like our legs are exposed,
we have to scrub or else, Like you look dirty,
I think, right, or at least I was taught so
I never under I didn't understand the leg thing, because
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how do you shave, how do you wear sandals? How
do you scrub the dirt off? No? I I second
that I remember, you know, being taught to vigorous, vigorously
scrub the different areas of your body, especially your toes,
your feet, your legs, um, all of it, all of it.
I mean, my my mother taught me my hygiene, right,
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and so that was definitely one of them. And so
you know, fast forward to I think that now there's
a different conversation happening, or there's another layer of the
conversation happening that's not just about bathing, um, but it's
like who gets to be quote clean or who is
deemed cleaner in society? Right? Why is it that white
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people can get away with saying they don't shower when
it's historically been black people, people of color, South Asian
people that are deemed as dirty or have to in
some ways overcompensate um and make sure that they're actually
they look extra clean or they smell really good, or
they you know, brush their teeth multiple times a day
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because they don't want to have bed breath, like all
these things that were taught that's really important. Um, there
was a whole class missed by by said white people. Yeah,
and um, I'm remembering now. Remember we went to the
gym downtown and we were in the locker room downtown.
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L A was a fitness and l A Fitness and
THEOS and I are there together because there was a
time where we would have podcast meetings and then like
go to the gym, Like we did that a few times.
That was cute. That was cute. Um uh. And so
we're there and there was a woman who was like
on the phone and talking to somebody and like, you know,
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we're in the stalls or we're getting changed or whatever
we're doing, and we hear this over here, this woman
and she's on the phone and she's like, yeah, this
fath this gym is kind of dirty. There's like a
lot of Mexicans here, verbatim, like that's what she said,
wild wild, there's and I've heard this before. There's a
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thing that people have about Mexicans and being dirty and
like Mexican kids, Mexican It's like it's like a type
of racist stereotype for a reason a lie, clearly, because
who was cleaning your house, bitch? Who do you literally
hired to clean up after you? Not just Mexicans, of course,
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but anybody who is being stigmatized in this way right well,
and I mean and not even like, um, that's his
own layer of like every Latino being Mexican right in
the eyes of many people. Um, it doesn't there's no
need to specify, because everyone is Mexican in in certain
people's eyes. And yes, exactly. I mean I remember my
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first experience, my first experience in undergrad when I lived
with a white woman for the first time, and like
really seeing the lack of hygiene up close, and I
was appalled, and it was kind of like a joke,
not for me, but like she thought it was so
funny that I was like appalled that she wouldn't shower
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for days, and she was like she would ride her
skateboard around campus barefoot, and then she would come home
and I could see her fucking bs, you know, doll
the socials hanging from her bump bet you know. And meanwhile,
homegirl would tell me that I was quote ghetto, and
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so yeah, and so first of all, based on what
based on my hoop ear rings, bitch, oh my god,
based on my hoop earrings, she would be like, she
would say that I was ghetto, you know. So yeah,
that's that was my first experience up close and personal.
The barefoot thing around campus is a lot, it is.
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That's a lot. If you have ever been in Santa
Barbara intended you see Santa Barbara, if you partied in
Santa Barbara, you know that that is a thing. The
white people there are barefoot. I classed everywhere there barefoot.
I am afraid sometimes to wear flip flops outside, like
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depending on where I'm going, I won't even wear chunk
glass because that's not enough, you know. So I don't understand.
Aren't they afraid of glass? Of injuring the underside of
their foot? An injury on the sole of your foot
is really inconvenient. That's like enough to take you out
for a while, like if you get if you injure
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the bottom of your foot, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know, but but I mean, okay, so along, So
going back to me, Lacunas and Ashton Kulder, right, they
also shared, and this is where Mom and I were like,
we actually need to talk about this on the podcast,
for I mean, aside from it being like kind of
funny and kind of like what the funk are y'all doing?
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But it does take an interesting turn here where Lacunas
and Ashtion could just say that they also don't bathe
their children um daily because supposedly it's like bad for
their skin or it's a lot too bath children daily.
So I don't necessarily know how true that is because
I do not have children, right. However, however, I would
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imagine I remember being bathed daily often as a child, um.
But something that I was thinking about when I read
this was like, wait, children get taken away from their
parents for a lot less, you know, for and so
bathing and hygiene is like a really important part of parenting,
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I would imagine, and I know that when I was
working as an organizer there, that was that was the
thing that would happen to two mothers where their kids
would their principles would call them because their their kids
were supposedly quote dirty, but it's like, oh, actually they
didn't have laundry detergent. They couldn't afford to buy laundry detergreent,
so their clothes was dirty, but they were showering, but
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the clothes was dirty. And so there's like these red
flags that are raised by certain like school admitted straighters.
But these celebrities are going on a podcast and saying
they don't feed their kids daily, but that's okay, that's fine, yeah,
and this is like this is like so there's so
many layers, right because like cleanliness and hygiene, um, the
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way that it's the standards are held for different people,
like even like I think women are expected to be
way cleaner than men, Like I don't think men are
expected to be clean. And I think that there's tonss
of conversation and evidence online of men talking about they
don't know how to wipe themselves after they take a ship,
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like they don't do it they or they don't know how,
or they don't want to or they don't like to
because there's some weird homophobic thing that they have going
on where they will not wipe themselves, like they talk
about this openly, and then women are like, um, found
out my fiance doesn't wipe his ass. I tried to
get him to do it. He never this on Twitter.
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My god, I remember this conversation and there's so many
of them, and that's just one of them. So it's like,
who's who can get away with being just filthy and
like literally just caked in their own feces, like walking
I saw on TikTok also just going on about like
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just this is just stuff we're seeing online or whatever.
