May 1, 2024 • 44 mins
Happy AAPI Heritage Month Mexipino Familia! This episode we talk about the start of AAPI Heritage Month, knowing every Filipino, The Cleaning Lady, and the do's and don'ts of weddings.
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C musta na kayo, everyone,what's popping? Everybody? My name is
Nico Blitz. I'm Jackie Mriy andwelcome to another episode of Mexicpinal Podcast.
We're here and we are celebrating AAPImonth, that is Asian American and Pacific
Islander Heritage Month over here in theus of A. Yep. So shout
out to all of our listener familywho is falls under the umbrella of AAPI.
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Yeah, we're super excited that,you know, our podcast has reached
a bunch of different people, ofa bunch of different backgrounds, and you
know, we celebrate you guys prettymuch every podcast, every single podcast.
Man. And you know, Iwant to ask the age old question because
it is specifically Asian American and PacificIslander Month. Because I was filling out,
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you know, a survey the otherday because you know, my taxes
they're just going crazy right now,and I got a little bit of an
extension and it was funny because theyhad asked me, you know how,
they basically have the question of like, are you Hispanic? Are you not
Hispanic? I obviously put no,and then they asked for your ethnicity.
So me being Filipino American. Underthe ethnicity it says Asian or Pacific Islander,
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and I always question myself. I'mlike, do I mark Asian or
Pacific Islander? But this time around, they didn't even have that option.
Was just Asian. Oh wow,yeah, that's interesting. So they didn't
even give me the option a pickPacific Islander. And I'm like, yo,
it's may it's an. So doesthat mean that technically you would like
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identify with Pacific Islanders since you werekind of like hurt that, like it
wasn't on there. Well, Imean, it would have been nice to
have the option to at least decideif I wanted to be Pacific Islander for
the day. But no, Imean, I'll be Asian for the day,
and it's all good with me,you know what I mean purposes.
I'll be Asian for tax purposes,I'll be Asian for medical purposes and all
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of that. Okay, Well,Happy ap I Month to all those who
celebrate, and yeah, embrace yourselves, embrace your culture, embrace your ethnicity.
Yes we love you, amen tothat. We're also gonna have a
whole bunch of like a p Iguests. I think we have a good
morning, Gabe coming in a littlebit, well next week, not even
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a little bit, but oh babe, we didn't clean the apartment, so
yeah, yeah, but yeah,we're gonna have some guests coming up.
We're working on on a list ofguests because we know we had a lot
in the beginning of the year andkind of dwindled down, but we're gonna
have a little bit more. Andalso to start off ap I oneth on
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a great note, Yes, weare officially have officially announced Mexicpino Food Fat
Mexicpino Food Fat ladies and gentlemen.I mean it's not going to be during
a p I month, but itis going to be on July twenty first,
Yeah, July twenty first, andit is going to be back home
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in La ar Monabella location at SaintBendic's Church July twenty first, from eleven
am to seven pm. And yeah, I know a lot of people are
gonna be like, oh my God, come back to the Bay or we
want it in San Diego, orwe want to We're working on it.
Believe me when we when I saywe are working on it to be just
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like completely transparent with you guys.The Bay is like it's expensive, there's
not a lot of room out thereto find some venues. But yeah,
we have some in the mind.When we have some in mind. San
Diego, we are super close tosecuring a venue out there, and hopefully
we're gonna be going to Sacramento too, so hopefully that one's looking really good
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too. So I would say likeSacramento and San Diego are the other ones
to look out for the Bay specifically. It is very hard, but we
do want to go back. Wedo want to go back to the Bay,
So just be patient with us.But as of right now, July
twenty first Mexicano Food Fest Montapello isback Saint Banick's Church, eleven am to
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seven pm. Yeah, it's gonnabe good. It's gonna be good for
summer. It's gonna be good fory'all. And you know, Monapello the
city itself, like it's cool becauseit's kind of in the middle between where
Hispanics and Asians meet. Oh yeah, it's like like literally it's like Montabello,
Monterey Park, wittier, like downy, like it's literally like just a
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cluster of like hella like Asians andLatinos and I grew up with hella Asians
and Latinos more predominantly Latino. Butlike, once I got to high school,
I really like kind of discovered.I'm like, oh shit, there's
a bunch of Asians out here.Yeah, yeah, there's a lot.
It's kind of weird. Like Ididn't really get exposed, like I said,
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to Asian and like culture Asian peoplethat much until like I was probably
a freshman in high school. Well, I think one thing that a lot
of people tend to forget, andyou might know if you listen to this
podcast, is that Jackie, beinga Latino American, she speaks Japanese.
Yeah, I do, which iskind of weird, I guess for other
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people, not for me. Ilike whenever I tell people that I speak
Japanese, they're kind of like,wait what, And I'm like, yeah,
you know, it's the reason Ispeak Japanese is because my dad didn't
want me to get an easy Ain Spanish class in high school. Yeah,
He's like, you already know thelanguage. I was like, exactly,
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Like that's that's exactly why. He'slike, no, you need to
learn something else to the DA andI was gonna do French. I was
gonna take French and he's like,when are you gonna go to France?
I was like, when am Igonna go to Japan? Like, I
mean, I'll go to Japan beforeI go to France. True in that,
like, I don't know. Ijust thought like French would have been
like so like, oh my god. You know, but like, I
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am very proud of the fact thatI can speak a little bit of Japanese
and that I could function and askfor like directions or order things or you
know, try and help people ifI were to speak Japanese. But yeah,
it's a it's a fun like factabout me. It's pretty cool.
Not a lot of people know.I mean, Jackie, she just got
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invited to a restaurant this past whatSaturday. Yeah, I want to tell
everybody the story about that restaurant.So I don't know, I think it
was. I don't know if itwas because I had like posted a video
of me speaking Japanese in an interviewclip with Umi, who's a Seattle R
and B artist. She's half black, half Japanese, and in the beginning
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of the clip, I'm speaking Japaneseand literally like not even I want to
say, like a day or twolater, I get a d M from
gouzub So yeah, which is herein La, which is a Japanese mental
restaurant, and they offered, youknow, for us to go try their
food. And I was super excitedbecause bento boxes are basically like lunch boxes.
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Yeah, you can customize your lunchbox however you want. Everyone has
their different ways of like creating theirlunch boxes in Japan. And it was
so good. The place itself wasin like a sketchy area, super sketchy,
like it was kind of crazy,like you know when you're driving around
and then you go through like theindustry of like downtown, like you see
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nothing but like the smog coming upfrom these buildings. Yeah. So like
it was interesting. I was like, maybe we're gonna get closer to like
staplesent or Crypto like arena, likeas we're going through these and it's like
churn life and then your destination willbe on your left. I'm like what
And then so like is this littlelike restaurant like free parking though? So,
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I mean that show was in theCuts, but it was free parking,
yeah, in the Cuts, butfree parking and amazing food and you
can like watch anime episodes while you'reeating. Music is super chill. Yeah,
they had city pop type music goingon and then they also had like
one piece playing. Yeah, andthe food, like I said, is
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really freaking amazing. I really wishI got the chicken that you got.
I really loved the salmon that Igot. The salmon a benflip box that
I got, and it was reallyamazing. Shout out to Jason, the
guy that works there and that reachedout. I mean, he was super
nice. He's actually Filipinos, sothat was kind of Yeah. That was
another crazy thing. It was like, okay, so you had the Filipino
guy who was like the marketing personfor this Japanese restaurant. Yeah, but
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all in all, it was agreat experience. Their yuzu drink was really
good. That was super good.It was like this macha type of thing.
Yeah, green u zoom or uzuomlike green tea or something like.
Yeah, I don't know, likeit was really good. I'm gonna be
posting some of that food like onmy Instagram. So if you guys want
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to check that out. Guzu BentoYacht you guys have to go. Again,
it's in the cuts, but greatfood. Let me explain, let
me explain how much in the cutsthis was. He had told us a
story about like this family of likeno, it was a basketball team.
Okay, so it was a basketballteam and there was of like a lot
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of like you know, like littlegirls. Right. So then this basketball
team comes to the store and thenthey end up buying their food. But
next thing, you know, theyjust hear something. They hear an ambulance
just outside. When all the littlegirls and I'm talking about like ten year
old girls or whatever, they lookoutside, they see somebody had just like
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died or like got shot in theirtrailer right outside. Yeah. Like yeah,
so like a homeless person like Ithink got like murdered in their in
their RV. And yeah, whichis insane. Whoa bro? But honestly,
you're in downtown LA. So likeme, you know what you get
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when you go to downtown La.Like literally, but again, the food
amazing in the cuts but amazing.So you guys should go try go in
uh in l A. Yeah,you guys should really try it. Oh
yeah, Jason, that we sentyou, Tell them that we sent you.
