April 17, 2024 • 49 mins
33-year-old, Spanish Certified Freediver, & SCUBA Diver, Irene Escuer, is a Professional 3D Character Animator. Her work has been featured in motion pictures like the Spanish film, Tadeo Jones 3, the motion picture, Luck which can be seen on Apple TV, as well as movies like, Woody Woodpecker and Spellbound, on Netflix. Irene, also an accomplished veteran gymnast, will be competing in her first championship later this month. Irene's creative nature inspired her to combine Gymnastics & Freediving
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W FOURCY Radio. Welcome to outdoorsPeople with me. Cw Getz and her
Maya mar Zaki. Good evening.It's Wednesday, April seventeenth, twenty twenty
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four. Is that like the DJA? Like the rock and roll DJ?
On the radio? Wednesday, Aprilseventeenth, twenty twenty four. I used
to say something like Sunday Sunday Everthat you may have that commersonal was the
Actually, I don't know what youare talking about. Here at Chicago,
we had the drag racing commercials,you know, and the guy would go
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Sunday Sunday, you know, anda dragstrip name or whatever. It was
kind of cool. I was likethat guy's voice. Today in north central
Illinois, we have a whopping sixtythree degrees fahrenheit, which and by the
way, that is cloudy and windy. Sixty three degrees so not that much,
but it's really windy here. Thatis eighteen degrees celsius missus Marzaki down
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there and brizzy. What do youwhoa? Of course it is a warmer
here right right, even though it'sfall, still hot, but not as
hot as Florida where who on itis, But well it is seventy five
degrees fahrenheit and free world twenty fourdegrees. That shows I'll trade you,
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I'll trade you. Look at oneone says I eighty degrees cold. It's
South Florida, so he's freezing downthere at eighty Oh my gosh, eighty
eighty degrees. That's hot, man, Oh my god. I don't you
don't start getting hot in my programhere until you get to anything past eighty
five eighty six degrees and it startsgetting hot, you know, oh my
gosh, for me, like sevenfive, it is pretty much hot.
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You would like this sixty three degreeprogram here we got going on. You
would be at home with that rightlike too nice. But that what is
that that down jacket you've got thaton there? Yeah, eighty eight midday
and that's that's a sunset pieces inFlorida. So that's interesting. Now,
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Well, I like your weather oneand eighty eight is hot. It's getting
hot. Yeah, but he's usedto it. He's cold at a degree,
so I totally get that. Yeah, I kind of get it right.
Yeah, mister Garcia freezing? Isheinie? A? That there?
An eighty degrees? I love it. Well, let's meet Let's meet our
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guest this evening, shall we?Yes? Please? I'm looking forward all
right. Thirty three year old Spanishcertified free diver and scuba diver, Irene
A Square is also a professional threeD character animator. Her work has been
featured in several motion pictures like theSpanish film to Dale Jones three, the
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motion picture Luck, which can beseen on Apple TV, as well as
movies like Woody Woodpecker and Spellbound onNetflix. Irene, also an accomplished veteran
gymnast, will be competing in herfirst championship later this month. Most notably,
this Spanish superwoman's creative nature inspired herto combine gymnastics with free diving.
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His music is saying you to theaudience, but in a really beautiful way.
It's like, I love you,Let me play some beautiful music,
you know. So there's this feelinglike they're gonna do whatever they want and
then assert their own will and notworry about how it's being understood or whatever.
And yet the wonderful thing about thatis that it speaks to evil.
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No. Well with that. Welcometo the show, Irene. How you
doing? Hello? How are youdoing? How is your weather? It's
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beain this evening? What kind ofit's fifteen degrees? But ps use,
I don't know if I hide howmuch? Is it? All right?
I'm reaching for my handy little Peterchard here. Fifteen degrees? What is
three degrees for me? Wait?Oh, I'm in the negative section.
Let's try that. Fifty five?About fifty five degrees? That's that's yeah,
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it's like you, it's good.Yeah, yeah? Are you Is
this jacket weather for you over there? Are you pretty much used to this?
You know? Outside? I mean, is this kind of is it
jacket weather for you in Spain?Or you just kind of this is?
Yeah, We're used to this.Fifty five No problem, God, it's
not. It's good. Yeah,that's cool. You guys like all that
cooler weather. Yeah, it islike coldfortball weather, like nice, not
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hot, not cold. I lovethat weather. That's just perfect hot.
So in summer here in Madrid itis really hot. You you don't want
to be here. Yeah, Actuallyall people from Madrid want to go away.
Is it Madrid or is it isit uh Brazil hot? Or is
it just you know what kind ofhet is it? Like? How how
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does it get there? It's notlike we hat because there is no water
here in Madrid because we're in thecenter of the depending of the country.
But it's like so, I don'tknow. The air is like I don't
know, human, yeah, wet, but you're right, right, yeah,
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exactly cool, exactly really hot.Yeah, but you know that's funny
because the temperature doesn't go as hardas here in Brazil. But the feel
is like worse, feels like hotterthan actually it is. I don't know
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if because it is really wet.I don't know, but it feels like
odder than it is, right,I feel like that. I don't know.
You can tell me better. Youlive in Madrid. Yeah, yeah,
for sure. For examples, youknow, the weather is is it's
hot, but it's for me it'sbetter because it's not too warm. But
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here is like I don't know,help, oh my gosh, per girl.
But well, such in a youngage you became involved in art and
also athletics. What influences aled youto pursue each of these interests. Well,
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since I was a child, Ihave always had a certain police position
of sondra and dance and sing.And I think my parents realized that or
maybe they want me to go homevery retired at that age because I was
so very energetic child. And yeah, and they they tried to put me
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in some places. I started withsinging, after that dancing and then playing
some instruments slap and guitar. Yeah. First of all was that, For
example, in dancing, I wasborn in the north of Spain, near
France, and the most typical forflored was called Hotah, So I think
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everyone knows from the north that isthe most typical thing to do like dancing,
sing in Hotah, and it wasmy beginning from that. But for
example, in gygnastics, it wasn'tsince four years ago that I started because
one friend of mine wanted to trysome areal stuff near our Europe, and
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yeah, I said, yes,why not, let's try it. And
for example, she was very interestedin ideal silks. But for me,
I really liked poul dancing because itinvolves some polytical stuff and it was really
near like a technical ballet skars andI really liked it because I really like
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music and choreography and things like that. And I said, okay, we
can put combine both things like balletand choreography, music and also do some
really hard sports in the in thepool. So yeah, it was the
beginning of that. That's pretty cool. Actually, yeah, well go ahead,
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maya, no, no, no, sorry, I was just like
going to say, like, okay, like just the beginning. She began
with everything, you know, justbegin yea. Also, how very impressive.
Sorry, how did I think workinto all this? How did you
get into the diving part of it? Then? Well, I have always
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laid water, and you know,when when you're a child, you are
going to underwater to I don't know, to looking for some stuff, you
know, diving in the pool orsomething. But actually it was last year
that I do I did my firsttrip to my lips and yeah, it
was all the whole week and goingto the water every day. It was
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super funny because you know, manypeople really prepare themselves to go to that
trip, like getting their first divingcertificate or even doing the first free diving
course for that trip, but Ijust didn't do it, and I just
went to the to the trip withoutknowing anything out of that. But it
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really amazed me how people going sodeep in the underwater and you know,
kid, they breath as much asthey can, and it really surprised me.
But I didn't even think about it. It was there when I met
my current free diving instructor and he'sa professional photographer underwater and he saw me
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just diving, you know, withsnorkeling in the surface doing something and like
all the stuff, and he justtold me, you are you seem really
color underwater. Why don't you tryto do some free living, go go
deeper and deeper? And I don'tknow, and I said, yeh sure,
just tell me how to do it, and he told me some tips
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and I really practiced it during thewhole week during the trip and it was
really cool. I really love it. And he told me, okay,
let's go to do the free divingcourse with me, come to an island
and in January you will start todo freedom incourse. And that's what I
did, and I you know,I started three months ago, I think
from sofa how many months ago?How many months age? In January?
