Cabito: "They took charge of a situation for which I am not responsible"

After 13 years of broadcast and one in production,

Eduardo "Cabito" Mbada Alcántara

it is no longer part of Basta de Todo, the Metro 95.1 FM radio show hosted by Matías Martin.

When posting a farewell message to his Instagram account, the comedian spoke with
THE NATION and gave his version on the reasons that would have led to the decision that took the cycle to happen without their participation. According to him, attrition with a sector of the program was the trigger.

The driver and scriptwriter also explains his current state of health and anticipates the opportunities available to him in terms of work in this new phase. Among the strongest proposals envisaged in the future is its possible incorporation into
Your attention is yours, cycle led by Nicolás Artusi and Sol Rosales, and their participation in a gastronomy program with Narda Lepes (with whom the radio is in talks) that would be broadcast over the weekend.

– How are you?

-Wrong. After so many years of work, such a change is difficult. It was a job that has transformed me and transformed me.

– What feelings does this situation produce?

-I feel weird and bad. In my Instagram, I've exposed some of what I was feeling and the situation, but there's still one left that will remain within the group, as in a football team. There are things that will stay there. For me, it would be easier to speak but I prefer, out of respect, to stay like that. I did not speak; Matías spoke and I just want to respond to what he said, but without conflict and without a fight. It seems to me that all broadcast would do more damage than it would and the truth is that I like this program a lot.

-Why do you think it was decided to end your employment relationship?

-Matías spoke about marriage but we are not a wedding, we are a job. He talked about my health, said that he had influenced or played against me. I was going to leave
Basta when I was very fat and Matias told me at that moment that I could not go on like this, and I went out
Bastabut thanks to the direction of Pablo Lete, then artistic director of the program, I joined the operation. But something has broken. If you are driven out of a place because of your health, there is already something that does not work and I think that is what we could not advance. Regarding my health, I changed color brilliantly: I lost 125 pounds (out of more than 200 weighed). I have undergone gastric bypbad and I have trained five times a week for more than a year. Now, I'm 79 years old.

-But you think then that it was decided to leave because you did not give everything on the ground or for what reasons?

-I was hyper obese; I had apneas and nodded. He nodded at home, sat down once and even nodded in the air and even drove, thus putting my life in danger. My exit from the program was due to my obesity. You are not obese because you paint, because you want or because you eat, but it is an illness. On the other side is the power of Matías to throw me when I paint it, because that is his decision. In fact, the radio has been beaten so that they do not throw me out again, as well as the art director. The latter thought that I had given a lot to the program (when
Basta It was successful, I was there with Gabi (Schulz) and Matías (Martin) plus two producers; now we were ten thousand and the program is not going so well), so: or I was too important and the fault is that the program is not going so well, or I'm not guilty now. One of the two is not. And if it was because I was so important, if I had been so important, they would have paid me for it, because the truth is they did not pay me for it. Pay differences are abominable, I rent my house, so you have an idea and I do not have any apartments in Miami.

-Difference of salary in relation to whom?

"It does not count, I'm not going to talk about string.

– How was the return in this second round?

– There was already something broken and it is difficult to create humor in a place where they do not want you.

-How are you today in good health?

-I am trying to recover from my emotional side and my health. I'm looking for Cormillot to gain weight. I'm seven pounds below what I have to weigh. I feel healthy and I am not more diabetic. But I would not have wanted to talk about my problems with obesity.

-When did you say that you were leaving?

– Four or five months ago.

– They were tight these months?

-And … that's why lately I've also talked little. It was difficult to continue like this.

-How did the decision affect you at that time?

-Very bad, because it seems unfair. They took charge of a situation for which I am not responsible, I believe. But it's about things we do not talk about, something internal.

-What situation are you referring to: an idea of ​​improving or changing content for the radio?

– No, it has to do with other things that I will not talk about and that will surely be disguised in that. They also wanted me to say goodbye to the air and I did not want to face a situation when the situation is different. It is true that Matías proposed to transfer me to the antenna but I preferred to do it on my social networks.

-How did you experience the moment of your operation (gastric bypbad surgery, in March of last year)?

