Episode 14 - Is Miguel Mexican?

Let’s set the record straight—Miguel is NOT Mexican (we know, we’re shocked too 😆). In this episode, we’re diving into the hilarious and very frequent identity mix-ups Miguel deals with, why people always assume he’s Mexican, and how we handle the cultural confusion with humor and love.

🎧 Hit play for laughs, a little family history, and some spicy truths about identity, assumptions, and why names don’t always tell the whole story.

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Transcript

You're listening to unfiltered us, where we keep it real and unscripted. I'm your host, Susie, along with my husband, Miguel. Ready to dive in? Let's get started. Well, hello. Hello. Welcome back. Hello. How are you? I'm good. We're definitely burnt. Well, I don't think we're burnt, but we're definitely bronzed. We're sun kissed. Yes, I like that. Dominican sun. Hey, give us some really nice color. Yeah, I like it. I do too. Let's see how it looks under the lighting right now. I know, huh? There, there. Now I see you. You look super red. Yeah, so do you. But we're actually not burnt. This is the first time I could say we came back from a vacation. And we're not hurting, like, because usually our shoulders hurt or something is really hurting because we overdid it in the sun. I think the last day we protected ourselves. The first three days, we were, like, non-stop in the sun. But the last day we protected ourselves. We were under palapas under. Umbrella. I was covered up from head to toe for sure. Oh, yeah. For sure you were. Uh, well, we have an interesting topic we're going to talk about today. Yeah, I've been wanting to talk about this for a long time because, um, it's something that a lot of people always wonder or, you know, they don't know the history behind me and where I'm from and how I got to where I'm at and the passion that I have for different nationalities, I guess you could say. So the one thing that really sparked this conversation is because while we were on vacation, I asked Miguel, does it bother you that no one thinks you're venezolano, that nobody sees you as a venezolano? And every time, even here, when you've told people that you're venezolano, nobody believes you. Or because they just you don't have an accent, right? Like most Venezuelans do, I do if I'm in the middle of them. Yes. And I mean, the chances of you being in the middle of Venezuelans. Especially in Vegas. Hardly ever happens. Yeah. Unless I'm, you know, obviously at my sister's house or talking to my sister, or if I go to Venezuela, I guess, which I don't see that happening, but. Yeah. And what's funny is that, you know, like we were in the Dominican Republic and I feel like because I, I can, I can pick up their accent. Right. And so I feel, I feel like when we were there and while I was talking to them, I feel like I was speaking Dominican. That makes sense. Really? Yeah, I think I think me by the fourth day, I found myself with the little accent. See what I mean? They throw you in the mix with the people where you're at, and you end up picking up the accent, you know, or at least how they talk. Yes. You know, and. And that thing, that's what happened to me over the years. Yeah. Because obviously you're married to a Mexican. Right. And, um, from what you've told me you grew up with listening to a lot of Mexican music, like you really liked Mexican music. You're. You have a love for Mexican food. I do. So, I mean, granted, I feel like we converted you, babe. Yeah, well, you know what? It's funny. I'll. I'll talk a little bit about that for people that don't know. And I know I've been wanting to talk about this for so long because and hopefully people, everybody I know listens to this and gets to know the, the real history on how I develop in a sense of passion for anything. Everything Mexican really. Um, so this goes back to when I was very young, I think I was and I was living in Venezuela because I, I lived there by the first 15 years of my life. And I remember I honestly, I, I don't remember how young I was. I was probably five, six, seven when my mom would listen to rancheras. My mom would listen to Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Antonio Aguilar. And then it was, you know, Vicente Fernandez, then it was Juan Gabriel. Right. And so I grew up listening to all these mariachi and rancheras music that I knew a lot of these songs when I moved into the U.S. and this is what people, people think that when I moved to the US, that was like my first introduction to the Mexican culture, and in a sense it was to the community, but to the actual music and to the actual passion of the Mexican music. I grew up since I was like maybe 4 or 5, six. That's really all I listened to. And there's still songs