Friendsgiving 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're abound to enter the world of Michael Zavalla. Now
your change to turn back?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Gave Michael those two red bull do uh or something?

Speaker 3 (00:17):
I can't hear you.

Speaker 4 (00:19):
Wow, I'm just bains. That's what you're thinking about.

Speaker 5 (00:23):
This is m Z Now? Is that better?

Speaker 6 (00:42):
Eric?

Speaker 7 (00:43):
Oh? Yeah? Sorry, Yeah, they're like blasted through my headphones.

Speaker 5 (00:47):
All right, it's Friends Giving twenty twenty five. We've got
a lot of people in here, more than we did
last year. I think it looks like a rehab facility
in here.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
It does. You have a little bit of all kinds
of walks of life in here.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:03):
KK and Billy are here. I'm sorry parents, yeah, uh.
And then of course you have a special guest, the
honorable Can we say that you don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
We'll get there. Okay, we'll get there.

Speaker 5 (01:16):
Marcus is here, Chris Staffire's brother, which we haven't I
didn't realize you hadn't been in the studio, not to
this studio.

Speaker 8 (01:22):
It's been what over a decade.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
Let's see, you were a judge on Twerksgiving.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Yeah, that would know. I don't know if you were.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
Were you really a judge? I don't know if you
were I know you were there for it, but I
really was and that and then I had to give
my input. That's inspired you to become to run for
a real judge I did. That's incredible. I'm glad we
had a little, you know, influence on your career.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
But that was.

Speaker 5 (01:47):
Probably I couldn't do it without you guys ten years ago,
probably at least, because we've been here for six years. Yeah,
that's all right. Yeah, Well what do you think of
the place. You haven't been here?

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Uh? I love it. You've never been to this studio,
so you haven't.

Speaker 8 (02:00):
No, you built a cathedral here.

Speaker 5 (02:03):
We have the painting of David up there on the ceiling. Absolutely,
Eric's painting the David where the two naked people are
touching their fingers or whatever. Correct, paint that on the ceiling.
Correct this, this right here is the enview of the Pope. Yeah, Paris,
you gotta talk. We got to talk to Paris first, because, uh,
somebody judged in the way that you wanted to be judged.

Speaker 6 (02:23):
Right, Yes, they did, they did judge. I just competed
in America's Bearded Queen this week and I won.

Speaker 8 (02:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (02:32):
Right, I want to interview and question an answer so
it's super exciting to represent bearded Drag. That is amazing.
And this is the first time you've won. This is
my first alternate last year. So we were here last
year for the friends Giving podcast. Yeah, but now I'm
a winter baby.

Speaker 4 (02:48):
Wow, and so paris all the girls want to know
what changed between now and then.

Speaker 6 (02:57):
Honestly, I was equally a sickening last year. I was
ahead by I think sixteen points going into question and answer,
but that is where I flopped. However, I acquired a
show go directing position in a hostess position in my
home bar. I'm now a show director there, so it
gave me time to get familiar talking on the mic.
And I still drove around the question a little bit

(03:17):
this year and didn't quite land it. But I still
did better according to the judges than the other girls.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
That's a credible one.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
Yes, and I wonder you what you did really really good? Yes,
everybody in that whole venue was so quiet. We were
all staring at y'all on purpose to try to make
y'all even more nervous.

Speaker 6 (03:35):
Though, to believe me, I know all five girls or
would be equally as sickening to represent the title, but
one of us had to win, So, I mean, we
were all nervous up there. It's it's crazy the pressure
that you feel. And truly my body was trembling. I
was stingling from head to toe and I just had
to had to do it.

Speaker 4 (03:53):
And you slayed it though, you did. And no shade
to anybody else, because it is a hard thing to
have that pressure on you. You really executed that question perfectly.
I could tell you. You took a moment, yes, and
then when you grabbed the mic and you just started
telling a story. I said that something else.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
The show hostess that night, yes, her name was Mia
and As Adams, and she made eye contact with me,
and that grounded me in the moment. I needed to
see that. She was like, okay, bitch, get it together.

Speaker 4 (04:24):
Do you remember what you said last year?

Speaker 6 (04:26):
No?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
What was the question?

Speaker 6 (04:30):
I don't even remember. It was something kind of a
little bit about like the political climate and how we
would handle our rain or something like that.

Speaker 7 (04:37):
I don't remember.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
What are you talking about this year's question?

Speaker 7 (04:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:40):
Oh, this year's question, gosh, Oh.

Speaker 4 (04:42):
This year's question was okay, it was about.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
That fairness in the pageantry, like world Okay, we would
use our rain to make a positive impact on that.
And basically I said something around the lines of in
my hometown there for the longest time, like we had
a bad reputation for like rigging pageants and stuff, and
people would come and invest money and then they would
lose out because they would whoever was judging would pick

(05:06):
the favorite. So like that's something that I pride myself on.
I would never allow that I get to choose the judges,
So I definitely picked people who are credible in like
the industry in my region.

Speaker 4 (05:17):
So when they called y'all to and it was just
you and the other person, what was going through your head?

Speaker 6 (05:25):
Well, I know how pageants work, so and I know
how the point system category works. So truly, when I
won Question an Answer, it's one of the highest weighted categories,
I knew that it was probably going to be in
my favor. So I kind of knew. But Brenda, she
actually from last year she did not score as well

(05:45):
as she did this year. She made a huge improvement.
She made second place. So when we lost last year,
her and I both did, we went and supported the
winner and we were the only to plus one other
person that supported, so we got to build to bond.
So it's so special that she was the one there
with me.

Speaker 4 (06:04):
Yes, and she was like wasn't she and second to
last last time.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
I'm not sure the true placement, so I didn't want
to say that.

Speaker 5 (06:10):
Okay, yeah, so what are your responsibilities now that you want?

Speaker 6 (06:14):
I just have to be like the face of the system,
represent try to sell preliminaries. Well that's not really my
job though, but I have to just insa MLMs. Yeah,
I just have to like teach and inspire the girls,
lead them, try to get as many people involved in
the system as I can.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah, what would you say in your whole drag
journey has been your biggest like what theold I just
do moment?

Speaker 6 (06:39):
I'm probably competing for Americans, you would say, that's it. Yeah,
because like now I have to walk the walk. You know.
I talked to talk the whole entire the whole entire pageant,
so now I have to prove myself.

Speaker 4 (06:51):
I was waiting to see just blest out crying, you know,
when the girls.

Speaker 5 (06:54):
Wait at ball.

Speaker 6 (06:55):
I'm very thankful that my sister Sasha VI King was
standing in front of me, because only the cameras that
were sideways pointing at me got me. But I was crying.
You were crying, was yes, but it was like truly
like an out of a body experience because when I
was standing up there and we were they were telling
us to take pictures. I have no idea who all
I took pictures with because like I was just there,

(07:17):
like I didn't even know what was going on. It
was so crazy.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
And now you are forever immortalized into the pageant winners thing.
I'm a jig there you are. That is incredible. You
know how many girls are in pageants and they don't win.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
I know, and you're a winner. To win, it really
does suck not to win. Like I'm I'm so sweet
and humble and I really hate that we can't all
be the winner. But someday we will all be the winner,
you know what I mean.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
And now you're one of the winners and you're representing Evansville, Indiana.
How has evans bill you?

Speaker 6 (07:48):
Well, honestly, I was Miss River City probably twenty twenty one.
That was like the start of my pageantry world. And
prior to that, I wanted to leave and get out
and go to a bigger city. But I realized that
in my city, I was a light in a beacon
and it showed me community. And I literally show up
as much as humanly possible. I have been through. I

(08:09):
have one pair of black heels that I love to
perform with when I'm performing on concrete, and that's what
we usually do and when we're out in this, in this,
in the streets, you know, performing And I've been through
my third pair, so oh, my heels are always on
the payment working girl.

Speaker 4 (08:24):
What is the greatest advice you would tell anybody who
wants to follow in your footsteps?

Speaker 6 (08:29):
Read the roll book and reach out to your current
reigning so that they can give you advice because obviously
they know a thing or two about what you're doing.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
What is the greatest advice you would tell them?

Speaker 6 (08:39):
Though, The greatest advice is just believing yourself. And one
thing I struggled with the night before final night. I
knew that I was going to be answering the question.
And Lizzie, one of the girls who was with us tonight,
she had told KK because she was very unconfident about herself.
One night she said, Girl, we hang out with bad

(09:01):
bitches and the only thing the only person who is
not realizing you're a bad bitch is you. So you're
missing the confidence. And KK told me that story that
we only had with bad bitches, So you need to
just remember that, like your confidence when you're up there.
Because I was crying. I was like, I cannot let
my community down. I cannot go home. I cannot go
home a loser, like I have to win this pageant.

(09:23):
And I went up there and I just remembered what
KK told me and I was like, Okay, let's do it.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
And you looked and you made it look so easy.

Speaker 6 (09:31):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:31):
I was staring at you and you looked like you
were just flying. And trust me, I was completely sober,
so I was really soaking you in and I was like,
look at her, just.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Go thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:41):
Which was your favorite part of the whole pageant? For yourself?

Speaker 6 (09:44):
My favorite is presentation that is the death becomes her look.
I like when I when I turned around and revealed
the muscle side of my gown, I heard a former
American spirder queen Natalia Master. She said, shut uh, And
that's like that's the that will live rint free in
my mind. But I just felt so pussed modeling that garment,

(10:07):
my hair had the swirls, the red jewelry, the mug
was correct, it was everything.

Speaker 4 (10:13):
You know. There were moments in the path. I don't
know if it was Mitchell that was screaming at you,
like yes, pet oh yes, but I could see it
giving you wings.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
Oh yeah, for sure, straight up.

Speaker 4 (10:26):
So thank you for doing it. I was looking and
whenever they.

