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Tour Guide Love & Cannabis Cafes

October 2, 2024
Pato Montes from Mexican band Maldita Vecindad talks about the band’s legacy, Isabella Andreoni on how she fell in love with her tour guide, the Oakland A’s start their residency in Sin City, NYC puts rats on the pill, and California introduces Amsterdam-style cannabis cafés.
Show transcript
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Hey guys, welcome back to Mitu Daily.
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I'm Jenny and I'm Alejandro and it's been a nice day happy
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you know, October and stuff and let's get into it
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All right, fine.
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All right. First story.
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So sister, there are some things you can just never let
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go. Damn. Who hurt your brother?
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Funny enough. It's not about me.
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It's about Mexico's first woman,
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President Claudia Sheen Baum and how she refused to invite King Felipe
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of Spain to her inauguration.
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Damn, that's a pretty big moment to not be a part
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of why did he get snubbed?
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It's not what he did.
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It's what he didn't do.
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Mhm I've been there.
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Yeah. Well, well,
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that's for another time but he failed to apologize for the crimes
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committed against Mexico's indigenous people during the conquest 500 years ago.
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So the presidenta was like,
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you're not getting the RSVP homeboy.
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I mean, I'd have to agree with your brother.
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Like the least this man could do is apologize the least like
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this is your people.
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It's your people, your people do this to our indigenous people
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You know what I mean?
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And we need some closure.
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We are the product so yeah,
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he didn't get the RSVP.
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And so Spain was like,
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you know what? You don't,
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you don't invite the head Honcho.
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We're pulling everybody out like no one else from Spain attended the
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inauguration. Damn, this is like that family drama that happened
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like what, like 20 years ago and people are still talking
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about it like there's still beef but it's important beef.
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It is. But it's like as the,
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you know, the new generation want to be like the bigger
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person. But hey,
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you know what? I know it was beef before,
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you know, with,
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with our other families that squash the beef.
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But I guess King Felipe is just waiting for,
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I don't know who,
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who he's waiting for to make the first move.
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It's eagle brother freaking colonizers.
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Imagine being in a 57 year relationship.
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And then one night your partner leaves and they marry someone in
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Vegas that's heartbreaking. So essentially that's what's happening to the city
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of Oakland. Not only did they lose their baseball team,
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right. The Raiders went to Vegas in 2019 beautiful stadium,
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by the way. And now their beloved Oakland A's are headed
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to Sin City as well.
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Rest in piece of Tropicana because that's where they're going to build
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It's a part of the stadium.
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I saw the construction last time I went by and I was
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wondering what is, and the taxi driver was telling me,
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I don't know why they're building that shit.
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He said, I don't know.
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Yeah, the taxi driver,
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he's like, I don't know why they're building that shit is
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going to cause so much congestion.
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Like, dude, if the traffic is bad in Vegas right
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now, can you imagine if we build a stadium there?
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But yeah, they keep losing all their teams.
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Yeah, I mean,
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poor fans getting ghosted from the same.
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Surety is wild. Seriously,
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man. So the recent A's move hasn't set well with fans
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I guess in both cities,
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right? Oakland and Vegas as they blame the move on.
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Billionaire owner John Fisher,
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who fans say skyrocketed ticket prices and trade away good players.
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So he was like intentionally making a team like unwatchable.
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Mm. But really though brother,
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what I don't understand is why are all these teams moving to
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Las Vegas? Well,
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sister, I think there's only one word here.
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No money. So I guess they finally accepted Vegas and all
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the bags that come with it.
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Well, brother, I don't know about all these teams like
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moving to Vegas, like pro athletes,
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you know, gambling and strip clubs and I can see the
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TMG headlines already. This is my other day for sure that
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it is a party.
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I feel for those wholesome sports fans in Oakland.
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They're losing their squad brother.
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What do they look up to?
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What does Oakland have now?
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I don't know, sister.
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But if you remember a few months ago,
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even in an outlet,
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Oakland, what's going on over there.
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I heard people are stealing luggages straight out of cars and that's
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why they're moving. Hey,
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man, the luggage,
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when I went to DAPA,
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the taxi driver told me there's no way in hell,
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we're going through Oakland,
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they're going to steal all the luggages out of the car.
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And I'm like, really,
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they're legit, like,
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scared to go through there.
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I don't know. That's what he told me,
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but Oakland, hold on to the warriors.
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Even though they're not really in Oakland anymore.
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You guys got this.
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Maybe it will go back.
