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Pretty, Not Smart with Louie and Yoatzi Castro - Louie and Yoatzi Castro

Louie and Yoatzi Castro reflect on their evolving relationship and creative journey, reminiscing about their chaotic, unscripted YouTube days in Watsonville during COVID-19. They discuss how nostalgia for those carefree

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• Louie recalls filming random 3 a.m. videos during college, including sneaking out to buy donuts and witnessing a dramatic car breakup at 3 a.m. in Watsonville

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Speaker 1 (0:00) The city moves fast, but your vibe that's different. Sharper, smoother, more alive. I just a boy, a boy, just a boy in this wild night A pyrni to say, my boy, So, just a boy. The new Honda City isn't just made to drive, it's made to feel. The new Honda City, all new vibe. What are you doing? Sorry. I'm pretty smart. Welcome back to another episode of Pretty Not Smart with your host, Louis, aka the sexiest perra. And you're Aatzi, where if you're not subscribed, you're definitely Pretty Not Smart. So if you want to be both, you better subscribe. Hi, friends. How are you? Hey, yo. Hey, yo, my mona de la meronita of the planet. I also. Pee! Losing big balls, sports. I am. I am. It's all honesty. How are you doing? Because I feel like I've been doing really good. How do you feel? My life? Oh, we feel so good. Hey! That was all cheer back in like 2012. Looking like 2010. I feel like my life is a roller coaster. Like emotions or just like actual shit happening? Both. Emotions and just a bunch of up and down shit up and around in circles and twisting. I feel like that too. I feel like my days right now have been very like all over the place and so much shit's happening. but I feel like mentally, I'm doing good. Oh, my. I need to go to the gym. That's what I need to do. Yeah, very much to release all the gas. Before we continue, we are going to be reading your pretty not smart moments. Here I have my computer de licensia. Greece, I'm going to go through your news. Let's post them. Okay, you tell me when to stop, Yotsie. I'm going through a few options. Stop. It's a long as one. Y'all are really testing my... It's a pretty not smart moment. Yeah, so a pretty not smart moment. It says, I just remembered this one. So I'm new to Instagram. I just made my account like a month ago, and I'm 20. Oh, every. I never knew how to use it. I had like 10 followers the first day that I made it, and I had no idea how stories and the close friend stories worked. I thought it was like Facebook where you click on and you want to send the post and then press send. Wait, what? It's because I don't use Facebook. Okay. I thought it was like Facebook where you click on who you want to send the post to and then press send. Oh. Kind of like Snapchat too. Uh-huh. Right? Okay. Girl, I was going to post on my close friends a post saying, so i'm not. Beiro. Soi Nutriologa and Oi coman verga to. Damn! But it was going to go on her close friends. Damn. She said, oh my gosh. I knew I had to click on who I wanted it. who I wanted at my close friends, but I just clicked on all of the 10 followers I had, and I automatically sent everyone that video. It literally keeps me up at night, my dumb ass, I love you guys. Oh, definitely a pretty not smart moment. I feel like close friends always get me too, though. I've done that shit too. We're like, I've accidentally posted on my personal and I wanted it to be on close friends. Yes. It's never been anything bad. Same, but imagine it was something bad. Because I used to treat my close friends like real close friends, like secret. and I used to post everything on there. But I stopped because I fucked up too many times. The buttons are too close. Yeah, they're too close and I'd be like, post a story. It took me way back to back. Oh my gosh. And I realized I fucked up. It reminds me of, I don't know if you've seen, there was this a trend, but a post that kind of went viral on TikTok of people having pretty not smart moments. And you know when you see us, you're watching people's stories. Some people mentally trying to send it to their friend and like they would talk shit. Like like it'd be like a girl like looking cute and they'd be like, oh my God, this bitch thought she looked so cute. And they send it to the person. Yeah. And then I saw one where the girl was like, what the fuck? And she put it, she said, ew, what the fuck? And she sent it to the girl. And then she was like, oh. And then the girl replied and she's like, what the fuck? What do you mean? She said, what the fuck, so adorable? And they try to like make it all cute. like cover and the girl's like oh thanks but underneath that one post there was so many fuck ups of people being like fake as fucking be like ew like why would she post that or like she thought she looked so cute there was one where she was like oh my gosh she thought she ate that and the other girl was like what the like what do you mean and she's like because you actually did it's so fucking hot yes a lot of people have done that to me in my in my dms me too where i think people are watching my stories and they meant to send it to like a friend But not people that I follow. I think it's just like people who follow me. The one that I can remember, this was such a long time ago. I think it was like 2021. My