Speaker 6 (10:29):
Be Yeah, Honestly, that's so important for anybody who's competing,
Like even if, like, even if it's not me up there,
I would hope that, like my entourage, like, it's so
important to cheer for everyone because seriously, that really does
make you feel like a million bucks, even if you
don't have money to tip when you're out and about,
just scream for the girls.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
They'll love it. That's right.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
And now you have a million dollars as the next
America's beard a queen. What will you be investing with
your first million?

Speaker 6 (10:55):
I'm just going to continue to invest in my drag.
You know, I have promos that I have to produce,
and I want to like have new looks for every
time I am like seeing, you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (11:04):
I know that's right. And speaking of being seen, what
is the next thing for you, now that you've accomplished this,
what's next?

Speaker 6 (11:11):
I actually don't start to like marchish with my prelims,
but I just plan to like focus on like promos
and just social media.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
I know that's mean, Yeah, you're like, girl, I haven't
even started.

Speaker 7 (11:22):
Yeah right.

Speaker 6 (11:23):
We don't really physically start like pageants season until like
the spring, so I won't really have any traveling to
do until then. But I mean, one thing we're doing
in our city, we always do an AIDS holiday benefit,
so we will be doing that like in the beginning
of December, but just local stuff in regional like shows
and different things like that.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
What are the perks of winning America's beard to queen
for all the kids that want to do this and
following your beautiful footsteps, What do you win?

Speaker 6 (11:49):
Well, obviously you win this beautiful crown, but it's more
than just like a crown. Honestly, it's a platform. Me personally,
I'm really big into fundraising and doing a lot of
things for my community, So I get to be like
an advocate for my community, but on a larger platform.
So I mean that's probably probably honestly the biggest perk
of being like a national entertainer is just being able

(12:11):
to travel the world essentially to all the different prelimbs
and like share your message and share your art.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
That sounds like a lot of fun and be able
to just travel everywhere for sure. Have you been around
the entire country before?

Speaker 6 (12:23):
I have chipped off quite a few states, But I
am going to get to New Orleans this year's great girl.

Speaker 4 (12:32):
They have Southern Decadence, which is the biggest gay South
festival in all the lands. Yeah, hopefully they book you
for that. That would be sick That would Speaking of sickening,
what is the grossest thing you've ever seen backstage at
a patch?

Speaker 7 (12:46):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (12:46):
God?

Speaker 7 (12:47):
Want to know?

Speaker 4 (12:48):
I do, because I've heard rumors that some of the
girls don't watch their paddying. What is the nastiest?

Speaker 6 (12:53):
Say that you see a lot of nasty things, but
you do smell. I made sure that I washed my
garments before I came.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Yeah, oh my god.

Speaker 6 (13:04):
There is like a recipe with like vodka and water
that you can spray on them and it eliminates the
odors too. Oh wow, scuba than for breeze.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
Is it true that the padding is furniture padding.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
Not mine?

Speaker 6 (13:17):
I purchased mine from Patrick how he was actually the
designer for all my garments this year. And they're called
Patty Pads and it's and honestly, underneath it's just shorts
that you pull up and there's like foam in there.
But when I first started, of course, I got my
pads from a couch that I found on the side
of the road.

Speaker 5 (13:35):
Hello.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
I let it dry out and all that stuff and
like spray it with alcohol and killed the germs. And
then we took a Turkey carver and cut out the
shape of Africa so it to be your hips and
mass and.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Yeah, and now she said, baby, I don't have to
do that no more, right.

Speaker 6 (13:49):
Yeah, Hello, I get worth the investment message. Patrick Cowe,
he's the original. He's an Emmy Award winning designer. He
will get you right with your body.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
So I love that Paris last, but not least because
I know this is gonna be your rain. This is incredible.
Finish the sentence.

Speaker 6 (14:08):
Paris Stars is America's Bearded Queen twenty twenty five.

Speaker 4 (14:16):
That is amazing. KK. How did it feel seeing your
friend win?

Speaker 3 (14:21):
Oh, I'm kind of similar to what she said. It
was like an outer body experience. I was live on Facebook,
you were. It was because so many people back home,
really he had or she has such a supportive group
of like a tribe back in Evansville and our surrounding area.

(14:42):
It's overwhelming, and they were all like, who's gonna go live?
How can you know? How can we watch? So I
was live and I was trying to whisper. I do
it want to be too loud, So I'm whispering up
with the phone and I was like, oh my god.

Speaker 6 (14:54):
You watching the Lives so funny?

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yes, and he hearing me. Yes.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
It was a amazing and well worth it, because you know,
I came last year with her and watched her work
so hard and literally at the last minute did not win,
but did become first alternate, and I was like, you
have to go back and do that again because you're
gonna win it.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
And I know, and.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
Like, honestly, this last year has been really amazing watching
her grow her not just her attitude grow, because she
has a beautiful heart and already has a great attitude,
but like, it's really hard when someone's a sore loser,
and she was not at all.

Speaker 4 (15:35):
She was of course, she had her tears and stuff,
and she cried and she was sad.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Of course she was sad and questioning everything, but she
didn't let it let it stop her and coordinated.

Speaker 4 (15:47):
I don't even know how many benefit shows you had,
parent we had three.

Speaker 2 (15:50):
Three.

Speaker 4 (15:51):
I thought it was more than that.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
The roast was the biggest one. That was so much fun.
I actually dressed KK up and drag.

Speaker 4 (15:56):
Yes, and I did drag.

Speaker 6 (15:58):
I didn't wait until the last minute, per usual, but
I wanted her to have big drag hair, like I
was like, if you're gonna do it, bitch, you better do.

Speaker 5 (16:07):
It right right.

Speaker 6 (16:08):
So she did have everything together except for the hair,
but her hair was cue.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
It's iconic.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
My wig was also it was old sail for twenty
dollars too, So yeah, that made it even better. But yeah,
it was wonderful because you see the end result. You
know that she won and she was crowned, and knowing
that she deserved it and she worked so incredibly hard. Yes,
but knowing her as a person makes it even better.

Speaker 4 (16:34):
Because that's my bestie, that's my bitch right there. And
you really are an elevated queen Paris. You are in
the realm of drag. You really are an elevated queen.

Speaker 6 (16:43):
Thank you.

Speaker 4 (16:44):
You never went through a busted phase in your entire career.
Absolutely went through a bus kid you Yeah, how long
did that last? I mean I look back even at
like twenty sixteen, and I'm just like, oh god, But
and I thought I was the cat's mew. But now,
I mean, I don't know.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
Like our pictures that we took, I haven't posted them yet,
but girl, yes, well.

Speaker 4 (17:09):
The makeup everything looks right, you know. Speaking of wigs,
do you make your own wigs?

Speaker 6 (17:14):
It's a mixture. My roommate Mitchell, he actually makes he
styles up my wigs. But this wig I'm wearing right
now is like little ponytail wigs that you would find
it like Kmar at Walmart. Actually got them from Shean.
But there's like these little claws in them, and I
break the claws out and take the little jaw string
out and then sew them together like a little rug

(17:35):
and then we just pin it in my hair and
he jacks it up.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Random question, But do y'all still put powder in wigs
like to keep them fresh?

Speaker 6 (17:43):
Maybe maybe some people do, but I don't.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
And I asked because I was looking at the history
of wigs, And did you know people wore wigs back
then because they had lice and bugs and so you know,
we look at back then like, oh, how beautiful, like
all those shows time period shows, they romanticize it. But
a week could go back in time. The hallways had
poop in them, they had pee in them, and people

(18:08):
had life spawling out of their hair. Did y'all know that? Yeah?
I would think that, like are you talking like baby powder?
They would put powder in their wigs back in like
the sixteen hundred seventeen hundreds. They would use fats, oils
and fats. So can you imagine with the heat of

(18:30):
wild Yes, like it was like the sweating.

Speaker 3 (18:33):
You know, when you sweat, it would make a paste,
wouldn't it.

Speaker 4 (18:37):
Yeah, And so they would put on also white makeup
back then because they had STDs, and so the STDs
would leave craters in their face, and so they would
put on makeup to hide it. And the makeup had
lead in it, so it's making you look worse. So
they would have put on more and more and more.
Next thing, you know, it's like icing on a face. So, yeah,

(18:58):
this is history about wigs. I did not know that, Yes,
I was speaking about urination and dedication. KK. Before the
show started, you were telling us you had a story
about an accident that happened in your life. Yeah, girls,
spill all the juice brought to you by Charman. Yes,

(19:20):
how did we even get to talking about this? How
did we?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
I don't know. I guess it really doesn't matter. Well,
I was telling him about one time that I paid.

Speaker 4 (19:29):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
It's funny because I was just talking to Madison about
it a couple of days ago. I don't not know
why I got brought up, but yeah, I was in
high school and I had I had to go. Nature
was Colin, Yes, And I was in home room and
you know, you just don't ask. You have homeroom for
like ten minutes, and you don't ask to leave during
those ten minutes. But he let me leave, and he
let me go, and I went down and I went

(19:55):
into the bathroom and there was people in there, smoking,
sick gre oh god. And so yeah, we were talking
about how it's like the anxiety if if you have
to go and like publicly you don't if somebody's in
a stall, you don't want to go, Like it's like
almost an embarrassment.

Speaker 4 (20:11):
So taboo it is.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
It's like so toboo.

Speaker 4 (20:16):
In school. Oh nobody ever booboos in Oh no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (20:23):
So I just go down to another I went up
the stairs to another bathroom. Well then the bell rang,
so then everyone was in the bathroom and I'm like,
oh my god, am I gonna I'm trying to wait. Well,
my house was like a block and a half away
from high school, and so I thought, I'm just gonna
go home, like I'm just gonna skip I'm just gonna
skip class and I'm just.

