May 16, 2024 • 46 mins
Dramos deep dives into trending stories from this week including a Latina running for office going viral for the wrong reasons, Anitta getting backlash for her religion, Latinas In Tech and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk. There we go. He said,
you live in life as a ringo, where you question
when you fit in. Every time you mingle, they say
you do. This would not that ingo. Yes, hello, and
welcome to another episode of life. As in gringo. I
am dramas, of course, and it is Thursday, so it
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means it's time have a Thursday trends episode and we're
just gonna get into it. Man, there are there are
some things happening. I would even say this isn't even like,
you know, gigantic stuff, but it also is just like
this reflection of the world that we live in today.
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And I have some thoughts, of course. So there's this
story about a Missouri Republican candidate who is just s
viewing some nonsense and it just feeds into this fucking
cult narrative of this weird world that we live in today. Yeah,
and I'll actually probably piggyback. I don't if you've seen
the viral video of Kansas City Chiefs Kicker and this
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commencement speech he gave at a college, we'll talk about
that as well. We'll touch on it. I'm gonna touch
on I think just as a whole like where we
are politically culturally, trub will be involved in there somehow,
some way. I'll also talk about Anita and a new
music video that she dropped that has a lot of
people up at arms, and it's her talking about her
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Afro Brazilian faith essentially. I know, I grew up with
some people in my family practicing African religions that were
passed down to us, so I have some opinions on
this as well. We'll also, on a positive note, we'll
talk about Latina's in Tech, an organization that is really
doing some amazing work to help encourage and facilitate and
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give community to Latinas in the tech industry. Just a
few things. I'm just gonna just kind of go in
today and we'll kind of rail on some topics. A right,
So we'll start with the nonsense the bs in a
segment we call for the people in the back, say
a lot for the people in the say a lot
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for the people in the say a lot of the people.
All right, So let's start here with this Latina Republican
candidate in Missouri who her name is Valentino Gomez. She's
been causing a stir with her viral stunts where she
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burned LGBTQ books with a flame thrower, saying quote, this
is what I do with grooming books when I'm Secretary
of State. Last Sunday, apparently she was back on the
influencer kick jogging wearing a bulletproof vest, saying quote, in America,
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you can be anything you want, so don't be weak
and gay. End quote. She also appears briefly holding a
rifle and pistol in the video, and to no surprise,
she tagged the dude Andrew Tait, who many people know
on the internet as like this misogynistic guy who has
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been brought up on human trafficking charges. He was arrested
in Romania on human trafficking charges. So that's the person
that she's getting her influence from. Apparently. Now this is
a perfect example of your skin folk ain't always your kinfolk. Right.
Just because she's a Latina doesn't mean that she is
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somebody we need to support, right, And I just think
this speaks to a larger conversation, right. Obviously I told
it first of all, books that are grooming children. Somebody
being gay is not grooming children. I this like idea
of pedophilia or the idea that it's influencing kids to
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be gay like that is so ridiculous. Like again, I
think I've said this a million times on the podcast before.
But you want to talk about places of where pedophilia
is has been traditionally been proven to be rampant, look
no further than your church, right, that has been proven
time and time again. Or the Boy Scouts of America,
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which I believe now are just the Scouts of America,
like these are all this is all just to rile
people up. And how do you rile people up? Talk
about their children? Right? Of course, we all care about
the children in our lives and just the children of
the world. So now let's create this fake boogeyman and
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go off on that. She also accuses the Biden administration
of pushing a gay agenda or being gay. It's just
it's hard to make sense of it. But again, when
you're tagging people like Andrew Tate, who is literally ironically
behind bars in Romania, or was, at least I haven't
been doing my Andrew Tate you know check up as
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of late, but definitely was arrested in Romania for human trafficking.
That like nobody sees the hypocrisy in all of this,
you're talking about caring about the children, and then you're tagging,
meaning you're idolizing, trying to gain the fan base of
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somebody who literally is being brought up on charges of
human trafficking. What the fuck is happening in this sad like?
