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Money Moves, Temu Tea and Guy Chisme

March 4, 2024
Influencer Rafael Gomez discusses the new Latino fathers, DJ-comedian JValentino warns against being a chismoso, our fave Latina attorney Taylor Tieman explains how to trademark your biz like The Rock, and business reporter Michelle Castillo spills on why Temu and Shein are so cheap. Plus, why an exonerated Venezuelan in NYC gave the press the finger and Rhianna’s money moves in India.
Show transcript
00:03
The Yes. Hey guys.
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Welcome back to Lincoln Bio.
00:13
I am Jenny and I'm Jess and I am sure you can
00:18
guess who I'm filling in for because let's just say our brothers
00:24
Alejo to have his baby.
00:26
Congratulations to Aleo New dad and Adrian.
00:31
Of course, Adrian doing all the hard work.
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Yes. Well, let's jump into it.
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We got a show to do that for you guys.
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We have a situation with the node dad,
00:44
Carol G ES compro Medida,
00:46
Joan Boada Pharmacy hacks and Rihanna's visit to India.
00:51
And we're also talking about our men,
00:54
more Chismosa than women with Jay Valentino.
00:58
Why she and and Teu are so cheap.
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How to be a New Latino dad with Rafael Gomez?
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Plus the rock copyrights his phrases.
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Let's jump into it.
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If it's not skimmers at gas stations,
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it's the fake gift cards at Target.
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Oh, I hate when that happens.
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Russian speaking, ransomware gang alpha has disrupted prescription processing systems across
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the US leaving millions facing the choice of paying inflated prices or
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foregoing vital medication. Pharmacies unable to verify insurance due to the
01:39
breach are demanding full payment leading to out of pocket costs.
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Surpassing $1000 for some.
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So apparently hackers are fucking around with our medications.
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Now, dude, the last thing that I would expect like
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what do you mean we're already getting overcharged?
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Our health care system shit.
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And you wanna charge me more,
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leave me alone. Go make money honorably.
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Honestly, can pinch you guys could get really far in life
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Hey, imagine that your Abuela or mom's medication get scammed
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and now you have to borrow money to keep them from dying
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Like imagine that I'm no,
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hold on, go scam them billionaires or something.
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Like don't scam the common people.
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You know what Jenny?
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If there's anything I've learned is that everything has a price and
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that's exactly what I think Rihanna thinks as well.
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You know, somebody got her out of the house and back
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on the stage and you'll never believe who it was.
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So billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani who by the way is worth $112
02:41
billion. No big deal.
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He is helping his youngest son,
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Anant get married, right?
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He's hosting celebs and heads of state for a three day wedding
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event that's happening in July.
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Like it's not even happening right now.
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The celebration is just starting.
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This is like the pre wedding.
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I wanna know. Does he have any more sons?
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You tell him girl,
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that's, that's what I wanna know.
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I want a big ass Indian wedding and I want people.
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She's smart. She's funny.
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She's talented she's got her own business like let's fucking go.
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And I like Indian music.
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There you go. Rihanna is reportedly getting $6 million for the
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appearance. Honestly, that would make anybody get out of bed
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get that bag like big time.
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This is nothing new to the Ambani family who always balls out
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when it comes to weddings.
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Other family members in recent years were treated to pre wedding celebrations
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from Beyonce, Beyonce Cold Play and the chain smokers like they're
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freaking bringing Coachella to India basically like what this is Indian Cella
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It's not in India no more.
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It's in India and while $6 million is already insane.
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Rihanna may have gotten an even bigger deal for the performance because
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she's, she's a like a true entrepreneur,
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true ge because the Ambani family is actually the owner of reliance
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retail group who bought out the rights to Sephora's business in India
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And as we all know Fenty Beauty,
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Rihanna's makeup brand is in Sephora stores.
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So Sephora is coming to India.
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Rihanna is one step ahead of the game already meeting the family
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making sure that you know,
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her products are front and center.
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As soon as you walk into Sephora India,
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you best believe that the Rihanna Fenty Beauty Display is gonna be
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and honestly, I can't wait to see it.
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Me too. Work,
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work, work, work,
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work, work. That's all I know.
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Honestly, Brat Cross,
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the father of a child who died in the Uvalde shooting said
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he was arrested in a town meeting for saying the word fuck
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cross reportedly yelled at Mariano Paragas,
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a commissioner who was the acting police chief.
