Puro Lousy Chisme

What is Chisme? In this first episode America and Stephanie discuss what it means to be a chismosa and whether gossiping is good or bad. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:09

Hi, I'm America Castillo and soy La Chismosa del Valle, a first generation DACA recipient with just enough journalism training that make me sound legit. Here I want to have honest conversations and make it a space to learn and connect about everything from culture and entertainment to tech and politics. So let's just start talking.

SPEAKER_01 0:31

Hi, how are you? I'm doing well. We're finally doing it. We're finally recording our first episode of our podcast. Yeah, we are. Thank you for doing this for me. I know it took a little bit of convincing, but how do you feel? I feel good. I'm excited. It's good to hear. Okay, so for starters, this podcast, I'm kind of like my friends are like, Why are you starting podcasts? Yeah, I'm taking a podcasting class. Um, I am finishing up my degree in journalism. So I thought it'd be fun to take a podcasting class because everybody seems to be just doing one nowadays. And I produced a podcast in community college for a little bit. It was fun, kind of so um we're gonna try this one out. Um, and yeah, so the first couple of like three episodes are just gonna be like 10 or 15 minutes, and then if we want to continue with this, obviously we will extend it, and then we will bring on guests, and hopefully it would be fun. And at the moment we are recording from home with you know nothing, no studio, nope. Um, so at any moment you can hear my stepdad calling my sister's name, dogs barking. Don't judge us. Don't judge us. This is the first one episode. Yeah, we're just gonna see, then we're gonna talk about you know current events, like things that are going on, like an update on Shakita and Piquet. We hate Piquet. Yeah. I love Shakira. Shakira has been my literal idol since I was like a little girl. I sustained a head injury because of her. My sister witnessed it. It was really funny and did nothing but laugh at me. It was the best thing ever. Um, but yeah, and then Piquet was just like xenophobic and 100%. You know, he does realize his kids are half, right? Yeah. Well okay. And if you don't know, sorry, we don't have much time to go into this. Okay, but you know, oh you maybe you can explain it in like two seconds. Okay, Piquet cheated on Shakira, they've been together for like 10 plus years. His mom was in on it, would have the uh amante go to her house, and you know, he was just a dog and was cheating on my queen Shakira for no reason other than the fact that he's a dirty man. And then he went on this podcast and was like, Oh, I got Gasios, like, sweetie, they're not Rolexes. You lost your Rolex, now you're stuck with Casio. Just saying. And then he said that because all we were Latinos, that's why we were being No, it's because Shakira is genuinely a good artist, and that's why her song blew up. You have a mediocre soccer career. I'm sorry. When when did you ever win a World Cup? Never piped down. Um, but yeah, then then we'll actually, you know, talk about like real problems, like the band on TikTok and unfortunate events that keep happening in the United States. So, yeah, so that's hopefully how the structure will go, just spending like a couple minutes on that, and then whatever topic it is for the episode. Um, so that's what we're gonna do. Okay, but to start, Stephanie, nobody knows you. Who are you? I am America's little sister. Oh my goodness. Um I'm 23 years old. Okay, age, rubbling age, but that's young. That's fine. Am I? That's young, that's young. I'm Gen Z, so it's like it's she you're a millennial, I'm Gen Z. So I think it's important for people to know. Yeah. For future references. Yeah, because now you can keep me up to date on all your Gen Z stuff. I don't even know how to. Okay. Yeah, because you're the older Gen Z. I'm a like the first like generation of Gen Z. So when I'm seeing like the younger, I'm like, what is going on? Ooh, that's how I feel. And I'm like, this is how my older sister feels, all my friends feel. I'm just like, I'm getting to that age. Oh, um, and I'm studying to get my aesthetician's license. Nowhere near in the same career path as my sister. But I do love to cheese mad. So yeah, well me, yes, yes, this is the same thing. The in the beauty industry, you guys cheese me at all the time, right? Cutting hair, doing the eyelashes. It's cheese myth, cheese myth. That's like you know, and in my industry, in the media, it's a cheese myth, but you know what? We have to do professional. We have to do it. We need sources. We say according to allegedly. Allegedly. Okay, so if you ever start quote, end quote. Yes, hear me gossip. I will say those words. Hopefully, if you don't, call me out. Um, but yeah, so today's first topic is gonna be on cheese me. Because the podcast has cheese notes on that, and uh yeah, I feel like we should maybe talk a little bit about that. What is cheese made of? Cheese me is tea, tea is gossip. Gossip. Do you know what the word originates from? No. Do you know gossip pumped from? Scandalous. Scandalous. But not like that. Okay. So gossip it the old English is like god sip. God S-I-B. Godzip on that tea. Yes. And that's what they used to call godparents. And that's basically a word that we used to be given like during childbirth. So like during child's birth, only women and you know, their like neighbors and female neighbors and stuff like that would just get together and watch a child be delivered. That's gnarly. It's like midwives. I cannot. I cannot like what like I mean I've never had a child. Sorry. It's just that's scary, man. But um shout out to all the women who give birth. Yeah, shut up. We love you, we love you. I don't know how you do it. That's it's scary to me. Although, um I don't know if you amend me, like, I guess I'd go. If it's not RSVP, I'll go. I suck at RSVP. I like have FOMO, so I don't want to like miss out or anything. Just you know, text me the details later. Yeah. That makes sense because the Chismosas is like, you know, like there's a stereotype of like Diachis Moses, and they like just know everything. And we are quite. Oh my god, we are we are the Chismosas. Oh my god, fuck. We quite literally are. Gossip, um, it's fun, but it's also very dangerous. Yeah. Because I mean, look at what's happening with Haley and Selena. Oh my god, yes. Yes, it's funny and it's dangerous because it's kind of like a people skill. You have