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December 27, 2023 48 mins

Join the laughter-filled therapy session as Curly and Maya reflect on the year that was 2023, proving that sometimes the best way to cope with life's curveballs is to laugh your way through them. Get ready for a podcast that's equal parts humor and heart.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ah, it's the end of twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
Hey, remember when Bad Bunny said yes, I remember his
expectations were a little too high on that one.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
You know, I still want justice for GOVI get in here.
My name is.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
Curly and I'm Maya and welcome to the Super Secret
bestI Club podcast. A super secret club where we talk
about super secret things.

Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yeah, like secrets that are super That's what it is.
In each episode we'll talk about love, friendship, heartbreaks, men,
and of course our favorite secrets.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Get in here, Welcome to another episode of the Super
Secret Besty Club Podcast. How you feel in Curly, how's
your how's your spirit?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
You know? Twenty twenty three has robbed me. It has
made the walls of this cahun Hoon tremble many a time,
so many times that even a blood vessel burst it
in my eye at one point. I've had to go
on a lot of different mental things for myself. But

(01:22):
I feel good. My spirit is actually really, really really good.
How's your spirit, Maya? Good?

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm just reflecting off of, like I don't know, just
all the things that I thought would happen this year
and then other things that did, and I'm just open
and ready to receive downloads. So with this episode, you
know how Spotify is Spotify wrapped. This is Curly and
Maya's twenty twenty three wrapped of the year.

Speaker 1 (01:50):
That's right, and get ready, buckle up, get ready for
the ride of your life this episode as we take
you back to.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Your year and year get a snack evening, Big.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
Maya, How did your twenty twenty threo go overall for you?

Speaker 2 (02:08):
It was very interesting because the year before twenty twenty
two was amazing. It was so good for me. I
traveled all over I felt like I was in my bag.
I was like doing all these different things. And then
everyone's like, oh, twenty twenty three is it's gonna be good,

(02:31):
but it's gonna be a little bit of a struggle,
like money wise. Remember when we were talking about it,
We're like, oh yeah, like people keep saying twenty twenty
three is supposed to be different, yeah, And then it was.
It was different. It definitely was a different year, you know,

(02:51):
but it helped me to really get my shit together
mindset wise, to be like, we're not going in scarcity
mindset hell no. So the year of getting out of
my scarcity mindset.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
I know, this year for me was kind of like
one of the hardest years for me, but I felt
very equipped to deal with it, Like I felt like
my entire life had been set up for me to
be able to handle this year, and it was really
like very interesting, Like I uh, but I feel proud
of myself with the way that I handled it. I

(03:27):
am ending this year feeling like an actual adult and
feeling like I have grown into the man that I
always wanted to be. And I'm not done, but I
do feel like, you know, like, we did good, kid,
We did good cue the country music. You know what.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Currently we did good kid. You're like on a rocking chair,
a rocking chair.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I've got wheat in my mouth and I'm spitting it
out my tobacco. But yeah, let's get let's get in there,
shall we. First topic, of course, our favorite topic of
the year of it just in general, was loved. How
did love go for you this year?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Loved kind of took a back seat a little bit
for me. So on TikTok they do their twenty twenty
three dating wrapped, so they're like, I went on fourteen
dates this year. So that's how I wrote this outline
is like, how many dates did you go on? How
many dates did you go on?

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Curly, Oh my god, I may I'm not as bad
as I was before my twenties, but I go on
a lot of dates. I don't really consider it. I
don't really call them dates anymore. They're dates, but I
just go when I hang out with people and I
see what I how I feel. But I've gone on
a lot.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
I would say, give give us a range.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Like, oh, I couldn't tell you. Maybe like I would say,
maybe like twenty, maybe for the whole year. Does that
sound too? Does that sound like small? It sounds small?

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Huh sounds small?

Speaker 1 (05:05):
What if I said like forty?

Speaker 2 (05:07):
Wow, that sounds like a lot.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
Yeah. I don't know. It's hard. I mean, look, I
don't usually I don't not usually. But I don't sleep
with guys, I don't hook up. I don't do any
of that. So for me, like a date is literally
just like hanging out and talking.

Speaker 2 (05:23):
So forty dates doesn't sound right.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
It doesn't sound right. I feel like maybe like mid twenties.
I would say yeah, because I also was seeing I
think it has to be like twenty because I kind
of I had like a. I was in a situation
a lot of this year. Yeah, for most, and I'm
very loyal. So I would say, like low eighteen's early twenties,
what about you, how many days have you been on M.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
Zero? I went on zero day?

