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Solo Dining & Customer Chisme

September 16, 2024
Florist Chita breaks down her viral altercation with a customer, Dakyta gives Jenny and Alejo TV hosting advice, we discover that humans age in two bursts, and solo dining is hotter than ever.
Show transcript
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Hey guys, welcome back to Lincoln Bio.
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I'm Jenny and I'm Alejandro and we have a great shoe,
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great shoe. Hey,
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guys, welcome back to Lincoln Bio.
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I'm Jenny and I'm Alejandro.
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We have a great show for y'all today.
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Now, can we use that one?
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We have a great show.
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Let's get into it.
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Sorry, me again.
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Now, we're good.
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I promise. Hey guys,
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welcome back to Lincoln Bio.
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I'm Jenny and I'm Alejandro.
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We have a great show for you guys today.
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So let's get into it.
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You know what doesn't bother me,
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brother saying dinner for one.
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I like that sometimes it's just me and my phone even,
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maybe not even on my phone.
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I love to people watch my main character vibes,
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brother like, you know,
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just eat and watch people.
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Well, it's funny sister because you're not alone.
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Apparently I'm not alone.
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Yeah, but apparently you know,
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solo dining at restaurants is actually booming.
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So single person reservations have risen 29% at American restaurants over the
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last two years. Dam 29%.
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So apparently, researchers believe that the pandemic made us,
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you know, feel better about being alone and it's kind of
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like with remote work,
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right? Like it's basically proving that we're ok if we're sometimes
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alone and have our,
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you know, me time.
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Yeah. And honestly,
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brother, my social battery is so low at the end of
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the day because you know,
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like we, we communicate with a lot of people.
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We do social media.
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So we have to be like constantly like looking at it the
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whole day. So it's like I feel so drained.
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So I just want to chill and unplug and I feel like
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just eating and just dining out and just by myself being with
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me the best at your own pace.
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You want to be quick?
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You want me to talk to?
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None? No, I mean,
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yeah, but even then the waiter is kind of cool because
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I like going to sushi bars and like,
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I'll sit by myself at the bar and I'm like,
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if the guy next to me pulls up alone too,
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we're just gonna like,
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what's up to meet other people,
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right? I mean,
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yeah, it's like,
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oh, hey, because I mean if I'm with my family
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I'm gonna be what's up,
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dude? How are you?
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It's like, oh what did you get,
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you know, cool.
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Like we bro out and it's like,
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all right, bet and we're then focus alone again.
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You know, my thoughts so I can get with this.
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I see, you know,
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more people should do this.
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I feel like my wife would never,
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she gets too scared.
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I can't go alone and I'm like,
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bro, just go,
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like no one cares.
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But I'm glad 29% of people have,
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you know,
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taking more of this on and be there for themselves.
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Oh, for sure.
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Treat yourself. Would you guys go dining alone?
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Let us know. Scientists find that humans age dramatically in two
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birth sister. What ages do you think?
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They are?,
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maybe two because, you know,
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the kids, like,
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they age fast. That makes sense.
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and then maybe like late thirties,
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perhaps thirties. Ok.
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That's a good enough gap.
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All right. Well,
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according to a study which observed molecular levels in people aged 25
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to 75 it detected two major age related changes around 44 and
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again, at 60 I thought he'd be younger too.
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Like, you know,
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again, like he,
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like you said, two,
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maybe like the kids changing going,
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maybe even like the teenage years.
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But no, apparently 44 and 60 the solution there is obvious
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What's the solution?
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Don't live past 43.
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This is a family.
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You have to deal with it,
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I guess. But it's like,
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I thought aging was beautiful and that's part of life.
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And I know, I don't know,
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but things are really too expensive right now.
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I can't even buy a house.
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I don't even have a person.
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Oh, I'm just kidding.
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I'm joking. And it's crazy because the scientists also found that
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human aid does not happen in a gradual linear way.
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Rather the majority of the molecules that they studied showed accelerated nonlinear
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changes at the ages mentioned.
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So, you know,
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it didn't go slow.
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It was like bam,
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it's like, hey yo,
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what's up? 44?
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And like you're old and you know like OK,
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cool. Like damn,
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I've changed. And then was it at 60?
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You wake up look even worse.
