September 20, 2022 • 42 mins
The Story Time Guy is in, y'all! Matthew Torres is sitting down with Morenita's Darilyn Castillo to discuss his upbringing, what got him into TikTok, and Latinx representation in media. Plus, we get Matthew to discuss the Batgirl drama with us! What are you waiting for? Te invito.
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Oh yeahm hint. I just want to give you a
heads up. The program you are about to hear may
have some explicit language, it may not. It also depends
on where the vibes and the spirit leads us. Hope
you enjoy Welcome to Morenita, a deep dive into the
Latin X experience. With more Anita, we want to create
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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 Darylene Castillo,
Ethane People SUSA and Happy latin X Latina Hispanic. However,
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do identify Heritage Month here on mor Anita. You know
we're all about celebrating the nuances of Latinita and these
next you episodes will be no different. Yes we are loud,
Yes we are proud, but there's so much more to
us than that. We will be sitting down and chatting
with different members of the community that are doing the
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damn thing and making us even prouder. We chose this
specific group of people to highlight for this special month
because they're all bringing something a bit different to the table.
The lineup we have for you guys, is truly an
incredible one. I also want to let you know that
this month, not only are we bringing the extra sass
song to these episodes, we are highlighting daily on our
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and show love to. So head to the page to
check out the Daily Drops podcast. Today, I have the
privilege of sitting down and talking with the one and
only Unico the story Guy, Matthew. Now you may have
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seen some of his very feeler and sometimes controversial TikTok's.
His storytelling focuses on folklore, horror, and pop culture. He
puts a magnifying glass on controversial topics within many things
like Marvel, d C, Comics, Disney, and so so many more.
Now Matthew the story Guy, he calls it like he
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sees it and brings his opinion to the forefront, reaching
the attention of big major Hollywood studios, which also gets
him invited to some pretty awesome rooms and pretty awesome events.
But also sometimes the truth hurts and he has seen
some backlash from this. Don't worry, don't shy away from that.
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Matthew keeps it real as always, and he does not
shy away from the effects of this. I want to
highlight that we do talk about the controversy surrounding Back
Girl and the shutdown of that release. Matthew has a
lot of feels about this one, as I'm sure we
all do. The reason I decided to start Latina Heritage
Month with Matthew is because storytelling within our community is
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something that first centuries has been so important. Matthew and
I discuss how storytelling for the American Latina person has
shifted a bit. We both shared how we felt like
it's been a bit diminished. We discuss how many of
us American born Lapiniz knows so little about our family
history or sometimes even about our own culture. How some
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of us were even taught to erase our Latin eva
to fit into American culture. Matthew and I, being the
storytellers that we are, we share this responsibility of tone
stories to regain this pride within our culture. That's the
goal here. With Morenita and with each episode that we
share with you, especially this month, Matthew does this with
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each video he posts. Now take a front seat into
Matthew's story than vietle Bin on me hind that to
get TikTok has spoken, and we have gotten Matt the
story Time Guy in the room. Hi, thank you so much.
I like it. It's awesome being here. We've already talked
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a little bit. You guys are all already wonderful, so
I'm excited to do this. When your name came along
to come on the show, I did go down the
rabbit hole and I created a TikTok just for you.
I want to point out that my new TikTok life
has begun because of Matt Storytime Guy. Thank you. It's
nice to hear that. I hope you're I hope you're
enjoying it. Honestly, it's a good place most of the time.
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I am it's so impressed with you, because I am
just like, how does this man know all this knowledge?
And where does he get it from? I read like
I have these books behind me and like they're not decoration,
Like I I've read all of these books and this
is like maybe a tenth of all the books I have. Anyways,
Like my living room is just funk Like this is
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like one tenth of everything when I have in my
living room. So it's just like I read a lot.
I'm a huge, huge book nerd. So yeah, it's just
it's it's fun to just share that information. You know,
you you go up your all life reading and like
you say, you shout into the void of Facebook or Instagram,
you like a hundred followers and your mom and your
friend be like that's interesting, sweetie. And I was like, oh,
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my wifs like make a TikTok, people will actually listen,
I'm like okay, and it did. I'm like, oh, like
she's right, people actually care about my us this information.
Nobody's doing what you're doing, which is like incredible and
also like a gray avenue. And also people who love
what you love appreciate that. And you know what I'm saying,
like us weirdos appreciate something. No, It's true, and it's
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like I think that's the reason I saw this because
I was like, I'm a huge Disney fan, huge comic
book fan, and like I wanted to learn more about
my heritage, my Latino heritage, because growing up it was
like my mom came from Mexico born and race, she
jumped the border. My dad's from Puerto Rico born and raised.
He came over here to California, and like when they're like,
well we're American now, no more Spanish. And that included
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like a little bit of folk tales and fairy tales
when I was a kid, and you don't know, the
usual kind of stuff, but it really kind of separated
because they both ended up marrying white people, so my
Latino heritage wasn't really a thing. And when I met
my wife, who's a the Hano and Mexican, she's like,
get back into it. And I looked out there and
I'm like, where where do I go on YouTube? Where
do I go on anywhere to find like Aztec and
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Mayan and Latino heritage stories. We have so many of them.
Where are they? And they were there? So I was like,
I want to fill that void because I want to
be that for someone who I wish I had. You know,
it's like that I wish I had someone like this
when I was younger, and now I can be that
for younger people, and it's so amazing to have that
to be that for someone else. So yeah, it's it's
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it's crazy that all us Latinos and as misfits just
find a home together, and it's it's really wonderful and
I'm really blessed to be that and we're so grateful
for you. And I'm so grateful that I have, like
because also being a well, I don't know if you know,
I was a Disney princess at one point of my
life and my career. Nala The line came, yes, Nala
is as princess. Don't fight agree about it. Absolutely, there's
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so many more Disney princesses. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll
get into that. But you know, I played Dungeons and
Dragons when I was in high school, So like, listen,
we're going to get into it right now. Because I
have come from this world where what you're selling and
what you're telling and the storytelling that you're doing, and
I just I don't know, I just really connected with
your TikTok and and I went down the rabbit hole
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and I was like, I can't believe I didn't know
about this. And I was like, and this is my people. Man,
it's so cool. It's a slow climb, but it's it's happening.
I mean, we've already talked a little bit about um
where you come from and growing up and hearing the
folk stories and connecting that with your heritage Um, what
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really made you get into this? What was the thing
that really fueled the fire for me? It's there's so
there's like two aspects to me, and there's two aspects
of my like channel right, it's like, let you know,
pop culture and then like folk tales and mythology, and
so like each of them, I have my own reason
to do right. So, like when it comes to Latino's
pop culture, it's I grew up in a predominantly white town.
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What was the name, San Pedro? I know it's called
some I always get embarrassed because I say San Pedro
and then there's like white guys the couple, Oh, I'm
from San Pedro, and I'm like, don't do me like that, man,
don't do it. It's like saying like I'm from Los Angeles. Yeah,
I'm also from Los Angeles, and I'm like, your white
stuff down, calm down. Yeah, but yeah, So like so
I'm from San Pedro and it's, um, it's predominantly white.
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It's becoming more Mexican now, but for most of my
childhood was a predominantly white Italian and so growing up,
I'm like, why doesn't anyone look like me? And I
remember falling in love with this character, Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner.
He had kind of dark skin and black hair, and
I had no idea for a decade, had no idea
that he was Latino. I was like, oh, he looks
like me, therefore I like him. And so I remember
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reading his comic and falling in love with comic books
when I was about seven eight years old and thinking like,
this character is so cool and he looks like me.
So now they won't be like, you know, like I
can be me. You know, when we play superheroes and stuff,
I can be I don't have to look different. I
don't have to you know. And so that that always
held into me. And when I became a father with
my son's almost five years old now, it really like
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hammered home that I wanted to find someone for him
to look up to. I wanted him to know that
feeling that I never got to have that superheroes look
like you, that like it's not just a world of
white guys and one token and one woman. Luckily, like
it's better now, but there was the stage of being
you know, I'm thirty one, so the stage of growing
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up has changed with me. You look at things like
Power Rangers. Right, Prangers started off predominantly white, be it's
still an Asian and a black guy, and then it
moved up and you look at Power Rangers nowadays, like
the Red Rangers always for like the last fifteen years,
there's been neither a Pacific islander or a black guy
or Latino, like the white guys are Red Rangers anymore.
And it's like crazy to me that like we get
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these things and and so for me, it's like I
want to bring attention to that. And for me, it's
like Latino's we need to be united it. We need
to stop caring about the little differences of being like
a Mexican on Puerto Rican, Like, no, we're Latino. We're
united in this. And that's the one of the reasons
I want to do pop culture and talk about it
because I'm like, look, you can love something and I
love Disney and I love Marvel Studios, and you can
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love something and still be critical of it. And that's
something that I am critical of. It's you know, my
big video that got everyone all in a huff, and
I'm like, Myles Models is Latino, but he isn't really,
Like when's the last time a Latino writer wrote him,
when's the last time he was voice acted by a Latino?
When's the last time any It's just it feels like,
you know, it's like they were like, hey, let's make
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a black spider Man. They went, you know what, more diversity,
slap on a Latino last name. And I'm like, and
because if the shoe was on the other foot, they
have freaking American community up in enough roar as they should,
as the Latino community should. So I'm like, we need
to fight for these raps. Latino History Month needs to
be a big thing. First off, stop calling it Hispanic
Heritage Month, you know, And that's my guy. I don't
know if you kind of keeps an eye out for that,
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but like when companies use Latino or like Latin x
versus Hispanic characters with them, like they're the smart ones.
