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Ok. It's Friday baby.
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What? Welcome back to Leon Bio.
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This is Jenny. I have Alejandro.
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I did it wrong but it's Friday baby.
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That's how, you know,
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it's like we're at the end of the week.
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And we have a great show for you guys today.
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We're gonna talk about a Brazilian dead uncle gets his loan denied
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Make that make sense.
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We'll tell you how that we'll tell you about that.
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I don't fake Botox rocks the streets and gift card.
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Scammers. We on to you,
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Ryan Garcia gets hit one too many times.
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Yeah, I've seen that guy around though.
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He's been tripping but I don't know.
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Anyway, we have the galore joining us in the building.
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We were talking about why Bachata has been banned or was
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banned the whole history of that.
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And we actually have Edwin Sparks joining us to get his 420
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ready. So let's spark it up and get the show
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on the road. What do you say?
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Let's do it. Let's a Brazilian woman was arrested after bringing
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her dead uncle into a bank.
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So sign a loan to her.
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So this lady claimed to be his niece slash caretaker and said
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that he was signed $3200 to her.
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What dude? Oh my God.
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So I video shows that he was clearly unresponsive but she put
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a pen in his hand and it's like,
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so you could sign is crazy.
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So the bank staff told her he doesn't look well,
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he's very pale, but she replied that's how he is.
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He just doesn't say anything what the audacity brother and again,
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that's his niece, that's family,
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supposedly. But luckily the bankers got suspicious and they called an
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ambulance, then the police showed up and confirmed that the man
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actually died hours prior to this whole fiasco.
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That's insane. She was charged with attempted theft by fraud and
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abusing a corpse just when I thought I've seen it all.
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Identity theft is no joke.
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But this is a whole another level,
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dude. This is a Yeah.
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And it's like, do you think her theo like would be
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I wouldn't. And if I was,
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I'd freaking hot the shit out of her.
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It's like for $3200.
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You really did this?
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Yeah, dude. That's insane.
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I she's not my niece,
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bro. Yeah, that's not,
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And to think that's the whole game plan after your uncle passes
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away. That's insane.
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But anyhoo next story because I'm just,
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yeah, let's move on to our next story.
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So guys, if you're getting Botox,
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you guys gotta listen to this one because this is crazy.
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So fake Botox has been found in several states and is linked
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to 19 reports of illness and nine hospitalizations.
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Symptoms include blurry vision,
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difficulty, swallowing, shortness of breath and weakness.
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They are consistent with botulism.
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I think it's like a kind of poisoning that targets
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the nervous system. and the states where fake Botox has
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been found are in fact,
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Colorado, Florida, Illinois,
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Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey,
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New York, Tennessee and Washington.
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And the affected patients are all women in their twenties to fifties
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and they got Botox from unlicensed or untrained individuals in non healthcare
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settings like homes or spas.
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So kind of cutting corners there.
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And, but then I'm sorry if you're in your twenties,
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you have no business getting Botox.
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I'm just saying everyone has their own.
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But luckily officials are working to eliminate counterfeit Botox and have warned
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health care professionals about checking signs of the fake packaging.
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providers are required by law to buy prescription drugs including Botox from
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authorized sources. So there's been some authorization,
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you would assume you were buying the official one.
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But even then I guess you have to like double,
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triple check that because,
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oh for sure, for sure.
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A lot of reports of this going on.
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So that's crazy. So be careful guys if you're,
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if you're getting Botox,
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Ashanti and Nelly have some big news to share after confirming their
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renewed relationship seven months ago,
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Ashanti, which is 43 revealed that she's pregnant with their first
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child for clap. Yeah,
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Honestly, brother, when I read this,
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I was like, yay Ashanti's having a baby excited because,
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you know, I grew up with Ashanti,
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you know, but I also have to say like,
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it gave me hope because,
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a single gal in her thirties like I was like,
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fuck, like I gotta like have a partner and,
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and get married and and like,
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you know, like the pressure like,
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dude, like because it's I have a biological clock,
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you know, so the fact that she is having a baby
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she's given all of us hope that want kids later on in
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life and like you said,
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but there's no time frame for all this.
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Yeah, but people scare you.
