September 4, 2024 • 30 mins
We both traveled to Ciudad México this past summer. Each of us had very different trips: from a questionable taxi to gentrification perils. Tune in to hear about which one of us got scammed and how we recovered from it.
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in your life, what's in your heart? Lord?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay, let's start there, let's start there. Let's see what's
on my mind. Oh, I don't know, I feel like
this summer was so fun in so many ways and
so busy in so many ways, but also so heavy
in so many ways. So I'm something light I can
share is that I recently had a little pool party,
(02:36):
a pool gathering if you will. It wasn't a party,
but I invited my close friends and we literally just
swam in the pool all day. So that was really fun.
And to me, that was like, that's like the essence
of summer. When you're hanging with your friends, you're drinking
a little bit, you're eating together, you're gathering, and you're
by a pool, you're buy a body of water. You're
(02:57):
just together sharing time and space, you know, in that
little capsule. It's like, to me, that's what summer feels like.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, I was there, Yeah, you were there the pool sware. Yes,
it was a Soare. It was so cute because we
were all just floating and chatting and having snags and
drinks and it was just like a cute little vibe.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, it was a cute, little wholesome party gathering Soare
if you will. And it's just so funny because before,
you know, when we would have the pool parties in
our early twenties, mid twenties. It's like we'd be blacking
out by the pool.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh it's so dangerous, absolutely dehydrated, drunk, at risk of drowning. Yeah,
but having so much.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Fun, having so much fun. But this was a different
type of fun, you know. It's like a whole some fun.
It's like I have these memories. Ye, it's not that
I don't I can literally remember, as opposed to last time,
I actually couldn't remember.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What did I do? Right? We did? I say, we're
pretty sure we had fun.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We think we had fun.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We think we had fun.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This time, I know I had fun, So that's great.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It was a really good time. And everybody was just like,
you know, chilling and like swapping stories and telling jokes
and just having a laugh.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah. And I think one of my one of the
memorable stories for me that day was a story that
you shared about your recent trip to Mexico City.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ooh, girl, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Tell us about it. And let's like, let's give a
little bit of like some context and kind of like
a warning, like a.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Warning, yes content warning, shits and giggles on your way.
So I went to Mexico City with my friend Demi
and me and Demi met while we were working at
a school for girls in Pasadena. We both promptly left
due to our own personal and professional reasons, and we
(04:56):
have remained friends since now. When Demi and I get
together were like very like Rome and Michelle's high school
re union, Like we really bring out the like bimbo
in each other in the best possible way. But I
think we really induled each other's like girlish fancies. And
(05:16):
when we were in Mexico City, like that was no exception,
Like we brought the Sangerbo Valley to cdmex like for
better or for worse.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
CD Max can't stand CD Max.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I love CD Max.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So we cannot stand you.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I can't stand myself either, and I want you all
to know that, Like I I totally acknowledged that. On
this trip, I was like very like trash Angelino Chicana,
like I'm going to Mexico City like were the summer,
Like that's who I was. I wasn't giving back, I
wasn't making a difference.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I love that you're owning it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm owning it completely like I was just we were
just being those girls, but we were having lots of fun,
very respectful, like like everybody loved us. I think, like
it was fine.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'll go anywhere locomotives.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
We'll be right back, and we're back with more of
our episode.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So we're down there and we decided to go to Chapultepeg,
you know, to the castle. Yeah, we went to Chapoltepec,
to the castle, to the castillo. Stop it the one
I think about the history. You were learning about the culture.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What I love about this story and when Mala shared
it with a bunch of like first gen kids at
the pool, is that, well everyone there speaks Spanish. Yeah,
and two Mala can actually pronounce things.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's not true. That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's not a lie, but she pretends that she can't.
I like to under promise and over under cells her
Spanish speaking abilities, and I'm like, why are you lying?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Because I'm like, I don't want anybody to think I
can speak Spanish and then they want me to speak Spanish,
you know, like, don't make me do it. I'll do
it if I have to. So we're in Mexico, so
I have to do it. So it's fine. So we're
we go to Chapultepec and we're at the Castio and
we're like having a great time. And so earlier in
the trip, we had gone to the Museum of Anthropology
and they were having like a big fair of like
(07:15):
a book fair, but an anthropological book fair from the Americas.
And there was a booth there that had puppets Axe
Lottle puppets alout this, and so I bought a pink
one and I decided, okay, when we go to chipul Toepec,
like I'm taking the puppet with me. I named her Astrid.
I like had her on my hand the whole time
because I was filming content with her, and also like
(07:37):
she was a crowd pleaser, like every time there was
a group of children, they were like Zunajo not there.
There was like a group of nuns that really liked her,
Like we were having fun with Astrod. So we decide
that on our way to the zoo, because you know,
Chipuletepec is a huge park, like honestly, Central Park could never.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's a it's a bosket at ch it's literally.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
A forest, and so they really build it out to
be this all day, all weekend like excursion site. There's museums.
We went, like I said, we went to the zoo
and we're having so much fun. We're like seeing the animals,
were like bopping around. We decide to go to one
of the vendors and get our faces painted. So Demi
(08:19):
got her face painted like a tiger. I got my
face painted like a butterfly. And then Astrod couldn't get
her face painted because she's a puppet, so we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Can't stand out.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You can't put face paint on a puppet, famously, So
we had a appointment at El Museo Free de Collo
and we were like running late, and we had been
taking so many videos and pictures that our phones were dying,
so we like also didn't have service. We couldn't call
an uber. We didn't have enough time to take a bus,
it would take too long. So we're like, oh, let's
hail a taxi. So we're there on like the main
(08:58):
street outside of Elbows Gay and I like wave at
a taxi that's driving by, but I waved like left
to right, like as if I'm saying hello or goodbye,
And so the taxi driver looked at me and like
waved back at me and kept going like it didn't
I didn't hail him properly, and he didn't pull over.
