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Ep. 138 Carolina Acosta: The Cultural Journey of Making Tragos to Household Name
We're thrilled to welcome back Carolina Acosta, founder of Tragos Games now available on Target shelves all across the country. Carolina shares the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, pitching to Target, and the creative promotional strategies her team used to make Tragos a household name. This conversation is packed with laughter, nostalgia, and a real behind-the-scenes look at making it big in retail.
Hi, I'm Carolina Costa, the founder of Dragos Games, and you're watching the Todo Latino Show.
Speaker 2:Alright, everybody from 1500 Live at Pro Audio LA. It's the Todo Latino Show sponsored by Global Processing Systems, the official merchant for Revolucion 2024. Global Processing Systems, the official merchant for Revolución 2024. I'm your host, rafael, once again. Joining me is the team Daisy. We have Jovi and our special guest. She is a Forbes 30 under 30 and CEO of the popular game products. Creator of Tragos, the card game, carolina Acosta. What's up?
Speaker 1:Hey, what's up? Thank you for having me guys. It's been a while. We had you on two years ago, if you remember that.
Speaker 2:I absolutely remember it was like smack in the middle of covid smack in the middle of covid and it was the worst experience we both had wifi reception.
Speaker 4:It was it was.
Speaker 2:We tried to connect and, for whatever reason, it just wasn't this was a long, a long time ago. This was like Latin Babble Show, like early editions of the video version of that show.
Speaker 1:I still have fun. I just, I don't know, in breaks.
Speaker 3:It was hilarious, we were sitting there.
Speaker 2:By the way, at the time we were using Riverside fix your stuff and we were sitting there having it and we would answer a question, and then she would just give us a deer-in-the-headlight look throughout the entire time because she hadn't received it yet, and so we would ask a question and all you see is her like.
Speaker 4:There was a big delay. Oh my goodness, it was so crazy.
Speaker 3:I was like Carolina.
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 1:Are you there, Her like tick, tick, tick.
Speaker 2:It was so funny, and then, when she would finally answer, we were trying to give another question at the same time. It was just chaos.
Speaker 1:The times here we are in person I mean, how has it been since then?
Speaker 2:It's been, you know, for a two-year journey since that point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean it's honestly, the years have blended together when it comes to running a business, but I'd say we're in a pretty good spot right now. Um, we are still making games and our most recent thing we just got that goes into target. Wow, wow I think you guys had reels on that right like you guys put them off. So many reels, embarrassing, real. We're just like in target, like dancing, and the employees are like what is going on, did they?
Speaker 2:allow. So the question did they allow you to actually do that? Because I know Target's kind of like, hmm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you can do that, especially if you're promoting them. The only thing is we try to get some Target employees to come do some dances with us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, to be part of it.
Speaker 1:And they were just like they're like, we can't do that, like you know, they just don't want to you should have just asked us to put on some red.
Speaker 2:So that's what we did so.
Speaker 1:we put on red T-shirts and so acted as Target employees.
Speaker 4:They don't do anything about that, they don't stop you no.
Speaker 2:She's like they didn't know.
Speaker 1:So far not yet.
Speaker 4:People get kicked out of Target for doing skits and stuff.
Speaker 2:Well, my daughter is an influencer and they give her a lot of. No, they give her slack every time that she goes to record inside those stores? Yeah, they can't. Because you can't do it in movie theaters and different places? Oh wow, because they're not authorized. You're not authorized to display the brand. She's like I did something illegal here.
Speaker 1:No, well, your play the brand. She's like I did something illegal here.
Speaker 2:No, like your product's in there, so yeah that's why I'm like you're like.
Speaker 4:Do you know who I am? I'm the ceo of the ceo of the right before zod they've reposted some stuff that we've done.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, it's all promotion for them yeah, very cool man.
Speaker 2:I had to be like I. I mean, I don't know, we just did the magazine, so for us it's like that level of excitement. We're just like, oh my god like, everything is jittery, like yeah, when did you guys? Find out that you got accepted into target oh, we found out last february.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow, and so it took us, we had a meeting with them, maybe in like july, I want to say, or september. We found out in february. They were like, okay, we need you to get us product by June, and then we were actually on shelves by end of August wait, it took that long it's a whole process.
Speaker 2:So did you have to go in and do like a whole sales pitch type thing with the storyboards and all that?
Speaker 1:it was like Shark Tank without the investors.
Speaker 3:It was just like please take us, and this is Target Nationwide too- it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're in about 1,700 stores, wow.
Speaker 2:So it's not like a local, regional thing.
Speaker 1:It's across. We are everywhere. How do?
Speaker 2:they determine where the Latino populations are, as to where they strategically post them.
Speaker 1:We are working on that. So Target's more like blanket. They do restock obviously faster, like where where the latino population is, at least for us, but it's. They're not really in a place right now where they can choose, you know. So we, we went everywhere. We're in nebraska, we're in iowa, and so the, our target games are just sitting there on shelves like crickets.
