(mid-tempo electronic music)
- What do you do for a living, Fernando?
- Right now I'm between jobs doing different projects
but hopefully in a couple of months
I'll be more stable in an office setting.
- Lori, what do you do for a living?
- I am a teacher's coach so I go in classrooms
and I watch teachers and I try to help them
get better at what they do.
What about you, what are you passionate about?
- I'm a tattoo artist, I love art,
anything that has to do with art, I love it.
I even do murals.
- I'm passionate about a few things,
more than anything just education.
I recently graduated from college
but I feel like I'd still wanna keep learning.
I wanna go beyond that.
- I have three small children
so I feel like that's my only passion
'cause I don't have time for anything else.
- I'm really big on travel
I feel like the world is a book
and if you stay on one place,
you're only reading one page.
- Where are some places that you've traveled before?
- I went to Germany, Switzerland,
a lot of places in Europe.
Spain, France, Egypt.
- What kind of pets do you have?
- I have iguanas, dogs, cats.
I have a big pond so you can just imagine
there's turtles, koi fish, salamanders,
all kind of fishes, chickens, rabbits,
I could go on forever.
(laughing)
- We also have a pond in our backyard
and so for one of my son's birthdays
we had turtle races at our house
which was pretty funny.
People were cheering and it was pretty adventurous.
- Are you in a relationship or are you single?
- I'm currently single.
How about you?
- I'm single.
- That's life.
- That is life.
- What about yourself, are you in a relationship?
- I am married.
We are getting ready to celebrate seven years together
but we have been together for 17 years, a long time.
- Judging by your voice,
I think you're probably an older gentleman,
late 20s, early 30s maybe.
I think you might be an African American.
You're dressed really formal.
I think you're wearing slacks and dressing shoes.
I don't think you're wearing a tie though.
I feel like maybe you drive a Prius.
(laughing)
- I think Mario is probably about 33 years old,
has a lot of tattoos and he's Hispanic.
He has short dark hair, maybe a mustache,
and that he is wearing a red t-shirt.
- I think Fernando is maybe 24, 25.
I feel like he's of Southern American descent,
I wanna say Mexican.
Right now he's wearing jeans, Vans, a polo shirt,
and he has glasses on right now.
- I think Lori is about 31 years old.
For some reason I picture her being a black.
Lori has probably a silky dress with flowers
and maybe she's wearing like a jean type of jacket
with wavy hair like really puffy for some reason
and a headband.
- Hey. - What's up?
- Pretty good. - Alright.
- Nice to meet you. - Fernando.
- Emmanuel, nice to meet you. - Southern American?
- From Mejico.
- Oh from Mexico!
I wasn't trying to be racist.
Wait, you've got Vans on? - Oh yes.
- Oh!
Jeans, with the button, it's not a polo.
- It's not, it was close though.
- And you do have glasses. - I have glasses.
- I'm pretty good at this.
- You were right with the age, I'm 24.
- You're? - I'm 24.
- Okay. Alright.
- How old are you?
- I'm 24. - 24?
- Yeah.
- For some reason I thought
you were gonna be wearing slacks.
- No.
I am African American though.
- Got that right. - You were right about that.
(laughing)
- Hi! - Hi Lori, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- I'm white.
(laughing)
- Sorry about that.
You must be a psychic
because you got almost everything down.
- I was cracking up when you were describing me
as a black woman with puffy hair.
It was just super funny.
I knew what I look like
and so for you to say that you thought I was
a black woman was surprising to me.
- How did you know I was African American?
- You know, your voice.
It's just so deep, it just gave me this vibe,
"He's African American."
- [Emmanuel] Alright.
- What about Hispanics do you feel
like there's an assumption that you wish would change?
- Maybe that we're criminals and we're not.
We're really hard workers, that's what we're known for.
Even the lazy Mexicans are still hard workers.
- I think assumptions are a good thing.
I think it's biologically in us to do it.
We meet so many people in our daily lives
and we have to quickly sift through
who we're gonna be cool with,
who we're gonna work with,
who don't we like.
- I think we're all trying to make sense of the world
and then when we put, turn people in categories,
I just think that it makes it easier for everybody.
- I feel like we should just be more honest of ourselves.
- That's true. - Yeah.
- Hey, so the turtle thing,
that sounds pretty interesting.
You gotta invite me to the next one.
- It was really really funny.
♫ Soul pancake
(upbeat music)