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At the time of the shooting,
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the grieving dad confronted Paragas saying there were 8 to 9 students
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still alive in that classroom and you walk the fuck away.
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The people holding the meeting told the dad to watch his language
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and he replies, language,
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language, language. My child is fucking dead and you know
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what? He's fucking great dude and honestly watch his language.
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Y'all should have been watching his kid.
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Police escorted cross out of the meeting and arrested him.
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In response. Cross said on Tik Tok,
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they're more worried about me saying the word fuck than they are
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that my son and others were murdered.
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And I freaking agree.
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The Uvalde County Judge Bill Mitchell said that cross was escorted out
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because he continued to use profane language.
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Commissioner Ronald Garza said there must be some respect but he absolutely
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understands the dad's anger.
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I'm sorry, but he wasn't the one being disrespectful.
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It was the people who,
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who arrested him and and made this whole meeting about his profanity
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which the meeting was supposed to be about the kids,
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the safety of the kids that,
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that they were, it just pisses me off to be Joan
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Boada. One of the seven men accused of attacking two police
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officers in New York City in January has been cleared of all
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charges. You may remember when Boada,
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a Venezuelan immigrant and seven others were arrested for allegedly attacking police
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outside a shelter near Times Square on January 27th.
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After that, Boada made a court appearance and gave two middle
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fingers to reporters. And then the right wing had a field
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day congressman Anthony de esposito wrote on X about Boa's photo.
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We feel the same way about you holler at the cartels and
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have them escort you back then.
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Republican congressman, Mike Collins of Georgia replied,
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or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a
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free helicopter ride back.
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Oh, shit. Isn't that a reference to the Chilean Dictator
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Pinochet? He's the one that would throw like his opponents off
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of helicopters. Well,
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Boada was mistaken for another suspect and has been exonerated as a
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participant in this assault.
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Look, if I was mistaken for a suspect and thrown in
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jail because of something best believe I'm gonna be walking out like
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this is Caro G engaged to fade.
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Fans think that Caro G is engaged to alleged boyfriend fade or
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at least she is compro meti.
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First of all, hold up before I get into it.
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Who picked this picture of my girl Carol like y'all did her
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so dirty. Like it's just,
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it's not doing anybody any favors and this feels really personal.
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So I'm gonna have a word with whoever picked us one later
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Back to the story during the singer's concert in Guatemala
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City on Saturday. She read out loud an insane poster from
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fan. It said Carol,
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my husband wants to leave me for you.
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Carol G laughed at the poster and said,
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but I'm already com from Merida and if he's gonna leave you
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for me, find someone else,
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period. La Vita has spoken but honestly compro meda in Spanish
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like you can't really take that as a literal translation.
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I feel like it can mean so many things like you're committed
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to something. Exactly.
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Like that's what I would say.
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Oh, no. Yes.
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Compro me like, I remember when I would go to Mexico
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and I had a,
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like a boyfriend back then like,
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you know, guys would try to like hit on me like
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and, and then I'd be like,
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oh no. Yeah.
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Yes. You know,
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it just means that you're already like involved with someone.
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It doesn't like, don't take it for the literal translation of
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like I'm engaged. So I don't think so if she's not
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wearing a ring on her finger and she's not posting about it
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like there's no way also,
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it kind of su no disrespect to those who get married or
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get engaged quickly. But when,
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you know, when you know,
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I guess that's all I'm gonna say.
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We keep just picking at the wound here.
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So girl, this is not personal but I just see that
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like she's just living her life,
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let her enjoy it.
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Don't be putting words in her mouth like but you know what
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I love how she looks genuinely happy.
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Absolutely. Like it gives me hope like Carol,
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you give me hope.
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Manana. Sera Bonito.
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I remember when you were saying Manana Serra Bonito.
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Yeah. Manana. Yes,
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Bonito. I'm so glad I am so glad Carol Alejos babies
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I I wanna say the baby's here already.
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I think so too.
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So Alejos, I saw the Alex.
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This is not Isabella by the name.
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His baby is a fake baby.
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Fake baby. Alejo is not here to be with his baby
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And yeah, you know,
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Alejo is one of the kind of guys that he's like always
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active on social media.
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He's been awfully quiet lately which kind of leads us to suspect
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that baby Izzy is here.