Speaker 2:Yeah, do better. I mean, come on like they should be in LA, new York, places like Miami, places like that, I think right.
Speaker 1:I mean, we are A lot of. We are Okay.
Speaker 2:So then, the ones in Nebraska. If they sell out everywhere else, you know where to drive.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's like, where are they?
Speaker 1:at there's definitely some in Nebraska. We're like the five Latinos in Nebraska Like hey guys, there has to be at least 1% out there 2% right Something, something like that Maybe they're just not playing thrive.
Speaker 3:We are everywhere.
Speaker 2:I feel like we're definitely in Nebraska.
Speaker 3:I mean, they're working that cattle?
Speaker 2:They're definitely working those fields? Yeah, working that cattle. So look, the last time we spoke here just kind of give a little bit about yourself, like you know your growing up process. For those who didn't see the previous interview that we had yeah, dale.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so my mom's Colombian, my dad's Dominican. I grew up in Queens, new York, and I grew up very non-Latina though. So, like you know, wanting to assimilate, my parents taught me Spanish first, but they also wanted to learn English. So we were speaking more English together than Spanish growing up, or at least I was with them. So it wasn't until I was an adult that I was like, oh you know, like I want to kind of experience my culture a little bit more. That's when I went to travel to Columbia for the first time, then eventually DR, and that's kind of when I re-fell in love with my culture and got inspired to make games for it.
Speaker 2:We have a similar story on that because I grew up my entire life, you know, surrounded by my family. We did a lot of you know, traveling here in the us. We were like in patterson and then we were in miami and um, even though we visited or lived in puerto rico and in dominica, I did it when I was really, really, really young yeah and it wasn't until like I think I think it was three or four years ago my grandfather was, you know, kind of passing away and my mom hadn't really seen him.
Speaker 2:So we all took a trip to DR it was kind of like my way of getting away from work, um, and we really got connected with the Dominican culture there. And then, um, shortly after I think it was like a year and a half after my daughter bought me a trip to Puerto Rico and we spent, I think, like 10 10 it had to be like 10 or 14 days there and it was the first time I had been to any of these countries in like 30 years. So for me, like, puerto rico was brand new, like I went there and I was just like it's beautiful.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, it was shock and so that's kind of like what helped me a lot with. You know, what we did with the wafi is is kind of like that rejuvenation aspect of it whereas my kids, because of the fact that I spend so much time trying, like what you were saying, assimilate here. Yeah, you know, they didn't get that appreciation of culture like I did growing up.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You know, when I was a young kid, so I can definitely relate to that. That's something that's really cool. I don't know if anybody has a similar story to that, because I lived. I mean I lived. I mean I lived in the United States my whole life, except for like two years.
Speaker 3:So you're saying you didn't visit?
Speaker 1:until you were a lot older. Yeah, I mean I was. When I left Puerto Rico I was like four to five.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's really small. Yeah, when you went back um just recently, I think it was like a year and a half ago.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's why it's a cultural shock because I grew up going to Mexico every year, so I used to do that when I was younger, but when you spent like I spent the entire time raising kids in like majority.
Speaker 2:Caucasian communities. So, for me like that wasn't. You know, I wasn't around my family throughout that time and you start losing that cultural aspect of it.
Speaker 1:I grew up in a very Latino neighborhood. It was like jackson heights, queens, like little columbia they call it and like I don't know, I think, I think it was a me problem because I was like, I was like the nerd reading like harry potter books in the corner and not like going out with, like, the girls that were, like I don't know, trying to talk to guys in spanish, I don't know, like that's okay, but it was still yeah, same but but yeah, it's nothing like going to the country and like yeah really being in there.
Speaker 1:But and the best part is like something that you don't really notice is like you think that you're oh, you're like a too american. But you go down there, you start speaking enough spanish to the locals and suddenly, like you feel like one of them yeah, yeah, everything comes back. Yeah, it does Do you speak Spanish?
Speaker 4:I do. Yeah, I mean enough Enough to get by. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, it's like you could speak it, especially when you're in Latin America, but as soon as somebody else comes here, you're like I don't know, you get scared that you're going to say a wrong word.
Speaker 2:It's intimidating, it's intimidating, it's intimidating, it's intimidating my cousin, my cousin, uh Jaime, speaks like what we call periodista. Like you know, telenovela Spanish.
Speaker 3:Like they speak like perfect Spanish.
Speaker 2:And so when he's talking to me, I'm like what translation you got, man? Because I'm going through this database and it is not recording.
Speaker 4:I'm so stuck on words like basement and closet and stuff like that which makes no sense. No, here I am like a bilingual queen, but when I go to Mexico my cousins are like that's not how you say that but, I, actually really feel like I speak fluent Spanish we speak enough to get by within the family constructs here in the United States.
