June 28, 2022 • 35 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to Morenita, a deep dive into the Latin X experience.
With more Anita, we want to create a community and
a shared space with you while sharing knowledge and inspiration.
This show is about celebrating our culture with guests who
exemplify the best of us. I'm Darrylene Gastillo Vito. You
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guys get ready for this one. I am still stand
girling from this episode because we have the dynamic, beautiful, hilarious,
and the dopest friends you'll ever meet. Curly Laswez and
Maya Morillo. Okay, these two have been people that I
have admired from AFAR for years now and you might
recognize their names from numerous places. They have a hilarious
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big guest podcast called The Super Secret Best Club. They
have graced us with their hilarious adventures on buzz feeds,
fitter Like, and are offering a hilarious content on their Instagram.
I could not contain my smile and my laughter throughout
this entire chat. Something that is definitely shining bright in
this convo is their beautiful friendship. I've always wondered if
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their friendship was as close as it fell on social
media and I followed them during their time on Buzzfeeding
very closely. Sure, you see things online and you just wonder, like,
is this for real? Are they really friends? I can
totally attest that Maya and Curly are for real. They
are the real deal. I wanted to know what it
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was like to work closely with your bff. Like, yeah,
it's fun and games, but tell me the juicy stuff,
the behind the scenes moments and moments of honesty that
we don't see on social media platforms. Curly and Maya
fully deliver. They open up to us about their time
with BuzzFeed and how they were grateful to meet there,
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but also how they have moved on together to other,
bigger and better things. Their moved from BuzzFeed has definitely
been a part of their growth and their friendship, but
also individually and honestly, we love that. We love seeing
friendships grow together and we also love seeing how they
shape you as individuals. I mean, if you're not here
for the growth of your friends, are you guys really
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friends at all? And if your friends ain't helping you grow,
are they really your friends? Something that I really loved
and admired hearing was Maya explaining how Curly became her
protector during her time in BuzzFeed and how he always
had her back from difficult moments on the jobs. And
I have to say that's something very important to me
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when I look at my friendships that I have, whereas
I like to call them my chosen family. Especially in
this industry, it's really difficult to meet true and genuine people.
So I believe what Curly and Maya have here is
something really really special. And I'm so excited that they
came to Monanita to share some of this beautiful friendship
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with same veetle Maya and Curly. So happy to have
you guys here. On what ineat that welcome? Welcome, Welcome you.
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I'm like a huge fan. Oh my god, huge fans
of you. You guys. How did this friendship start? Tell
me about your beautiful, beautiful, flourishing friendship. Well, we just
established yesterday that I was that we're in love with
each other, true us. I mean, I'm just speaking Curly,
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but I said the other day that I would never
tell him that I'm in love with him. I may
that I had a crush on her. So I have
this thing where I fall in love with my best
friends like we were talking about earlier how we fall
in love with people, and I'm the opposite, Like I
don't look at people necessarily seck truly, I started falling
up with their spirits and then I'm like, oh my god.
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So I told my at once and I had a
qrusher for like three days. I don't think it was
three days, you're now it's three days. I think it
was right. I think it's still happening. We met, I
was a resident at UM BuzzFeed for Better Like for
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their channel UM, and I was waiting for my team
to come get me from orientation, and everyone forgot about
me except for Curly. And I always tell people that
I was really excited because we were going through like
a tough time on the team. Like we we had.
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We were kind of started in a really rocky way.
Better like had a really and better like was it
was is and sorry it was and is. Buzzfeedes Latino Vertical,
so they produced content for the la in latin X community,
for and by Latinos Latina latin X people UM and
when they started, when we started, things were really rocky
and we were in a weird place in our in
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our journey and we were getting this new resident and
residencies were just for talent who had already established their
own kind of following and they were kind of trying
to dip in and collaborate with us. So Maya came
in as a resident. Um. She had a huge following
on Vine and you know, um, And I was excited
because I almost felt like, oh, a new sister. Like
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you know when you're like Christmas Day, you're running down
to the Christmas tree and you're excited, and I love, like,
I get it really excited when I when I someone's
coming to the team or joining the family or anything,
I'm like the one that's like, come in, come sit
next to me, Like are you okay? Like I'll sit
with you. And so I ran down and we just
kind of were like insufferable. Since then, like we had
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the same we had very similar sense of humor. UM.
I think early on my you started to do videos
and I would, you know, suggest certain things. For example,
there's your video where uh, what was it signs you
suck at being Latina? Yeah, that was like my first
video out of the gate was like uh, And at
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the time I only understood Spanish and I could speak
it a little bit um, but I could, like, you know,
my first video that I pitched was like when you
suck up being a Latina And that's just like all
of the things I mean, you know, fill in the blanks.
And there was some pushback from it that like, oh,
people only want to talk about the pride share, which
is like I'm proud to be Latino or Latino, I'm
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proud to do this, and that no one wants to
talk about the insecurities or what they I'm like, no,
So I did it, and um, I think throughout my
career at BuzzFeed, Curly was like really like I almost
got fired one time. That's the story for another day,
but he really was in there like protecting me and
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like there's a lot of people on our team and
just within who we've worked with that Curly has been
that protector, that savior, like very much like a rock
within everyone like that community. Thanks Babes. Yeah, I think
it was like we kind of that's something that's really
important to me and to us is like how do
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we come up? How do we come up together? Right?
Like there's no I'm always like why would I want
to be on Mount Olympus by myself, like why would
I want to do all those things like and not
be with my best friends and enjoying it and going
up and then they're best friends and they're best friends
and we're all in it together. Um. So you know,
we started to collab and make these these videos together
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and our jokes, like our humor has never been I
feel like Maya and I had a very interesting like
experience with our identities because yes we were I was
Salvadoran and very much in the culture, and as very
much Mexican, and like, we also come from rich Latino
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Latine um cultural heritage within the United States, like my
grandma came over undocumented, moved to Hollywood. My dad was
a cholo break dancer, um, and my mom was like
a cashier at a bagel shop, but like all of
the women in my family cleaned the local hotels in Hollywood, um.
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And then the generations after my sisters were also cholos
like we have you know, and Maya comes from this
rich heritage as well. Um. And so but we still
had to get like a little creative with how we
did our content because we were like, well, damn, we
don't know everything about being solid and we don't know
everything about being Mexicans. We were like, how can we
make what we do know silly and funny? And how
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can we also make content that is not just about
what people expect us to be, like ten things only
a Mexican girl understands. We were like, why don't we
make a skin about a period and I'll play your
period maya like, or why don't we make a skin
about out like um, just being best friends at the office.