He thought I was just waving at him. So we're like,
oh shit. So almost immediately, another taxi pulls up behind
(09:22):
him and he's like, get in, I saw what happened, Like,
I'll take you where we need to go, and it's
the taxis down There are these cute little pink and
white cars. So this pink and white car pulls up
and we just we're like ooh, great, okay, so we
jump in and he's like, yeah, if you wave like that,
they think you're saying goodbye to them, you know. He's
like that, and so like he saw that I didn't
know how to hail a taxi, like I'm from La,
(09:42):
Like when do I hail taxis? Like never? So then
we're like having a great time. We're chatting with him.
He's like very talkative, very friendly, telling us all kinds
of things. The ride was kind of long. We get there,
it took like forty five minutes. We get out. No,
before we get out, we go to pay and he
brings out one of those card readers, you know, so
(10:05):
we hand over our cards. The first card he says, oh,
it's not working. Let me try your other card, and
so okay. So like I give him my debit card.
Oh it's not working. Okay, well we can pay you
in cash. So like we're kind of like not thinking,
and we're like, okay, we're like on time for our
appointment at the museum, like we're here whatever. We get
(10:26):
out of the car, I see him drive away, and
then now I'm looking at this car and I'm like,
is that a real taxi? Because there wasn't a number
on the side of the car. There wasn't a taxi number.
We weren't even thinking about it or checking for it
when we first got in. I just saw a pink
car and got into it, you know. And so then
I'm like, wait a second. This is now feeling off
(10:48):
to me. And so the high of like being at
the zoo and having the face pain and having so
much fun is immediately wearing off. And now we're like
here at the museum. Our phones are dead. I brought
my charger. We went to the cafeteria. I charge it,
stop it, I charge my phone. I look at my
banking app and this will charge be four hundred and
(11:10):
fifty American dollars US dollars usd BRO. And I'm like Demi,
you need to check your bank account to see if
he charged you because he tapped both of our debit cards.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Damn, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And Demi goes to look at her banking app. She
opens up her phone to try and check her account.
It's facial recognition. It doesn't recognize her face because of
the tiger face paint, so she cannot check her bank account.
There's no way for her to get in. And so
now and I still have astraed the puppet with me,
and we still have to do our tour of the museum.
(11:46):
So now I know I've been scammed four hundred and
fifty dollars. She can't even check to see if she's
been scammed. We still need to do our tour of
Frida Collo's house. But now we're in a bad mood.
So now it's like, why are these two girls with
their face painted carrying a puppet so sad like while
they're walking through the Freedo Fallow Museum. Eventually we get
(12:08):
back to our airbnb. She washes her face. She washes
her face so she can check her account. She's fine,
she was not scammed. Thank god. I get on the
phone with the bank. I submit my complaint. They launched
an investigation. They credit us the money bag, and then
(12:29):
I watched the dirty pop documentary about in Sync in
the Backstreet Boys with Astrid in bed. It was quite
the day. It was very trying, but we survived and
I learned. I learned so much.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Don't go anywhere, lookamotives, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We're back with more. We hope you didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
It's so funny. I mean, the story is great, and
I'm glad that you you got the money back, and
like nothing actually terrible happened, you know, but it's so
funny because you know, I was in Mexico City earlier
in the summer in July, at the beginning of July,
and we did some traveling and our trip did not
go as planned for very different reasons or like health
(13:18):
related stuff. And so it was kind of in that way,
like we started the trip on like a like a
really excite excitement, like a really big high, and then
like womp womp, you know, it like kind of took
us hour turn and again everyone is fine, we're back,
everything's okay. But while I was there, it's so funny
to hear you tell the story and me having like
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a really different experience in terms of language. So when
I was growing up, my family always told us like
and this was more so for Bdu, not for Mexico.
When you go back to Peru, it doesn't matter what
you're dressed, like how you sound. Cianis get it? Is
it pure? When we go back we go to like
(14:02):
li Ma Kayao. And so when you go back, you say,
like you know, you what what what virio that you rep?
Literally like geve Asinda you rep and where you're from
and like you have just like these little facts about
where you're from. Right, I was not born there. I
actually cannot, you know, say that I was born there.
I was from there. But I had my little story
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because this is what the family tells you to prep you.
Because it's not even about like, oh, you're gonna get
up charged, right, Who cares about that? Like when they're
in my opinion, like when you're in Latin America and
you're paying in dollars, who gives a fuck? Like who
cares if they see you as a tourist and you're
getting up charged? That to me, like that's lomenos. But
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it was more so like a point of safety. You
always speak Spanish, you always say you're from there, you
have your little story, you know, and like keep keep
the talk to a minimum, especially if you have you know,
you don't have an accent from Kayao, from Lima, like
they can tell. So just keep it, keep it quiet.
And if you're like with someone that's from there, like
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actually let them do all the talking.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And so you know, I grew up with all this knowledge,
and I've lived in Biddu and I've gone back many
many times. And for Mexico it's a little different because
we don't have we don't have family there anymore. For
the most part, everyone that's closest to us and within
like our little extended family is here in the US.
And so Fernando, my partner, my husband, he was born
(15:30):
in Mexico, born in Acapulco, would go back all the
time up until he couldn't. And when we get go there,
he's telling everybody he's from La love it. And I'm like,
first of all, you have like you have an accent,
like you're from here, Like claim it, you know, tell
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them you're from Acapulco. Tell them you're go Staniel, tell
them you're from Guerrero and he's like, no, telling everybody
he's from La and I'm just like they're like stressed,
like what is wrong with you? Full like you can
actually like rep where you're from and you can say
you're from here and granted you don't live here anymore,
but you don't they don't need to.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Know all of that. Yeah, and he's actually from and he's.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Actually from Nico, and he's like telling all these stories
about like oh okay, soyak soa, yeah me Familia tatata
because he has family in Mexico City too, and that's
who we stayed with. And so I'm over here like
with my knowledge and my viewpoint of the world and
traveling and how I travel, and he's over here just
like yes, talking in Spanish, kind of talking in English
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to me at least. And it was just a very
interesting experience to see both of us and how we
like navigate that because we're both this is the This
was the second time that we were able to travel
to make go together and so that was really interesting.