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Like for four months right now?Yeah? And did he was actually took
your picture, isn't it? Isthat right? He was the one that
took exactly exactly and actually was thesemonths last month ago in March, I
just got my certificating Advanced Free Dating, which is the next level of the
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course. So yeah, in fourmonths, Holy smoke. Wow, Michael
Jordan, there many people we arereally better at it. That's that's so
funny. Oh my gosh. Yeah, and you are pretty good actually,
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but for people who doesn't know Latinpeople, of course I don't have those
talents. But to make people understand, we grow up with music, with
dance, with typical festivals and stufflike that, so it's kind of normal.
But you have like real talents.Thank you. You eat like higher,
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that's that's crazy. And talking aboutthat, how did you incorporate those
genesic skills you have with free diving? Well, actually that idea came up
with again, my instructor avoided becausewhen when we met, he saw many
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pictures of my stuff on Instagram doingsummarial seeks, rope hope and all that
kind of area circus and stuff.And for him, he already do a
photography session of Ariel Hoop before,and he said, why don't we try
to combine again the gymnastics skills thatyou have with free diving, because you
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already know how to do free divingand you can stay underwater a lot of
minutes, so why don't we dothat? And he said, Okay,
it's gonna be a good challenge becauseit's not like a normal thing to do,
you know, and it was like, okay, go go for it.
So it was like, yeah,last March one when ago that I
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go. I went to Canarrea Island, and he said, yeah, let's
let's do it in that moment becauseyou're going to do the Advanced free diving
course and let's go to the photographysis. And you know, it's that's
very curious because I watched many videoswith you know, people doing some ballet
dancing underwater, which is very beautifulto see, but I didn't see many
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videos or stuff like you know,doing gymnastics things underwater with hoop or rope
or whatever. So it was veryinteresting to do. Are you the first
one to do the aerial hoop underwater? I don't think so. Maybe I
don't think so. Maybe not anotherwoman or man do it before. But
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for me that I know, Iwas staking the second person because the first
one was the girl, the girlwho who take the hoop with us underwater,
and he already did the session beforewith with Voitex. So I just
you know, one more woman thathow do you suspend that who water?
Where is it hanging from like offthe boat or something or what? How
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do you hang that thing? That'sa very good question because you know the
end of the technical aspect. Ijust say, I'm just the you know
the model here, right, becauseyou know, the the hoop is not
very heavy. It's heavy, butyou know, the water nothing is really
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heavy. So the hoop was attachedfrom the surface with you know the boy
that the balls that get you know, the separate distance in the in the
sea and yeah, so it wasjust attached from the surface and it was
very difficult for us to try todo the photoshoot because it was not very
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good conditions of the sea. Also, it was very windy. The water
was really really cold. You know, normally when we do free diving,
it's like we have like a newprind sweet your print. Yeah. Yeah,
so we were protected from the fromthe cold, actually the from the
water, but not in this time, because you are going to you know,
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somewhere is going to the pictures fromyou and you're not Yes, you
need like a cute swim suite forthese pictures. It's not going to be
protective from the course, it's goingto be like this, like that water
your teeth every when you were shewas all purple cold. She was also
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good, I remember that, Ohmy gosh. And also there was you
didn't look like you were crying oranything, so that's good. You know,
it was a talent. Actually itwas a very talent. But you
know he had a good vision becausewhen you were there scene are doing those
uh circles and a PROGRESSI and likestuff like that. It feels like you
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are flying. And I feel likethe same feeling you have you can get
when you are free diving, feelslike you're kind of a flying but in
the water. And the pictures showthat, like show like feels like you
are almost flying in the water,like feels like in the air. I
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don't know. It's very like snoothyand a flow. I don't know.
I think that was such a goodidea, Like you guys rock, Yeah,
it feels like actually underwater. Yourparents, I wonder what were their
reaction when you said, yeah,I'm gonna be a free diver, I'm
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gonna go down and you know,and then and then the gymnastics underwater too,
what they say to all that?God, my parents, well question
worms I could see right now.Yeah, well, regarding gymnastics stuff,
you know, they they weren't reallyaware very much about it. So it's
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like, you know, they seemlike, oh, you are going to
do like the circle, the circleof solet or something like this, and
it's like no, no, no, no, relax, it's gonna be
near the floor. It's okay,everything's gonna be fine. Just you know,
the hoof the ball is fine.And my parents okay. But but
one day I just show show themmany videos of doing some choreography, but
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it was like five or seven metershigh, and then you know, the
reaction changed because they thought it waslike I don't know, maybe one meter
doing some kind of stuff, butnot like, I don't know, three
minutes of song doing very dangerous andstuff. Do you have kats underneath like
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like the what do you call thosemats? So you can land on them
if you fall it that like likecrash beds in the country, right,
I hope not. Anyway, wehave saved you everywhere. Yeah, so
it's not it's not like that,but you know it's true that we we
do this stuff like many hours duringthe week. So finally at the way
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we have so many I don't know, bombs and your boddy gets a little
bit hurt and it's ugly than itis than it's that it really is.
But you know, it seems likeI was in a fight or something and
my parents asked me, are youokay? Have you ever been in a
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fight? Really? I mean,you've never been in a fight, have
you. I don't know what thatfeels like, I hope. Yeah.
Apart from that, regarding gymnasties,they were fine. But in freedom,
I mean actually it was a reallydifferent different reaction because you know, they
know I'm not going to to breatheunderwater. So yeah, that's a fact.
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My mom and doesn't understand the pointof doing this, because it's like,
why are why do you need togo so deep? Why you're not
going to see anything because it's sodark? What is the point of doing
this? And I don't know,of course, or keep my rest like
three minutes or something. Why doyou need to take you so long?
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What is the point of that?You can do? You can hold your
breath for how many How long canyou hold your breath for? Three minutes?
You said three minutes, but inthe static like doing nothing and like
three minutes? Wow, wow,My dad don't doesn't care at all.
My dad is like, you arehappy doing this, that's okay. He's
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giving up with me. Typical parent, right, whatever do you want?
You will anyway? Yeah? Youdo? You right? Sorry? What
just my mom? I want towants to want meet when she asked me
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every day to grade her to sayyeah, I'm alife, So she's not
going about yeah, she doesn't understandI'm what you're thinking. I'm sure a
lot of times. Yeah, AndI feel sorry for all parents from the
people interviewed, because we interviewed justlike crazy people like you, but good
crazy in my point of view.So I feel sorry for out those parents,
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poor people. Yeah, you probablyhad a little that too, didn't
you? Your mom with yours?Once she called me on a Sunday like
screaming on me on the phone overthe phone like I hate seen your pictures.
And I was like, okay,so stop seeing my pictures. I'm
looking at them. That's so easy. And my my my father was said,
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uh, did you like feel likestaying at home and enjoying at flick?
Sometimes I'm like, oh, youknow, I didn't buy a television
just to make sure I'm not goingto feel that a way like never.
So yes, for guys, mh. But let's talk about something your parents
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love that I'm sure about your jobabout New York, So tell us about
the type of work you do forliving and about your time in New York
City. Yeah sure. And I'mcurrently working as a Tred character animator.
And yeah, we participating doing movieslike what else you already talk before Street
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Hearing in Spanish production like that.You can watch it in Apple TV.
They Bigger and spell Bound, thenew one that is going to be released
this year Netflix. And yeah,I also working in video games to Imtroddread
and television series but there was areally recent studies that I had like five
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years ago, but it wasn't mybeginning. I started studying business and management
marketing and market research that allows meto work in the Spanish consulate in New
York. And I was working therefor one year in half more or less
actually, and yeah, so far, it was the most rating experience I
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have ever had at work. Andyou know, I couldn't do my RESMUS
program when I was studying marketing inmarket research and it was like appoints in
my heart and they couldn't do that. And I was so so excited to
go a growth and do and wehave like over six overseas experience in that
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and it was really amazing, reallyreally amazing. But actually it was there
when one colleague from the Spanish consulictjust saw me drawing, singing Disney songs,
always talking about you know, animationon movies and stuff like that,
and suddenly she asked me, whydon't you just work on that? And
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I really didn't even think about it, because you know, I was like
an automatic Pilo. I don't knowif my in my life, and I
realized that at that moment that islike it, yes, why not?