Speaker 2:I think it's different when you go to like when I went to Puerto Rico, there were parts of Puerto Rico that they were talking the language that you were just like okay, I have no idea what you just said yeah, it's like the dialect A lot of lingo. Yeah, that's crazy. All right, so you're in New York. Now, though, right, yeah, is that where you're living? Yeah, which one do you like better? Because you've been in LA? I know the traffic sucks here.
Speaker 1:I really want to move to LA. I really do no wait, I'm not done, she's like there's more, but I can't stand it. Everything is so sprawled out. I was complaining today driving, because I haven't stopped driving since I got here and I'm like I feel like LA is New York if it just threw up over like 100 miles, like it's just. It's so exciting, there's so much going on, but everything's so freaking far.
Speaker 4:Is New York not like that.
Speaker 1:Everything is so tight, Even if it's like that the transportation is different.
Speaker 2:So like for instance, you can get on the subway in New York and going to Queens from like Manhattan would be like a 30, 40 minute like, depending on where you are. But it's not like traffic queens. You know, it's not like what you would go through if you were dealing with here, here. A 40 minute ride is because you ran into a little bit of traffic, but it's still 30 miles away, like you don't have to be driving.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So that's, that's the difference.
Speaker 4:Wait, I have a lot going on.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it was just for us, it was part of it.
Speaker 1:Definitely I think I'll come, I'm definitely coming back. For you guys, we're doing a Revolucion 2.
Speaker 3:Oh, we're going to see you back in September, nice yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we're actually working on. What is it we agreed on?
Speaker 1:we're going to work on little card sets for to hand out in the swag bag, yeah, yeah, to turn around and put in, because I think the swag bag.
Speaker 2:What is the t-shirt? The the mug, not the mug. I think it's like a water bottle or something like that you got rafael lewis thing's book illegally yours oh, okay, um and there's a few other things in there, that's pretty sweet.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2:You got to get the vip, though you don't get the vip what's the package? That's the like. If you buy your tickets now, you get a vip bag included in it, sweet. If you wait and you, you know, start buying it close to the event, you don't get the vip bag. You have to buy that separately at the event and it's going to be more obviously because there you go no I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4:So get your vip passes.
Speaker 1:So I love la and I'm definitely coming back for the event and you, you know there's always stuff going on here, so I've just got to figure it out Always something happening.
Speaker 3:Yeah, with that being said, now that I'm trying to get to know you, carolina, how did you get approached by force under 30? How did that come about?
Speaker 1:Yes, I had a great PR rep and she reached out. She's like. You know you can. What's the word when you vote for somebody?
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:It's not really voting. It's like before, like when you bring them up to.
Speaker 3:That you create a campaign.
Speaker 4:Recommend, refer Something like that we're going to come up with.
Speaker 3:It's the word.
Speaker 2:We need those word games.
Speaker 3:Somebody get Scrabble.
Speaker 1:Yeah right, anyway, yeah, whatever that was, she applied for me because you could apply online you could recommend someone okay so she kind of told my story and I got into like the finalist round.
Speaker 1:Oh, wow so then I had to submit my own application and the whole time I'm thinking, marisol, this is a stretch, like I just I just made a game, like I'm not, like you know, saving the world out there. But she really pushed because we were doing a lot of nonprofit work at the time. We were supporting, you know, the disaster relief for, like Puerto Rico at the time, I know we were doing COVID relief work and working with some nonprofits. So, yeah, we put that story in. We talked about you, you know, creating cultural products in general, and they told me, yeah, we, we got in, I got into the class of 2021 wow, then you made the list yeah, so what are the?
Speaker 4:benefits of having your name under forbes 30 you get to say it forever it's part of your credentials.
Speaker 3:Nice, she's like do you know who I am exactly flexing? Is there any?
Speaker 4:benefits as far as, like, I don't know, like, do they?
Speaker 1:no, there are it's an amazing community to be a part of. We have a summit that we attend every year so that we go to. That's like almost all paid for that. You know, you just show up and you get to network. We're on a slack channel. It's got like thousands, oh wow really they have different summits you could attend. They have a big one in botswana every year um abu dhabi so, as an entrepreneur, you feel supported as a business.
Speaker 2:I feel like I'm never going to get there. I'm going to be like the Forbes under 80. It's going to be me and just like this Do they have a Forbes under 80? I don't know, I just made that up, I think it's up to 50. I'm going to be up to 50.
Speaker 4:You have a chance.
Speaker 3:Wait, are you still up to 50? So I got like two years to get this on the better start drinking water yeah she's been giving me crap about this it's because of you.
Speaker 2:It's because of you, so everybody who doesn't know I don't drink a lot of water and so they've been giving me crap.