Yeah, for real because we wantmore discuss Yeah, you won't get
a discount, and I don't knowwho we will, but at least they
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know that we're talking about it.And then to that, I was listening
to a couple of podcasts, oneof them being a producer podcast, and
they had like a really cool IGuess segment and it was a super quick
segment and it basically went one gottago Okay. So they decided between like
three things, and basically one ofthose three things had to go, whether
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it be like, oh, DJ'sgot a DJs versus musician versus like drummer,
you know, something of that sort, right, So I decided that
I wanted to bring that into thepodcast. And there's actually like a little
phrase that Jackie mentioned to me whenI brought this idea up. Yeah,
so if you guys watched them Francisco, you guys know that, like there
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was like this guy just in likealso the guy was very scary when I
was young, but he was justin a costume. He would play a
trumpet and then he'd go like they'dstart saying like fueida fa, which ultimately
means like you gotta go, likeyou gotta get out like you're done,
leave type you're done. So wecan like just say, like we can
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start this as like uh like likeI don't know, like one gotta go,
and then once I choose, wejust gotta say Florida, Okay,
so we're gonna be like okay,okay, okay, all right, so
like one gotta go. Okay,so one gotta go ta Patio Chilula or
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Valentina hot sauce damn um. That'stough. It is tough because Patio,
like I basically put that on everything. Yeah, I feel like that Patio
is like the main one that alot of people like to use, but
it's also very mainstream, I guess. But like Valentina is like also like
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I don't know, I just likeit's like a thicker consistency. Yeah,
so I love it, and Idon't know. Sometimes Chilula it like if
it's watered like sometimes it looks likeit's watered down. But I do love
the spice of it sometimes, butit has to be like the bottle.
Sometimes the bottle is like like it'snot good, damn okay. So but
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like I don't know the design ofthe bottle of chilula sauce. The I
think in like rapper terms, Iwould say, like Ta Patio is more
like Drake because it's kind of likeeverywhere. Chilula would kind of be like
Kendrick because it's like some people somepeople like him, some people don't like
them. Oras like Valentina is kindof like there's only a certain amount of
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people who really like. I thinkValentina is like, no, Valentina's very
popular. Okay, okay, Valentinais very popular, and you haven't really
had Valentina's which is why I thinkyou're saying that. Yeah, but okay,
I think if one gotta go,okay, it's Chilula hot Sauce,
Chilula. Chilula gotta go. IThinkilula's gotta go. Man, there's yeah,
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I think Chilula's gotta go. Ohmy, I think my dad or
my mom one of them is gonnaget mad at me. But like,
yeah, because my dad doesn't likeValentina. But I like Valentina because you
could put it on like on likeyou know those the what do they called
Hondan? Because I don't want toget roasted on the internet. Hold on,
uh, oh my gosh, whatare they called? They're like little
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like wheels. There's no them aslike the little wheels. Uh how wheels
man chips because of the speller manalways has those chips, like the circular
chips. Yes, yes, thoseyou're not googling. Respoto manis okay?
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What are they called it? Likeit pops up, so sir, so
we could just call them respoto manis okay? Okay. Also hot topic
because some people call like the likethe chips that the speller man has the
like wheel round looking when some ofthe some people call him chichato. Some
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people call them chicharron is. Butchicharon is is also like the pork grinds,
and that's not pork grind h.So, like, I guess it's
kind of all where like you comefrom, like what you call them?
So I don't know, but youguys know what I'm talking about. Valentina
on those fire So that's why Ican't get rid of Valentina. All right,
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Sol, what about you? Youokay? One gotta go okay?
Loompia mm hmm seasick a dobo?Who I'd say? I mean, I
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think the regular person, the regularFilipino person would say this is kind of
difficult, but it's pretty easy forme. This is pretty easy for me.
I would say, if one gottago, then it has to be
a dobo day. Well, yeah, you gonna eat adobo that much?
I don't because I mean, youcan get chicken anywhere, right, But
then like it's really just the marinationof it. But seasick, I can't
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get rid of and lumpia it's justthe finger food. So because I could
pick up lumpia with my hand,I'm not gonna pick up chicken a dobo
with my hand, And then seasick, I'm just not. I'm simply just
not getting rid of. So wegotta say goodbye to chicken adobo like with
ease, with ease. That's crazy. Are you losing your Filipino card over
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this? Not even dude, noteven no, that's crazy. Oh my
god, I'm speaking of Filipino cardsright the past, I don't know,
maybe two weeks. I guess peoplejust see me as like the Filipino guy
because there have been like two instanceswhere it's like I was supposed to know
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everything about like Filipinos, right right, So I want to talk about this
first instance. Right one, Iget a text from my friend Vincent,
and he texted me like, hey, mister Penoy, Okay, okay,
wait wait wait, let me letme get her name right because I want
to make sure I shout her outright. So I get a text from my
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boy Vincent, and he textes me, ah, where is it? Where
is it? So d dun dudon. I'm gonna move it to Jackie
really quick. Okay. It basicallyhad to do with the girl who was
the Drake feature. I got itnow, okay, so my boy restars.
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So now, my boy Vincent textedme. He said, hey,
mister Pinoy, do you know JessicaDomingo. Not trying to argue serious question,
lmfao, And I'm like, lollnot personally why she's the rich baby
daddy girl. And wait wait,but what I mean by she's the rich
baby daddy girl. If you guyshear that song, the sample in the
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beginning is actually Jessica Domingo's voice.She is the one singing and she is
the recurring sample throughout that song.And she is Filipino, yes, and
she is Filipino. Long story short, she was performing in Seattle and my
boy went to go see her performand then the next morning, I was
taking a shit and I was thinkingto myself. I was just like,
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well, I was using the rashroom, and then I was thinking to
myself, I was like, thisguy really texted me, Hey, mister
Penoy, do you know this otherFilipino person? And he's Filipino. And
then I thought to myself, like, am I supposed to know every single
Filipino person on this earth. It'sbecause everyone like sees you on social media
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and like you're basically like the goto for like you're the doc connector for
Philipina. Oh no, please donot call me the doc can I No,
no, no, I do notwant the title doc connector first and
foremost. But I know PSA,I do not know every single Filipino on
this earth. Well you know whytoo. It's because like it's like Latinos
like, Okay, you go toyour tita or you're like your THEO or
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your THEA, and they're just like, oh, do you know so and
so? Like no, they're like, oh, well, it's because like
you know, they're they know thisperson and that person, and it's like
just because we're the same ethnicity doesn'tmean we know everybody. Yeah, yeah,
like I just because I'm Mexican doesn'tmean I know every Mexican. Just
because you're Filipino doesn't mean you knowevery Filipino. But like our theas and
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our theos just think that we domm hmm. And it's just like,
oh, you know so and so, No, I don't. I know
of them, but I don't knowthem. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well that being said, I don'tknow Jessica Domingo. But hey, we
do need you on the podcast,my friend, whenever you are in La.
Yes, let me just say that, speaking of your theos. Right,
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So we've been going to no No, So we've been going to like
a lot of your family parties,like a lot of family parties for once.
Yeah. And so it was funnybecause in one family party in particular,
you know, Jackie actually had work, so I was kicking it with
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Jackie's family. Her uncle then callsme over because he saw, you know,
I was just chilling, I waseating, I was chilling, I
was having a good time. Buthe called me over just like, you
know, talk to me, andyou know, me and her uncle,
big chops, we'd just be havingconversations about bs or just you know whatever
is going on in life. Andhe was like, hey, bro,
I'm like, what shows you watchingright now? And you know, I
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hit him with, you know,I'm watching Ripley, I'm watching whatever.
Whatever. He was like, Yo, there's a super dope show on Hulu
right now about a Filipino lady.This show is called The Cleaning Lady.
And if you didn't know, thePhilippines actually has a lot of things that
emanate from there, one of thembeing nurses and the other one being cleaning
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ladies, and a lot of themmigrate over here to the US from the
Philippines, and essentially that is whatthe story was about. He said,
Bro, like this this lady,she's from the Philippines. She was a
doctor over there, but then herwhole story is about her moving to the
US and her just being a cleaninglady for these people over here in the
US. And I'm like, oh, yeah, like that sounds pretty interesting.
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Like I'm kind of with it.And then Jackie's cousin aka Big Chops's
daughter, she doubled down, Yeah, shout out to Janeleen. She doubled
downs and she's like, yeah,Nico, you know she's from Manila.
Just pulled that one all the wayfar from her ass. And I'm just
and this is the reason why,because I'm just saying. So Jackie and
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I end up going on Hulu thatnight. I tell her about The Cleaning
Lady. We look up The CleaningLady, and first off, the first
thing that caught my eye was thatit only starts on season three, so
bummer, we couldn't watch season oneor two. But the description, the
description of the show said, oh, this lady migrates from Cambodia, this
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Cambodian lady. A Cambodian lady,a Cambodian lady. And we were like
reading that, that was literally thefirst three words of the description was a
Cambodian lady. And We're like,this is not even She's not even Phila,
you know, Oh she's not Filipino. Where did you get that from?
So my uncle made an honest mistake. He made an honest mistake.