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And we couldn't be more excited.
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So since we know that being a parent,
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it's hard. I don't know how people our age are
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doing it or how our parents did it.
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I feel like there's just so much that I'm doing now that
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I don't have time.
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I don't have time.
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And then I can only imagine adding a like a kid to
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the equation. It's a lot.
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I admire your parents big time.
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I'm at thea by association and I feel like that's enough for
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me. Like let me,
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yeah, you keep,
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let's play around. I won't change your diaper,
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but I'll give you back to your mom for like the hard
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stuff. You're gonna start crying.
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Here you go. Time for mommy.
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That's the beauty of being.
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I feel like millennial dads and the way that they're raising their
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Children are just much more present and so different than,
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you know, joining us to talk about fatherhood is Rafael Gomez
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Hi, Rafael.
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How's it going? How you doing?
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Good. So,,
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you know, there's a recent study by the Pew Research Center
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that found that what exactly what we were just talking about.
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Millennial dads are spending up to three times more time with their
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family, with their Children than previous generations.
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Would you say that this is true?
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Like, do you spend more time with your kids at home
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than your dad did with you?
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Oh, yes, I spend like pretty much all day with
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like my kid and my,
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all the time, especially now that I'm doing like a content
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like videos like that's like my job,
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social media, I'm able to be here like 24 7.
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So it's like, it's amazing what a blessing to be able
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to 24 7. What would you say you are most afraid
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of fucking up when it comes to like your kids?
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I would say the main thing would probably be like not
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being able to provide like I'm doing good right now,
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but like not being able to provide would be one of the
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things for sure. Do you feel like that pushes you to
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kind of like, do more.
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Like that's your incentive is like your kids and being able to
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provide for your family.
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That's why you work hard and make sure you have it.
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And like, my wife's good about it because she's been through
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it. So she's like,
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just showing me teaching me everything.
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That's good. It's a,
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its a, it takes a team for sure to have each
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other support. What would you say is one thing that you
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weren't warned about the biggest challenge being like the bad guy,
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I guess you could say because you kind of have to be
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that guy in order to set the rules and stuff like that
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because you want to have a good relationship at the same time
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You gotta be like a parent,
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you know, Los Ojos.
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It's like, how do you stay ahead of your partner's needs
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Tambien because like, I mean,
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it's a family, right?
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And like, again,
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the dad and the mom,
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you kind of have to work together and everything.
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How do you make sure that like,
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you and your partner are both,
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like, supporting each other as well?
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Well, sometimes we'll even have like our,
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like our date nights.
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So we'll, I'll spend time with my wife specifically and then
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we'll have like family time where we travel together and then we
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just try to find a good routine to where like,
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we're all like spending time together and making sure that everybody gets
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like time alone with one another.
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Yeah, very rewarding.
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Your own little units,
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your little, you know,
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I love that. Well,
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congratulations again. So excited for the new addition to your family
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And where can people find you before we head out?
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Oh, it's just Rafael Gomez 195.
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Pretty much everywhere. Just Rafael.
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Awesome. Thank you again.
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Thank you, dude.
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That was crazy. 000 she said and you go back to
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your mom like just for a little bit,
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you know, and then we gotta get,
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get the card. Men can spill just as much tea as
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women. Maybe even more.
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I have no clue what their Chism is about.
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So here to give us all the truth is comedian D JJ
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Valentino. What's up?
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What's up? Thanks for having me.
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Welcome. Thank you for coming.
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So I don't know if you saw but there's this Tik Tok
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trend of like men hanging out with their like girl and
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the girl's friends being there and the guy just like all like
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hovering over them just that's weird because I've never done that before
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I don't even know why you guys brought me here because
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that's not me. Really?
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Oh, I don't know.
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I smell cheese moss on my eye.
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I'm just kidding. So,
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so I wanna ask you,
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where do the men spill the cheese med?
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Like is it the group chat?
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Is it the basketball court?
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Ok, so I'm in the entertainment industry,
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so I definitely don't do it in the industry.
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I'm a DJ and a comedian.
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I'm not gonna do it around other comedians.
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I'm not gonna do it around other DJ s and votes.
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You don't poop where you eat?
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Yeah. Can we a cuss here?
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Don't shoot. And I'm single at the moment.
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But if I am hanging out with a female that I do
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trust or even my mother.
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Oh, for sure.