And that's kind of what has set us apart from
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the beginning really well. I think as like BFFs. I
think working together and going through so many things that
we did in the industry really made us closer. But
then also the fact that we can hang out just
the same without doing any content and be great. So
that's that's our love story. It's evident in your work too.
I think that's why so many people connect with you,
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even people who are not Latino, Like, have so many
people that like people of my friends who are like black,
who are white, who are like from everywhere, and they
like love you guys, and they connect with you guys
as well. And I think that's what makes your content
so special because your relationship is super genuine, you know, absolutely,
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and it also took a lot of growth to like mynor,
we're very lucky and we say this all the time
that we're en route to being greater communicators, but we're
great communicators now, and we're very big on accountability, not
just for each other but for ourselves, right, So, like
you know, we have always had like come to Jesus
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conversations of hey, can we talk about this, like this
really hurt my feelings or this really affected me? Or
when you said this, this is how I took it,
like the whole Like the story I'm telling myself when
you ignore me is that you don't care about the
story that I'm telling you. You know. So at bus feed,
what was that experience for you guys working on fiddle?
Like was it was it? Like? Was it? It sounded
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like you guys had each other's back, So like what
were there some difficult times where like you guys maybe
really had to step up for each other? And like
what were some of that? Is it because you guys
were like the Latino Latino people? Like, was what was that?
Did you guys find some pushback? Was so not authenticity?
Was it an authenticity thing? Was it a was it
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like Latinos becoming a tokening tokening thing, Like what was
that for you while being at BuzzFeed? And if you
guys can't expand on that, just so we get a
little insight on what it's like, what would that mean?
Where do where do we start? I'm sorry, but I
don't know. That's exactly what you said. Is exactly how
it went, is exactly how it went. Yeah, I mean
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I think from my experience, um, there was a lot
of like, uh, we were I constantly describe it as
like I feel like we're on an island and on
this island, like you know, I see the main land
and everybody is like, you know, getting all these like
help with their channel or help with whatever. And it
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took us a while to get even a manager who
was Latina like, it took us while to do that.
So we were honestly having a lot of like non Latino,
non people of color, non people like telling us what
to do. And it was a lot of the times
course correcting because like a lot of the things they
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were suggesting were problematic because they just didn't know what
to say. And so a lot of every single person
who have I've ever worked with on that team has
had to carve their own way into like there as
far as their their content, because we didn't get a
lot of help. Honestly, we were. We were in in
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the thick of it doing a lot of stuff that
I think was unfair for us to do, not to
be problematic or whatever. It's not problematic, it's and it happens,
you know, and everything. Yeah, and it it also from
the audience perspective, Like my narrative on the channel was
to represent those who didn't feel enough within the language,
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within whatever it is, because I had documented my Spanish
journey of learning it of not enough um even like
within my own body image issues. And at the time
back in the day, people were not receptive to that
at all, Like people were like, you should be ashamed,
shame on your parents, like you name it, like all
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the things. Now they're more receptive and I see a
lot of these kids doing I'm like, hey, I did
that back in the day, except for I got grilled
for it for doing it. So I feel like a
lot of the stuff we did was very important and
necessary and needed, but I wish it wasn't as like
I don't know as like hard to do. That makes sense,
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Like it was just very difficult to like get to
go through to get through. Yeah, it was like super
frustrating in the beginning. And then there was a time,
you know, we were tokenized for a long time. We
were there was a lot of different things that people
just didn't understand about us and the culture and people
pitching ideas meaning well a lot of the time, but
just also being wildly offensive while doing it right. Um.
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There was just also like the whole um the thing
of like internet culture and creating on the internet, Like
it's just not the same as a regular entertainment. There's
a lot of like loopholes that like entertainers kind of
have to deal with in that way. Um. And then
there was a time where we were really kind of
like the team, Like we were kind of like we
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were doing and everybody kind of thought that we had
it super easy, and everybody suddenly it wanted to be
a part of what we were doing, and suddenly we
were the cool table that everybody wanted to sit on.
Like there was a time when we would ask other
Latino people at work at BuzzFeed to join our team,
like can you be with us? Like, can you do videos?
And they didn't want to be quote pigeonhole, they didn't
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want to be seen as like only Latino and do
only Latino content. And then cut to a few years later,
they were like, can we join the team? And we
were like, well, no, like we've been doing this for
a while, and we've been doing the thing for a while,
so not so much. Um, there are all these platforms,
all these people who were trying to create content on
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these like white platforms essentially that really were changing people's
lives and ideas of themselves. So like, you know, me
being queer and Central American was like not a thing.
People weren't talking about it. Like there's this like whole
hegemony of like Mexican culture where all you see is
Mexican culture everywhere, and you don't really understand that black
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Latinos exist. You don't understand that Latinos who don't speak
Spanish exists until you see it, right. And I think
that that for me was what I what I hold
on to the most is that not only were these
other platforms existing and coming out, but we were in
competition with one another as to who could make the
best content, who could make the most change who could
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keep upping their their bussy game. Um, and I feel like, yeah,
I feel like none of it was like between all
those other channels, none of us were like I don't know,
like bitchy towards one another. Like we were all it
was so much fun. I was gonna say it wasn't jealousy.
Was there any of that. Like it was like we
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were we were all like, oh my god, me Through
posted this, Okay, we're gonna do this. I love that.
I would hear the same thing from them where they're like, oh,
we were going to do that idea. We just saw
you guys post it. Like I would have to hide
like certain status updates because I would ask questions Like
anyone who's associated with me through or Flama or whatever,
I would like hide it because I'm like, I don't
want them to see what we're working. But the friendly competitions.
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Friendly competition about like you want to be the best
in the game, like yeah, cool, you got a new
single out, but our dish track is going to be better,
Like we're gonna do this. We're the best MCY in
the game. We're funnier. I mean it was fun. Yeah,
and you know what, I will like say plus one
to Curly on far as far as the romanticizing, because
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there was a time, a specific time when we were
all good, like everything was good. We were like making
all of this stuff, like all these videos that were
just funny as shit, um, and we felt like it
felt like a band. Like I feel like we were
a band, you know. So it was a lot of fun.
I grew a lot, I learned so much. Um. Yeah,
I'm very grateful for the experience. So now you guys
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are like doing your own thing with your own podcasts,
and I'm sure you're doing like your own things separately.