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You just unlocked a new fear in me.
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But also I mean people age at different rates,
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brother, they do sister.
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But if you think about it being in the world of memes
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have you seen those memes where it's like,
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yo, like for example,
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Latinas be looking good and then they hit a freaking age where
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they're just like bam like Senora status like all little Alita.
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Yeah, it's like this is like the scientific,
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scientific. Well, you know what brother lifestyle has a lot
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to do with it.
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If you, if you go out clubbing,
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pounding buzz balls every weekend,
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getting your back broken,
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your back broken, I'll let you interpret that the way that
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you want to interpret it.
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Like you're gonna have a bigger age first how they say you're
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going to have a bigger back but that too,
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that too. But yeah,
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it's crazy because it's like it's a countdown,
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right? It again all the life,
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all these factors affect you.
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I the twisted t ain't helping but 44.
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All right. So we still have time.
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We have time. It's 44 and six today.
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We are here with Chita the florist from Chita's floral design.
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She's a viral florist from telling her stories on tiktok.
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So thank you so much for coming on.
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We're so we're so happy to have you and we kind of
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just want to break the ice before we get into the interview
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So we want to play a little game with you.
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It's called red flag,
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green flag. So customer service edition and we're gonna tell you
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a little scenario and you tell us,
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oh no, that's a green flag.
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That's good. That's real good or?
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Oh no. Hell no,
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that's a red flag.
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No, sorry, like there we go.
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All right. So the customer walks in 10 minutes before you
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close. You're cool with it.
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It's all right. I love that.
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I love that. Ok.
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Ok. Customer pays with a check.
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No, no checks,
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no checks. 2024.
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No checks. There we go.
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Yeah, this is true.
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This is true. A male customer asks for a discreet delivery
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I don't know.
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We get sometimes that.
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So I guess the discreetness.
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Well, no, no,
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no, you're like,
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yeah, no, I think,
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I think honestly so many of our customers do that.
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So we have certain rules so we don't know who to do
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it with or for.
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So we just have across the board rules to protect all our
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customers. So they're kind of all discreet.
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And then, and then I want to hear the cheese man
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but I don't wanna lose a customer.
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So I'm very true.
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I'm like, so I kind of in a way where they
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voluntarily tell their dirty laundry.
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I have a whole tiktok story on the discreetness of you guys
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got to follow her on tiktok because she's still,
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yes, I do give the tea,
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she gives a tea but she don't give names.
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I mean, I feel like this was good.
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It kind of broke the ice.
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Now we let's give a round of applause guys.
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Now we can get into the questions.
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So you're kind of going viral right now for a situation caught
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on camera at your business.
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So like you went live,
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you're on live. And a customer walks in and starts
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being a little rude to you and then there was a little
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altercation. Can you describe what happened?
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Yeah. So you know,
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I go live all day every day once I'm ready to design
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you know, camera set up and people are with me
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I have an average of 250 to 300 people all day
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with and the energy is always fun and always positive.
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So when customer comes in,
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I usually let them know I have camera even though it's pointing
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me so that they can be aware of their audio,
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right? So I saw her coming in and I saw her
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already dancing and you know,
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you know, fist pumping the air and doing all that.
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So I immediately said,
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oh, customers coming in dancing,
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you guys, this is going to be fun.
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I thought she was going to be a good time.
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And she walked in,
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I'm an energy person.
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I could feel energies.
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And when I initially felt her energy,
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I was thrown off a little bit.
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And then when she turned to say something in so initially we
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spoke about, we spoke in English music because she said she
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heard music outside and I had my music on,
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I'm usually listening to hip hop or something that's really upbeat for
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the live, the live viewers to enjoy.
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Right? And so I said,
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oh yeah, I'm in here dancing to my music.
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And when she turned around and said something in Spanish,
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the noise of the traffic I didn't quite hear.
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So I didn't know if she said in Spanish more people are
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coming like I have people on their way or you know,
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I saw her that she walked off the street randomly.
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So I knew she wasn't driving in a car.
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But with my heat outside and the air inside one minute of
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doors, about five minutes of change of temperature for me.
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So I can recover the flowers so I could recover really quick
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Five minutes of open air is now 30 to 45 minutes
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of heat in my room before it goes back to the And
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at that moment, I was working on a very sensitive piece
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due the next morning.