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She's Guatemalan Cuban. Come on.
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Of course. Yes.
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If this is my mom or somebody that I trust away from
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those people, away from the industry,
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then I'll do it.
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I'm not gonna lie.
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Everybody does it. Why do you think there's traffic when there's
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an accident on the freeway?
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We're all nosy. Why do you think social media is so
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big? We all want,
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we're all, we all wanna know.
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We're nosy. Yeah,
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we are. And like do you have any che for us
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Like what's on the radar?
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What are you talking about?
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We're gonna save that for the,
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for the lobby. Ok.
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We're gonna talk about that over there.
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Not really. I mean,
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you know, for me it's just guys,
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if you're gonna tease me,
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I do it in the privacy of your own home.
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Try to stay away from doing it in the industry that you're
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in because it's gonna bite you in the butt later.
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You know, I'll be honest with you.
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That's not a good look.
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You know, if you know,
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like once again, we're all human about it.
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Just do it in your own private.
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Talk to your girl about it,
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talk to your mom about it to people that you trust about
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it or just don't talk about it at all.
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This is true or talk to your mom about it.
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Yeah. Talk to your mom for sure.
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The moms for sure with them,
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like, just hits different.
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It does. It does.
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And they give you good substance.
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They have a good substance.
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They, you know,
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they, they have good oh yeah,
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they, and they be folding that napkin when they're telling you
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folding a fucking napkin.
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I like that. I like that to me.
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My mom is making my bed while she's doing that.
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No. See not OK.
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No. La Maria.
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Come on. No,
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no se la they gotta be productive at the same time.
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I'll be like, yeah,
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mom keep washing my dishes.
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What you saying? I'll be here all day.
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So with stand up because you are a stand up comedian.
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So do you, do you like ever spill like like a
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family che or like friend che or like,
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you know, I know you're single but like when you had
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a girl like their cheese man on there or has anyone gotten
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mad because you have I mean,
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so comedy is honest.
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Comedy is honest. I like OK,
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I'll be honest, like I have a tattoo hairline.
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So I, I like,
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I don't know if this is cheese,
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man. But I spill it.
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Can't tell like, oh my God.
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Oh, ok. I definitely,
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you know, I talk about trans,
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I, I'm transparent.
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You know, I talk about,
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I was in the strip club industry for 18 years.
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I was a strip club.
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DJ. I definitely talk about the strip club stuff.
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What went on behind the scenes,
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you know, that's che on though.
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You know what I mean?
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There's a lot of stuff that I shouldn't have saw at the
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age of 1920 in the,
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in the industry. That's Chian though.
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There's a lot of stuff that went on behind the scenes that
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dancers probably wouldn't want people to know.
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That's Ciano, you know,
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like, you know,
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like strings hanging out on stage,
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you know. Yeah.
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You know when the girl has a monthly cycle.
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00 snap. He's spelling it.
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No pun attendant, no strings attached,
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no strings attached with women.
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I talked about how a girl once released a gas bubble on
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me after love making.
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That's a, a fart on me.
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And I never, I never said the name but it happened
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you know, but once again,
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girls don't fart. So I don't,
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you didn't hear it from me?
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You didn't hear it from me?
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Girls don't fart what?
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You don't, right.
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Pass gas at all.
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That a guy thing that,
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that stays in here,
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girls don't even eat beans,
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right? For that reason.
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OK, Jay. So give us the cheese man.
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On your like, do you have any tours coming up?
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So, I have a,
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a few dates. I'm in the Bay Area on the 14th
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I'm in Sacramento performing at the stand up with Luis Pazos
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in Sacramento. You can check it out on my social media
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and on the 21st,
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I believe it's a Thursday.
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I'll be at a club called Blue Martini in Phoenix and in
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next month in April,
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I'll be in Modesto performing again on April 5th.
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But all this information is on the link on my bio,
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Lincoln bio. Here we go.
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Damn, son. Where'd you find this?
19:21
Have you heard about TEMU?
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I've heard about them.
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I know that they had like some commercials in the Super Bowl
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but I'm not really familiar with them.
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Are you? I haven't ordered from TEMU but I have ordered
19:32
from sheen before. You know,
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I know they're very similar.
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So I did some research and it has horrible reviews and ac
19:42
score from the Better Business Bureau.