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They're like, oh you know,
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your kids, you know,
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like you might not be able to have kids later and this
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and that. So the fact that she's having this baby,
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So as Shanti expressed her excitement about becoming a mom and she
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actually posted a cute little Instagram post about it too.
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So we're very excited for Ashanti and Nelly.
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So that's awesome. Ryan Garcia has been hit one too many
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times. This man is literally all over the place like one
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minute he's on Twitter saying he's dating Kylie Jenner.
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Yeah, he said that and then the next he says he's
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engaged to adult film star Savannah Bond and talking about her pregnancy
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like literally a couple of days later,
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this isn't true, right?
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No, like is it coming like this weekend?
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So I mean, I sound like a marketing.
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It could be, I mean,
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this man was literally like he's been saying he's been dating all
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these chicks like one week.
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And then also recently on a recent interview,
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he said he started breaking out into song in the middle of
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the fucking interview. It was so I don't know,
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dude. And then he was saying Tupac is still alive and
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this and that. So no say like,
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I don't know if Tso I think this is all trying to
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And then Ryan Garcia and then eventually you're like,
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oh I guess I'll see this crazy guy fight.
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I mean, he's cute but he little too crazy for me
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Do you like bad boys?
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But I mean, I guess Ryan is going to have to
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fight Lisa Al Gib for Kylie's heart,
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which is Timothy Chela because that's who Kylie has been dating.
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Oh So they're actually dating is OK.
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Yeah, it's, it's a fucking mess.
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But anyhoo we'll see what's up.
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I know the Department of Homeland Security is going after gift card
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scams that have potentially stolen billions of dollars.
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Have you heard of the scam?
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Have you been scammed?
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Yes. Was it hard to be buyer?
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How did that happen?
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Well, yeah, I gifted it to someone and it was
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very embarrassing. It was very embarrassing because I gifted them a
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gift card and they received it and then they called me and
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they were like, hey,
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dude, the gift you gave me has like literally nothing in
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what the hell? I was like,
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dude, the receipt is in there.
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I included it like it should have money in there,
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you know, and nothing.
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Well, yeah, that's embarrassing for the embarrassing.
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Yeah. And then I felt bad because I'm like,
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dude, no, I can't like not like,
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so I gave them money instead I sent them money.
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that was scammers do something called card draining.
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So they take the gift card from the store display,
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write down the card number and the pin and put back the
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Yes. So then they wait until a customer buys the gift
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card and loads money on it.
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So they have to be like,
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you have to be pretty quick to steal it,
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you know. That's wild.
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No. Yeah. And it's like this has happened to me
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So when I put my gift card on an app,
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I use it and it's still a balance.
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But then next thing,
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you know, it's gone and like,
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I didn't go back to the store and then I look at
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the receipts or whatever.
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someone in Oklahoma used it.
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what? They just drained it.
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And I'm like, that's crazy.
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Federal investigators have linked the scam to Chinese gangs and say that
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more than 1000 gift card scammers in the US might actually work
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with them. It's a whole operation.
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It's like worldwide. Oh dang.
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It's a business dude.
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it's a whole system.
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And actually a Canadian man was arrested in the US last year
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for a $22 million gift card scam 22 million.
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That's insane. 22 million.
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And those that our money is probably in that too.
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Our gift cards that we gifted was quite part of that scheme
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But around 100 people in the US have been arrested
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for car draining and a quarter of Americans say they've been victims
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of this scam. Have you been a victim of a gift
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card scam? So it's that time of year.
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Everybody's favorite holiday is coming up.
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And so we brought on Edwin Spark.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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I love it. I love it here.
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Keyword on the Sparks.
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So what do you do on the internet,
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bro? I, I am a content creator.
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I specialize in the cannabis space.
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And my main goal is to educate people on how to consume
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it properly without having a bad experience.
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So, speaking of education,
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I feel like a lot of Latinos are still like,
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not convinced the whole.
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So like, how has it been for you?
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Like with your mom and your upbringing?
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Were they against you when you're like,
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I'm gonna be the influencer for cannabis or just even in general
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like their thoughts on it.
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my mom actually was very supportive of me throughout my
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whole entire life. And when I told her I wanted to
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smoke weed, she made me get good grades and I,
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when I told her I wanted to make it a career.
