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Hey, you're into today.
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I like that. We are back.
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We're back. Long weekend.
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Vibes. Happy Tuesday,
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Tuesday. I almost said Monday.
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Welcome back to Leak and B I'm Alejandro and I'm Jenny just
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And don't you forget it,
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don't you forget it,
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sister. How was your weekend?
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It was good. We actually went to Carna Fest in Dallas
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The weather was a little crazy.
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there was a tornado like an hour away and sadly
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kill seven people. Yeah,
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it was scary but I didn't know that till after.
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Oh, the tornado wasn't there when you were there.
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Yeah, it was there when I was there.
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I'm glad that you're here safe.
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well, I didn't expect that.
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It was good. I didn't do anything crazy.
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No tornadoes out here in Socal just,
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Asada on Sunday, speaking of car and I's ears got pierced
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her ear pier. She's like,
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sorry about that guys,
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you know, you know us,
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but we have a bunch of crazy stories because apparently it's 420
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right now. It's 420 somewhere,
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right. At least that's what's happening because apparently people are smoking
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more now than drinking.
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And in the filmmaker goes from Mexico to the Chinese theater.
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That is awesome. That's huge.
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And lastly bulking up with Ana F Rosales because your girl has
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been wanting to learn how to lift weights and I'm super stoked
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for that. So let's get into it.
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Let's go for the first time.
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The number of Americans who use marijuana just about every day has
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surpassed the number of Americans who drink daily in 2022.
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An estimated 17.7 million people reported that they use marijuana daily compared
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to 14.7 million people who drink daily.
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I mean, all in moderation deve in Cuando.
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You know, not every day.
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I don't know how people do it.
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I can't function when you smoke.
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when I was, I'd have to make sure that I was
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I didn't have any plans but I like once I was
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you know, like I'm out.
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No brother. There was one time where I had my hands
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I had my hands here,
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but it felt like I had my hands here,
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but it still felt like I had my hands here.
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It was weird. I was like this with the,
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I kept punching, why do people do it every day?
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Like, I don't understand.
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It was so weird that,
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like, smoke and they come back and do whatever.
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You bro, because I can't,
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they're probably used to it,
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but just keep in mind that,
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although these numbers are crazy,
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in terms of the smoking to non,
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to drinking that marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.
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there's still like that stigma of people,
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you know, hitting the pin or smoking the devil's lettuce.
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it's just interesting because again,
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it's like which one's worse than the other.
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I feel like that's what it is.
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I mean, I prefer drinking brother.
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I, I feel like I'm in my,
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my all senses when I drink mostly in moderation,
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of course. But dude,
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I, I, one time I ripped the $20 bill and
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threw it away because I thought it was a receipt when I
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I'm not, I'm not gonna donate smoking,
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but I just can't function.
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I don't know how people do it.
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It's not that I'm a crazy smoker or anything.
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I used to smoke whatever the point is that it's like drinking
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you get that tolerance,
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what is it? You're lightweight and so,
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you know, your level,
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cool two hits and I'm good,
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I'm cruising and you're not supposed to hold it in supposedly.
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I don't know, they're bringing the Edwin Sparks again.
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We got to get in Edwin sparks again.
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But anyhoo, that's crazy.
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The Costa Rican government has closed its state zoos.
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Wait the zoo, the Fruit Uber.
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dude, it was in there.
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But anyways, Costa Rica signed a law to ban all
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but a contract kept two zoos open for the last decade.
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Now, the country closed the remaining zoos.
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So more than 400 animals are free.
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So this is a good thing,
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brother, I'm not advocating for zoos,
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but don't some zoos kind of like animals and it's a good
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But anyways, so the animals include jaguars,
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crocodiles and spider monkeys are beating into a rec center.
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Oh, ok. That's good.
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So the caretakers will evaluate whether they can be released into the
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wild or taken to a sanctuary and some of them have been
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in captivity for 30 years.
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This law does not apply to Costa Rica's 18 private zoos which
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remain open. So they closed the public zoos but not the
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private zoos. I mean there's some progress there,
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I guess. But did you know Colombia has a hippo problem
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because of Pablo Escobar's private zoo?
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Well, like they were like doing the,
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yeah, so he illegally imported kangaroos,
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zebras hippos and more.