You know. On TikTok, there's this one account um and
she's a wax specialist and she on video she shows
herself melting like the wax pellets and mixing the waxes
and she's telling stories just the audio, and she was
saying she has had like tons of experiences with customers
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who are like regular customers who go in for Brazilians
and they're not clean, they haven't showered, they've like gone
number two earlier. It's just caked. It's disgusting. She's like,
I've had to like have them wipe themselves down. I've
had who wax around it. And she was like, I
have one customer who's a regular and she always shows
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up like this. First of all, I am so when
I get a Brazilian, I'm so self conscious. I like
I like plan my my meals and my schedules and
my cleaning and my shower and my undy's and everything
is on point. I'm ready. It's like it's more stressful
for me than like having sex with someone like I am.
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It's true like your spread eagle talking about going on brunch,
like you're talking about like very casual things while you're
spread eagle, and I will plan for yes, I will
plan my workouts around it because I'm like, wait, okay,
I can't go and work out closed because she's gonna
be like, Okay, this pistol said, didn't shower before, so
(31:51):
I won't do that. But also you can't shower, I mean,
you can't work out after you've been waxed because it's
like not good for your skin, and like there's there's
things right they tell you don't work out for twenty
four hours. So I'm very strategic and timing out like
if I'm going to be active that day, um, and
making sure that I look clean and I showered and
then the whole thing because I want to be like
(32:12):
presentable because this woman is going to be all up
in me. Literally literally I'm appalled, I know, but it
doesn't surprise me. No, I'm not surprised. And I used
to get waxed at the European Wax Center in Pasadena,
and like one of those wax technicians, I remember she
was telling me like in person, she's like, yeah, some
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of these women in Pasadena come over here and they
are not clean, Like they don't seem prepared for someone
to be waxing their their business at all. Yeah. Yeah, girl,
it's the thing. And I want to be clear to
like there's also a lot of conversations and like even
like theory and sociology and writing and stuff out there
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about like cleanliness and body hair and body odor and
like even like racism like in these in these ways,
like in different ways, and you know, there's so many
things that go into hygiene, like when folks like have
disorders or they have skin issues or gland issues, like
people have like different sense and different smells, and people
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are the way that they are. So we're not here
to like no, no, not body shaming. And you know,
sometimes mental illness can affect hygiene and cleanliness, but it's
this this is more like people who are just like
oh no, I just I don't wash. I just don't
because I don't think that I need to and I
don't think that it's important at all or a necessity,
(33:38):
which is wrong. Yes, and obviously we don't know like
the mental health of these people, but these are very
affluent people, very that are saying they don't like to
bathe daily. Right, This isn't somebody because you know, I know, folks,
I've also read, you know, on on the internet people
talk about being depressed or having a bipolar disorder and
(34:00):
they don't They don't shower for days because they literally
cannot get out of it. Again, like Molas said, that's
definitely not what we're talking about. Um, we're talking about
the people that choose not to because they don't think
it's important, or they don't want to, or they don't
like to, Like you know, a couple of days later,
Jake Jillen Hall was like, I don't shower. Everything not shape,
(34:24):
not info. Um, but I'm happy to report that Chris
Evans says that he does a shower. Because now this
is a thing like they're skiing, they're asking people what
they think about this and if they shower daily, And
I'm like, this is okay, what what like alternate universe,
(34:45):
like where are we on the simulation where we're now
asking celebrities if they shower daily, And let me just
say too, if I'm a celebrity and I'm going to
be around all kinds of people who are going to
be talking about me, taking pictures of me, to eating
about me, probably you know, going home and hey, I
interviewed so and so today where I met so and so,
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people talk about everything. She had weird toes. Her manicure
was chipping, she smelled weird. You know, like I would
be if I was at that status where I know
there's the scrutiny and people are so likely on you.
I think, I don't know, I think I would be
even more like self conscious about everything, right, yeah, yeah,
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I mean as it is. There was like, um, maybe
like two or three years ago where I like I
hadn't gone to the dentist because of my insurance. Um,
I was having issues with my insurance, and so when
I went, I like knew, like I need dental work,
I need a real canal, I need this, I need
my wisdom teeth pulled out. And I remember telling my mom.
I was like, Mom, I like, I am horrified that
(35:51):
a listener were to like meet me and be like
Fiosa has some bed breath, like literally that was like
a thing for me and I'm not sure I'm not
and hostatus that boco like that because we meet people regularly,
um and in our daily lives, like we'll be at
the medico and a listener will find us r or
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see us and say hi, I feel self conscious and
would I wouldn't ever want to be like I have
bad breath that day, or I hadn't showered that day,
and I felt like, you know, not as cute. And
there are these things I think about, like I want
to feel like any time I leave my house, I
I brush my teeth before I go, like it's for me.
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It makes me feel better aside from like smelling better
or best or whatever have you, like I also feel better.
Oh yeah, I feel way better after a shower and
everything is scrubbed head to toe. And you know, of course,
like many of us do not wash our hair every day,
like I don't wash my hair every day, especially if
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we have like big hair, long hair, textured hair, what
have you. That's like ill advit eyes. But but you know,
so we but we will go work out, will run
or skate and then go run errands. I've I've been
at my local Dollar Tree sean glue that like I
like to be. You know, when I'm off and I'm
(37:15):
walking my dog and I'm just in. If I walk
to the Dollar Tree for like some toilet paper or
for some supplies or whatever, I'm getting some dog food.