And so I, you know, on my close friends on Instagram,
I was like asking people like if you go back
to like country of origin, like what do you do,
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Like what were you told to say? And like ninety
percent of the dms were like, oh, we always say
we're from here, you know, and we have like exactly
like me. We have like our little facts. And then
I have other people say like yeah, but they can tell,
so like it doesn't really matter, like you can tell
they know. It's like the way we dress, the way
we talk, like the way we carry ourselves. There's just
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like as respectful as we may try to be, like
they know, and so I don't know. It like really
got me thinking about that. So just funny, like the
three of us, ye mean, you, me and then even Fernando,
like having these very different experiences in one place and
different like viewpoints of how we show up.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I mean part of it is my family. We
did not go to Mexico when I grew up. It
was not part of my experience. I took myself to Mexico.
Like in high school, we did a week long homestay
in Mexico City. They took a group of us. So
I was in Mexico City with my Pasadena High school
and we did homestays and that was my first time
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spending any time in Mexico. And it was through school,
and that experience was great and fabulous, and it's where
I really started to fall in love with Mexico City
when I was like a junior in high school. And
I felt at the time like, oh, I'm reconnecting, like
with my home country and like we've been in the
US for so many generations, like we have no connection
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here anymore. I'm so excited for this homestay. I'm going
to stay with a Mexican family for a week and
we're going to go to school with their kids, and
it's going to be dope. And so I get assigned
to my homestay placement and I go to spend my
first night with them and I meet them and they're
a German family that had immigrated for this time. Back
in the day, I used to tell this story, but
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for the new listeners, they were a German family of
architects that had moved to Mexico City and we're raising
their German children there, and so that was cool. But
also that's part of the reality of Mexico. It's an
international plays just like the United States, and people move
there from all over the world and then have kids
who are then Mexicans. Absolutely, and that's just the part
(19:01):
of the reality of the country, you know, And that
was an important lesson for me to learn as well
and to see that. Then as an adult, I had
a friend, a coworker, the homegirl Nora shout Out, and
she decided that she was going to like up and
move to Guatemala for a year. I went and stayed
with her in Antigua, me and my friend Melissa. That
was really fun. Then she decided she was going to
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stay in Mexico City for a year. Mind you, Nora
is a white woman from South Pasadena with blonde hair
and blue eyes, who at the time didn't speak Spanish
but now she does. And she just moved to Guatemala
by herself and then just moved to Mexico City by herself.
And when I stayed with her and went out with
her in these countries, you know, my family was very like,
what where are you going?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I'm like, she's going by herself. And she goes
to bars and alone, right, and goes to bilez and
goes to shows and is meeting friends and learning Spanish
and it's literally fine. Yeah, but you know, as Mexican
Americans especially when we don't grow up going to our
he home country, going to Mexico, we have outdated ideas
(20:04):
based on our grandparents. So the knowledge we have of
Mexico and the language that we speak is from nineteen
forty five Mexico, Jalisco, Okay, from the Campo, Like we're
not updated. So I've taken myself as an adult and
every time I've gone, like you know, like I said,
I mean, there's no barrio or vesindad for me to
claim down there, you know. And what I've loved though,
(20:26):
is even Injalisco, you know, because Mexico I felt when
I go, this is not correct, this is wrong whatever.
I always feel like La is just like an unincorporated
suburb of Mexico City, you know what I mean. Like
it's really not that it's different, but it's not that
different that I can't like go and be myself and
this oh no, no then and they know who I
am and where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know. That's definitely the point of I think why
the gentrification of Mexico City has been so rampant, because
it is very welcoming, Like there's like Mexican hospitality is
like known for a reason, right, And I think, yeah,
we showed we we as I think as mindful people, right,
we show up like respectful. Right. We can't say the
(21:08):
same for lots of other people. We don't know them obviously,
But I think that's why, like I think Mexico City has.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Felt so.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Welcoming for people to move there. Yeah, obviously there's people
that it's led to its own issue with the gentrification
across Mexico City. But I think because it's it feels
so familiar and it's a metro it's a metropolitan city.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It's like going to New York, yes, yeah, and it's
and you know, because there is a lot of back
and forth between Mexico and LA and southern California. Like
when I was in Halley School with my mom, Like
if we're in a taxi or an uber, like if
we're just walking around and talking to people, we could
specifically say like, oh, like we my mom would say
that she lives in Bakersfield, and they know exactly what
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Bakersfield is and they've been there, right, you know, because
there's a lot of back and forth, and so it's
also fun to compare notes because like we're not from
an exotic place. You know, everybody in Mexico knows about
La of course it's probably been, you know, and so
that's also fun to sort of exchange that absolutely with them.
And even like you know, the small agricultural towns, you
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know they've been, They're familiar, you know, they understand, they
know what San Jose is, right well, I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
The proximity to the US and California give lends itself
to that kind of exchange versus like a country in
South America.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Absolutely, it's very different. So yeah, in that way, I've
always felt very like I can let go they and
everybody speaks English, you know, so I practice my Spanish.
I do. Yeah, I don't know. I always have fun.
I have a good time down there, and I'm every
time I go, I do I do the I do
the museums, I do the TOURISKI stuff like, I'll do
(22:50):
all of it and then I'll also like we went
to the aquarium Elaquardrio, Michine, which was really really fun
because it was like Universal Studios. And what I liked
about that day was we were probably the only Americans there.
Everybody else was like a family with their tiny children,
you know, so like I also like doing stuff like that.
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We're like, no, this is just like the local families
what they would do on a Saturday. Yeah, and I'm
going to go and just do that and just be wholesome.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, the very first time I went to Mexico City,
I stayed with someone I knew from undergrad who was
born and raised in Mexico City, had lived there. She
just lived there and I met her because she was
on an exchange at UCSB. Yeah, and so I got
like that viewpoint of she took us to do, like
very touristy things, but also very local things. So when
we went in twenty twenty two, Fernando went through his
(23:43):
university through his master's program and he did advanced parole,
and so we very much went into that trip with like,
we don't know when we're going to be able to
come back together, let's do everything. So we did every
imaginable touristy thing possible and it was a lot of fun.