This is this is the sad thing about all of this,
And I really want to just like break this down,
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you know, a means of like and all these things,
like you're playing into the fears and emotions of people,
and you're doing all of it to go viral, to
become famous in some sort of way. Right, because again
she knows as a Latina, if she runs with the
crazy conservative talking points, it's gonna gain far more attention
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than she's another AOC basically right, because it's expected that
somebody of color is going to be progressive and doing
those things. But now you're a hardcore Trump supporter. You're
one of the ones that they can point to and say, hey,
how could Trump be racist? You have a Latino who
supports him, right, That's basically what it is, these types
of things, and then also saying crazy shit about like
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don't be weak and gay, like what are we talking about.
This is what this is Andrew Tate's playbook. Let me
say outlandish stuff and give people a boogeyman, right, Andrew
Tate feeds into the narrative of men being weak, and
you've been taught to be soft. That's why your life
is a mess. Right. So you have a slew of
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men out there who either were a the bully in
high school and now society has told them that doesn't
have a place, so they feel lost without being able
to be the bully, or be men who themselves were
bully their entire life and are looking for some sort
of solution. And now the solution is this hyper toxic
masculine Andrew Tape who promises you a life surrounded by women,
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a life of money, and a life of nobody bullying
you anymore, basically, And all you have to do is
just become a toxic asshole at the end of the
day like these are. But again, all of these people
are preying upon these individuals who are searching for community
because we all are searching for community, right we Unfortunately
some of us look for it in the wrong places.
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But this podcast was created as it means for me
to find community you're listening, probably as a means of
feeling like you're a part of a community. I would hope, right,
we're all searching for that. Unfortunately, some of us are
misguided in that search and have certain traumas that are
then preyed upon by people like Andrew Tate or by
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people like Donald Trump and this governor. Right, and we
become susceptible. This is why people join colts and things
like that, like, you know, where they believe that some
dude is the you know, the Messiah of of you know,
the fucking human savior of earth, right, and he's really
just some crusty asque guy who had nothing else going
on in his life, but like could you know, spew
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some bullshit essentially, right, I e. Charles Manson like literally
like a homeless vagrant, you know, type of dude who
literally had nothing else going on in his life, but
was able to spew some bullshit and could prey upon
people who were feeling lost in their life essentially, right,
Young people who were lost. And that's all that we're
seeing here. It's just different medium. It's like a way
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to go viral on the internet is just be how
can I be more ridiculous than the next person. Right,
and and and the unfortunate thing is you have a
lot of people again who are searching for meaning in
their life or grow up in their bubbles. Right. That's
part of the problem with Christian extremists. They grew up
in such a tight knit bubble where they are constantly
surrounded by people who look like them, talk like them,
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come from their background, and they never experience anything outside
of that. So they are so naive to how the
world works or afraid of anything different because they've been
groomed essentially by living in this tight knit bubble of
the church. And that's a perfect example of the chiefs
kicker Harrison buck Butker, who gave a commencement speech at
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a college and was really just like degrading women. I mean,
here's some direct quotes here. How many of you are
sitting here now about to cross the stage and are
thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going
to get in your career. Some of you may go
on to lead successful careers in the world, Buker said,
But I would venture to guess that the majority of
you are most excited about your marriage and the children
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you will bring into this world. And he's specifically speaking
to women here, right, He's he's saying, listen, there's this
he is is is going on to say basically that
a woman can only truly be fulfilled by being a homemaker,
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and that you are throwing your life away by being
career motivated as a woman. And then he even like
begins to get you know, fucking like emotional when talking
about his wife and and how you know she's essentially
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relinquished herself to being a homemaker. And again, there's nothing
wrong with being a homemaker, but to tell women that
he said, quote he's talking about his wife, right, and
he said quote his wife basically truly started or sorry,
he went on to tell the graduates that his wife
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would agree that her life quotes truly started when she
began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
So basically, women out there, your life begins and ends
with your ability to be a homemaker and a caregiver
to a family. Essentially, that's what people like this are pushing.