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Wait reviews from like the people that purchase things from them or
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so horrible reviews because it's like,
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I'm like, it's so cheap that it's like,
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is it like a per the prices are hard to beat to
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help us get to the bottom of this.
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We have Michelle Steele from TIWWG.
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Hi, Michelle. Hi ladies,
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welcome. Thank you for joining us.
20:11
Thank you. Why do you think it's so cheap?
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Like how can they afford to sell things for so cheap.
20:16
Well, the companies are really interesting but they have pretty similar
20:20
business models, at least up to a point.
20:22
So one thing is they really rely on manufacture in companies,
20:26
sorry, manufacturing in countries where it's a lot cheaper for
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labor. This often means that a lot of these workers aren't
20:33
full time employees, they aren't,
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there isn't any regulations,
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they can work longer hours.
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The second thing is they go direct to the manufacturer.
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So instead of relying on a middleman to sell the product to
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them, they can get that direct profit.
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And the third thing really is that they're willing to take a
20:50
loss to really win in the US market.
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So, to,
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has done interviews where they said they're losing about $30 per order
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in the US just to win the US market.
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And we're so interested in this because,
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you know, the Super Bowl,
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we just saw 3 $7 million ads to advertise this company.
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So they're willing to take a little bit of a loss right
21:09
now to sell you those cheap products as you're talking about to
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really get the marketplace here in the US.
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So would you say Temu is legit?
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I haven't ordered anything from TEMU.
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I get a little like,
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I don't know, I feel like it's too good to be
21:23
true. So I'm like,
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I don't know, like,
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would you say it's legit?
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Well, definitely. So they claim that they're going to the
21:30
same manufacturers that are making your airpods,
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but they're just using their own products on the side.
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So you're probably getting the same quality.
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However, you can take that with a grain of salt.
21:40
So these companies might be using the same factories but they might
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not have the standards and checks that you would get from,
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let's say an apple.
21:47
That's so interesting.,
21:50
I mean, we can only hope that they're paying their employees
21:52
like livable wages but chances are they're,
21:54
they're coming from like sweatshops or some environments like that.
21:58
Correct. Definitely. That's one of the big complaints about companies
22:02
like Temu and X and that they work in these countries that
22:04
don't have standardized practices.
22:06
You might be seeing people make to fulfill demands,
22:10
working long hours, maybe not even getting overtime.
22:13
So there's a lot of concern and on top of that,
22:15
they're making so many different products that it causes a lot of
22:19
environmental waste. She and I know we're talking mostly about
22:22
TEMU, for example,
22:23
they are using so much plastic and vinyl that they're producing as
22:27
much waste as 100 80 coal powered plants a day.
22:31
So you are getting a lot of these products,
22:33
you are getting them cheaper,
22:34
but it is having an environmental cost and it's not normally made
22:38
ethically, although these companies have said that they have an eye
22:41
on making sure that they are going to be environmentally friendly in
22:44
the future. Dang.
22:46
It really makes one stop and think twice about,
22:48
you know, like you're getting a deal but at what cost
22:50
so this is affecting the environment,
22:53
you know, other people's lives.
22:55
Like, what are some other options you would recommend shopping
22:59
at? Well, I think you should be conscious about what
23:02
you buy and where you're buying it from.
23:04
So the average sheen customer spends about $100 of on clothing a
23:09
month and you probably don't need that much clothing.
23:12
So really buy when you need it,
23:14
buying one piece here and there is probably more sustainable.
23:17
You can also look at buying second hand.
23:19
And on top of that,
23:19
you can look at how companies are ethical.
23:22
There's a lot of different standards to see if they're being green
23:25
and to see if they're being conscious about the environmental waste they're
23:28
causing and you can choose to put your money in those places
23:31
Well, thank you so much Michelle for joining us.
23:33
This has been really illuminating and I hope our audience kind of
23:36
take some knowledge from this.
23:38
If they do want to find out more,
23:39
where can people find you?
23:41
Well, I work for,
23:42
they called Tiwwg. So I'm a media consultant and I work
23:46
for different publications including C NBC Cheddar News and more.
23:49
Thank you so much Michelle.
23:51
We really appreciate you being on the show.
23:53
Thanks. I've never bought it.