BBL was way smaller because I was like fresh off the table. I was like 22, 21 years old. And I was like at the gym. And I remember it was like a video of me, I don't know, doing a squaw or something. But you have been finche flakito. Like all des Nutrida. And some girl replied. applied to it and she was like, girl, like it doesn't even look like he got a BBL. I don't even know what he did. Like something like that, but basically reading like my butt to fill being like he looks hellless. But you can tell they were talking from like a perspective where they were sending it to somebody else. Yeah, right, right, right. Is he men cabronet a little bit. Because at that time I was really in my head about because my butt was really small after having a BBL, especially because I didn't give it time to fluff. So I felt like I looked the same. So that one had hit me hard. And I remember I replied or something. thing. I was like, I don't remember what I said, but I clad back and then she replied. She was like, no, I didn't mean that in a bad way. Like, I meant it looks really good. But I was like, no, she fully was like, girl, the fuck it doesn't even look like he got shit done. Yeah. And I was like, it's the cover up of it all. Like, if you're going to say she will stand tend those grounds, say I look flat. Don't back up all of a sudden. I had the same thing recently happened because I ended up going to the hospital. Oh, it's some fucking, some dumbass guy replied to my story, like sending you. it to a friend and they were like oh my god i knew it she's definitely fucking pregnant like they sent that and they send it to me and i was like i didn't respond because i was like girl but i know you're fucking dumb ass went to send it to some friend but like well first of all i'm not fucking pregnant and i'm never going to be pregnant ever again but i don't want kids the fuck anymore but the it's crazy to me that like so many people talk about us behind our backs like all the time. I'm like, at least my back is sexy. Like, think about it. Like, if it happened a few times, imagine all the times we never catch it. Stop, bad. I don't want to think about that. Now, girls, boys listening, I know what happens to you too. It'd be your biggest haters. They're watching your stories, but they probably send it to each other talking smack. That's what scares me, y'all, because people will think that it's only other people getting, I don't know how to put this into it. words like just because we do social media doesn't mean we're the only ones getting shit talked about behind our eyes because it'll be like just like everyone in their life has somebody who's like yes we just get it like magnified and like in the public eye but girl hi know your fucking tias talking shit about you i know i fucking know those fucking tias chizmosan i want to fai me too already getting hell of piss yeah there's like two there's like two tias in my lifetime that I genuinely want to like fuck up like fuck him up and drag them that's the only thing that I miss about like not being close to our family that right because when we were younger there was a lot of family drama that like all those stories hit like now that we're older and like my mom tells it's like the full chisement I'm like damn I didn't know all this shit but like since we don't really hang out with like we hang out with our close close family like our uncles and Shalana. But like when it was like Primos of Primos and it was like a huge gathering, we don't do that anymore. So it's like thankfully though, we don't need that. Yeah, I was going to say it's kind of good that we don't. Because there'd be so much drama that like we don't need in our life. Like it'd be like, no, we can't do this one fucking TikTok. Yeah. Oh my gosh. There was this one fucking TikTok. Girl, I'm not TikTok too much. I know. No, there was this one where like this one aunt was having like a Thanksgiving potluck. And the girl was like, y'all, I do not believe these text messages between me and my family member are real. And she posted them and basically the Tia was like, hey, so I already did the math for everybody. And everybody has to send like $150 for the potluck. This includes like the decor and it includes the food. Like it includes everything. And she goes, oh, thank you so much. Unfortunately, we don't have $150 to just splurge. so I think we're just going to stay home and like keep our our Thanksgiving minimal. And she's like, sorry, that's not an option. And she was like, I already zeled you or I sent you the request through cash app. I sent you the cash app request. And she's like, please make sure you send it by the end of today. And the girl, she was literally replying. She was like, like I said, our family can't afford $150 right now. So we can't go. And she's like, well, then you should have thought about that before you are as we peeped. That was everybody's responsibility. and now you don't have a choice. Even if you can't attend, at least send $100. And the girl was just like, what the fuck? Like, I'm so, I can't just send you $150. One, you never told us that we had to pitch in to go to a family gathering. Two, when did we discuss that we were all like pitching in? Like, like, I'll be the one that is in charge of it. I'll spend all of this money. And now all of you have to account for it. And then she asked her. like, well, what are you getting that? Every