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She said, just make sure you give it your all
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and five years later here we are.
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you bro, I'm not here to judge like you brought all
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this stuff here. What,
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what's the game plan with this?
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we're gonna try keyword.
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We are going to try to smoke out of everything.
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We have some meetings after this.
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bro. It should be fun.
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We'll have fun meetings,
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but I don't smoke as my job.
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So well, at your job,
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you will smoke today.
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So that should be fun.
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So, trying to smoke out of these things.
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Yeah, I feel you take a start at one of these
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take a how about you?
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Pick one that's not these two.
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We'll go from there.
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I mean, the jalapeno looks interesting cause it's like it's in
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a burn like literally burn and burn.
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Well, that's the one that you're gonna be making.
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So I'm gonna make it.
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You're gonna make that.
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Yes, I'm gonna go ahead and show you.
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I'm gonna try the Apple.
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It's classic. We do have a couple of tools here.
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stainless steel straw and some skewers which are very essential,
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So first off what you're gonna wanna do,
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make sure you guys have your safety goggles and everything.
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cut off the tip of that on the other side.
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So yeah, just cut it off.
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Try to cut it as close to the,
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to the thing as possible.
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I just cut off the stem.
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Do I put the straw in here or do I?
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No, that's exactly what you don't want to do because
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you want to keep it as sealed as possible.
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So what I will have you do is from this side,
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you're gonna try and poke it through like that.
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Yeah, just try to get it through.
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Need an airflow. There you go.
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I'm scared to come out through the side right here though.
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You got this. There you go.
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You gotta have confidence.
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Try again. Try again.
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just the, all the way.
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Just, yeah, just that's fine.
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That's better. That's a lot better.
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I wanna keep making more holes,
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you know. You wanna take a Yeah,
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literally. Let me take the.
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so there's definitely some type of,
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is it just me or is it kinda like weird when like
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you smoke with your homies?
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that like everyone just pass it around like you're like
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so doing the same thing and no one gives a shit
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But then when it comes time to share your soda like
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a waterfall, that bitch like how is that?
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This is worse like you,
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bro. But with a soda you guys want to share Babas
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So we got a seed in my mouth.
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You got a, a spicy one.
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So you're gonna put the,
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there we go. Can you do that?
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That's airflow baby. All right.
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Let's check this. That's a bad canal for people that wanna
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kind of experiment with Mary Jane with people that want to experiment
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with Zaza. What strange.
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Like what's the difference between?
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Was it? It's Indica it's and so like what's
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the difference between each one?
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Sativa is more uplifting.
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So it could be like like a Red Bull type of thing
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hybrid is in between and Indica is more for like sleep couch
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lot people who need a increase in appetite type of stuff
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Oh, I say in the couch in the couch.
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Yes. In, in the couch.
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Indica. Sativa just sativa happy hybrid.
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Yeah. What is your preference?
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I personally love sativa but nobody really smokes that.
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So I always carry Indica.
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just because sativa can induce anxiety on some people who already
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Got it. So I I stay away from the Indica will
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mail you out in if you have anxiety.
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The perfect thing is some Indica.
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All right. So since I made this one,
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I'm gonna take a hit out of it.
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Unless you'd like to go first,
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please. OK. I made an assumption right there.
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So if you guys take a look,
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we got the whole right there.
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Bam. And then we just got the whole up here where
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we have the bull piece.
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This is classic. This is a very,
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this brings me back to the very first time I had to
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hit. It reminds me of high school,
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not that I did it but it just like me of high
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school cheers Salud. That's indigo for sure.
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That is amazing. But you can taste like the strain.
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Yeah, like Indica versus sativa,
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you could taste every strain you could,
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you, you could taste sativa is usually more lemony,
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more like fruity Indica,
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more piney. This is so good.
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I'm taking it a hit.
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There you go. We lost them.
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they're prepared. I like it here but we,
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I ain't got the munchies yet but I feel something.
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It's always better to be prepared.
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So this is gonna be one of the least common ways
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I wanna say and I've only done this for content.
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I would per, I can't imagine like,
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oh dude, grab a chili.
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Let's, but when you're desperate,
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bro, desperate times call for desperate measures.
