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Okay.

And as being the eldest, being the youngest girl, only girl, h- do you feel like it's affected you guys in your relationships and, like, with your significant others or ...

For me, it definitely has.

As the eldest, for a long time I felt like unintentionally I was mothering-

Mm

... my, my partner, and that was obviously emasculating him in, in certain ways, and it took me a long time to figure that out, of like, I'm just so used to getting the pollitos together and say, "You gotta do this." And, and it's like in a relationship it's so different.

Like, you're not ...

You want to start? What are some of the issues you think that might bring people out to the polls?

Well, I think education, this big, beautiful bill and the way that higher ed is going to be increasingly less accessible to future students who want to pursue professional degrees.

Our next generation of doctors and lawyers are going to be greatly impacted by this administration.

When the Dems get in, they need to undo that and make education accessible to all.

What do you think that they do when they if they win, they first come into office?

I think that there is going to be a little bit of that.

I mean, this is the reality TV president like that ad reads like a real housewives like show.

And so I think that he's going to want to see more of that.

And what changed after you signed the deal and that went into effect? Was there notable audience growth? Was there more marketing support? Did it help with ad sales, production resources? Did your workload change? What changed when you went with a network?

Well, we finally had a production budget.

First and foremost, we never had a production budget before.

Fancy.

Very fancy.

Everything was shoestring.

Everything was self-funded.

So tell us a little bit about like the trade-offs that maybe podcasters don't think about before signing.

Yeah

... and for the stage.

Because I can imagine that, you know, obviously on camera you see a certain, y- y- you can only see so much, and things are kind of far away, you know? And I feel like on the stage and in the theater, you're much up close and personal, and I can just imagine that the row of, like, the factory scenes, and the row of sewing machines, and the women sewing, and the sounds, and the visuals probably very striking and dynamic on stage.

And I'm sure that when it gets t- to that part about them taking off their clothes and showing off their stretch marks and their cellulite, that that's very impactful on stage and very dynamic.

Oh.

There you go.

I feel like the movie...

Sometimes I feel like a movie like Real Women Have Curves i- uh, especially at this time, is almost like a crossover situation, even though it's Mexican Americans, like, in LA.