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And now Colombia has more than 200 hippos which sometimes attack people
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What the fuck you're walking around Colom,
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they got hungry, hungry hippos in Colombia.
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And it's not because of Pablo.
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Wait, they just kind of did whatever they had to do
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So El Chapo admits to having a private zoo including a train
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that took guests to see crocodiles and panthers.
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So yeah, but it's like you said,
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I always at a train,
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but it's like crazy because again,
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he got the kangaroo zebras hippos like all these animals that need
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I'm sure special attention and care.
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But you can hashtag Chapo land.
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And speaking of Mexico,
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wealthy people often have exotic animals on their ranchos like lions,
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tigers, bears and police raids have caught nautical with giraffes camels
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and even elephants talk about the elephant in the room.
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Brother. It's seen as a symbol of power.
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No. Yeah, I've seen,
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I've seen people posted the tigers and I'm like,
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yo, that looks bad ass.
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That's why you'd be like,
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oh shit, he has a tiger,
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Costa Rica. It's a step in the right direction.
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But I hope they keep,
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But anyways, Louisiana has classified the abortion pill as a controlled
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dangerous substance. The state has classified two abortion pills,
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miSOPROStol and Mifepristone. Hopefully I pronounce those right in the same
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category as addictive drugs like opioids.
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I'm glad that you had to do that because I was like
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Google, how do you say this?
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But anyways, this makes possession of the pill without a prescription
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a crime and is punishable by up to 10 years in
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prison. However, pregnant women cannot be prosecuted.
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So it sounds like it's more of like making the pills difficult
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you know, citing fear amongst providers.
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So Louisiana already has a near total ban on abortions.
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Even in cases of rape or incest,
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abortion providers can be jailed for 15 years.
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It's crazy because again,
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remember back in March,
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like these abortion pills are making the news because was it
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Walgreen and CBS would start selling them.
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more fear of people trying to access them.
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It's like por por porno.
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Yeah, they're trying to come through all like sides to like
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stop them. But I mean,
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it's crazy. So we'll see what updates we have in the
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next few months. Yo,
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we are here with Andres Taboada guys.
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W so he took a micro budget film called Alta California from
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us to Mexico all the way to the Chinese theater for its
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premiere. And that is huge.
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That's big. Thank you so much.
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Yeah, it's, it is actually,
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I can't, I can't believe it.
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I mean, we shot this movie for nothing really.
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Our budget was $5000 to shoot it and then we spent
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5000 more in post production.
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We shot it in two weeks back in 2018 and five
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we have we made a feature film and yeah,
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we can't believe it.
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That's so cool. And did you choose the story to be
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your debut feature? So there's this thing called you know
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the available resources film making,
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right? So I found this place in La Mision.
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my my family and I spent Thanksgiving there one year
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and I just fell in love with this little town and it's
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a small border town near the US Mexico border.
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And even though it's just an hour away from the US,
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it's so foreign and different because it's close to the border.
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I'm a former undocumented immigrant.
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So it, it is a very personal story,
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very autobiographical. And yeah,
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I just thought I couldn't ignore the fact that this so close
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to the border. I couldn't make it just about the
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town. And so it all came together became more about
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my story until about the story about me and my family.
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And then finding my lead actor,
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Alejandro La Torre, who's right there behind us.
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That's our lead actor and he is from Mexico.
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And then the story became,
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I was really intrigued by a,
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a Mexican kid going back to Mexico and being a foreigner in
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his own country as well.
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So that's how the story kind of evolved.
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Yeah. And did you expect it to,
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you know, go to the Chinese theater to get the attention
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that it's gotten def definitely not.
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this journey started so long ago.
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There were for five years,
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I didn't know if I would ever even have a movie.
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To be honest, we started something into festivals and just as
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part of the process,
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you get a lot of rejections.
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We got 24 rejections in total.
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you know, but then when we did get into a festival
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So we actually got the award for our best directorial debut at
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the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival.
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It's almost, it's a lot of ups and downs,
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right, rejection after rejection and then you get into a festival
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and they fly you out,
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they put you up and you get an award.
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I mean, it's been a lot of that.
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So lots of ups and downs and this is the biggest
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break we've ever gotten.
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I mean, to play the Chinese theater.