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Now I'm a designer that designs super fresh.
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Like if your funeral is due at five,
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I'm working on at two.
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That's how fresh because I want my pieces to last them a
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few days. So right away when she goes to push the
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door open and I didn't hear the reason I didn't want to
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come off rude or anything.
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And since we already had a good banter in the beginning and
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we were talking, I was like,
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ok, I can just,
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I'm like, oh,
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maybe she's not aware when she steps in how cold it is
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in there. So I said,
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oh, the airs on,
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would you mind closing the door?
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Thinking we were already on a cool and then she just flipped
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on me and that's when she said if you want,
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want me to buy something,
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otherwise I'm going to leave.
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So at that point,
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I said, ok,
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she gave me the choice either be a customer or not with
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that kind of energy.
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I'm going to choose for her not to be a customer.
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The whole thing was just,
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it was so fast,
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so sudden and so bizarre in the edited version.
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You're not seeing her body language and what are you going to
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do about it? Kind of stuff?
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You just, you,
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you just see me plus two.
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I know she's young,
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right? I know she's young and I didn't want too much
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to, you know,
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come back at her.
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But I did, I promised my viewers I was going to
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show them. That's why I've only been on tiktok creating content
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for six months when it went viral on Instagram.
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It kind of came off as a Spanish because there was not
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enough like I heard her speak Spanish and I just really didn't
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want to give it a try.
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And that was not the case.
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I'm truly not fluent,
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but I understand phrases.
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I speak a lot of phrases in my shop,
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especially like 23 words,
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I can do that and I do that because I don't want
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to lose a little bit.
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I do know, I truly was trying to make sense of
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why would you want to ruin my flowers that,
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you know, the family that I was working for that day
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they pay good money for that.
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And I have to guarantee a quality.
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And that was my goal as a business owner.
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What do you think about the saying?
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The customer is always right.
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You know, I went in this business with kind of that
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mentality. I truly did,
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but it depends on the customer.
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I can have a problem and call a store and with kindness
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and respect. My problem can get solved quickly.
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I'm one of those people who I'm always trying to find the
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positive and the negative.
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I'm always trying to figure out what the lesson was and yes
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that girl walked in and she was extremely rude.
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She's young, she's going to grow up.
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She's going to grow out of it.
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I know who it is and I'm not going to put her
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on social media blast because she's going to grow up and grow
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out of it. But my lesson from that was all the
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brown on brown hate that comes with a slight sentence that she
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said that I did not hear.
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And that's why I chose to come on here because there's a
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bigger message than an entitled customer.
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The message was greater and I had to sleep on it and
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I had to think on it and say what was this message
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And then I woke up to all the hay and I
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said I got it.
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I hear the message and it's the wrong narrative.
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It's the wrong narrative.
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But thank you so much.
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We appreciate your vulnerability.
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Give a round of applause guys.
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And then where can people follow you on Instagram?
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On tiktok? So on Instagram,
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I'm Cheetah, the florist.
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And then I'm sorry on tiktok,
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I'm Cheetah the florist and on Instagram chea floral design.
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I love that. Thank you so much.
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Thank you. Help me welcome actress and host Daniela AA A
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K ad Quita. Thank you for the invitation.
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Thank you for joining us to be here.
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I always wanted to come to visit you guys.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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Well, I'm glad you're here and and it's crazy,
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like I've, I've noticed that you like,
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do a lot of like red carpets,
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like in events and interviews.
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It's fun. I mean,
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ever since I moved to LA,
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I got to do way more like movie premieres and stuff like
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that and it's fun in the beginning.
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I didn't like them to be honest because they are so crazy
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You have to kind of like fight for the highlight,
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you know, like sometimes you have people like you and mostly
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guys like grown up men,
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they are the worst in red carpets.
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That's true. I see they are like,
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this is my spot and he's like,
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hey, let's be friends like you like I'm a lady.
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Yeah, if we get her over here,
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then you ask a question,
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I'll ask one and then we get her.
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Yes, it's not need to be rude,
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right? Especially because it's like,
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it's a fun time.
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But I think with younger people,
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we are always like,
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hey, it is more fun but,
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but now I like them but I like it better when I
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have the chance to do interviews like 101.