Speaker 4:I need everybody to comment saying please drink water. I drink the healthiest liquid on earth, diet Coke apparently, but Flucky drinks it. Well, that doesn't exactly help me speaking of Tragos, I want to know what came about for the name like were your family members alcoholics, did you have alcoholic friends, or how did it come to be?
Speaker 1:I think so, the idea of making it a drinking game. It was. It was with a friend. We, like you know, we had this concept. Um that I was really excited for it, mainly because at the time, the time, I was 25, so I mean, things have changed fun times fun times and, um, something that was very like American about my education.
Speaker 1:like you know, as a college student is just playing party games in general. Sometimes most of the time they are drinking games, so it was just something that I felt like I could relate to as an American in a way, but then having something cultural to it was something that felt more like my Latina side. So I felt like it was a good combination of the two and something that Latino Americans or like US Latinos would vibe with, without feeling like, oh you know, I have to like it wasn't like an educational thing, it wasn't like a stigma thing, like feeling like you had to be Mexican or whatever. It was just like a fun thing that didn't have anything, any judgment attached to it there you go yeah, so nice that's relatable when you're 25.
Speaker 4:I do think there's like a lot of drinking games when you're in college too, like flip cup, yeah, king's cup, yeah, king's cups I'm trying to figure out.
Speaker 2:How long did it take you to graduate? I?
Speaker 1:was still playing games with my friends, you know I actually.
Speaker 4:I finished college later on. I didn't Did you start it later on I started later on.
Speaker 2:yeah, that's the reason.
Speaker 4:It's never too late. Don't judge, you got out at 25 days.
Speaker 2:She's like don't judge.
Speaker 3:No, I started later. It took me a while to I don't drink any of that.
Speaker 2:So to go back to school and leave people alone, it's never. You could be a 50-year-old in class. No, we're not.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to be able to get Forbes under 50 and go to college at the same time. We're not I'm not the pick and choose one right now. It's part of your story, I think they'll love it.
Speaker 2:So you have different variations of the game, yo quiero.
Speaker 1:I came up with probably like over half of the cards.
Speaker 2:Did you? I had a team help me with the rest. Were you going through a vibe at the time or something?
Speaker 1:Yes, I remember the day I was just like I think I had like a beer. I was home alone and I'm just like, all right, let's do this.
Speaker 3:She was on a roll that day.
Speaker 1:You got to get inspired, you know. But like I don't know what was it, I think I was excited to work on a spicy because we actually had this survey that went out and the survey was like what kind of like a party are you? It was like a BuzzFeed kind of thing. And in the middle of that, like quiz, we were like what kind of game do you want to see Tragos come out with? And middle of that, like quiz, we were like what kind of game do you want to see that goes come out with? And people went crazy over a spicy and I was like, oh okay, these are like the sucios in our community. They're like that's what they want to see next. So I was like, okay, if I was, you know, if.
Speaker 2:I'm spicy, like what are some of the things that you would see in the drug was spicy that you wouldn't see in the other one.
Speaker 1:There's a card that's like give your best lap dance. Wow, is there anything really bad in the game no, there's a card that's like have you ever had sex on plastic covered furniture? So it's a little taboo.
Speaker 2:But you know it's not like a little conflicted with that one, I I'm not sure what's a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what kind of couch it was.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, when you go to your OLS house, what are the other two? I was part of that experience Because you're like are you hooking up?
Speaker 2:They have the nice living room, but then they're like no, nobody can sit there on the plastic cover or doing what she's saying I know making out making out in the cause.
Speaker 1:Then you're like is it, are you having sex in your parents house? Is?
Speaker 2:that what's happening like so it's spicy a little bit, so needless to say don't play trago spicy with ugly friends or with your with ugly friends.
Speaker 4:Ugly friends no, he said with your parents.
Speaker 1:I think he said parents or that Parents.
Speaker 2:I think he said parents, or that.
Speaker 4:No, I said ugly friends.
Speaker 2:I don't want to be doing no lap dance on, no ugly people, no, just so. Then you came out with, I think, the Get Loud. Yeah, what's the Get Loud. What's the difference between that one and Tragos?
Speaker 1:So Get Loud is. It's like its own brand under the Tragos company and it's a guessing game that comes in English and Spanish. You can play acting out or describing the words and it's just like a bilingual game that we wanted everyone in the family to play, because that goes, you know, not everyone is gonna be drinking and everybody wants to like party hard on a Thursday game night so get loud, was you know? Wait for everybody to keep playing games, for the kids to join.
Speaker 2:Even abuelos can play, so yeah, which is cool because, like, for instance uh, like you and I spoke we even through the first interview like I'm not a drinker. I don't drink at all, so having the alternative to that is kind of cool. That doesn't mean you can't play tragos if you're not a drinker, you can just substitute it with whatever right, want to do Anything.
Speaker 4:Diet Coke, yeah anything, or water or water.
