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What up, Maria!

Yo, so we are on our futuro media winter break.

Actually, right about now, I'm in Punthakana,

writing my ass off, and, you know, taking some sun.

What about you?

First of all, so this is like my favorite two weeks of Futura media.

Like I tell it to everyone that we get to take this time off and it's, to me, I get so excited all the time. I'm with family. My daughter's coming back from college. We're chilling. We're having a great time because you know in these times

It is really important to make these connections with the people who we love

and to just be chain and have some downtime, maybe disconnect a little, although not totally because we can't you know can't keep our eyes off of what's happening at the white house

You're still gonna text me you're still gonna text me even though we're off

You're gonna be like h Julio, what just happened?

What just happened?

But you know, it's about family.

So we're gonna re-share one of our favorite episodes from 2018.

And it's really an episode that is all about celebrating POC Joy.

Right, it literally is going to make you, like this is the in the thick guarantee,

it's going to make you warm and fuzzy because it's our first conversation with In The Thick All-Star and queer Latinx writer Gabi Rivera.

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