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Even if you have like 10 minutes like here with big sell
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ups, they just give you 10 minutes sometimes three minutes.
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Like what, how can I do an interview in three minutes
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And you don't know how they're going to react either?
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Like what kind of personality you're going to get?
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Like, if you're like,
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bubbly, like, you know,
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we're like, ah,
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I like that too.
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You're like, you're like,
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super on that. You're like,
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super fun. And they're like,
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yeah, and it was not your energy or sometimes you ask
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one question and they answer like,
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short answer and you have a list.
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OK. If I have 10 minutes,
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maybe I will be able to do five questions in 1010 minutes
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I always prepare 30 just in case you never know.
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Some artists are like,
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yeah, I really liked it.
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Well, I feel the same way honestly,
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just with 10 more years and you're like,
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OK, so it's always better to have like a lot of
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questions. And for me,
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the key is to do like a very,
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very deep research. So you know who they are and maybe
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sometimes you say something that they feel like,
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oh no, but I'm Australian and it's like you have to
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know that that person is Australian even though it's been like the
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lead in many movies in the States.
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Like, I don't know,
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some things is like,
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you have to know a lot about the person.
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I checked her Instagram and right off the bat.
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I saw my bae,
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sorry, wifey. But like dua Lipa,
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I was like, oh my God,
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dua lipa, I was like,
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that's something we can talk about.
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Do you love her music?
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What's your Yeah, it's like,
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so it's like, how do you like?
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You have to know little things like little research,
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things about their personal in the Dua Lipa situation.
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I just met her at the Critic Choice Awards.
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I wasn't like interviewing,
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but I was like standing like this just move my hair and
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she was like this close to me.
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And I was like,
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I have Dua Lipa right next to me.
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She is absolutely amazing.
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I saw her first show in Argentina when nobody knew her.
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I just have to talk to her and like,
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hi Dua. Really nice to meet you.
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You're amazing. And she was like,
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oh really nice to meet you.
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She was super nice.
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We were just having a conversation and I told her,
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yes, I told her I'm from Argentina and I went to
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your first concert in Argentina in that small theater and I told
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her the name of the theater and she was like,
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oh, yes. No,
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that's amazing. And she started to tell me things about that
16:22
show and she was like,
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oh, I love your nails.
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Can I see who they are amazing,
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blah, blah. And we were talking about whatever and it
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was, well, really nice to meet you.
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Bye bye. And then I was like,
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wait, I didn't even take a selfie.
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You were just like,
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how do you bring the energy up?
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Like if the guest is like too chill,
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you know, I know we kind of touched on that earlier
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But how do you like?
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Well, I feel that the first seconds right before the interview
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start are so important because first of all,
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it is the first impression they are gonna have of you.
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Last week when I interviewed Kate Blanchett and Jamie Dears,
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I had,,
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my other favorite shoes today.
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I have one of my favorite.
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I have two on camera.
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So I have two pairs of favorite shoes.
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So I have a lot,
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I don't know, but I,
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I wore the other ones that were super colorful.
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So every like since I walk in the set,
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they both were like talking nonstop about my outfit.
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Like they were like those shoes,
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blah, blah. And I only had 10 minutes.
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They were like, OK,
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say your name and your outlet.
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I was like, I was start but I didn't want to
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interrupt them. Then I was like,
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hey, this is my job.
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I have to cut them.
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I was like, well,
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welcome blah, blah,
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blah. I think they kept talking about it,
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but it was fun and then I post everything and everybody was
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like, oh yes,
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I would say the same about this show.
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That's cool. But I feel like that like human interactions so
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nice. Oh For sure.
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Like it just looks effortless like it's not forced.
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I feel like sometimes when I don't know when an interview is
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to interview e like it's not as pleasant to watch but when
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people are genuinely connecting and having like a human conversation connection,
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it's like something else it's beautiful to watch that with your advice
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Now, I feel like I can take that in too
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so I really appreciate.
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Thank you. Thank you,
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people follow you and keep up with the interviews because everywhere is
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DTA, I have a TV show called The Big Deal on
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Latin Nation. You can watch it too.
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It's about entertainment. So that's why I interview a lot of
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like artists and red carpets and stuff.
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Thank you so much.
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Thank you.