They know they have a Latino there, that's like, guys, Yeah,
I'm like Matt storytime guy for president right now. And
also I started crying, you started talking about your son,
and there's even so much in your videos and I'm
just going to touch based on this because it really
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I know something that you're passionate about. It can tell
from watching your videos, but the creators of who are
creating these characters and the weight of that. And I
believe I saw something on your Instagram. Um, what was it?
The Dezi the Dozi? Yeah, these scale Yeah, can you like,
can you tappen on that? Because I just love that. Yeah. So,
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like my I did this a while back, and I
really even mean to visit it. But like I always
tell people, like, there's a Desise scale when it comes
to Latino representation in Hollywood, right, So the first one
is and this is all based off of kind of
the the Bacco stale. I think the females are females
being well represented. So like, okay, Desi Arnaz is a
very famous He's one of the biggest pioneers in Hollywood
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when it comes to latinos, and he was very distinctly Latin.
You know, he never tried to hide it. He never
changed his name, which nowadays that still happens and people
try to wave it. I'll be like, no, like it's
just you know, it's like you guys know what you're
doing when you do this. Desi refused to do that.
He was always proud of who he was, even when
he weared the white lady. He was still and she
was and more importantly, you're equally is important. She was
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proud of that, you know. Her stories were like, oh,
we're gonna have this and they're gonna make fun of
his voice, and Lucio was like, no, no no, no, no, no,
one makes fun of my husband's voice. I can't because
I'm his wife. You guys can't, you know, and like
and so that's when I see this stuff and I'm like,
so for me, this the Desi scale is simple. Are
the Latinos in this movie? Right? Are the Latinos played
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by Latinos or Spaniards because that happens way too often,
or just white people. We see in Chasam one and
Chasam two that the Latino pedro Perez when he's a
little kid, he's a Latino actor, but when they shaped
them up to be a superhero, they cast it in
Italian and you're like, why you couldn't find a buff,
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handsome Latino guy. You had to look at the Italians
and everyone's just kind of like ignoring the fact that
they're like, yeah, representation, Like no, so white guy, this
is like he's like no. And then the third scale
This is when like movies and Charles go from my
respect to I bowed down to you? Is the Latino
played by the actual ethnicity nationality of that character, right,
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So you like look at something like miss America right
in hers there you go on a whole tangent about
how Marvel tries to play that game on both hands
and were like, she's Latina, but we're not gonna say
where she's from but Puerto Rico. But also maybe she's
at for Latino but maybe not depends on the artist.
So it's like it's They're like, and you look at
this too, It's like, yes, we got America Chavis and
the cast of which is cool, but she's not Puerto Rican.
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She's not after Latina. And whether the character isn't or
is that for Latina, which they'll never say she looks
at for Latina, that's important, right, So they didn't cast her.
And then what's worse is that this character who is
very proudly Puerto Rican. Right, I was watching the documentary
Doctor Strain, she and the Yeah, we were thinking putting
like Day of the Dead on her back instead of
the star and like sugar Skulls and I'm like, you
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have the wrong, wrong Latinos man. So I'm like, y'all,
y'all are working on this movie. You don't even know
that she's not Mexican and there she's Puerto Rican. Like,
so that's the scale for me. It's like, you know,
are they actually Latino or they played by Latino and
are actually from the region, because to me, that that's
where it starts, right, It's it's it's about getting Latino representation,
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getting actors who are Latino to play those and then
being proud of our own heritage Latinos. But we all
look different, and we all active from we all have
different cultures. I mean, I don't know how many different
ways there is to say fineapples, all these words. Right,
Like my my my father he used to say he
never cussed in his life, but that man says cono
every other sime, especially because he's a carpenter. And I
grew up saying like cono. And if you're like wait,
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what do you say? Boy? And I'm like coryo, it's
like a damn And they're like, well, where are you
from Puerto Rico? You're Puerto Rico, that's right, you know?
Because my mom is Mexican she and she went to
you know, Puerto Rico and lived there for a little
but and she's like, what are you guys speaking another langua?
And like that's the beauty that if you're not Latino
or don't have Latino friends, you never you never knew that,
you know, you never know that even Spaniard Spanish is
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not the same as Latin America called different language exactly.
People are like, oh, yeah, Spaniards And I'm like, no,
hold up, Spaniards are white. I've been to London, I've
I've met tons of Spaniards. They're wider than white, like
the English people, right, right, that's cool than that to them.
But let's not like just because they speak Spanish doesn't
mean they're part of our culture. Right. It's just a
reminder of how we can all be different but like
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come together, yeah you know what I mean, and embracing
those things. And we see it. We see it so
much in the entertainment industry. Me being an actor, like
trust like I'll get a break down for things where
I'm like, Okay, I can't sell this story. Okay, I'm
like I tell my manager. I'm like, listen, I know
it said Afro Latina or if it said like indigenous,
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or like little extra things like besides afric Latina that
they're looking for. But I'm like the writing is giving
something different. Yeah, I used to be a child actor
when I was a kid, and I remember my first
commercial had this whole big thing came on and we
were in Alavetta Street doing this ad for I think
it was a T and T or something of their
cross broadband you know back then, called to Mexico for free,
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and I remember the director showed up ten hours late
and he was a German guy, didn't even speak he
could barely speak English, couldn't even speak Spanish, and all
of us a Latinos. So they're like what you what
where they're choosing you? And yeah, and he cut all
our rods. He's like we're running short on time, so
everyone's dialogue is gonna get cut. We're just you a
little Latino kids do this with a with a little ukulele,
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and I'm like that's they don't have you go. You're like,
what is the ukulele? Yeah, it's just stuff like this.
Hollywood is just you know. I was like I don't
how many times like the reason I quit acting as
a kid. I was I don't know how many times
to say do you speak Spanish? No? Okay, no, no,
thank you? Can you pretend? Like? Can you sound like
you speak Spanish? And I'm like, as a kid, You're like,
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what does that mean? I have to tell you, Matt.
It's gotten worse because now I'll get scripts where they
ask me to translate the script and I'm like, that
is not my job. It happens so often we're literally
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I will do the self tape and I will say
it as written. If it's in English, you're getting it
in English. If you've given me the Spanish, great, I'll
feed that back to you. But I'm not sitting here
translating for you trying to figure out where the characters
from all. I don't speak that kind of like what
that's not my What are you doing? What are we doing?
It's the best part because it's like who else has
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to do this? And honestly, I feel like this is
a Latino. What I think is that we're taught to
be too humble and the point that we don't speak up. No,
that's why we are where we are because we don't
make noise like you have to make noise. You have
to tell them no, this is offensive, like it's and
the thing is we're getting there, right. I always get
told by my wife and everyone be a passionate brown man,
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don't be the angry brown man, because companies want to
work with a passionate brown man. I don't know how
many like this whole backgirl knows everybody I get. So
I've got message and coming. How can we aren't talking
about Oto? I'm like, because a moment I click record
talking about Bad Girl, I'm gonna get mad. And I
really really really really like to start. I would like
to work with d C one day and not burn
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that bridge because I'm gonna burn that bridge if I
talk about Bad Girl, So like, I don't want to,
you know. And it's like because you do this, and
it's like and I've had a video go viral before
where I called Marvel Studios out and I have friends
who work for Marvel Studios and I got the message. Hey,
they just the heads up, man, they saw the video,
and I want, who do you what do you mean?
They saw it in They're like the people here where
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I work that have a lot of important power and
sway saw that video and I was like, oh, and
they're like I was like, they weren't happy. No, Matt,
they were not happy because it is a business. We
are a business ourselves and stuff. And so it's like
I was doing a like I was about to set
up this big campaign with another company underneath that umbrella,
and the next day after that happened, they went, hey,
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we're going a different direction with this. And then I'm like, okay,
well that's that's I understand. Like, hey, you know, like
whatever I'll see at the next red carpet cricket noise.
And it's not just that companies, other companies don't want
to see you getting angry and other kids because I'm like, oh,
what if we do something that's racist, he is going
to come after us and we don't want that. And
it's like we'll make sure you just don't do stupid
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racist things towards somethinos and you won't worry, you know, hey,
just like I think just as people of color in
this industry, like it's something for me that I already know.
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It's something that I will always deal with if especially
being a woman, for me personally, like if I walk
in the room and I have an opinion, honey, they
are are so mad already. It's out of my control
most of the time. Which if Latinos are being sexualized
and idolized and cared as objects, then they're being either
you know that it's her. She's got her out of there.
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And that's that's the thing too, is that like And
this is what I'll say to every like it. It's
the reason I get invited because I've seen some people
be like, hey, don't talk about Marvel like that, or
don't talk about Disney like that, Like they send you
to events like you need to be grateful because there's
other people that have more followers than you that aren't
invited to these things, and you should be grateful. And
I'm like, bro, I'm I'm getting invited because I'm Latino.
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There's a Latino company that's like, we get tickets to
give to Latinos to make sure these places have Latino representation.
That's how I go. They don't personally I thought they
were going to, but then that whole you know, So
that's how I get invited to events. If I'm not
loud and I'm not shouting for Latino rights, then who
is what other big content creator is constantly not just
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like we're Latino doing a little dancing videos, but saying
like hey, calling out when things are unjust, where's people
fighting for Latino rights and say like, hey, you know
this movie is coming out. When Moonnight came out and
they cast it out Scaraza, and they can't They didn't
say in documentaries, they didn't say in a single article
that he's Latino, that this is the first Latino superhero
and Marvel because GE's what that looks like to me.