Can you kind of like give us an insight on
what that what? What that is? Talk about the podcast?
Talk about the Yeah, I do want to I did
want to say to you that I think that because
of the way that we started, by the way that
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we really came up like being a part of the community,
like we really built a strong base of people who
know what we're about. They understand that like, yes we're Latino,
Yes we're Latino Latino Latino X, but like that we're
also like weirdos, were also like quirky, Like, um, the
way that we say things this, Uh, this girl came
up to me and she was like, I like how
you say the word because I never say dick. I
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was right, and so like, people know, what do you
expect from us? And I think that like it has
opened the doors for a lot of other areas for
us to like whether we're appearing on shows like Viva
or you know, we're doing UM nationwide commercials like Maya
is doing and things like our podcast like you get
all all like parts of who we are in one
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UM And yeah, it's just been great to kind of
dive in even more. And for me personally, it's been
great to grow up online. Oh yeah, so Maya, and
for you, what has been like, like now you're building
this new what is that like for you? Like, what
has that been on your end? Yeah? I left in
July or something of last year UM, and it has
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been a lot of self discovery and a lot of growth.
And I just like, I feel like I'm never because
I was at like a full time job where like
a lot of my job dictated my schedule and the
people who I saw every day, the things, you know,
And now that I have I can choose all of
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that myself and create my own schedule. I'm realizing that
there's just a lot of things that I need to
work work through in myself. I just had like a
whole therapy session before this, and that was connected to
my career and like it was I talked to like
one of my brujas, like my intuitive people, and a
lot of it was about ego and so, you know,
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coming out of BuzzFeed, I was a little bit jaded because,
like I feel, I felt so burned out. I was like,
what am I doing here? What am I creating for
my half of my team is gone? It's not the same, Like,
let me come back to myself. So it's been a
lot of like coming back to myself, who is Maya
with without social media things and all that stuff. But
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I'm still like I feel like as I'm starting to
discover all that stuff, it infiltrates into my like creative side,
like into the videos that I'm making and into like
my acting. So it's all kind of crazy how it's
like it. You know, the more you just learn about yourself,
the more the better you get as a creative because
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you're just a little bit more opening open to like
learning and stuff. So but other than that, I've been
doing like commercials. I shot another one in New York
this past week, which is like fun and try. I'm
like yes, thank you, um and yeah, I'm working on
some music and just just trying to have fun, Just
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trying to have fun, not for anything, just for myself
and when we need a feature on there. I drove
my Spanish single last year. Girl, my Spanish song is
out you know for it? I was trying to find it.
Is it on Spotify? Yeah, it's on Spotify. It's called Yeah,
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I got it. I'll send it to you over Instagram. Um,
let's do that drop Maya. I'm ready for it. I
always got to record, so yeah, saying like every and
you know this to Darren, like everything that you do
as a creative and an artist, like will always inform
the next step of what it is that you're going
to do, and it just always adds to who you
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are as an artist. Like you think that you know
worked for me. You know when I started at BuzzFeed,
I started in their canty and I used to serve
their lunches and stock their stock their kitchen, right like
you know that, Yeah, and it's informed how I move
in the world as an artist now, So like I
don't go into spaces not acknowledging the person who's doing
the catering or doing the sweeping, because I used to
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do that, like early BuzzFeed days, all the try guys
like Quinta, all the people like I used to feed them.
I used to clean up and set up for them
and um, you know, be the one in the background
during their shoots and cleaning. And so I think that
whether you're learning music or singing or learning how to
play an instrument, it will inform how you move in
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the world later. So I think that getting our practice
of being in front of the camera as Latina people
has gotten us to where we're at right now, which
has been like really great. And I think that it
goes back to like trusting the journey and the river
of your life if you will that it will always
lead you to where you know you're meant to, where
you're meant to go, where you're meant to that the
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river of your life, the river of your life. Should
I choose the smoothest course study as cocoa cocoa is
okay to finish it dreaming. Ay. I love that we
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brought the musical vibe that was so necessary. Curly does
this part of the song is so funny. Okay, Butcher
parts of this song says, I can't but it's like, oh,
I do you still wait for me? Dream giver? I
love this. I love this. I feel like we're like
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we're like singing. We're singing off in the distance to
our listeners were like dreamers, dream on, go for it.
Something I want to just conclude on Maya with you,
and something that I think is really important is that
your decision to leave and to um. And we've been
talking about this, it's been a topic here on What
I Eat that with other guests. But it's that decision
of like, I'm going to invest in myself. I'm going
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to start creating something for myself because bust feed is
going to be fine, They're gonna be all right. And
now you took what you got, what you got from
all of that, and now you're able to create your
own and start building your own ship and that is
so important in your self growth. And also like, and
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I think it's healthy for your friendship that you guys
both have as well, Like it seems like you guys
are flourishing. You guys are building this kind of like
this like thing together and I love that you guys
started from the fucking bottom. Now you're here like it's
fucking epic. It's so dope, and it's just so inspiring.
And I love that about you guys, and it's it's
evident in your work. It's evident in your work, and
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that's why so many people love you guys. Thank you
so y'all, we're reaching my favorite portion of the show. Okay,
we got your favorite question my god, yes, currently anytime.
I just wanted to point out that that me singing
that part, that's on my real voice. I don't want
to think that's me. No, that's no, that's purpose. Just
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so everyone's like, wow, I hope you didn't really think
that that was cREL Curly. I know what you have
inside of you. I know what you have inside curing. Guys,
we're going to have a triple feature, a thruple being
like not for the dam Like she's like, oh, yes,
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that was my god, give me a break, any of
you guys do? Okay, Freddy for my favorite segment, favorite portions. Okay,
now I'm going to ask you questions, the real questions.
The ones that matter. Okay, wonderful. Okay, first question, how
do you guys think your life would be if you've
never met, if you both never met? Oh, my god,
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mine would be so boring. I literally just get emotional,
like thinking about like what my life would be that
my like I would cry, Like my as the first
person that I call in the morning when I'm like
freaking out. She's like, yes, Like she's like the person
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who will kind of keep me young, Like, oh, we
don't say that anymore, the person who, like, we can
have really deep conversations and hold space for each other
and we argue, we give each other like the best
advice that we can in the best way that we
know how, and then apologize for it because we were
like that was not the best advice. But uh but yeah,
I mean thinking about that, Like I'm already getting emotional. Clearly,
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my scorpion Moon is always like I feel things very deeply.