Speaker 4 (20:43):
Gonna go home like I can't.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Like I'm and my bag was in my homeroom still
because he just came.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
I still had the hall.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
Pass on the way down the stairs.

Speaker 4 (20:54):
Oh no, I didn't make it home. Oh what makes
it even crazy? Years?

Speaker 3 (21:00):
My little sister had was playing hooky that day, so
she was at home. I thought, I'm going home to
empty house. I forgot that she was skipping school.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
And I go running in there and I'm just crying.
She goes what's the matter, Like what's wrong? KK? And
I go, oh my god, it happened. This was high school. Yes,
I did this in high school. It is my senior year.
No one ever found out. No, no, everybody's gonna And

(21:30):
it's funny.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Over the years, my sister would always say, oh, tell
your tell your story.

Speaker 4 (21:34):
How your pants? Oh my god, Well that's gonna get
you a really good man.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
Honey, there's somebody sitting around right now going. I knew
it was her.

Speaker 4 (21:43):
I knew because I am still single. What if a
guy came. I just want you to know, I just.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
Are weird.

Speaker 4 (21:54):
They are. Have you ever had anybody hit you up
in your inbox? Nobody ever saying, honey, I will give
you five thousand dollars.

Speaker 6 (22:02):
I mean if someone did, I mean we can definitely
talk about it.

Speaker 4 (22:04):
Ohne ear.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
Yes, I have a pageant to pay or not a
pageant to pay for, but a rain to pay for.

Speaker 4 (22:12):
I've never I think one of the accidents I had
in school was I was in kindergarten and I had
to pee really bad KK and I was scared of
the teacher because she used to hit me on the head.
You know, looking back, that was child abuse, yes, but
I didn't want to bug her. And in my little
kinder mind, I thought, well, if I pee, it'll secretly

(22:34):
trickle down my leg like through a little pipe and
land in a puddle and then I'll blame it on
somebody else. And so it didn't work out like that.
I let it rip. I couldn't hold it. My whole
pants got wet. Then I was so embarrassed and I'm
sitting there and finally she saw she had she had
boxes of clothes. I don't know, you remember she had
boxes of clothes and I had to change in all that,

(22:55):
but yeah, heed my pants, I.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
Need kindergarten story.

Speaker 8 (22:59):
Really knew this story, yeah, and that I was the
only one that I peed at school. You paid your
pat Yeah, I didn't know. You beat your Look at that.
We're learning something new.

Speaker 5 (23:08):
He's getting he's being smart, he's getting ahead of it
before the media finds out.

Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll share. I'll go ahead, I'll share. I'll share.

Speaker 8 (23:15):
What's your piece story? It was in the second grade,
same thing. Teacher was really strict, did not want to
let anybody go. She was like, no one's leaving this classroom, right,
And I was raising my hand and I was like
waving it like please, please, I've got to go, gotta go,
gotta go, And then body just couldn't and I just
sat there and cratered was so embarrassed. And then finally

(23:38):
everyone leaves because it's the next period and I'm just
sitting there and she's like, what's wrong? And I was like,
I told you to go to the bath, and that's
what mom had to come teacher.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Yep, I bet mom was mass she was. Who was
the teacher?

Speaker 2 (23:53):
We'll talk about it.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
That got good.

Speaker 8 (23:58):
Dang dude, I never knew that. Ye, yeah, I never
knew that. Yeah. Yeah, there, you're not alone.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
I am not, Thank.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
God, I am not alone. The teacher we would be
taking tests and she would come and look at everybody's
answer and if the answer was wrong, she'd thump you
real hard on the head. Oh that was my kidder teacher.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
We sure did have corporal punishment, you know when I
was little. You know, they would the teachers would paddle us.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Did you ever get a paddley? I did not, almost
did in first grade? Do you threaten it?

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Got?

Speaker 4 (24:29):
It was like pointed in my face?

Speaker 5 (24:30):
Do you pay for it now as an adult? Oh god, yes,
we'll talk about that later.

Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, we'll talk about that later.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (24:43):
So no, I was I would we the school that
I went to, I was in first grade, had. It
was on it like a busy road, and the windows
were there, and every time an ambulance or a fire
truck or something would come by, we would all stand
on our chairs and look and stuff. Well, I must
have missed the memo, because she told us that if

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any of us did that anymore that we would get paddled.
And two of us did, and I remember, like the
ambulance came I and I just immediately started jumping up
in the chair and I wondered why no one else was,
and everyone was looking at.

Speaker 4 (25:16):
Me like I was crazy, Like bitch, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (25:20):
Like do you?

Speaker 4 (25:20):
I know you're good? Ready to get whooped?

Speaker 3 (25:22):
And she called me out to the hallway and she,
you know, threatened to whip me if I would do
it again.

Speaker 4 (25:28):
Was she an older teacher? She was? Them old teachers
were something else. Yeah, with that big bufone hair. Yes.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
And they smell like cigarette. Yeah, they did smell like cigarette.
I bet I remember her.

Speaker 4 (25:40):
Yeah, I bet her walls were yellow at home, full
of tar and them nails. We had a teacher. We
had a teacher. He was like, if any of y'all
need to fart in this class, you need to raise
your hand, and so I knew this little guy. He
was like the class clown. He would raise his hand
and he'd go out into the hallway start making part.
You know how you get part? Noises are the best

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they are they are. It happened so kk yes, last
time you were here a year ago, honey, I think
you were seeing somebody special. Mm are y'all still together?

Speaker 5 (26:15):
I wasn't see anybody you were talking to somewhere, don't
you little?

Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (26:19):
Yes, I was okay, I stand corrected, Yes, So no,
what happened?

Speaker 4 (26:25):
It just did not? Yeah, it's out.

Speaker 6 (26:28):
It did.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
Did you dress up for Halloween this year?

Speaker 3 (26:31):
I didn't because and I don't know that y'all want
to talk about this, but my dog died on Halloween.
Oh yeah, and we don't have to talk about that
because I do want to keep the mood up beat.

Speaker 4 (26:41):
Yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, bab, Yeah, that's okay. If you
had dressed up for Halloween, what would you have been?

Speaker 3 (26:47):
I'm not sure because one year I dressed up as Paris.
Oh it was amazing.

Speaker 4 (26:52):
What was your dragon name?

Speaker 6 (26:54):
Paris?

Speaker 4 (26:55):
Dressed about Parish?

Speaker 7 (26:57):
Hello?

Speaker 3 (26:58):
Like I got like, I went to the Halloween store
and got you know, like fake beards and mustaches and
and made my beard and everything, and try to do
my makeup.

Speaker 7 (27:06):
Just like her.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I got a wig, an outfit everything. And I think, Lizzie,
are you the one that drew the stars on me?
The stars on my face?

Speaker 4 (27:17):
I use stars for my acade. Those acne patches, I
know they kind of burn the skin though, so be careful,
like you can leave it like a little stain. It
can't kk. I ask about Halloween because are you very
familiar with the Star Trek universe. I'm not.

Speaker 6 (27:35):
So.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
There's a character called Spock, and I'm looking at you,
and I'm like, you would make a really badass Bocan
as a female. Really look at her?

Speaker 7 (27:45):
Can you see it? I see it? Yeah, I'm gonna
have to do that next year.

Speaker 5 (27:50):
You're gonna have to do for sure.

Speaker 4 (27:52):
Your eyebrows will have to be diagonal and all the
way up to here, and then you would turn the party. Okay.

Speaker 2 (28:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
Michael actually had the pleasure of interviewing the legendary Leonard
Nimoy right before he passed away.

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
Wow, Oh, but I don't know. That's a jury still out.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Do you like extra Christal or original recipe? KFC. I
don't like KFC church. You're a church's girl, you know.
I don't eat chicken on a bone. I'm a real picky.

Speaker 3 (28:24):
Eater, ohmless. I get on my own nerves.

Speaker 5 (28:28):
On the same way, though, do you pick it out
with your fingers? Just decide not to do it.

Speaker 4 (28:33):
I will only eat skinless, boneless breast chicken ka either yeah, okay,
something yeah. There are people that if there's bones in
the chicken, it grosses them the It grosses me out, really,
it really does. I can't eat it. So we were
dying on an island and I said, do you want
a big chicken breast from KFC Colonel Sander's original.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
I would definitely say yes, yes, but yeah, but onion no,
I would say, no, you go ahead and keep that onion.

Speaker 4 (29:06):
You don't like onion? No? Oh my god, no type
of bean?

Speaker 6 (29:08):
Have we told the story about the onions?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
What in the world? I think we were in North Carolina.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
I actually think it was New York. We went to Magiano's.
Are you sure that not New York? It was Washington,
d C.

Speaker 4 (29:20):
Okay.

Speaker 6 (29:21):
We went to Ma Giano's and KK ordered spaghetti, and
she loves spagetti. It's like her favorite. And she asked
the waiter if there was no onions, and the waiter
said no. But then KK, at the time smoked, used
to smoke cigarettes.

Speaker 5 (29:34):
Now she's you don't smoke anymore.

Speaker 7 (29:36):
I couldn't.

Speaker 5 (29:39):
That's incredible.

Speaker 6 (29:40):
But then she went outside to smoke at the time,
and then the waiter came back and she was like,
I actually found out there's an onion blend in the sauce.
And I said, well, do you think that she will
notice that's in there? And the server was like no,
let me double check. And then Kate was still outside smoking,
she can back again and she's like, no, it's really

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it's like blended in So I was like, oh, she'll
be fine. So then the waiter brings the spaghetti out.
KK is mealing was like literally like this is the
best spaghetti I've ever had out on a restaurant. It
tastes just like mine at home and all this stuff.
And then I was like, KK, would you ever eat
onions if you didn't know it was in a dish?
And she said, well, I mean I guess I would,

(30:23):
but I wouldn't want to. And I said, because there
was onions in your spaghetti.

Speaker 4 (30:26):
Yes, did she like that?