to this day. There's still songs to this day that are like old songs from Pedro Infante and, uh, Jorge Negrete. And I forget the other guy's name, um, that I can listen to. And they're old songs, like songs that maybe your parents would listen to, you know, like years ago. Definitely like my mom listened to. And that I know them, you know, that I know them because I listened to them since I was a kid, before I really fell in love with any other music. That's really what I listened to because my mom, for some reason, played it in the car and played it at the house all the time. And so when I moved to Vegas. Um, you know, my my niece and nephew were little, and I didn't really have any friends. I, I did hang out a couple of times with, uh, a Brazilian girl that was the daughter of one of my sister's friends. But it was like, no, I didn't fit in. Like, I didn't like what, you know, the things that they would do. And then I remember when I started high school, I had one guy that I talked to, he was from Colombia. And then the rest, all of them from Mexico, all of them from Mexico. Um, and so actually, because they feel like when you moved here, there really wasn't a whole lot of Venezuelans, even Colombians. Yeah. Um, maybe not even that many Cubans. I mean, there was some because obviously I, my Nina is Cuban, but I don't know if it was as deep as it is now. But now I feel like the Caribbean. Yeah. Culture, you know, like Cuba, Puerto Rico, Venezuela or I. I feel like there's so many here now. Yeah, but back in back when you moved here, I know that just wasn't a a thing. Like, it was hard to find anyone really from the, you know, like especially Venezuela. Yeah. There was none. I mean, as far as I'm. And I'm sure there were some. Um. But as far as the high school that I went to, there was none. Uh, I did have, like I said, a Colombian guy, uh, a Salvadorian guy that I hung out with, um, had a couple classes with, but the majority of them were Mexican. They were. That was, you know. Uh, and I remember one of my friends the first time we he took me to go eat tacos at Tacos Mexico. And, uh, he asked for tacos, and he goes, the the the guy goes. And the guy, my friend goes, yeah. And I said, you know, and without knowing what that meant, without knowing what that meant, I didn't know what that meant. And and that's when I was really first introduced to spicy Mexican sauce. You know, that my lips were burning. And I remember drinking water, right for the first time, too. And my lips were burning hot. You know, and so I'll never forget that. And then and now look at you. You love your salsa. And now I eat hot sauce. Mexican hot sauce. You know I love it. Uh, but then, you know, it was funny. So going back to what I was saying, um, then I got introduced. Then I started when I remember I met my my compadre Julio. Right. And then, of course, he's Mexican, he's from Chihuahua. And then he would listen to corridos, right? We would listen to, um, obviously Los Dias del Norte. We would listen to, um, Gloria Leros. He introduced me to, um, a lot of, you know, corrido music, right, that I, that I started listening to. And I remember when I was like 16, we actually went to go see Los Tucanos de Tijuana. I was like 15. I was before I met you, I think I was like 15 or 16. We went to their concert and we had a chance to meet them and go backstage with them. And, and I would listen to all their music. You know. And so then I was introduced to them. And so I just fell in love with the culture. And obviously that's all I hung out with all my friends. The majority of them, probably 99% of my friends are Mexican. And, uh, you know, obviously the story of how I met you and I'm like, yeah, your perfect Mexican. Yeah. Perfect. It couldn't it couldn't have worked out any better. Your mom was, um, grooming you to become a Mexican later. You know, it's it's destiny, right? I mean, it's crazy how it happened. And so a lot of people think, I don't know. And I think I always wonder that what people think sometimes of me, you know, because they think, oh, my God, this guy is not even Venezuelan. Don't talk like one. Don't act like one. Oh, he listens to his. Now I listen to, you know, whatever the New Mexican stuff like. Philippines and things like, you know, and I, I just love it. I love the old stuff and I love the new stuff. I love I just love and and have a passion for it. And we've traveled and obviously we've gone to a bunch of places in Mexico, and I've met a lot of your family and they, they love it. They, they I and I was wondering, like how people looking at me like from the outside because I, I don't I, I look at myself and I know I'm not, but I just love being around the whole entire culture and I know where I was born. And of course, that makes