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Oh. I grilled him, youdid not grow. I grilled him in
the family group chat. I waslike, hey, bro, like,
she wasn't even Filipino. She wasCambodian. And my uncle felt so bad
afterwards that he FaceTime does and hewas like I'm so sorry. I was
like, it's fine, Like you'relike, you're totally fine. We just
think it was hell funny because mylike my family always wants to try and
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to relate to Yeah, yeah,yeah, and so they always want to
bring up something that's Filipino related.But this was obviously not that. But
then I thought, I thought tomyself, because then your uncle did apologize
and I was like, nah,i's aw good, Like don't even apologize.
And I thought to myself, like, where did Jaylen get Manila from?
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Out of all places? Like howdid she even come up with Manila?
If she's been watching this show?That's actually very true. Maybe she
just knows about the Manila, philI guess so. But I meane,
like people know about the Philippines.Yeah, yeah, that's true. Shout
out to the Philippines, Shout outto my cousin Juli, and shout out
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to you. I still want towatch Cleaning Lady, though, because it
does seem like a good show.We can't find season one or two.
Yeah yeah, but I mean itis true because like what tends to happen
is that you know, if youare a nurse in the Philippines or if
you don't get a nursing job,like the next tendency is to move out
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from the United States and literally justbecome a maid. Like my cousin,
actually, Matt the Merribeth she isa housemaid over in Canada and she's been
yeah, and she's been there formaybe about like ten twelve years now or
maybe even longer. Wow. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah,
And honestly, like my first timehearing about that Mary Beth. Yeah.
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But you know, I think what'sfunny is that like people see the word
maid or like the I don't likethe word maid. I don't like the
word maid. That was my point, Like how come like why I like,
like a housekeeper is better, likelike a may just seems like,
I don't know, like very oldin days to me and like very like
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it just seems very like below me, like you know, like oh,
like I think you're below me.It just gives up because I guess I've
had like that representation has always likebeen in like movies and also like you
know, history books and you know, like oh, you're the maid of
the house. It's like okay controversial, you know. I mean, I
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don't like calling people maids, I'drather call them like a housekeeper because they
still ultimately tend to the house.I get what you mean by like,
I guess softening up the word byusing like housekeeper. But even softening up
the word, I mean it isbecause you just said that like maid is
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like degrading it is. Yeah,So you soften up the word by saying
housekeeper, Yeah, but you treatthem with more respect than like a maid,
whither you would have back then.No, but what I'm saying so
to my point is like being amaid, which is a pretty common word
in the Philippines, and it's apretty common like it's a pretty common like
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job in the Philippines, Like they'recalled a maid, And like the thing
is, people don't see it asdemeaning over there, and because that's the
ecosystem that I grew up with,Like I don't necessarily see it as demeaning.
I actually see it as a prettylike high standard job, because I
mean, you get maids who likesteal shit, you get maids who can't
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upkeep the house. Yeah, butthen that's like that's in a different country,
the country we were raised in.And like, historically, a maid
is someone that you is beneath you. I wouldn't necessarily agree to that.
To each their own, but Imean that's I mean, if you look
at his history books, the waythat maids are portrayed in movies and in
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shows and in the American history books, that's literally what I said. Yeah,
but like the country that we grewup. And that's why I don't
like to use the word like maid. I'd rather use like housekeeper. Yeah,
it just shows more respect for aperson. No, you get me.
I don't know, but like here, I guess that's me being grown
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up here. Yeah, all Iknow is going back to the Philippines and
hanging out with my boy. He'slike, yeah, bro, I pay
my maid like high dollar over here, and I'm like, good for you,
dude, Like at least she's gettingher money, Like you know what
I mean. Yeah, I guessI don't know, Like I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, no, I'mjust saying I don't know. But
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anyway, moving on from that,Nego been djaying a lot of weddings lately.
You guys have seen it on hislike Instagram and all that. I
think a lot of people like seeingthose those videos that you put out from
the like weddings that you dj justbecause like, like I feel like weddings
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now have so many Like it's likeour generation that's growing, that's getting married
and everything like that, and we'rejust like have a different cluster of like
music now in weddings. Wouldn't youagree? I I kind of agree,
but also kind of don't because likethere's a couple songs of like today that
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I can bleed into the wedding scene, like a rich Baby Daddy for example,
But for the most part, I'mplaying the same thing every single time.
Like That's what I mean. Likeit's because of like the generation that
you're DJing for, Like if youwere to have dj for like I don't
know, twenty year olds, no, Like I'm saying, like, h
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like people who were in their likewho are in their forties that got married
like a few years ago or somethinglike that. Like if you were to
DJ my aunt's wedding, it wouldhave been like old school like Spanish music
like Gumbias and all that, likethe traditional shit. And now are the
people that you're DJing for our agethey're like now have like emo like hour
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for their weddings. Oh yeah,yah, yeah, that normally wasn't a
theme. Yeah, that's true.Yeah, I guess to your point,
I see what you're saying, becausethere's no way in the two thousands you
would have played like two thousands emomusic for like thirty year olds or people
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who were getting married at that time. And so it's interesting now because at
least for me, this is probablygoing to be like the start of like
the prime moments of me DJing,just because it's all the music that I
love to play anyway. But yeah, I could play anything between like just
the two thousand stuff or like thenineties R and B, but you know,
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get into like some YMCA and likeSeptember and like, you know,
just all the super old stuff.But where I have a lot of fun
is when the bride and groom wantlike very specific things for their wedding,
when it comes to like an Emonight, right, but when it comes
to like a Disney Hour or something. So like this past weekend, I
was djaying over in San Diego,shout out to Mandy and Robin like my
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cool friends, and you know,they booked me for their wedding, and
she literally put in the notes ofthe wedding like we want an hour's worth
of like emo music and also throwin Disney songs because a lot of them
worked at Disney and that's how shehas like a lot of her friend group.
And so I told myself, like, man, like, it's actually
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very cool and refreshing as a DJ. To be able to play these things
is because you know, at awedding, like I'm typically gonna play like
a YMCA or like September or likenineties R and B or like yeah by
ushers, So to get me outof that comfort zone and like playing emo
music or Disney music and letting thesesongs rite out for the entire time,
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which definitely took up the hour andI probably could have gone on for a
little bit longer. Like it feltrefreshing and it was just cool to see.
It was cool to witness. Yeah, I think, like I said,
seeing your videos and is very interesting, but it also gets It's funny
to me when you come back fromdjaying weddings and you tell me you're like,
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yeah, I just realized the stuffthat we don't need at ours.
So yeah, yeah, as aDJ, what would you say is the
most like time consuming and like numberone thing on your list that weddings don't
actually need so, I mean,all these venues are really on a time
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constraint, right, Like you reallyhave the venue from like five pm to
like ten pm or something of thatsort, like a good five hours.
And what I tend to see isthat a lot of people like to extend
the time of like certain events withinthe wedding. And by events, I
mean like mother son dance or fatherdaughter dance. Those two are perfectly fine.
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But the one thing I don't reallylike when it comes to weddings and
where you can really cut corners aroundyour time is the cake cutting. That
is your number one. You alwayscomplain about it. I always, I
always complain about the cake cutting becausewhenever I see a like timeline and then
it's like cake cutting for ten minutes, I'm like, the cake cutting is
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going to take like two minutes.And I believe that the cake cut And
I'm not judging anybody who who hasdone this, but I've believe that the
cake cutting should just be a momentbetween the bride and groom, maybe like
a little after dinner, like afterlike people have been served their food and
whatnot, and just call it aday, Like you don't really have to
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make it a moment for everybody tolook at, because I'd be looking at
people's faces and they're just like,we gotta watch them cut this cake.
And then matter of fact, myother thing is that's not even the cake
that they be serving people. There'sa cake in the back. Well,
That's what I was gonna say isthat there's a trend now of like kind
of cutting corners when it comes toweddings. Yeah, and there's a lot
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of like this generation of the peoplegetting married, they found a way to
like kind of cut back on costson weddings. And one of those ways
is having a fake cake. Solike there's there's a big teared cake,
yeah, but like only a portionof it is real, Yeah, and
they use that to cut it.And in the back there's like a Costco
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she cake. Costco cake is fireby the way, Yeah, but like
they'll serve that to their guests,and it's like that's smart though, like
low key is you'd be saving Hellamoney on the cake because really it's just
the top part of the cake withlike you know, the the image of
the bride and groom. That's theonly part that they really could to like
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have the brin and groom thing ontop of a cake. I mean some
people do it, which you know, that's cool with me, Like,
you know, I just don't know. I haven't been to a wedding,
Like I don't know. Yeah,no, I mean it's a cool thing
for sure, and you know,but you know, back to the topic,
like I think if the I thinkif the cake cutting just wasn't like
a ten minute moment, like it'dbe fine. Now. I mean,
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I'm not sure if they really dothis in like Mexican weddings for example,
but they do have like the moneydance. Oh yeah, okay cool,
And you know, I think themoney dance is probably one of the best
things that you can use to transitioninto like the whole dance floor thing.
I actually am not a fan ofthe money dance. Really, I'm not
a fan of the money dance.I know that's probably an unpopular opinion.