Speaker 6 (30:28):
Then she started to pick through and she was like,
oh my god, I cannot believe I just ate onions.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
I was mortified, and then I was and they were
so so tiny, but I found I found them, but
I was started picking them out.

Speaker 6 (30:42):
So really she likes onions, she didn't like the look
or textures.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
Do you like fions?

Speaker 6 (30:48):
Noose are my favorite?

Speaker 4 (30:49):
Not even funions. Do you like garlic? I love garlic?
So what is wrong with onions? Because I feel like
onions and garlic are cousins and I think they are too.
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Maybe it's a texture, uh huh. The smell bothers. I
don't like the smell of them.

Speaker 4 (31:05):
You know somebody, they smell like bo Paris Stars, the
entire United States of America that is watching right now,
all three hundred million viewers, wants to know what is
the wild displaced Paris Has ever gone gone on a
date and then an on after date?

Speaker 6 (31:23):
Oh my gosh, I don't know. Honestly, I don't really
go on a lot of dates, like.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
To what is a perfect date for Paris Stars.

Speaker 6 (31:31):
I'm trying to go on a cruise today, like wealthy
men out here that want to take me on a date?

Speaker 4 (31:37):
That's right? Did the inbox blow up after your win?

Speaker 6 (31:40):
Girl? It's been crazy. I can't. I can't apply to everyone.
It's really we've just been doing a lot. But once
I'm on my way back home and someone else is driving,
or when I get home, we'll get back to.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
All those messages.

Speaker 4 (31:50):
Are you single currently right now?

Speaker 2 (31:52):
Yeam?

Speaker 4 (31:52):
What kind of guys do you like? Paris Stars?

Speaker 6 (31:55):
I don't discriminate, but I like masculine like Daddy's you
know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (32:00):
Are you related to Eric Star?

Speaker 7 (32:03):
I think we're you know, I just have the R.
She has the.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Yeah yeah, baby mama, yeah yeah, yeah yeah. So you're
not a picky star, I'm not. She likes all the
colors of the rainbow.

Speaker 6 (32:16):
I would just need someone who's like genuine and sweet,
you know what I mean?

Speaker 4 (32:20):
What is the sweetest thing anyone's done for you on
a date?

Speaker 6 (32:24):
I don't. I don't, honestly, I don't go on dates, like,
I really don't.

Speaker 4 (32:27):
What's the last time.

Speaker 6 (32:29):
I would probably say it's been like six years ago.

Speaker 4 (32:31):
So wow, you want to know fun fat, But I've
never been on a date.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
I know. It's just that we I don't like unless
you're like, I don't know, Like I feel like we're
people don't really go on a lot of dates.

Speaker 4 (32:43):
I've never been on a real date where someone picks
me up and they want to take me to like
spaghetti warehouse or something like.

Speaker 6 (32:49):
It says dating under like most people's subscription or like
description or whatever. But we all know, like date, but
the craziest, like I mean, you just never know.

Speaker 4 (33:01):
They just want to eat cake all night, you know,
and then go home with stank breath upper lip.

Speaker 7 (33:06):
We went on dates, I mean we didn't, we actually
went on date.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
How many dates did you go on?

Speaker 7 (33:11):
Eric Starr within it for like three months?

Speaker 5 (33:15):
Well they still go on dates.

Speaker 4 (33:16):
Yeah, y'all still keep the flame and everything. That's what
America wants to know. How do you keep the flame alive?

Speaker 7 (33:22):
But it's been like ten years? Yeah? Yeah, my gosh, yeah,
I mean it feels very easy since the like very jump.
So I mean, like, what are the same things. I mean,
just schedule date, nights and everything.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
So do you still get the butterflies? Yeah? Sweet? I
just want everybody to know how long a decade is.

Speaker 6 (33:54):
Ten years.

Speaker 4 (33:55):
Let's imagine we're in the year two thousand, and I'm
telling you, girl, these shoes are from nineteen Throw them out,
let that sink in. How wild that is? Honey? Dial
up Internet? Okay, okay, yeah, AOL disc they used to
send in the mail. I know y'all used to use those.
You get eighty four hours of free internet? Mitchell, What

(34:16):
were you watching with your eighty four hours of free
AOL Internet?

Speaker 6 (34:20):
Probably the Cheetah Girls? She said, Oh yeah, Oh yes,
I said messenger.

Speaker 4 (34:30):
How old are you, babe? Thirty year old enough? Okay,
So you did grow up with Raven Simone and all that.
So like Jonas Brothers, Raven, Cheetah Girls, Dammi Levado, Selena
Goman Frock, those those characters, those people are your core
childhood Miley Cyrus. Oh yeah, that's interesting.

Speaker 6 (34:53):
Your best friend song is True Friend from the Hannah
Montana soundtrack.

Speaker 4 (34:57):
Wow. Can I tell you when that was popping all that,
I would see it. I would go to my best
friend's house and it was always on TV because of
his younger brother. But when I would look at it,
I always felt, I'm kind of like, that's the younger
kids stuff. I felt like I had aged doubt of
all of that, But it's interesting that was your thing.
That was the people. Who's your favorite out of all

(35:18):
the Disney folks? Raven Simone, I really was between Raven
Simone and Miley Cyrus. Raven Oh for Miley wow.

Speaker 6 (35:35):
Wow is pretty sick and she's queer.

Speaker 4 (35:39):
Out of Raven Simone and Selena Gomez who Raven against
Selena Goman?

Speaker 6 (35:47):
If you ask Lovado.

Speaker 4 (35:49):
Demi Lovado and Raven Simone. Who wow? And she looks
really good these shades too.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Man.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
Well, but we didn't have cable, your kid, No, we
did not.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
We didn't get to watch Disney Channel.

Speaker 4 (36:02):
No, we were learning stories from Wishbone. Do you all
remember wish bbs? I don't remember. Wis I remember?

Speaker 6 (36:10):
Like reading Rainbow?

Speaker 4 (36:14):
Arthur? Yes, speaking of dates, Marcos, we are joined today
by up and coming future judge here in Dallas uh
Precinct five place two correct, the one and only my brother. Yes,
I have a brother, Marco Soto. Everybody all right, yes,
thank you, thank you, Marcos. Thank you for joining us

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here afternoon rehab.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Thank you for having me after our AA meeting here
to keep the peace.

Speaker 8 (36:45):
I'm keeping the peace, keeping the peace. Everybody calmed down.

Speaker 4 (36:50):
I wish we had a boom spotlight on you.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Cool.

Speaker 4 (36:55):
We are going to bust the almighty interview politician style
and we're gonna I'm gonna ask you a question, and
then anybody want to ask a politician future judge a question.

Speaker 8 (37:05):
By the way, he's online. We actually are brothers. That's
we are.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
It's not a radio.

Speaker 4 (37:11):
He's the straight one, and you know, I don't know
what happened.

Speaker 2 (37:15):
We balance each other out.

Speaker 4 (37:16):
Michael. Do you have some ominous music about.

Speaker 8 (37:21):
The who wants to be a millionaire?

Speaker 5 (37:23):
You read my mind.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'm on the hot seat.

Speaker 5 (37:29):
Yeah, welcome to.

Speaker 8 (37:31):
It's good children right there here we goonaire.

Speaker 4 (37:35):
That's pretty good. Future Judge of precinc five Place two
in Dallas, Texas. Marco Soto For the people who may
be hearing your name for the first time, Who is
Marco Soto? And what makes you the kind of judge
Dallas can believe in?

Speaker 8 (37:58):
No, that's a fantastic question. So who am I? I'm
a local. I'm a local dallasite. I mean when I'm okay,
this is exactly how I answered this question.

Speaker 2 (38:08):
I answered it previously.

Speaker 8 (38:10):
I'm the son of an immigrant father, the son of
a civil servant mother. And you know, I'm the byproduct
of parents that didn't have opportunities, and they knew that
they didn't have those opportunities, and so they stressed that
Chris and I would not have their same kind of lives.
And ever since we were kids, we were always encouraged
to do our best. And my mom was such a disciplinarian,

(38:33):
so was my dad, and that kept us on the
stay and narrow in terms of staying out of trouble.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Like we never did.

Speaker 8 (38:40):
Drugs, we didn't run around with gangs, we didn't do
anything that would jeopardize our future. And so ever since
I was a kid, it was always about try your best,
be a good kid, and work hard, work towards whatever
goal you wanted. And so like, as I've grown up,
I've had these inflection points that I would tell people
that kind of guided where I am today. The first
was joining Talented and Gifted as a kid in middle school.

(39:02):
The second was going to Excuse me as in elementary
and the second was going to middle school that allowed
me to explore different careers. Longfellow shout out to Long
Fellow Academy here in Dallas. And then the third was
going to two different high school Science Engineering Magnet and
hillcrist High School, where I got to meet a teacher
that said, I.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Know that you're a really smart kid. I know that
you like history.

Speaker 8 (39:24):
For the love of God, don't study history as a
major unless you're going to go for the PhD. And
at that point, I mean, you're sixteen years old.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
What do you know?

Speaker 2 (39:31):
What are you going to do with your life? Nothing? Right,
but you don't know yet.