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$20 is $20. You know what I'm saying?
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pause, bro. There you go.
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bro. It says gonna burn,
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It's not gonna be that bad.
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It's, it's worse in your head.
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I'll show you, I'll do the first and then you do
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you can do it smoking a lot less seamless than the apple
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However did get the job done.
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I would say it's successful.
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It's been fun. It really has.
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I feel a little high.
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I haven't even smoked.
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I just like contact high.
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So I'm gonna drink some water,
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take some deep breaths and eat some chips.
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But thank you so much,
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where can people find you online?
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I, I, I'm Edwin Sparks on youtube,
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Instagram and tiktok. Happy 420.
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Everybody and I guess blaze up safely,
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safely. Blaze. I don't know.
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Did you know that Bachata was actually banned in the dr for
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about 30 years, the dictator at the time,
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Rafael Trujillo and the upper class is spies Bachata.
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They saw it as vulgar and too sensual,
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all the dance moves,
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the, the moan that is,
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I don't know, they were having music.
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So during Trujillo when he was,
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you know, when he was in power,
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Bachata was effectively banned.
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So it was not played on Dominican radio or TV,
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until after he died,
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which was in 1961 I believe 1961.
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So it still grew in popularity in poor neighborhoods though where songs
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about sex, heartbreak or despair connected with people's struggles.
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So I mean, till this day it's still relatable as fuck
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brother look at Mexico,
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Mexico with Narco Corridos.
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Even the Corrido stars like Peso Pluma Nao and places like Tijuana
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and Chihuahua have actually banned the genre for promoting gang violence.
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That's why it's Mina Sando left and right,
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like with Fuerza Regis recently too,
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I mean, and even the the seventies and the eighties
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Argentina band, popular rock songs you know,
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from like bands like Queen and Pink Floyd.
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Yeah, apparently their dictatorship thought that they were going to corrupt
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people and inspire rebellion.
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Get people fired up the bright side.
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That's why national rock in Argentina started to take off like we
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got so the sta over Anglo music and during slavery.
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Cuba was one of the few places to allow enslaved people to
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play drums, becoming the foundation for genres like Dim and Guan
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Guan. However, in 2012,
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reggaeton was officially banned,
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the government found the entire genre with its overtly sexual lyrics vulgar
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and demeaning. It eased up a bit in the years since
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but still prohibits reggaeton artists from appearing on most state run TV
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and radio or recording in state run studios.
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Reggaeton. My friend in Chile in the seventies and the eighties
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the dictator Pinochet banned left wing protest music called Nueva Cancion
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He also banned indigenous instruments that used to play the genre
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like the Andean guitar charango too from Calle Trece.
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He once claimed that his home country of Puerto Rico banned his
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concerts, his home country,
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so not the genre but him,
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his performance. Yes.
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And this was after he criticized Governor Luis G Fortuno for a
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plan to lay off thousands of state employees.
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So I guess it was something personal.
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it's not like all this music is unbanned now though.
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So you can't keep us down.
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We need that. We stay per so let's turn up,
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turn up, let's move on its Vienne Cuerpo Lo sabe.
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So we invited the one and only Legado siete up in the
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I mean, you guys have a unique sound,
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right? You Norteno music.
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But I saw you guys are Corridos Verdes in that genre.
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the, the, the instrumentos de un Norteno but was Estillo
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Iso Norteno. It is like underground type of shit.
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Like like hip hop with Norteno,
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like the lyrics is different,
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you know, like we talk,
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we talk about we like,
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oh that's the birth day,
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that's what the Verde means,
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you know the, the real Verde.
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All right. So I mean,
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like, did, did you guys start that or is it
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already exist? How does that?
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I believe it already exists.
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Like people would always talk about winning the corridos but I believe
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like a who made it like we were the first ones to
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in singing Mexican stuff.
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Like we were the first ones for people to stop drinking and
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start lighting up blunts at the at the concerts in Ch like
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you know, I feel like right now it was pretty
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pretty normal to go to a club and the spa people
21:20
join like it wasn't like that before we started,
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after sure. So you mentioned that in the club,
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like you see people sparking up more instead of drinking.
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So like that, you know that there's a culture shift.