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It's, yeah, and I heard something wild happened to you
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and the crew in Baja.
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Yeah. So we're there and I think I got really
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comfortable because, you know,
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we have permits. So we're cool and maybe I got a
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little too comfortable. So in our second to last day,
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this guy comes out of nowhere and points a gun at my
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chest and he says what if I were to tell you
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that I really like your camera and I said you can,
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We're good. And then he was just kidding.
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He walked away. So it was just a prank.
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Super funny. He got me so good and yeah,
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well, he freaked me out so bad but that was the
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that was the second to last day.
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A thing like that happened to me too,
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but they ended up stealing my phone.
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The same thing happened to me in Baja as well.
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No, not in Baja Lynnwood.
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They got it that the people scared of Baja.
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But you know how I kept my camera.
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Oh, no, they stole my phone and they were so
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polite. They were like,
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oh, I like your phone.
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and then he had a knife and I was like,
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mine had a huge gun.
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it was actually scary.
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Latino. Yeah. Like maybe we,
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we like the ST tourists or something.
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and then after that I was just really freaked out.
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Yeah, we drove through the desert after that there was
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a flash flood but we finally made it to San Felipe,
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which is where that was shot.
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And, and then we finished the movie.
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Yeah, thank you so much.
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That's huge. And also when is the premiere?
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So the premiere at the Chinese theater is on Saturday,
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June 22nd at 7:15 p.m. So they give us an amazing time
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and, and will people be able to watch it
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our plan is to definitely distribute online in the future.
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But of course, that's why you go to these festivals for
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to see what can happen and what you can get distribution wise
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we will definitely put this movie out there for people to
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we have to have our support.
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Thank you guys for having me.
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Of course. Thank you so much.
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Give him another round of applause.
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We know how ruthless cartels can be.
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But now tortillas and other local businesses are being forced to comply
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with the cartels demands.
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So here to explain this alarming situation is Mary Beth Sheridan from
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the Washington Post. Hello,
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Nice to be with you.
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Thank you so much for joining us.
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All right. So I'll kick it off.
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So I'm curious why are cartels picking on local businesses and not
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rival gangs or other cartels?
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There's been a real change in how cartels operate in Mexico.
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It used to be a handful of really big organizations think of
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like El Chapo Guzman,
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right? And they would move drugs to the US,
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cocaine, heroin and so on.
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But really what's happened is there's still a couple of big groups
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but a lot of the crime groups have splintered.
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There's no hundreds of groups and a lot of them need to
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make money and they can't,
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actually, they don't have the size to,
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you know, move drugs.
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So, what they really are doing is turning on local Mexican
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communities and tortilla shops are one of the real signs of this
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that they're demanding protection money.
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And if people don't pay,
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they burn down the shops or they shoot the entrances and this
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is happening, you see it a lot with tortilla shops but
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also with all kinds of small chicken vendors,
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butchers and it's becoming a mass phenomenon in Mexico.
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So how are these people reacting to this extortion?
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There's so much fear that I would say in general,
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most people are just terrified to talk about it because they don't
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want their shop to be attacked or their family members to be
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beaten up or whatever it is.
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So tortilla shops in a city called Cola in Morelos,
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they're having to pay protection money of $3000 in order to be
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able to stay open and then they have to pay after that
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another $500 or so a month.
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So it's really, people are often so afraid to denounce.
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So you don't see a lot of cases in the judicial system
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but business groups,
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I would say religious leaders and others just tell you it's incredibly
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widespread. I can actually second this personally because actually my dad
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has a friend who decided to start a business in Jalisco.
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And supposedly, you know,
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he put up his business and they actually went to his business
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so you started your business.
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So this is the amount of money that we're collecting you.
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So this percentage of your sales is going to go to us
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So my dad's friend actually,
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you know, he didn't want to be involved with that.
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So he ended up coming back to the US and closing shop
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This is actually happening.
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Yeah, this is real life.
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And what are the economical effects that this cartel tax is having
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on Mexico's economy? It's really remarkable.
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So it's very hard to get data.
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One point we did find was extortion is really widespread in
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agriculture. And there's an economist at the U A,
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the Mexican University who has done really careful work on this.