Speaker 8 (39:34):
But at seventeen, I had a teacher, Coach Walter, who
was like teaching us government and there was something about
that that just like clicked, and from that moment I
was like, I'm going to be a political science major.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
I really am.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
I want to know this mechanism that we're dealing with
every single day, right, Like every single day you watch
the news and people are wondering what the hell's going on.
It's because they don't know civics anymore. They don't know
a basic understanding of the way things function. People even
know what the concept of federalism is. And just in short,
it means that we have multiple tiers of government, You've
got multiple representatives, and at the end of the day,

(40:08):
all politics like they say is local. I'm running for
this office because it's on the ground level. You can
engage with the people in the most direct kind of way.
A justice of the piece is just that it's the
ground level judge where every day people can come in
and air their grievances and have a neutral person decide

(40:29):
who's right and wrong. And at the end of the day,
I think that people just want to be heard, right,
they want to have their day in court, they want
to speak the peace, and then they want to know
that there's a resolution. And so after I left college,
I worked for a labor union and in two years, well,
let me back up. Labor unions essentially represent people that

(40:51):
are the working class, right, They're not very strong in
the South, they're not very strong in Texas. But we
were building towards something called a project and trying to
get a local established, which is where you have enough
membership where you can negotiate with the administration. And I
did this in the education sphere well, we also represented
teachers when they got in trouble, and in two years

(41:12):
I had twelve cases, and the cases that were assigned
to me were taken care of by higher ups, but
I worked with them, and I didn't lose a single one.
So you're talking about spotless record twelve for twelve And
that really was like the galvanizing moment where I was like,
what am I going to do with my life?

Speaker 2 (41:26):
Man?

Speaker 8 (41:27):
I think that I needed to go to public affairs
school or law school. And I think at the end
of the day, you know, I just trusted my gut
and I went into law. Now hasn't been sunshine in rainbows.
It was difficult, but I mean I overcame that adversity
and I started my career as a personal injury attorney
and I have now since pivoted to commercial litigation, so

(41:48):
just business transactions and those kinds of disputes. But I
guess that's a really long winded way of saying, like,
I'm an everyday person that is doing the best that
they can in the career that they've chosen, and you know,
now this is the next endeavor as part of this
thing that we call life.

Speaker 2 (42:07):
Man.

Speaker 5 (42:07):
Now, I've known you for a long time, yes, sir,
I think we're getting close to you know, in a
couple of years here will probably be twenty years. I've
known you pretty much. When Chris told me that you
were running for judge. It took me by surprise for
a second, and then I'm like, but it also makes sense. Sure,
So what was the turning point for you to become like, Hey,
I want to do judge? Because I knew you had
passed the bar right and you were doing really well

(42:28):
with that, but then all of a sudden to make
the leap from that to judge. I was just like, wow,
But it makes sense because you have this judge aesthetic.
I guess about you.

Speaker 8 (42:36):
Well, I appreciate that, I really do. I mean, sometimes
people see things in you that you don't even know
that are there. Right, So I'll tell you exactly, because again,
it's a series of dominoes that kind of fall and
you don't know when the first one gets pushed.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
But I tell you what.

Speaker 8 (42:50):
Just a few years ago, about two three years ago,
I made the acquaintance of a really great friend of mine.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
She's actually one of my best friends.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
Her name is Priscilla Virial, and she was the president
of this organization here in Dallas called the Mexican American
Bar Association, which essentially advocates for people that are of
Mexican American backgrounds. But it's really for everybody. But that
was the original mission. It got started back in the
day a few decades ago, fizzled out, and now it's
back in its modern iteration. So I kept running into

(43:18):
her and meeting her in different places, and she's like,
you know what, man, you're You're pretty cool, but I
need you to kind of step up. Why don't you
become part of the organization and add to this collective voice.
Because of her, I got involved in the Mexican American
Bar Association, and through that organization, I became an officer
this year. I'm actually the treasurer this year for twenty
twenty five, and I'm trying to run again for twenty

(43:40):
twenty six.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
Well.

Speaker 8 (43:41):
As part of that organization, Michael, there was a separate
organization called the Gayeco Botheo Leadership Academy, and this foundation
was founded a decade ago to try to get Hispanic folks,
which are historically underrepresented in every facet of government, to
step up and essentially take an ownership of filling those roles.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
We have two.

Speaker 8 (44:08):
Fantastic directors, Rebecca Kunya and Monica Lero Bravo, who put
this academy back together again and opened up applications. I
applied on a whim because I'd heard about it. I
think Priscilla actually encouraged me to apply. I didn't even
know that she was going to apply. Man and the
academy teaches you how to run a campaign, any kind

(44:30):
of campaign, if you have the aspirations to run for
higher office. And it was broken up into four different
seminars through the year this year. It started in January February,
I believe, and then you know, every other month we
would have another seminar, which was all week and long.
We had all kinds of important people come and visit
us from around the state, Washington, DC, all this kind
of stuff, and it was wildly inspirational. But to cut

(44:53):
to the chase, they asked us, when you think who's
a judge or who's a politician, there's an immediate thought
that comes to your mind.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
You think of a person or a type of person.

Speaker 8 (45:06):
Judge Dudy, Yeah, exactly right, right, But that's a very specific.

Speaker 5 (45:10):
Judge Steve Harvey myself, there's no better judge. Right after
after my case, I agree with you.

Speaker 4 (45:18):
I remember Jerry springertribing a judge.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I do, I do remember that?

Speaker 8 (45:22):
So I mean that that's a really vivid kind of
thing that pops into your head. Well, what they did
they put a little presentation for us, and they're like, okay,
you think that they've got to have this background and
that kind of level of education and that kind of resume.
And they started putting these politicians up local from the
metroplex here in DFW, and they're like, what if we
told you this guy only has a high school diploma.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
What have we told you that this.

Speaker 8 (45:45):
Person studied like geography or geology in undergrad right, and
now they're a state rep. You know, what if I
told you that this person right here was like a
single parent and they just went for it and they
got elected. And what if I told you this person
is in there because nobody else ran against them, because
no one.

Speaker 5 (46:02):
Decided that's a bit. That's a big problem too, right,
that's kind of the root of it that no one
else thinks that they can do it, so no one
does it.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
That's exactly right.

Speaker 8 (46:11):
And after that happened right there, that really showed us everybody.
And I say us because I was one of twelve
fellows that got picked for this academy. It showed us
that we've worked so hard in our respective endeavors, not
just law because it wasn't just lawyers. We had entrepreneurs,
We had teachers, we had associate professors, we had business people, entrepreneurs.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
It was fantastic.

Speaker 8 (46:34):
I apologize to repeat myself, but everyone came from different
backgrounds and it really just showed us if you want it,
you've got to just go for it, right, You've got
to go for it. You can't be scared. And I'm
not trying to be political, although I do have, you know,
my my leanings here and I'm happy to show them
with you. But when you look on the news and

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you're like that person is a moron or that person
is so woefully underqualify, those people get into positions of
power because they're willing to take the leap no matter
what you think about them, and then other people believe
in them, and then they get elected into office, and
then they're making policy decisions that affect everyday people, every
single day, and people wonder, well, why are things so

(47:18):
bad or why, you know, why can't we get this done? Well,
because they put in power the lady who eats moos, Sure, yeah, sure,
I'm like Dane, yeah exactly, And So to answer your question, Michael,
it's the people around us that really kind of held
a mirror up and said, look at what y'all have done.
Y'all are incredible, y'all are so hard working. You need

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to take the leap. So this position that I'm running
for right now is an open seat or will be
an open seat, because the good judge that has been
there has been there for over thirty years. He's done
his time. He's given service to the community here in
oak Cliffe. Pleasant Grove Farmers Branch Area five looks like

(48:01):
an h if you look at it from a map
that goes all the way from North Dallas Farmer's Branch
area all the way down south, curves around downtown and
goes into the south east part of town called Pleasant Grove.
He's given a lot, he's given a lot, and so
he's earned his time to say, you know what, I'm
stepping away. It's time for someone else. And when I
heard about that, I had to pray on it. I

(48:21):
did my homework on it, and that's when I decided
to make the leap.

Speaker 6 (48:24):
And here I am, wow, wow, you know, yeah, I
decided that I was going to do America's spirit of Queen.
I watched this TikTok video of this woman who won
a lot of stuff, and she said, if you want something,
you literally have to visualize yourself in that moment winning
absolutely So visualize yourself winning and being elected because you
will be the next judge.

Speaker 2 (48:44):
Thank you. I appreciate that. You're absolutely right. Well, I
don't believe in yourself. Why are other people going to
believe it?

Speaker 7 (48:49):
Right?

Speaker 2 (48:50):
You have to believe in yourself.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
And even if you have a machine behind you, a
big ass team making you something, if you don't believe
in yourself, that machine is for nothing. It's just all
all flat.

Speaker 5 (49:02):
Well, when I think of a judge, I think as
somebody who a listens, right, because that's a big thing.
Got to listen to the case, you got to. There's
nobody better in listening than the Marcus here. He was
telling us stories about stuff that I forgot that we
were doing ten to fifteen years ago. Oh yeah, but
he remembers those details. And then also somebody that's fair.
You have to be fair. You have to be like, look,
you know you can't just and in course you know

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the law. Of course that's a part of it as well.
I think I don't know. We weren't on a real
court show, so I don't know, but you know that
I feel like you have all those attributes.

Speaker 2 (49:32):
I appreciate that, and so I think you'd be a
great judge. Well, thank you.

Speaker 8 (49:35):
And I mean, my current position right now is a
commercial litigator. Our firm does both plaintiff's work, right that's
the person that feels that something is wrong and they
want to sue someone, And we also do defendants work.
So I see both sides every single day in my job.
And if you're going to have somebody that's going to
be deciding, you want somebody that's seen both sides, Yeah,

(49:56):
because they know the law from both sides, And so
why wouldn't you have somebody that had that kind of experience.
I think that if you're going to have someone in
a position of authority to make those kinds of rulings,
they've got to know the law. I'm an attorney running
for this position. There are non attorneys running for this position.
I think that's a huge distinction right there. Absolutely, because

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this right here really is a filter for the next
level of courts, which is a county courts here in
Dallas County and if you're going to get a ruling
that's incorrect or and consistent with the law, what are
you going to do? She is going to clog up
the courts because the issue wasn't resolved, you know what
I mean. And so I think that you have to
be fair and you have to know the law exactly
like you said. And I think by virtue of my

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life experience and my current profession, I've gotten those skills organically.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
I've had to learn them.