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Do you think your music kind of influence that kind of like
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acceptance of it? Yeah.
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Like he's saying you,
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you go to a club and majority of the people are drinking
21:38
but you, you have a band that starts singing like stone
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or corridos, you know.
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So people would just be like,
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I just wanna have a smoke out at the,
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at the club and that's what they started doing.
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But apart from that,
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I think it's like we were the band that would smoke too
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maybe people would sing about weed but they weren't stoners as,
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them, like, as like themselves.
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I mean, I don't know,
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I mean, not a poer but I don't know.
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Maybe you're like, you're like walking the walk and talking to
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talk and this, this is like the real thing,
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you know, like we smoke and we,
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we talk about the weed,
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and I guess what's your one song that you feel like that
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like, gives out that vibe like the best I want
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to listen to. I think the Afro was like the,
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the song that Put Leg Aiee there and it's,
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it's a stone in Corrido.
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So I think people should hear that one if they haven't heard
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it. Well, there you go.
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And,, how do you see the future of like
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marijuana and smoking in Mexico?
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it's illegal right in Mexico.
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Do you think it's legal?
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I, I think so or no,
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I don't know. I don't know right now because this is
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what I'm telling you.
22:39
I, I just went to this,
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it's called the Ros and Mania,
22:45
I don't know if you guys seen a video like
22:48
on social media, the unos wrestlers,
22:51
Estan Estan Elano's wrestler called Lucha Libre is Esto dab I sema
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guy, you guys haven't seen it.
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It's super viral in Joos A que for Mexico I Primera to
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the Ross mania fu deci feral.
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So Anos Angeles, like,
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I was just surprised,
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like, do you guys feel like though,
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I guess it, I don't know who knows if it is
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but like, I feel like regardless of the Latino and Mexican
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culture has that like stigma against it.
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Do you feel like that kind of like again,
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this movement, this new generation of artists is kind of help
23:30
They move forward because like you said,
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it's drinking, it's like you can drink.
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But also it's like that's a v too that everyone thinks is
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like it's accepted. But because honestly,
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like in Mexico is the term.
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It's not really what,
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what we smoking, the term marijuana,
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like marijuana can be like if you,
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if we chilling outside my house in Mexico and then you just
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somebody fucking speeding, you know,
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like going fast as fuck on the street.
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The first thing ma was gonna say like,
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oh marijuana, you know.
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it, it's more the term actually the action,
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you know, the term marijuana is just bad in Mexico for
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you don't know, I crack it and they call him marijuana
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Yeah, I guess it has a negative connotation again,
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that name attached to it and it's stuck.
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have you ever faced criticism from your family members or even like
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again, bigger artists and stuff for like kind of putting
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oh yeah, they're a bad example or anything like that.
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I don't think the fan base or I think we weren't accepted
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which is, which is different,
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you know, I feel like we weren't accepted on media on
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radio because of the content.
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It was very so it's like people are scared of that,
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it's so different that in the hip hop world they sing about
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all type of stuff and it's like,
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and would you guys ever saw like a,
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a small company, a weed company or you just have one
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we, we, I think we've collabed with different people on
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on different stuff in the past,
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you know. But I think for sure 11 thing we
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always wanted to do is like,
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bring our own line of strengths and stuff.
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So yeah, I'll be coming.
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Well, there you go guys.
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You know, keep an eye for that flower.
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I heard it's called,
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I know I'm, I'm learning new stuff but I guess
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before I let you guys go,
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you guys are gonna do some cool shows.
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right. When is that?
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It starts today. Today is Friday.
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So smoke me out here in L A at the was
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it peacock? And then what's up after that?
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What you said? We got our second event on June
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1st is gonna be at the Toyota Toyota.
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I'm sorry, smoke me out and a bunch of other artists
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So, so make sure you follow them on social.
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What's your social? Actually plug that in too,
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like everywhere, like,
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I'm gonna go smoke out.
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again, check them out on social,
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Spotify, Apple Music,
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everything and all their upcoming shows.
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it's time for the weekend.
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that does it for today's show guys.
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This is Lincoln Bio.
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I'm Jenny. I'm Alejandro and we'll see you guys next week
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Friday. Don't forget.
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yeah, but take care and see you soon.
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