Speaker 1 (05:54):
Yay?

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Oh my god, No, not Piggy. Well, I don't know.
I'm a hesitator, Okay. I think I had a crush
on someone for the first half of the year, and
it seemed promising at some point, and then I kind

(06:16):
of got sad about him, and then yeah, I just
feel like, you know how you have like the you
have two people in your love life or maybe three
on rotation that you get sad about, like every once
in a while, when you're done being sad about one,
you're like and then you remember what like, yeah, anyway,

(06:37):
So I feel like, I, yeah, it didn't really it
didn't hit for me this year. So I didn't. I
didn't go on any dates. Nothing that nothing that like
anybody would set up either.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, I will say, I will say just to give
you credit as your bestie, Like you didn't go on dates,
but you did go on a lot of those two
to two events three through three events.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
Yes to two two yeah, and I'm going to talk
about the friendships too.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
Yeah. I think that's really good because like it's not
like you're right, Okay, you're right. Yeah, I think that
you you're right.

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Let me explain that to to two is an AI
generated event thing. So basically, you fill out this whole
like personality test and then they set you up with
five people to have dinner with and random place, and
they're supposed to be people who are compatible. So you
could use it for love, or for networking, or for friends.

(07:33):
I used it kind of for all of it, and
I made a lot of friends this year, and who
knows if one of them could potentially be something, But yeah,
I did. I definitely did not stay in my comfort zone.
I definitely went out a lot, a lot, a lot
with people I don't know to practice conversation. So I

(07:55):
did try a lot crushes. How many crushes?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
How many crushes? It's hard, Like I really was in
this relationship, but I think I got like there was
maybe two guys outside of my relationship that I was
like once I broke up with my ex, Like I
was like, whoa, I really like this guy, Like he's
so different. And then the second guy had a crush

(08:23):
on and then now we're friends, and the second guy
had a crush on was like, oh shit, Like this
guy's so cool. He's also really different. So I would
say two crushes this year. What about you?

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I don't remember. I think I had that one and
then I don't know. I don't know. What do you
remember anything else?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
I think I know, like two who was the other one?
Wasn't there one that would draw photos? Remember he would.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Draw stuff like that was from like three years ago?
Oh okay, he'll always bring him up to the guy
who was dragging photos.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
Yeah, I mean yeah, I feel like this year was
just that. And then what about enemies?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Oh, have we made any enemies in love this year?

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't think so. I think I've had like heartbreak,
and the heartbreak makes it sometimes feel like somebody might
be a little bit of your enemy. But once you
get over the pain and you're like, it's fine, we
didn't work out. I don't hate you. I don't I
don't care, like I'm like, I'm good.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
There's definitely some heartaches this year, right for love? Yeah,
I remember crying over that guy who's just a pen pal,
like feeling so like why can't he just make the
move or why can't he just act like this guy
doesn't he didn't. We had been talking on Instagram for
like so long and he has not asked for my number. Still,

(09:55):
it was the end of the year.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I just roll my eyes so hard, and.

Speaker 2 (09:59):
Everybody any of my life was like girl, no, like
he's not into it, or no, like you know yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
I mean I was like, shoot your shot, shoot your shot,
tell me, say what's up?

Speaker 2 (10:09):
How come it's like only me shooting my shot.

Speaker 1 (10:12):
I feel like that's where I turned into like a
flair where I'm like, what's up, Like, let's do this,
and then I'm like and then I that's something that
I need to work on in therapy. Though, like I
told you that, I feel like I get very like
I want to hang and then I need and then
I like lose focus and I have to, you know,
focus on something. But I feel like for me, this

(10:34):
year was more of like the year of the heartbreak,
but also the year of knowing that I could survive heartbreak.
Right Like, I feel like I but I also had
a heartbreak in twenty twenty two, right or when did
I break up with my last boyfriend that was twenty
twenty one. Yeah, that was twenty.

Speaker 2 (10:55):
Twenty one single for a minute a little bit.

Speaker 1 (10:56):
Yeah, I was twenty twenty one. And then I met
my next person in two two, and then we were
we broke up three times, so they Yeah, we broke
up three times. Yeah, we work with three times. And
every single time we broke up it was like painful.
But by the third time I was like, it's fine,
just keep it going, bro, We're good, Like keep going

(11:18):
and just listen. But I feel like, you know, I
will say that the learning lesson for me this year
in terms of dealing with heartbreak and dealing with a breakup,
has been that it is always about you. It will
always be you are the one who can kind of

(11:38):
bring comfort and love and adoration to yourself. Speaking about
me as well, like it has always been me. It
is our journey. We pick up the pieces and we
keep moving and I am always as always within my
gratitude of having learned these lessons through heartbreak, through love,

(11:58):
through the cuddles and the kisses, Like how exciting is
it to be alive, to be able to experience other
people and kiss on them and hug on them and
get your heart broken, and you know, keep it moving.
How how wonderful it is to be alive?