Speaker 8 (50:46):
Otherwise you can't be a good attorney and you're certainly
not going to be a good judge.

Speaker 5 (50:50):
Well, let's put that to the test right now. We
have Paris sitting here, Chris Soapfhire. Well, you ask Paris
a question, and then you would you judge that you
know whatever our answer is?

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Sure I asked Paris, or Marcos asked parents. You could
ask a question Chris about anything.

Speaker 5 (51:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Yeah, you say, the woman stole your brand new wig
and then she punched you in your back booty cheek.
Where were you when this happened?

Speaker 6 (51:19):
Where was I? I would probably have to say the
dressing room of S four.

Speaker 4 (51:24):
Maybe were you intoxicated?

Speaker 5 (51:26):
I was not.

Speaker 4 (51:27):
Were you inebriated? I was not it were you exasperated?

Speaker 6 (51:31):
I was exhausted.

Speaker 8 (51:37):
I think that's a I think that's a fair assessment. Yeah,
I'm gonna I'm gonna say, yeah, I agree.

Speaker 4 (51:42):
There you go that. Do they really hound you with
that many questions? Like attorneys and stuff when you're in core.

Speaker 8 (51:50):
They can't, I mean, questions can be asked by the judge,
and the judge wall often want to understand what your
point is, especially if you're making an oral argument.

Speaker 4 (52:00):
A lot of let me you know, when y'all watch
judge shows or court shows, a checked or whatever, when
do you get to say that? Okay, do you.

Speaker 8 (52:10):
Get to say that that's great? Yeah I can say that.

Speaker 4 (52:13):
So say Eric's an attorney. You're an attorney, and there's
a judge over here listening to all the hooplock go down.
When can you say, I object what is Eric doing?

Speaker 3 (52:22):
That?

Speaker 4 (52:23):
You can cut in.

Speaker 8 (52:24):
So it depends on what he's doing. No, it really does.
There are different types of objections.

Speaker 4 (52:30):
Right.

Speaker 8 (52:31):
Let's say that we were having a trial here, right,
and you've got a witness on the stand, and Eric
is questioning that person. Right, They're trying to get information
out of him. These paris pads are not actually furniture.

Speaker 4 (52:46):
She didn't get a made.

Speaker 8 (52:48):
Calling my you know, my client a liar on the
stand is argumentative, right, that's not You're not trying to
get information, You're trying to be an asshole. Yes, and
you know poke at person. So at that point you
could say like objection, and then the judges.

Speaker 2 (53:03):
Like, what's your theory exhibit? It's argumentative, it's argument.

Speaker 7 (53:07):
I picture her pulling off the off the streets.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Does that work?

Speaker 8 (53:12):
So it depends, right, Like the judge is the one
that actually will decide if they will sustain saying, hey,
you've you've made a good objection, stop doing that, and
they'll probably tell the other attorney, hey move on or
be careful, or they'll say overruled. Yeah right, And that
means that even though you objected to it, the judge
doesn't think that it was enough of a violation of

(53:34):
the behavior to warrant stopping them or giving them an instruction.

Speaker 6 (53:38):
So I came in here today dresses l woods.

Speaker 8 (53:41):
Okay, one of my favorite things. Though, if I must say,
like when you watch those shows, I want you to
pay attention to Law and Order or any other movie,
right and watch one of the attorneys will say I object,
and the judge will say sustained or overruled, but they
never actually give the theory as to why they're objecting.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
After that, they just say object and that's it.

Speaker 4 (54:01):
Oh so you have to give it theory? Okay, you
would have to.

Speaker 8 (54:05):
Oh yeah, you have to explain the objection. Is the
question asked and answered?

Speaker 4 (54:11):
Like?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
Is it argumentative? Is it?

Speaker 8 (54:14):
You know, an improper type of question, like a leading question.
You can't ask leading questions.

Speaker 5 (54:19):
Oh, you get to say stuff like approach the bench.
You do have to actually say attempt in court? May
I approach the bench?

Speaker 8 (54:25):
If you're an attorney, you have to ask permission of
the judge to do a lot of stuff.

Speaker 2 (54:29):
Yeah you can.

Speaker 8 (54:30):
So let's say that you want to show a piece
of evidence. You have to lay a foundation. But if
you're going to walk up to someone or present something
to the judge, you have to ask permission. May I
approach the witness? May I approach the bench? There's all
kinds of decorum.

Speaker 4 (54:44):
What is it when you're badgering my witness? What does
that mean?

Speaker 2 (54:47):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (54:48):
Badgering the witnesses like you are asking questions or you're
doing a narrative kind of response that is over and
beyond what you should to get the information.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
It's cross over to.

Speaker 8 (55:02):
Harassment of harassment and disrespect, and so that's not what
you want, right You're there on a fact finding mission.
You want people to understand why are we even here, right, Like,
what's the purpose of this witness? Why are you asking
them questions? And then if you are like why are
you being an asshole?

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Time? Yeah? Exactly?

Speaker 4 (55:21):
In court, what if somebody was like, well, Marco's the
truth does not exist. It's all subjective. What do you
say to something like that.

Speaker 8 (55:29):
I'm gonna probably gonna, you know, ask the bailiff to
remove that.

Speaker 4 (55:37):
Has anybody ever tried a bus and stuff like that? Well,
you know, truth is relative.

Speaker 8 (55:42):
Yeah, I mean, I won't reveal the case exactly, but
we have a case at my firm right now where
one of the parties believes that the law does not
apply to her. She is an individual that has the
thoughts that she is her own country and therefore the
constitution does not apply or certain parts of the constitution

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do apply whenever she wants. She tried to make the
judge recite her oath of office before she said.

Speaker 4 (56:10):
Anything, stop the madness.

Speaker 8 (56:12):
She really did, and the judge had to tell her
you can check with the Secretary of State or the
county clerk. It's on file the right there. It's all
public knowledge law. It's like, well, I accept that as
your oath. Yeah, it was really bizarre. And when you
deal with people like that, I mean she just makes
arguments that have no basis in law or fact.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Man.

Speaker 4 (56:31):
Wow, sounds like the state of our country right now,
my goodness. Fortunately. Yeah, well, you know, speaking of the
state of the country, Marco Soto, because you are running
for judge, what is your hope for our country in
the next ten years.

Speaker 8 (56:47):
The hope for our country is that we get back
on track to some form of decorum and civility. I
think that at the end of the day, we're all
Americans and you have to know how to talk to
one another. I think the breakdown in communication in all relationships. Right,
Why do people say, oh, we're got to get a
divorce because they didn't figure out how to keep talking
to one another.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
Right.

Speaker 8 (57:09):
The communication starts to break down long before you decide
to end it, right or call it quits, because then
all kinds of fissures happen after you stop talking. Someone
runs off with another person, they ignore their spouse.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Well, think about it.

Speaker 8 (57:21):
We're all bonded together as Americans through a common purpose,
and we all come from different parts of the world.
My dad came from Mexico. Why did he come here?
He came here because it was the dream, right, America
is the dream? Well, what is the dream? The dream
is an amorphous, intangible type of thing. It can mean
anything to anyone. I was fifteen years old when I
finally understood who my dad was as a man beyond

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a father, right, like a man right because at first
he's always going to be Dad. But you don't get
while your dad is like your dad. And I understood it.
It happened like an epiphany, and I was like, my
dad grew up in abject poverty on dirt floors adobe
brick house and had to work the land. My grandpa
needed him to work the fields. And yet with his

(58:05):
limited foundation in terms of education formal education as the
equivalent of the third grade education, he was able to
somehow figure out how to make it in this world.
Get a job, work hard, buy a car, buy a
house with my mom, meet my mom, have two boys
always put food on the table. If my dad God forbid.

(58:29):
But if he passed away today, that funeral home probably
couldn't fit the amount of people that would come see
him because the way he's treated other people and the
way he's connected to other people.

Speaker 2 (58:40):
Right, we should all be that lucky.

Speaker 8 (58:42):
The reason I mentioned that is because when you do
that and you come here and you give your all,
that is what it's like to be an American. Yeah,
because you've done all the things to make you a
productive member of our society. So to go back to
your question, what do I hope for? I hope that
more people realize that immigrants are strength out of weakness.
They give us diversity of thought, and that makes us

(59:03):
better because we can keep having conversations about what's best
for everybody. At the end of the day. You want
a good future. You want a good paying job. You
want the ability to do certain things, whatever those things
may be to you. You want to go on vacation.
You want to take your kid to Disney World. You
want to be able to pay your medical bills. You
don't want to be able to struggle. You want to

(59:23):
buy a new car or a used car. It doesn't matter.
The American dream is whatever you want it to be.
But we got to learn to talk to one another again,
because just telling somebody to go themselves, shutting down, ignoring
your neighbor. I just told you guys earlier today, I
had to go block walking, and it was so nice

(59:44):
because I got to meet my neighbors. I got to
meet people that live right next to me that I
never see, and I get to say, hello, my name
is Marco Soto and I'm running for judge, and I'm
running for judge in this area, and I grew up
in this area. And it's really nice to meet you.
And I meant that sincerely because it really was like
meeting new people every single day and we're just living
our lives and they lived to the left and to

(01:00:04):
the right of me, and it's really cool. So I
hope that kind of answers your question.

Speaker 4 (01:00:09):
Well, mister Rogers would be very proud.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Of it, really is.

Speaker 5 (01:00:14):
I can see you're running for president, honestly, man, with
all this, I mean, you're so young, you know, I
mean we're all getting older here, but you know at
some point you'll be eighty five years old, old enough
to run for president. That's right, and you know I
got to that old right, uh And I could see
you doing it.

Speaker 4 (01:00:29):
I mean.