I feel the same way I think, Like it's crazy
because I think I was telling my mom this the
other day that like I really feel like I have
grown a lot in this friendship, Like I think we've
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both grown, like our souls have grown a lot because
we're able to communicate when we're being a little bit
mean or when we're being a little bit but and
and we're able to be very tender and human with
like we're comfortable to be human with ourselves and to
have human moment monts and still love each other either way.
You know, even though we were like we said that
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thing the other day that we're like, oh sorry, you know,
which just happened. That often either we're not really like
we don't call each other out of our names. We
don't really argue that much. We get annoyed more. Yeah,
we get annoyed, but I think it's yeah, it's natural.
But honest, honest friendship. Honest friendship is what I'm hearing.
Honesty and communication and putting make sure, keeping out both
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in check, keeping each other in check. I love that. Okay,
second question, which is the one celebrity that you would
love to have dinner with? You can only choose one.
I really mine, Selena, me too, Selena Mine for sure?
For sure, for sure, it is not Selena because Selena
is not your best friend, like she's my friend. She
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doesn't even like you. She said that you don't like
like you? Then why are we having dinner tonight. Maya
thinks that just because she's friends with Netflix Selena, that
she's actually friends. I'm not. I'm not. You're friends with
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Selena Netflix Lena, and I'm friends with the real Selina.
I hope someone, I hope someone takes that clip out
of context. All right, well, guys, I think I triggered something.
Mine is We're all mad when when we were crying,
what our friends? Or the next we're like, where mine is? Oprah?
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I would love I had a dream more time. One
time I had a dream that I was sitting between
Oprah and Kelly Roland. We were just like talking about life,
and I'm like, I hope that I find myself in
a situation where I'm between Oprah and Kelly Rule. I
think it's gonna happen for you. Yeah, Curly has very
like he attracts celebrities like a lot. Like it's crazy.
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I love Curly are manifesting that for you, Kelly Roland
and Oprah Um, Quinta Brunton and I who Quentin I
has her show AB Elementary and ABC. She used to
come into my kitchen back in the day. She's amazing
and Quentin I used to talk about how much Kelly
is like she needs more love. And we started the
Kelly Roland Club in the kitchen. And now Quentin knows Kelly,
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so I'm like Quentin introduced me to It's like, let
me know. When you guys are at Starbucks having coffee. Hey, Kelly,
I'm going to tell her about the club. Oh my god, absolutely.
I wrote it like when Quintin posted a photo her
and Kelly Roland, I wrote it on her thing as
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a g and we started the club like it was
just like we were just so mad and moved that
Kelly needed more like more respect on her name. I
feel like the real Destiny Child, like the real people
who love Destiny Child, like they know that. It's like,
you know, Kelly is really like the glue. He's the
one who is Yeah, she can do it all, like
she can hit those moves, hit those notes like Kelly is.
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She seems so sweet and so genuine and just so
real like down to earth. I know, I know, I
know this is do you want to join the club down?
As long as I can be Beyonce the number three
and welcome to the club. You can be the secretary
or you can God because I'm I think went to
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the president and I'll be vice president. We can be
vice president's tachoty do whatever you want me to do,
whatever you want me to do. Okay. Our third and final,
what is the one thing that makes you feel like
home or it makes you think of home? M karaoke?
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Come on? Maya is Korean dad. My dad's a musician.
He plays um, he sings in Spanish and like he
uh is just a wonderful like human being. And he
has taught me without exactly teaching me, because when I
was little, I was like I want in there and
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I just want to do it by myself. But he
like would teach me kind of how to sing. And
so every time I come back home, me, my mom
and my dad always do we always sing karaoke because
my dad has the a legit sound system to do
it all. And then yeah, we would just like sing.
It just feels good, you know, to be at home.
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My dad can sing. And then like when I'll show
off a little bit, he'll be like that was good,
or sometimes he'll give me notes and be like try
it more like this, and I'm like, I'm just having fun.
But okay, I love that mine would be my mom
makes My favorite food in the wide world is this.
My mom makes like a or like we call it's
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like it's just like meat soup, but they put like
uma or like like the ox tail in the soup.
It is my favorite thing. I can eat it almost
every day. My mouth is salivating thinking about it. And
my dad and my mom has been in sells the
culture since we were kids. So like my dad collects,
uh if you go on his Instagram, called collects vinyls
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from all over the world that are outside of Fannia
All Stars because he's like there's more to like Motown.
There's more music that existed other than Motown in that time,
so he's like there's like finding has like the Motown
of that era, So he collects like, um uh exactly that.
So like it would be his vinyls playing Sista in
the background, And my Mom's like, uh sure that to me,
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if I could want to change, if I could live
in a slice of heaven, it would be that with
like my family and my dogs. Maybe I'm just really
emotional today because I'm just like that's such a it's
such a nice thing where I'm just really thankful for
those those moments and moments of culture in love, you know. Yeah,
I want to thank you guys so much for coming
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on here and sharing your positivity, your energy, your sunshine
and the real real like thanks for giving us the
real scoop and like the real vibes, because that's what
we want to hear. And it's just it's so inspiring
to see you both doing your own thing, repping our
community and like just like walking the talk, you know
what I mean. Yeah, and same to you, like thank
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you for having us. And you're such an incredible energy
as well, Like the minute you popped up in our
little zoom thing, like you could tell it right away,
like you were like all giggles and laughing with us. Yeah,
and you're doing the thing too, and I hope that
you hold onto that truth that you would like absolutely
like trailblazing as well in your own way. And like
I said on our podcast, you're getting the bag and
the man. So here we are doing well here. If
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we want to follow you on Instagram or on social
media where or tickety talk or Twitter, water whatever, let
us know where how can we follow you? What? Where
can we see your journey? You can find me at
my moment m A y eight in the moment on
pretty much everything I make TikTok's Instagram reels uh, and
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I'll tweet sometimes, but Twitter's scary. It's weird on there,
it's so weird. And you can find me at the
Curly v Show on Instagram and TikTok. I'm literally only
post their shrafts and videos of or about my grandmother's
So if you like old lady content and nipples, you'll
love my Instagram and guys, guy, yes, thank you guys
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so much more. And it's been such a pleasure having
you on what I need them. Thank you for having us.
Thank you. Mona Nita is a production of Sonato in
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favorite shows. We'll then tend to be fas
Welcome to Morenita, a deep dive into the Latin X experience.
With more Anita, we want to create a community and
a shared space with you while sharing knowledge and inspiration.