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He's not Latino. I don't care who you cast, especially
I love Oscaraza man. That man is the most handsome, talented, amazing,
But to ignore the fact that he plays white guys
more than he plays Latinos. He's played he was Apocalypse,
Who's Egyptian, He's played Persians, He's played Egyptians, He's played
white guys, He's played everything out of the moon. He
doesn't really play Latinos though, And so for like him
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getting cast and I'm being like, well, here's Latino, I'm like, no,
I don't think they know that, like the fact that
they didn't know Miss America is not Mexican sport. I'm
part of me is like, I don't think they knew
Oscaraza was Latino, or if they did, they didn't care,
which goes into the category of passing the whole thing.
That's the next episode with Nats. But yeah, and then
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that's something within our community that we also is this
really unique experience and like, so that's that's what I
really like doing, is talking about these things and sharing
these things and learning more. Like it's not just me
like knowing everything. I learned more from people. People tell
me stories like the new um the movie about the
African princess that's coming out in two months. I found
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out about that months ago because I was doing a
series that was called Fairytale Princesses that Disney should do
movies on. And I was doing, you know, Fete Throwners,
which is the first ever transgender fairytale princess from Romania,
doing from the Philippines, going all over the world, you know,
talking about Latin and diversity and African Asian princesses, and
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someone's like, Hey, there's this African princess and she's a
real person, and she had this beautiful iconic story of
how she became this queen and this powerhouse and she's
amazing and I was like yeah, hell yeah. So I
dove into and I read and that was my next
video and it was like, I love the people able
to share these things with me that you know, we
go like, oh, this is you know when I said like, oh,
la Adona and I said, this is the origin of
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la Adona. That was one of my first videos and
I stopped because I realized origin for who for my
mother from Lada from or you know who who's origin
because it changes, right, it changes. Everyone has a different
story of Latona. Absolutely. Is she vicious? Is she violet?
Some people say no, Other people, yeah, she kidnap your children,
taking the rip. Other just just she just cries, or
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she drowned her kids, or she's indigenous, or her husband
left her for a Spanish woman or she didn't have
a husband or he had a family and you know
all these or she's magical or she's a demon, or
she can't get into heaven or hell blah blah. You
know it's like and that's what I love because doing
this I get to expand what it is for me
to be Latinos, and then I get to share that
and then we just keep growing this beautiful branch and
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tree of what it is to be Latinos. It's like
this beautiful experience that I am so blessed to share
with other people that like, just God, I love this community.
It's necessary, it's necessary, and I talked about this multiple times.
I'm gonneat that with multiple guests. But it's like the
fact that we don't have the knowledge of our of
our family. It's very common. So what you're doing is
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already battling that. And I think it's so beautiful. I
love when you mentioned your son because I can't stop
thinking about that in the stories that he's going to
be able to have and and share as he gets older.
And um, it's just the work you're doing and what
you're doing is so necessary, and I just wanted to
make sure I say that, and I also don't want
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you to get mad at me, But of course I
have to ask you. Of course I have to ask
you about that. Girl. I know, I know, I know
you literally just said it, but I have to because
and honestly, let's go into it a little bit. Let's
go into it a little deeper. Let's go into HBO Max,
Let's go into chronicles. Let's go into Okay, Okay, I'm
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going to try to nut shout everybody, grab your waters,
cool down for a second, grab your SPF, grab your ship.
It's gonna get that, okay. So, like, so here's the thing. Right,
I'm a huge Complic fan. My son is named Peter
after Peter Parker and Peter Pant and me and my
wife agreed if we ever had another son, he would
be named Miles after Miles Morals. I'm a huge huge
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comic book nerd. And so it's like when I say that,
I am like, how do I what do I even
begin on this? Okay, so let's talk about HBO Max right.
Just so, they were bought by Discovery Discoveries, another streaming
platform that I don't know if single person owns. I
don't even like when the like Discovery Plus, I'm like,
is that out yet? Is it? What is exist? Discovery?
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Like the Discovery Channel bought Warner Brothers. What where did
they get the money from? Like you know, So for me,
it's like it's all weird and it seems weird of
how they're prioritizing this, right because like you look at
their let's talk about this exclusive from like a Latino representation. Right,
So one of their big flagships movies, Fantastic B series,
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right it odd you see Harry Potter Francis, I'm gonna
have in Latinos in it, right, it's all in Britain whatever. Right,
But they come to America, right and j K rolling
you look at her and she's like, I care about
diversity and representation and misfit and an all white cast
ladies and gentlemen. You're in New York City, worst, the
a Latinos, the New Yorleans brother, where's even the Italians?
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The irishman. They're like, yeah, we'll get rid of them too,
And I see that. I'm like, okay, it's all right.
First movie, there's not gonna be in the Latinos. Okay.
Second movie, Oh, we're leaving them. We're going back to
white France, okay, whatever. And then they introduced black people, like, yes,
good job, there are black people in France. I appreciate
you doing that. So for the second movie they introduced
up black love interest for the two white guys, of course,
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and then they kill here. Okay, I don't know why
you can't have anything nice apparently, and then we get
the fantasticas three, and there's the Brazilian and you're like, wow, Brazilian,
this is gonna take place in Brazil. And then it's
like not really, And then the ladies like apparent they
introduced this of like oh, there's not just like a
prime minister of like each country that was a prime
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minister of all wizards that were just introducing just now
nine movies in and then it's like, is it gonna
be a white guy, Oh, the white guy's evil, or
is it gonna be the latina she won't say a word?
You want have a single line of the whole movie.
We get it, We get what you guys are trying
to do. I feel like white people want to tiptoe
and I just want to say this, you can make
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people of color villains. It's okay to make people of
color villains. Like I hate this, Like Marvel keeps doing this,
so like we really don't want to make villains that
aren't white guys. And if they are super sympathetic, if
it's a woman, or if it's a person, super super sympathetic,
the white generic as hell super evil and I'm like, no,
it's okay. You can look at till Monger right now
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it is to me, it's like, and so that's where
you go in this movie and it's like, okay, weird representation.
Or the chupa get that Boulogne out of here shows
up in the second movie. It's like a little lizard
thing and you're like, why did you guys to read
about the chupacabra, Like you guys know anything about it?
Like you couldn't even stick it to like a Latino guy.
You have to like, I don't get these things right.
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I don't understand why they're doing this. But looking past
Harry Potter, right the Latino reposation a fel Max is
not that good. But the thing is, Latinos aren't even
including Latinos in their movies. Right. This Mexican director of
all time, When is the last time that man has
put a Latino in his movie since he was making
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movies in Mexico like twenty years ago? What is like?
You know? And I love him and he's a wonderful
you know director and writer. Where is the why is
he abandoning the people? We look at the Asian communities,
look at African American communities, and we see that when
they make it. They bring everyone with them, right, but
Latinos we just can't. It's they're they're incapable of doing it.
They're incapable of just going like I've made it big,
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let's cast some Latinos. They don't do it. And so
like we look at these movies. You look at all
this cool stuff like Pinocchio movie, He's coming out, and
of course there's no Latinos in there. In the Shape
of Water, no Latinos, and you know, it's just like this,
it's frustrating because we aren't even on our own side, right.
Everyone's like, oh, how come you're not on our side?
How come we don't show we don't even shout for ourselves, right,
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And that's what frustrates me the most, is like, like
with name more in this this new you know, like
he's Latino. I said, like, I'm so proude for this
Latino and this, you know, it's part of our culture everything.
They're like, well, he's not Latino, he's indigenous. I'm like, well,
we don't know for fact what he is or what
he isn't. Yes, he's indigenous, but Latinos are indigenous, right,
that's just our history, it's our blood. Because people look
at him and they go, that's a Mexican, that's a Latino,
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and that's something that we should be proud of, and
you we can't. And so when h POX keeps doing
these things like they the Gordya Chronicles, man it got
wide praise one day that one day at a time
got wide press, Centifi got wise press. These are shows
that have like percent round tomatoes. Right. The new Predator
movie The Prey has a dent on rotten tomatoes and
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all indigenous cat with an indigenous producer. And not only
did they do that, they passed the Dasy test. The
indigenous actors are commention nation like they are in the movie,
what like this is amazing, but are we going to
get a Predator too? Not? How come this movie didn't
go to theaters? Yea? And when there's a movie that's
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made and we can't even watch it, yeah, so yeah,
let's go. So let's get tobacco right now. I'm like,
I love the fact that d C made Blue Beetle.
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They once again this is another instance of them going like, well,
we'll make a Latino cast, but the white the villain
is gonna be a white person. But it's it's like
this Latino writer, Latino director's Latino cast. And man I
cried when I saw that, like it's this is the
first movie and this is I don't know if you
ever saw her the video I've made. But the reason
I got mad at Marvel Studios because I look at
this and I go, look, Bad Bunny is a superhero.
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He's getting his own movie. Bad Bunny and Sony. Sony
doesn't know their way through um like horror way. They
think it's amazed, right, they're so hit in their butts.
They don't know how to do anything. Most of the
movies flop. They they very rarely have a good successful
financial here. And yet they make a movie with Bad
Bunny and Bullet Train, and Bad Bunny goes, hey, can
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I be a superhero for yours like you guys do
Marvel movies and they're like, yeah, we don't have any
Latino superheroes and they go, what we have one? He's
a Lucrador and he's like perfect, I like wrestling, Let's
do this. And so they're gonna make a movie. DC
is making a movie. We had Backer, we have Supergirl,
and you know, you get into the whole like Latino
characters versus Latino actors. Whatever, Right, we're still geting Latinos
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were still getting Blue Beetle. But then you look at
Marvel and you're like, Marvel your thirty movies in where
is the Latino Superheroes? And they, oh, we have Moonnight.