Speaker 2:Or lots and lots of water Like Tragos gallon. You know, just try to do that. But then you had Tragos. I was curious about the Taiso Tragos Fiesta.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So Tragos has a few expansions. It has a spicy. It had Mi Tierra, which we now combine into a bigger Tragos pack. And then Fiesta's, like our little booster pack. It's like half the we call it say half the size, half the price, but it's like more party themed.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, so it's more of an icebreakers type situation, or is?
Speaker 1:it like more. Will you consider your products?
Speaker 3:family friendly Some of them.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would say Dragos, you know you play with drinks, but we say the content is like PG-13. There's nothing in there that you're like.
Speaker 3:Oh, I you know like Spicy, spicy, super spicy. Which?
Speaker 1:you know, there's a disclaimer there.
Speaker 2:Exactly, actually, I like that because I think when you put it out the first time, it was like a whole package for Valentine's Day. Yes, it came with, like the little shot glasses, condoms.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:She had a whole pack.
Speaker 3:Nice, that's a good marketing actually. Yeah, definitely good.
Speaker 2:No, it was an amazing box, like when you look at it it had everything that you need in order to like celebrate we did like sexy tiktoks to provide it I wasn't invited to do any of those tiktoks, so thank god for them, or they would have went out of business. So what?
Speaker 4:a fun career you have. I want to know what does the day look like for you as a creator of dragos?
Speaker 1:yeah, I'd say it's. It's half fun, half the same kind of work you'll see with any startup. So most of my days, I'd say, are very not glamorous. Like I'll get up Right now. I have a new like morning routine. Before I was so busy, I was like so focused on work that I'd roll out of bed in my pajamas and just start working on my computer all day long and that's just like answering emails, making sure social media is good to go, like setting up the campaigns, getting inventory. It was just like a lot of logistics and delegation. Now I'm actually like okay, I'm bored of that, let's do something else.
Speaker 1:So, now I have a morning routine. I'll get up in the morning. Stretch yoga sometimes work out, fix my hair, put on makeup. Just up in the morning, stretch yoga sometimes work out, fix my hair, put on makeup, just get in the mood, which I think is super helpful to get in the right headspace, and so now I'm actually going to be building out more games.
Speaker 1:We have a whole product roadmap which again it's going to be in front of a computer notebook, and then my other job is just network. Come out here, come to like. So we've been doing a lot of um event planning too. Um, last week we were in, not last week. Two weeks ago we were in austin. In two weeks, I think, I'll be in san antonio. So it is a bit of traveling too are you still doing a non-profit bipoc?
Speaker 3:latOC Latinx, done Girl, I got to make money first.
Speaker 1:So we would love to do more impact work, but you know it's my first business and when we could, we were doing the social impact. Now we just not yet Okay. So being transparent there is like a roller coaster.
Speaker 2:I mean it's cool that you even do it. You did it when at the beginning, when you were able to at the end.
Speaker 2:If you get the opportunity, you'll definitely like yeah, jump back on, because that's something that I know that we at the luafi we're wanting to do as well is more, more work in the community as far as trying to help non-profits here in this area yeah, there is so much that can be done, and it's definitely part of our mission, because you can't make products for Latinos and not want to support your community back Exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so there's a lot of opportunity, a lot that I personally want to do, so you know, in due time yeah.
Speaker 3:You'll come back around like yeah.
Speaker 2:Very cool, all right, so you're going to teach us a game, exactly. You're going to let teach us a game exactly, so which one are we gonna end up playing?
Speaker 1:I think we should play get loud that's the one that I got here, so I'm gonna go ahead and give you that okay, I think we have to remember that if we're gonna play, you have to like step away from the mic, cause you're gonna probably yell a little bit.
Speaker 2:I'm okay. Whoever is on the other side of listening to this, be careful. It's called get loud. Yes, this is gonna be okay, all right.
Speaker 1:So for who can see it, you have 800 words, so it's 400 cards front and back. Green and blue are harder words, so we're gonna start with the yellow, just to, like you know, ease you guys into it, warm up. Yeah, and then we're going to play in teams, so maybe you and I can be teams and you guys.
Speaker 4:Oh, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, so, and then it comes with a timer.
Speaker 2:I thought it would be an individual thing, so I could like have bragging rights.
Speaker 1:No, you got to work together. Okay, no, you got to work together, okay. Oh, it's a little timer, yeah, so it comes with a one-minute timer and you guys can count the time. I'm going to turn it in a sec and then I'm just going to describe it. You have to answer them and you just go as fast as possible.
Speaker 4:Give me clues and I have to guess what the word is.
Speaker 2:Yes, Okay, it's going this way now Okay, how do we do that? We?
Speaker 3:take turns. We're far apart.
Speaker 1:We'll take turns, we'll take turns, and then I'll give you the cards.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay, all right, okay good.