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Like if you want to give memoney, just put it in like a
fucking box at the table, likedo that, because like I feel like
it takes so much time and thennot everyone has cash, and then like
it just becomes like a cluster andI already don't like a lot of people
around me. So I can onlyimagine like having a cluster of people around
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me, and I'm like, Ican't, I can't do this, Like
I cannot do this. That's that'slike my one thing, one of my
many things that I do and don'twant for my wedding. I just have
to figure out how to like,you know, I don't know, man,
I definitely want the money dance.That should be problem, but like
I don't know, it has tobe organized, like my thing is,
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Like someone gotta be in control ofthat shit because I hate clusters. I
hate like it's gonna be a striclike seven minutes and that's it. Everyone
gets fucking you know, everyone getsten seconds with me. Everyone gets ten
seconds with me, and that's it. We have the rest of the night.
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I'm paying for this fucking venue togo up until like eleven. No,
I'm getting my fucking money's worth.Like I'm not spending thirty minutes on
fucking money dance. No. Butthe thing is you get everybody to start
getting up and then start dancing.There's different ways to do it. There's
different ways to do it. Ithink there's different ways to do it.
I just say, as a professionalwedding DJ, that is the most effective
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way to get people on there.I know, I disagree, we're gonna
We're gonna what's the other way,Well, there's other ways, like okay,
so you know how like okay,So for Mike king Set, I
know this is a King Sat nota wedding, but for my king said,
I really loved my MC for myKing Sat because what he did was
like he told everybody like he hadplayed like kind of games with the with
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the tables at the end of likedinner and at the end of speeches and
at the end of like of likesolo dances, and he's like, all
right, we're gonna play a game. Whoever has a dollar, like bring
it out, blah blah. I'mnot saying we can't have the money dance.
But then like whoever landed on thedollar, like it was kind of
like hot potato, and then whoeverlanded with the dollar at the end got
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to keep it and is now theleader of the table. So everybody stands
back up, everyone has to likelock chain and with the with the leader,
He's like, all right, youguys got thirty seconds to get to
the dance floor and the leader hasto bring you through the tables. So
he gets everyone in thirty seconds onthe dance floor. He goes, all
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right, while we're here, we'regonna take a group picture. Takes the
group picture with every like I'm inthe front and center of this picture and
everybody's behind me. My key said, looks fucking lit. And he's like,
this is the Then he started thedance like, he's like, while
we're up here, let's get thedancing. Literally ninety percent of those people,
and I would say the other tenpercent were like the oldies that can't
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really dance, stayed on the dancefloor, okay, And I thought that
was the most effective way. Iwas like, that's fucking smart. That's
cool. That's cool. Yeah,I mean I can't even front. That's
that sounds pretty effective. Yeah.You get a group picture with everybody who's
there at that moment, not likelike a picture at the end of the
night with like only thirty percent ofthe people that like are left. Yeah.
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Yeah, I mean there you geta picture with like everyone that was
there in that core moment. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely feel that.
I think one other way around that, because I mean I don't like being
in like massive group photos if Idon't know everybody on there. I just
think it's kind of awkward, butalso like it's whatever to me. But
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I think one cool way that thebride and groom, who I just DJed
for what they ended up doing,was that I ended up well rather the
wedding planner for the day, shewas calling up like each of the tables
to get their food. Now whatshe did was she called up each table,
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she told them to get like theirplates put it kind of like behind
their back are kind of hidden.And then before they ended up getting their
food, they took a photo withthe bride and groom. And at least
at that point, you're guaranteed aphoto that you're more than likely go to
post with like the people that you'relike sitting with. Yeah, I and
I like the idea to that ideatoo, of like going around to the
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table like doing like a quick game. How it is like, oh,
like you guys gotta do like uh, like a crazy picture. You have
like ten seconds with the bride andgroom, start thinking all right, go.
I like those types of interaction typeof weddings. I feel like I
have so many restrictions and like thoughtsand ideas when it comes to my wedding,
Like, yeah, see, I'mjust like, let's make it a
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fishing no. Like, I thinkour generation of like people who are getting
married have so many like dues anddoes to their wedding, and I completely
understand them, and I completely respectthem. What I don't like is when
people don't respect them and don't likethink that those rules don't apply to them.
Yeah, Like, it's a trendnow and has been that a lot
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of people want kid free weddings.Yeah, I think a kid free wedding
is probably the best case scenario onethousand percent. Like, I understand that
my family and your family have kids, and by the time that like you
know, hopefully we do get married, that those kids are going to be
of a certain age but still consideredkids unless they're a bride and groom specifically
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say, hey, your kid isexempt and they have a no kid's rule.
Don't bring your fucking kid. Yeah, it's as simple as that.
It's literally, don't bring your kid, and if you can't, sorry,
Like, we appreciate, like,we still have you in our thoughts at
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the day of the wedd but respectwhat people do and don't want at their
wedding. Yeah, I mean,you know, I think it's it's a
funny thing if like people try tolike push the issue like hey, I
know it says no kids, butlike what about mine? Yeah, it's
like especially yours. Those are thepeople. Yeah, the people would say
like, hey, like I knowyou said no kids, but like can
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I please take like little Aiden?No, leave Aiden at home? Like
you're you're the reason that we putthe Aiden is the reason that we put
no kids on the freaking invitation.As a matter of fact, it's funny
because you get like months and monthsworth of advance to like or an advance
rather to make sure that you havelike a babysitter or whatever for that night.
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No literally, like and I justthink that a lot of people need
to respect that like aspect of weddingsnow, and some people still don't have
like have the nerve to like testthe limit, especially too when it comes
to like, oh, a phonefree wedding at the ceremony. I want
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to do that for my wedding becauseI know I can already see family members
like being like this while I'm walkingdown the aisle. If a phone is
in my face while I'm walking downthe aisle. I will smack that phone
out of their hands. So myAta Holly had her wedding like many moons
ago, I want to say,maybe like I don't know, seven eight
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years ago or something like that.And it was cool. It was like
in Monterey, Monterey Bay, andit was an outdoor ceremony and then the
reception was just right across the street. Right. So during the outdoor ceremony,
literally there was somebody who said,hey, guys, the bride and
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groom kindly asked that this will bea phone free ceremony. We have a
videographer here who's capturing all the moments. We have a photographer here who is
capturing all the moments. They donot want any any cameras, like in
any of the shots. I don'twant any of your phones in the shots.
They also don't want any flashes oranything like that. Okay, cool,
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and I understood one thousand percent right. And so next thing, you
know, my Ata Holly and Brianthey're like walking down the aisle. Guess
who the fuck has their phone out? My dad, My dad had his
freaking phone out filming the whole thing. And literally me and my mom looked
at him like they literally just saidno phones and you are the only person
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here with your phone out. Ilove your dad, man, I was
like, Dad, they just saidit, put your phone away. He
put it away. I think whatended up happening, if I could recall,
was that somebody had said after theyhad made it to you know,
the the ale at the end ofthe aisle, someone was like, hey,
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just a reminder, this is aphone free wedding. That's crazy.
Like see, I would have Iwould have had whoever you know said that,
like been like if you don't,if you bring out your phone,
they asked that, you're gonna beescorted out. I am, so I'm
gonna be such like I think aBridezilla when it comes to that stuff where
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it's like if you don't respect mydues and don't you're out, Like I
I can't. But your dad isjust so funny. Your dad is funny.
Like I, if it was gonnabe anybody, if I would have
exactly and and I know it wasmy dad because I remember that moment vividly,
and I'm just like, what thefuck are you doing? What are
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you doing? You should ask him, No, he don't remember. He
don't remember. No, he doesn't. A matter of fact, he has
it on his phone, and Iguarantee you he's never looked back at that
video. I a thousand percent guaranteeyou he's never looked back at that video.
We should ask him no, no, Like when we see him next
time, we should ask him ifhe remembers yeah, if you or I
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should just be like, do youhave a video of like at the Holly's
wedding and see what he says?Oh my god. As a matter of
fact, I do well. Anyways, y'all, once again, Mexicano Food
Fest is happening. Happening July twenty. First, I actually need to put
up the event bright, so uhyeah, I was gonna say like,
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uh, I was gonna tell youright after, but by this time the
event bright should be up. Amen. So that's We're also gonna put out
like a little discount code for thenext podcast, so just be worried about
that. My name is Nico Blitz, I'm Jackiemus, and this is the
Mexicpano Podcast. We are out everybodyHappy. API month piece
C musta na kayo, everyone,what's popping? Everybody? My name is
Nico Blitz. I'm Jackie Mriy andwelcome to another episode of Mexicpinal Podcast.
We're here and we are celebrating AAPImonth, that is Asian American and Pacific
Islander Heritage Month over here in theus of A. Yep. So shout
out to all of our listener familywho is falls under the umbrella of AAPI.
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Yeah, we're super excited that,you know, our podcast has reached
a bunch of different people, ofa bunch of different backgrounds, and you
know, we celebrate you guys prettymuch every podcast, every single podcast.
Man. And you know, Iwant to ask the age old question because
it is specifically Asian American and PacificIslander Month. Because I was filling out,
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you know, a survey the otherday because you know, my taxes
they're just going crazy right now,and I got a little bit of an
extension and it was funny because theyhad asked me, you know how,
they basically have the question of like, are you Hispanic? Are you not
Hispanic? I obviously put no,and then they asked for your ethnicity.