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I don't know. Well,
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prayers for the Oakland homies,
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New York's public enemy.
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Number one is about to meet its match.
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You talking about Eric Adams?
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Really? No. But yeah,
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that too is talking about.
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It's infamous. Rat problem is true.
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Oh, you lived over there?
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Yeah, they're huge.
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They're like the size of Charles.
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Damn. All right.
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Well, it's gonna be crazy because under a plan approved by
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the cities council contraceptive pellets we placed in special rat accessible traps
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They're giving the rats plan B Yeah,
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man, they got BS are nothing.
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There's going these little,
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you know, they get their Rx.
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Are they on? Oh my God.
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So starting next year,
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the creatures will eat their way to a lower birth rate.
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They put in the cheese or how does it work?
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I don't know. But apparently the city plants have delivered a
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sweet tasting birth control using special containers.
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Furthermore, the contraceptive is reportedly not harmful to other animals.
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So, you're telling me rats in NYC will get universal birth
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control before women do.
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That's America, baby.
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You, you, yeah,
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cafes in California just got a whole lot louder.
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Louder or louder. Louder.
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Yeah, the second one.
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So, marijuana dispensaries in California will be allowed to sell food
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and non alcoholic beverages and even host live events on their premises
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and it's giving real Amsterdam vibes out there,
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you know? Oh,
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so you're telling me people will be able to re up the
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stash grab food and possibly watch a live show at the same
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damn time. Yes,
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it's at the same damn time.
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And it's all thanks to Governor Gavin Newsom who signed the bill
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that paved the way for full scale pot lounges in the state
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Supporters say this will help revive California's nightlife and increase profits
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for the state's heavily taxed and regulated cannabis shops like he knows
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his power. So you think dispensaries are about to be the
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new hangout spot? It's a comedy shows going crazy,
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bro. The comedy shows when you're high,
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you just hit a whole different.
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So I was in Vegas and I had an edible and all
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the jokes were landing,
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bro. My mom was a girl.
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They weren't that funny,
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but I could tell you were like a 11.
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That's funny. So I'm down for that anyways,
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the law will go into effect January 1st 2025 pending approvals from
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local governments. And if that's the case,
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I don't think I'm going to get one where I live because
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they're fucking boring. Really?
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You guys got six flags though?
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That's all more flags.
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More fun. But we don't get,
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you guys get high.
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Yeah, the roller coasters.
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We get high on life on life.
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How about you guys?
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Do you think your city will get it?
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Probably not. They don't even allow fireworks in West Covina?
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Well, somewhere in California will get them.
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Hopefully we'll see. Ok.
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This sounds like a movie.
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Our next guest planned a trip to her homeland of Guatemala and
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met the man of her dreams during the trip.
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It's been two years since the fateful trip and she recently posted
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a video on social media that went viral.
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We saw it and we had to talk to her about it
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Welcome to the show,
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Isabella Andreoni. Thank you so much for coming on the show
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We've been trying to reach out to you and we're so
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glad that we finally were able to and you're here with us
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So what inspired you to plan your solo trip to Guatemala
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Yeah, I feel like it was a culmination of a
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lot of different things.
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There were two main reasons that really pushed me to do it
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I had been working for this place for two years and
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I felt like my job got to the point where it kind
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of consumed all aspects of my life.
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And so June of 2022 I decided to step up from my
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position and I had no plan set in place,
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didn't know what my next steps would be.
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but I started traveling and I had a few trips
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planned with some friends.
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And I've traveled, I've been fortunate enough to travel a lot
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throughout my life, but I realized I've never done a solo
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trip. So it got me thinking and I was born in
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Guatemala, but I was adopted as a baby.
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And I grew up here in the US and I've only been
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back one other time since my adoption in 2019.
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So I decided what better place to go on my first solo
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trip than to Guatemala.
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So I booked a trip.
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I booked my flight and,
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you know, a few days into the trip is when I
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met my now boyfriend and I would have never imagined the trip
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to play out the way it did.
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But wow. No,
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I bet you couldn't have imagined.
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That's crazy. You went solo and,
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and, and you're like now?
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No, not so not.
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Exactly. Can you tell us?
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I felt like your first encounter with the tour guide Manuel?
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And was there an instant connection?
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Yes. So it was really such a world wind.
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I want to say it was love at first sight,
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but it was pretty close to it.
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I'm not going to lie.
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He was my tour guide.