-In my state of obesity, I was going to die literally. It was a risky operation and I was scared at that time, you must be in charge of whoever makes the decision. Thank God, I took responsibility and acted for my family's sake, for what was my girlfriend and no one else at that time. Many wanted to hang the coconut from "it was exploited by me" but the people who were at that time know exactly what the situation was. I have worked for my family, for their support. In fact, I was clinically dead after the operation and I spent four days in intensive probe therapy. These moments help you to understand who is with you and who does not, who calls you on the phone to know how you are going and who does not appear.

-Who did you really feel close to when you were cheated?

– There were people who worried, people who called me or wrote me, others who did not call me and others who did not come not, and people who wrote a message to my girlfriend so that she could see how she was going.

-Matías Martin commented these days that he was particularly concerned about your health.

– I do not know, that someone would say if it came to the sanatorium. What is the concern?

– How is your relationship with Metro in general?

-The radio wants me to stay, it's not a radio problem. Today's artistic director, Andrés Pandiella, also wants me to stay. Radio values ​​me personally and professionally.

– Is there a chance that you will stay?

-In general, when they throw you out of a laburo, if you have a manager and someone else says that they want you to stay, it's a mime. We are discussing to see how and to which program I could integrate. Several program pilots have opened their hearts and their space to access their programs.

– In which are there more chances to be constituted?

– The radio needs more women, that 's the truth, because there are more men than women. My incorporation could be more for the night. There is a chance to join
Your attention is yours, since Nico Artusi called me and told me that he and the radio wanted, and maybe for a new weekend program, which concerns gastronomy, perhaps with Narda Lepes, they talk to him. On the other hand, I devote a lot to gastronomy, which is another of my pbadions and because I already knew that when something as deep as what was broken was broken, it was difficult to advance the situation. He broke on both sides, eye.

-It was mentioned that you were not in a good mood this last time.

-That year my grandmother died, who raised me; and I separated from my partner after eight years of cohabitation. They knew it was wrong, I warned that it was wrong and anyway, it did not matter. And that aggravated the situation. Now I am trying to recover psychologically and I have future plans. There are many people who love me and who call me. I go out to talk because I do not agree with someone who becomes a victim of a situation of which he is the executor. Those who will enter my home are Malena Guinzburg, whom I love, and Martín Garabal, whom I do not know but whom I respect, and hope that they are fine, but how they want that I am full of humor in this context and when they did the casting for their incorporation in the air. Another thing that has been said is that I went to the party but by the time of the step I did not go up with everyone to jump. They were all celebrating, but how was I going to celebrate knowing that I was leaving? I went because they asked me to go there. In addition, they first told me that I would go in December, then in November, and then a week before the party. My head is at stake, I am a person, a person who has given a lot to the program and who has spent many years: I have not taken a vacation for many years; there was nothing that mattered more than the program.

– Looking forward, how will your life go now?

-I give gourmet tips to the On Tap brewery chain and The Corner, a hamburger restaurant in Lanús, and prepare the letter for January, a restaurant that will open in Costanera.

– With what memories do you remain of your long journey?
Enough of everything?

-I remain with all the love that they have given me and with the memory of all those who accompanied me when I operated and that I was wrong . With the program, I experienced the death of my grandmother and my father, a couple of divorces and many joys. My salary was paid by the listeners who approached me and approached me to tell me that I had changed moods and that when they were bad, I thought it was bad. had a smile.

– What future do you fear for the program now that you are gone?

-The same as always, will continue after me, with more or less luck, but will continue, no problem. And that's my desire. If there is something that no one can tell you about me, it is that I am a bad person or that I am not loyal. There are more problems out there and it's not me. And I repeat, I am a fundamental element of success or I am not part of failure. The two artistic directors proposed to continue working on the radio, so I should not be so guilty.

– Do you want to continue on the subway?

Yes And everyone is now learning that I'm leaving, maybe other proposals will also be presented on other radios.

-When you join the subway programs you mentioned, will not it be strange to meet your comrades?
Enough of everything?

– With some I have a love relationship of several years and I will continue to see, with others, no. It's weird but it's like that. It would be like going from one section to another in the same laburo.