So me being Filipino American. Underthe ethnicity it says Asian or Pacific Islander,
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and I always question myself. I'mlike, do I mark Asian or
Pacific Islander? But this time around, they didn't even have that option.
Was just Asian. Oh wow,yeah, that's interesting. So they didn't
even give me the option a pickPacific Islander. And I'm like, yo,
it's may it's an. So doesthat mean that technically you would like
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identify with Pacific Islanders since you werekind of like hurt that, like it
wasn't on there. Well, Imean, it would have been nice to
have the option to at least decideif I wanted to be Pacific Islander for
the day. But no, Imean, I'll be Asian for the day,
and it's all good with me,you know what I mean purposes.
I'll be Asian for tax purposes,I'll be Asian for medical purposes and all
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of that. Okay, Well,Happy ap I Month to all those who
celebrate, and yeah, embrace yourselves, embrace your culture, embrace your ethnicity.
Yes we love you, amen tothat. We're also gonna have a
whole bunch of like a p Iguests. I think we have a good
morning, Gabe coming in a littlebit, well next week, not even
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a little bit, but oh babe, we didn't clean the apartment, so
yeah, yeah, but yeah,we're gonna have some guests coming up.
We're working on on a list ofguests because we know we had a lot
in the beginning of the year andkind of dwindled down, but we're gonna
have a little bit more. Andalso to start off ap I oneth on
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a great note, Yes, weare officially have officially announced Mexicpino Food Fat
Mexicpino Food Fat ladies and gentlemen.I mean it's not going to be during
a p I month, but itis going to be on July twenty first,
Yeah, July twenty first, andit is going to be back home
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in La ar Monabella location at SaintBendic's Church July twenty first, from eleven
am to seven pm. And yeah, I know a lot of people are
gonna be like, oh my God, come back to the Bay or we
want it in San Diego, orwe want to We're working on it.
Believe me when we when I saywe are working on it to be just
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like completely transparent with you guys.The Bay is like it's expensive, there's
not a lot of room out thereto find some venues. But yeah,
we have some in the mind.When we have some in mind. San
Diego, we are super close tosecuring a venue out there, and hopefully
we're gonna be going to Sacramento too, so hopefully that one's looking really good
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too. So I would say likeSacramento and San Diego are the other ones
to look out for the Bay specifically. It is very hard, but we
do want to go back. Wedo want to go back to the Bay,
So just be patient with us.But as of right now, July
twenty first Mexicano Food Fest Montapello isback Saint Banick's Church, eleven am to
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seven pm. Yeah, it's gonnabe good. It's gonna be good for
summer. It's gonna be good fory'all. And you know, Monapello the
city itself, like it's cool becauseit's kind of in the middle between where
Hispanics and Asians meet. Oh yeah, it's like like literally it's like Montabello,
Monterey Park, wittier, like downy, like it's literally like just a
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cluster of like hella like Asians andLatinos and I grew up with hella Asians
and Latinos more predominantly Latino. Butlike, once I got to high school,
I really like kind of discovered.I'm like, oh shit, there's
a bunch of Asians out here.Yeah, yeah, there's a lot.
It's kind of weird. Like Ididn't really get exposed, like I said,
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to Asian and like culture Asian peoplethat much until like I was probably
a freshman in high school. Well, I think one thing that a lot
of people tend to forget, andyou might know if you listen to this
podcast, is that Jackie, beinga Latino American, she speaks Japanese.
Yeah, I do, which iskind of weird, I guess for other
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people, not for me. Ilike whenever I tell people that I speak
Japanese, they're kind of like,wait what, And I'm like, yeah,
you know, it's the reason Ispeak Japanese is because my dad didn't
want me to get an easy Ain Spanish class in high school. Yeah,
He's like, you already know thelanguage. I was like, exactly,
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Like that's that's exactly why. He'slike, no, you need to
learn something else to the DA andI was gonna do French. I was
gonna take French and he's like,when are you gonna go to France?
I was like, when am Igonna go to Japan? Like, I
mean, I'll go to Japan beforeI go to France. True in that,
like, I don't know. Ijust thought like French would have been
like so like, oh my god. You know, but like, I
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am very proud of the fact thatI can speak a little bit of Japanese
and that I could function and askfor like directions or order things or you
know, try and help people ifI were to speak Japanese. But yeah,
it's a it's a fun like factabout me. It's pretty cool.
Not a lot of people know.I mean, Jackie, she just got
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invited to a restaurant this past whatSaturday. Yeah, I want to tell
everybody the story about that restaurant.So I don't know, I think it
was. I don't know if itwas because I had like posted a video
of me speaking Japanese in an interviewclip with Umi, who's a Seattle R
and B artist. She's half black, half Japanese, and in the beginning
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of the clip, I'm speaking Japaneseand literally like not even I want to
say, like a day or twolater, I get a d M from
gouzub So yeah, which is herein La, which is a Japanese mental
restaurant, and they offered, youknow, for us to go try their
food. And I was super excitedbecause bento boxes are basically like lunch boxes.
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Yeah, you can customize your lunchbox however you want. Everyone has
their different ways of like creating theirlunch boxes in Japan. And it was
so good. The place itself wasin like a sketchy area, super sketchy,
like it was kind of crazy,like you know when you're driving around
and then you go through like theindustry of like downtown, like you see
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nothing but like the smog coming upfrom these buildings. Yeah. So like
it was interesting. I was like, maybe we're gonna get closer to like
staplesent or Crypto like arena, likeas we're going through these and it's like
churn life and then your destination willbe on your left. I'm like what
And then so like is this littlelike restaurant like free parking though? So,
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I mean that show was in theCuts, but it was free parking,
yeah, in the Cuts, butfree parking and amazing food and you
can like watch anime episodes while you'reeating. Music is super chill. Yeah,
they had city pop type music goingon and then they also had like
one piece playing. Yeah, andthe food, like I said, is
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really freaking amazing. I really wishI got the chicken that you got.
I really loved the salmon that Igot. The salmon a benflip box that
I got, and it was reallyamazing. Shout out to Jason, the
guy that works there and that reachedout. I mean, he was super
nice. He's actually Filipinos, sothat was kind of Yeah. That was
another crazy thing. It was like, okay, so you had the Filipino
guy who was like the marketing personfor this Japanese restaurant. Yeah, but
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all in all, it was agreat experience. Their yuzu drink was really
good. That was super good.It was like this macha type of thing.
Yeah, green u zoom or uzuomlike green tea or something like.
Yeah, I don't know, likeit was really good. I'm gonna be
posting some of that food like onmy Instagram. So if you guys want
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to check that out. Guzu BentoYacht you guys have to go. Again,
it's in the cuts, but greatfood. Let me explain, let
me explain how much in the cutsthis was. He had told us a
story about like this family of likeno, it was a basketball team.
Okay, so it was a basketballteam and there was of like a lot
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of like you know, like littlegirls. Right. So then this basketball
team comes to the store and thenthey end up buying their food. But
next thing, you know, theyjust hear something. They hear an ambulance
just outside. When all the littlegirls and I'm talking about like ten year
old girls or whatever, they lookoutside, they see somebody had just like
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died or like got shot in theirtrailer right outside. Yeah. Like yeah,
so like a homeless person like Ithink got like murdered in their in
their RV. And yeah, whichis insane. Whoa bro? But honestly,
you're in downtown LA. So likeme, you know what you get
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when you go to downtown La.Like literally, but again, the food
amazing in the cuts but amazing.So you guys should go try go in
uh in l A. Yeah,you guys should really try it. Oh
yeah, Jason, that we sentyou, Tell them that we sent you.
Yeah, for real because we wantmore discuss Yeah, you won't get
a discount, and I don't knowwho we will, but at least they
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know that we're talking about it.And then to that, I was listening
to a couple of podcasts, oneof them being a producer podcast, and
they had like a really cool IGuess segment and it was a super quick
segment and it basically went one gottago Okay. So they decided between like
three things, and basically one ofthose three things had to go, whether
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it be like, oh, DJ'sgot a DJs versus musician versus like drummer,
you know, something of that sort, right, So I decided that
I wanted to bring that into thepodcast. And there's actually like a little
phrase that Jackie mentioned to me whenI brought this idea up. Yeah,
so if you guys watched them Francisco, you guys know that, like there
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was like this guy just in likealso the guy was very scary when I
was young, but he was justin a costume. He would play a
trumpet and then he'd go like they'dstart saying like fueida fa, which ultimately
means like you gotta go, likeyou gotta get out like you're done,
leave type you're done. So wecan like just say, like we can
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start this as like uh like likeI don't know, like one gotta go,
and then once I choose, wejust gotta say Florida, Okay,
so we're gonna be like okay,okay, okay, all right, so
like one gotta go. Okay,so one gotta go ta Patio Chilula or
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Valentina hot sauce damn um. That'stough. It is tough because Patio,
like I basically put that on everything. Yeah, I feel like that Patio
is like the main one that alot of people like to use, but
it's also very mainstream, I guess. But like Valentina is like also like
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I don't know, I just likeit's like a thicker consistency. Yeah,
so I love it, and Idon't know. Sometimes Chilula it like if
it's watered like sometimes it looks likeit's watered down. But I do love
the spice of it sometimes, butit has to be like the bottle.