This show is about celebrating our culture with guests who
exemplify the best of us. I'm Darrylene Gastillo Vito. You
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guys get ready for this one. I am still stand
girling from this episode because we have the dynamic, beautiful, hilarious,
and the dopest friends you'll ever meet. Curly Laswez and
Maya Morillo. Okay, these two have been people that I
have admired from AFAR for years now and you might
recognize their names from numerous places. They have a hilarious
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big guest podcast called The Super Secret Best Club. They
have graced us with their hilarious adventures on buzz feeds,
fitter Like, and are offering a hilarious content on their Instagram.
I could not contain my smile and my laughter throughout
this entire chat. Something that is definitely shining bright in
this convo is their beautiful friendship. I've always wondered if
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their friendship was as close as it fell on social
media and I followed them during their time on Buzzfeeding
very closely. Sure, you see things online and you just wonder, like,
is this for real? Are they really friends? I can
totally attest that Maya and Curly are for real. They
are the real deal. I wanted to know what it
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was like to work closely with your bff. Like, yeah,
it's fun and games, but tell me the juicy stuff,
the behind the scenes moments and moments of honesty that
we don't see on social media platforms. Curly and Maya
fully deliver. They open up to us about their time
with BuzzFeed and how they were grateful to meet there,
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but also how they have moved on together to other,
bigger and better things. Their moved from BuzzFeed has definitely
been a part of their growth and their friendship, but
also individually and honestly, we love that. We love seeing
friendships grow together and we also love seeing how they
shape you as individuals. I mean, if you're not here
for the growth of your friends, are you guys really
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friends at all? And if your friends ain't helping you grow,
are they really your friends? Something that I really loved
and admired hearing was Maya explaining how Curly became her
protector during her time in BuzzFeed and how he always
had her back from difficult moments on the jobs. And
I have to say that's something very important to me
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when I look at my friendships that I have, whereas
I like to call them my chosen family. Especially in
this industry, it's really difficult to meet true and genuine people.
So I believe what Curly and Maya have here is
something really really special. And I'm so excited that they
came to Monanita to share some of this beautiful friendship
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with same veetle Maya and Curly. So happy to have
you guys here. On what ineat that welcome? Welcome, Welcome you.
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I'm like a huge fan. Oh my god, huge fans
of you. You guys. How did this friendship start? Tell
me about your beautiful, beautiful, flourishing friendship. Well, we just
established yesterday that I was that we're in love with
each other, true us. I mean, I'm just speaking Curly,
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but I said the other day that I would never
tell him that I'm in love with him. I may
that I had a crush on her. So I have
this thing where I fall in love with my best
friends like we were talking about earlier how we fall
in love with people, and I'm the opposite, Like I
don't look at people necessarily seck truly, I started falling
up with their spirits and then I'm like, oh my god.
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So I told my at once and I had a
qrusher for like three days. I don't think it was
three days, you're now it's three days. I think it
was right. I think it's still happening. We met, I
was a resident at UM BuzzFeed for Better Like for
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their channel UM, and I was waiting for my team
to come get me from orientation, and everyone forgot about
me except for Curly. And I always tell people that
I was really excited because we were going through like
a tough time on the team. Like we we had.
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We were kind of started in a really rocky way.
Better like had a really and better like was it
was is and sorry it was and is. Buzzfeedes Latino Vertical,
so they produced content for the la in latin X community,
for and by Latinos Latina latin X people UM and
when they started, when we started, things were really rocky
and we were in a weird place in our in
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our journey and we were getting this new resident and
residencies were just for talent who had already established their
own kind of following and they were kind of trying
to dip in and collaborate with us. So Maya came
in as a resident. Um. She had a huge following
on Vine and you know, um, And I was excited
because I almost felt like, oh, a new sister. Like
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you know when you're like Christmas Day, you're running down
to the Christmas tree and you're excited, and I love, like,
I get it really excited when I when I someone's
coming to the team or joining the family or anything,
I'm like the one that's like, come in, come sit
next to me, Like are you okay? Like I'll sit
with you. And so I ran down and we just
kind of were like insufferable. Since then, like we had
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the same we had very similar sense of humor. UM.
I think early on my you started to do videos
and I would, you know, suggest certain things. For example,
there's your video where uh, what was it signs you
suck at being Latina? Yeah, that was like my first
video out of the gate was like uh, And at
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the time I only understood Spanish and I could speak
it a little bit um, but I could, like, you know,
my first video that I pitched was like when you
suck up being a Latina And that's just like all
of the things I mean, you know, fill in the blanks.
And there was some pushback from it that like, oh,
people only want to talk about the pride share, which
is like I'm proud to be Latino or Latino, I'm
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proud to do this, and that no one wants to
talk about the insecurities or what they I'm like, no,
So I did it, and um, I think throughout my
career at BuzzFeed, Curly was like really like I almost
got fired one time. That's the story for another day,
but he really was in there like protecting me and
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like there's a lot of people on our team and
just within who we've worked with that Curly has been
that protector, that savior, like very much like a rock
within everyone like that community. Thanks Babes. Yeah, I think
it was like we kind of that's something that's really
important to me and to us is like how do
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we come up? How do we come up together? Right?
Like there's no I'm always like why would I want
to be on Mount Olympus by myself, like why would
I want to do all those things like and not
be with my best friends and enjoying it and going
up and then they're best friends and they're best friends
and we're all in it together. Um. So you know,
we started to collab and make these these videos together
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and our jokes, like our humor has never been I
feel like Maya and I had a very interesting like
experience with our identities because yes we were I was
Salvadoran and very much in the culture, and as very
much Mexican, and like, we also come from rich Latino
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Latine um cultural heritage within the United States, like my
grandma came over undocumented, moved to Hollywood. My dad was
a cholo break dancer, um, and my mom was like
a cashier at a bagel shop, but like all of
the women in my family cleaned the local hotels in Hollywood, um.
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And then the generations after my sisters were also cholos
like we have you know, and Maya comes from this
rich heritage as well. Um. And so but we still
had to get like a little creative with how we
did our content because we were like, well, damn, we
don't know everything about being solid and we don't know
everything about being Mexicans. We were like, how can we
make what we do know silly and funny? And how
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can we also make content that is not just about
what people expect us to be, like ten things only
a Mexican girl understands. We were like, why don't we
make a skin about a period and I'll play your
period maya like, or why don't we make a skin
about out like um, just being best friends at the office.