I'm in my slides and I'm kash And I've had
people at the Dollar Tree be like, Mama, is that you?
And I'm like, dear God, why because don't let don't
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let the press features full you, don't let the good
reviews full you. I live in a studio apartment about
my grandma Natchez garage, honey, and we still live paycheck
to paycheck, my dear, So we do what we can
and we're living our regular as like l a girl lives.
You know what I mean. Don't come for me, how
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if you see me happen about Yes, looking a little dingy,
hit the venmo at, look radio and donate yes, yes,
um so yeah, that's where we'll get there. That's yeah,
we'll get there. That's where we're at. On the simulation,
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you know, where media press is asking people, specifically white people,
I assume if they bathe. My favorite was the Rock
being like I showered twice a day, like and he
has like his different regiments for each shower. I also
shower twice a day, even pre pandemic, because it is
(38:40):
what it is. It's it's what makes me feel better. Um.
And look as former student athletes and now as adults
who still engage in athletics, like if we had a
two a day practice for across country, if we had
a six am practice, we showered after that practice, went
to class, had an afternoon practice, and then showered again
(39:03):
after that practice. And these days, if we're out and
about and we're exercising or doing things, I just think,
shower after everything. Yes, I'm gonna go out that night,
I shower off the day before going out. Yeah, even
like coming home at two am, I take a shower
before I go to I have to be like extremely
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messed up, yeah, to blacked out, which doesn't happen often.
I'm not I'm not there anymore, but like I have to.
It'll be l and I'll be taking a shower before
bed because it just you're to me, like your bed
is like you know, if you're you're lucky to have
you not share a bed with anybody or even if
(39:46):
you do, um you know, be able to be in
your sheets, then I feel like clean and safe and
good like to me, that's that's like one of the
best feelings and so I value that and I want
to take a shower before are gett into my very
comfortable bed. I know we're going to get some comments
or something about well, in the gumbo, you can't shower
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like that. All that time. People in the compo are
still very fushy, very clean, still very clucking clean, and
find ways it doesn't need to be you know, us
thirty minutes scalding hot showers with vocal nobody has time
for that. With bath bombs and a rans dear a
(40:31):
rans you know, a quick scrub, yeah, I mean also lather.
I live with my family, as many of you know,
if you're a long time listener, I do not take
baths because for me, like if I'm going to take
a bath, I need to scrub the tub before there's
there's three people that use the shower and so I'm
not taking a bath. I'm vocal because everybody does there
(40:53):
what they need to do in the shower. If I
had my own bathroom, and you know I had was
the only one that had access to it. That that's different.
Um So that boco. You know, but we get it.
We know, you guys different things, people have access to
different things, and you know, what works for you works
(41:15):
for you. Again, we're talking about white people that want
to be nasty for no reason. Um. Also in a pandemic,
and there's like a very coded, long history of who
is considered clean read white, and who's considered dirty read
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black people, people of color, Mexicans, like immigrants, people Asian people.
You know, it's also like partly why maybe for something,
maybe some people overcompensate or or the cleanliness is very
important to them because they've been taught by their families,
because they've ex arienced it. You have to be on point,
(42:04):
you know, you have to quote smell clean or smell
a certain way or look a certain way. It's it's
a part of how we navigate in this world. Yeah,
it's very true. It's very true. And you know, of course,
like all things, we speak about these things having had
our own experiences and having learned these things ourselves in
our households, not as like sociologists talking about this like
(42:28):
you know, because like like as if it has nothing
to do with us, but it has lots to do
with us, right, which is why we're talking about it.
So um, I mean that being said, I also encourage
you guys to start looking into content having to do
with like the monarchies back in the day and how
the palaces were filthy places like filled with human waste
(42:53):
because they had no plan, right. That was that was
like one of my favorite comments or feedback when the
Bridgetin series came out. Someone was like nobody was smelling
that good, Like nobody was looking that good either during
those times, Like it just doesn't make sense all the
layers of clothing they had to wear. Yeah, no, they
(43:16):
were smelly. They were definitely really really smelly. So I
don't know, I just have to think there's some residual stuff.
Growing up my dad, my dad said so many things
to us growing up that now I think, I'm like,
dear God, this man. But like one of the things
that he would say to us was that like white
people historically are dirty, and that native people's and that
(43:40):
African people's indigenous people's basically taught hygiene, or that European
colonizers learned hygiene and waste management and waste disposal and
sewage and internal plumbing from native communities that is actually
historically accurate, Like it's not wrong. The crazy. The crazy
(44:04):
thing he said to us was that if he has
any Spanish blood in his body, he would push it
to the tip of his pinky finger and then chop
it off. That's the crazy thing he said, not not
the hygiene thing. That's true. But then he said the
pinky thing, and I was like, Dad, yes, this is
(44:25):
how I was raised. Okay, so yeah, I mean, I'm curious.
I would love to hear folks thoughts on like their
own experience with hygiene and like how they were brought up. Um,
because I think we are there. There's I'm sure a
shared experience for our community, but I'm also positive that
(44:46):
people have their own either doing things a certain way
or not doing things a certain way. So I would
love to hear what folks have to say about that. Absolutely.
And again, if you have ideas for topics and things
you want us to cover, if you've notice a trend
or some weird little happenings online or in the world,
maybe we can comment. We're always looking for different things
(45:07):
to talk about. On look at. Um, we don't have
an interview this episode. We're just chatting, you know, And
I love these episodes. I love our interviews, of course,
because our guests are amazing, but when we get to
just dig into like an a topic like this, it's fun.