And but you know, for me, I even I didn't even think about
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it. Like for me, itwasn't like even possible, you know,
just you watch a movie. ButI didn't realize that I couldn't do that
kind of stuff. And also I'ma very you know, creating, creative
and energetic person. And then Ijust ask myself, do I see myself
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in ten years doing the same thinglike here? Or what do you want?
What do you really want to do? So yeah, I started to
investigate so hard about animation. Istarted a master degree in graphic design in
New York because also I didn't wantto waste already my time studying the market
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the marketing that I already have thatstudies. I want to combine, like
how I can do it both thingslike animation is very different from what I
already studied. But if I doI don't know study like this graphic design,
maybe I can combine summer three Dsoftware or I don't know computer stuff
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something like that will figure it outhow it's going to be. And yeah,
I studied the graphic design degree inNew York and then I come back.
I returned through Spain in Madrid,and then I started studying my master
degree in animation. Yeah, itwas really a challenged you know. My
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my parents were like, okay,what happened? What happened now? Because
you already have two degrees one masterdegree and you decide to change all your
life. I don't know, manyyears because it was two degrees and it
takes time in it like yeah,no, no, I want to to
work with with Avery. Completely differentthing right now. But yeah, it
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was that was five years ago,and I can I can tell right now
that I'm working that I really wantto what I really want to do and
what I most enjoyed. So well, there's a reason we call this episode
Spanish Superwoman. There's a reason.Yeah. And speaking of work and you
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and your you know your your hobbies, I guess we'll call it. But
how do you balance? I mean, how do you find time to balance,
you know, between work and familyand personal life and all that.
How do you how do you workthat balance out? Well? I'm a
reorganized person, that's true for afact. But you know it's true that
I have a really tight schedule.But I you know, for important things,
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I always have time. For example, I have mostly of weekends I
meet with my friends, my family, or dating or whatever. For example,
my my brother Lee lives with hisfamily here in Magic, so I
can escape any weekend afternoon and goto visit him. It's true that,
for example, my parents that theyare living in WESTCA, which is four
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hours from Madrid my car. Soyeah, sadly, and for them I
cannot see then the most frequently thatthey really liked. But yeah, for
friends, it's to the same times. My friends that want to see me
is like, okay, let's plentytwo weeks in advance, because Irene has
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like a really scalus, so let'smake sure we can meet that day schedule
exactly. So yeah, sometimes thathappened. But you know, if there
is something important or whatever, Ican you know, riskle or cancel a
class. It's not a big dealor so no problem. Like being on
the show, for example, Yeah, I love it. Well, they
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need to understand because you are arockstar, right, you have so many
things to do, so they mustunderstand it. Rockstar right? How how
rocksters do right? Right? AndI'm talking about that like ce double is
right, the name of the shows, like Josh perfect, you are you
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have so many talents. You arethe real geo the lip like rock star.
You are talented on sports, youare athletic, you're a super nerd
and talented girl. So that's socool. And you can combine all of
that and do your like best,you know, whatever you do. So
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that's that's pretty nice. And butyou know, life, it is not
just flowers. So have you everhave you ever oh my sorry, have
you ever anything scary happened while youwere diving sides of the colde of course,
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stuff like that. God. Yeah, it was two situations that I
really remember very well. First ofall, it was in Maldives as well,
last last year in September, andyou know, we we used to
swim with sharks, no sharks,and it was like the first time I
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swung with sharks, and it wasa really great experience. And it's there
is a protocol that you must followfor behave with sharks. For example,
you cannot you must have your handsclose to your body while swimming because your
fingers can It's very similar like afish movement or something. So I don't
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know, maybe they can be confusedyou for that. And don't splice under
the world and in the water.And also keep an eye contact to the
sharks, and for me, itwas like, Okay, I got it,
no problem, let's go diving andthat's it. And it was like
a video photos pictures under underwater,and I remember that it was some you
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know, the guy gets on somethat fish to attract the sharks and going
closer to us, and there waslike a sea current. So I my
theory of that is that I wasvery close to them, to the dead
fish, and I just go gounder the water and it's just so two
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sharks approaching me and that's my body, but nothing that hurts me. So
I just follow swimming and then Ijust saw a shark just in front of
me, and they tried to beatmy taste and I could react. I
heard you go like that exactly becausedid they make draw blood or anything or
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no? What? Sorry? Didthey get blood? Did you get did
you did you? Okay? No? No, no, no, no?
Why she's alive? O my god, people lived through I heard that
in the video. I go,she just got bit. That's so wild.
No. Fortunately I could react soquickly, and yeah, you know,
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just the swim suite get the mostawful part, because you know,
they see what I would sink ofthe swim suit, but fortunately not my
body, so it wasn't a bigscary but it was that fortunately did you
tell your parents about that? Butoh yeah, sure, I was super
proud of myself. What mom,and guess what happened today? I'll never
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guess. Oh, sorry, youasked her if she got in a fight?
Yes, she did with you didn'twant to. I don't know the
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movies, Yeah, it was funny. Well there's the movie Jaws. This
is when that comes to mind.But that was a long time ago.
I need to carry movie ready.Yeah, yeah, kind of was for
the time. It was really scary. I mean that was we never had
anything like that before. See,I going to have you tell us about
the upcoming gymnastics event Aerial Championships thatyou'll be competing and tell us about that.
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Yeah, it's going to be nextweek. I'm so excited as going
to today because it is my firstcompetition and actually I think it's the first
a real art championship that is goingto be made in Hearing Madrid, because
there is so many ProDance competition butnot about a real skills so it's I
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think it's the I think it's thefirst one and it has been very well
received for the people who really wantedto compete, and it's really exciting.
Actually, there are like three categories. It's a matter pro and artist.
And for example, in my case, because it depends on how many years
have you been practicing each sport andif you are I don't know, professional,
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or you are a coach and youhave been practicing I don't know for
your whole life, taine years,whatever, maybe you're going to be in
the artist, which is the mostimportant category, the most difficult one,
and in my case, because Ijust did it for three years, is
going to be the first one thematter and will consist in doing some choreography
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stuff. In my case, theI choose the area hoop, which is
my favorite element. And yeah it'slike three minutes twenty seconds of the song,
so yeah, we have to combinesome are your skills and do some
choreography also dancing on the floor.Yeah, like artistical stuff like this.
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So yeah, are you competing likewith people who do this for a living,
this is their profession. I mean, are you going to be with
these professional people or is it justis it gene? How does that work?
Well? For example, in mycase. In my category is the
people who have never competed before asme and ok yeah, the same years
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that they have been practicing in theelements and the other category. You know,
we we are separated by categories ofhow many years have you been practiced?
Okay? So yeah for the mostpro people, who are you going
to be competing against? You know, like these people have been doing this
for you know, fifteen years orsomething. Holy crap, that's a lot
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exactly, not very fair. That'sgood. God, I'm sorry to go
ahead by no, she's Nephro andshe's good and rock star and fast learners.
So you know, like why notdo you think you're going to win?
You think you're going to take firstand on all these things or what
what are you thinking? How's yourconfidence level? How's that? I'll just
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ask it that way. Well,I have confidence, but you know it's
always the first time, first time, so always it's like you get nervous.
You have the anxious of doing sowell, maybe so pressure, but
just by myself, not from theother people. Just wanted to do it
so so perfect. And we seeyou might want to take a little belt
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or something of a little whiskey beforeyou go on, don't tell you?
Yeah, your such a good idea. Well, you know something, we
are in my best part of thisshow, the part we see some photos
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that I knew that was a pointto you. So one, can you
show us the pictures the rock starpictures? Look at that? You know
we never talked about the rope,did we? Or whatever you call it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ropewith I've been doing this just one
year, so I'm not very goodon it. But for me, do
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you believe her? Maya? Comeon? What do you professional? Yeah?