Speaker 2 (12:15):
Truly that sounds like a song through the kisses in
the cuddle. The kiss is in the cuddles.

Speaker 1 (12:25):
How wonderful if you can, if you can take the
chance to fall along.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
Wonderful and get your heart a chance to fall in
love and get your.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Heart mad, truly, truly, like true. What are you feeling?
What do you want next for your twenty twenty four
I want?

Speaker 2 (12:48):
I am ready to be married, girl. I'm just ready
to settle it down. I'm ready to have my house,
ready to have like but potential, like in a couple
of years or so, like a pop out a kid.
Like I'm ready, you know, let's go.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
I feel like for the first time in my life,
I actually have no expectations I have you know what
I started to ask myself. I feel like my whole life,
I'm thirty six years old. My entire life, I've had
three goals. To have a successful career, to be in love,
find that perfect person, and to have my home. To
have a house. Everything that I have done in my

(13:31):
entire life has been in relation to those goals. How
can I get there? What can I do now in
this moment, with my afternoon, with my time, to reach
any one of those goals? And I asked myself, what
if I was told that I was actually going to
die within the next few years, How would that change me?
And how would I feel if if God was like,

(13:53):
you're actually not going to get those so just live
it up. And I thought, what would my life look
like in relation to not wanting to achieve, Like okay,
like you're not going to get the house, go instead,
go on a trip, you know what, You're not gonna
get your soulmate. Go instead hang out with so and
so and cuddle and kiss and if it doesn't work out,

(14:13):
it's fine. And if you don't get the uh, the house,
the man, or the success, like you get to define
what success means to you. And if success means that
you're in fucking Costa Rica right now, hugging up on
a Costa Rican, then congratulations. Grow. So I think that
for me twenty twenty four, in terms of love, I

(14:35):
actually have no expectations and I'm excited for the ride.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Good good, good good. What about we're going to talk
about ourselves? Like, yeah, what is something that you learned
about yourself this year.

Speaker 1 (14:49):
What is something you've learned about yourself this year? I
asked you, no, but I you, I asked you, yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
I feel like I learned to be comfortable with my
boundaries and not feel guilty for them. That's something that
I really learned, oh about myself. It's hard. It's a
hard question.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
It's a hard what has been my may think I
can go like my one lesson I learned about myself.
I will say that, honestly, there's there's something about like
getting older. There's something about understanding your mortality, I think,

(15:53):
and getting to a place with the self of going
like I've learned that I like enjoy sex more than
I thought I did. I am learning that I'm enjoying
my sexuality a little bit more. I'm learning that I
enjoy being quieter. I don't like to be the star
all the time. I mean, like needed to be the gay,

(16:17):
the person in the room. Because that's one thing that
I've learned is like I developed this big gay personality
as a young teenager to protect myself, and I felt
that I a lot of times needed to be the
gay in the room. And I think that as I've
gotten older, I've become okay with being a gay in

(16:39):
a room and being a human in a room and
not necessarily wanting to or needing to be the center
of attention in any way, and also that I'm horny.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Cool love it because you being the center of attention?
Why is that bad for you?

Speaker 1 (16:59):
Like?

Speaker 2 (16:59):
What does it have? Like bad?

Speaker 1 (17:01):
I know it's always been kind of bad for me. Huh,
I've never liked it. I don't know. I think that
for me, being the center of attention is always felt like, uh,
it's always something that I just have naturally received my
whole life, and I just don't And I think at
a young age, I was kind of told that in
order to be successful I had to be those things,
and I think that I just I also just liked

(17:25):
the idea of being able to maybe just do things
for me, you know, like I have mine.

Speaker 2 (17:35):
I found mine.

Speaker 1 (17:36):
Yeah, what's yours?

Speaker 2 (17:38):
I learned so much about myself this year, but more
so that I don't this isn't something to be bad.
This is something like super bad. But like if I
were to be alone for the rest of my life,
like I would be okay, Like it's not what I want.