And that's kind of what has set us apart from
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the beginning really well. I think as like BFFs. I
think working together and going through so many things that
we did in the industry really made us closer. But
then also the fact that we can hang out just
the same without doing any content and be great. So
that's that's our love story. It's evident in your work too.
I think that's why so many people connect with you,
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even people who are not Latino, Like, have so many
people that like people of my friends who are like black,
who are white, who are like from everywhere, and they
like love you guys, and they connect with you guys
as well. And I think that's what makes your content
so special because your relationship is super genuine, you know, absolutely,
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and it also took a lot of growth to like mynor,
we're very lucky and we say this all the time
that we're en route to being greater communicators, but we're
great communicators now, and we're very big on accountability, not
just for each other but for ourselves, right, So, like
you know, we have always had like come to Jesus
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conversations of hey, can we talk about this, like this
really hurt my feelings or this really affected me? Or
when you said this, this is how I took it,
like the whole Like the story I'm telling myself when
you ignore me is that you don't care about the
story that I'm telling you. You know. So at bus feed,
what was that experience for you guys working on fiddle?
Like was it was it? Like? Was it? It sounded
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like you guys had each other's back, So like what
were there some difficult times where like you guys maybe
really had to step up for each other? And like
what were some of that? Is it because you guys
were like the Latino Latino people? Like, was what was that?
Did you guys find some pushback? Was so not authenticity?
Was it an authenticity thing? Was it a was it
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like Latinos becoming a tokening tokening thing, Like what was
that for you while being at BuzzFeed? And if you
guys can't expand on that, just so we get a
little insight on what it's like, what would that mean?
Where do where do we start? I'm sorry, but I
don't know. That's exactly what you said. Is exactly how
it went, is exactly how it went. Yeah, I mean
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I think from my experience, um, there was a lot
of like, uh, we were I constantly describe it as
like I feel like we're on an island and on
this island, like you know, I see the main land
and everybody is like, you know, getting all these like
help with their channel or help with whatever. And it
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took us a while to get even a manager who
was Latina like, it took us while to do that.
So we were honestly having a lot of like non Latino,
non people of color, non people like telling us what
to do. And it was a lot of the times
course correcting because like a lot of the things they
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were suggesting were problematic because they just didn't know what
to say. And so a lot of every single person
who have I've ever worked with on that team has
had to carve their own way into like there as
far as their their content, because we didn't get a
lot of help. Honestly, we were. We were in in
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the thick of it doing a lot of stuff that
I think was unfair for us to do, not to
be problematic or whatever. It's not problematic, it's and it happens,
you know, and everything. Yeah, and it it also from
the audience perspective, Like my narrative on the channel was
to represent those who didn't feel enough within the language,
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within whatever it is, because I had documented my Spanish
journey of learning it of not enough um even like
within my own body image issues. And at the time
back in the day, people were not receptive to that
at all, Like people were like, you should be ashamed,
shame on your parents, like you name it, like all
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the things. Now they're more receptive and I see a
lot of these kids doing I'm like, hey, I did
that back in the day, except for I got grilled
for it for doing it. So I feel like a
lot of the stuff we did was very important and
necessary and needed, but I wish it wasn't as like
I don't know as like hard to do. That makes sense,
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Like it was just very difficult to like get to
go through to get through. Yeah, it was like super
frustrating in the beginning. And then there was a time,
you know, we were tokenized for a long time. We
were there was a lot of different things that people
just didn't understand about us and the culture and people
pitching ideas meaning well a lot of the time, but
just also being wildly offensive while doing it right. Um.
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There was just also like the whole um the thing
of like internet culture and creating on the internet, Like
it's just not the same as a regular entertainment. There's
a lot of like loopholes that like entertainers kind of
have to deal with in that way. Um. And then
there was a time where we were really kind of
like the team, Like we were kind of like we
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were doing and everybody kind of thought that we had
it super easy, and everybody suddenly it wanted to be
a part of what we were doing, and suddenly we
were the cool table that everybody wanted to sit on.
Like there was a time when we would ask other
Latino people at work at BuzzFeed to join our team,
like can you be with us? Like, can you do videos?
And they didn't want to be quote pigeonhole, they didn't
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want to be seen as like only Latino and do
only Latino content. And then cut to a few years later,
they were like, can we join the team? And we
were like, well, no, like we've been doing this for
a while, and we've been doing the thing for a while,
so not so much. Um, there are all these platforms,
all these people who were trying to create content on
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these like white platforms essentially that really were changing people's
lives and ideas of themselves. So like, you know, me
being queer and Central American was like not a thing.
People weren't talking about it. Like there's this like whole
hegemony of like Mexican culture where all you see is
Mexican culture everywhere, and you don't really understand that black
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Latinos exist. You don't understand that Latinos who don't speak
Spanish exists until you see it, right. And I think
that that for me was what I what I hold
on to the most is that not only were these
other platforms existing and coming out, but we were in
competition with one another as to who could make the
best content, who could make the most change who could
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keep upping their their bussy game. Um, and I feel like, yeah,
I feel like none of it was like between all
those other channels, none of us were like I don't know,
like bitchy towards one another. Like we were all it
was so much fun. I was gonna say it wasn't jealousy.
Was there any of that. Like it was like we
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were we were all like, oh my god, me Through
posted this, Okay, we're gonna do this. I love that.
I would hear the same thing from them where they're like, oh,
we were going to do that idea. We just saw
you guys post it. Like I would have to hide
like certain status updates because I would ask questions Like
anyone who's associated with me through or Flama or whatever,
I would like hide it because I'm like, I don't
want them to see what we're working. But the friendly competitions.
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Friendly competition about like you want to be the best
in the game, like yeah, cool, you got a new
single out, but our dish track is going to be better,
Like we're gonna do this. We're the best MCY in
the game. We're funnier. I mean it was fun. Yeah,
and you know what, I will like say plus one
to Curly on far as far as the romanticizing, because
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there was a time, a specific time when we were
all good, like everything was good. We were like making
all of this stuff, like all these videos that were
just funny as shit, um, and we felt like it
felt like a band. Like I feel like we were
a band, you know. So it was a lot of fun.
I grew a lot, I learned so much. Um. Yeah,
I'm very grateful for the experience. So now you guys
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are like doing your own thing with your own podcasts,
and I'm sure you're doing like your own things separately.
Can you kind of like give us an insight on
what that what? What that is? Talk about the podcast?