Come on, Oh my gosh,look at this? Not really really
Actually, there's so many people reallyreally good at it, but for me,
it's the most difficult one actually forthe area and stuff. It looks
like you're tied up in knots there, honestly, and you get out of
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that? Or do you have tohave help? What time do you you
look like you're tied up in knotsthere? Do you get out of that?
Or you have to have help withgetting out of something like that?
I would need somebody to come helpme get me out of here. Well
she can just fall, kid,But it is like actually your robe like
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it's not a fabric. It's arope. Yeah, that's a rope.
Mm hmm. That's why you getbruises and Markin's you are as king.
Yes, oh okay, I gotit. That looks like it takes some
serious strength to hold yourself in thatposition. Oh, that's very painful in
the arm. Actually, yeah Icould. I would imagine. Wow,
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you might as well get in afight. I mean, you never know
the difference, right, look atthis. See this looks tied up.
It looks like, oh my gosh, I would never be able to get
out of that. I don't thinkI'm sudden. That picture was taking like
I think months ago, and ifyou compare with the first one that we
saw, I almost that's my feetwith my head. So it's like an
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improvement that I mean, it's amazing. That is amazing how you can bend
and yeah, that's cool. Ilove that. I've never seen anybody do
a rope before. I've seen thefabrics, you know, the whatever.
You never the rope of course therewho but who made a funny comment now
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with thee W would let go andjust hope for the best. You better
have a good mat underneath it,because otherwise I'm going to the hospital with
a concussion. Look at that.That is amazing. And you got to
hold that rope together because that's yourstirrup, right, So wow, the
strength going on there. Look atthat. I feel like her hands are
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like my climb hands. Yeah yeah, actually, wow, that's amazing.
Yes, and so beautiful. Doesn'tlook like you are almost you know,
like crying to yourself. So beautiful. It's so light and weird, so
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beautiful. You do a great job. That's crazy. Oh that looks hard.
That not really, it was supersimple figures actually, because you can
relax, you know, with yourleg in the who Actually, there's nothing
about that photo that looks relaxing,if you must know, I mean that
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it looks painful actually for me.But anything but relaxable relaxing, I should
say. Yeah, my gosh.Yes, for example, in the championship,
that would be one of my figuresof the choreography, and I used
it to relax and to you know, to take a pic you know.
Yeah, yeah, that's just Imean, I'm telling you that's impressive.
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It's just like it is art.It's hard, it's gymnastical art. How's
that? Yeah, it is art. I just made up a word.
Is that gymnastical? Is that aright? Is that a word? I
don't even know? Well now itis. Now you are the only North
American and you know, like Englishspeaker here, so don't ask me if
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a word, I'm going to saythe word gooder. Look at this.
This is impressive. This is yourpole dance? Now? Is that painful?
It looks like it would be onyour leg? Maybe? Right?
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, but you know when when you do
the this figure, I don't somany times it's not it's still painful,
but yeah, you already don't care. You just want to do the figure
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and you don't want to ask ifyou have you have callouses on your thighs.
That's a little personal, but Iwould imagine that you probably get used
to that after a while. Youknow. I have a dum question.
Uh, your skin need to bedry in order to make it happen and
to like stay there or do youneed to put some like borry lotion or
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something like that to do not hurtyour skin? Glue? Good observation,
Yeah, for example, in thatway kind of you know, put some
I don't know cream stuff in ourskin because you are going to fall down,
So it's like you need to belike a super dry skin. And
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yeah, don't don't put in yourselfanything before doing some importance just after because
you know you're going to die.Oh you wouldn't put chalk on your like
your leg or something like that.You would none of that. Huh No,
wow, Yeah, I can hearmy skin around the pole stick into
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the pole some serious burns. Lookat that. That's so cool. That's
so impressive. I love it.I love watching those pole dancers, don't
you. Maya's beautiful. Yeah,that's so beautiful. And we have never
had a guest who who does that? So we had one. Yeah,
we almost had one lined up,but it didn't work out. But I
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thought, you know, I'd liketo do an episode in that pole dance
because you know, pole dancing inlike Europe means a whole lot. It's
a whole lot different they they lookat it a whole differently than they are,
a whole lot differently than they dohere in the United States. But
I think it's beautiful. I thinkit's uh, it's very cool. How
it's like dancing. It's really likedancing, you know. Yeah, like
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here in Brazil, it's like abig thing. People love doing that.
You have many jeans and uh,people love it. It's art. It's
dance. You can combined like youknow, like all those exkills of dancing
music and I don't know circus,I'm so beautiful. We love that here.
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Of course I don't know. Ino talent, but it is beautiful.
I love watching. Yeah, same, Here we go. This is
the famous underwater aerial hoop photo ofexactly yeahreaking cool man, beautiful picture.
We got five minutes left, onesays, I'll shut up now, we
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got to probably get going. Idon't know, but it is a beautiful
photo. Beautiful. Yeah, basicallyvery cool. It is easier doing the
water or not, right, No, it's not because you know the problem
there was that it was the hoopeewas located like four or five meters underwater
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deep, and you know, togo there, you know when you read,
your lungs are full of fairs.So I had to passionately excite all
my my heir for the lands tobe able to sing with the with the
hoop. So it was like afterthat, like wait like ten fifteen seconds,
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so the hoop is going to besing with my weight and then they
couldn't take the pictures. But itwas so hard for me. Yeah,
whichever worthy. I like that.It's like that so much. I saw
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a movie another day talking about thoselike really deep down free divings, and
I was like, oh my gosh, that's Sophie Now I love it.
There the shipwreck. I love shipwrecks. I think they're so cool. Right,
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that's so nice. What did youfind anything in those ships? Sometimes
you find stuff just just fish fish. These are sharks right mm yeah,
no sharks. Wow, you people, wow, just wow. Videos from
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the beginning, you are just layingdown with a bunch of sharks, like
really relaxed. I was like,well, it's freaking amazing. It is
it is. What kind of sharkis That's a shark. It is a
shark. It's a shark. Thisis no thing, you said, lest
Yeah, sure, it's not sure, not really. Well, obviously you're
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slimming swimming next to this dument likegood buddy, and it is pretty big.
Yeah yeah, I think that onewas like eight meters or something.
Yeah, Charles, Oh my gosh, you are self emails. You are
not eating Superwoman right there. Ohmy gosh. That's why I love someone
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that part of the show, wecan really see your skills and things you
are able to do. That's crazyand impressive. I love it. Thank
you very much for sharing. Ilove it. Thank you. You know.
You know the funny part about thatis I keep thinking, uh,
you're swimming with these sharks and you'renot afraid at all. And I see
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these videos on TikTok and these peoplehave a beached shark and they're trying to
getting back around. They're just freakingout, scared and screaming and everything else.
I'm going it's just so funny toototally polar opposite reactions to these fishes.
Sorry, I love it. AndIrena, where don't people contact you
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online and see more of your impressivethings? Well, actually, I have
been all my stuff on Instagram,and if you can search me like,
it's Irene under undersource square. Andalso, if you are interested in see
so many animations, I'm already inVimeil with the same usual names, so
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they can't find me with it.That's so cool. Ironically, I watched
Woody Wodpecker the cartoon this morning,and I thought of you when I was
you know. Anyway, I readthe Spady super Woman. We don't want
to thank you for being our guesthere this evening was a absolute pleasure having
you on the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me.
It has been a pleasure to behere. Yes, thank you.
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It's all be nice to have arock star and inspiration for all of us
women, So thank you very much. Thank you. We also want to
thank our audience for tuning in tonight'sshow. Be sure to tune in for
next week's episode, which will be, by the way, be our last
weekly episode. It's we are goingto get well. We'll talk about that
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Last week will be our last weeklyepisode, so be sure to tune
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W FOURCY Radio. Welcome to outdoorsPeople with me. Cw Getz and her
Maya mar Zaki. Good evening.It's Wednesday, April seventeenth, twenty twenty
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four. Is that like the DJA? Like the rock and roll DJ?