Speaker 1:Ready, let's try this. Okay, it's a type of Mexican music genre.
Speaker 4:It's not like a finca, but like Mariachi no, keep going Recordios Banda no going Banda no.
Speaker 1:It's like where it sounds, like where you raise animals.
Speaker 2:I'm just kidding, okay.
Speaker 4:Sorry. I feel like I'm going to be terrible at this.
Speaker 1:It's okay, all right. What do you put on a Christmas tree? Ornaments yes, it's what you listen to in your car Music. The soundsnaments yes, it's what you listen to in your car Music.
Speaker 4:Radio.
Speaker 1:Yeah, what a caterpillar is before Butterfly, yeah, or after. My mom used to hit me with this Chancla no Belt when you put your garments on.
Speaker 4:Hanger yeah.
Speaker 2:Damn one of those a year at a time. Second of all hanger.
Speaker 3:I know right on hangar yeah.
Speaker 1:I think I got stuck.
Speaker 4:So what is it? My turn now? Okay, or is it you?
Speaker 2:You're going to read them and I'm going to guess you really want me to do it.
Speaker 4:You got to have him, guess I'll do the.
Speaker 2:you read them and I'll try to figure it out which level is she doing Yellow, yellow Stick?
Speaker 1:to the same thing. Yeah, hey, I've yet to see if I can get one in there. You ready.
Speaker 3:Yeah, here we go. They say that La Vida es Más Sabrosa.
Speaker 2:Oof, la Vida es Más Sabrosa.
Speaker 3:Yeah, la Vida es Más Sabrosa, nah, daddy Yankee. This is a song team with Justin Bieber, daddy Yankee.
Speaker 2:Oh, I know what you're talking about. Yeah, you're going to have to pass. I'm not going to be able to, yeah.
Speaker 3:I want to say that where you have chickens, horses, pigs. Yes, Actually, we're celebrating it as we speak right now. This week it has a name.
Speaker 2:Women's, women's.
Speaker 3:This week Easter.
Speaker 2:Today.
Speaker 3:The week Easter Today.
Speaker 2:The resurrection. No oh, Good Friday the week.
Speaker 3:The whole week.
Speaker 2:There's a whole week name for it.
Speaker 3:Semana Santa Semana Santa, wow, holy week.
Speaker 2:Holy week. I didn't even know there was a holy week.
Speaker 4:I don't know. I think we got time. Yeah, so he got two.
Speaker 2:I got two. That's terrible.
Speaker 3:I don't even know what the first one was. What was the first one? The first one uno era lento despacito.
Speaker 4:Oh, you couldn't have gotten a little better than that. Honestly, I was confused because I was like what is a card? So I thought, wait, you got one, he got two, I thought it was two, I got one that was.
Speaker 2:La vida es mas sabrosa en la playa.
Speaker 3:You should have said donde Come on.
Speaker 2:You got to do better than that.
Speaker 4:Those clues are terrible. La vida es mas sabrosa.
Speaker 1:I thought it was like a serrano song.
Speaker 2:I thought it was a drink.
Speaker 3:I thought she was introducing me to some famous drink I know. And then I'm like this week.
Speaker 2:I'm like there's a lot of sand and water. That would have been the easiest thing ever.
Speaker 4:She should have said where is la vida mas sabrosa?
Speaker 2:Let's get into that trago spicy. No, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 3:We're going to have a singing Carolina. What's going?
Speaker 1:on. Oh, I pulled out some tragos cards.
Speaker 4:I want to do some tragos. Let's do a round of tragos.
Speaker 2:This was the get loud. What's the tragos one like?
Speaker 1:There's a bunch of cards that are like. Each one makes you do something. A lot of them drinks, but no, everyone just has water now, so we're actually just going to do a few challenges.
Speaker 3:Okay.
Speaker 2:She picked out these challenges on purpose.
Speaker 3:She told me, these are pre-selected.
Speaker 2:Because we don't have drinks. She's got me going now.
Speaker 3:Pre-selected.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, we're going to go with an easy one. We're going to do categories, so each person is going to say something that fits within this category. We're going to do novella, plot twists, oof, and I'll start and then we'll go around. Okay, and then we'll go around. Okay, so mine is and you can't repeat it, or else.
Speaker 4:Or else you lose, or else you lose, or else you lose.
Speaker 1:There's an evil twin that comes into the plot.
Speaker 3:There's a wicked mother that doesn't like her new daughter-in-law.
Speaker 4:There's a twin sister somewhere in another country, I don't know Is that a line?
Speaker 1:Oh wait, I guess evil twins Okay.
Speaker 2:And the husband goes into the coma. He's with the wrong twin.
Speaker 4:Amigas y rivales. Oh, no, no, Hermanas, or that one novela actually Sorry, I got excited the one with the twin sisters.