But we're not gonna say he's Latino Miss America. But
we're gonna say she's an alien who travels dimensions and
isn't even from this dimension. Okay, okay, what about name More? Yeah,
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nay More is you know he's the villain. Oh okay,
Like what what? What? What? Why can't we get something bad?
Money gets a freaking Sony is giving us at Magical Nutridor,
and Marvel still can't give us some movie. And so
when I see things like back or like like Pisces
me off and I'm like, yo, why you know how
bad Venom is? And yet for some and there's not
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Latinos in Venom, and Latinos, especially Latino men, love the
Venom movie. I don't know what is in our blood.
We just love that the Venom with the suit. Yeah.
I don't understand. I hated those movies, but I watched them,
and look at the movies made almost a build. I
think they both made almost a billion dollars terrible movies
and they look at back and be like, yeah, do
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you know there's a movie just uh, it just didn't
do good. Everything you're giving me right now, it's just
sounding like people don't want to take risks. And I
don't know what these people people they did. Yeah, I
was gonna say, listen, I've seen a lot of really
bad white white movies, all right, y'all and they and
they still up on Netflix and they're still coming to ten.
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So I don't understand what is the problem with taking
the risk. I think Back Girl for me was just
like the most shocking. It doesn't make any sense because
I'm just like, the movie is made, so you're putting
it away, Well, the marketing budget, then don't give it
a freaking marketing budget. You've gone, it's fine. Latinos know
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about this waiting for it? Yeah, it's a Batman movie
and it's a Latina. Michael Keaton's coming back. You didn't
think that, Michael, And like, let's just be real here,
Michael Keaton costs like twenty million dollars. He was easily
the most highest paid actor in that movie. He has
probably paid more than all the other actors combined. Right,
And you don't think that the nineteen eighty nine Batman
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reprising his role with butts and seats. You don't think
that an after latina in a starring superhero role, Right,
she's gonna be the first latina main character in a
superhero movie. Right, Because they don't They didn't realize that.
They didn't realize this was the first latina superhero movie. Right.
They don't care. They don't see these things since they're
not bit, they don't look like us, and so they
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just they just go, yeah, tax right off, whatever, we
don't care. And I'm like, y'all ever heard the story
of Deadpool? Are we just forgetting that? When Ryan runs
was like, hey, let's make this movie and they're like, yeah,
maybe get a sick and he's like, oh, that's interesting.
I'm gonna leak the the thing we did to the world.
I'm not gonna tell us soul and then let the fans. Yeah,
(34:42):
and the fans blew up and around like who who
make that video? So crazy? And they're like, man, there's
a lot of love for this. Okay, we'll make Deadpool.
Oh look, it's the highest rated R rated movie of
all time. Oh my gosh, it made a billion or
I think nine million dollars. I just don't see the
industry trusting us right now fully and wholeheartedly. And and yeah,
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there's moments, especially being in the industry, like there's moments
where yeah, you see some light and you see something happening.
But and this is my worry as we continue on,
is Latino people just becoming this fad, right, and like, oh,
we have bad Bunny. We don't need anybody else. We
have Limino Miranda, we don't need anybody else, right. But
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the worst part about this is is like, because I'll
be full front, I didn't like in Coma, I didn't
like the movie. You're the first person I've ever heard
say those words. I won't get into it. I was
at a red carpet and they're like, oh, yeah, you're Latino.
To I'm Latino. What's what about in count I was like,
this is off the trailers, and I was like, I
don't trust it. The writers and directors are white guys.
The Latino right and director they brought her on a
(35:50):
year before the movie was supposed to be released. I
don't trust that you work in a movie for especially
an animated movie, for four or five sixty years sometimes
and then all of a sudden the last year, you
bring on Latina, who's not even Colombian, she was Cuban.
Like to me, it looks like a marketing employer, like
look Latina, Like it's like, no, you guys did this
without any Latinos involved except for Lynn. And Lynn has
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a whole thing of like Hollywood's like, all we need
is Lynn and the Latinos will come. It's like, but Lyn,
it's not everything. He's Puerto Rican, he's New yor Rican
Mars specifically, and well he's a talented individual, Like you
can't rely on him for everything, right, And so within Kanto,
to me that there's just little things that make it
feel like inauthentic. I have to say, and maybe I'll
(36:34):
maybe I'll get staked for this. I didn't see it yet. Okay, Well,
so there's some things that I noticed in the trail
that I was like, this is worrisome, Like there's red flags, right,
So it's like in Gantos, I see this stuff and
I'm just like, how come we couldn't get a casting
crew like the guy riding the next movie and who
worked on ran Last Dragon was a Mexican. Why couldn't
you get him to work on the Tncanto movie? The
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last movie Disney Animated movie to have a Latino when
it was directed, written by Walt Disney, and nineteen forty three,
the Three Cabatrolls. It took them seventy years. Okay, I think,
my maso, I don't know if the math is on that.
Seventy whatever years, nineteen forty three to two thousand nineteen,
that's how long it took for Disney Animation to make
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another Latino movie. And here's the crazy part. Walt Disney,
for all of his faults, traveled to Latin America. He stayed.
He went to Brazil, he went to Colombia, he went
to Mexico, and he's like, damn, I like these people.
These are some good people. He studied their music, their culture.
He loved the spend like three weeks there, loved the
whole thing. And he came back and he said, I'm
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making this movie as a love letter to Latin America.
And you can watch that movie. I'm moving in nineteen
forty three, and there isn't a single harmful stereotype to Latinos.
They casted a Brazilian actor to play the Brazilian character,
a Mexican actor to play the Mexican character. It's shining
periods like it can be done with some thoughtfulness and
with some ideas and creativity rather than just just laziness.
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And that's what it's all about, folks. But then also
as Latina people, we should hold some of the we
should hold all of the material being brought out about
us to a high standard. As you do and as
we all love you, we should speak on it. And
and I love I mean, you've thrown some knowledge at
me and I'm sure at our listeners today. Um, and
(38:25):
I also want to like, I already know you're continuing
on to tell more stories. I would love to also
hear about your possible podcast. I know that's being in
the works, but I'd love to hear more about that
and that journey for you and little plugs ur listeners
can keep some tabs on you as well. Thank you,
thank you. Yeah, So it's uh, I wouldn't be doing
a story Time presents where I guess if you like
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hearing me talk, congratulations, that's what I'm just gonna be
doing ranting these kind of things. They're gonna say, Hey,
what do you love? What do I like doing? Rant
about it, talk about it. And it's just gonna be
me and a microphone and I'm gonna be ranting and chatting,
and I'll have some guests sometimes, and it's it's just
about Latino representations. Latino pop culture, whether you are Latino
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or equally is important. You want to learn more about
Latino culture. You don't have to be Latinos to appreciate
Latino culture. There are tons of people who love our
culture who just want to know more about it because
they're interested in it. And that's perfectly okay if you
don't have to shy away from that. And that's why
podcasts and that's you know, that's what it's for for
people of any background, whether you know you're Latino heritage
or you don't know your Latino heritage and you want
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to be like, oh, I never realized that Marvel doesn't
do Latinos properly here. You know, there are trends of
how come every Marvel comic book character that's by racial Latino,
it's always the mother lad that's Latino. It's never Latino father.
You know, it's like these little things I want to
share where you want to talk with you to really
just get your creative juices flowing to get you going, like, hey,
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the industry is kind of un not too nice to people,
and especially when it comes to Latinos, they kind of
just treat them like second class citizen. So yes, thank
you for let me plug it. I'm sorry I ranto
so much on this, but I really, like you said,
you open up thing of passion and I just can't start.
We love it, That's why we wanted you here. So
excited for it, I would have it no other way. Um.
(40:13):
And also, if our listeners want to tap in and
find you on TikTok, find you on Instagram, what are
the social what are your tags? What are your things? Yeah,
I'm at the Storytime Guy all one word. If you
ever want to email me anything too, I'm Storytime Guy
biz at gmail dot com. Email me whatever you I
get emails all the time. There's kind old ladies. Does hey,
(40:34):
can you talk about this today? Do anything you want?
Email me, talk to me, message me on Instagram. So please, yes,
at the Storytime Guy, message me. I love it and
I love seeing your videos and everything, and I hope
you love seeing my videos and everything. So there you go,
Matt storytime guy. It is time for the moment we've
(40:55):
all been waiting for. This is our moment of speed
question rounds. So I have some questions to ask you,
and we're going to hit him. Okay, what's something that
you love that would absolutely hurt you if your son
told you it was not cool? Of the comic books? Okay,
that's good. Specific comic book, Any comic books, Any comic book. Okay,
(41:18):
you can only save one franchise Marvel, d C Star Wars,
Lord of the Rings Marvel. That was fast. Okay. What
reminds you of home or makes you feel at home? Food? Yes, okay,
this is my last final question because I'm just curious.
(41:39):
What house are you? My wife's a griffin door. I'm
a griffin door to go grips. But yeah, so learing
a griffin door, we kind of get each other a
little bit. There's a balance vibe. Matt storytime guy, thank
you so so much for being on Moranita. It's been
an absolute pleasure getting to know you. I can't wait
to keep track of you, and now now I have
my kid to I haven't figured out my name yet
(42:01):
or anything, but I love being able to tap in
on your stories and m and learn from you. It's
it's from one from one geek to another. It's awesome.