Speaker 5 (01:00:30):
And by the way, what you said about your father,
one hundred percent agree. I played. I had to study
your father because I played him in a music video.

Speaker 2 (01:00:36):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (01:00:36):
I had to I had to embody him in a
music video. And I learned that about him in my studies.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
That's right. That's right. Yeah, you know what that was.
That was a perfect case.

Speaker 5 (01:00:46):
Yeah, it was great, it was. But I really I've
actually never met your dad, you guys' dad. I've never
met him before. I met your mom a million times,
but I haven't met that. Yeah, I would love to.

Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Man, he's a great guy. He'd welcome you, he'd say,
are you hungry? Wipe you up?

Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
Something to play that you played me on TV.

Speaker 4 (01:01:02):
He'd actually ask you is your family from dang?

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (01:01:08):
I was just thinking, like, having met Chris and now
your brother, I can for sure attest to like your
parents being great parents because like me and my friends,
me and Mitchell, we have talked about a million times
of how special it's been meeting Chris and how authentic
and real he is and just seeing him walk out
into like society and can talk to someone no matter

(01:01:30):
what they were wearing or where what background they came from.
I know for sure that your parents are credible people,
Like there's no there's no possible way that they are
not special people.

Speaker 2 (01:01:40):
Oh yeah, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:42):
When we were kids, my mom, when we were in school,
she said, you be nice to everybody, and you are
if they're she remember, she's like, if they look different,
if they have something that doesn't look like you're used
to seeing, you still be their friend. And we carried
that throughout our whole line. And I remember growing up

(01:02:05):
I never wanted to be a clique queen, part of
any cliques. I would talk to everybody because everybody needs
to be talked to, and you never know who you impacted.
In school, there was a young lady. She used to
have long hair and she would always have it in
her face, and she was an emo girl, and I
always spoke to her because I found her fascinating. Later

(01:02:27):
on in life, as adults, we ran into each other
at a store and she came up and she said,
I just want to thank you for being so kind
to me. And she had blossomed out of that phase.
Her hair was up. She was wearing a floral dress period,
And okay, you just never know how you want to
impact somebody. That's so true. How you speak about we
need to learn to talk to each other. I want

(01:02:49):
to piggyback off that and say I think people need
to learn to see the humanity again in each other.
You know, trans people are not an enemy for sure.
That's a human being first.

Speaker 1 (01:03:00):
You know.

Speaker 4 (01:03:01):
And if anyone's gonna be espousing anything related to Jesus Christ,
he said to love your enemies, right, you know, So
if that person is an enemy to you and your spirit,
for God knows whatever reason you conjured up, you should
love them. You really should, and maybe try to get
to know a trans person or a gay person, or
some a black person, a Hispanic person, another white person,

(01:03:22):
an immigrant. Empathy is not a weakness. It is the
human brain picking up and mirroring what it could be
to walk into another person's shoes and letting your spirit
tell you for a second how that just might feel.
And that's not a weakness. So don't let anyone ever
make you feel bad that you're an empathetic person.

Speaker 6 (01:03:43):
Around without like being able to embrace life, like having
like those walls up like, oh, I can't talk to
this person, right, it would just be so boring, like terrible,
like miserable. Seems miserable, very miserable.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
And as we speak right now here in Texas, they
have just outlawed drag in some former fashion. It had
been deemed unconstitutional and now it's been reversed. I don't
know if you heard about this. I did, and so
now the battle continues America.

Speaker 6 (01:04:14):
I was thinking on the way here, actually I was,
we were speeding. I was like, girl, could you'll imagine
if I got pulled up like this, I'd like, I
would be going to jail.

Speaker 4 (01:04:24):
Like in Texas. Take that crown with you to that jail.

Speaker 6 (01:04:27):
Can you imagine my mugshot because you wouldn't be able
to get my makeup off, so painted in jail like boom.

Speaker 4 (01:04:36):
And you know she'd post she won the pads and
went to prison.

Speaker 6 (01:04:41):
I swear hopefully there's some good trade in there.

Speaker 4 (01:04:46):
This has been amazing, dreamers aspiring to dream and do
any last words for the children of America. Pair of
stars that are looking at you.

Speaker 6 (01:04:57):
You know, I'm of course going to tell you to
follow me on social med I am their stars. But
I think that you should just you know, embrace life
and not be a hater and just be a good
person to everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:05:09):
Absolutely, I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
KK. Any words to the women and the men of
the world, Oh, I know, I just Okay.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
The message I have for women out there is stop
being so caddy and hating on each other, because if
we would support each other and love each other, we
could rule this world. I don't know, Okay, women are
so powerful and it's the cattiness and the hate and
the jealousy, and not all women are like that.

Speaker 4 (01:05:35):
I'm certainly not. Like I want to see my sisters win, Yes,
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
That is genuine that's how I want to see. I
want to see everybody win. But like I do think
that if people would quit being so jealous and caddy,
they could rule the world.

Speaker 8 (01:05:47):
Their victory is not your loss, right, And people think
like that their victory is not your loss. It's just
their victory and one day you're going to have yours.

Speaker 4 (01:05:56):
Or they're shiny. Yes, and it's not a race.

Speaker 3 (01:06:01):
Yes, But there is something that I really do want
to say before I go. Besides thank you and it's
a pleasure to meet you and listen to you, and
good luck to you.

Speaker 4 (01:06:11):
I think you can make a big difference.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
I can just tell I agree with Billy or Paris
that you know, knowing Chris for some years and now
meeting you, I get it like it's I love that.
But I I cannot leave without saying that I am
a gig now.

Speaker 8 (01:06:25):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:06:27):
Yes, my son and his wife had a baby.

Speaker 5 (01:06:32):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Cute.

Speaker 6 (01:06:33):
You know some babies they look crazy.

Speaker 4 (01:06:35):
Yeah, but he really ray he is not.

Speaker 6 (01:06:38):
He is not a crazy looking baby.

Speaker 3 (01:06:39):
Oh no, he is so cutious. He is so sweet
and I miss him terribly. Yeah, but I'll be able
to see him when I get back. But he is
is today.

Speaker 5 (01:06:50):
Is that why you start smoking? It is? Is that really?

Speaker 8 (01:06:53):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
I was gonna that's what I was gonna say. Oh no,
he's three months old today. Wow.

Speaker 4 (01:07:00):
Wow, welcome to planet Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
That's awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:07:02):
Yes, And I am Gigi.

Speaker 3 (01:07:03):
No one's allowed to call me granny or Nana or
grandma or mem No, I'm Gigi.

Speaker 4 (01:07:09):
Yeah, she is Gigi. I am Gig. And sweetheart, when
you see this video in the future, your hair looks great.
It is. Your hair will always look great. And I'm
sure it's been looking great. And don't forget to tell
her what do you want for Christmas? That's right, n
in the future. Yes, how cool. Luca is everything to me.

Speaker 3 (01:07:31):
I told my son, you know, your kids are always
like you love Your kids are always like number one
to you. And I told my son, I said, Jordan,
you know I do love you.

Speaker 4 (01:07:39):
You've been number one.

Speaker 3 (01:07:39):
Your whole life, but you are officially number two now
Luca has moved to the first space. And he said
He just laughed his ass off and he was like,
you know what, Mom, as long as it's my son,
that's number one.

Speaker 4 (01:07:51):
I'm good with that.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
I said, Now you're still number two, baby, but you
are no longer number one.

Speaker 4 (01:07:55):
Luca is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:57):
And everyone always tell me like, when you become a
gig is a completely different feeling than being a parent.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, sure, you know, well, of
course I love my son's child.

Speaker 4 (01:08:07):
Oh no, it's it's indescribable.

Speaker 5 (01:08:10):
The love that I have.

Speaker 3 (01:08:11):
I did not know that I could love to that
level is really and I'm telling you, I did not
know that my heart had the capacity to love to
that level.

Speaker 4 (01:08:22):
The bar has been raised. Now, Yes, any guys is everything?
Any guys that want KK now.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Yes, and you know what, I'm still single as can
be and the bar has been raised, though the bar
has been raised. Hello, I love that, Eric Starr.

Speaker 7 (01:08:38):
Yeah, I'm sad to hear that the girls aren't going
on dates. So can we bring that back? Yeah? I
need to get off start telling people to go on date. Yeah,
get off grinder, get off scruff, get.

Speaker 5 (01:08:48):
Off all that scruff.

Speaker 4 (01:08:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:08:50):
Oh and gruff?

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
Right is this gruff?

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
There's so many different.

Speaker 4 (01:08:55):
I think it is.

Speaker 5 (01:08:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:08:56):
Oh wow, I've not heard of that.

Speaker 5 (01:08:59):
Yeah, sniffy okay, Yeah, it's the one of the Republicans
use grinder.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Yeah have you heard that?

Speaker 5 (01:09:08):
Yeah, goes out every time they have a they all
get together.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Where they all get together.

Speaker 6 (01:09:11):
Silly they know they are grinder.

Speaker 7 (01:09:15):
Yeah. So you got the apps? And can somebody please
ask out miss pairs stars on a date exactly get
to know each other?

Speaker 3 (01:09:26):
You feel like dating for like dating men my age,
like the men I want to date men around my age,
and I'm fifty four. They do still go out on dates.
They do, not all of them, but they do. And
I think that that's just because it's old school, but
we do. We need to get back to dating, yeah,
and getting to know each other. Yeah, and like passing
notes you go with me yes or not? And I
mean I'm like, let's go to dinner in a movie.

Speaker 7 (01:09:49):
Yeah, I will say. I will say, okkay, though your
your list of things that you can't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:55):
Eat, I'm telling you no, no, no chick on the bone,
right my list of stuff that I like, just put
those chicken on the butt.