On the radio? Wednesday, Aprilseventeenth, twenty twenty four. I used
to say something like Sunday Sunday Everthat you may have that commersonal was the
Actually, I don't know what youare talking about. Here at Chicago,
we had the drag racing commercials,you know, and the guy would go
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Sunday Sunday, you know, anda dragstrip name or whatever. It was
kind of cool. I was likethat guy's voice. Today in north central
Illinois, we have a whopping sixtythree degrees fahrenheit, which and by the
way, that is cloudy and windy. Sixty three degrees so not that much,
but it's really windy here. Thatis eighteen degrees celsius missus Marzaki down
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there and brizzy. What do youwhoa? Of course it is a warmer
here right right, even though it'sfall, still hot, but not as
hot as Florida where who on itis, But well it is seventy five
degrees fahrenheit and free world twenty fourdegrees. That shows I'll trade you,
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I'll trade you. Look at oneone says I eighty degrees cold. It's
South Florida, so he's freezing downthere at eighty Oh my gosh, eighty
eighty degrees. That's hot, man, Oh my god. I don't you
don't start getting hot in my programhere until you get to anything past eighty
five eighty six degrees and it startsgetting hot, you know, oh my
gosh, for me, like sevenfive, it is pretty much hot.
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You would like this sixty three degreeprogram here we got going on. You
would be at home with that rightlike too nice. But that what is
that that down jacket you've got thaton there? Yeah, eighty eight midday
and that's that's a sunset pieces inFlorida. So that's interesting. Now,
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Well, I like your weather oneand eighty eight is hot. It's getting
hot. Yeah, but he's usedto it. He's cold at a degree,
so I totally get that. Yeah, I kind of get it right.
Yeah, mister Garcia freezing? Isheinie? A? That there?
An eighty degrees? I love it. Well, let's meet Let's meet our
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guest this evening, shall we?Yes? Please? I'm looking forward all
right. Thirty three year old Spanishcertified free diver and scuba diver, Irene
A Square is also a professional threeD character animator. Her work has been
featured in several motion pictures like theSpanish film to Dale Jones three, the
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motion picture Luck, which can beseen on Apple TV, as well as
movies like Woody Woodpecker and Spellbound onNetflix. Irene, also an accomplished veteran
gymnast, will be competing in herfirst championship later this month. Most notably,
this Spanish superwoman's creative nature inspired herto combine gymnastics with free diving.
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His music is saying you to theaudience, but in a really beautiful way.
It's like, I love you,Let me play some beautiful music,
you know. So there's this feelinglike they're gonna do whatever they want and
then assert their own will and notworry about how it's being understood or whatever.
And yet the wonderful thing about thatis that it speaks to evil.
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No. Well with that. Welcometo the show, Irene. How you
doing? Hello? How are youdoing? How is your weather? It's
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beain this evening? What kind ofit's fifteen degrees? But ps use,
I don't know if I hide howmuch? Is it? All right?
I'm reaching for my handy little Peterchard here. Fifteen degrees? What is
three degrees for me? Wait?Oh, I'm in the negative section.
Let's try that. Fifty five?About fifty five degrees? That's that's yeah,
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it's like you, it's good.Yeah, yeah? Are you Is
this jacket weather for you over there? Are you pretty much used to this?
You know? Outside? I mean, is this kind of is it
jacket weather for you in Spain?Or you just kind of this is?
Yeah, We're used to this.Fifty five No problem, God, it's
not. It's good. Yeah,that's cool. You guys like all that
cooler weather. Yeah, it islike coldfortball weather, like nice, not
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hot, not cold. I lovethat weather. That's just perfect hot.
So in summer here in Madrid itis really hot. You you don't want
to be here. Yeah, Actuallyall people from Madrid want to go away.
Is it Madrid or is it isit uh Brazil hot? Or is
it just you know what kind ofhet is it? Like? How how
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does it get there? It's notlike we hat because there is no water
here in Madrid because we're in thecenter of the depending of the country.
But it's like so, I don'tknow. The air is like I don't
know, human, yeah, wet, but you're right, right, yeah,
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exactly cool, exactly really hot.Yeah, but you know that's funny
because the temperature doesn't go as hardas here in Brazil. But the feel
is like worse, feels like hotterthan actually it is. I don't know
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if because it is really wet.I don't know, but it feels like
odder than it is, right,I feel like that. I don't know.
You can tell me better. Youlive in Madrid. Yeah, yeah,
for sure. For examples, youknow, the weather is is it's
hot, but it's for me it'sbetter because it's not too warm. But
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here is like I don't know,help, oh my gosh, per girl.
But well, such in a youngage you became involved in art and
also athletics. What influences aled youto pursue each of these interests. Well,
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since I was a child, Ihave always had a certain police position
of sondra and dance and sing.And I think my parents realized that or
maybe they want me to go homevery retired at that age because I was
so very energetic child. And yeah, and they they tried to put me
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in some places. I started withsinging, after that dancing and then playing
some instruments slap and guitar. Yeah. First of all was that, For
example, in dancing, I wasborn in the north of Spain, near
France, and the most typical forflored was called Hotah, So I think
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everyone knows from the north that isthe most typical thing to do like dancing,
sing in Hotah, and it wasmy beginning from that. But for
example, in gygnastics, it wasn'tsince four years ago that I started because
one friend of mine wanted to trysome areal stuff near our Europe, and
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yeah, I said, yes,why not, let's try it. And
for example, she was very interestedin ideal silks. But for me,
I really liked poul dancing because itinvolves some polytical stuff and it was really
near like a technical ballet skars andI really liked it because I really like
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music and choreography and things like that. And I said, okay, we
can put combine both things like balletand choreography, music and also do some
really hard sports in the in thepool. So yeah, it was the
beginning of that. That's pretty cool. Actually, yeah, well go ahead,
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maya, no, no, no, sorry, I was just like
going to say, like, okay, like just the beginning. She began
with everything, you know, justbegin yea. Also, how very impressive.
Sorry, how did I think workinto all this? How did you
get into the diving part of it? Then? Well, I have always
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laid water, and you know,when when you're a child, you are
going to underwater to I don't know, to looking for some stuff, you
know, diving in the pool orsomething. But actually it was last year
that I do I did my firsttrip to my lips and yeah, it
was all the whole week and goingto the water every day. It was
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super funny because you know, manypeople really prepare themselves to go to that
trip, like getting their first divingcertificate or even doing the first free diving
course for that trip, but Ijust didn't do it, and I just
went to the to the trip withoutknowing anything out of that. But it
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really amazed me how people going sodeep in the underwater and you know,
kid, they breath as much asthey can, and it really surprised me.
But I didn't even think about it. It was there when I met
my current free diving instructor and he'sa professional photographer underwater and he saw me
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just diving, you know, withsnorkeling in the surface doing something and like
all the stuff, and he justtold me, you are you seem really
color underwater. Why don't you tryto do some free living, go go
deeper and deeper? And I don'tknow, and I said, yeh sure,
just tell me how to do it, and he told me some tips
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and I really practiced it during thewhole week during the trip and it was
really cool. I really love it. And he told me, okay,
let's go to do the free divingcourse with me, come to an island
and in January you will start todo freedom incourse. And that's what I
did, and I you know,I started three months ago, I think
from sofa how many months ago?How many months age? In January?
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Like for four months right now?Yeah? And did he was actually took
your picture, isn't it? Isthat right? He was the one that
took exactly exactly and actually was thesemonths last month ago in March, I
just got my certificating Advanced Free Dating, which is the next level of the
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course. So yeah, in fourmonths, Holy smoke. Wow, Michael
Jordan, there many people we arereally better at it. That's that's so
funny. Oh my gosh. Yeah, and you are pretty good actually,
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but for people who doesn't know Latinpeople, of course I don't have those
talents. But to make people understand, we grow up with music, with
dance, with typical festivals and stufflike that, so it's kind of normal.