(17:59):
And I I also realize that I'm never alone, like
and with that, like I've just got more comfortable with
my own presence without it needing to be defined by
a guy or a friend or my family member, Like
I validate my experience of where I'm at right now

(18:19):
and what I choose to do every single day. And
because I feel like I've been on you know, like
a cookie cutter not a cookie cutter thing, but like
going to college university, like I didn't go, I dropped out.
And then yet like we're getting to speak at colleges
and they see me as like worthy of mess, successful,

(18:44):
credible to be studied in a university Like that to
me signifies that there is not one way to get
to where you want to go. And I feel like
I need to follow the beat of my own heart drum,
you know, like follow my own wind and I'll get there.

(19:06):
But in the meantime, you know, it's been it was
lonely this year. It was really lonely this year. So
it but I didn't feel alone, you know, so I
think I really got it.

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Sounds like a song. It was lonely this year, but
I did not feel.

Speaker 2 (19:32):
Sounds like York. I was a little sad girl this year,
you know, but if that, if that made any sense
at all, I feel like I have a better sense
of myself since I turned thirty, Like where if there's
just some things that I'm like, you know what I

(19:52):
don't want to spend my time on if you like
me or not, Like I don't care that you don't
want to spend time with me and you want to
time with somebody else, or like I don't care to
be invited to whatever, like I may talk about it
and get upset, but don't give a shit, Like yeah,
I just don't because it's it is energy and energy
is so precious And just like what you were saying,

(20:15):
if we were to die tomorrow, like would I have
wanted to spend my last day stressed out because I
didn't get invited to a party or an event? Ye? Hello,
no no. And with that also it's it's I think
I learned that we also, like you said, make our
own definitions of success. So me going to events and

(20:37):
dressing up all that stuff like that's not success to me,
Like success is being able to do what we're doing
right now. Besties talking on this podcast.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Like hanging listening right, yes, like you.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Know, getting to make our own hours and truly doing
what we love. Like that is a success no matter
what how much you get paid for it, but it's
it's the happiness for me absolutely.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
I will say that too, that like with age and
every year that comes, no matter what happens, if you
can find ways to change your perception of what's going
on right like you know, take a moment to take
a step back and be thankful for the lessons and
who it's creating and who it's making you to be,

(21:26):
how it's molding you. I think that's really cool. Just
honorable mention too. My therapist this year was like, I
think you have kind of moved into more of like
a secure attachment style. So like even right now, I
was telling you that this guy I met on Tinder
was trying to tell me that I'm an avoidant attachment stid.
I'm like, I'm actually not an avoidant. I know that,

(21:48):
like because I have been working very hard and becoming
a secure and part of my secure attachment style right
now is saying that, sir, I just met you through
Tinder four days years ago. I don't owe you the
type of communication that you would give somebody in a relationship.
And because I'm a secure person, I can say that

(22:10):
to you and not worry about upsetting you or people
pleasing and setting my boundaries and being like figure I,
even though you're professional, figure your stuff out. That has
nothing to do with me. Jingaling ching ching as Beyonce says.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
As Beyonce says.

Speaker 1 (22:28):
Jingaling ching ting move.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
What are we proud of each other for this that
we did this year?

Speaker 1 (22:39):
I'm proud that you really stepped into your talents a
little bit more this year. Like you did an improv
show you headlined it, which is something I've been telling
you to do for a very long time because you're
so good at it. You've stepped into a lot of
things that I think made you feel uncomfortable, like on stage,
you know, in terms of showing other parts of your

(23:02):
talents as well. And I also, like, you know, the
Tucci Tooo thing that we talked about, I know that
that's something that was super out of your comfort zone.
Like you're somebody who is very comfortable being at home.
And I think the fact that you went out and
took a lot of chances in terms of experiencing different
things and people like I think that that's challenging for you.

(23:22):
So I'm happy that you did that as well.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Oh thank you. Yeah, you have been Curly has been
my biggest champion throughout my career, from the day that
I got from the day that we met, Like seriously,
there I always I feel so great. I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Cry every episode.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
I don't want to cry. No, I feel grateful to
have like angels all around me, you know, like our
community is just everybody. I feel like it is so helpful.
And when we see talent, like it's not something that
we are intimidated by. We are celebratory of, you know,

(24:05):
like because we've seen each other in our own magic.
So you know, there's a lot this year and last year.
I feel like I got i don't know, like coming
off with a high of like that big commercial that
I did for bud Light, which I don't condone bud
Light after all the transphobic stuff that they've done, but
after the success of that, I feel like I kind