So thank you for that back at you, and it's
just this is wonderful. I can go on and on
and on and on and just thank you so much
for being a wonderful, wonderful host. I love this podcast,
and yes, I can't watch some more from you. Yes,
(42:23):
thanks so much. Matt mon Anita is a production of
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you enjoy Welcome to Morenita, a deep dive into the
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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 Darylene Castillo,
Ethane People SUSA and Happy latin X Latina Hispanic. However,
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do identify Heritage Month here on mor Anita. You know
we're all about celebrating the nuances of Latinita and these
next you episodes will be no different. Yes we are loud,
Yes we are proud, but there's so much more to
us than that. We will be sitting down and chatting
with different members of the community that are doing the
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damn thing and making us even prouder. We chose this
specific group of people to highlight for this special month
because they're all bringing something a bit different to the table.
The lineup we have for you guys, is truly an
incredible one. I also want to let you know that
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song to these episodes, we are highlighting daily on our
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and show love to. So head to the page to
check out the Daily Drops podcast. Today, I have the
privilege of sitting down and talking with the one and
only Unico the story Guy, Matthew. Now you may have
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seen some of his very feeler and sometimes controversial TikTok's.
His storytelling focuses on folklore, horror, and pop culture. He
puts a magnifying glass on controversial topics within many things
like Marvel, d C, Comics, Disney, and so so many more.
Now Matthew the story Guy, he calls it like he
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sees it and brings his opinion to the forefront, reaching
the attention of big major Hollywood studios, which also gets
him invited to some pretty awesome rooms and pretty awesome events.
But also sometimes the truth hurts and he has seen
some backlash from this. Don't worry, don't shy away from that.
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Matthew keeps it real as always, and he does not
shy away from the effects of this. I want to
highlight that we do talk about the controversy surrounding Back
Girl and the shutdown of that release. Matthew has a
lot of feels about this one, as I'm sure we
all do. The reason I decided to start Latina Heritage
Month with Matthew is because storytelling within our community is
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something that first centuries has been so important. Matthew and
I discuss how storytelling for the American Latina person has
shifted a bit. We both shared how we felt like
it's been a bit diminished. We discuss how many of
us American born Lapiniz knows so little about our family
history or sometimes even about our own culture. How some
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of us were even taught to erase our Latin eva
to fit into American culture. Matthew and I, being the
storytellers that we are, we share this responsibility of tone
stories to regain this pride within our culture. That's the
goal here. With Morenita and with each episode that we
share with you, especially this month, Matthew does this with
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each video he posts. Now take a front seat into
Matthew's story than vietle Bin on me hind that to
get TikTok has spoken, and we have gotten Matt the
story Time Guy in the room. Hi, thank you so much.
I like it. It's awesome being here. We've already talked
(04:09):
a little bit. You guys are all already wonderful, so
I'm excited to do this. When your name came along
to come on the show, I did go down the
rabbit hole and I created a TikTok just for you.
I want to point out that my new TikTok life
has begun because of Matt Storytime Guy. Thank you. It's
nice to hear that. I hope you're I hope you're
enjoying it. Honestly, it's a good place most of the time.
(04:31):
I am it's so impressed with you, because I am
just like, how does this man know all this knowledge?
And where does he get it from? I read like
I have these books behind me and like they're not decoration,
Like I I've read all of these books and this
is like maybe a tenth of all the books I have. Anyways,
Like my living room is just funk Like this is
(04:53):
like one tenth of everything when I have in my
living room. So it's just like I read a lot.
I'm a huge, huge book nerd. So yeah, it's just
it's it's fun to just share that information. You know,
you you go up your all life reading and like
you say, you shout into the void of Facebook or Instagram,
you like a hundred followers and your mom and your
friend be like that's interesting, sweetie. And I was like, oh,
(05:14):
my wifs like make a TikTok, people will actually listen,
I'm like okay, and it did. I'm like, oh, like
she's right, people actually care about my us this information.
Nobody's doing what you're doing, which is like incredible and
also like a gray avenue. And also people who love
what you love appreciate that. And you know what I'm saying,
like us weirdos appreciate something. No, It's true, and it's
(05:37):
like I think that's the reason I saw this because
I was like, I'm a huge Disney fan, huge comic
book fan, and like I wanted to learn more about
my heritage, my Latino heritage, because growing up it was
like my mom came from Mexico born and race, she
jumped the border. My dad's from Puerto Rico born and raised.
He came over here to California, and like when they're like,
well we're American now, no more Spanish. And that included
(05:59):
like a little bit of folk tales and fairy tales
when I was a kid, and you don't know, the
usual kind of stuff, but it really kind of separated
because they both ended up marrying white people, so my
Latino heritage wasn't really a thing. And when I met
my wife, who's a the Hano and Mexican, she's like,
get back into it. And I looked out there and
I'm like, where where do I go on YouTube? Where
do I go on anywhere to find like Aztec and
(06:20):
Mayan and Latino heritage stories. We have so many of them.
Where are they? And they were there? So I was like,
I want to fill that void because I want to
be that for someone who I wish I had. You know,
it's like that I wish I had someone like this
when I was younger, and now I can be that
for younger people, and it's so amazing to have that
to be that for someone else. So yeah, it's it's
(06:41):
it's crazy that all us Latinos and as misfits just
find a home together, and it's it's really wonderful and
I'm really blessed to be that and we're so grateful
for you. And I'm so grateful that I have, like
because also being a well, I don't know if you know,
I was a Disney princess at one point of my
life and my career. Nala The line came, yes, Nala
is as princess. Don't fight agree about it. Absolutely, there's
(07:03):
so many more Disney princesses. Yeah, we'll get there. We'll
get into that. But you know, I played Dungeons and
Dragons when I was in high school, So like, listen,
we're going to get into it right now. Because I
have come from this world where what you're selling and
what you're telling and the storytelling that you're doing, and
I just I don't know, I just really connected with
your TikTok and and I went down the rabbit hole
(07:24):
and I was like, I can't believe I didn't know
about this. And I was like, and this is my people. Man,
it's so cool. It's a slow climb, but it's it's happening.
I mean, we've already talked a little bit about um
where you come from and growing up and hearing the
folk stories and connecting that with your heritage Um, what
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really made you get into this? What was the thing
that really fueled the fire for me? It's there's so
there's like two aspects to me, and there's two aspects
of my like channel right, it's like, let you know,
pop culture and then like folk tales and mythology, and
so like each of them, I have my own reason
to do right. So, like when it comes to Latino's
pop culture, it's I grew up in a predominantly white town.
(08:06):
What was the name, San Pedro? I know it's called
some I always get embarrassed because I say San Pedro
and then there's like white guys the couple, Oh, I'm
from San Pedro, and I'm like, don't do me like that, man,
don't do it. It's like saying like I'm from Los Angeles. Yeah,
I'm also from Los Angeles, and I'm like, your white
stuff down, calm down. Yeah, but yeah, So like so
I'm from San Pedro and it's, um, it's predominantly white.
(08:29):
It's becoming more Mexican now, but for most of my
childhood was a predominantly white Italian and so growing up,
I'm like, why doesn't anyone look like me? And I
remember falling in love with this character, Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner.
He had kind of dark skin and black hair, and
I had no idea for a decade, had no idea
that he was Latino. I was like, oh, he looks
like me, therefore I like him. And so I remember
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reading his comic and falling in love with comic books
when I was about seven eight years old and thinking like,
this character is so cool and he looks like me.
So now they won't be like, you know, like I
can be me. You know, when we play superheroes and stuff,
I can be I don't have to look different. I
don't have to you know. And so that that always
held into me. And when I became a father with
my son's almost five years old now, it really like
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hammered home that I wanted to find someone for him
to look up to. I wanted him to know that
feeling that I never got to have that superheroes look
like you, that like it's not just a world of
white guys and one token and one woman. Luckily, like
it's better now, but there was the stage of being
you know, I'm thirty one, so the stage of growing
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up has changed with me. You look at things like
Power Rangers. Right, Prangers started off predominantly white, be it's
still an Asian and a black guy, and then it
moved up and you look at Power Rangers nowadays, like
the Red Rangers always for like the last fifteen years,
there's been neither a Pacific islander or a black guy
or Latino, like the white guys are Red Rangers anymore.
And it's like crazy to me that like we get
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these things and and so for me, it's like I
want to bring attention to that. And for me, it's
like Latino's we need to be united it. We need
to stop caring about the little differences of being like
a Mexican on Puerto Rican, Like, no, we're Latino. We're
united in this. And that's the one of the reasons
I want to do pop culture and talk about it
because I'm like, look, you can love something and I
love Disney and I love Marvel Studios, and you can
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love something and still be critical of it. And that's
something that I am critical of. It's you know, my
big video that got everyone all in a huff, and
I'm like, Myles Models is Latino, but he isn't really,
Like when's the last time a Latino writer wrote him,
when's the last time he was voice acted by a Latino?
When's the last time any It's just it feels like,
you know, it's like they were like, hey, let's make
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a black spider Man. They went, you know what, more diversity,
slap on a Latino last name. And I'm like, and
because if the shoe was on the other foot, they
have freaking American community up in enough roar as they should,
as the Latino community should. So I'm like, we need
to fight for these raps. Latino History Month needs to
be a big thing. First off, stop calling it Hispanic
Heritage Month, you know, And that's my guy. I don't
know if you kind of keeps an eye out for that,
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but like when companies use Latino or like Latin x
versus Hispanic characters with them, like they're the smart ones.
They know they have a Latino there, that's like, guys, Yeah,
I'm like Matt storytime guy for president right now. And
also I started crying, you started talking about your son,
and there's even so much in your videos and I'm
just going to touch based on this because it really
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I know something that you're passionate about. It can tell
from watching your videos, but the creators of who are
creating these characters and the weight of that. And I
believe I saw something on your Instagram. Um, what was it?