But you have like real talents.Thank you. You eat like higher,
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that's that's crazy. And talking aboutthat, how did you incorporate those
genesic skills you have with free diving? Well, actually that idea came up
with again, my instructor avoided becausewhen when we met, he saw many
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pictures of my stuff on Instagram doingsummarial seeks, rope hope and all that
kind of area circus and stuff.And for him, he already do a
photography session of Ariel Hoop before,and he said, why don't we try
to combine again the gymnastics skills thatyou have with free diving, because you
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already know how to do free divingand you can stay underwater a lot of
minutes, so why don't we dothat? And he said, Okay,
it's gonna be a good challenge becauseit's not like a normal thing to do,
you know, and it was like, okay, go go for it.
So it was like, yeah,last March one when ago that I
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go. I went to Canarrea Island, and he said, yeah, let's
let's do it in that moment becauseyou're going to do the Advanced free diving
course and let's go to the photographysis. And you know, it's that's
very curious because I watched many videoswith you know, people doing some ballet
dancing underwater, which is very beautifulto see, but I didn't see many
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videos or stuff like you know,doing gymnastics things underwater with hoop or rope
or whatever. So it was veryinteresting to do. Are you the first
one to do the aerial hoop underwater? I don't think so. Maybe I
don't think so. Maybe not anotherwoman or man do it before. But
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for me that I know, Iwas staking the second person because the first
one was the girl, the girlwho who take the hoop with us underwater,
and he already did the session beforewith with Voitex. So I just
you know, one more woman thathow do you suspend that who water?
Where is it hanging from like offthe boat or something or what? How
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do you hang that thing? That'sa very good question because you know the
end of the technical aspect. Ijust say, I'm just the you know
the model here, right, becauseyou know, the the hoop is not
very heavy. It's heavy, butyou know, the water nothing is really
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heavy. So the hoop was attachedfrom the surface with you know the boy
that the balls that get you know, the separate distance in the in the
sea and yeah, so it wasjust attached from the surface and it was
very difficult for us to try todo the photoshoot because it was not very
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good conditions of the sea. Also, it was very windy. The water
was really really cold. You know, normally when we do free diving,
it's like we have like a newprind sweet your print. Yeah. Yeah,
so we were protected from the fromthe cold, actually the from the
water, but not in this time, because you are going to you know,
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somewhere is going to the pictures fromyou and you're not Yes, you
need like a cute swim suite forthese pictures. It's not going to be
protective from the course, it's goingto be like this, like that water
your teeth every when you were shewas all purple cold. She was also
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good, I remember that, Ohmy gosh. And also there was you
didn't look like you were crying oranything, so that's good. You know,
it was a talent. Actually itwas a very talent. But you
know he had a good vision becausewhen you were there scene are doing those
uh circles and a PROGRESSI and likestuff like that. It feels like you
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are flying. And I feel likethe same feeling you have you can get
when you are free diving, feelslike you're kind of a flying but in
the water. And the pictures showthat, like show like feels like you
are almost flying in the water,like feels like in the air. I
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don't know. It's very like snoothyand a flow. I don't know.
I think that was such a goodidea, Like you guys rock, Yeah,
it feels like actually underwater. Yourparents, I wonder what were their
reaction when you said, yeah,I'm gonna be a free diver, I'm
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gonna go down and you know,and then and then the gymnastics underwater too,
what they say to all that?God, my parents, well question
worms I could see right now.Yeah, well, regarding gymnastics stuff,
you know, they they weren't reallyaware very much about it. So it's
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like, you know, they seemlike, oh, you are going to
do like the circle, the circleof solet or something like this, and
it's like no, no, no, no, relax, it's gonna be
near the floor. It's okay,everything's gonna be fine. Just you know,
the hoof the ball is fine.And my parents okay. But but
one day I just show show themmany videos of doing some choreography, but
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it was like five or seven metershigh, and then you know, the
reaction changed because they thought it waslike I don't know, maybe one meter
doing some kind of stuff, butnot like, I don't know, three
minutes of song doing very dangerous andstuff. Do you have kats underneath like
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like the what do you call thosemats? So you can land on them
if you fall it that like likecrash beds in the country, right,
I hope not. Anyway, wehave saved you everywhere. Yeah, so
it's not it's not like that,but you know it's true that we we
do this stuff like many hours duringthe week. So finally at the way
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we have so many I don't know, bombs and your boddy gets a little
bit hurt and it's ugly than itis than it's that it really is.
But you know, it seems likeI was in a fight or something and
my parents asked me, are youokay? Have you ever been in a
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fight? Really? I mean,you've never been in a fight, have
you. I don't know what thatfeels like, I hope. Yeah.
Apart from that, regarding gymnasties,they were fine. But in freedom,
I mean actually it was a reallydifferent different reaction because you know, they
know I'm not going to to breatheunderwater. So yeah, that's a fact.
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My mom and doesn't understand the pointof doing this, because it's like,
why are why do you need togo so deep? Why you're not
going to see anything because it's sodark? What is the point of doing
this? And I don't know,of course, or keep my rest like
three minutes or something. Why doyou need to take you so long?
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What is the point of that?You can do? You can hold your
breath for how many How long canyou hold your breath for? Three minutes?
You said three minutes, but inthe static like doing nothing and like
three minutes? Wow, wow,My dad don't doesn't care at all.
My dad is like, you arehappy doing this, that's okay. He's
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giving up with me. Typical parent, right, whatever do you want?
You will anyway? Yeah? Youdo? You right? Sorry? What
just my mom? I want towants to want meet when she asked me
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every day to grade her to sayyeah, I'm alife, So she's not
going about yeah, she doesn't understandI'm what you're thinking. I'm sure a
lot of times. Yeah, AndI feel sorry for all parents from the
people interviewed, because we interviewed justlike crazy people like you, but good
crazy in my point of view.So I feel sorry for out those parents,
(21:38):
poor people. Yeah, you probablyhad a little that too, didn't
you? Your mom with yours?Once she called me on a Sunday like
screaming on me on the phone overthe phone like I hate seen your pictures.
And I was like, okay,so stop seeing my pictures. I'm
looking at them. That's so easy. And my my my father was said,
(22:07):
uh, did you like feel likestaying at home and enjoying at flick?
Sometimes I'm like, oh, youknow, I didn't buy a television
just to make sure I'm not goingto feel that a way like never.
So yes, for guys, mh. But let's talk about something your parents
(22:29):
love that I'm sure about your jobabout New York, So tell us about
the type of work you do forliving and about your time in New York
City. Yeah sure. And I'mcurrently working as a Tred character animator.
And yeah, we participating doing movieslike what else you already talk before Street
(22:59):
Hearing in Spanish production like that.You can watch it in Apple TV.
They Bigger and spell Bound, thenew one that is going to be released
this year Netflix. And yeah,I also working in video games to Imtroddread
and television series but there was areally recent studies that I had like five
(23:22):
years ago, but it wasn't mybeginning. I started studying business and management
marketing and market research that allows meto work in the Spanish consulate in New
York. And I was working therefor one year in half more or less
actually, and yeah, so far, it was the most rating experience I
(23:45):
have ever had at work. Andyou know, I couldn't do my RESMUS
program when I was studying marketing inmarket research and it was like appoints in
my heart and they couldn't do that. And I was so so excited to
go a growth and do and wehave like over six overseas experience in that
(24:10):
and it was really amazing, reallyreally amazing. But actually it was there
when one colleague from the Spanish consulictjust saw me drawing, singing Disney songs,
always talking about you know, animationon movies and stuff like that,
and suddenly she asked me, whydon't you just work on that? And
(24:33):
I really didn't even think about it, because you know, I was like
an automatic Pilo. I don't knowif my in my life, and I
realized that at that moment that islike it, yes, why not?
And but you know, for me, I even I didn't even think about
(24:53):
it. Like for me, itwasn't like even possible, you know,
just you watch a movie. ButI didn't realize that I couldn't do that
kind of stuff. And also I'ma very you know, creating, creative
and energetic person. And then Ijust ask myself, do I see myself
(25:15):
in ten years doing the same thinglike here? Or what do you want?