family needs to pitch in $150. And she's like, it doesn't matter, but I had to make accommodations for like the plates. I already have a section for you and your family and your kids. I accounted for everyone's meal. Like, you guys have to pay. And she just kept sending the request. And at that point, the lady was like, look, I don't give a fuck about your fucking party. Long story short, I'm not fucking going. Cancel me if you want, but I'm not paying you $150. And people in the comments were like, imagine having to pay to go to a fucking family gathering. I don't like going for free. Yeah. For real? Yeah. I was like, fuck. But like, like, like, like, that day so it's because there's a difference in approach. Like, for example, okay, I can take it back to like the Castro family. Right. If we're going to do something and we know it's going to be split, we kind of give each other all a heads up and then we kind of tell each other what we're getting so we all know what we're going to split. Yeah. Like you won't, you won't go and like buy all this shit and then send me this. I'm like, wait, you don't even fucking give me a head's up. Yeah. So, for example, the last couple holidays, which I retire, I'm no longer doing this for the Castro family because it's so stressful. No, I'm not doing it anymore. I'm like the festivity planner for holidays and I plan a bunch of games and I do like a bunch of just a bunch of games so we can have family games to play during the holidays. So I'll be like Castro family. Everybody sent me 25 bucks so I can have money for this for gift cards and like gifts and whatever the fuck. Before she buys anything. Before I buy anything. And then everyone's like, all right. I bet. They send me their money and then I go and I buy all the gifts and everything. So that's like the correct way to do it. You fucking tell everybody what you're going to do. You don't just fuck. Like imagine I spend like a grand and I'm like everybody sent me 300 each. Yeah. No, imagine if like when I did the white elephant, I asked you if you send that shit to me. I'm like, it's a game that we all played. So you guys are all sending me money. You took the gift? Let me give you guys some context. Was it like two years ago? It was. Yeah. not this last year, but the year before that. Two years ago, Louis was like, hey, I have a surprise for you, Castro family, and we all showed up to his house. Nakebeiro. We're so scared. Nobody knew what was happening. And we swear we thought Louis was going to surprise us with another dog, that he got another dog. And I was like, where's the cage? And I was like, where's the kibble? The dog's fucking suffocandos in the caja. Yeah. And he ends up bringing like fucking 30 boxes from his fucking garage, like 10 big ass boxes in different shapes and dicks and everything. And we were like, what the fuck is he doing? didn't know. And then he was like, surprise. We're going to play white elephant. And I bought gifts for everyone. And we're like, oh. But now we're still opening. Oh, yeah. Yeah. We thought he was fully pranking us for the whole time. But now, and he got us some pretty like extravagant gifts. I did. I went full out. Do you remember what you got? I got like a huge JBL speaker. Which I got in. It's still my fucking favorite speaker of all time. You got that one. then I did a Dyson and then I did an iPad, the iPad mini. Yeah, that Andrea uses for school. I did some AirMax pros that my mom so uses. That my mom uses. And then I think I did like $500. Yeah. Because my dad got that one. My dad got the money. And there was one more that I'd, oh, oh, I was a surround system. Yes, yes. Those were catty. Those were to do it again. And what I get? Your family. But now we're saying that imagine at the end of the game. He was like, now pay up. Pay up. I'm going to give it. I have to return. It was just for the video. Don't actually open it. Give me that shit. That would have been funny. But yeah, I feel like family gatherings like that are pretty catty. Yeah, because connozotros, we all just keep it between us. We're like, all right, so like, this is what we're going to do. Let's just all send money and like wrap it up. Yeah, that's why it's good to have a small family, yeah, man. So speaking about family, I have a question. When are you having kids? Dead ass. That's the question. I have two. home. They're not real. I'm just kidding. Your babies. Tell that to them when they poop everywhere. No, they're definitely kids. And you know what? I'm really surprised at how you have them on check. I don't know. The videos, I literally watch the videos. Louis has like two videos of he shows how he talks to his girls and how he has him trained. I swear I watched each video like 10 times. Yeah. Because I can't how like the whistle, the tone, everything that you do. They're like, oh, for. No, dude, it's because like, I know I've said this so many times, but it amazes me how intelligent dogs are. And I think just animals in general, but like it'd be the slightest, smallest fucking things. And it's because I genuinely pay so much attention to them. Like, for example, when I'm going to feed them, fucking honey can be like on the other side of the house upstairs. And she just hears the noise of like my little cup grabbing the kibble. She'll run inside her house knowing she's about to get fed. And I'm like, it's so crazy. Or where I holds their