This time, I think because of some health stuff that
I mentioned and we were staying with his family, it
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was a very low key, very like locals only type
of trip, which was so fun too. I think it's
really nice when you can do like that blend and
that mix of like here's where the locals go. Definitely
felt like a gentrifier when I was running through the
park because I was thinking about, like, damn, you know
when you're in LA and you're in like a non
gentrified neighborhood and you see like a white person running
(24:29):
and you're like.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh, this is bad.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, then I had that like reverse feeling when I
was in Mexico City, when I was in the little
Colognia that hisprimas live in that's not gentrified at all,
it has not reached that point yet, And I was
like running through the park and I was like, oh
my god, I'm the gentrifier running in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Literally, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And so that was really that was like really interesting
to feel that. And then you know, I posted my
little run on social media like okay, like first run
in Mexico City, and someone DMed me and was like, girl,
there's gonna be a TikTok of you running through the
park calling a gentrification and I'm like, I know, I
already thought that, literally, but also people run in Mexico City.
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There's also when I was when I was there, it
was also during the time of the Medio Maraton and
I was and it was sold out and I was
really trying to like find someone to sell me their bib.
But one, I don't want to get scammed first of all,
and two was like, just run it, just jump in.
(25:36):
But if they catch you, you get banned. And I'm like, well,
I want to actually run it formally, so I don't
want to get caught and get Bannedoco. So maybe next year, but.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That would be so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, literally no, So anyway, I would like to run
it next year. That's and that's going to be my
goal for next year. But seeing the other communities within
Mexico City or within any place that you travel to
and you see like the running communities. Right the last
time I was there, I saw like a group like
like fifty to one hundred people like just skating literally
(26:08):
on roller skates.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh my god, I need to find.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Them going down Like it was so cool, so cool,
you know, And so seeing I think all those different
communities is really fun when you're traveling and like you know,
copping in when you.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Can absolutely, yeah, it's so fun, such a fun place.
So we talk about it all the time. Honestly. Yeah,
So shout out CDMAS. You guys are cool, dumb. I
love you guys. Oh my god, no, I opened. So
while I was down there, I did redownload my hinge
app just to see who's who, what's what. And dude,
(26:43):
the number of white men in Mexico City, the number
of white men the sheer number from all over, not
just from the US, from everywhere. And so I'm like
looking at my options and like, my I'm you know,
you know, I'm like matching with people or what I
And I'm like, DEMI like, what if I went on
like a date with this guy like while I'm down here.
(27:05):
And she's like, you're not gonna go on a date
with fucking like white boy tod in Mexico City. Like
it's true, and it's true, and I didn't. But seeing
the because you know, you're down there, you're walking around,
you don't know who's who or who's from where. No, honestly,
you definitely don't. It's definitely hard to tell. And I
don't think there really is a way you have to
just talk to someone to find out are you a
(27:27):
Mexican or are you from Sweden honestly, or are you
from wherever you're from, because anybody could be from anywhere.
So it was interesting seeing the app because then it's
telling you exactly where they're from and what their deal
is and why they're there, and so even just like sociologically,
it was really interesting to see. And there were like
a number of people that had been there for years,
(27:49):
you know, and they were working most mostly a lot
of like tech, a lot of like sales. So yeah,
I don't know, it was fascinating. But I didn't see
a lot of like Mexican men on the app, which
was also fascinating.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I don't I'm trying to remember this detail. But there's
this influencer that I follow. We follow each other, but
we don't.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
We're not friends.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I don't think we've ever met in real life. And
during the pandemic, she was one of those Mexican Americans
that went to Mexico City, yeah and started living there. Okay,
now she's a whole mother. She met a Mexican man
right in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
He's beautiful. They look like the leno Vela stars together,
both of them. Honestly, they're both very beautiful people. And
I'm trying to remember if she met him on a
dating apps or like just you know, through people in
community in real life. But that's also a thing too,
you know, like you go and you meet someone and well,
I guess I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Right, I guess I live in Mexico City now with
a husband and a family. Yeah. There's a woman that
I went to undergrad with. She moved to Mexico City.
She found her husband on a app in Mexico City
and married him, which is why he's her husband. And
it was because of that story that I was like, well,
let me download him, might find my husband while I'm
down here. Let me check it out. But it was
(29:11):
a lot of white men. It was really interesting to see.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That is interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, but I can find those here. Yeah, they're not
that hard to find. This place is crawling with white men,
absolutely crawling. So if I'm going to Mexico, I need
something other than Todd from But it's also.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Not like you're dating Todd from Bourbank out here. Either.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, I'm definitely not.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
No, I'm not. I tried.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
You go in the world, You're not going to date
the Todd for Burbank.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I did once. I tried once. It wasn't for me.
It wasn't for me. Yeah, it's okay, it's okay, it's fine,
it's fine, it's fine. How are we on time?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I think that we have time to wrap up and
that's like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
We literally just filled this episode.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
With our Mexico City trips, respective trips.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I love it. Yeah, cute.
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So today we kind of have a loose structure. We've
been producing the heck out of both our shows and
we just want to let loose a little bit and
kind of just check in, share some funny stories, and
maybe play a little bit of a game at the end,
depending on how the episode goes.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, we're loose women today. Yes, we're gonna let our
hair down, we're gonna kick off our boots, we're taking
off our bras and we're swinging them around in there.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
That's a lovely image.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's us today. So what's up, girl,
what's happening, what's going on? What's on your mind, what's
in your life, what's in your heart? Lord?
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Okay, let's start there, let's start there. Let's see what's
on my mind. Oh, I don't know, I feel like
this summer was so fun in so many ways and
so busy in so many ways, but also so heavy
in so many ways. So I'm something light I can
share is that I recently had a little pool party,
(02:36):
a pool gathering if you will. It wasn't a party,
but I invited my close friends and we literally just
swam in the pool all day. So that was really fun.