(24:26):
of peaked a little bit. And you were like a
big reminder that you were Like you kept telling me
like no, girl, like you're funny, like keep going.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
I'm like okay, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, Like I mean,
I've always told you I see you as like Lucille Ball.
I see you as people describe Lucilla Ball as being
somebody who is Somebody said lucill Baul was a great
mixture of being somebody who was beautiful, like somebody who
you could look at and go, wow, she's so glamorous,
she's so beautiful, but she could also tap into her

(24:57):
comedy and be so relatable, and so they could hit
the Hollywood actress part, but they could hit the human part.
And that's how That's how I always see you, Like
you could walk into a room be really glamorous, but
then you could also, uh, you know, make a really
funny face and not be afraid to show the ugly.
And you're like, that is no, I don't do anything.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Do anything for a little for a little staying face.
So I this year, I feel like I really saw
you in relationships and stuff and in love, like you
have made an intense transformation from when I first met

(25:40):
you who you were dating or just your dating history
and stuff, like you have really worked put in the work,
clocked in in those therapy sessions and accountability, you know,
And I feel like I was a little nervous. There's
there was a point I feel like in when everything

(26:02):
was you guys were I don't.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Want to say too much with my situationship.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
With your situationship, Yeah, with your situationship. I was a
little nervous because you know, I feel like I was
like no, curly, no, Like I could see what was happening.
I knew this would happen. I knew it was not done.
You know, It's one of those things if you your
best friend starts dating someone who you don't like for

(26:27):
not reasons of you just being a bitch or being whatever,
but for genuine reasons if you don't like the way
they treat your best friend, and you see your best
friend they deserve way more because he because you have
been putting in so much work into like therapy, research,
You've been doing so much.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Research, actual research, because.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
If you were studying this as a course. So yeah,
not only that is you're smart about it. You're very intelligent.
So you know, there was a moment when, like, you know,
I feel like you you really got yourself through that shit.
That's just hard dat someone dated Like I remember, I

(27:13):
went through that shit when I was nineteen and I
was young like so young and I couldn't you know,
I was just flailing and it lasted for so many,
so many years after and it is painful, and I
truly believe that it did something to my brain, like
you know, but I feel like I'm I'm so proud
of you for fighting like you are a fighter.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Yeah, that's why I'm proud of myself too, Like I
feel like I'm like I did research, I gave patience,
I gave time, and I went back and I went deep.
I went under the water and I asked you and
my therapist and I said, I said too, and she's,
you know, brought up as I'm going underwater and if you,
at any point feel like something is happening, tug on that,

(28:01):
tug on that life cord and be like come up.
And I remember one session She's like, I'm tugging on
that life cord and I was like, okay, like I
have to come back up. I've learned everything I need
to learn. Thank you so much for the spiritual journey
that that was. I love so much who have grown
into being. I feel like I've always worked with future

(28:24):
Magic Curly as being like this is future Curly, like
chill curly and I feel like I'm at the beginning of.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
That and you're kind and you're nice. Kindness is everything.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
Yes, which leads us to our next one, friendships, Like,
how did you feel your friendships went this year?

Speaker 2 (28:43):
I made a lot of new friends through two to two,
the AI generated event thing, because they send them out
every single year around Los Angeles. I think they're coming
out in New York soon, and so like there's one
silver Leg there's in downtown. So you just kind of
show up and have dinner with these five random people.

(29:05):
And I've met so many people they came to my show,
like it was just something that is so special that
I feel like, I, you know, I feel like I
had a lot of friends through my work, through like
family stuff, and I feel like I'm like I want

(29:26):
to reach because I don't know, sometimes with our community,
everyone does the same thing, everyone's in it, and I
feel like I wanted to meet different people who had
nothing to do with what we were doing. But then
I ended up like meeting people who are in our
like creative circle, but I've just never met them before.
So it was amazing, like networked and everything. So but yeah,

(29:51):
I made some new friends this year. It's really cool.

Speaker 1 (30:10):
Yeah, I feel the same way too. I feel like
I met like a lot of new girlfriends who just
inspire me in a lot of different ways, who are
really good at balancing, like different things that I really admire,
right like you know, meish Prada, like just the way
that she handles things when she moves through life, Like
I just am like and have dinner at her home

(30:31):
and she just has is so welcoming, you know, like
even just kind of like getting closer to Gadiel our
late night talks that they will you know, walk me
through long conversations about dealing with my relationship and you know,
absolutely you know, continuing my relationship with Meli, like Meli

(30:55):
and Theejas who you know what is going through her
stuff right now, to Julisa Brado Gabbi from Riso's Curls,
like different people who I have known, but who this
year I've really tapped into a little bit more and
be in terms.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
Of the gems of our community.