Sometimes the bottle is like like it'snot good, damn okay. So but
(12:48):
like I don't know the design ofthe bottle of chilula sauce. The I
think in like rapper terms, Iwould say, like Ta Patio is more
like Drake because it's kind of likeeverywhere. Chilula would kind of be like
Kendrick because it's like some people somepeople like him, some people don't like
them. Oras like Valentina is kindof like there's only a certain amount of
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people who really like. I thinkValentina is like, no, Valentina's very
popular. Okay, okay, Valentinais very popular, and you haven't really
had Valentina's which is why I thinkyou're saying that. Yeah, but okay,
I think if one gotta go,okay, it's Chilula hot Sauce,
Chilula. Chilula gotta go. IThinkilula's gotta go. Man, there's yeah,
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I think Chilula's gotta go. Ohmy, I think my dad or
my mom one of them is gonnaget mad at me. But like,
yeah, because my dad doesn't likeValentina. But I like Valentina because you
could put it on like on likeyou know those the what do they called
Hondan? Because I don't want toget roasted on the internet. Hold on,
uh, oh my gosh, whatare they called? They're like little
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like wheels. There's no them aslike the little wheels. Uh how wheels
man chips because of the speller manalways has those chips, like the circular
chips. Yes, yes, thoseyou're not googling. Respoto manis okay?
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What are they called it? Likeit pops up, so sir, so
we could just call them respoto manis okay? Okay. Also hot topic
because some people call like the likethe chips that the speller man has the
like wheel round looking when some ofthe some people call him chichato. Some
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people call them chicharron is. Butchicharon is is also like the pork grinds,
and that's not pork grind h.So, like, I guess it's
kind of all where like you comefrom, like what you call them?
So I don't know, but youguys know what I'm talking about. Valentina
on those fire So that's why Ican't get rid of Valentina. All right,
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Sol, what about you? Youokay? One gotta go okay?
Loompia mm hmm seasick a dobo?Who I'd say? I mean, I
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think the regular person, the regularFilipino person would say this is kind of
difficult, but it's pretty easy forme. This is pretty easy for me.
I would say, if one gottago, then it has to be
a dobo day. Well, yeah, you gonna eat adobo that much?
I don't because I mean, youcan get chicken anywhere, right, But
then like it's really just the marinationof it. But seasick, I can't
(15:43):
get rid of and lumpia it's justthe finger food. So because I could
pick up lumpia with my hand,I'm not gonna pick up chicken a dobo
with my hand, And then seasick, I'm just not. I'm simply just
not getting rid of. So wegotta say goodbye to chicken adobo like with
ease, with ease. That's crazy. Are you losing your Filipino card over
(16:06):
this? Not even dude, noteven no, that's crazy. Oh my
god, I'm speaking of Filipino cardsright the past, I don't know,
maybe two weeks. I guess peoplejust see me as like the Filipino guy
because there have been like two instanceswhere it's like I was supposed to know
(16:27):
everything about like Filipinos, right right, So I want to talk about this
first instance. Right one, Iget a text from my friend Vincent,
and he texted me like, hey, mister Penoy, Okay, okay,
wait wait wait, let me letme get her name right because I want
to make sure I shout her outright. So I get a text from my
(16:48):
boy Vincent, and he textes me, ah, where is it? Where
is it? So d dun dudon. I'm gonna move it to Jackie
really quick. Okay. It basicallyhad to do with the girl who was
the Drake feature. I got itnow, okay, so my boy restars.
(17:11):
So now, my boy Vincent textedme. He said, hey,
mister Pinoy, do you know JessicaDomingo. Not trying to argue serious question,
lmfao, And I'm like, lollnot personally why she's the rich baby
daddy girl. And wait wait,but what I mean by she's the rich
baby daddy girl. If you guyshear that song, the sample in the
(17:33):
beginning is actually Jessica Domingo's voice.She is the one singing and she is
the recurring sample throughout that song.And she is Filipino, yes, and
she is Filipino. Long story short, she was performing in Seattle and my
boy went to go see her performand then the next morning, I was
taking a shit and I was thinkingto myself. I was just like,
(17:56):
well, I was using the rashroom, and then I was thinking to
myself, I was like, thisguy really texted me, Hey, mister
Penoy, do you know this otherFilipino person? And he's Filipino. And
then I thought to myself, like, am I supposed to know every single
Filipino person on this earth. It'sbecause everyone like sees you on social media
(18:18):
and like you're basically like the goto for like you're the doc connector for
Philipina. Oh no, please donot call me the doc can I No,
no, no, I do notwant the title doc connector first and
foremost. But I know PSA,I do not know every single Filipino on
this earth. Well you know whytoo. It's because like it's like Latinos
like, Okay, you go toyour tita or you're like your THEO or
(18:44):
your THEA, and they're just like, oh, do you know so and
so? Like no, they're like, oh, well, it's because like
you know, they're they know thisperson and that person, and it's like
just because we're the same ethnicity doesn'tmean we know everybody. Yeah, yeah,
like I just because I'm Mexican doesn'tmean I know every Mexican. Just
because you're Filipino doesn't mean you knowevery Filipino. But like our theas and
(19:07):
our theos just think that we domm hmm. And it's just like,
oh, you know so and so, No, I don't. I know
of them, but I don't knowthem. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Well that being said, I don'tknow Jessica Domingo. But hey, we
do need you on the podcast,my friend, whenever you are in La.
Yes, let me just say that, speaking of your theos. Right,
(19:27):
So we've been going to no No, So we've been going to like
a lot of your family parties,like a lot of family parties for once.
Yeah. And so it was funnybecause in one family party in particular,
you know, Jackie actually had work, so I was kicking it with
(19:48):
Jackie's family. Her uncle then callsme over because he saw, you know,
I was just chilling, I waseating, I was chilling, I
was having a good time. Buthe called me over just like, you
know, talk to me, andyou know, me and her uncle,
big chops, we'd just be havingconversations about bs or just you know whatever
is going on in life. Andhe was like, hey, bro,
I'm like, what shows you watchingright now? And you know, I
(20:11):
hit him with, you know,I'm watching Ripley, I'm watching whatever.
Whatever. He was like, Yo, there's a super dope show on Hulu
right now about a Filipino lady.This show is called The Cleaning Lady.
And if you didn't know, thePhilippines actually has a lot of things that
emanate from there, one of thembeing nurses and the other one being cleaning
(20:33):
ladies, and a lot of themmigrate over here to the US from the
Philippines, and essentially that is whatthe story was about. He said,
Bro, like this this lady,she's from the Philippines. She was a
doctor over there, but then herwhole story is about her moving to the
US and her just being a cleaninglady for these people over here in the
US. And I'm like, oh, yeah, like that sounds pretty interesting.
(20:56):
Like I'm kind of with it.And then Jackie's cousin aka Big Chops's
daughter, she doubled down, Yeah, shout out to Janeleen. She doubled
downs and she's like, yeah,Nico, you know she's from Manila.
Just pulled that one all the wayfar from her ass. And I'm just
and this is the reason why,because I'm just saying. So Jackie and
(21:18):
I end up going on Hulu thatnight. I tell her about The Cleaning
Lady. We look up The CleaningLady, and first off, the first
thing that caught my eye was thatit only starts on season three, so
bummer, we couldn't watch season oneor two. But the description, the
description of the show said, oh, this lady migrates from Cambodia, this
(21:45):
Cambodian lady. A Cambodian lady,a Cambodian lady. And we were like
reading that, that was literally thefirst three words of the description was a
Cambodian lady. And We're like,this is not even She's not even Phila,
you know, Oh she's not Filipino. Where did you get that from?
So my uncle made an honest mistake. He made an honest mistake.
(22:07):
Oh. I grilled him, youdid not grow. I grilled him in
the family group chat. I waslike, hey, bro, like,
she wasn't even Filipino. She wasCambodian. And my uncle felt so bad
afterwards that he FaceTime does and hewas like I'm so sorry. I was
like, it's fine, Like you'relike, you're totally fine. We just
think it was hell funny because mylike my family always wants to try and
(22:30):
to relate to Yeah, yeah,yeah, and so they always want to
bring up something that's Filipino related.But this was obviously not that. But
then I thought, I thought tomyself, because then your uncle did apologize
and I was like, nah,i's aw good, Like don't even apologize.
And I thought to myself, like, where did Jaylen get Manila from?
(22:51):
Out of all places? Like howdid she even come up with Manila?
If she's been watching this show?That's actually very true. Maybe she
just knows about the Manila, philI guess so. But I meane,
like people know about the Philippines.Yeah, yeah, that's true. Shout
out to the Philippines, Shout outto my cousin Juli, and shout out
(23:11):
to you. I still want towatch Cleaning Lady, though, because it
does seem like a good show.We can't find season one or two.