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And he said that for example,
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with agricultural products, fruits and vegetables,
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like last year, the inflation for that those products was around
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6% and like a quarter of it was extortion.
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So if you think about the massive size of the agricultural economy
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in Mexico, like we're just talking about,
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you know, hundreds of millions of dollars.
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And then we tried to also look at other ways in which
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the crime economy is spreading.
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And you see things like,
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a third of the oil and gas sold in Mexico now is
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illegal, right? It's controlled by crime groups.
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You know, if you think about the traditional drug groups earning
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they estimate around $12 billion a year.
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If you add up these other illegal businesses,
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it could be almost as big as that.
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And where you're beginning to see more and more of the spillover
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effects is, for example,
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we're having elections in Mexico and in the lead up to the
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election, it's been so violent.
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So many candidates have been killed,
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so many have been threatened.
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I mean, hundreds have dropped out of the races and it's
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because these crime groups really want to control the mayor and the
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police chief. And another thing you do see is more,
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more and more people who are heading to the US border,
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you know, trying to flee because they feel like they can
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no longer stay in their communities.
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Are the police or government trying to interfere in any way.
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it's a crime that really,
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largely goes unpunished.
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I think in many cases,
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you know, these crime groups try to control the police.
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under the current government,
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they've cut back on money for local police.
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They've invested more in the National Guard.
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So prosecutors tell me it's really hard because you need the cops
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that are kind of on the beat,
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you know, walking around.
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Those are the, that can more effectively stop extortion,
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but we don't really see much of that.
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Well, thank you so much,
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Mary Beth. We really appreciate you being on the show and
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telling us what exactly is going on,
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you know, because before back in the day I used to
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well, just don't get involved and it'll be fine,
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just don't get involved with them and you're good.
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But now they're going after innocent people,
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you know, and more and more so that's what's scary.
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So, thank you so much for bringing it down for us
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where can people find you on social or any of your work
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Sure. I'm on Twitter at,
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Or you can find my stories on the Washington Post site,
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Washington post.com. I hope very much you'll read the story and
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find it interesting. Thank you.
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Thank you, Mary Beth.
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Take care. Thank you.
18:56
I've been hitting the gym like on the regular,
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you see me with my little gym bag,
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you know, ready to go after work.
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But all I know how to do is like hit the elliptical
19:07
the treadmill and the Stairmaster,
19:10
like I legit want to learn how to properly lift weights because
19:14
like, I want to build my,
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why don't you sister?
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I mean, that's more than I do.
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I do. Why don't you,
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why don't you do the lifts the weights.
19:23
I feel like, like maybe people at the gym,
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you know, might look at me,
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judge me and be like,
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what the hell is she doing?
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Let's tell how you do it.
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No. Say maybe I'm getting my own head about it.
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I think so because I'm sure there's people that would down to
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help you and I know there's a lot of influencers now that
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bro, we've had some on the show Tambien.
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You're right. You're right.
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Well, sister, you know what I got you because today
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we have professional bodybuilder and online fitness coach,
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Anna Rosales to give us her wisdom on weightlifting and bodybuilding.
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Ok. Since we have you here,
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did your family ever bring up,
20:03
get healthy. But don't look too manly,
20:05
like, because I know that's how it is.
20:08
but it's good to build muscle.
20:10
Absolutely. Definitely super important to build muscle above everything else,
20:13
even just like, or just the physique of itself.
20:17
Most people now want to get in shape per se or want
20:22
to look a certain way.
20:23
But really, it's just super important to have muscle in general
20:26
because as we get older,
20:27
our bodies get weaker,
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I just want to be able to move and keep up with
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yeah, muscle is absolutely super important and something that women shouldn't
20:36
fear because I was hearing you just a moment ago and you
20:40
definitely shouldn't fear it at all.
20:41
especially kind of looking a specific way because I know
20:45
that's one of the biggest misconceptions of even starting to build a
20:48
muscle is, am I going to get too big or too
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and that's a huge misconception because it takes a lot of work
20:55
to get to that point.
20:57
You know, it took me a long time and a lot
21:00
of work and a very different type of work to get to
21:03
where I was at a pro level.
21:04
So that's not the expectation out of anybody who's just in it
21:08
for lifestyle or for health.
21:10
And I know it's a lot about discipline.