And to me, that was like, that's like the essence
of summer. When you're hanging with your friends, you're drinking
a little bit, you're eating together, you're gathering, and you're
by a pool, you're buy a body of water. You're
(02:57):
just together sharing time and space, you know, in that
little capsule. It's like, to me, that's what summer feels like.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Yeah, I was there, Yeah, you were there the pool sware. Yes,
it was a Soare. It was so cute because we
were all just floating and chatting and having snags and
drinks and it was just like a cute little vibe.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
Yeah, it was a cute, little wholesome party gathering Soare
if you will. And it's just so funny because before,
you know, when we would have the pool parties in
our early twenties, mid twenties. It's like we'd be blacking
out by the pool.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Oh it's so dangerous, absolutely dehydrated, drunk, at risk of drowning. Yeah,
but having so much.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Fun, having so much fun. But this was a different
type of fun, you know. It's like a whole some fun.
It's like I have these memories. Ye, it's not that
I don't I can literally remember, as opposed to last time,
I actually couldn't remember.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
What did I do? Right? We did? I say, we're
pretty sure we had fun.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
We think we had fun.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
We think we had fun.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
This time, I know I had fun, So that's great.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
It was a really good time. And everybody was just like,
you know, chilling and like swapping stories and telling jokes
and just having a laugh.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah. And I think one of my one of the
memorable stories for me that day was a story that
you shared about your recent trip to Mexico City.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Ooh, girl, yes.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
Tell us about it. And let's like, let's give a
little bit of like some context and kind of like
a warning, like a.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Warning, yes content warning, shits and giggles on your way.
So I went to Mexico City with my friend Demi
and me and Demi met while we were working at
a school for girls in Pasadena. We both promptly left
due to our own personal and professional reasons, and we
(04:56):
have remained friends since now. When Demi and I get
together were like very like Rome and Michelle's high school
re union, Like we really bring out the like bimbo
in each other in the best possible way. But I
think we really induled each other's like girlish fancies. And
(05:16):
when we were in Mexico City, like that was no exception,
Like we brought the Sangerbo Valley to cdmex like for
better or for worse.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
CD Max can't stand CD Max.
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah, I love CD Max.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So we cannot stand you.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
I can't stand myself either, and I want you all
to know that, Like I I totally acknowledged that. On
this trip, I was like very like trash Angelino Chicana,
like I'm going to Mexico City like were the summer,
Like that's who I was. I wasn't giving back, I
wasn't making a difference.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
I love that you're owning it.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'm owning it completely like I was just we were
just being those girls, but we were having lots of fun,
very respectful, like like everybody loved us. I think, like
it was fine.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
I'll go anywhere locomotives.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
We'll be right back, and we're back with more of
our episode.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
So we're down there and we decided to go to Chapultepeg,
you know, to the castle. Yeah, we went to Chapoltepec,
to the castle, to the castillo. Stop it the one
I think about the history. You were learning about the culture.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
What I love about this story and when Mala shared
it with a bunch of like first gen kids at
the pool, is that, well everyone there speaks Spanish. Yeah,
and two Mala can actually pronounce things.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
That's not true. That's a lie.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's not a lie, but she pretends that she can't.
I like to under promise and over under cells her
Spanish speaking abilities, and I'm like, why are you lying?
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Because I'm like, I don't want anybody to think I
can speak Spanish and then they want me to speak Spanish,
you know, like, don't make me do it. I'll do
it if I have to. So we're in Mexico, so
I have to do it. So it's fine. So we're
we go to Chapultepec and we're at the Castio and
we're like having a great time. And so earlier in
the trip, we had gone to the Museum of Anthropology
and they were having like a big fair of like
(07:15):
a book fair, but an anthropological book fair from the Americas.
And there was a booth there that had puppets Axe
Lottle puppets alout this, and so I bought a pink
one and I decided, okay, when we go to chipul Toepec,
like I'm taking the puppet with me. I named her Astrid.
I like had her on my hand the whole time
because I was filming content with her, and also like
(07:37):
she was a crowd pleaser, like every time there was
a group of children, they were like Zunajo not there.
There was like a group of nuns that really liked her,
Like we were having fun with Astrod. So we decide
that on our way to the zoo, because you know,
Chipuletepec is a huge park, like honestly, Central Park could never.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
It's a it's a bosket at ch it's literally.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
A forest, and so they really build it out to
be this all day, all weekend like excursion site. There's museums.
We went, like I said, we went to the zoo
and we're having so much fun. We're like seeing the animals,
were like bopping around. We decide to go to one
of the vendors and get our faces painted. So Demi
(08:19):
got her face painted like a tiger. I got my
face painted like a butterfly. And then Astrod couldn't get
her face painted because she's a puppet, so we.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Can't stand out.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
You can't put face paint on a puppet, famously, So
we had a appointment at El Museo Free de Collo
and we were like running late, and we had been
taking so many videos and pictures that our phones were dying,
so we like also didn't have service. We couldn't call
an uber. We didn't have enough time to take a bus,
it would take too long. So we're like, oh, let's
hail a taxi. So we're there on like the main
(08:58):
street outside of Elbows Gay and I like wave at
a taxi that's driving by, but I waved like left
to right, like as if I'm saying hello or goodbye,
And so the taxi driver looked at me and like
waved back at me and kept going like it didn't
I didn't hail him properly, and he didn't pull over.
He thought I was just waving at him. So we're like,
oh shit. So almost immediately, another taxi pulls up behind
(09:22):
him and he's like, get in, I saw what happened, Like,
I'll take you where we need to go, and it's
the taxis down There are these cute little pink and
white cars. So this pink and white car pulls up
and we just we're like ooh, great, okay, so we
jump in and he's like, yeah, if you wave like that,
they think you're saying goodbye to them, you know. He's
like that, and so like he saw that I didn't
know how to hail a taxi, like I'm from La,
(09:42):
Like when do I hail taxis? Like never? So then
we're like having a great time. We're chatting with him.