It's fun. It's fun, and we like to you know,
be able to balance it out. I think the last
(45:28):
couple of episodes have been interview heavy, So yeah, it's
always fun to come back to like what we do
and dive into something comedically also have like a serious
take on it. I think that that's where we thrive.
And so yeah, thanks for tuning into this Weird Things
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with us. Truth be told, we're overwhelmed. We're overwhelmed. UM,
we're gonna talk. That's like a good that's a good
segment segue, Like, we're overwhelmed, y'all, We're overwhelmed. We are
low key burned out. We have to admit that Considering
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was a intense year for all of us, UM, and
it affected us financially as well, like for the podcast.
Like if you're a listener, you know that we've gone
on university circuits. That's like a big way that we
made our money and are on our income. So that
was greatly affected UM. But it also you know, gave
us that room to get creative and level up in
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which meant producing more content, being more on social media.
It's when we had our l a Times feature, so
we got verified. A lot of really big, incredible things
happened to us in as a project as look at
our radio and so I think that we're a little
burned out this year. You know. One, I think it's
(05:30):
all settling. It's all settling in. We did a lot
with what we could and so that's where we're at. Yeah,
I agree completely, I echo all of that. I mean,
you know, we have two weekly shows now and a
running a weekly show getting our LLC. We are now
look at thought our productions LLC. Mind you, we are
(05:53):
now a true production company because we are a company
formerly in the lives in the eyes of the federal government.
We are formally a company. So that took time and
we're still working on that because now that's another layer,
that's an ongoing thing. Any business owners out there will
know that you have your LLC. So that means now
(06:16):
you have a lot more work. Now the work is
ramping up. And I think part of it is, you know,
the work is ramping up. We have more responsibilities. You
also is still working full time. You guys like you
have no idea, the lengths that we go to, like
the way that we run ourselves raggedy to deliver this
(06:38):
supreme content to you guys, Like this is good stuff,
you know, um, and we really do give it are all.
So we love it and that's why we do it.
But it's a lot. So we're a little overwhelmed, we're
a little burnt out. But we do have tons of help.
I mean, our audio editor, Jordan's, is everythinging. Jordan's came
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on to our team onto team look at like this
time last year, and since then, the audio on the
podcast has leveled all the way up. We're able to
produce more shows, were able to be a weekly show.
We're able to like do more with our segments and
with our guests, and and we know that it's in
good hands and that our audio editor is going to
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make it sound good. And it just also is like
so much hard work that the also was doing to
edit the audio, and so we're so grateful for Jordan's
and it's like so much, it's like so much, you know, Yeah, yeah,
it's a lot, it's a lot, And I think Jordan
was one of our first hires of which was really
(07:44):
exciting for us because yeah, it like got overwhelming for
me to be putting out the edits and the shows
and then our deadlines would like I would want to
put an episode out all one day, but I wouldn't
be able to edit it in time, and then it
would do it was it was just a cycle. So
it was really great to be able to bring her on. UM.
And we have, you know, more folks on our team
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that help us with our socials now and our newsletter
and so remember to subscribe to mesit those you can
subscribe on our website. UM. And yeah, so the team
is growing, and even though the team is growing, the
workload is also growing, and though we are still doing
a lot, even in different ways. And so yeah, we
(08:25):
like like we'll see, like we're gonna we're gonna revamp
season it's six. That feels wild to say, but season
six there will be some changes. We're already talking about it. UM.
But yeah, I mean we're we're almost like we're more
than halfway through one, which is intense, which is wild.
We're still in a pandemic, we're still dealing with all
the aftermath. There's a variant, you know, and so we're
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we're doing the best that we can. I think we
all are and every everyone listening, we're doing the best
weekend and so just yeah, we're gonna keep it pushing.
We're gonna keep it pushing, um A, because we have
some pretty lofty goals. And mind you guys, we don't
share all of our hope streams, aspirations and schemes with
you all because like the mother oo is real. Um So,
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we like to guard our secrets. We share them with
the right people, and then the right people help us
to like make them come to fruition, you know what
I mean. So just know there's more. There's always more,
and that's what we want, is we want to make
more podcasts. We want to do more. So while we're overwhelmed,
it's a good exciting kind of overwhelmed and you know
(09:36):
what's next and just pushing to that next level and
what's the next thing. So expect some announcements. Yeah, you know,
I think when you're juggling so many things, like you
have your days where you feel like really low and
really down, Like I know I've definitely had those in
the last couple of weeks where it's like, now, why
are things? Why is my life this busy, you know,
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why am I still working my nine to five? And
then there's other days where it's things just roll and
it's seamless, and it's like, yeah, this is just my
life right now. Um. And so I think anyone that
is juggling tons of things, working multiple jobs, are going
to school or everything right because we're all busy people. Um,
we think anyone can relate that. You know, you have
your you find your rhythm and then you lose it
and then you find it again. Yeah, it's very true.
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And I think like for me since because I quit
my job right before the pandemic, you know, and you know,
I've had my own streams of income, like I've been
on only fans, if you guys keep up that I've
returned to all the fans, and I've honestly like supporting
myself and paying my bills has come from doing like
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my fun little odd jobs, whether it's only fans, freelance, writing,
influencer gigs, you know, different kind of speaking engagements. We
work with a team who helps us like bring us
gigs and stuff, um, and like sponsorships and collaborations. So
luckily and I have honestly, I have fewer expensive expenses.
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Then then the assa you know what I mean. So
I can kind of live like a very low key,
little like cheap life over here while like working on
look at our productions, you know, while working on the podcast.