me what I am Venezuelan, but I just love being around it, right? I've never claimed to say, oh yeah, I am Mexican, but no, never. A lot of people do. Um, because I, I still love my my heritage, my Venezuelan heritage. I still love to. I love everything that you know, that I love food, you know, like the fact that you choose me to all that delicious food. Yeah. The music, you know, I yeah, the a lot of it, you know, a lot of the stuff that you've brought into the relationship to I fell in love with to. Yeah, I love, I love all the, I love the mix of two. I always say it's the, it's like the best mixture, you know. And now our kids, they, they're both right I mean, so now I mean I have kids that I have Mexicans and grandkids that are three quarter Mexicans in a sense. And so I have no, I, I just have love for it, you know, and I and I love that our mixture and, and but I love the whole entire community of it. But again I love both. I take pride on both, to be honest. Yeah. And I know and especially when it comes to music, I feel like you know so much more. I don't know who he was. He went crazy. He was late. Remember? He was supposed to perform in, um, Sinaloa, the festival in Sinaloa. And then they told him no, because he came out as dressed as a woman. Oh, Edwin. Cass. Yeah, from a group of people. Oh, yeah. I ended up loving groups of fear. Yeah, like, oh, my gosh. I was like, see, this is like old, like, this reminds me of, like, Los Tigres del Norte. This reminds me. And I loved it. I fell in love with them. Yeah. And then he went crazy. And all this. I don't know what happened to him. He must have got into drugs or something, so obviously that. But I don't know. I don't think it's drugs. He I, I really. That was like the latest group that I ended up really liking. But I'm a huge fan of the old stuff. Yeah. And their music is not bad. It's just that he turned weird. I think he went through a divorce and yeah, he just turned weird. Weird? Where I thought where it was funny that we talk about, like, Puerta and Grupo Firma because Grupo Fermi was, like, topping off the charts. Like selling out stadiums. Right? Sold out Allegiant Stadium here. Yeah. And and and I was like, in a sense, almost nowhere or not as big. And when Covid hit, I think, um, or maybe a little bit after that, I feel like a group of me kind of like cut back a little bit. And they took I remember they took us a month off like the month of December. I forget what year it was. And that's when that just like. Went at it and they have not stopped since then. And now, you know, even though there are younger group, they're just killing it, you know, but I, I love that I know this stuff because my friends, like I said, they're Mexican. And so we have a lot in common when we listen to the same type of music, you know, and obviously your family. I know your mom has made a few comments like, I miral mexicano, you know. Yeah. And and because I know the songs a lot of the times better than them, I can sing the song. I just love music. I love all kinds of music, by the way. The only one I really don't listen to, it, don't really care for is that satanic heavy metal that you like sometimes heavy, heavy rock. My alternative music. Some of it I'm okay, but the crazy one is the one that I cannot get into country music I like. I got into it, I think when I was in high school, I got into country music a little bit, but everything else is great. And I know we were talking about like I was telling you during this trip, I was telling you how the different cultures, how and again, you know, when you're exposed to just one culture, like, I grew up for 15 years, right? Nothing but Venezuelans. There's a few Colombians. Um, and obviously there were people there that were Europeans. There's a lot of people from Spain. I went to school with some Italians, um, you know, but as far as Venezuelans born there, um, you know, that's all, you know. Right. And then when you, when I move here to Vegas, and obviously because of getting to know so many people from different nationalities. It's it's amazing how we're all the same, but yet we have a little bit of a difference. You know, like, I feel like the Caribbean. Yeah. Especially words. Yeah. I feel like the Caribbean countries were very similar. Like, you look at Venezuelans and Dominicans, they're very, very similar Colombians in Venezuela very, very similar, but yet they're different. Then you got Dominicans and you got Puerto Ricans, right. And I can see a resemblance from Venezuelans to each one of those. But at the same time, it's different than each one of those. And then you throw in Cubans in the mix, which it's very similar, a lot of their food and their words. And, you know, it's very similar to the way Venezuelans are, you