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And he's one of these Bible thumpers, these hardcore Bible thumpers.
And again, I don't think there's anything wrong with religion.
I have my own faith in I don't subscribe to
a religion specifically, but I believe in God, and I
think there's something healthy about that. But when you begin
to go to extreme, you start having some pretty outlandish
ideas based upon your limited capacity of viewing life because
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of the bubble you probably grew up in, right, and
these are just really toxic ideas. Like I think if
I had a daughter, right, I would never tell her
her life begins and ends based upon her ability to
be a good wife. Right. I want her to experience
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life in the fullest way possible. And if she chooses
to want to be a homemaker, beautiful, I love that
that's what you want. But to tell her that her
the real fulfillment in this life will only come as
it means to that is fucking crazy and absolute bullshit. Like, meanwhile,
her husband is allowed to go out and chase whatever
dream and career he has. Like, that's the narrative this
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guy is pushing. He's saying that he's basically been able
to chase his career because his wife sacrificed her entire livelihood.
Essentially and realisticly, Yeah, there's a level of sacrifice that
that will happen. We talked about that. But to say
your life is at home, I'm going to go out
there and chase my dream and just be happy doing
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that is so fucking toxic and absolutely ridiculous, And it's
just a scary thought about the state of the world
that we live in. That First of all, what asshole
hired this guy? Two? Oh, obviously this is what it is.
Benedictine College hired this guy to give a commencement speech.
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Benedictine College is a Catholic liberal arts school in Kansas. Right,
And he even went on to, of course, when he
got this platform, touch against abortion, Pride Month and COVID
nineteen lockdown measures. This is the world we live in.
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This is the world that we live in. Extremism And
by the way, extremism goes both ways. Right, it goes
on either direction. Unfortunately, one extremism is fueled by just
hatred for anything different than yourself. Right, that's the Republican Party.
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But also I think, listen, I'm getting a little bit
fed up. I'm getting very fed up with some of
the extremism on the right to a degree. Right, there's
the right and the left. I should say, there's just
so much intolerance happening. People are allowed to have difference
of opinion. Even if I, like with all my bones,
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disagree with you, You're entitled to that as a human being.
Now are you entitled to spew hate speech? Are you
entitled to affect the way of living of somebody else
because you disagree with you know, their their life? Of course,
not that that's where it ends. But other than that,
you're allowed to say, you know, hey, I want I
don't want my kids, you know whatever, I'm not going
to have my kid be involved in this or blah
blah blah. Okay, that's that's your prerogative. I'm you know,
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I might disagree, but it's your prerogative. Who I'm going
to tell you how to raise your children or something
like that, or how to live your life. But we
have to sort of keep this balance of saying like
everybody's allowed to sort of exist as long as your
existence doesn't impede upon the life of anybody else. And
then and you know, obviously there's a lot of false
narratives around, like if target has a pride shirt, so
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that somehow impedes upon your fucking quality of life, it
doesn't stop, right, for people who claim that, like, oh,
the left is so sensitive and woke and snowflakes, You're
literally getting upset about a T shirt at a department store, Like,
what are we talking about right now? Right, I'm trying
to cut you know, snacks and like excessive sugar of
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my life. I'm not offended by the fact that there
is an entire cookie aisle in Target and I have
to be passed by and be tempted every time I
go in there. No, Okay, if that's for somebody who
is able to partake and eating a lot of cookies, right,
that's their lifestyle. Awesome. I'm not going to be mad
at Target because they stock something that I'm trying to
have discipline to stay away from that I know is
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not good for me. Right, And obviously it's like a
false equivalency. But it's just again, it's like, Okay, we're
allowed to like all coexist together and you could have
your opinion, your way of life whatever, blah blah blah.
But unfortunately that's sort of not the narrative we live in.
And again, even like I want to touch on all
that's happening with Donald Trump, right, and these trials and
things like that, and good, I hope he gets convicted
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if he's in fact found guilty, but we're also hyper
obsessed with it, Like if you watch the I haven't
watched the news in a minute, like really sad to
I used to watch least an hour of a day.