So that's just kind of why if anybody was wondering
why it is that we like have this arrangement, it's
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just how it's worked out, you know. Um, because when
we do podcast gigs and when you guys donate that money,
we do not pay ourselves like off of the podcast.
We really don't. And the money goes quickly because we
have two weekly shows now and that means our expenses increased. Twofold,
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we have two audio editors now yeah, we have two
audio editors now. Um luckily you know, Mola is still
she Mola is handling the socials for all of the marijuana,
but we do have someone handling the look socials because
it's a lot um. And so yeah, the like like
I said earlier, like sure, we're growing and we have
more people, but we also have more work. And like
(12:05):
I'm like, okay, Gideon Production Company, Okay, we literally asked
for this, We asked. Nobody forced us to do this. Um. Yeah,
and so, I mean it's an exciting place to be. Um,
I like always refer to this time as like the
growing pains and just like shout out to us because
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like we made it past a hundred episodes where five
seasons deep, they say businesses either like fail in the
first two to three years. We're entering year five. You know,
we've been an informal business for about five years. We're
now like a formal business very and it's not it's
not under the table. It's just in the venmo is
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what it is. It's it's just in the venmo. I mean,
in case anyone was wondering like the ins and outs
of it. It's like whenever we get a checkmate, we
will just te who was made to you. You can't
be doing that anymore. Our accountant was like, no more,
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I gotta do the LLC. Yeah, a lot of people
you have kind of told us for a few years
now and we knew. But you know, it's a lot
of work. Anybody if you're on Twitter and you're on
Instagram and just just go to ll just do this. No,
it's not just no, it is very involved. It is
very complicated. It costs money, and it takes time. It
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also depends where you live. Like we were chatting with
somebody that lives in upstate New York and she was like,
it's like I'm making a number up, but it was
really low. It was she was like, it's like eighty
dollars to do an lccene right in California. Any business
owners listening, you know, your your annual state tags that
you have to pay to the franchise board is eight
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hundred dollars and then there's still other fees that you
have to pay. So don't listen to LLC Twitter y'all
like they don't know. It's not it's not just that simple.
It depends where you live as a lot of different factors. Yeah,
and we're dealing with audio, you know what I mean,
there's a lot. There's a lot that goes into this. Um,
it's not just we're not just sell okay, like it's
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involved Okay, love, we love ours. We're not well, that's
not what we do. It's just not what we do.
So if you don't know, just listen and you might
learn something. So, um, you know, we just want to
give some updates on some things that we're working on
before we get into the garden. Of today's episode, we're
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turning a segment that y'all love into a full fledged
episode because there's so much going on, and so we're
going to get to that in a minute. But before
I just want to remind folks that our book of
the month for look Us is The Taste of Sugar
and it's a historical fiction novel and it's by Moddy
set Veda and she's actually going to be joining us
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at the end of the month to talk about it.
It's it is a long book, and so if you
don't finish it, that's okay. UM, if you feel intimidated
by the length, it's okay. Read what you can. I've
been super busy and haven't been able to really make
a dent, but I'm working on it, and so yeah,
just comment your own pace. Um, enjoy the book. It's
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And now I think it's time to get into not
only weird things white women did this week, but weird
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things white people have been doing recently, namely with regard
it's to hygiene. Yes, so we wanted to take one
of y'all's favorite segments and turn it into a full
episode because you know, just let's start from the beginning.
A couple of years ago on the timeline on Twitter,
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white people were talking, in particular white people. I'm not generalizing.
This was actually a thing that white Twitter users were
admitting that they did not wash their legs because, in
their words, the soap that you use on the rest
of your body washes down onto your legs when you're rinsing,
so you do not need to scrub, right, this is
(20:40):
this is a thing. If you were not familiar, haven't
heard of it, you can look that up. It's a thing.
So that happened a couple of years ago. Fast forward,
we're still in a pandemic. Hygiene is especially important right now,
and Mela Kunis and Ashton Coulture go onto a podcasts
(21:00):
and ship volunteer to your information that they do not
shower daily. So there's so many layers here. Because I
don't think that I don't know if we chimed in
on the initial like washing your legs conversation. I don't
think we remarked upon it on the point. We were
just you know, horrified. Yeah, but now it's enough of
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a pattern. It's really just picking up speed. Honestly, Like
I feel like in the last two weeks, they just
boom boom, boom boom, more and more celebrities talking about
not bathing with the legs thing. Okay, you tell me,
because growing up, it was always a thing about like
fucking scrubbing the ship out of yourself, like vigorously your ankles,
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your feet, your toes, your legs, and especially because I'm like, um,
I've been shaving my legs for years now, and you
have to like scrub and ex foliate like before and
then also after, like I don't under scrubbing my knees.
Especially like being an athletic kid running around outside with
my mom. It was always like we cannot be running
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around sucking muro says with dirt caked on our legs.
So that sticks with you, Like we scrub we wear
sandals in California, we were shorts, Like our legs are exposed,
we have to scrub or else, Like you look dirty,
I think, right, or at least I was taught so
I never under I didn't understand the leg thing, because
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how do you shave, how do you wear sandals? How
do you scrub the dirt off? No? I I second
that I remember, you know, being taught to vigorous, vigorously
scrub the different areas of your body, especially your toes,
your feet, your legs, um, all of it, all of it.