leashes is in my guess. from closet, the moment she sees me walk into that room, she runs over there. And when she sees me open the closet, she immediately just starts barking and spinning because she knows she's going for a while. So I'm like, dude, dogs are so smart that like they pick up on so many cues. So like, I know when she's not listening to me is because she's trying to be petty to be pedacha. She knows everything. Yeah. So I'm like, dude, it's really crazy how smart. They're scary. Yeah. But what I wanted to talk about is, you know how we were just talking about how. how like we stopped doing YouTube videos that we used to do together. Oh yeah, we're having this conversation off camera. Yeah, off camera. How, well, I feel like I get sad. All right, start crying. I get sad that we don't really make videos like that anymore. But I don't. I'm like, thank God. But I do think it's because of the podcast. I feel like we've been giving our podcast our everything. but then we forget where like it all began. I feel like you were just talking about how you were like before when we lived in Watsonville, it was just me and you and we like would collab with each other like every video. To like debrief on that specific. So you see where I'm coming from. I just fucking hate you bitch. Ah, really. You understand on a deeper level. No, 100,000 percent. I feel like what's filled that gap for me is the podcast for a sure because before the podcast, you and I were not making any content together. I know. We lived here and like we were more like family time hanging out but like I was doing my content and you were doing yours and there came to my pincre sopa. But I still need like I have that like itch. I feel like I still need our like our old videos and I don't think I realized how much I missed them until we just started talking about it again. Yeah, it's because it's so different. Like when when we've had the opportunities to film now outside from pretty not smart, it sounds really fucked up but it's not really something that you and I decide it has it like it's like set up for us but it ends up being so fun and I think because you and I are so like we're the same we're like we're not following a script to the video like like how it's so fun where we recently I don't think it'll be out yet but we recently shot for Sephora we did a whole YouTube video for Seward which I'm so excited to film but like that video was so fun to film and it's like us just doing a bunch of mensas inside of the Sephora It was so fun. They gave us the freedom to do whatever we wanted. So, girl, you can only imagine all the shit we were doing in there. But, like, that was so fun. And then when we did, like, when we do streams, again, it's so like, it's not a schedule. We're just, like, filming. And back then, I feel like that's how we would film videos. It was just like, oh, my God, it was the most dumbest videos. I remember one time you got to was like, oh, I want to, like, um, decorate my little room, which used to live in the garage. And we made a whole video of that somehow we ended up with wigs and we're doing cheer routines. Yes. Like, it was so random. It was so random. And like the one the one where you like kick me in the head Oh we were playing Who the fuck? Like who does a YouTube video now do we play hide and go see? Yeah look so what happened was it was during COVID And I remember I was like Louis let's film on board And then he was like okay He came over and it was when I had just moved into that house And I had a cochin every A cochinetto everywhere And he's like well what the fuck are we going to film And I was like let's just get wigs installed And let's just see where the night takes us We don't know what the fuck we were filming And that's literally what we did. We filmed. We put on wigs and we're just acting fendegos. And then I think Fern was helping us blog. And then right after I was like, bitch, this is play hide in Gautique. And he's like, okay. And it was, you know, too, let's just make a video play her and go see. I was like, that's fucking stupid. But it's fucking stupid. But it's so funny. It was so funny. And it's just like random shit like that. And when I was telling you, Watsi that back then we were filming so much with each other because it was just me and you and Watsonville. No one was really doing social media. unless y'all can tell me about somebody else I don't think there was anybody else doing YouTube in Watsonville that we could have been like let's collab that was not a thing so we fully just relied on each other like if we wanted to quote unquote collab or have collab with friends we just go film with one another or it was me in my room or it was you in your room yeah that's fully what it was or we would ask Andrea or we would ask Andrea or I would film with like my friends or like it was just us in our own little world and I told you I'd see that coming out here. It's not a bad thing, but we've met so many other people that we kind of lost the plot, which was... We lost the plot. Because thanks to you guys, I want to say we've been able to really build a strong social media following from just us being us. Because y'all correct me if I'm saying shit wrong, but I've never been like a cloud chaser and I've never... I have it. No. No, no. I don't think we've ever like hung out with somebody to be like more of you. Like it's like everything has been