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So we were in a group of about seven other travelers from
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Germany from Italy, me being clearly Guatemalan looking but sounds super
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American. And I think that kind of piqued his interest from
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the beginning because as a lot of people do,
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he started speaking to me in Spanish and my Spanish is not
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so great. So I kind of had to explain a little
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bit of my life story with him as I do with a
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lot of people when they start speaking Spanish to me.
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And I felt like for the first time in my life,
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this person was honestly just genuinely curious about my story and didn't
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pass any judgment on me for why I didn't speak Spanish,
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even though I was born in Guatemala.
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And I think looking back,
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that was definitely a moment where I knew I had met someone
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special because like I said,
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it was the first time in my life,
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especially from a male that was just,
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you know, accepting for who I am and the circumstances for
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the way my life had played out.
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And I had no control over that in the moment.
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I don't think I realized,
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I realized how much effect that would have on me.
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But, you know,
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now that we're two years together,
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I think back to the moment where I knew and that's the
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moment I always go back to.
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So you felt like you could be like,
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like yourself, like you didn't have to put up a front
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or nothing or worry about him,
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judging you. That's so important in a relationship.
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But what led you to share your love story on social media
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Because you know,
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it was two years,
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right? And then it was like,
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oh, I want to share my story.
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Like what inspired you to share?
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Yeah, I feel like I'm an open book,
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you know, whether we're in person or even online on Instagram
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tiktok, whatever the platform is,
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I try and be super vulnerable because when I first started posting
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it was mainly about my experience being adopted from Guatemala and
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in such a short amount of time,
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so many people reached out saying that they feel similarly or they've
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had a similar experience and they're happy they can have someone to
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relate to because I feel like Guatemalan adoptees is such a niche
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community and there's not really a lot of representation for people with
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our experience in mainstream media.
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And I picked up on that very quickly.
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And so I just continued to posting about my journey and
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then, you know,
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also time went on Manuel became part of my journey.
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And so it was really easy for me to continue to just
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post those, you know,
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little moments in our relationship and whatnot for sure.
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No, that's crazy.
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I mean, the whole thing,
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it's like, would you recommend like,
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you'd recommend like women that are very like,
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you know, I want to start something new.
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And would you recommend them taking a solo trip?
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Oh my God. I tell everyone like,
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if you have not had the chance to do a solo trip
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try and make that happen.
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And when you solo travel,
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it pushes you to be comfortable with a lot of the things
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that you're uncomfortable with and it pushes you outside of those boundaries
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It teaches you to advocate for yourself.
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And the biggest thing I took away was being comfortable with my
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own company. That was something I always struggled with.
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I always felt like I had to have plans on a Friday
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night. Like God forbid,
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I stayed in alone and just watched the movie by myself.
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That was something that really scared me and now I'm the complete
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opposite. I love your,
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I love my solitude that.
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Yeah. No, I think the more we get older it
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starts to like you love being alone.
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You start to realize that.
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Right? So now you're a long distance couple.
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How do you guys make it work?
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Yeah. That's a great question.
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I will always say being in a long distance relationship is not
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for the week, but to me it was all worth it
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because, you know,
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if we just, it's such a special connection and I figured
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if it's meant to be,
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it will be. And now we're two years in and we're
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still going strong. Yeah.
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So that's good. I'm so I'm so happy for you.
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Guys. Thank you.
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It's amazing. And how does he feel like,
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and, and if you guys have any plans for the future
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you know, we're constantly planning,
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what the next thing we get to do together is last holiday
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season we decided to raise money for one of the villages in
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the town that he's,
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that's cool. That's really,
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really cool this coming holiday season.
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We're doing the same thing when I go to visit him.
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That's amazing. It sounds like you guys have the same kind
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of like the same interests that are you guys very similar.
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You guys are very similar.
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I think so and we definitely have our differences,
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definitely. But I think the things we care most about and
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like our values were so similar and I've never had that before
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with someone. So,
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yeah, I love him.
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I love them. Oh my God,
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you give me hope.
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Oh my God. I kind of want to take a trip
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now. I think I want to just roll the dice where
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I go. Thank you so much Isabel for both of them
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And where can people find you on social media and keep
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up with the foundation?
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Yeah, I'm on Instagram and tiktok at I dot Andreoni.
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I post a lot on my tiktok specifically about my adoption story
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and about the community work,
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my boyfriend and I do so you can check it out if
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you want to get involved.
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That's awesome. Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Studio de Gala Para.
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A fun D rock Espanol Pato,
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guitarist de La Mexicana Maldita.
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Mm No, no,
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no. OK. No.
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And wow. In.
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OK. OK.