know, and so when you got those countries right there, I feel cool. You got Venezuela, you got Colombia, you got Dominican, and you got Puerto Rico that were all very right there from the Caribbean. We're very, very close, but yet we're a little bit different. Right. But then you throw in Mexico in there, which is completely different. Right? The culture is completely different than the Caribbean countries. And but it's beautiful to write, even though there are some similarities and there are some things that I'm talking to your dad that I know that the way they were brought up and the things that they did when they were little is the things that like maybe we did sometimes or that my mom, I saw my mom do and I'm like, those are just. Similarities, but the differences are just so beautiful. You know, from all the Latin countries. Really? Yeah. Now that I think about it, it's funny that you say you were kind of raised like to listen to the Mexican music, music and stuff like that. Um, I, I didn't realize this until actually, now I was actually my Nina's, which a lot of people don't know. My Nina and my sisters. Nina's your godmother? Yeah. Our godmother is actually Cuban. So is mine. My godfather is Cuban, and we were raised a lot of time with them. Like, I would spend a lot of time with my godmother, a lot, a lot of time. And so I actually ended up really liking the Cuban food, which is why I love, absolutely love Cuban food. And when you say there's similarities, because when I started eating Venezuelan food, I'm like, there's a lot of similarities to the Cuban food that I really like, right? And maybe that's why I ended up really liking, like, the, um, music, because we would spend Thanksgiving with them, Christmas with them, New Year's with them. And so I listened to a lot of the music. So in a weird way, we were meant to like clash. It's really hard to not that you're Cuban, but like, well, that's the fact. The fact that you're saying there's similarities there. Yeah. Because all that, all that salsa music. The salsa music was pretty much universal in the Latin countries. It doesn't matter who sang it right, whether it's from Colombia or, you know, or Celia Cruz. Right. That was Cuban. Yeah. We listened to a lot of Celia Cruz back in Venezuela, you know? And so all these, all these salsa and merengue and all these, you know, old, um, songs like that, um, they're all obviously Caribbean. And so you listen to that. So subconsciously you love it. Yeah. Yeah. And the food. Yeah. And then Miami is the opposite. Yes. Where my mom was introducing me to all that stuff, not the food. I didn't get it. I didn't get used to the food. I don't think you would find. Would you ever. Would you ever be able to find. No. I mean, maybe now. Yes, I maybe I'm sure there might be a few Mexicans living there that might have somewhat of a a restaurant. But to be and to be fair, we never really ate out anyways. I think I might have eaten now, and I know this is going to sound crazy, but I might have probably ate out, um, twice when I was, you know, living over there when I, when I was, when my brother would come and I would spend time with him. Yeah. He would take me to actually, when I went to Caracas one time for the summer that I spent with my grandma and my brother would take me out to eat. Um, that's when we would go to, like, McDonald's. And I remember taking a first bite of a burger with pickles. And I remember thinking, what is that? And ever since then I think I was like 10 or 12. I, I dislike pickles, so I don't like pickles. But anyways, no, there was no Mexican restaurants there. There was no Mexican food. No. That's just like you growing up. There is no Venezuelan restaurants here. There. Zero. There were a few Cubans restaurants. Uh, because when I moved here, there was. Yeah, yeah, but maybe when I was little, not so much. Or maybe we didn't care to look for them because like I said, my, my, yeah, my, my godparents would cook for us, right? I mean, I just and I loved going over there to eat because I just, I love that food so much. Right. But yeah, that's interesting. I never put that together until right now. Until right now. That's crazy. I love also that you could that you can commute. Like if I put you in a situation like the Dominican Republic, you understand them. Because I feel like a lot of our words are not the same as your words, and it's words that you guys use. Yeah. So, for example, I was getting on a boat and I told the guy that was helping me on the boy is Rita and he goes to Rita. He there was obviously there's no word that for you guys just doesn't exist. And then he realized I was saying like Kenya. Mhm. And then I said, oh, okay, soy mexicano I'm Mexican and we say Zapata. So then he started calling me Rita. But