Speaker 1 (31:11):
Absolutely, you know, just being like, oh, I'm hanging out
with people who I love so much, who I can
be myself around, who I can sit on a couch
with and just be really chill, but who also inspire
me in ways that I go, oh, that's so cool.
I wonder if I can do that too.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
And they're secure, absolutely, and they're not mean and they
didn't get to where they are by stepping on people.

Speaker 1 (31:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
And of course you know my besties like you Joyce,
the Ups, Johnny Betjuga, like my beautiful Michael, like different
relationships that I've had already that I just am continuing
to foster and hold really close to me as well.
But what do you feel has been your greatest friend
lesson this year?

Speaker 2 (32:00):
Oh, friend lesson? I feel like a lot.

Speaker 1 (32:06):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:07):
I feel like there's a lot oh assumptions I have,
really have. I've been working on my habit of jumping
to conclusions and making assumptions about people of what they
think or why they didn't invite me to this, or

(32:28):
why like I took everything so personal and even to
where like I would be like so stressed out of
like oh, like they said they were coming, like should
I save seats or should I do this and that?
And I'm like they didn't even message me to say
that they were coming. I'm like, and that's I'm like,
then they didn't even message me to see if to
say that they were coming. And I'm like, it's not personal.

(32:50):
We're all going to see each other, Like it's not
that big of a deal, Like if you wanted to
text them, you could text them, you know, like shit
like that where it's just like for what reas reason?

Speaker 1 (33:00):
For what reason?

Speaker 2 (33:02):
Am I like making a big stink about all this stuff,
like assumptions are the devil.

Speaker 1 (33:09):
I feel like for you, a big one has this
year has been control.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Oh yeah and control.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
Mm hmmm. I think that you're kind of being like
cause you're for those who don't aren't listening. Maya's more
of an A type and I'm more of like what
like a B type? Like A like a a B type?
What would you say?

Speaker 2 (33:25):
We're a's in different response in different fonts.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Okay, I like that, but I don't. I don't. I
feel like I'm like always like whatever about everything, Like
I'm like, yeah, it looks good.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
We switch. There's certain things I feel like I'm lax
on and then some that I feel like like different
different interests. But yes, type both type A with different fonts.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Look, if you say I'm a type A, I'm excited
for it because I feel like I need to step
my bussy game up. I feel like curly your teachers.

Speaker 2 (33:57):
I have a lot of freaking stuff on the fire really,
and a lot of cooks in the kitchen up there.

Speaker 1 (34:05):
I love that. I love that for me.

Speaker 2 (34:07):
Wait you wait, well, were you said you said that
I'm type A Oh.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
Yeah, and I was going to say that. I think
that you're learning to kind of be a little bit
more chill about let people people let them. Yes, let
people show up how they want to show up. Yes,
I'll do my part. But if you it's okay, do
your thing, you know.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
And it's not personal.

Speaker 1 (34:27):
My greatest friendship lesson this year has been the continuation
of the quality of your friendship is not determined by
how well you get along. It is determined by what
you can survive and get through. And so if you
can talk to people that you love and communicate, get
through it, get to the other side. It doesn't make

(34:48):
you better friends. If you never fight, it doesn't make
you worse friends. If you guys like don't see eye
to eye on things. If you guys can continue to
move forward through different iterations of yourself as a unit
as best friends, and get through things, You'll be fine,
which brings me to career, Like, how do you feel

(35:10):
like career wise?

Speaker 2 (35:11):
I I think there's a lot. Every single time I
had to do a performance live, I feel like and
I had to do a couple live this year that
I feel like were transformative, because that's where you really
have to work on your control. I got asked to

(35:34):
audition for Broadway for this Real Women's Real Women Have
Curves musical, and so I did that and.

Speaker 1 (35:42):
Would you have to tell the story of one day?
That story is so funny, We'll save it for another episode,
but it's so fucking funny.

Speaker 2 (35:47):
It That was probably a huge moment for me because
that's when I basically felt like I flopped and I
talked to the casting director. He came to my other
show and he was like, you didn't flop, But I
was like, I did flop, and I'm yeah, I'm not
like classically trained or anything. So it but the fact

(36:09):
that they found me on social media and saw me
like worthy enough to audition and still like encourage me
to keep going, like even though it was so intimidating,
like that was probably the coolest thing that happened because
It's such a freaking bucket list, dude. Like all my life,

(36:30):
I've wanted to be associated with Broadway, on Broadway, whatever,
but I did not have the money to go to
school like that or to take the lessons. I had
a dad who was my music teacher basically, which is great.
And for a Phoenix Desert girl to audition it for Broadway, bitch,
you can't tell me anything.

