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Sometimes our compass can be quite unexpected.
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Like our boy Hermit who loves Latino culture through food,
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music, and the people.
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I love how his content brings people together.
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It's yeah, let's put you on.
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Welcome to Me Too Daily,
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Hermit. Hi. It's so nice to be here.
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Thank you for bringing me on.
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Oh, it's nice to finally meet you.
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Seeing you through all over TikTok.
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It's honestly your content is so wholesome.
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We love it. We're big fans.
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Thank you. That means a lot.
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And I wanted to ask you,
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how did you first become interested in Mexican and Latino culture?
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At first I started through,
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video game streaming.
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I worked my way up from streaming on my phone until I
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worked until I had a PC.
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I had little knowledge about video editing.
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doing reaction content was extremely easy to do.
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So I was just checking out,
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hip hop and stuff like that,
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doing,, music reactions.
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And very quickly I was led to Houston.
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And,, through samples from some of the Houston hip
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hop artists, I learned of cumbia.
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Oh. With a song like this,
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the party never quits.
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Yeah I fell in love with the music and the people were
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leaving such beautiful comments when people are so kind to you,
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you can't help but be kind back to them.
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And I've always appreciated other,
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cultures. I learned how beautiful and vibrant and everything
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about,, particularly Mexico's culture.
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especially with the people because everybody's so kind.
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Yeah, and you know what it's like I feel like when
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we see someone appreciate the culture we're like,
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oh that's so genuine.
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They're like, that's so cute.
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Like I love it like I love how much they're loving it
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you know what I mean because people are quick to
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you know, on social media people could be mean sometimes to
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or. Or they go in and be like,
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oh, he's appropriating.
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No, he's appreciating.
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There's a difference between cultural appreciation and cultural appropriation,
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and I feel you're the prime example of cultural appreciation.
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When I first started,
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The appropriation versus appreciation.
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You know, slide off my back and I just kept doing
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what I was doing because the vast majority,
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it was only like 5% negativity.
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And how do you make sure you're embracing Mexican and Latin cultures
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respectfully? Big thing is to surround myself with people who are
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knowledgeable, wise people surround themselves with smart people when they're not
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personal friends, Carlos,
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Jose,, they are very in tune with indigenous and
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Chicano cultures and stuff.
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They tell me what's respectful,
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what's disrespectful, so I,
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I try to always educate myself and do my research beforehand.
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And I remember your reaction videos early on,
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like, I think you're trying a quesa via or something.
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Like, was it Mexican dish and like how did you discover
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it? Pillaquiles are phenomenal.
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I eat breakfast, lunch,
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or dinner, it doesn't matter.
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I love them. Red or green?
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I'll, I'll take either.
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I prefer green because green tends to be a little spicier in
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Michigan, but out in California,
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red was definitely spicier.
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Damn. And who are your favorite Latino actors,
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actresses, comedians? or music artists.
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I get names wrong a lot,
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so I apologize if I pronounce any names wrong.
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I love him. He's one of the first cumbia artists I
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started doing reactions to.
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I love how he plays the saxophone.
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The first song I listened to by him was through a sample
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raw by that Mexican OT,
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and I, I checked out Cumbia de la Cobra and Oh
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dude, that it was done.
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It was done. He has so many.
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Rest in peace. So bangers.
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I actually had a video go viral around the time he passed
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away and his family reached out to me and they sent
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me a letter, they sent me a CD.
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I still have the CD right here actually.
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Oh, here's the letter too.
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Power of the internet.
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There's some good. I was told that I have the taste
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of an older woman when it comes to music.
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When people come into my live streams,
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I'm ready to clean the house.
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It's like Saturday morning.
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That's what I'm gonna playlist classic like that.
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Well, he's definitely gonna marry a Latina for sure,
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right? Are you gonna are you gonna marry a Latina?
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I don't know if my girlfriend would approve of.
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But once again, Hermit,
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Before I let you go,
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what's your at so people can find you?
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I go by Hermit on most platforms.
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I go on Herm Eats on YouTube.
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Nice. Thank you so much.
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Thank you, thank you for having me.
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I appreciate it. Thank you,
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Primo. Yeah, he is a primo.
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You're the primo now.
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