What do you really want to do? So yeah, I started to
investigate so hard about animation. Istarted a master degree in graphic design in
New York because also I didn't wantto waste already my time studying the market
(25:37):
the marketing that I already have thatstudies. I want to combine, like
how I can do it both thingslike animation is very different from what I
already studied. But if I doI don't know study like this graphic design,
maybe I can combine summer three Dsoftware or I don't know computer stuff
(25:59):
something like that will figure it outhow it's going to be. And yeah,
I studied the graphic design degree inNew York and then I come back.
I returned through Spain in Madrid,and then I started studying my master
degree in animation. Yeah, itwas really a challenged you know. My
(26:21):
my parents were like, okay,what happened? What happened now? Because
you already have two degrees one masterdegree and you decide to change all your
life. I don't know, manyyears because it was two degrees and it
takes time in it like yeah,no, no, I want to to
work with with Avery. Completely differentthing right now. But yeah, it
(26:44):
was that was five years ago,and I can I can tell right now
that I'm working that I really wantto what I really want to do and
what I most enjoyed. So well, there's a reason we call this episode
Spanish Superwoman. There's a reason.Yeah. And speaking of work and you
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and your you know your your hobbies, I guess we'll call it. But
how do you balance? I mean, how do you find time to balance,
you know, between work and familyand personal life and all that.
How do you how do you workthat balance out? Well? I'm a
reorganized person, that's true for afact. But you know it's true that
I have a really tight schedule.But I you know, for important things,
(27:32):
I always have time. For example, I have mostly of weekends I
meet with my friends, my family, or dating or whatever. For example,
my my brother Lee lives with hisfamily here in Magic, so I
can escape any weekend afternoon and goto visit him. It's true that,
for example, my parents that theyare living in WESTCA, which is four
(27:53):
hours from Madrid my car. Soyeah, sadly, and for them I
cannot see then the most frequently thatthey really liked. But yeah, for
friends, it's to the same times. My friends that want to see me
is like, okay, let's plentytwo weeks in advance, because Irene has
(28:17):
like a really scalus, so let'smake sure we can meet that day schedule
exactly. So yeah, sometimes thathappened. But you know, if there
is something important or whatever, Ican you know, riskle or cancel a
class. It's not a big dealor so no problem. Like being on
the show, for example, Yeah, I love it. Well, they
(28:41):
need to understand because you are arockstar, right, you have so many
things to do, so they mustunderstand it. Rockstar right? How how
rocksters do right? Right? AndI'm talking about that like ce double is
right, the name of the shows, like Josh perfect, you are you
(29:04):
have so many talents. You arethe real geo the lip like rock star.
You are talented on sports, youare athletic, you're a super nerd
and talented girl. So that's socool. And you can combine all of
that and do your like best,you know, whatever you do. So
(29:26):
that's that's pretty nice. And butyou know, life, it is not
just flowers. So have you everhave you ever oh my sorry, have
you ever anything scary happened while youwere diving sides of the colde of course,
(29:49):
stuff like that. God. Yeah, it was two situations that I
really remember very well. First ofall, it was in Maldives as well,
last last year in September, andyou know, we we used to
swim with sharks, no sharks,and it was like the first time I
(30:10):
swung with sharks, and it wasa really great experience. And it's there
is a protocol that you must followfor behave with sharks. For example,
you cannot you must have your handsclose to your body while swimming because your
fingers can It's very similar like afish movement or something. So I don't
(30:34):
know, maybe they can be confusedyou for that. And don't splice under
the world and in the water.And also keep an eye contact to the
sharks, and for me, itwas like, Okay, I got it,
no problem, let's go diving andthat's it. And it was like
a video photos pictures under underwater,and I remember that it was some you
(31:00):
know, the guy gets on somethat fish to attract the sharks and going
closer to us, and there waslike a sea current. So I my
theory of that is that I wasvery close to them, to the dead
fish, and I just go gounder the water and it's just so two
(31:21):
sharks approaching me and that's my body, but nothing that hurts me. So
I just follow swimming and then Ijust saw a shark just in front of
me, and they tried to beatmy taste and I could react. I
heard you go like that exactly becausedid they make draw blood or anything or
(31:48):
no? What? Sorry? Didthey get blood? Did you get did
you did you? Okay? No? No, no, no, no?
Why she's alive? O my god, people lived through I heard that
in the video. I go,she just got bit. That's so wild.
No. Fortunately I could react soquickly, and yeah, you know,
(32:08):
just the swim suite get the mostawful part, because you know,
they see what I would sink ofthe swim suit, but fortunately not my
body, so it wasn't a bigscary but it was that fortunately did you
tell your parents about that? Butoh yeah, sure, I was super
proud of myself. What mom,and guess what happened today? I'll never
(32:31):
guess. Oh, sorry, youasked her if she got in a fight?
Yes, she did with you didn'twant to. I don't know the
(32:51):
movies, Yeah, it was funny. Well there's the movie Jaws. This
is when that comes to mind.But that was a long time ago.
I need to carry movie ready.Yeah, yeah, kind of was for
the time. It was really scary. I mean that was we never had
anything like that before. See,I going to have you tell us about
the upcoming gymnastics event Aerial Championships thatyou'll be competing and tell us about that.
(33:16):
Yeah, it's going to be nextweek. I'm so excited as going
to today because it is my firstcompetition and actually I think it's the first
a real art championship that is goingto be made in Hearing Madrid, because
there is so many ProDance competition butnot about a real skills so it's I
(33:36):
think it's the I think it's thefirst one and it has been very well
received for the people who really wantedto compete, and it's really exciting.
Actually, there are like three categories. It's a matter pro and artist.
And for example, in my case, because it depends on how many years
have you been practicing each sport andif you are I don't know, professional,
(34:00):
or you are a coach and youhave been practicing I don't know for
your whole life, taine years,whatever, maybe you're going to be in
the artist, which is the mostimportant category, the most difficult one,
and in my case, because Ijust did it for three years, is
going to be the first one thematter and will consist in doing some choreography
(34:22):
stuff. In my case, theI choose the area hoop, which is
my favorite element. And yeah it'slike three minutes twenty seconds of the song,
so yeah, we have to combinesome are your skills and do some
choreography also dancing on the floor.Yeah, like artistical stuff like this.
(34:42):
So yeah, are you competing likewith people who do this for a living,
this is their profession. I mean, are you going to be with
these professional people or is it justis it gene? How does that work?
Well? For example, in mycase. In my category is the
people who have never competed before asme and ok yeah, the same years
(35:02):
that they have been practicing in theelements and the other category. You know,
we we are separated by categories ofhow many years have you been practiced?
Okay? So yeah for the mostpro people, who are you going
to be competing against? You know, like these people have been doing this
for you know, fifteen years orsomething. Holy crap, that's a lot
(35:25):
exactly, not very fair. That'sgood. God, I'm sorry to go
ahead by no, she's Nephro andshe's good and rock star and fast learners.
So you know, like why notdo you think you're going to win?
You think you're going to take firstand on all these things or what
what are you thinking? How's yourconfidence level? How's that? I'll just
(35:45):
ask it that way. Well,I have confidence, but you know it's
always the first time, first time, so always it's like you get nervous.
You have the anxious of doing sowell, maybe so pressure, but
just by myself, not from theother people. Just wanted to do it
so so perfect. And we seeyou might want to take a little belt
(36:06):
or something of a little whiskey beforeyou go on, don't tell you?
Yeah, your such a good idea. Well, you know something, we
are in my best part of thisshow, the part we see some photos
(36:30):
that I knew that was a pointto you. So one, can you
show us the pictures the rock starpictures? Look at that? You know
we never talked about the rope,did we? Or whatever you call it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ropewith I've been doing this just one
year, so I'm not very goodon it. But for me, do
(36:54):
you believe her? Maya? Comeon? What do you professional? Yeah?
Come on, Oh my gosh,look at this? Not really really
Actually, there's so many people reallyreally good at it, but for me,
it's the most difficult one actually forthe area and stuff. It looks
like you're tied up in knots there, honestly, and you get out of
(37:15):
that? Or do you have tohave help? What time do you you
look like you're tied up in knotsthere? Do you get out of that?