The Dezi the Dozi? Yeah, these scale Yeah, can you like,
can you tappen on that? Because I just love that. Yeah. So,
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like my I did this a while back, and I
really even mean to visit it. But like I always
tell people, like, there's a Desise scale when it comes
to Latino representation in Hollywood, right, So the first one
is and this is all based off of kind of
the the Bacco stale. I think the females are females
being well represented. So like, okay, Desi Arnaz is a
very famous He's one of the biggest pioneers in Hollywood
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when it comes to latinos, and he was very distinctly Latin.
You know, he never tried to hide it. He never
changed his name, which nowadays that still happens and people
try to wave it. I'll be like, no, like it's
just you know, it's like you guys know what you're
doing when you do this. Desi refused to do that.
He was always proud of who he was, even when
he weared the white lady. He was still and she
was and more importantly, you're equally is important. She was
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proud of that, you know. Her stories were like, oh,
we're gonna have this and they're gonna make fun of
his voice, and Lucio was like, no, no no, no, no, no,
one makes fun of my husband's voice. I can't because
I'm his wife. You guys can't, you know, and like
and so that's when I see this stuff and I'm like,
so for me, this the Desi scale is simple. Are
the Latinos in this movie? Right? Are the Latinos played
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by Latinos or Spaniards because that happens way too often,
or just white people. We see in Chasam one and
Chasam two that the Latino pedro Perez when he's a
little kid, he's a Latino actor, but when they shaped
them up to be a superhero, they cast it in
Italian and you're like, why you couldn't find a buff,
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handsome Latino guy. You had to look at the Italians
and everyone's just kind of like ignoring the fact that
they're like, yeah, representation, Like no, so white guy, this
is like he's like no. And then the third scale
This is when like movies and Charles go from my
respect to I bowed down to you? Is the Latino
played by the actual ethnicity nationality of that character, right,
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So you like look at something like miss America right
in hers there you go on a whole tangent about
how Marvel tries to play that game on both hands
and were like, she's Latina, but we're not gonna say
where she's from but Puerto Rico. But also maybe she's
at for Latino but maybe not depends on the artist.
So it's like it's They're like, and you look at
this too, It's like, yes, we got America Chavis and
the cast of which is cool, but she's not Puerto Rican.
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She's not after Latina. And whether the character isn't or
is that for Latina, which they'll never say she looks
at for Latina, that's important, right, So they didn't cast her.
And then what's worse is that this character who is
very proudly Puerto Rican. Right, I was watching the documentary
Doctor Strain, she and the Yeah, we were thinking putting
like Day of the Dead on her back instead of
the star and like sugar Skulls and I'm like, you
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have the wrong, wrong Latinos man. So I'm like, y'all,
y'all are working on this movie. You don't even know
that she's not Mexican and there she's Puerto Rican. Like,
so that's the scale for me. It's like, you know,
are they actually Latino or they played by Latino and
are actually from the region, because to me, that that's
where it starts, right, It's it's it's about getting Latino representation,
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getting actors who are Latino to play those and then
being proud of our own heritage Latinos. But we all
look different, and we all active from we all have
different cultures. I mean, I don't know how many different
ways there is to say fineapples, all these words. Right,
Like my my my father he used to say he
never cussed in his life, but that man says cono
every other sime, especially because he's a carpenter. And I
grew up saying like cono. And if you're like wait,
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what do you say? Boy? And I'm like coryo, it's
like a damn And they're like, well, where are you
from Puerto Rico? You're Puerto Rico, that's right, you know?
Because my mom is Mexican she and she went to
you know, Puerto Rico and lived there for a little
but and she's like, what are you guys speaking another langua?
And like that's the beauty that if you're not Latino
or don't have Latino friends, you never you never knew that,
you know, you never know that even Spaniard Spanish is
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not the same as Latin America called different language exactly.
People are like, oh, yeah, Spaniards And I'm like, no,
hold up, Spaniards are white. I've been to London, I've
I've met tons of Spaniards. They're wider than white, like
the English people, right, right, that's cool than that to them.
But let's not like just because they speak Spanish doesn't
mean they're part of our culture. Right. It's just a
reminder of how we can all be different but like
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come together, yeah you know what I mean, and embracing
those things. And we see it. We see it so
much in the entertainment industry. Me being an actor, like
trust like I'll get a break down for things where
I'm like, Okay, I can't sell this story. Okay, I'm
like I tell my manager. I'm like, listen, I know
it said Afro Latina or if it said like indigenous,
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or like little extra things like besides afric Latina that
they're looking for. But I'm like the writing is giving
something different. Yeah, I used to be a child actor
when I was a kid, and I remember my first
commercial had this whole big thing came on and we
were in Alavetta Street doing this ad for I think
it was a T and T or something of their
cross broadband you know back then, called to Mexico for free,
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and I remember the director showed up ten hours late
and he was a German guy, didn't even speak he
could barely speak English, couldn't even speak Spanish, and all
of us a Latinos. So they're like what you what
where they're choosing you? And yeah, and he cut all
our rods. He's like we're running short on time, so
everyone's dialogue is gonna get cut. We're just you a
little Latino kids do this with a with a little ukulele,
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and I'm like that's they don't have you go. You're like,
what is the ukulele? Yeah, it's just stuff like this.
Hollywood is just you know. I was like I don't
how many times like the reason I quit acting as
a kid. I was I don't know how many times
to say do you speak Spanish? No? Okay, no, no,
thank you? Can you pretend? Like? Can you sound like
you speak Spanish? And I'm like, as a kid, You're like,
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what does that mean? I have to tell you, Matt.
It's gotten worse because now I'll get scripts where they
ask me to translate the script and I'm like, that
is not my job. It happens so often we're literally
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I will do the self tape and I will say
it as written. If it's in English, you're getting it
in English. If you've given me the Spanish, great, I'll
feed that back to you. But I'm not sitting here
translating for you trying to figure out where the characters
from all. I don't speak that kind of like what
that's not my What are you doing? What are we doing?
It's the best part because it's like who else has
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to do this? And honestly, I feel like this is
a Latino. What I think is that we're taught to
be too humble and the point that we don't speak up. No,
that's why we are where we are because we don't
make noise like you have to make noise. You have
to tell them no, this is offensive, like it's and
the thing is we're getting there, right. I always get
told by my wife and everyone be a passionate brown man,
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don't be the angry brown man, because companies want to
work with a passionate brown man. I don't know how
many like this whole backgirl knows everybody I get. So
I've got message and coming. How can we aren't talking
about Oto? I'm like, because a moment I click record
talking about Bad Girl, I'm gonna get mad. And I
really really really really like to start. I would like
to work with d C one day and not burn
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that bridge because I'm gonna burn that bridge if I
talk about Bad Girl, So like, I don't want to,
you know. And it's like because you do this, and
it's like and I've had a video go viral before
where I called Marvel Studios out and I have friends
who work for Marvel Studios and I got the message. Hey,
they just the heads up, man, they saw the video,
and I want, who do you what do you mean?
They saw it in They're like the people here where
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I work that have a lot of important power and
sway saw that video and I was like, oh, and
they're like I was like, they weren't happy. No, Matt,
they were not happy because it is a business. We
are a business ourselves and stuff. And so it's like
I was doing a like I was about to set
up this big campaign with another company underneath that umbrella,
and the next day after that happened, they went, hey,
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we're going a different direction with this. And then I'm like, okay,
well that's that's I understand. Like, hey, you know, like
whatever I'll see at the next red carpet cricket noise.
And it's not just that companies, other companies don't want
to see you getting angry and other kids because I'm like, oh,
what if we do something that's racist, he is going
to come after us and we don't want that. And
it's like we'll make sure you just don't do stupid
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racist things towards somethinos and you won't worry, you know, hey,
just like I think just as people of color in
this industry, like it's something for me that I already know.
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It's something that I will always deal with if especially
being a woman, for me personally, like if I walk
in the room and I have an opinion, honey, they
are are so mad already. It's out of my control
most of the time. Which if Latinos are being sexualized
and idolized and cared as objects, then they're being either
you know that it's her. She's got her out of there.
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And that's that's the thing too, is that like And
this is what I'll say to every like it. It's
the reason I get invited because I've seen some people
be like, hey, don't talk about Marvel like that, or
don't talk about Disney like that, Like they send you
to events like you need to be grateful because there's
other people that have more followers than you that aren't
invited to these things, and you should be grateful. And
I'm like, bro, I'm I'm getting invited because I'm Latino.
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There's a Latino company that's like, we get tickets to
give to Latinos to make sure these places have Latino representation.
That's how I go. They don't personally I thought they
were going to, but then that whole you know, So
that's how I get invited to events. If I'm not
loud and I'm not shouting for Latino rights, then who
is what other big content creator is constantly not just
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like we're Latino doing a little dancing videos, but saying
like hey, calling out when things are unjust, where's people
fighting for Latino rights and say like, hey, you know
this movie is coming out. When Moonnight came out and
they cast it out Scaraza, and they can't They didn't
say in documentaries, they didn't say in a single article
that he's Latino, that this is the first Latino superhero
and Marvel because GE's what that looks like to me.