Speaker 1 (36:50):
You did it for the girlies. You did it for
the Desert girlies.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
I didn't get it, but not this one, but the
next one.

Speaker 1 (36:58):
But the next one, the next one.

Speaker 2 (37:01):
It was just such a bucket list and it was
completely far out of my comfort zone. So what about you.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
I feel like career was a little bit different this year.
I kind of had to like pivot in a lot
of ways with the strikes that were happening. But I
will say that one of the ones that really helped
me a lot was not help will help me financially
and really just you know, I was super excited about

(37:33):
was being able to talk about death on with PBS.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
You know, Yes, that was a whole ass show. He
hosted a whole ass show for PBS.

Speaker 1 (37:43):
Yeah, that was super dope. Like I hosted a show
about death. I love talking about all of that stuff.
I'm not afraid to talk about grief. I'm not afraid
to talk about uh my own death, the death of others.
It is something that I'm very comfortable holding space for
and I'm thankful that I had the opportunity to talk
to different people in the death community in terms of

(38:05):
what and all the different things that go into this
one huge sacred moment in life, which is death. So
for me it would be my PBS show. It's called
Dead and Buried, by the way, so I for YouTube
Dead and Buried Curly Velasquez PBS. You can watch all
the episodes a bay. So my top three media moments

(38:30):
off the top of my head of twenty twenty three
that I was very excited about was I want to
start with my favorite musicians, I will say or musical
artists this year have been City Girls. City Girls have
really reminded me of like my sexy side in a

(38:51):
lot of ways and kind of like who I was
in my twenties and allowed me to kind of experience music,
particularly hip hop and in a similar way as I
did in my twenties. Being excited about hearing Rapera's kind
of say things that are so far from what I

(39:13):
would say but secretly would like to say. And I
really love, like.

Speaker 2 (39:19):
What what's an example?

Speaker 1 (39:21):
There's a line from The City Girls. It's a song
called which I really love, and she goes, why are
you in my business sir? For this conve is gonna
cost you a fur? And I just love that, you know,
She's so like, why are you why are you talking
to me? Like for this whole ass convo, you'd better
buy me a fur. I'm too nice, Like I literally

(39:44):
would be like, oh, yeah, hello sir. Oh you know, yes, hire,
nice to meet you. But I just love like the
idea of being at a space where you're like like
you're wasting time is money and like you need to like, uh,
pay up if you want to talk to me, which
I just love, Like it's so far, but I, you know,
would love to be in a bar being like why
are you in my business? There? But this com is

(40:07):
gonna cost you a fur? You know, I'm not doing
it any justice, but.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Mine has to be. Beyonce Beyonced Beyonce Beyonce Renaissance was
life changing. I listened to it the entire year and
last year, like when I listened to it in Europe
when I was in Europe, because I felt very uncomfortable,

(40:33):
like solo tripping on a group trip, and there were
a lot of like non broad and black people, and
they everything they thought I did was exotic, like I
was exotic, and so I had to listen to Renaissance
to anchor myself. So I listened to that and then
the Renaissance film.

Speaker 1 (40:55):
Yeah, so good, so so good.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
The moment, that's the only thing I have spectacular.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
I just looked up like top some of the top moments,
and one of the ones that cracked me up in
my head is Angela Bassett did the thing. I remember
how it was just became a song like Angela Bassett
did the thing.

Speaker 2 (41:20):
And Angela Bassett did the thing.

Speaker 1 (41:22):
Yeah, that woman, Oh my gosh, she's.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Laughing all the way to the bank because she's a
new she was she a Disney princess in the New movie.

Speaker 1 (41:34):
I didn't see it, I don't know, but we did
talk about to you know, Angela Bassett did the thing.
Shakira had a really crazy year. We did see somebody.
We did see Harry Styles spit on that guy. Rihanna Allegedly,
Rihanna also performed at the Super Bowl wearing to me
it was I was a little bit bored she's pregnant,

(41:56):
I know, but I was just like, I just I
like costume changes. Call me gay, call me gay, but
I like.

Speaker 2 (42:04):
As a pregnant woman, costume changes.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
You could have done layers like you could have you
could rinp.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Off layer by layer, as a holding a whole growing
a whole ass human in your belly. I'm not doing
costume change.

Speaker 1 (42:16):
I'm just going to say one thing, fiance did it.

