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Repping the Inland Empire

June 12, 2024
I.E in Besties’ Stephanie and Vanessa sound off on why they prefer the Inland Empire over LA’s influencer energy— just steer clear of the men who “love to play games.”
Show transcript
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The IE versus L A.
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It is a thing,
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brother. That is a thing.
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L A thinks they're better and we think we're better.
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I see the memes right where it's like Lion King,
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it's like everything the sun touches is L A and that dark
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spot over there. That's the ie,
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we do not go there.
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I'm like, I mean,
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I don't know, I,
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I, I've been in the IE,
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I love the, of the mall.
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Is it, is that over Ontario Mills?
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Is that there? Ok.
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That's all I know.
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I mean, look,
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I think we have a clear answer of who's the king,
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but we don't want to be biased.
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Right? My clear answer.
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But I have people in the IE that are gonna chime in
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and give us their own two cents.
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So joining us, we have Steph and Vanessa from IE and
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Besties to give us their take on this,
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you know, debate.
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Hi guys. Yay calling in,
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straight from the inland empire.
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So L A or IE,
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I mean, I'm sure you have an opinion but what do
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you guys think is off the bat?
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I think, I don't know why L A people always wanna
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beef. Why do you guys always have to be comparing yourselves
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to us. She not big brother,
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she's asking your ass.
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I didn't anticipate this happening.
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You see that's what happens to L A people.
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It's like we just kind of follow I think people from the
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inland empire don't really think about L A like that.
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You know, we can acknowledge the beauty and the culture and
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I feel like that L A is always trashing on the IE
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it's all drama, drama,
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drama. Yeah, they want the smoke,
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they want the smoke not going to.
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I feel like that's one of the things I personally it's kind
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of like a hit or miss for me when I go to
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LA, I feel like people are less welcoming,
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more like in their own,
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like bubbles in their own world.
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It feels definitely more driven by like social media,
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like influencers and like people are more like in their phones and
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things like that. So I feel like connecting with people and
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talking to people is a little different.
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I feel like for the most part it's harder to kind of
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like socialize with people in L A than it is in the
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IE L A is,
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is you, it's too much of,
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oh I do this like kind of like one upping like
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it's, you know,
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pretentious a little bit like sere mu mu like,
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I don't know, like I don't,
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I'm, I just,
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I don't know. I feel like people in the,
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er, maso milde mass,
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like, like real,
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I guess you could say for sure.
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But you know what though?
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The Indian Empire is like,
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legit, coming up,
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brother, like, it's coming up top golf.
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Like people, like,
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they got so many different activities more than that.
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I top golf. They have that in Vegas,
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they have that in Arizona.
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They really have a top golf also too.
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I love how in the IE now I appreciate it more as
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an adult. Like you can still,
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like, there's not too much going on in,
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like, in LA.
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I feel like, oh,
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I want, when I was younger I wanna live in L
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A but now como,
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like, I'm like,
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no, I kinda wanna like,
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you know, I go towards the IE carrier,
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you know. Yeah,
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you grew up, you saw the L A prices and you
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were like, so,
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I mean, again we have our picks.
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But would you move to L A?
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No, no, I wouldn't.
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I really would not.
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It's, I'm not a city girl,
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I'm a suburb girl.
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Me too. Especially now I feel like when we're older we
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appreciate the suburbs a bit more.
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I know when we're younger we're like,
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oh, we want to live in the city.
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Como, yeah, I need some peace and quiet even though
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you know, in the suburbs,
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you know, or,
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you know, people stay having family parties next door.
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Pam. I'd rather hear that than all the craziness going on
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Yeah, I like my parking spots.
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I like the peace and quiet.
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So, yeah, I think there's a balance right when you
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get to that age you're like,
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you know? Yeah,
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I wanna go to Target comfortably.
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Exactly what this is completely different topic from what we're talking about
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But I feel just really quick,
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I feel like it aligns really well with and be like,
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I think you're showing again.
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This is like the talk that guys want to know and I
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personally want to get your take on personally.
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What's the engagement ring timeline?
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Like a proposal from when you start dating to and you propose
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all that stuff? Like what do you think is the perfect
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timeline? I don't know.
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I feel like everyone moves at a different pace.
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But me personally, I feel like,
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I think like less than two years,
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I feel like two years,
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I feel like less than two years.
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You should know if you want to marry me or not or
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you mean because I started dating my wife early.
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I was like 1718 and we were together.
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I didn't pop the question until nine or 10 years in.
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So it's like, yeah,
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that's fair because you were,
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you were babies. This is true.
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I feel like when I'm saying like two years,
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I'm thinking like older,
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maybe in thirties or something.
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Yeah, but if you're getting in that 30 age,
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it's like it. Yes or no.
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Yes or no. Yeah,
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that was with me.
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I'm like, dude,
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21 plus 10, ok,
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dude, I'm fucking 3010 years went by what's next?
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Like do you want me or not?
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Like like am I gonna be a girlfriend until I'm 35?
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Am I a fucking placeholder to you?
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Find someone better or what?
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I'm sorry, sorry,
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it get a little personal but I thank you girls so much
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We really appreciate you being on the show and,
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and breaking us down,
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you know what you know,
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Ie how IE is awesome.
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And was not Latin waste,
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but thank you girls so much.
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We really appreciate you guys being on the show and where can
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people follow you? You can find me at Step Scott Milk
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on all platforms and on iem besties and you can find me
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at Blooming VC dot vic on all platforms and same im besties
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Thank you both.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you both and I see you so take care.