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He's not Latino. I don't care who you cast, especially
I love Oscaraza man. That man is the most handsome, talented, amazing,
But to ignore the fact that he plays white guys
more than he plays Latinos. He's played he was Apocalypse,
Who's Egyptian, He's played Persians, He's played Egyptians, He's played
white guys, He's played everything out of the moon. He
doesn't really play Latinos though, And so for like him
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getting cast and I'm being like, well, here's Latino, I'm like, no,
I don't think they know that, like the fact that
they didn't know Miss America is not Mexican sport. I'm
part of me is like, I don't think they knew
Oscaraza was Latino, or if they did, they didn't care,
which goes into the category of passing the whole thing.
That's the next episode with Nats. But yeah, and then
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that's something within our community that we also is this
really unique experience and like, so that's that's what I
really like doing, is talking about these things and sharing
these things and learning more. Like it's not just me
like knowing everything. I learned more from people. People tell
me stories like the new um the movie about the
African princess that's coming out in two months. I found
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out about that months ago because I was doing a
series that was called Fairytale Princesses that Disney should do
movies on. And I was doing, you know, Fete Throwners,
which is the first ever transgender fairytale princess from Romania,
doing from the Philippines, going all over the world, you know,
talking about Latin and diversity and African Asian princesses, and
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someone's like, Hey, there's this African princess and she's a
real person, and she had this beautiful iconic story of
how she became this queen and this powerhouse and she's
amazing and I was like yeah, hell yeah. So I
dove into and I read and that was my next
video and it was like, I love the people able
to share these things with me that you know, we
go like, oh, this is you know when I said like, oh,
la Adona and I said, this is the origin of
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la Adona. That was one of my first videos and
I stopped because I realized origin for who for my
mother from Lada from or you know who who's origin
because it changes, right, it changes. Everyone has a different
story of Latona. Absolutely. Is she vicious? Is she violet?
Some people say no, Other people, yeah, she kidnap your children,
taking the rip. Other just just she just cries, or
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she drowned her kids, or she's indigenous, or her husband
left her for a Spanish woman or she didn't have
a husband or he had a family and you know
all these or she's magical or she's a demon, or
she can't get into heaven or hell blah blah. You
know it's like and that's what I love because doing
this I get to expand what it is for me
to be Latinos, and then I get to share that
and then we just keep growing this beautiful branch and
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tree of what it is to be Latinos. It's like
this beautiful experience that I am so blessed to share
with other people that like, just God, I love this community.
It's necessary, it's necessary, and I talked about this multiple times.
I'm gonneat that with multiple guests. But it's like the
fact that we don't have the knowledge of our of
our family. It's very common. So what you're doing is
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already battling that. And I think it's so beautiful. I
love when you mentioned your son because I can't stop
thinking about that in the stories that he's going to
be able to have and and share as he gets older.
And um, it's just the work you're doing and what
you're doing is so necessary, and I just wanted to
make sure I say that, and I also don't want
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you to get mad at me, But of course I
have to ask you. Of course I have to ask
you about that. Girl. I know, I know, I know
you literally just said it, but I have to because
and honestly, let's go into it a little bit. Let's
go into it a little deeper. Let's go into HBO Max,
Let's go into chronicles. Let's go into Okay, Okay, I'm
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going to try to nut shout everybody, grab your waters,
cool down for a second, grab your SPF, grab your ship.
It's gonna get that, okay. So, like, so here's the thing. Right,
I'm a huge Complic fan. My son is named Peter
after Peter Parker and Peter Pant and me and my
wife agreed if we ever had another son, he would
be named Miles after Miles Morals. I'm a huge huge
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comic book nerd. And so it's like when I say that,
I am like, how do I what do I even
begin on this? Okay, so let's talk about HBO Max right.
Just so, they were bought by Discovery Discoveries, another streaming
platform that I don't know if single person owns. I
don't even like when the like Discovery Plus, I'm like,
is that out yet? Is it? What is exist? Discovery?
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Like the Discovery Channel bought Warner Brothers. What where did
they get the money from? Like you know, So for me,
it's like it's all weird and it seems weird of
how they're prioritizing this, right because like you look at
their let's talk about this exclusive from like a Latino representation. Right,
So one of their big flagships movies, Fantastic B series,
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right it odd you see Harry Potter Francis, I'm gonna
have in Latinos in it, right, it's all in Britain whatever. Right,
But they come to America, right and j K rolling
you look at her and she's like, I care about
diversity and representation and misfit and an all white cast
ladies and gentlemen. You're in New York City, worst, the
a Latinos, the New Yorleans brother, where's even the Italians?
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The irishman. They're like, yeah, we'll get rid of them too,
And I see that. I'm like, okay, it's all right.
First movie, there's not gonna be in the Latinos. Okay.
Second movie, Oh, we're leaving them. We're going back to
white France, okay, whatever. And then they introduced black people, like, yes,
good job, there are black people in France. I appreciate
you doing that. So for the second movie they introduced
up black love interest for the two white guys, of course,
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and then they kill here. Okay, I don't know why
you can't have anything nice apparently, and then we get
the fantasticas three, and there's the Brazilian and you're like, wow, Brazilian,
this is gonna take place in Brazil. And then it's
like not really, And then the ladies like apparent they
introduced this of like oh, there's not just like a
prime minister of like each country that was a prime
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minister of all wizards that were just introducing just now
nine movies in and then it's like, is it gonna
be a white guy, Oh, the white guy's evil, or
is it gonna be the latina she won't say a word?
You want have a single line of the whole movie.
We get it, We get what you guys are trying
to do. I feel like white people want to tiptoe
and I just want to say this, you can make
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people of color villains. It's okay to make people of
color villains. Like I hate this, Like Marvel keeps doing this,
so like we really don't want to make villains that
aren't white guys. And if they are super sympathetic, if
it's a woman, or if it's a person, super super sympathetic,
the white generic as hell super evil and I'm like, no,
it's okay. You can look at till Monger right now
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it is to me, it's like, and so that's where
you go in this movie and it's like, okay, weird representation.
Or the chupa get that Boulogne out of here shows
up in the second movie. It's like a little lizard
thing and you're like, why did you guys to read
about the chupacabra, Like you guys know anything about it?
Like you couldn't even stick it to like a Latino guy.
You have to like, I don't get these things right.
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I don't understand why they're doing this. But looking past
Harry Potter, right the Latino reposation a fel Max is
not that good. But the thing is, Latinos aren't even
including Latinos in their movies. Right. This Mexican director of
all time, When is the last time that man has
put a Latino in his movie since he was making
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movies in Mexico like twenty years ago? What is like?
You know? And I love him and he's a wonderful
you know director and writer. Where is the why is
he abandoning the people? We look at the Asian communities,
look at African American communities, and we see that when
they make it. They bring everyone with them, right, but
Latinos we just can't. It's they're they're incapable of doing it.
They're incapable of just going like I've made it big,
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let's cast some Latinos. They don't do it. And so
like we look at these movies. You look at all
this cool stuff like Pinocchio movie, He's coming out, and
of course there's no Latinos in there. In the Shape
of Water, no Latinos, and you know, it's just like this,
it's frustrating because we aren't even on our own side, right.
Everyone's like, oh, how come you're not on our side?
How come we don't show we don't even shout for ourselves, right,
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And that's what frustrates me the most, is like, like
with name more in this this new you know, like
he's Latino. I said, like, I'm so proude for this
Latino and this, you know, it's part of our culture everything.
They're like, well, he's not Latino, he's indigenous. I'm like, well,
we don't know for fact what he is or what
he isn't. Yes, he's indigenous, but Latinos are indigenous, right,
that's just our history, it's our blood. Because people look
at him and they go, that's a Mexican, that's a Latino,
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and that's something that we should be proud of, and
you we can't. And so when h POX keeps doing
these things like they the Gordya Chronicles, man it got
wide praise one day that one day at a time
got wide press, Centifi got wise press. These are shows
that have like percent round tomatoes. Right. The new Predator
movie The Prey has a dent on rotten tomatoes and
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all indigenous cat with an indigenous producer. And not only
did they do that, they passed the Dasy test. The
indigenous actors are commention nation like they are in the movie,
what like this is amazing, but are we going to
get a Predator too? Not? How come this movie didn't
go to theaters? Yea? And when there's a movie that's
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made and we can't even watch it, yeah, so yeah,
let's go. So let's get tobacco right now. I'm like,
I love the fact that d C made Blue Beetle.
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They once again this is another instance of them going like, well,
we'll make a Latino cast, but the white the villain
is gonna be a white person. But it's it's like
this Latino writer, Latino director's Latino cast. And man I
cried when I saw that, like it's this is the
first movie and this is I don't know if you
ever saw her the video I've made. But the reason
I got mad at Marvel Studios because I look at
this and I go, look, Bad Bunny is a superhero.
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He's getting his own movie. Bad Bunny and Sony. Sony
doesn't know their way through um like horror way. They
think it's amazed, right, they're so hit in their butts.
They don't know how to do anything. Most of the
movies flop. They they very rarely have a good successful
financial here. And yet they make a movie with Bad
Bunny and Bullet Train, and Bad Bunny goes, hey, can
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I be a superhero for yours like you guys do
Marvel movies and they're like, yeah, we don't have any
Latino superheroes and they go, what we have one? He's
a Lucrador and he's like perfect, I like wrestling, Let's
do this. And so they're gonna make a movie. DC
is making a movie. We had Backer, we have Supergirl,
and you know, you get into the whole like Latino
characters versus Latino actors. Whatever, Right, we're still geting Latinos
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were still getting Blue Beetle. But then you look at
Marvel and you're like, Marvel your thirty movies in where
is the Latino Superheroes? And they, oh, we have Moonnight.