I mean, my my mother taught me my hygiene, right,
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and so that was definitely one of them. And so
you know, fast forward to I think that now there's
a different conversation happening, or there's another layer of the
conversation happening that's not just about bathing, um, but it's
like who gets to be quote clean or who is
deemed cleaner in society? Right? Why is it that white
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people can get away with saying they don't shower when
it's historically been black people, people of color, South Asian
people that are deemed as dirty or have to in
some ways overcompensate um and make sure that they're actually
they look extra clean or they smell really good, or
they you know, brush their teeth multiple times a day
(23:43):
because they don't want to have bed breath, like all
these things that were taught that's really important. Um, there
was a whole class missed by by said white people. Yeah,
and um, I'm remembering now. Remember we went to the
gym downtown and we were in the locker room downtown.
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L A was a fitness and l A Fitness and
THEOS and I are there together because there was a
time where we would have podcast meetings and then like
go to the gym, Like we did that a few times.
That was cute. That was cute. Um uh. And so
we're there and there was a woman who was like
on the phone and talking to somebody and like, you know,
(24:25):
we're in the stalls or we're getting changed or whatever
we're doing, and we hear this over here, this woman
and she's on the phone and she's like, yeah, this
fath this gym is kind of dirty. There's like a
lot of Mexicans here, verbatim, like that's what she said,
wild wild, there's and I've heard this before. There's a
(24:47):
thing that people have about Mexicans and being dirty and
like Mexican kids, Mexican It's like it's like a type
of racist stereotype for a reason a lie, clearly, because
who was cleaning your house, bitch? Who do you literally
hired to clean up after you? Not just Mexicans, of course,
(25:09):
but anybody who is being stigmatized in this way right well,
and I mean and not even like, um, that's his
own layer of like every Latino being Mexican right in
the eyes of many people. Um, it doesn't there's no
need to specify, because everyone is Mexican in in certain
people's eyes. And yes, exactly. I mean I remember my
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first experience, my first experience in undergrad when I lived
with a white woman for the first time, and like
really seeing the lack of hygiene up close, and I
was appalled, and it was kind of like a joke,
not for me, but like she thought it was so
funny that I was like appalled that she wouldn't shower
(25:54):
for days, and she was like she would ride her
skateboard around campus barefoot, and then she would come home
and I could see her fucking bs, you know, doll
the socials hanging from her bump bet you know. And meanwhile,
homegirl would tell me that I was quote ghetto, and
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so yeah, and so first of all, based on what
based on my hoop ear rings, bitch, oh my god,
based on my hoop earrings, she would be like, she
would say that I was ghetto, you know. So yeah,
that's that was my first experience up close and personal.
The barefoot thing around campus is a lot, it is.
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That's a lot. If you have ever been in Santa
Barbara intended you see Santa Barbara, if you partied in
Santa Barbara, you know that that is a thing. The
white people there are barefoot. I classed everywhere there barefoot.
I am afraid sometimes to wear flip flops outside, like
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depending on where I'm going, I won't even wear chunk
glass because that's not enough, you know. So I don't understand.
Aren't they afraid of glass? Of injuring the underside of
their foot? An injury on the sole of your foot
is really inconvenient. That's like enough to take you out
for a while, like if you get if you injure
(27:23):
the bottom of your foot, I don't know, I don't know,
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know, but but I mean, okay, so along, So
going back to me, Lacunas and Ashton Kulder, right, they
also shared, and this is where Mom and I were like,
we actually need to talk about this on the podcast,
for I mean, aside from it being like kind of
funny and kind of like what the funk are y'all doing?
(27:46):
But it does take an interesting turn here where Lacunas
and Ashtion could just say that they also don't bathe
their children um daily because supposedly it's like bad for
their skin or it's a lot too bath children daily.
So I don't necessarily know how true that is because
I do not have children, right. However, however, I would
(28:09):
imagine I remember being bathed daily often as a child, um.
But something that I was thinking about when I read
this was like, wait, children get taken away from their
parents for a lot less, you know, for and so
bathing and hygiene is like a really important part of parenting,
(28:31):
I would imagine, and I know that when I was
working as an organizer there, that was that was the
thing that would happen to two mothers where their kids
would their principles would call them because their their kids
were supposedly quote dirty, but it's like, oh, actually they
didn't have laundry detergent. They couldn't afford to buy laundry detergreent,
so their clothes was dirty, but they were showering, but
(28:53):
the clothes was dirty. And so there's like these red
flags that are raised by certain like school admitted straighters.
But these celebrities are going on a podcast and saying
they don't feed their kids daily, but that's okay, that's fine, yeah,
and this is like this is like so there's so
many layers, right because like cleanliness and hygiene, um, the
(29:15):
way that it's the standards are held for different people,
like even like I think women are expected to be
way cleaner than men, Like I don't think men are
expected to be clean. And I think that there's tonss
of conversation and evidence online of men talking about they
don't know how to wipe themselves after they take a ship,
(29:38):
like they don't do it they or they don't know how,
or they don't want to or they don't like to
because there's some weird homophobic thing that they have going
on where they will not wipe themselves, like they talk
about this openly, and then women are like, um, found
out my fiance doesn't wipe his ass. I tried to
get him to do it. He never this on Twitter.
(30:00):
My god, I remember this conversation and there's so many
of them, and that's just one of them. So it's like,
who's who can get away with being just filthy and
like literally just caked in their own feces, like walking
I saw on TikTok also just going on about like
(30:20):
just this is just stuff we're seeing online or whatever.
You know. On TikTok, there's this one account um and
she's a wax specialist and she on video she shows
herself melting like the wax pellets and mixing the waxes
and she's telling stories just the audio, and she was
saying she has had like tons of experiences with customers
(30:44):
who are like regular customers who go in for Brazilians
and they're not clean, they haven't showered, they've like gone
number two earlier. It's just caked. It's disgusting. She's like,
I've had to like have them wipe themselves down. I've
had who wax around it. And she was like, I
have one customer who's a regular and she always shows
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up like this. First of all, I am so when
I get a Brazilian, I'm so self conscious. I like
I like plan my my meals and my schedules and
my cleaning and my shower and my undy's and everything
is on point. I'm ready. It's like it's more stressful
for me than like having sex with someone like I am.