Speaker 3:I just made that shit up.
Speaker 2:One of them lives a rich life, and one of them lives a poor life, yeah it's a novela, but the coma's in every novela, so I'm pretty sure I was right a little bit of percent of the time.
Speaker 1:You were right. Should we keep going?
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure Is it Dos.
Speaker 3:Mujeres, Un Camino Ruby. I don't know La Surpadora.
Speaker 4:That's the one. That's the one with the twin sisters. That's the Swiss sister.
Speaker 3:There's several versions.
Speaker 2:Carolina's a good kid in this.
Speaker 1:I had one. Oh, Somebody Comes Back from the Dead.
Speaker 2:That's everybody, every novella.
Speaker 1:I'm not being specific. We every novella. I'm not being we said novella plot twist.
Speaker 3:I'm not thinking of any specific one, the last brother that everybody thought that he was dead the rich, poor person that didn't know, that didn't know they had all this money.
Speaker 4:And then, yes, they find out. It's a good one, that's a good one I don't know if I can top that.
Speaker 2:that's a. That's a good one. Let's don't know if I can top that. That's a good one. Let's see the person that just came back from the dead, the husband that was killed off by the mayor. What? Because he knew information, it's always somebody. He llegó a Rodolfo. You know what I'm saying? It's always that guy?
Speaker 3:Did we give him that one, I guess yeah. Yeah, it's true. It's happened in like two novellas that I've seen the mayor specifically. The mayor, specifically El gobernador El asociero que se yoque.
Speaker 2:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4:It's always somebody who kills, somebody Can we do a different topic, do one of the action ones.
Speaker 1:The action ones. The action ones.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all right the action ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, all right, I'm going to pick someone to do their best impression of their abuelo or abuela.
Speaker 2:Mine's simple.
Speaker 1:Let's have you do it.
Speaker 3:Let's hear it.
Speaker 2:So my grandmother would come out every morning, every morning, and she would come this was in the Dominican Republic, the two years I lived there and she would come out and, just like you know, with the bata and her bra and she would just go Itty, chacko, wait what?
Speaker 3:Do it again? I'm not doing it again. What's the scene? It's Itty Chacko, because the famous she was a well-known actress but a dancer, entertainer and she would wear like these outfits.
Speaker 4:Yeah, very sexy and she wouldn't be wearing a bra.
Speaker 2:She would go like that no, no, no, she was like she would and her outfits were very like eccentric, so my grandmother would be doing yeah so 2024 would be traumatic conversations, but yeah, anyone else.
Speaker 3:I don't know how to imitate any. You don't know how to imitate any of your grandparents my grandparents, my grandma.
Speaker 4:She used to get mad if you didn't eat at her house. So she would be like. And if you said no, she'd be like like she'd always give you she'd get mad. She wanted to feed you all the time, so, so she'd be like vas, a comer, and if you said, no, I'm not hungry, she'd give you, like the. Wow, she got offended Because in Latin households people that cook like they get offended if you don't eat their food.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's their language. Yeah, my grandmother will be like she's. She will not. She will just be telling you something like conning your attention.
Speaker 2:You know when she sees you, she's like yeah, but you guys are describing it. You guys are supposed to be acting out to your grandmother. I know I should be acting like my.
Speaker 3:Yeah, like my grandmother will be like, you know, when we dress up, she will like be the inspector of, like, making sure that your hair was good. She will be like, hmm, and then your makeup is fine and always dress up, always dress up, doesn't matter the occasion. That's what my grandmother she will be like. Staring at you, she will be like what's one thing she would say. She will say like you look, it looks okay, but you know, it's a sign of approval if you got an answer. It was like that's a good sign. If you she was quiet, that means that she, that she, that was it, that was it, you were walking around distraught.
Speaker 2:But if she gives you the nod, she goes okay.
Speaker 3:Okay, you guys are good, you know.
Speaker 2:I think my grandma was fun.
Speaker 3:I know my grandma was fun too.
Speaker 2:You guys had some salty ass, grandmas.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was closest to my Dominican grandmother actually. I was closest to my Dominican grandmother actually, and I can't do a Dominican accent, but I can always talk like her because she always used to say this We'd go up to her and she never liked us cursing, so we'd be like abuela coño and then run away. She'd be like mira muchacha, but it was all in fun because then she'd laugh. That's so cool.
Speaker 2:My grandmother was still more fun.
Speaker 4:No, I'm just kidding. I love how you guys use the word coño. You use coño.
Speaker 2:You know, I used to use it a lot when I was a kid because of my mom, and then she would get mad that I would use it.
Speaker 4:What's the English version of coño Darn it? It's like damn it or F word.
Speaker 1:Yeaharn it, but that's very political. Darn it coño.
Speaker 4:Yeah, mexicans don't use coño, right? No, no, we use really bad words. You use it, I won't lie to you.