But we're not gonna say he's Latino Miss America. But
we're gonna say she's an alien who travels dimensions and
isn't even from this dimension. Okay, okay, what about name More? Yeah,
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nay More is you know he's the villain. Oh okay,
Like what what? What? What? Why can't we get something bad?
Money gets a freaking Sony is giving us at Magical Nutridor,
and Marvel still can't give us some movie. And so
when I see things like back or like like Pisces
me off and I'm like, yo, why you know how
bad Venom is? And yet for some and there's not
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Latinos in Venom, and Latinos, especially Latino men, love the
Venom movie. I don't know what is in our blood.
We just love that the Venom with the suit. Yeah.
I don't understand. I hated those movies, but I watched them,
and look at the movies made almost a build. I
think they both made almost a billion dollars terrible movies
and they look at back and be like, yeah, do
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you know there's a movie just uh, it just didn't
do good. Everything you're giving me right now, it's just
sounding like people don't want to take risks. And I
don't know what these people people they did. Yeah, I
was gonna say, listen, I've seen a lot of really
bad white white movies, all right, y'all and they and
they still up on Netflix and they're still coming to ten.
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So I don't understand what is the problem with taking
the risk. I think Back Girl for me was just
like the most shocking. It doesn't make any sense because
I'm just like, the movie is made, so you're putting
it away, Well, the marketing budget, then don't give it
a freaking marketing budget. You've gone, it's fine. Latinos know
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about this waiting for it? Yeah, it's a Batman movie
and it's a Latina. Michael Keaton's coming back. You didn't
think that, Michael, And like, let's just be real here,
Michael Keaton costs like twenty million dollars. He was easily
the most highest paid actor in that movie. He has
probably paid more than all the other actors combined. Right,
And you don't think that the nineteen eighty nine Batman
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reprising his role with butts and seats. You don't think
that an after latina in a starring superhero role, Right,
she's gonna be the first latina main character in a
superhero movie. Right, Because they don't They didn't realize that.
They didn't realize this was the first latina superhero movie. Right.
They don't care. They don't see these things since they're
not bit, they don't look like us, and so they
(34:19):
just they just go, yeah, tax right off, whatever, we
don't care. And I'm like, y'all ever heard the story
of Deadpool? Are we just forgetting that? When Ryan runs
was like, hey, let's make this movie and they're like, yeah,
maybe get a sick and he's like, oh, that's interesting.
I'm gonna leak the the thing we did to the world.
I'm not gonna tell us soul and then let the fans. Yeah,
(34:42):
and the fans blew up and around like who who
make that video? So crazy? And they're like, man, there's
a lot of love for this. Okay, we'll make Deadpool.
Oh look, it's the highest rated R rated movie of
all time. Oh my gosh, it made a billion or
I think nine million dollars. I just don't see the
industry trusting us right now fully and wholeheartedly. And and yeah,
(35:06):
there's moments, especially being in the industry, like there's moments
where yeah, you see some light and you see something happening.
But and this is my worry as we continue on,
is Latino people just becoming this fad, right, and like, oh,
we have bad Bunny. We don't need anybody else. We
have Limino Miranda, we don't need anybody else, right. But
(35:27):
the worst part about this is is like, because I'll
be full front, I didn't like in Coma, I didn't
like the movie. You're the first person I've ever heard
say those words. I won't get into it. I was
at a red carpet and they're like, oh, yeah, you're Latino.
To I'm Latino. What's what about in count I was like,
this is off the trailers, and I was like, I
don't trust it. The writers and directors are white guys.
The Latino right and director they brought her on a
(35:50):
year before the movie was supposed to be released. I
don't trust that you work in a movie for especially
an animated movie, for four or five sixty years sometimes
and then all of a sudden the last year, you
bring on Latina, who's not even Colombian, she was Cuban.
Like to me, it looks like a marketing employer, like
look Latina, Like it's like, no, you guys did this
without any Latinos involved except for Lynn. And Lynn has
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a whole thing of like Hollywood's like, all we need
is Lynn and the Latinos will come. It's like, but Lyn,
it's not everything. He's Puerto Rican, he's New yor Rican
Mars specifically, and well he's a talented individual, Like you
can't rely on him for everything, right, And so within Kanto,
to me that there's just little things that make it
feel like inauthentic. I have to say, and maybe I'll
(36:34):
maybe I'll get staked for this. I didn't see it yet. Okay, Well,
so there's some things that I noticed in the trail
that I was like, this is worrisome, Like there's red flags, right,
So it's like in Gantos, I see this stuff and
I'm just like, how come we couldn't get a casting
crew like the guy riding the next movie and who
worked on ran Last Dragon was a Mexican. Why couldn't
you get him to work on the Tncanto movie? The
(36:54):
last movie Disney Animated movie to have a Latino when
it was directed, written by Walt Disney, and nineteen forty three,
the Three Cabatrolls. It took them seventy years. Okay, I think,
my maso, I don't know if the math is on that.
Seventy whatever years, nineteen forty three to two thousand nineteen,
that's how long it took for Disney Animation to make
(37:17):
another Latino movie. And here's the crazy part. Walt Disney,
for all of his faults, traveled to Latin America. He stayed.
He went to Brazil, he went to Colombia, he went
to Mexico, and he's like, damn, I like these people.
These are some good people. He studied their music, their culture.
He loved the spend like three weeks there, loved the
whole thing. And he came back and he said, I'm
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making this movie as a love letter to Latin America.
And you can watch that movie. I'm moving in nineteen
forty three, and there isn't a single harmful stereotype to Latinos.
They casted a Brazilian actor to play the Brazilian character,
a Mexican actor to play the Mexican character. It's shining
periods like it can be done with some thoughtfulness and
with some ideas and creativity rather than just just laziness.
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And that's what it's all about, folks. But then also
as Latina people, we should hold some of the we
should hold all of the material being brought out about
us to a high standard. As you do and as
we all love you, we should speak on it. And
and I love I mean, you've thrown some knowledge at
me and I'm sure at our listeners today. Um, and
(38:25):
I also want to like, I already know you're continuing
on to tell more stories. I would love to also
hear about your possible podcast. I know that's being in
the works, but I'd love to hear more about that
and that journey for you and little plugs ur listeners
can keep some tabs on you as well. Thank you,
thank you. Yeah, So it's uh, I wouldn't be doing
a story Time presents where I guess if you like
(38:47):
hearing me talk, congratulations, that's what I'm just gonna be
doing ranting these kind of things. They're gonna say, Hey,
what do you love? What do I like doing? Rant
about it, talk about it. And it's just gonna be
me and a microphone and I'm gonna be ranting and chatting,
and I'll have some guests sometimes, and it's it's just
about Latino representations. Latino pop culture, whether you are Latino
(39:09):
or equally is important. You want to learn more about
Latino culture. You don't have to be Latinos to appreciate
Latino culture. There are tons of people who love our
culture who just want to know more about it because
they're interested in it. And that's perfectly okay if you
don't have to shy away from that. And that's why
podcasts and that's you know, that's what it's for for
people of any background, whether you know you're Latino heritage
or you don't know your Latino heritage and you want
(39:30):
to be like, oh, I never realized that Marvel doesn't
do Latinos properly here. You know, there are trends of
how come every Marvel comic book character that's by racial Latino,
it's always the mother lad that's Latino. It's never Latino father.
You know, it's like these little things I want to
share where you want to talk with you to really
just get your creative juices flowing to get you going, like, hey,
(39:52):
the industry is kind of un not too nice to people,
and especially when it comes to Latinos, they kind of
just treat them like second class citizen. So yes, thank
you for let me plug it. I'm sorry I ranto
so much on this, but I really, like you said,
you open up thing of passion and I just can't start.
We love it, That's why we wanted you here. So
excited for it, I would have it no other way. Um.
(40:13):
And also, if our listeners want to tap in and
find you on TikTok, find you on Instagram, what are
the social what are your tags? What are your things? Yeah,
I'm at the Storytime Guy all one word. If you
ever want to email me anything too, I'm Storytime Guy
biz at gmail dot com. Email me whatever you I
get emails all the time. There's kind old ladies. Does hey,
(40:34):
can you talk about this today? Do anything you want?
Email me, talk to me, message me on Instagram. So please, yes,
at the Storytime Guy, message me. I love it and
I love seeing your videos and everything, and I hope
you love seeing my videos and everything. So there you go,
Matt storytime guy. It is time for the moment we've
(40:55):
all been waiting for. This is our moment of speed
question rounds. So I have some questions to ask you,
and we're going to hit him. Okay, what's something that
you love that would absolutely hurt you if your son
told you it was not cool? Of the comic books? Okay,
that's good. Specific comic book, Any comic books, Any comic book. Okay,
(41:18):
you can only save one franchise Marvel, d C Star Wars,
Lord of the Rings Marvel. That was fast. Okay. What
reminds you of home or makes you feel at home? Food? Yes, okay,
this is my last final question because I'm just curious.
(41:39):
What house are you? My wife's a griffin door. I'm
a griffin door to go grips. But yeah, so learing
a griffin door, we kind of get each other a
little bit. There's a balance vibe. Matt storytime guy, thank
you so so much for being on Moranita. It's been
an absolute pleasure getting to know you. I can't wait
to keep track of you, and now now I have
my kid to I haven't figured out my name yet
(42:01):
or anything, but I love being able to tap in
on your stories and m and learn from you. It's
it's from one from one geek to another. It's awesome.
So thank you for that back at you, and it's
just this is wonderful. I can go on and on
and on and on and just thank you so much
for being a wonderful, wonderful host. I love this podcast,
and yes, I can't watch some more from you. Yes,
(42:23):
thanks so much. Matt mon Anita is a production of
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