Or you have to have help withgetting out of something like that?
I would need somebody to come helpme get me out of here. Well
she can just fall, kid,But it is like actually your robe like
(37:37):
it's not a fabric. It's arope. Yeah, that's a rope.
Mm hmm. That's why you getbruises and Markin's you are as king.
Yes, oh okay, I gotit. That looks like it takes some
serious strength to hold yourself in thatposition. Oh, that's very painful in
the arm. Actually, yeah Icould. I would imagine. Wow,
(38:04):
you might as well get in afight. I mean, you never know
the difference, right, look atthis. See this looks tied up.
It looks like, oh my gosh, I would never be able to get
out of that. I don't thinkI'm sudden. That picture was taking like
I think months ago, and ifyou compare with the first one that we
saw, I almost that's my feetwith my head. So it's like an
(38:27):
improvement that I mean, it's amazing. That is amazing how you can bend
and yeah, that's cool. Ilove that. I've never seen anybody do
a rope before. I've seen thefabrics, you know, the whatever.
You never the rope of course therewho but who made a funny comment now
(38:49):
with thee W would let go andjust hope for the best. You better
have a good mat underneath it,because otherwise I'm going to the hospital with
a concussion. Look at that.That is amazing. And you got to
hold that rope together because that's yourstirrup, right, So wow, the
strength going on there. Look atthat. I feel like her hands are
(39:14):
like my climb hands. Yeah yeah, actually, wow, that's amazing.
Yes, and so beautiful. Doesn'tlook like you are almost you know,
like crying to yourself. So beautiful. It's so light and weird, so
(39:37):
beautiful. You do a great job. That's crazy. Oh that looks hard.
That not really, it was supersimple figures actually, because you can
relax, you know, with yourleg in the who Actually, there's nothing
about that photo that looks relaxing,if you must know, I mean that
(40:00):
it looks painful actually for me.But anything but relaxable relaxing, I should
say. Yeah, my gosh.Yes, for example, in the championship,
that would be one of my figuresof the choreography, and I used
it to relax and to you know, to take a pic you know.
Yeah, yeah, that's just Imean, I'm telling you that's impressive.
(40:21):
It's just like it is art.It's hard, it's gymnastical art. How's
that? Yeah, it is art. I just made up a word.
Is that gymnastical? Is that aright? Is that a word? I
don't even know? Well now itis. Now you are the only North
American and you know, like Englishspeaker here, so don't ask me if
(40:44):
a word, I'm going to saythe word gooder. Look at this.
This is impressive. This is yourpole dance? Now? Is that painful?
It looks like it would be onyour leg? Maybe? Right?
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, but you know when when you do
the this figure, I don't somany times it's not it's still painful,
but yeah, you already don't care. You just want to do the figure
(41:07):
and you don't want to ask ifyou have you have callouses on your thighs.
That's a little personal, but Iwould imagine that you probably get used
to that after a while. Youknow. I have a dum question.
Uh, your skin need to bedry in order to make it happen and
to like stay there or do youneed to put some like borry lotion or
(41:30):
something like that to do not hurtyour skin? Glue? Good observation,
Yeah, for example, in thatway kind of you know, put some
I don't know cream stuff in ourskin because you are going to fall down,
So it's like you need to belike a super dry skin. And
(41:51):
yeah, don't don't put in yourselfanything before doing some importance just after because
you know you're going to die.Oh you wouldn't put chalk on your like
your leg or something like that.You would none of that. Huh No,
wow, Yeah, I can hearmy skin around the pole stick into
(42:13):
the pole some serious burns. Lookat that. That's so cool. That's
so impressive. I love it.I love watching those pole dancers, don't
you. Maya's beautiful. Yeah,that's so beautiful. And we have never
had a guest who who does that? So we had one. Yeah,
we almost had one lined up,but it didn't work out. But I
(42:36):
thought, you know, I'd liketo do an episode in that pole dance
because you know, pole dancing inlike Europe means a whole lot. It's
a whole lot different they they lookat it a whole differently than they are,
a whole lot differently than they dohere in the United States. But
I think it's beautiful. I thinkit's uh, it's very cool. How
it's like dancing. It's really likedancing, you know. Yeah, like
(42:57):
here in Brazil, it's like abig thing. People love doing that.
You have many jeans and uh,people love it. It's art. It's
dance. You can combined like youknow, like all those exkills of dancing
music and I don't know circus,I'm so beautiful. We love that here.
(43:19):
Of course I don't know. Ino talent, but it is beautiful.
I love watching. Yeah, same, Here we go. This is
the famous underwater aerial hoop photo ofexactly yeahreaking cool man, beautiful picture.
We got five minutes left, onesays, I'll shut up now, we
(43:40):
got to probably get going. Idon't know, but it is a beautiful
photo. Beautiful. Yeah, basicallyvery cool. It is easier doing the
water or not, right, No, it's not because you know the problem
there was that it was the hoopeewas located like four or five meters underwater
(44:06):
deep, and you know, togo there, you know when you read,
your lungs are full of fairs.So I had to passionately excite all
my my heir for the lands tobe able to sing with the with the
hoop. So it was like afterthat, like wait like ten fifteen seconds,
(44:27):
so the hoop is going to besing with my weight and then they
couldn't take the pictures. But itwas so hard for me. Yeah,
whichever worthy. I like that.It's like that so much. I saw
(44:53):
a movie another day talking about thoselike really deep down free divings, and
I was like, oh my gosh, that's Sophie Now I love it.
There the shipwreck. I love shipwrecks. I think they're so cool. Right,
(45:16):
that's so nice. What did youfind anything in those ships? Sometimes
you find stuff just just fish fish. These are sharks right mm yeah,
no sharks. Wow, you people, wow, just wow. Videos from
(45:40):
the beginning, you are just layingdown with a bunch of sharks, like
really relaxed. I was like,well, it's freaking amazing. It is
it is. What kind of sharkis That's a shark. It is a
shark. It's a shark. Thisis no thing, you said, lest
Yeah, sure, it's not sure, not really. Well, obviously you're
(46:06):
slimming swimming next to this dument likegood buddy, and it is pretty big.
Yeah yeah, I think that onewas like eight meters or something.
Yeah, Charles, Oh my gosh, you are self emails. You are
not eating Superwoman right there. Ohmy gosh. That's why I love someone
(46:29):
that part of the show, wecan really see your skills and things you
are able to do. That's crazyand impressive. I love it. Thank
you very much for sharing. Ilove it. Thank you. You know.
You know the funny part about thatis I keep thinking, uh,
you're swimming with these sharks and you'renot afraid at all. And I see
(46:50):
these videos on TikTok and these peoplehave a beached shark and they're trying to
getting back around. They're just freakingout, scared and screaming and everything else.
I'm going it's just so funny toototally polar opposite reactions to these fishes.
Sorry, I love it. AndIrena, where don't people contact you
(47:13):
online and see more of your impressivethings? Well, actually, I have
been all my stuff on Instagram,and if you can search me like,
it's Irene under undersource square. Andalso, if you are interested in see
so many animations, I'm already inVimeil with the same usual names, so
(47:36):
they can't find me with it.That's so cool. Ironically, I watched
Woody Wodpecker the cartoon this morning,and I thought of you when I was
you know. Anyway, I readthe Spady super Woman. We don't want
to thank you for being our guesthere this evening was a absolute pleasure having
you on the show. Thank you. Thank you so much for inviting me.
It has been a pleasure to behere. Yes, thank you.
(48:00):
It's all be nice to have arock star and inspiration for all of us
women, So thank you very much. Thank you. We also want to
thank our audience for tuning in tonight'sshow. Be sure to tune in for
next week's episode, which will be, by the way, be our last
weekly episode. It's we are goingto get well. We'll talk about that
(48:21):
next week, but we are goingto be doing special features from now on.
Last week will be our last weeklyepisode, so be sure to tune
in for that. It's San Snowthe New Trend with our guest Martin Gaira
along with Maya mar Zaki. Thisis CW guest saying thanks for tuning in
to Outdoors People. See you nextweek. Show
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