Talk about the Yeah, I do want to I did
want to say to you that I think that because
of the way that we started, by the way that
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we really came up like being a part of the community,
like we really built a strong base of people who
know what we're about. They understand that like, yes we're Latino,
Yes we're Latino Latino Latino X, but like that we're
also like weirdos, were also like quirky, Like, um, the
way that we say things this, Uh, this girl came
up to me and she was like, I like how
you say the word because I never say dick. I
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was right, and so like, people know, what do you
expect from us? And I think that like it has
opened the doors for a lot of other areas for
us to like whether we're appearing on shows like Viva
or you know, we're doing UM nationwide commercials like Maya
is doing and things like our podcast like you get
all all like parts of who we are in one
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UM And yeah, it's just been great to kind of
dive in even more. And for me personally, it's been
great to grow up online. Oh yeah, so Maya, and
for you, what has been like, like now you're building
this new what is that like for you? Like, what
has that been on your end? Yeah? I left in
July or something of last year UM, and it has
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been a lot of self discovery and a lot of growth.
And I just like, I feel like I'm never because
I was at like a full time job where like
a lot of my job dictated my schedule and the
people who I saw every day, the things, you know,
And now that I have I can choose all of
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that myself and create my own schedule. I'm realizing that
there's just a lot of things that I need to
work work through in myself. I just had like a
whole therapy session before this, and that was connected to
my career and like it was I talked to like
one of my brujas, like my intuitive people, and a
lot of it was about ego and so, you know,
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coming out of BuzzFeed, I was a little bit jaded because,
like I feel, I felt so burned out. I was like,
what am I doing here? What am I creating for
my half of my team is gone? It's not the same, Like,
let me come back to myself. So it's been a
lot of like coming back to myself, who is Maya
with without social media things and all that stuff. But
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I'm still like I feel like as I'm starting to
discover all that stuff, it infiltrates into my like creative side,
like into the videos that I'm making and into like
my acting. So it's all kind of crazy how it's
like it. You know, the more you just learn about yourself,
the more the better you get as a creative because
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you're just a little bit more opening open to like
learning and stuff. So but other than that, I've been
doing like commercials. I shot another one in New York
this past week, which is like fun and try. I'm
like yes, thank you, um and yeah, I'm working on
some music and just just trying to have fun, Just
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trying to have fun, not for anything, just for myself
and when we need a feature on there. I drove
my Spanish single last year. Girl, my Spanish song is
out you know for it? I was trying to find it.
Is it on Spotify? Yeah, it's on Spotify. It's called Yeah,
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I got it. I'll send it to you over Instagram. Um,
let's do that drop Maya. I'm ready for it. I
always got to record, so yeah, saying like every and
you know this to Darren, like everything that you do
as a creative and an artist, like will always inform
the next step of what it is that you're going
to do, and it just always adds to who you
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are as an artist. Like you think that you know
worked for me. You know when I started at BuzzFeed,
I started in their canty and I used to serve
their lunches and stock their stock their kitchen, right like
you know that, Yeah, and it's informed how I move
in the world as an artist now, So like I
don't go into spaces not acknowledging the person who's doing
the catering or doing the sweeping, because I used to
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do that, like early BuzzFeed days, all the try guys
like Quinta, all the people like I used to feed them.
I used to clean up and set up for them
and um, you know, be the one in the background
during their shoots and cleaning. And so I think that
whether you're learning music or singing or learning how to
play an instrument, it will inform how you move in
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the world later. So I think that getting our practice
of being in front of the camera as Latina people
has gotten us to where we're at right now, which
has been like really great. And I think that it
goes back to like trusting the journey and the river
of your life if you will that it will always
lead you to where you know you're meant to, where
you're meant to go, where you're meant to that the
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river of your life, the river of your life. Should
I choose the smoothest course study as cocoa cocoa is
okay to finish it dreaming. Ay. I love that we
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brought the musical vibe that was so necessary. Curly does
this part of the song is so funny. Okay, Butcher
parts of this song says, I can't but it's like, oh,
I do you still wait for me? Dream giver? I
love this. I love this. I feel like we're like
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we're like singing. We're singing off in the distance to
our listeners were like dreamers, dream on, go for it.
Something I want to just conclude on Maya with you,
and something that I think is really important is that
your decision to leave and to um. And we've been
talking about this, it's been a topic here on What
I Eat that with other guests. But it's that decision
of like, I'm going to invest in myself. I'm going
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to start creating something for myself because bust feed is
going to be fine, They're gonna be all right. And
now you took what you got, what you got from
all of that, and now you're able to create your
own and start building your own ship and that is
so important in your self growth. And also like, and
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I think it's healthy for your friendship that you guys
both have as well, Like it seems like you guys
are flourishing. You guys are building this kind of like
this like thing together and I love that you guys
started from the fucking bottom. Now you're here like it's
fucking epic. It's so dope, and it's just so inspiring.
And I love that about you guys, and it's it's
evident in your work. It's evident in your work, and
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that's why so many people love you guys. Thank you
so y'all, we're reaching my favorite portion of the show. Okay,
we got your favorite question my god, yes, currently anytime.
I just wanted to point out that that me singing
that part, that's on my real voice. I don't want
to think that's me. No, that's no, that's purpose. Just
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so everyone's like, wow, I hope you didn't really think
that that was cREL Curly. I know what you have
inside of you. I know what you have inside curing. Guys,
we're going to have a triple feature, a thruple being
like not for the dam Like she's like, oh, yes,
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that was my god, give me a break, any of
you guys do? Okay, Freddy for my favorite segment, favorite portions. Okay,
now I'm going to ask you questions, the real questions.
The ones that matter. Okay, wonderful. Okay, first question, how
do you guys think your life would be if you've
never met, if you both never met? Oh, my god,
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mine would be so boring. I literally just get emotional,
like thinking about like what my life would be that
my like I would cry, Like my as the first
person that I call in the morning when I'm like
freaking out. She's like, yes, Like she's like the person
(25:59):
who will kind of keep me young, Like, oh, we
don't say that anymore, the person who, like, we can
have really deep conversations and hold space for each other
and we argue, we give each other like the best
advice that we can in the best way that we
know how, and then apologize for it because we were
like that was not the best advice. But uh but yeah,
I mean thinking about that, Like I'm already getting emotional. Clearly,
(26:22):
my scorpion Moon is always like I feel things very deeply.