Speaker 2 (42:19):
I know she did it.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
She did do it. Not to point fingers anybody, but
one thing that we were discussing before the recording of
this episode was kind of like a little bit of
the downfall of Bad Bunny this year, which I also
thought was really interesting.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
I'm still I would argue with you on that. Still.

Speaker 1 (42:41):
Look, I'm mad at how he treated Gabby. I'm mad
that he I think he used her her voice on
one of his tracks without any permission. I think it
was her was the girlfriend before.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
I'm not saying I support any of it. I'm just
saying that he's still very much like this was his
year SNL for him to be on snlasting was like
a big ship that happened, and it was Kendall Jenner.
He did that that campaign. It was he had a
huge year. Yeah, So, I mean I thought the SNL

(43:15):
was like cute and funny. It was great to have,
Like I said before in a previous episode, like it
was great to have like a lot of Latino references
that maybe we have done before, especially Jenny Lorenzo has
done before years before. And now it's just being on
TV and a prooved for TV. But like, yeah, this
was his year.

Speaker 1 (43:34):
It was.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
I thought it was okay. I thought it was. There
were cute moments, but like once Shrek became on SNL,
like it's gone. Shrek is gone anything SNL does. Sorry,
I love SNEL, but it's over.

Speaker 1 (43:56):
And now for a zodiac section, what side?

Speaker 2 (44:04):
What signs are we more curious to learn about next year?
I'm thinking a little bit like dating wise, I feel
like I'd want to maybe hang out with like Galo.
I've I dated a Leo a long time ago, a
long time ago, eighth grade. Yeah, and I didn't I

(44:27):
didn't kiss him because he had milk crusted on his lips. Oh,
the Ajob Miller.

Speaker 1 (44:33):
Yes, Wow, I would totally be very interested in getting
to know more Scorpios and more Geminis because you said
that I had Gemini in my eighth house and that
I should consider getting to know a Gemini in terms
of love situations.

Speaker 2 (44:50):
Yeah, because Taurus is you've been You've been associating yourself
with some Earth signs that are in your seventh house,
which makes sense. But you know, same thing for me.
I have Libra and Virgo, So should I.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
Try to Libra? Why are you business? Sir? That's what
I'm going to say to all the tourists is next year?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Well, thank you so much for listening to another episode
of the Super Secret Bestie Club Podcast. We're so excited
to have been with you guys for another year, and
we're excited to be here another year hopefully.

Speaker 1 (45:30):
Yeah, and hang out with us next year. We'll be
back next week. We're so excited to talk to you
and chat with you, and we're so grateful that you
spent twenty twenty three with us. We're hoping that you
take us into twenty twenty four, keep growing with us,
keep learning this.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
We're casting a spell. We're casting a love spell right now.

Speaker 1 (45:48):
Yes, It's going to be a great year. No matter
what happens. By time you hear this, it might be
we might be a few days away to twenty twenty four.
No matter what happens, know that it is. It's going
to be great. It's gonna be amazing.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Can I do a little thing? Can I do a
little thing? Everyone closed their eyes. Okay, take a deep breath.
And as we transition out of this year into the
next year, we are transitioning with strength, clarity, so much
self love that is making our cups pour over and

(46:25):
into other cups, and other people's cups are flowing into
your cups. And you're like, is this alcohol? You're like, no,
it's grapefruit juice. So you take a sip of it.
You're like, this is too sugary. I don't know about this.
Are you trying to poison me? Sorry? Basically, what I'm saying,
let go of some of the weight from this year,

(46:47):
like some of the baggage. Let go some of the baggage.
Be okay, to let it go. And you know, pack
a light bag for twenty twenty four. How about that?
Pack a light bag, a bag for twenty three.

Speaker 1 (47:00):
I love that, pack a light bag, Pack a light bag,
keep it moving.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
Yeah, you're just going on a weekend trips.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Well, Maya. Where can people find you on social media?

Speaker 2 (47:09):
You can find me at my in the Moment, m
A y A in the Moment, anywhere you scroll what
about You?

Speaker 1 (47:16):
You can find me at the Curly v Show on
Instagram or TikTok. I forgot what the name of the
applis for a second, Thank you so much for listening
to another episode of the super Cheaper Schiper Besty Club.
We love you, Happy Wow.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
Wait, you guys are going to be hearing the past
versions of us last year. We're in the past right now.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Happy New Year, be safe, Happy New Year, fireworks, fireworks, fireworks, fireworks.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Got kay? Who's going to be my New Year's kiss?

Speaker 1 (47:47):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (47:47):
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