Yeah yeah, but I mean itis true because like what tends to happen
is that you know, if youare a nurse in the Philippines or if
you don't get a nursing job,like the next tendency is to move out
(23:32):
from the United States and literally justbecome a maid. Like my cousin,
actually, Matt the Merribeth she isa housemaid over in Canada and she's been
yeah, and she's been there formaybe about like ten twelve years now or
maybe even longer. Wow. Yeah, I didn't know that. Yeah,
And honestly, like my first timehearing about that Mary Beth. Yeah.
(23:55):
But you know, I think what'sfunny is that like people see the word
maid or like the I don't likethe word maid. I don't like the
word maid. That was my point, Like how come like why I like,
like a housekeeper is better, likelike a may just seems like,
I don't know, like very oldin days to me and like very like
(24:18):
it just seems very like below me, like you know, like oh,
like I think you're below me.It just gives up because I guess I've
had like that representation has always likebeen in like movies and also like you
know, history books and you know, like oh, you're the maid of
the house. It's like okay controversial, you know. I mean, I
(24:41):
don't like calling people maids, I'drather call them like a housekeeper because they
still ultimately tend to the house.I get what you mean by like,
I guess softening up the word byusing like housekeeper. But even softening up
the word, I mean it isbecause you just said that like maid is
(25:03):
like degrading it is. Yeah,So you soften up the word by saying
housekeeper, Yeah, but you treatthem with more respect than like a maid,
whither you would have back then.No, but what I'm saying so
to my point is like being amaid, which is a pretty common word
in the Philippines, and it's apretty common like it's a pretty common like
(25:26):
job in the Philippines, Like they'recalled a maid, And like the thing
is, people don't see it asdemeaning over there, and because that's the
ecosystem that I grew up with,Like I don't necessarily see it as demeaning.
I actually see it as a prettylike high standard job, because I
mean, you get maids who likesteal shit, you get maids who can't
(25:47):
upkeep the house. Yeah, butthen that's like that's in a different country,
the country we were raised in.And like, historically, a maid
is someone that you is beneath you. I wouldn't necessarily agree to that.
To each their own, but Imean that's I mean, if you look
at his history books, the waythat maids are portrayed in movies and in
(26:11):
shows and in the American history books, that's literally what I said. Yeah,
but like the country that we grewup. And that's why I don't
like to use the word like maid. I'd rather use like housekeeper. Yeah,
it just shows more respect for aperson. No, you get me.
I don't know, but like here, I guess that's me being grown
(26:36):
up here. Yeah, all Iknow is going back to the Philippines and
hanging out with my boy. He'slike, yeah, bro, I pay
my maid like high dollar over here, and I'm like, good for you,
dude, Like at least she's gettingher money, Like you know what
I mean. Yeah, I guessI don't know, Like I don't know.
Yeah, yeah, no, I'mjust saying I don't know. But
(26:56):
anyway, moving on from that,Nego been djaying a lot of weddings lately.
You guys have seen it on hislike Instagram and all that. I
think a lot of people like seeingthose those videos that you put out from
the like weddings that you dj justbecause like, like I feel like weddings
(27:18):
now have so many Like it's likeour generation that's growing, that's getting married
and everything like that, and we'rejust like have a different cluster of like
music now in weddings. Wouldn't youagree? I I kind of agree,
but also kind of don't because likethere's a couple songs of like today that
(27:38):
I can bleed into the wedding scene, like a rich Baby Daddy for example,
But for the most part, I'mplaying the same thing every single time.
Like That's what I mean. Likeit's because of like the generation that
you're DJing for, Like if youwere to have dj for like I don't
know, twenty year olds, no, Like I'm saying, like, h
(28:03):
like people who were in their likewho are in their forties that got married
like a few years ago or somethinglike that. Like if you were to
DJ my aunt's wedding, it wouldhave been like old school like Spanish music
like Gumbias and all that, likethe traditional shit. And now are the
people that you're DJing for our agethey're like now have like emo like hour
(28:27):
for their weddings. Oh yeah,yah, yeah, that normally wasn't a
theme. Yeah, that's true.Yeah, I guess to your point,
I see what you're saying, becausethere's no way in the two thousands you
would have played like two thousands emomusic for like thirty year olds or people
(28:48):
who were getting married at that time. And so it's interesting now because at
least for me, this is probablygoing to be like the start of like
the prime moments of me DJing,just because it's all the music that I
love to play anyway. But yeah, I could play anything between like just
the two thousand stuff or like thenineties R and B, but you know,
(29:11):
get into like some YMCA and likeSeptember and like, you know,
just all the super old stuff.But where I have a lot of fun
is when the bride and groom wantlike very specific things for their wedding,
when it comes to like an Emonight, right, but when it comes
to like a Disney Hour or something. So like this past weekend, I
was djaying over in San Diego,shout out to Mandy and Robin like my
(29:34):
cool friends, and you know,they booked me for their wedding, and
she literally put in the notes ofthe wedding like we want an hour's worth
of like emo music and also throwin Disney songs because a lot of them
worked at Disney and that's how shehas like a lot of her friend group.
And so I told myself, like, man, like, it's actually
(29:56):
very cool and refreshing as a DJ. To be able to play these things
is because you know, at awedding, like I'm typically gonna play like
a YMCA or like September or likenineties R and B or like yeah by
ushers, So to get me outof that comfort zone and like playing emo
music or Disney music and letting thesesongs rite out for the entire time,
(30:17):
which definitely took up the hour andI probably could have gone on for a
little bit longer. Like it feltrefreshing and it was just cool to see.
It was cool to witness. Yeah, I think, like I said,
seeing your videos and is very interesting, but it also gets It's funny
to me when you come back fromdjaying weddings and you tell me you're like,
(30:40):
yeah, I just realized the stuffthat we don't need at ours.
So yeah, yeah, as aDJ, what would you say is the
most like time consuming and like numberone thing on your list that weddings don't
actually need so, I mean,all these venues are really on a time
(31:00):
constraint, right, Like you reallyhave the venue from like five pm to
like ten pm or something of thatsort, like a good five hours.
And what I tend to see isthat a lot of people like to extend
the time of like certain events withinthe wedding. And by events, I
mean like mother son dance or fatherdaughter dance. Those two are perfectly fine.
(31:25):
But the one thing I don't reallylike when it comes to weddings and
where you can really cut corners aroundyour time is the cake cutting. That
is your number one. You alwayscomplain about it. I always, I
always complain about the cake cutting becausewhenever I see a like timeline and then
it's like cake cutting for ten minutes, I'm like, the cake cutting is
(31:48):
going to take like two minutes.And I believe that the cake cut And
I'm not judging anybody who who hasdone this, but I've believe that the
cake cutting should just be a momentbetween the bride and groom, maybe like
a little after dinner, like afterlike people have been served their food and
whatnot, and just call it aday, Like you don't really have to
(32:14):
make it a moment for everybody tolook at, because I'd be looking at
people's faces and they're just like,we gotta watch them cut this cake.
And then matter of fact, myother thing is that's not even the cake
that they be serving people. There'sa cake in the back. Well,
That's what I was gonna say isthat there's a trend now of like kind
of cutting corners when it comes toweddings. Yeah, and there's a lot
(32:37):
of like this generation of the peoplegetting married, they found a way to
like kind of cut back on costson weddings. And one of those ways
is having a fake cake. Solike there's there's a big teared cake,
yeah, but like only a portionof it is real, Yeah, and
they use that to cut it.And in the back there's like a Costco
(33:00):
she cake. Costco cake is fireby the way, Yeah, but like
they'll serve that to their guests,and it's like that's smart though, like
low key is you'd be saving Hellamoney on the cake because really it's just
the top part of the cake withlike you know, the the image of
the bride and groom. That's theonly part that they really could to like
(33:21):
have the brin and groom thing ontop of a cake. I mean some
people do it, which you know, that's cool with me, Like,
you know, I just don't know. I haven't been to a wedding,
Like I don't know. Yeah,no, I mean it's a cool thing
for sure, and you know,but you know, back to the topic,
like I think if the I thinkif the cake cutting just wasn't like
a ten minute moment, like it'dbe fine. Now. I mean,
(33:44):
I'm not sure if they really dothis in like Mexican weddings for example,
but they do have like the moneydance. Oh yeah, okay cool,
And you know, I think themoney dance is probably one of the best
things that you can use to transitioninto like the whole dance floor thing.
I actually am not a fan ofthe money dance. Really, I'm not
a fan of the money dance.I know that's probably an unpopular opinion.
(34:05):
Like if you want to give memoney, just put it in like a
fucking box at the table, likedo that, because like I feel like
it takes so much time and thennot everyone has cash, and then like
it just becomes like a cluster andI already don't like a lot of people
around me. So I can onlyimagine like having a cluster of people around
(34:28):
me, and I'm like, Ican't, I can't do this, Like
I cannot do this. That's that'slike my one thing, one of my
many things that I do and don'twant for my wedding. I just have
to figure out how to like,you know, I don't know, man,
I definitely want the money dance.That should be problem, but like
I don't know, it has tobe organized, like my thing is,
(34:49):
Like someone gotta be in control ofthat shit because I hate clusters. I
hate like it's gonna be a striclike seven minutes and that's it. Everyone
gets fucking you know, everyone getsten seconds with me. Everyone gets ten
seconds with me, and that's it. We have the rest of the night.
