“There are few people following us, but we sound like a lot thanks to Pedro Sánchez”

The interview that The Pija and the Quinqui They did exactly a year ago Pedro Sanchezin the middle of the electoral campaign of June 23, put into orbit Mary Maturana y Carlos Peguerthen two emerging stars of the immense universe of podcasts (and Tik Tok). That talk, and others, like Rosalía’s, have boosted their careers and allowed them to combine their project on social networks with others that have brought them closer to classic television. They did it on TVE with the debates of The Conqueror, then on RTVE Play y Now on Flooxer, the open channel of Atresplayer.

This Sunday, July 28, the platform premieres the dating show If my mother says soa program where anonymous contestants will have three dates with three suitors and their mothers, who will be in charge of the encounters, in order for their sons or daughters to go out with the best partner. In this new program, singles cannot speak, but they can ask a written question and their mothers will bring objects to the encounters that represent or define them.

Is it possible to know a person through their mother?

Marian Maturana: No way. It’s impossible. Mothers have this arrogant thing of ‘Who’s going to know you better than your mother?’ Well, literally everyone I talk to for 30 seconds.

Carlos Peguer: Through your mother you get to know the person she thinks she is. Your family only knows one version of you.

Would you let your mothers choose your partners?

M.M: No. I would have to go through absolutely nothing to tell my mother to find me a boyfriend.

C.P: If I’m at a stage in life where I’m bored, maybe yes, but to liven things up a bit.

The mothers in the programme wear objects that define their children. What would represent you?

M.M: I am a person who stands out for not knowing how to do anything, not having any qualities and not having any hobbies. In other words, maybe a glass of water…

C.P: I wish my mother would bring a cocktail shaker to make a margarita, because it is very important for me to drink a margarita, or two or three, every Saturday.

Between a glass of water and a margarita…

M.M: The posh girl and the quinqui.

Are you in favor of giving your opinion about your friends’ partners?

C.P: You can’t have an opinion if you just don’t like him, but when he starts being a bastard, yes. I try to keep quiet with my friends, who always choose the older retarded ones, and I see it coming. When they give me the go-ahead, I tell them everything I think. At that moment, I’m like a dam that opens.

You’ve been experiencing a boom for the past year, does it make you dizzy?

M.M: No, because if I fail it’s the fault of whoever hired me. From the moment a camera was put in front of me I said: I’m useless, I don’t know how to make an ‘o’ with a straw and I don’t even know how to pronounce all the syllables of the words.

C.P: I don’t feel dizzy because we have the podcast, which is our driving force and it’s a piece of gum that we can stretch quite a bit. It’s our safety net that keeps us relaxed. Plus, we’re more confident now than before.

M.M: The substantial difference in this time has been the total and absolute loss of shame.

Many people got to know you thanks to Pedro Sánchez’s interview. Have you noticed?

C.P: I have noticed that over the last year we are stopped more often on the street and recognised more. Although our audience is still people of our age, interviews like the one with Pedro Sánchez or Rosalía have made us sound familiar to more people. Because the people who follow you are few but the people who know you are familiar to are many.