like you, otherwise you. I would have never known that. They didn't know that word. Yeah. And that was also a thing when we were, when we first got together, there was a lot of words that you used that something else to me, right? Or that I just. It didn't make. It didn't make sense to me. So like I say, pastel torta for me is obviously a sandwich. So when you would say torta, I'm like, torta is a cake. Yeah, it's a cake. All right. For us, for you guys and for you guys, it's a sandwich. It's. It's a sandwich, which is a sandwich. One sandwich. Yeah. And we say pastel for cake. Um, pastel is like, uh, like the Cuban pastries. It's a That's a pastel for us. UN pastel, you know. Yeah. That's the part. Uh, the the actual cake is torta for us, and we've. I've even taught Elena the differences because when she says yucky, don't you like, she'll say yucky don't PTO. And I'm like, oh, that's all straw. I think we called straw and you guys Mexican. And I told Elena, okay, how do you say it in Mexican like Mexican? And she goes, Pol Pot, right? And then I say, how do you say it in English? And she says, straw, right. So, you know, I try to teach her the thing. She knows the words. She understands the three different words she knows. So there's been a lot of situations where I'm like, you talk to them because I don't understand half the time what they're saying. What? And one of the this past trip that we just came back from, um, Stef was asking for Nieves, which is ice cream. And so the guy looked at her and she goes in anyway. And then the guy looked at her like. Like in his brain, I could already. Thinking this is this knowing here. You know, like. Near like the snow, you know. And then. So that's when I told, I told, I told the guy. Oh, yeah. You know, because it's only Lado. It's it's an ice cream, you know, Nieve Lado, you know. Yeah. And so he goes, oh see, see, see, you know. And so he went and got the ice cream but little things like that, you know, the little words like that, that um, I just, I just know, you know, I, I don't know, I just know it, I just, I, I, I don't want to say I know it all, but I know most of it, I because I don't want to sound like I know it all, but it's great because I feel like you under. You understand? Yeah. 100%. Uh, like just a different time. Like, even when they were joking with one another, I was. Yeah. Like you were kept cracking up and I'm like, I do not understand that joke whatsoever. Uh, there's been a lot of situations when I'm with your family where they make me feel like I do not know No Spanish. Yeah. It feels like to me that I don't know Spanish and I know Spanish and I know Spanish pretty fluently. You could put me in Mexico and I could get my way around like I know Spanish, but man, there were so many times I would just stare at you like, did they just ask me a question? Like, I do not know what's going on right now. Not only do you guys speak in a different dialect, but you guys speak so fast. Yeah. So I'm like all at the same time, at the same time. And you guys and we all understand each other where obviously when you're in Mexico, we're loud, especially Sinaloa. My dads were loud, but we yeah we speak slower. Right. And there's it's just like, you know, it's just a little more calmer. Yeah. So it's great that that I, you know, have someone like you. I just thought, man, do you get offended when people don't think you're venezolano because you don't have the accent? Because, I mean, we put you in Mexico. People think you're Mexican because you have the the Mexican accent or you speak like us. And so I always wondered, man, does he get offended that people don't think that he because even one guy was like, you know, it's venezolano. Like you're not Mexican, right? I mean, you're not Venezuelan. And he you were like, yeah, yes, I am. Yeah. I think I've been confused for so many things. You know, I mean, um, I've when I was young and I remember I started working, uh, at Home Depot. I remember I, I got confused for Cuban. I should get confused for Cuban a lot. Um, I've been confused for Puerto Rican. I've been confused. You know, after I started shaving my head and I grew a beard. Uh, Armenian. I get Armenian a lot. I get Middle Eastern, middle eastern, even from men and women. I've had, you know, women come up to me and says, hey, you know, are you. I mean, you had someone one time come up to you and was speaking to you. Yeah. Habib. Yeah. I was like, you looked at him like. No, like I speak that language. Yeah. I'm like, hey, no, I think we we were we were going. So we were, we were in Atlanta and there was a like a mediterranean. There was a middle eastern guy behind the counter. And I was we were with the kids and I passed by and until they got a Habib and then he was