He's like very talkative, very friendly, telling us all kinds
of things. The ride was kind of long. We get there,
it took like forty five minutes. We get out. No,
before we get out, we go to pay and he
brings out one of those card readers, you know, so
(10:05):
we hand over our cards. The first card he says, oh,
it's not working. Let me try your other card, and
so okay. So like I give him my debit card.
Oh it's not working. Okay, well we can pay you
in cash. So like we're kind of like not thinking,
and we're like, okay, we're like on time for our
appointment at the museum, like we're here whatever. We get
(10:26):
out of the car, I see him drive away, and
then now I'm looking at this car and I'm like,
is that a real taxi? Because there wasn't a number
on the side of the car. There wasn't a taxi number.
We weren't even thinking about it or checking for it
when we first got in. I just saw a pink
car and got into it, you know. And so then
I'm like, wait a second. This is now feeling off
(10:48):
to me. And so the high of like being at
the zoo and having the face pain and having so
much fun is immediately wearing off. And now we're like
here at the museum. Our phones are dead. I brought
my charger. We went to the cafeteria. I charge it,
stop it, I charge my phone. I look at my
banking app and this will charge be four hundred and
(11:10):
fifty American dollars US dollars usd BRO. And I'm like Demi,
you need to check your bank account to see if
he charged you because he tapped both of our debit cards.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
Damn, I know.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
And Demi goes to look at her banking app. She
opens up her phone to try and check her account.
It's facial recognition. It doesn't recognize her face because of
the tiger face paint, so she cannot check her bank account.
There's no way for her to get in. And so
now and I still have astraed the puppet with me,
and we still have to do our tour of the museum.
(11:46):
So now I know I've been scammed four hundred and
fifty dollars. She can't even check to see if she's
been scammed. We still need to do our tour of
Frida Collo's house. But now we're in a bad mood.
So now it's like, why are these two girls with
their face painted carrying a puppet so sad like while
they're walking through the Freedo Fallow Museum. Eventually we get
(12:08):
back to our airbnb. She washes her face. She washes
her face so she can check her account. She's fine,
she was not scammed. Thank god. I get on the
phone with the bank. I submit my complaint. They launched
an investigation. They credit us the money bag, and then
(12:29):
I watched the dirty pop documentary about in Sync in
the Backstreet Boys with Astrid in bed. It was quite
the day. It was very trying, but we survived and
I learned. I learned so much.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Don't go anywhere, lookamotives, we'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
We're back with more. We hope you didn't go anywhere.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
It's so funny. I mean, the story is great, and
I'm glad that you you got the money back, and
like nothing actually terrible happened, you know, but it's so
funny because you know, I was in Mexico City earlier
in the summer in July, at the beginning of July,
and we did some traveling and our trip did not
go as planned for very different reasons or like health
(13:18):
related stuff. And so it was kind of in that way,
like we started the trip on like a like a
really excite excitement, like a really big high, and then
like womp womp, you know, it like kind of took
us hour turn and again everyone is fine, we're back,
everything's okay. But while I was there, it's so funny
to hear you tell the story and me having like
(13:40):
a really different experience in terms of language. So when
I was growing up, my family always told us like
and this was more so for Bdu, not for Mexico.
When you go back to Peru, it doesn't matter what
you're dressed, like how you sound. Cianis get it? Is
it pure? When we go back we go to like
(14:02):
li Ma Kayao. And so when you go back, you say,
like you know, you what what what virio that you rep?
Literally like geve Asinda you rep and where you're from
and like you have just like these little facts about
where you're from. Right, I was not born there. I
actually cannot, you know, say that I was born there.
I was from there. But I had my little story
(14:24):
because this is what the family tells you to prep you.
Because it's not even about like, oh, you're gonna get
up charged, right, Who cares about that? Like when they're
in my opinion, like when you're in Latin America and
you're paying in dollars, who gives a fuck? Like who
cares if they see you as a tourist and you're
getting up charged? That to me, like that's lomenos. But
(14:45):
it was more so like a point of safety. You
always speak Spanish, you always say you're from there, you
have your little story, you know, and like keep keep
the talk to a minimum, especially if you have you know,
you don't have an accent from Kayao, from Lima, like
they can tell. So just keep it, keep it quiet.
And if you're like with someone that's from there, like
(15:06):
actually let them do all the talking.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Cool.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
And so you know, I grew up with all this knowledge,
and I've lived in Biddu and I've gone back many
many times. And for Mexico it's a little different because
we don't have we don't have family there anymore. For
the most part, everyone that's closest to us and within
like our little extended family is here in the US.
And so Fernando, my partner, my husband, he was born
(15:30):
in Mexico, born in Acapulco, would go back all the
time up until he couldn't. And when we get go there,
he's telling everybody he's from La love it. And I'm like,
first of all, you have like you have an accent,
like you're from here, Like claim it, you know, tell
(15:51):
them you're from Acapulco. Tell them you're go Staniel, tell
them you're from Guerrero and he's like, no, telling everybody
he's from La and I'm just like they're like stressed,
like what is wrong with you? Full like you can
actually like rep where you're from and you can say
you're from here and granted you don't live here anymore,
but you don't they don't need to.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Know all of that. Yeah, and he's actually from and he's.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Actually from Nico, and he's like telling all these stories
about like oh okay, soyak soa, yeah me Familia tatata
because he has family in Mexico City too, and that's
who we stayed with. And so I'm over here like
with my knowledge and my viewpoint of the world and
traveling and how I travel, and he's over here just
like yes, talking in Spanish, kind of talking in English
(16:33):
to me at least. And it was just a very
interesting experience to see both of us and how we
like navigate that because we're both this is the This
was the second time that we were able to travel
to make go together and so that was really interesting.