Speaker 3 (01:10:06):
When I don't like, oh no, I can't have them
on the bone. Chicken, No chicken on the bone. It
has to be in a dish. But yeah, it's it
has been a topic of yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:10:17):
Before the date for me with you, relationships, Yes, clearing
the air of like what what's dos and don'ts and
like all that and then.

Speaker 5 (01:10:24):
Here's some broth.

Speaker 7 (01:10:25):
Yeah, I'm like what do you eat?

Speaker 4 (01:10:28):
Yeah? Everyone asked to be well what do you eat?

Speaker 3 (01:10:31):
Because I don't like any kind of beans, Like I'm
I'm oh my gosh, oh yeah, it's a bunch of learns.

Speaker 5 (01:10:36):
I don't remember what you've had.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
Literally get on my own nerves. I do like Mexican.

Speaker 2 (01:10:41):
Food, but.

Speaker 3 (01:10:43):
There's no Mexican I will not and I did like
I'll get food sometimes, you know, because I'm like I'm
in front of people.

Speaker 4 (01:10:52):
I don't want to say, oh God, get this away
from me.

Speaker 7 (01:10:54):
But well, I would take you to smoothie factory or
you know, like some some smoothie place and we'll.

Speaker 4 (01:10:59):
Have a hand breads or what's that place called wetzel pretzel? Yeah,
I would eat like but you said, Peter express, I
don't like Chinese. I don't like rice. I feel like
it's eating maggots.

Speaker 6 (01:11:11):
Like and she never once said.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Sandwich bread on it too much? Yeah, I mean I
would eat it, but I would prefer.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
Have you been a witch? Witch? Have you ever heard
of witch? Which is great?

Speaker 8 (01:11:28):
You get to pick every little thing that goes on
that sandwich, whether you want it or you don't. You
just check it off and they make it for you.

Speaker 7 (01:11:36):
So you better than me, because I wouldn't have got
that far with her. I would girl by.

Speaker 3 (01:11:41):
I don't like steak either, and I don't I don't
eat macon either.

Speaker 4 (01:11:44):
I don't like macon.

Speaker 5 (01:11:45):
What and the what do you eat? So if you
go what do you eat for? What did you have
for dinner last night?

Speaker 4 (01:11:51):
A hot dog off the tree?

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
She did?

Speaker 4 (01:11:54):
It was it was so good too.

Speaker 5 (01:11:55):
Okay, hot dog? You're you're good with yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:11:59):
Because everything right.

Speaker 4 (01:12:01):
I don't even want to too. That was the mic Alt.
Look at Mitchel. Mitchell's like, law, have you ever tried
a hush puppy doves? Aren't that bad? Girl? That's all onion?

Speaker 6 (01:12:14):
Really?

Speaker 4 (01:12:14):
That might be why I don't eat them.

Speaker 5 (01:12:16):
Okay, if we go to the refrigerator and we open
it up, it's just hot dogs in there.

Speaker 3 (01:12:19):
And no, no, you would not have them out a
hot dog in my house. I just did that because
I was drunk.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
So what do you eat?

Speaker 4 (01:12:24):
Normally?

Speaker 3 (01:12:25):
I love pizza, but my favorite thing to ever eat
in my life is spaghetti.

Speaker 4 (01:12:30):
I do you love spaghetti?

Speaker 3 (01:12:31):
I have to make my own sauce so when I
love to cook, so like I like tonight I made
my friends homemade spaghetti sauce and I made homemade off it.

Speaker 7 (01:12:42):
We can go there, noodles, you're a little girl.

Speaker 4 (01:12:44):
I am such a pasta girl. I love it. Okay,
what do you prefer ramen or fu? What's fun?

Speaker 7 (01:12:52):
Well, they have onions in it today.

Speaker 4 (01:12:55):
Okay, my friends are over there. Cat, would you ever
considered being a lesbian? No? What I've done? Well the
hot dogs. That's why we're on the subject that things.

Speaker 7 (01:13:10):
Well might well go there.

Speaker 4 (01:13:16):
Let me ask you. I know it's the after hours.

Speaker 8 (01:13:20):
Now.

Speaker 4 (01:13:23):
If you could choose between two women to be a
lesbian with, between Queen Latifa and Missy Elliott, who would
you choose.

Speaker 3 (01:13:32):
That's a good one, Queen Latifa. But I might be
lesbian for Beyonce hot alarm. Yes, wow, more than just
pizza and spaghetti. I can look at a woman like
that street and I'm like, you better get it. Imagine

(01:13:53):
hot at that. You do it, and you do that.

Speaker 5 (01:13:55):
Yes, we didn't go to our yearly trip to l
A altogether this year, which.

Speaker 4 (01:14:00):
Reminds me though that went for New Year's Eve. Guys
could go? I really want to and Mitchell to go? Yeah?
Should go? Oh, Chris, I would love it if you guys.
I know I'm going on wedding.

Speaker 6 (01:14:12):
I actually think I might go, but she wants to
stay for so.

Speaker 5 (01:14:15):
Long, stay a week.

Speaker 6 (01:14:17):
I don't know that l A is very extensive.

Speaker 4 (01:14:20):
It is it is.

Speaker 6 (01:14:22):
I can buy my plane ticket and all the things,
but staying there as long as she needs to. I
don't have a salon.

Speaker 5 (01:14:27):
At her hotel.

Speaker 6 (01:14:29):
Yeah, so yeah, it'll.

Speaker 5 (01:14:32):
Be to how much? You don't tell me how much
you pay but usually what the hotel you stay out
in in La it's really nice.

Speaker 4 (01:14:38):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
It's what's the average per night thing?

Speaker 4 (01:14:42):
I don't pay this much, but the average is about
three hundred a night.

Speaker 5 (01:14:45):
Okay, I thought that's less than what I thought. I
was thinking, like a thousand.

Speaker 6 (01:14:50):
Has like she has like like I don't even know
she's infiltrated the mandre on like they know her by name.

Speaker 5 (01:14:56):
Oh yeah, oh yes, they gets free drinks.

Speaker 6 (01:14:59):
I believe it kinds of things.

Speaker 5 (01:15:01):
You're talking to the valet the last time I saw her.

Speaker 4 (01:15:03):
Yes, it is a nice place to stay at skybar Is.
You can't beat it. You really can't.

Speaker 6 (01:15:10):
When we were there, and you can walk everywhere from there,
I do.

Speaker 4 (01:15:14):
Yeah, And I felt very safe in West Hollywood.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
Next year, this time when we get to get through
again for missus Paris's step down that I maybe.

Speaker 5 (01:15:21):
You can't start in my book. Oh no, we got
to talk about it.

Speaker 4 (01:15:25):
I really want to write a book.

Speaker 3 (01:15:26):
I do, and it's been really weighing on me heavy,
and I think I'm going to try and start that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:31):
Just a start, any ideas of what you're going to
call it.

Speaker 5 (01:15:35):
I don't like onions, no meat, on the bone, Chicken.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
On the boat chick, and I thought, you know, what
I thought about is like like possibly when I'm maybe
getting closer to finishing and stuff like on social media,
you know, ask like what do you think?

Speaker 4 (01:15:54):
Because it's going to be about my life experiences.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
I love that.

Speaker 4 (01:15:58):
Mm hmm. I'm excited to. I want to do it
my whole life.

Speaker 3 (01:16:01):
And a lot of people say, you know, if you
couldn't do hair, like, what would your dream job be?

Speaker 4 (01:16:05):
And I would always always say an author, that's really
and we need authors in the world, Yes, we do,
you know, instead of reading the girls, it's good to
read a book every now and then. I love that.

Speaker 7 (01:16:20):
Yes, good luck.

Speaker 5 (01:16:24):
Do you have anything that you and the show? How
do you want to end it?

Speaker 4 (01:16:28):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:28):
Wow? Okay, first and foremost?

Speaker 4 (01:16:30):
Or should we ask you the Mama Jama question. It's
tough to y'all. All right, it's tough to y'all. Give
you the scary music. Oh, here we go, Marco Soto,
last one, and it's the one that wins hearts. Why
should the people of Dallas put their trust and their
vote behind you for justice of the piece? You have

(01:16:54):
one minute?

Speaker 8 (01:16:55):
Oh that's fantastic. Well, first and foremost, thank y'all. It's
been great to meet y'all. Answers a question Many years ago,
I was asked that same exact question for a leadership role.
My opponent promised everything, sun, moon, and stars, and I
told everybody, I promise you nothing, and it kind of
really scared everyone. But the reason I said that is

(01:17:16):
because if you promise people anything, you've already kind of
set yourself up for failure if you don't meet those
expectations at the end of the day. What I can
do is pledge my industry and my efforts to everybody,
my legal acumen and my resolve. And that's why I
think that people should at least consider me.

Speaker 2 (01:17:36):
Right.

Speaker 8 (01:17:36):
I'm not going to be everyone's cup of tea. I
never said that I was going to be. But I'm
a local person who practices in these courts every single day,
who grew up in the neighborhood where I would be
the presiding judge, and I'm ultimately just doing this to
make a difference. I have a job, I have a

(01:17:56):
position right now, but I'm trying to give back because
every single day we want our society to be better,
but we can only do that if we're willing to
put ourselves on the line to actually do something about it.
You can either be the person that complains that there's
trash on the street, or you can walk over there
for you to make the mess. You clean it up
because you're gonna make the world a better place. I'm

(01:18:18):
running for this position to give back to my community,
to be entrusted with their authority because it's the people's authority,
and just to make my community a better place. I
think that that right there, at the end of the day,
is what we all want, and I think that I
can pledge that to the voters of Dallas County, especially
Precinct five in place two.

Speaker 6 (01:18:37):
Yes, gentlemen, question an answer your question, Emperor Winner for
the evening.

Speaker 5 (01:18:42):
Absolutely well, Thank you guys so much, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 (01:18:48):
Happy next year.

Speaker 1 (01:18:51):
This is mz now online at mz now dot tv,
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