(35:12):
I'm paying for this fucking venue togo up until like eleven. No,
I'm getting my fucking money's worth.Like I'm not spending thirty minutes on
fucking money dance. No. Butthe thing is you get everybody to start
getting up and then start dancing.There's different ways to do it. There's
different ways to do it. Ithink there's different ways to do it.
I just say, as a professionalwedding DJ, that is the most effective
(35:35):
way to get people on there.I know, I disagree, we're gonna
We're gonna what's the other way,Well, there's other ways, like okay,
so you know how like okay,So for Mike king Set, I
know this is a King Sat nota wedding, but for my king said,
I really loved my MC for myKing Sat because what he did was
like he told everybody like he hadplayed like kind of games with the with
(36:00):
the tables at the end of likedinner and at the end of speeches and
at the end of like of likesolo dances, and he's like, all
right, we're gonna play a game. Whoever has a dollar, like bring
it out, blah blah. I'mnot saying we can't have the money dance.
But then like whoever landed on thedollar, like it was kind of
like hot potato, and then whoeverlanded with the dollar at the end got
(36:22):
to keep it and is now theleader of the table. So everybody stands
back up, everyone has to likelock chain and with the with the leader,
He's like, all right, youguys got thirty seconds to get to
the dance floor and the leader hasto bring you through the tables. So
he gets everyone in thirty seconds onthe dance floor. He goes, all
(36:43):
right, while we're here, we'regonna take a group picture. Takes the
group picture with every like I'm inthe front and center of this picture and
everybody's behind me. My key said, looks fucking lit. And he's like,
this is the Then he started thedance like, he's like, while
we're up here, let's get thedancing. Literally ninety percent of those people,
and I would say the other tenpercent were like the oldies that can't
(37:04):
really dance, stayed on the dancefloor, okay, And I thought that
was the most effective way. Iwas like, that's fucking smart. That's
cool. That's cool. Yeah,I mean I can't even front. That's
that sounds pretty effective. Yeah.You get a group picture with everybody who's
there at that moment, not likelike a picture at the end of the
night with like only thirty percent ofthe people that like are left. Yeah.
(37:25):
Yeah, I mean there you geta picture with like everyone that was
there in that core moment. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely feel that.
I think one other way around that, because I mean I don't like being
in like massive group photos if Idon't know everybody on there. I just
think it's kind of awkward, butalso like it's whatever to me. But
(37:46):
I think one cool way that thebride and groom, who I just DJed
for what they ended up doing,was that I ended up well rather the
wedding planner for the day, shewas calling up like each of the tables
to get their food. Now whatshe did was she called up each table,
(38:07):
she told them to get like theirplates put it kind of like behind
their back are kind of hidden.And then before they ended up getting their
food, they took a photo withthe bride and groom. And at least
at that point, you're guaranteed aphoto that you're more than likely go to
post with like the people that you'relike sitting with. Yeah, I and
I like the idea to that ideatoo, of like going around to the
(38:28):
table like doing like a quick game. How it is like, oh,
like you guys gotta do like uh, like a crazy picture. You have
like ten seconds with the bride andgroom, start thinking all right, go.
I like those types of interaction typeof weddings. I feel like I
have so many restrictions and like thoughtsand ideas when it comes to my wedding,
Like, yeah, see, I'mjust like, let's make it a
(38:50):
fishing no. Like, I thinkour generation of like people who are getting
married have so many like dues anddoes to their wedding, and I completely
understand them, and I completely respectthem. What I don't like is when
people don't respect them and don't likethink that those rules don't apply to them.
Yeah, Like, it's a trendnow and has been that a lot
(39:15):
of people want kid free weddings.Yeah, I think a kid free wedding
is probably the best case scenario onethousand percent. Like, I understand that
my family and your family have kids, and by the time that like you
know, hopefully we do get married, that those kids are going to be
of a certain age but still consideredkids unless they're a bride and groom specifically
(39:38):
say, hey, your kid isexempt and they have a no kid's rule.
Don't bring your fucking kid. Yeah, it's as simple as that.
It's literally, don't bring your kid, and if you can't, sorry,
Like, we appreciate, like,we still have you in our thoughts at
(39:59):
the day of the wedd but respectwhat people do and don't want at their
wedding. Yeah, I mean,you know, I think it's it's a
funny thing if like people try tolike push the issue like hey, I
know it says no kids, butlike what about mine? Yeah, it's
like especially yours. Those are thepeople. Yeah, the people would say
like, hey, like I knowyou said no kids, but like can
(40:20):
I please take like little Aiden?No, leave Aiden at home? Like
you're you're the reason that we putthe Aiden is the reason that we put
no kids on the freaking invitation.As a matter of fact, it's funny
because you get like months and monthsworth of advance to like or an advance
rather to make sure that you havelike a babysitter or whatever for that night.
(40:40):
No literally, like and I justthink that a lot of people need
to respect that like aspect of weddingsnow, and some people still don't have
like have the nerve to like testthe limit, especially too when it comes
to like, oh, a phonefree wedding at the ceremony. I want
(41:01):
to do that for my wedding becauseI know I can already see family members
like being like this while I'm walkingdown the aisle. If a phone is
in my face while I'm walking downthe aisle. I will smack that phone
out of their hands. So myAta Holly had her wedding like many moons
ago, I want to say,maybe like I don't know, seven eight
(41:22):
years ago or something like that.And it was cool. It was like
in Monterey, Monterey Bay, andit was an outdoor ceremony and then the
reception was just right across the street. Right. So during the outdoor ceremony,
literally there was somebody who said,hey, guys, the bride and
(41:43):
groom kindly asked that this will bea phone free ceremony. We have a
videographer here who's capturing all the moments. We have a photographer here who is
capturing all the moments. They donot want any any cameras, like in
any of the shots. I don'twant any of your phones in the shots.
They also don't want any flashes oranything like that. Okay, cool,
(42:06):
and I understood one thousand percent right. And so next thing, you
know, my Ata Holly and Brianthey're like walking down the aisle. Guess
who the fuck has their phone out? My dad, My dad had his
freaking phone out filming the whole thing. And literally me and my mom looked
at him like they literally just saidno phones and you are the only person
(42:32):
here with your phone out. Ilove your dad, man, I was
like, Dad, they just saidit, put your phone away. He
put it away. I think whatended up happening, if I could recall,
was that somebody had said after theyhad made it to you know,
the the ale at the end ofthe aisle, someone was like, hey,
(42:55):
just a reminder, this is aphone free wedding. That's crazy.
Like see, I would have Iwould have had whoever you know said that,
like been like if you don't,if you bring out your phone,
they asked that, you're gonna beescorted out. I am, so I'm
gonna be such like I think aBridezilla when it comes to that stuff where
(43:17):
it's like if you don't respect mydues and don't you're out, Like I
I can't. But your dad isjust so funny. Your dad is funny.
Like I, if it was gonnabe anybody, if I would have
exactly and and I know it wasmy dad because I remember that moment vividly,
and I'm just like, what thefuck are you doing? What are
(43:38):
you doing? You should ask him, No, he don't remember. He
don't remember. No, he doesn't. A matter of fact, he has
it on his phone, and Iguarantee you he's never looked back at that
video. I a thousand percent guaranteeyou he's never looked back at that video.
We should ask him no, no, Like when we see him next
time, we should ask him ifhe remembers yeah, if you or I
(44:00):
should just be like, do youhave a video of like at the Holly's
wedding and see what he says?Oh my god. As a matter of
fact, I do well. Anyways, y'all, once again, Mexicano Food
Fest is happening. Happening July twenty. First, I actually need to put
up the event bright, so uhyeah, I was gonna say like,
(44:21):
uh, I was gonna tell youright after, but by this time the
event bright should be up. Amen. So that's We're also gonna put out
like a little discount code for thenext podcast, so just be worried about
that. My name is Nico Blitz, I'm Jackiemus, and this is the
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Cardiac Cowboys
The heart was always off-limits to surgeons. Cutting into it spelled instant death for the patient. That is, until a ragtag group of doctors scattered across the Midwest and Texas decided to throw out the rule book. Working in makeshift laboratories and home garages, using medical devices made from scavenged machine parts and beer tubes, these men and women invented the field of open heart surgery. Odds are, someone you know is alive because of them. So why has history left them behind? Presented by Chris Pine, CARDIAC COWBOYS tells the gripping true story behind the birth of heart surgery, and the young, Greatest Generation doctors who made it happen. For years, they competed and feuded, racing to be the first, the best, and the most prolific. Some appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, operated on kings and advised presidents. Others ended up disgraced, penniless, and convicted of felonies. Together, they ignited a revolution in medicine, and changed the world.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.