Speaker 2:Words that make no sense like cojelo.
Speaker 4:No, I'm just kidding Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2:All right. So if they wanted to go buy the product?
Speaker 1:obviously they can go to Target, but what other ways can they buy it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, we still have our website TragosGamecom and we're on Amazon.
Speaker 1:Those are the two big ones, those are the two big ones.
Speaker 2:Yeah, walmartcom, and they're going to be able to purchase it at Revolucion as well. Yeah so they'll be able to buy it there. If they wanted to follow you, where would they go?
Speaker 1:Yeah, follow uh. The. The company account at dragos game, same as the website, and you can follow me um at caro costa. I mean, should I, should I spell that?
Speaker 2:we'll put it up in the uh we'll put it up in the description so that way she doesn't have to go through the. There's probably some, some underscore lines or other.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's some X's in there.
Speaker 2:X's in there. It's a little spicy the name, so you're going to go with the. Are there any other versions of the cane? I mean not the ones that you just thought of. Now, through the show we're going to have a Get Loud night edition. Are there any other editions that are coming out that you haven't really pushed out yet?
Speaker 1:Yeah. So I mean, we have a whole product roadmap that we're setting up, but I can't say what yet.
Speaker 2:Oh. I thought we were going to get like an exclusive.
Speaker 3:I know no.
Speaker 2:Not yet not yet.
Speaker 3:It's a secret.
Speaker 2:I will say that You're going to be putting her on the spot. She was like I got to say something.
Speaker 1:No, I'll say that we have different products besides Tragos or Get Loud coming out.
Speaker 2:Oh, very cool. Yeah, oh, so you're going into that. You have to come up with something like Trouble, where you click on the thing.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and she has merchandise coming out too right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, tragos Monopoly.
Speaker 4:Oh, oh.
Speaker 1:Maybe they have a board game, but that's probably going to be 2025.
Speaker 2:And then See, I got it out of her.
Speaker 1:No, no, I'll give you something bigger actually Not a game, but we are actually rebranding to be a more unified game house.
Speaker 3:So when people hear of us.
Speaker 1:They're not going to think, just Tragos. They're going to think insert bigger company name.
Speaker 3:She's working on something this was fun to have you. This was fun.
Speaker 2:Yeah, thank you, we're gonna be and we're actually gonna be using the game in some of our future episodes. So you know, if people start singing like roosters and stuff on set, so I'm gonna come up with my own version too, and then have her back and then specifically designed to make you look like an.
Speaker 1:I'm just kidding there is another card. I mean, we, we don't have to do it now, but you should definitely use it for the next, I don't know. Uh, give your best, grito mariachi we should do, we should have.
Speaker 2:I mean, you should just do it, and then we'll just post it.
Speaker 4:I think I know you're the one that always gets roasted. I can't. I sound like.
Speaker 3:Miguel from the movie.
Speaker 2:Coco yeah.
Speaker 3:I'd be terrible. That's it.
Speaker 2:Why? What do you mean? I would not be able to do that.
Speaker 1:I didn't know how much like it takes a lot of action.
Speaker 3:You gotta have, I mean it's a whole.
Speaker 1:No I sound like Miguel when he's trying to learn how to, but he eventually gets it.
Speaker 4:he eventually gets it, but remember when Miguel was trying to learn how to do it.
Speaker 2:That's how I sound it's like when Simba's trying to learn how to roar we'll save that card for our next guest. Cool, nah, I'm gonna have to practice it, and then I'll do it on the one. You know who we should have. Do that Fluffy. Yeah, practice it, and then I'll do it.
Speaker 4:You know who we should have do that, fluffy, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:The next time we bring him on the show we'll have him do that.
Speaker 4:He does Speedy.
Speaker 2:Gonzalez.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2:All right, well, this was really fun. It was great to see you again and to be able to share the game. If you guys are going online, we'll have it out there. There's the different versions of the doggos. We're definitely going to promote the get loud. Try to use it a lot on our game spot.
Speaker 1:But thank you once again. Thank you. This was fun as always, and no breaks, no technical difficulties. It would have been funny if, in the middle of this, interview.
Speaker 2:We were all like.
Speaker 3:That minute would not have lasted at all. We have to all edit.
Speaker 2:It's like what happened. She just paused there and like there was no lag. It was just weird. Why did she just stop? So no, but everybody, if you're watching this interview, please make sure you go and follow us at Todo Latino Show and at Todo Wafi. Make sure you follow all of our accounts. Remind yourselves that there's Revolución coming on September, september, that there's Revolución coming on September 20th through the 22nd. You can actually see it here and watch it here everywhere else. The magazine just came out for the Santa Latina account, so we're really happy to celebrate that and again, thank you for joining us. From Pro Audio Studio, la. I'm Rafael, that is Daisy, that is Jovi, that is Carolina and we're out.