(31:28):
It's true like your spread eagle talking about going on brunch,
like you're talking about like very casual things while you're
spread eagle, and I will plan for yes, I will
plan my workouts around it because I'm like, wait, okay,
I can't go and work out closed because she's gonna
be like, Okay, this pistol said, didn't shower before, so
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I won't do that. But also you can't shower, I mean,
you can't work out after you've been waxed because it's
like not good for your skin, and like there's there's
things right they tell you don't work out for twenty
four hours. So I'm very strategic and timing out like
if I'm going to be active that day, um, and
making sure that I look clean and I showered and
then the whole thing because I want to be like
(32:12):
presentable because this woman is going to be all up
in me. Literally literally I'm appalled, I know, but it
doesn't surprise me. No, I'm not surprised. And I used
to get waxed at the European Wax Center in Pasadena,
and like one of those wax technicians, I remember she
was telling me like in person, she's like, yeah, some
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of these women in Pasadena come over here and they
are not clean, Like they don't seem prepared for someone
to be waxing their their business at all. Yeah. Yeah, girl,
it's the thing. And I want to be clear to
like there's also a lot of conversations and like even
like theory and sociology and writing and stuff out there
(32:56):
about like cleanliness and body hair and body odor and
like even like racism like in these in these ways,
like in different ways, and you know, there's so many
things that go into hygiene, like when folks like have
disorders or they have skin issues or gland issues, like
people have like different sense and different smells, and people
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are the way that they are. So we're not here
to like no, no, not body shaming. And you know,
sometimes mental illness can affect hygiene and cleanliness, but it's
this this is more like people who are just like
oh no, I just I don't wash. I just don't
because I don't think that I need to and I
don't think that it's important at all or a necessity,
(33:38):
which is wrong. Yes, and obviously we don't know like
the mental health of these people, but these are very
affluent people, very that are saying they don't like to
bathe daily. Right, This isn't somebody because you know, I know, folks,
I've also read, you know, on on the internet people
talk about being depressed or having a bipolar disorder and
(34:00):
they don't They don't shower for days because they literally
cannot get out of it. Again, like Molas said, that's
definitely not what we're talking about. Um, we're talking about
the people that choose not to because they don't think
it's important, or they don't want to, or they don't
like to, Like you know, a couple of days later,
Jake Jillen Hall was like, I don't shower. Everything not shape,
(34:24):
not info. Um, but I'm happy to report that Chris
Evans says that he does a shower. Because now this
is a thing like they're skiing, they're asking people what
they think about this and if they shower daily, And
I'm like, this is okay, what what like alternate universe,
(34:45):
like where are we on the simulation where we're now
asking celebrities if they shower daily, And let me just
say too, if I'm a celebrity and I'm going to
be around all kinds of people who are going to
be talking about me, taking pictures of me, to eating
about me, probably you know, going home and hey, I
interviewed so and so today where I met so and so,
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people talk about everything. She had weird toes. Her manicure
was chipping, she smelled weird. You know, like I would
be if I was at that status where I know
there's the scrutiny and people are so likely on you.
I think, I don't know, I think I would be
even more like self conscious about everything, right, yeah, yeah,
(35:29):
I mean as it is. There was like, um, maybe
like two or three years ago where I like I
hadn't gone to the dentist because of my insurance. Um,
I was having issues with my insurance, and so when
I went, I like knew, like I need dental work,
I need a real canal, I need this, I need
my wisdom teeth pulled out. And I remember telling my mom.
I was like, Mom, I like, I am horrified that
(35:51):
a listener were to like meet me and be like
Fiosa has some bed breath, like literally that was like
a thing for me and I'm not sure I'm not
and hostatus that boco like that because we meet people regularly,
um and in our daily lives, like we'll be at
the medico and a listener will find us r or
(36:11):
see us and say hi, I feel self conscious and
would I wouldn't ever want to be like I have
bad breath that day, or I hadn't showered that day,
and I felt like, you know, not as cute. And
there are these things I think about, like I want
to feel like any time I leave my house, I
I brush my teeth before I go, like it's for me.
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It makes me feel better aside from like smelling better
or best or whatever have you, like I also feel better.
Oh yeah, I feel way better after a shower and
everything is scrubbed head to toe. And you know, of course,
like many of us do not wash our hair every day,
like I don't wash my hair every day, especially if
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we have like big hair, long hair, textured hair, what
have you. That's like ill advit eyes. But but you know,
so we but we will go work out, will run
or skate and then go run errands. I've I've been
at my local Dollar Tree sean glue that like I
like to be. You know, when I'm off and I'm
(37:15):
walking my dog and I'm just in. If I walk
to the Dollar Tree for like some toilet paper or
for some supplies or whatever, I'm getting some dog food.
I'm in my slides and I'm kash And I've had
people at the Dollar Tree be like, Mama, is that you?
And I'm like, dear God, why because don't let don't
(37:36):
let the press features full you, don't let the good
reviews full you. I live in a studio apartment about
my grandma Natchez garage, honey, and we still live paycheck
to paycheck, my dear, So we do what we can
and we're living our regular as like l a girl lives.