And so I, you know, on my close friends on Instagram,
I was like asking people like if you go back
to like country of origin, like what do you do,
(16:55):
Like what were you told to say? And like ninety
percent of the dms were like, oh, we always say
we're from here, you know, and we have like exactly
like me. We have like our little facts. And then
I have other people say like yeah, but they can tell,
so like it doesn't really matter, like you can tell
they know. It's like the way we dress, the way
we talk, like the way we carry ourselves. There's just
(17:15):
like as respectful as we may try to be, like
they know, and so I don't know. It like really
got me thinking about that. So just funny, like the
three of us, ye mean, you, me and then even Fernando,
like having these very different experiences in one place and
different like viewpoints of how we show up.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yeah, I mean part of it is my family. We
did not go to Mexico when I grew up. It
was not part of my experience. I took myself to Mexico.
Like in high school, we did a week long homestay
in Mexico City. They took a group of us. So
I was in Mexico City with my Pasadena High school
and we did homestays and that was my first time
(17:56):
spending any time in Mexico. And it was through school,
and that experience was great and fabulous, and it's where
I really started to fall in love with Mexico City
when I was like a junior in high school. And
I felt at the time like, oh, I'm reconnecting, like
with my home country and like we've been in the
US for so many generations, like we have no connection
(18:16):
here anymore. I'm so excited for this homestay. I'm going
to stay with a Mexican family for a week and
we're going to go to school with their kids, and
it's going to be dope. And so I get assigned
to my homestay placement and I go to spend my
first night with them and I meet them and they're
a German family that had immigrated for this time. Back
in the day, I used to tell this story, but
(18:37):
for the new listeners, they were a German family of
architects that had moved to Mexico City and we're raising
their German children there, and so that was cool. But
also that's part of the reality of Mexico. It's an
international plays just like the United States, and people move
there from all over the world and then have kids
who are then Mexicans. Absolutely, and that's just the part
(19:01):
of the reality of the country, you know, And that
was an important lesson for me to learn as well
and to see that. Then as an adult, I had
a friend, a coworker, the homegirl Nora shout Out, and
she decided that she was going to like up and
move to Guatemala for a year. I went and stayed
with her in Antigua, me and my friend Melissa. That
was really fun. Then she decided she was going to
(19:21):
stay in Mexico City for a year. Mind you, Nora
is a white woman from South Pasadena with blonde hair
and blue eyes, who at the time didn't speak Spanish
but now she does. And she just moved to Guatemala
by herself and then just moved to Mexico City by herself.
And when I stayed with her and went out with
her in these countries, you know, my family was very like,
what where are you going?
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What are you doing?
Speaker 2 (19:41):
And I'm like, she's going by herself. And she goes
to bars and alone, right, and goes to bilez and
goes to shows and is meeting friends and learning Spanish
and it's literally fine. Yeah, but you know, as Mexican
Americans especially when we don't grow up going to our
he home country, going to Mexico, we have outdated ideas
(20:04):
based on our grandparents. So the knowledge we have of
Mexico and the language that we speak is from nineteen
forty five Mexico, Jalisco, Okay, from the Campo, Like we're
not updated. So I've taken myself as an adult and
every time I've gone, like you know, like I said,
I mean, there's no barrio or vesindad for me to
claim down there, you know. And what I've loved though,
(20:26):
is even Injalisco, you know, because Mexico I felt when
I go, this is not correct, this is wrong whatever.
I always feel like La is just like an unincorporated
suburb of Mexico City, you know what I mean. Like
it's really not that it's different, but it's not that
different that I can't like go and be myself and
this oh no, no then and they know who I
am and where I'm from.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know. That's definitely the point of I think why
the gentrification of Mexico City has been so rampant, because
it is very welcoming, Like there's like Mexican hospitality is
like known for a reason, right, And I think, yeah,
we showed we we as I think as mindful people, right,
we show up like respectful. Right. We can't say the
(21:08):
same for lots of other people. We don't know them obviously,
But I think that's why, like I think Mexico City has.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Felt so.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Welcoming for people to move there. Yeah, obviously there's people
that it's led to its own issue with the gentrification
across Mexico City. But I think because it's it feels
so familiar and it's a metro it's a metropolitan city.
Speaker 2 (21:34):
It's like going to New York, yes, yeah, and it's
and you know, because there is a lot of back
and forth between Mexico and LA and southern California. Like
when I was in Halley School with my mom, Like
if we're in a taxi or an uber, like if
we're just walking around and talking to people, we could
specifically say like, oh, like we my mom would say
that she lives in Bakersfield, and they know exactly what
(21:55):
Bakersfield is and they've been there, right, you know, because
there's a lot of back and forth, and so it's
also fun to compare notes because like we're not from
an exotic place. You know, everybody in Mexico knows about
La of course it's probably been, you know, and so
that's also fun to sort of exchange that absolutely with them.
And even like you know, the small agricultural towns, you
(22:16):
know they've been, They're familiar, you know, they understand, they
know what San Jose is, right well, I mean.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
The proximity to the US and California give lends itself
to that kind of exchange versus like a country in
South America.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Absolutely, it's very different. So yeah, in that way, I've
always felt very like I can let go they and
everybody speaks English, you know, so I practice my Spanish.
I do. Yeah, I don't know. I always have fun.
I have a good time down there, and I'm every
time I go, I do I do the I do
the museums, I do the TOURISKI stuff like, I'll do
(22:50):
all of it and then I'll also like we went
to the aquarium Elaquardrio, Michine, which was really really fun
because it was like Universal Studios. And what I liked
about that day was we were probably the only Americans there.
Everybody else was like a family with their tiny children,
you know, so like I also like doing stuff like that.
(23:11):
We're like, no, this is just like the local families
what they would do on a Saturday. Yeah, and I'm
going to go and just do that and just be wholesome.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
Well, the very first time I went to Mexico City,
I stayed with someone I knew from undergrad who was
born and raised in Mexico City, had lived there. She
just lived there and I met her because she was
on an exchange at UCSB. Yeah, and so I got
like that viewpoint of she took us to do, like
very touristy things, but also very local things. So when
we went in twenty twenty two, Fernando went through his
(23:43):
university through his master's program and he did advanced parole,
and so we very much went into that trip with like,
we don't know when we're going to be able to
come back together, let's do everything. So we did every
imaginable touristy thing possible and it was a lot of fun.
