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All right, me too Daily.
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Today we are thrilled to welcome hilarious comedian,
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unapologetically bold Colombiana queen Isa Medina to the studio.
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Thank you for having me.
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Thank you for joining us.
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It's a pleasure, pleasure meeting you in the flesh.
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Yes, yes. So I have a kind of a crazy
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they're very religious, culty-esque,
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7th Day Adventists,,
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and so I have a lot of traumas,
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And then as I'm getting older,
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I need to take matters into my own hands.
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So I'm starting to think maybe I should start doing therapy.
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I know you had a bit about therapy.
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Can you give some advice?
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Yeah, I love therapy.
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OK, Latinxtherapy.com, shout out.
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that's where I found my girl,
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but it's a good thing that you're thinking about it
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you know what I mean?
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You gotta do what you gotta do,
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you know, we're breaking.
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Traumas generationally and it's a lot of work and you can't do
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it all alone. So I know that like parents,
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you know, sometimes don't agree with therapy and they're like,
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exactly they're like you gotta work you gotta do what you gotta
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do like work harder so that you aren't sad.
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Cause therapy helps with your family and have you had any
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like Backlash with your mom,
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it's a learning curve for sure.
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Like I've, I've been in therapy now like consistently for 5
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years and so I do think that when you first start and
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you start like setting boundaries with your mom and like doing this
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stuff like your parents are like,
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oh, like you don't think I sacrificed for you?
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You like, you know what I mean like,
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oh. Like it's like the automatic thing of like your mom
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oh OK when no I know.
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OK, I'm a horrible mom.
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like, but it's like it's a process of like bringing them
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bringing them in, leaning out,
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and like with my mom I always talk about how like when
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I set boundaries with her I have to do little things that
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like keep her happy,
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OK, if I'm not calling you every day I'll share my
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location. So you can check it on the app,
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take a little a little,
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right? Yeah, take a little a little and like slowly
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learning those things, but it really was this thing where like
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the first time I told my parents I wanted to go to
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therapy, which was because I was like,
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oh I think I might be queer,
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and I wanted to talk about it with someone that wasn't my
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parents. Everyone in my family was like.
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Oh, so you think you're crazy.
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ta loca you have to go to therapy.
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Like, no, like I just want to talk to someone
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who isn't you. Yeah,
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yeah, yeah, someone who's not going to tell me,
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yes, so they had the exactly,
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you know, the holidays are upon us.
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Going home for the holidays,
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what does that look like to you?
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Is that, does that mean going to back to the East
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Coast? Does that mean going to Colombia?
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I go home for the holidays,
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which is the East Coast,
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like DC suburbs, DMV.
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I spend Christmas with my family and then I usually go to
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Colombia for New Year's.
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Oh yeah, because of the party.
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I can't, I can't miss La Fiesta la rumba.
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I'm like I'd rather just go to Colombia and know I'm.
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Go to like salsa and like not have to like figure out
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It just hits different.
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All right, so we do have this little game that we
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want to play with you.
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We know that you're bilingual,
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bicoastal, bisexual, and we know that you've had to deal
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with two large pools in the dating toxicos and toxic.
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They're out there they are.
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So we want to give you some situations and you know tell
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us like which, you know,
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which side deals with it better,
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I love it. And if you combine them toxic because they're
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out there out there and we love them.
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So we'll give you these right here.
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So choosing a restaurant,
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who do you think deals deals with that better?
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I think. Toxicos because they give the emotional labor to the
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woman and they're like,
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like, what do you want?
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It's like, what do you want?
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Sometimes we don't know what we want and you got to decide
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I think toxicos. bastard yeah,
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just because it happens more because they're more like,
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you know, all right,
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meeting the parents, you know this is hard and layered because
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technicamente toxic because women are emotionally intelligent.
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And good and soft and kind.
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But we know Latinos can be a little homophobic,
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so no questions asked.
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It's like I'm with a guy,
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and that is something that I'm trying to figure out right now
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you know. It's like,
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am I trying to deal with toxicity within my relationship or toxicity
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with my family you know.
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Arguing toxic are more toxic.
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She gets you where it hurts.
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I can win an argument with a toxico.
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Fair enough. dancing with out at a party or at the
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clerk toxico. But only again because it's like then you don't
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have the eyes on you.
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The norm, the social norms,
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yeah, and it's like,
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you kind of put me into a corner here?
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I mean, even like dancing,
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like when I go out dancing like I do.
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Sometimes like if I'm in a straight bar or something I do
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have to be like extra aware subconsciously you never know,
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you know, getting along with your friends.
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It depends on the person.
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It's like always you choose and it depends on the friends.
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thank you so much for joining us.
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This was a blast applause.
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And share with us what do you have going on and you
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know, what's your at so people could follow you.
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Yeah, OK, so I'm a stand-up comedian and you can
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follow me on Instagram at Isa Medina,
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I S A A M E D I N A A.
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And I'm based in New York and I have live shows there
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every month. So if you follow me,
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you can see me live and I'm also on the road,
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so Follow me. You can see when I'm coming to your
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city, and I have a podcast called I'm Right,
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You're Wrong, Very Latina.
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It's a comedy debate podcast where we talk about everything that's right
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and wrong about the ethics of your 20s and 30s.
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I love that. That's awesome.
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You guys make sure you check it out.
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Thank you again for joining us.
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A appreciate you. Yeah,
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thanks for having me.
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