to be very good at it. Yeah. You have to get people to like you and trust you enough to confide in those those type of details. Yeah. If you want the full story, yeah, people really need to trust you. It's kind of like being a journalist, which I always say that with social media, we are the journalists now and we are the paparazzi. So we should probably learn how to gossip professionally, all of us. Okay, monetize on it. Yes, yes, yes. Um, so yeah, because to be known as a gossiper, it can be like a good thing, but also a bad thing. Yeah. Where people are gonna be like, oh, don't tell her anything, or don't tell him anything, or don't tell them anything, because they're just gonna go around and tell everyone. Yeah. And then if you're like a good gossiper, they wanna sit down and just talk to you because give you all the deep. Yes, they wanna hear it. They want to hear it all. You know, according to this white sociologist dude, the name Frank uh team Andrews, you know, he said that um or he found that what we actually hate is a bad gossiper. Guilty. I can I love a bad gossiper though, because I love hearing their lies while I know the true story and I'm just sitting there and taking. Oh, okay. When I think I'm bad gossipers, like I feel like people think I'm a bad gossiper. That's what I was trying to say. You know what I mean? Okay, yeah, so um, but I feel like I have been because like what when I said when I I got in trouble when I was 17 years old for gossiping. Why? Because I was a bad gossiper, you know? Everybody was gossiping about the same thing, but I was just stupid about it, you know? And so makes sense, but I've learned I went to school for it. Look at me now. Got a degree for it. Going Gelmo's there, we're not there yet. No, you're manifesting. We're gonna we gotta pass this podcasting class first. Um yeah, so he basically found in his study that we like to know about the scandals and misfortune misfortunes of our rivals and high status people because this information might be valuable in social competition. Oh my god, yes. Yes, sorry. No, that makes sense, yeah. And you know, because it's like positive information is like not fun to us. Why? Because we're human. Yeah, and it's like actually, no, that's not fair, because I actually am proud of all my friends. But it's like sometimes it's but sometimes it's like oh okay, great. Good job. Yeah, great, good job. But if I if we're friends, oh my god, yay, yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, but at the same time, yeah, we want something scandalous. We want we want something that's gonna I want scandalous and fun, nothing bad though, yeah, you know, and yeah, and I feel like Latinas are also just known for gossiping, being gossipers, and they have a negative stereotype, which is why I was kind of afraid to be a journalist or like get into that because I was just like, I don't want to fit the stereotype, but you know what? Now I'm embracing it because gossiping was my introduction to storytelling, and honestly, it's helped a lot in our line community. I don't think mom would be here if it wasn't for people gossiping about how great America is, which we know is a lie. But well, and no, no, no, no, no, no, no. We know it's like not what the media always says, you know. But I don't know. What do you think? It's fun. Yeah, I like it. Okay, and also I found this I found this study. There was a study on social psychological and personality science where they found that 75% of gossip is just neutral. So it's not even that harmful. So there you go. Science says Science says gossiping is not harmful. So next time someone wants to tell me that I'm being harmful, I'm gonna pull up this JK. JK. Um, no, but I think there's also rules on gossiping. Yeah, 100%. What are some other rules for you? For me, um, I don't name drop unless that person knows the person I'm talking about personally. If I'm let's say I'm telling you or well, I tell you everything. Yeah, but not a good example. Like if I'm telling my boyfriend and he doesn't know the people I'm talking about, I won't name drop. Okay, yeah, same. Because I'm like, what if he goes and tells someone and that person knows the person I'm talking about, that person is gonna get offended. Yeah. You know? So I don't name drop if you don't know that person personally. I never had a big group of friends, but still, even if I did, I'm not gonna go around telling everyone unless you know the situation, or if you know those people, and I try to keep it as innocent and unharmful as possible. Yeah. If it's gonna if it's gonna ruin someone's life or if it's gonna hurt someone, I don't go around telling everyone. I keep that to myself and I'm gonna let that person handle that on their own. Yeah, because people do revenge gossip, and that's not fun. That's not cool. Yeah. I've experienced it, unfortunately. Me too. We all have our girls. Oh, and if it's blatant lies and I know, sorry, oh yeah, and I know that person that they're telling me about, I will call it out right away. Oh, good. And I will tell the person, and I'm like, look, this person is saying this, this, and this, go handle it. Yeah. Because I already said something, so go handle it. Do you ever feel like when somebody relies like a piece of gossip, like you have to rely on a piece of gossip back? No, no, because you're you're willingly telling me, but I'm I don't have to tell you anything. Yeah, that's true. Why do I always feel like I'm I like sit there and I'm like, oh my god, what like are they expecting something out of me too? Like, no, that's just me. Yeah, I always think too. Yeah, yeah. But no, like, if you're telling me something, I'm not gonna be like, oh, but have you heard this? Yeah, it makes sense, yeah. Yeah, and just how you tell gossip, I guess, matters. Yeah, you can learn a lot from people from 100% gossiping. I mean, depending on how they're talking about the person or the situation. Yeah, so next time you listen to gossip, just pay attention, pay attention to how they're telling the story. And we're running out of time, but we would love to go deeper into this topic. And I actually wanted to bring in someone to just, you know, really give us more information on this. Like, yeah, but ten minutes is not enough. I can't no, look at us. Look at us. Anyways, so thank you for cheating in the for me for a little bit. Of course. I'll see you next episode. I'll see you downstairs, man. We live in the same house. Bye. Bye.

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