You know what I mean. Don't come for me, how
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if you see me happen about Yes, looking a little dingy,
hit the venmo at, look radio and donate yes, yes,
um so yeah, that's where we'll get there. That's yeah,
we'll get there. That's where we're at. On the simulation,
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you know, where media press is asking people, specifically white people,
I assume if they bathe. My favorite was the Rock
being like I showered twice a day, like and he
has like his different regiments for each shower. I also
shower twice a day, even pre pandemic, because it is
(38:40):
what it is. It's it's what makes me feel better. Um.
And look as former student athletes and now as adults
who still engage in athletics, like if we had a
two a day practice for across country, if we had
a six am practice, we showered after that practice, went
to class, had an afternoon practice, and then showered again
(39:03):
after that practice. And these days, if we're out and
about and we're exercising or doing things, I just think,
shower after everything. Yes, I'm gonna go out that night,
I shower off the day before going out. Yeah, even
like coming home at two am, I take a shower
before I go to I have to be like extremely
(39:26):
messed up, yeah, to blacked out, which doesn't happen often.
I'm not I'm not there anymore, but like I have to.
It'll be l and I'll be taking a shower before
bed because it just you're to me, like your bed
is like you know, if you're you're lucky to have
you not share a bed with anybody or even if
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you do, um you know, be able to be in
your sheets, then I feel like clean and safe and
good like to me, that's that's like one of the
best feelings and so I value that and I want
to take a shower before are gett into my very
comfortable bed. I know we're going to get some comments
or something about well, in the gumbo, you can't shower
(40:09):
like that. All that time. People in the compo are
still very fushy, very clean, still very clucking clean, and
find ways it doesn't need to be you know, us
thirty minutes scalding hot showers with vocal nobody has time
for that. With bath bombs and a rans dear a
(40:31):
rans you know, a quick scrub, yeah, I mean also lather.
I live with my family, as many of you know,
if you're a long time listener, I do not take
baths because for me, like if I'm going to take
a bath, I need to scrub the tub before there's
there's three people that use the shower and so I'm
not taking a bath. I'm vocal because everybody does there
(40:53):
what they need to do in the shower. If I
had my own bathroom, and you know I had was
the only one that had access to it. That that's different.
Um So that boco. You know, but we get it.
We know, you guys different things, people have access to
different things, and you know, what works for you works
(41:15):
for you. Again, we're talking about white people that want
to be nasty for no reason. Um. Also in a pandemic,
and there's like a very coded, long history of who
is considered clean read white, and who's considered dirty read
(41:39):
black people, people of color, Mexicans, like immigrants, people Asian people.
You know, it's also like partly why maybe for something,
maybe some people overcompensate or or the cleanliness is very
important to them because they've been taught by their families,
because they've ex arienced it. You have to be on point,
(42:04):
you know, you have to quote smell clean or smell
a certain way or look a certain way. It's it's
a part of how we navigate in this world. Yeah,
it's very true. It's very true. And you know, of course,
like all things, we speak about these things having had
our own experiences and having learned these things ourselves in
our households, not as like sociologists talking about this like
(42:28):
you know, because like like as if it has nothing
to do with us, but it has lots to do
with us, right, which is why we're talking about it.
So um, I mean that being said, I also encourage
you guys to start looking into content having to do
with like the monarchies back in the day and how
the palaces were filthy places like filled with human waste
(42:53):
because they had no plan, right. That was that was
like one of my favorite comments or feedback when the
Bridgetin series came out. Someone was like nobody was smelling
that good, Like nobody was looking that good either during
those times, Like it just doesn't make sense all the
layers of clothing they had to wear. Yeah, no, they
(43:16):
were smelly. They were definitely really really smelly. So I
don't know, I just have to think there's some residual stuff.
Growing up my dad, my dad said so many things
to us growing up that now I think, I'm like,
dear God, this man. But like one of the things
that he would say to us was that like white
people historically are dirty, and that native people's and that
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African people's indigenous people's basically taught hygiene, or that European
colonizers learned hygiene and waste management and waste disposal and
sewage and internal plumbing from native communities that is actually
historically accurate, Like it's not wrong. The crazy. The crazy
(44:04):
thing he said to us was that if he has
any Spanish blood in his body, he would push it
to the tip of his pinky finger and then chop
it off. That's the crazy thing he said, not not
the hygiene thing. That's true. But then he said the
pinky thing, and I was like, Dad, yes, this is
(44:25):
how I was raised. Okay, so yeah, I mean, I'm curious.
I would love to hear folks thoughts on like their
own experience with hygiene and like how they were brought up. Um,
because I think we are there. There's I'm sure a
shared experience for our community, but I'm also positive that
(44:46):
people have their own either doing things a certain way
or not doing things a certain way. So I would
love to hear what folks have to say about that. Absolutely.
And again, if you have ideas for topics and things
you want us to cover, if you've notice a trend
or some weird little happenings online or in the world,
maybe we can comment. We're always looking for different things
(45:07):
to talk about. On look at. Um, we don't have
an interview this episode. We're just chatting, you know, And
I love these episodes. I love our interviews, of course,
because our guests are amazing, but when we get to
just dig into like an a topic like this, it's fun.
It's fun. It's fun, and we like to you know,
be able to balance it out. I think the last
(45:28):
couple of episodes have been interview heavy, So yeah, it's
always fun to come back to like what we do
and dive into something comedically also have like a serious
take on it. I think that that's where we thrive.
And so yeah, thanks for tuning into this Weird Things
the White People did episode. Thank you very very much,
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and um yeah, leave us a review, leave us a rating, uh,
drop a comment. You know, we love to hear from
our listeners, and you guys always have interesting things to
say after an episode. So yeah, thank you for tuning in. Alright,
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