I feel the same way I think, Like it's crazy
because I think I was telling my mom this the
other day that like I really feel like I have
grown a lot in this friendship, Like I think we've
(26:43):
both grown, like our souls have grown a lot because
we're able to communicate when we're being a little bit
mean or when we're being a little bit but and
and we're able to be very tender and human with
like we're comfortable to be human with ourselves and to
have human moment monts and still love each other either way.
You know, even though we were like we said that
(27:05):
thing the other day that we're like, oh sorry, you know,
which just happened. That often either we're not really like
we don't call each other out of our names. We
don't really argue that much. We get annoyed more. Yeah,
we get annoyed, but I think it's yeah, it's natural.
But honest, honest friendship. Honest friendship is what I'm hearing.
Honesty and communication and putting make sure, keeping out both
(27:30):
in check, keeping each other in check. I love that. Okay,
second question, which is the one celebrity that you would
love to have dinner with? You can only choose one.
I really mine, Selena, me too, Selena Mine for sure?
For sure, for sure, it is not Selena because Selena
is not your best friend, like she's my friend. She
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doesn't even like you. She said that you don't like
like you? Then why are we having dinner tonight. Maya
thinks that just because she's friends with Netflix Selena, that
she's actually friends. I'm not. I'm not. You're friends with
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Selena Netflix Lena, and I'm friends with the real Selina.
I hope someone, I hope someone takes that clip out
of context. All right, well, guys, I think I triggered something.
Mine is We're all mad when when we were crying,
what our friends? Or the next we're like, where mine is? Oprah?
(28:34):
I would love I had a dream more time. One
time I had a dream that I was sitting between
Oprah and Kelly Roland. We were just like talking about life,
and I'm like, I hope that I find myself in
a situation where I'm between Oprah and Kelly Rule. I
think it's gonna happen for you. Yeah, Curly has very
like he attracts celebrities like a lot. Like it's crazy.
(29:00):
I love Curly are manifesting that for you, Kelly Roland
and Oprah Um, Quinta Brunton and I who Quentin I
has her show AB Elementary and ABC. She used to
come into my kitchen back in the day. She's amazing
and Quentin I used to talk about how much Kelly
is like she needs more love. And we started the
Kelly Roland Club in the kitchen. And now Quentin knows Kelly,
(29:22):
so I'm like Quentin introduced me to It's like, let
me know. When you guys are at Starbucks having coffee. Hey, Kelly,
I'm going to tell her about the club. Oh my god, absolutely.
I wrote it like when Quintin posted a photo her
and Kelly Roland, I wrote it on her thing as
(29:42):
a g and we started the club like it was
just like we were just so mad and moved that
Kelly needed more like more respect on her name. I
feel like the real Destiny Child, like the real people
who love Destiny Child, like they know that. It's like,
you know, Kelly is really like the glue. He's the
one who is Yeah, she can do it all, like
she can hit those moves, hit those notes like Kelly is.
(30:07):
She seems so sweet and so genuine and just so
real like down to earth. I know, I know, I
know this is do you want to join the club down?
As long as I can be Beyonce the number three
and welcome to the club. You can be the secretary
or you can God because I'm I think went to
(30:29):
the president and I'll be vice president. We can be
vice president's tachoty do whatever you want me to do,
whatever you want me to do. Okay. Our third and final,
what is the one thing that makes you feel like
home or it makes you think of home? M karaoke?
(30:50):
Come on? Maya is Korean dad. My dad's a musician.
He plays um, he sings in Spanish and like he
uh is just a wonderful like human being. And he
has taught me without exactly teaching me, because when I
was little, I was like I want in there and
(31:11):
I just want to do it by myself. But he
like would teach me kind of how to sing. And
so every time I come back home, me, my mom
and my dad always do we always sing karaoke because
my dad has the a legit sound system to do
it all. And then yeah, we would just like sing.
It just feels good, you know, to be at home.
(31:32):
My dad can sing. And then like when I'll show
off a little bit, he'll be like that was good,
or sometimes he'll give me notes and be like try
it more like this, and I'm like, I'm just having fun.
But okay, I love that mine would be my mom
makes My favorite food in the wide world is this.
My mom makes like a or like we call it's
(31:53):
like it's just like meat soup, but they put like
uma or like like the ox tail in the soup.
It is my favorite thing. I can eat it almost
every day. My mouth is salivating thinking about it. And
my dad and my mom has been in sells the
culture since we were kids. So like my dad collects,
uh if you go on his Instagram, called collects vinyls
(32:14):
from all over the world that are outside of Fannia
All Stars because he's like there's more to like Motown.
There's more music that existed other than Motown in that time,
so he's like there's like finding has like the Motown
of that era, So he collects like, um uh exactly that.
So like it would be his vinyls playing Sista in
the background, And my Mom's like, uh sure that to me,
(32:40):
if I could want to change, if I could live
in a slice of heaven, it would be that with
like my family and my dogs. Maybe I'm just really
emotional today because I'm just like that's such a it's
such a nice thing where I'm just really thankful for
those those moments and moments of culture in love, you know. Yeah,
I want to thank you guys so much for coming
(33:01):
on here and sharing your positivity, your energy, your sunshine
and the real real like thanks for giving us the
real scoop and like the real vibes, because that's what
we want to hear. And it's just it's so inspiring
to see you both doing your own thing, repping our
community and like just like walking the talk, you know
what I mean. Yeah, and same to you, like thank
(33:23):
you for having us. And you're such an incredible energy
as well, Like the minute you popped up in our
little zoom thing, like you could tell it right away,
like you were like all giggles and laughing with us. Yeah,
and you're doing the thing too, and I hope that
you hold onto that truth that you would like absolutely
like trailblazing as well in your own way. And like
I said on our podcast, you're getting the bag and
the man. So here we are doing well here. If
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we want to follow you on Instagram or on social
media where or tickety talk or Twitter, water whatever, let
us know where how can we follow you? What? Where
can we see your journey? You can find me at
my moment m A y eight in the moment on
pretty much everything I make TikTok's Instagram reels uh, and
(34:09):
I'll tweet sometimes, but Twitter's scary. It's weird on there,
it's so weird. And you can find me at the
Curly v Show on Instagram and TikTok. I'm literally only
post their shrafts and videos of or about my grandmother's
So if you like old lady content and nipples, you'll
love my Instagram and guys, guy, yes, thank you guys
(34:36):
so much more. And it's been such a pleasure having
you on what I need them. Thank you for having us.
Thank you. Mona Nita is a production of Sonato in
partnership with I Heart Radios Michael Guda podcast Network. For
more podcasts from I Heart Radio, visit the I Heart
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