like, oh, Habib. He started talking and I'm like, oh shit, I don't know. I was like, oh yeah, okay. When he heard that, I knew, yeah, no, but I get confused with that a lot. So going back to your question, do I get offended? No, because, you know, people just don't know. You know, I don't get offended. I mean, like I said, I and the reason why I think a lot of people may get offended, which I have seen these before, is because maybe they belittle that other, um, the other people from that other country or from that other race, you know, um, and which I don't, you know, like I said, I, I take pride on both because my kids are half Mexican and obviously you are and majority of them are your family, right? Um, obviously Mexicans. I mean, all your sisters married in a sense. Yeah. We all non Mexicans type of deals. We all didn't stay with our Mexican brother. It's not even with the Mexican woman. But anyways, we'll talk about that. Um, but no, I, I don't get offended. I, I just, I mean, I let them if they, if they want, if they ask me, I'll tell them where I'm from. Right. And they all I always hear the same thing. Oh, no. You know, you don't look like it. Wow. But you don't talk like one. Well, that's because I've been here for so long, and that's all I hang out with. But, you know, it's funny because our kids grew up with both. And I talked to them in Spanish, in a Venezuelan Spanish. And you talked to, like, Elena, right? I talked to her in a Venezuelan accent in Spanish. And you guys, when you talk to her in Spanish, is with the Mexican accent. And I think my nephew that's here, that's the same thing he does with his kids, um, where he talks to them in a Venezuelan Spanish. And then the wife talks to them in English or a Mexican. Um, because he also married a Mexican lady. Yeah. Uh, Mexican Spanish. And so I think that's, I think I, I personally think it's the best mix I because I love both cultures, you know, I love all nationalities, but I think, I don't know the Venezuelan Mexican. To me it's the perfect one. Yeah. I have to which, which if you know, what we talked about is if, God forbid, ever happened, I don't I don't ever see myself with the Venezuelan woman. You know, you said that. You said you'd go to Mexico and find yourself a Mexican. Yeah. Uh, you know, but anyways, that's not going to happen. So. But, um. Okay. So yeah, your sisters, they all ended up with, um, your mom and dad are the only ones for sure. Full blown Mexican? Yes. But then you ended up with obviously Venezuelan? Yes. And then your, uh, middle sister ended up with someone that's Salvadorian and Mexican. Yes. So there's a mixture there. And then your younger sister ended up with the guy from Colombia that was born in Spain. Born in Spain, but Colombian. Colombian. And then, um. And then Henry, my brother ended a boy girl. And so that's pretty crazy how it's just a bunch of their friends, because even their kids are kids and their cousins, they're all mixed. You know, you got a great mixture. Salvadorian, Salvadorian, all kinds of stuff in their mixture, you know, and and so our daughter obviously Aaron is Mexican. And so our grandkids are what, three quarter Mexicans. Yeah. So but I love it I just I love it I love the culture and I, I don't obviously I don't regret it. I know there might be some. And I've met Venezuelans that look at me and say, wow, you don't look Venezuelan, but I am. And you can like and like you said, I can you can drop me off in Mexico and I'll talk like Mexicans, drop me off in a Salvadorian home, and I end up speaking like them. I pick up their accent and I talk like them. Puerto Rico, Dominican, Cubans. I end up speaking like them. I do a first. I do a great impression of them anyways too. Well, I feel that that's actually one of your many talents. I don't know how many people know that you have this way of like. Um. Impersonating. Impersonating people. And you sound just like them, huh? And I feel like sometimes, you know, people might take it offensively, but you do a great job at that. I if there was, like, an acting thing of, like to impersonate people, you would do a great job at that. I you. Like for real. Like we could throw you into like a Cuban mixture and you would start sounding just like them. We could throw you in. You know, like, I don't know, somewhere, like in an Armenia, you know, and you start sounding like them if you knew that. So you do that great. Even in movies like we've watched movies. And then you'll start sounding like the actors, you know, like Friday. You like to quote Friday, like you start to sound like them. It's my many talents. It's like this weird talent. So if you've never heard me go do his impressions, do you ever talk to him? Ask him to do one of his impressions. I mean, he's great at