23:54
She, but like this last time that I went to Mexico
23:56
like Miia, we went to the beach last year,
23:58
we went on like a big family trip and she's like,
24:00
oh those Mitra, I know that she in and I was
24:02
like, oh my God,
24:03
like they're kind of cute,
24:04
you know. But then she was literally,
24:06
we were in the water at the beach and she'd be like
24:08
Mira, she in,
24:09
she, she, she,
24:11
she pointing to every single person that she literally literally.
24:16
So or if I go to a boutique.
24:19
Oh dude, I have seen some boutiques with shit that's on
24:24
shin. And I'm like,
24:25
damn, they be buying shit,
24:27
taking the tags off and putting it in their store and selling
24:31
it for triple quadruple the price.
24:37
You know what's up,
24:44
you g bro, sorry,
24:45
I, I couldn't hear you.
24:47
Oh, that's probably because the rock just got the copyright for
24:50
all of his slogans.
24:51
Nicknames and phrases from WWE ah,
24:54
that's stop Paris Hilton owns that.
24:57
Let's not get sued.
24:58
So I can't say,
24:59
can you smell what the rock is cooking?
25:01
No. Ok. Well,
25:04
I'm super confused about celebrities and trademarks.
25:07
If only we had a famous lawyer to explain.
25:13
Wait, we do.
25:15
We have Taylor Thieman from legal mega.
25:18
Hi Taylor. So I think a lot of us are a
25:26
bit confused. What's the difference between a trademark and a copyright
25:29
Yeah. Good question.
25:30
Everyone gets this confused.
25:32
Copyright is more along the lines of like things you're creating works
25:36
of authorship. Creative works trademark is more along the lines of
25:40
your branding business name,
25:43
stage name slogans. So there are two different types of intellectual
25:47
property law, but they often intersect with each other because when
25:50
we're working in these areas,
25:52
both of those things kind of happen all the time.
25:55
Why do celebs fight for like trademarks?
25:57
Like what's the benefit?
25:59
Like, how do they,
26:00
how do they get paid the Rock and sue us?
26:02
Probably not.,
26:05
celebrities usually are fighting for their trademarks.
26:07
And what it looks like in this situation is that the Rock
26:10
didn't actually own his own trademark and trademarks like the Rock and
26:14
some other names and phrases before it looked like WWE actually owned
26:18
those. So the Rock is benefiting off of those,
26:22
but not as much,
26:22
obviously, if he owned his actual trademark.
26:24
So licensing deals, sponsorship deals,
26:27
any sort of collapse he's doing,
26:29
he is not making as much very likely if he's not the
26:33
actual owner of those trademarks,
26:35
where can people if they want to start filing?
26:38
What's the first step that someone should do with?
26:40
Do they go to the website?
26:41
Do they contact a lawyer?
26:43
I would definitely suggest checking out the trademark website,
26:46
which is us pto.gov.
26:48
That's where you can file federal trademarks.
26:50
That's where all of the celebrities and big businesses are filing their
26:54
trademarks and there's nothing stopping you from filing one there if you
26:57
want to as well.
26:58
They have a lot of information on that site.
27:00
But if it's confusing and you're not familiar with the process,
27:03
then you might want to talk to an attorney.
27:04
So, so if someone is watching this and they want to
27:07
reach you so that you can help them,
27:09
where can people find you?
27:10
I'm at LEGO Mega on Instagram and then LEGO Mega law.com and
27:16
I'm all over socials.
27:18
I'm always messaging people and stuff.
27:20
So I'm pretty busy over there.
27:22
Thank you so much for joining us Taylor and congratulations as well
27:27
I saw on your Instagram the big news.
27:30
She's pregnant. So many babies.
27:33
Oh my gosh, that's the theme for today's episode.
27:35
Congratulations. Thank you.
27:38
Thank you. I feel like everybody's pregnant right now.
27:41
It's the time of the,
27:45
that's impossible. That's funny.
27:49
But thank you so much Taylor Taylor on the next time I
27:54
said you really got me with that one.
27:56
That's impossible. Same.
28:00
Honestly. Well, that was a great show.
28:03
Thank you to all of our guests for joining us.
28:07
Again, congratulations to Alejandro and Adrian.
28:09
We're so excited. Every single one of us is so excited
28:12
for you guys. Super in,
28:14
I'm Jess and I'm Jenny and that was it.
28:18
And I'm pregnant, Jenny.
28:19
You didn't tell me that my baby's crying,
28:23
my baby's cry.