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Right. Like, it's a lot of,
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on your mindset. Absolutely.
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Yeah, I've coached hundreds of clients and the one thing I
21:20
tell them all the time because one of the biggest things is
21:22
coach. How do I find the motivation?
21:24
And it's like, well,
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the motivation doesn't exist,
21:26
you know, in the beginning you're super motivated.
21:29
You're just like, I'll do anything.
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I'll run a mile a day.
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you start going through all these crazy scenarios in your head of
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what you have to do and what's expected of you and you're
21:38
so sure you're going to do it,
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but then you're about 23 weeks in and you start burning out
21:43
the motivation is gone,
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you know. And so what I tell most people is you've
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got to rely on your discipline.
21:48
Yeah. And you touch on a few things I actually wanted
21:51
like, what do you say to people who say that they
21:53
don't have the time to work out?
21:55
I, I know you're a mom.
21:56
You do like a bunch of content like about the mom life
21:59
and the kids and then also,
22:01
you know, the gym life.
22:02
So how do you balance all that?
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How do you find the time with most of my clients?
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if you can give me three days a week,
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just three days and the way to get it done is to
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make sure you schedule it into your day,
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just like your job is scheduled into your day because you show
22:18
Why? Because it's scheduled and you know,
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you have to be there,
22:20
it's a priority. So if you do that with your workouts
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whether it be before work or after work,
22:25
I promise you everything will change it.
22:28
It's incredible what it can do for you.
22:30
Like you said, you make time for work,
22:32
so make time for yourself.
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definitely. I love that too.
22:37
I'm going to start telling myself that too.
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just like making money is a priority.
22:43
You know, getting healthy should be a priority too and you
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make time to make money.
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So you should make time to get healthy.
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Most definitely. What's something that like?
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Because for me it's the enjoyment of it.
22:55
Like going to the gym.
22:56
Like, like, I know some people are very like,
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oh my God, I can't wait to go to the gym
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I'm like, how do you get there?
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make it something that's like,
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super enjoyable. Like,
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what's it? What's something that you're like that you look forward
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to? I love being in the gym because I get to
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throw on music in my ear and I jam the heck out
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the biggest tip is just finding what you enjoy the most.
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I would say a lot of these gyms offer a lot of
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different types of classes.
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So they have classes where you can weightlift,
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especially for beginners who don't know what they're doing.
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You know, if you try any of those and you find
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the right instru character that plays the type of music you like
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that motivates you the way you,
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the way you need it because every instructors very different.
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But I would say that's a really good way to start off
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to get motivated to actually show up is to find what
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you like in the gym.
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What advice would you give to girls like me who are just
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starting to dabble into lifting weights?
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Look for a good program that you can follow.
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There's a lot of coaches out there,
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especially online, you know,
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you want to find somebody credible of course.
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but look for a workout program that you can actually
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follow because if you walk into the gym and you have no
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clue what you're doing,
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you're kind of just going to walk around,
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you're going to look lost and you're going to absolutely feel a
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little intimidated and then you're going to take off because you're like
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I'm good. But if you have a plan to follow
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six different exercises, you have to hit and you know how
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many reps, how many sets you're going to do?
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Which machines to walk to,
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then you don't feel so out of place.
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As long as you have a plan,
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you're going to stick to it.
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Now, if you don't stick to it,
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then that's you being a slacker it.
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You're right. You're right.
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I need to be more disciplined.
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That's my thing. But thank you so much and we really
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appreciate you coming on the show and just talking to us more
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about this especially. Thank you for me also because this is
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very, very helpful to me.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I appreciate it. And where can people find you on social
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but where can people just so,
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so I have an Instagram account and that account is at follow
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her fitness. And then I also have a Tik Tok account
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and that one is I'm a cool mada.
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Thank you all. I appreciate you.
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Yeah, like that was such a good episode.
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Like I feel like I learned so much from Anna like,
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dude, I'm going to fucking discipline my ass like my life
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depends on me because yeah,
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dude, I just want to feel comfortable in my own skin
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I want to have more energy,
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feel healthier. Like,
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yeah, dude, she was spitting facts.
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But anyhoo guys, thank you guys so much for joining us
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today on Lincoln Bio.
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I'm Jenny, I'm Alejandro and we'll see you guys soon.
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