that. People that we hang out with. And, you know, sometimes he likes to impersonate people that we know personally. And people just crack up because they know exactly who he's doing. And it sounds just like him. And everybody's like, oh my gosh, you sound just like him, you know, or whatever. But yeah, you're great at that for sure. Thank you, I appreciate that. Um, I, you know, ever since I was little, I've, I've always, um, had an eye for observing people, you know, and I think it's it's it's I, I think it's, it's a plus because I'm very observant. I like to study people, and I like to see how they behave and how they, um. How they talk, I guess, and it just gets ingrained in my head where if I was to then pretend to be that person, I can be like that person in a sense, you know? And so I, I ever since I was little, I don't know, I just, you know, and there's times, like you said, there's times that people take it offensive because they don't know, but they don't know that it's just me joking. You know, I don't do it with ill intention of making fun of somebody or me or or mocking somebody. Right? I just do it for, you know, joking around or being silly or whatever. You know, but a lot of people don't know that there's no ill intention behind it. And so that's why you have to be careful sometimes when I do it. Yeah. Because sometimes I just I do it in front of anybody, I don't care. Yeah. And sometimes you impersonate me and I'm like, I don't sound like that. But I know deep down inside I probably do sound like that because you're great at impressions and the kids just look at me and laugh and they're like, okay, that sounds just like mom. Yeah, but I mean, I, I love it. You know, I love it. I just love, like I said, um. I love all the the nationalities. I think, you know. I mean, all nationalities are great. You can learn from all of them, you know, but I think our mixture is the best. Of course you do me. But you know, like I said it, it would have, you know, it would have any anybody that just kind of has a passion for it. I think it could say the same thing. That's the reason why I say that. Just my personal opinion. It worked out better. Um, it worked out better for me that I ended up with you, and vice versa, so. Yeah. And we embraced, like I said, both cultures. It's not that, you know, we don't we don't discriminate one or the other. We. No, not at all. I just don't want people to think, oh he forgot. Yeah. My husband's milito he's he's he's he's he's, uh he acts like he's 100% Venezuelan. Oh he is, he is. I mean, he's got 50% of your DNA. Yeah, but my boy is 100% Venezuelan. I remember when he was little, I'd tell him, you know, you're half Mexican, and he'd be like, no, I'm not. I'm like, okay. Yeah. Although I feel like slowly but surely, he's turning into a Spaniard. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's also in our DNA. He is I. But see, that's why I love with Spain. Okay. But that's why, that's why I, I love seeing that about our kids. And that's, you know, me. Obviously, I'm not mixed with anything, right? I mean, I am. When you look at my ancestors that came from Spain. Everybody okay, so we all are, but I'm not. It's not like my mom was, you know, from Peru. My dad was from Colombia, and I'm half and half. But. Right. I love seeing that with our kids. I love that our kids take pride on the fact that they're both, you know, and they can claim both, and they can represent both, and they can do anything in any of those cultures. Both of our kids, you know, can do that because they say it. It's the same way. She loves the fact that she's half Venezuelan, half Mexican. And, you know, like you said, our son now, he's always had this thing for Spain that he loved. And, you know, he, um, I, I just love that I, I just love seeing that about them that they can, you know, and, and and if, if they're playing Mexican music, amazing. If they're playing, you know, salsa or reggaeton or any other Latin music or whatever. Amazing too. I, I don't look at one way or the other, bad or good. No. Absolutely not. I just love that. I just love the whole melting pot. Yeah. So. All right. I think this was a good thing. This was a good episode. You got to talk all about yourself. You know, you talked a little bit about yourself, too. I didn't know you were eating Cuban food when you were five. You did, you big liar. Yeah. I didn't know that, though. Yes you did. I mean, but you didn't even know that. You know, I just never put it together. I never put it together that I. I grew up with a lot of Caribbean love. You know, and I. Yeah, that. Yeah. Because they definitely took care of us when my, when my parents, um, needed help. They were great at that. So. Right. 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