This time, I think because of some health stuff that
I mentioned and we were staying with his family, it
(24:06):
was a very low key, very like locals only type
of trip, which was so fun too. I think it's
really nice when you can do like that blend and
that mix of like here's where the locals go. Definitely
felt like a gentrifier when I was running through the
park because I was thinking about, like, damn, you know
when you're in LA and you're in like a non
gentrified neighborhood and you see like a white person running
(24:29):
and you're like.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Oh, this is bad.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
Well, then I had that like reverse feeling when I
was in Mexico City, when I was in the little
Colognia that hisprimas live in that's not gentrified at all,
it has not reached that point yet, And I was
like running through the park and I was like, oh
my god, I'm the gentrifier running in your neighborhood.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Literally, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
And so that was really that was like really interesting
to feel that. And then you know, I posted my
little run on social media like okay, like first run
in Mexico City, and someone DMed me and was like, girl,
there's gonna be a TikTok of you running through the
park calling a gentrification and I'm like, I know, I
already thought that, literally, but also people run in Mexico City.
(25:15):
There's also when I was when I was there, it
was also during the time of the Medio Maraton and
I was and it was sold out and I was
really trying to like find someone to sell me their bib.
But one, I don't want to get scammed first of all,
and two was like, just run it, just jump in.
(25:36):
But if they catch you, you get banned. And I'm like, well,
I want to actually run it formally, so I don't
want to get caught and get Bannedoco. So maybe next year, but.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That would be so embarrassing.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
Yeah, literally no, So anyway, I would like to run
it next year. That's and that's going to be my
goal for next year. But seeing the other communities within
Mexico City or within any place that you travel to
and you see like the running communities. Right the last
time I was there, I saw like a group like
like fifty to one hundred people like just skating literally
(26:08):
on roller skates.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Oh my god, I need to find.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
Them going down Like it was so cool, so cool,
you know, And so seeing I think all those different
communities is really fun when you're traveling and like you know,
copping in when you.
Speaker 2 (26:22):
Can absolutely, yeah, it's so fun, such a fun place.
So we talk about it all the time. Honestly. Yeah,
So shout out CDMAS. You guys are cool, dumb. I
love you guys. Oh my god, no, I opened. So
while I was down there, I did redownload my hinge
app just to see who's who, what's what. And dude,
(26:43):
the number of white men in Mexico City, the number
of white men the sheer number from all over, not
just from the US, from everywhere. And so I'm like
looking at my options and like, my I'm you know,
you know, I'm like matching with people or what I
And I'm like, DEMI like, what if I went on
like a date with this guy like while I'm down here.
(27:05):
And she's like, you're not gonna go on a date
with fucking like white boy tod in Mexico City. Like
it's true, and it's true, and I didn't. But seeing
the because you know, you're down there, you're walking around,
you don't know who's who or who's from where. No, honestly,
you definitely don't. It's definitely hard to tell. And I
don't think there really is a way you have to
just talk to someone to find out are you a
(27:27):
Mexican or are you from Sweden honestly, or are you
from wherever you're from, because anybody could be from anywhere.
So it was interesting seeing the app because then it's
telling you exactly where they're from and what their deal
is and why they're there, and so even just like sociologically,
it was really interesting to see. And there were like
a number of people that had been there for years,
(27:49):
you know, and they were working most mostly a lot
of like tech, a lot of like sales. So yeah,
I don't know, it was fascinating. But I didn't see
a lot of like Mexican men on the app, which
was also fascinating.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I don't I'm trying to remember this detail. But there's
this influencer that I follow. We follow each other, but
we don't.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
We're not friends.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
I don't think we've ever met in real life. And
during the pandemic, she was one of those Mexican Americans
that went to Mexico City, yeah and started living there. Okay,
now she's a whole mother. She met a Mexican man
right in Mexico.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Nice.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
He's beautiful. They look like the leno Vela stars together,
both of them. Honestly, they're both very beautiful people. And
I'm trying to remember if she met him on a
dating apps or like just you know, through people in
community in real life. But that's also a thing too,
you know, like you go and you meet someone and well,
I guess I'm staying.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Right, I guess I live in Mexico City now with
a husband and a family. Yeah. There's a woman that
I went to undergrad with. She moved to Mexico City.
She found her husband on a app in Mexico City
and married him, which is why he's her husband. And
it was because of that story that I was like, well,
let me download him, might find my husband while I'm
down here. Let me check it out. But it was
(29:11):
a lot of white men. It was really interesting to see.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
That is interesting.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
Yeah, but I can find those here. Yeah, they're not
that hard to find. This place is crawling with white men,
absolutely crawling. So if I'm going to Mexico, I need
something other than Todd from But it's also.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Not like you're dating Todd from Bourbank out here. Either.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
I'm not.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
No, I'm definitely not.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
No, I'm not. I tried.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
You go in the world, You're not going to date
the Todd for Burbank.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
I did once. I tried once. It wasn't for me.
It wasn't for me. Yeah, it's okay, it's okay, it's fine,
it's fine, it's fine. How are we on time?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I think that we have time to wrap up and
that's like, yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
We literally just filled this episode.
Speaker 1 (29:56):
With our Mexico City trips, respective trips.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I love it. Yeah, cute.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Well, thank you for listening to another capitulo of radio.
We hope this wasn't insufferable for you to listen to.
Speaker 2 (30:13):
Oh my God, don't hate me. I'm just a girl.
I'm just a girl in the world. Thanks for listening.
Once again, We love you guys. Until next time, besitos.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Loka To Radio is executive produced by Viosa Fem and
Mala Munios. Stephanie Franco is our producer, Story editing by
Me viosa.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
Creative direction by me Mala.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
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Speaker 2 (30:40):
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