Now I'll just sort of like listen to a podcast
that kind of gives me a rundown of the top
headlines and things like that. I'll listen to that daily
to keep informed. But dude, it's so like fucking it's
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like entertainment tonight. It's ET it's it's TMZ. You turn
it on and it's live up to the minute coverage
of Donald Trump's trial where they're talking about what his
penis looks like, you know, and it's like, what are
we talking about? This is what is the news cycle?
This is sensationalism. We don't need to be covering up
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to the minute this trial. Yeah, you could give updates
on it, whatever it is, but like literally they're basing
their entire news show around checking in on every piece
of testimony, you know, from a porn star, and it's
like what a why? And people watching this for hours
on end. That's not healthy that's not educating me on
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what's going out in the world or what issues are
actually happening that I need to be aware of. That's
just you feeding off of the bloodthirst that people have
to see a Donald Trump conviction, and to me, that's toxic.
That's just as bad as anything else. You're not giving
people what they actually need, which is relevant news and information.
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You're just feeding into more and more hatred and more
and more sensationalism and nonsense. And I'm just a bit
exhausted by all the bullshit. I think at the end
of the day, I think we're all getting caught up
in so much stuff that doesn't matter, and we're being
played like fools via social media and all these like
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like what a doing? What are we doing it? It's
a world where the motto is like the way of life,
the pathway to success is how can I out crazy
the next person. That's literally what people are doing. I
don't care if I believe what I'm saying. I don't
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care if if what I say or do is a
detriment to society as a whole. All I care about
is the next fucking click, and how can I accumulate
more and more views. How can I out crazy the
next person into becoming the next most spoken about person.
That then leads me to some other nonsense, because the
bloodthirst of media, of culture, of society is going to
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reward me for attention, even if it's the wrong kind
of attention. That's where we exist, and it's rotting us
away as a society. And I'm not saying we can't
have entertainment, we can't have fun, we can't laugh, we
can't just sort of have mindless things that take us
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away from from our everyday life. But unfortunately this nonsense
has creeped its way into every part of our life.
It's the way people run political campaigns is how crazy
can I be and how scared can I make those
watchings so that they feel like I'm their savior? Right
it is, Oh, there is a now a POC run
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television network or organization. Let me feed them the most
violent and worst parts of our culture so that they
will tune into it. Right that, Like, that's the formula
for success. And then we feed into as a consumer,
because if they were feeding us good information and positive
aspects all the time, we wouldn't be tuning in. They'd
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be getting the low ratings, right, but we want to
see you know, each other beating the hell out of
one another, arguing and platforming. Just crazy people who have
nothing to offer this world aside from the train wreck
that is their life. That's what we keep participating in.
And yeah, maybe I'm boring, I'm getting old or whatever.
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Like dude, y'all are not recognizing the impact that's having
on our society and us as a culture. We're dumbing
ourselves down, We're numbing ourselves out. It's why idiots are
getting put in office. It's why we're making the wrong
people famous and giving them tons and tons of money
and platforms to waste, while there's so much other good
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that could be done in this world if we made
the right people wealthy, if we made the right people famous,
if we gave the right people platforms, if we cared
about actual issues rather than who's dating who and who
said what on Twitter or X What the fuck is
called these days? You can sit in your bubble and
say none of it matters, it's just social media, but
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it's not anymore. This is a part of our everyday
lives and takes how we live our everyday lives. It
really does and the effects of it probably aren't going
to be felt for you know, long after I'm gone,
where you're going to see the just complete dissolve of society.
I think as a whole, and not to be conspiracy
theorists or doom daish, but I think to a degree,
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we can't keep going a route where we vote based
upon scare tactics rather than based upon who's actually best
for the job, right, who's actually has a plan of
action and is doing things. We're empowering people who have
no credible accolades or knowledge or interest in helping anyone
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out or doing the right thing or making the world
a better place. So what do you think is eventually
going to happen? Inmates are running the asylum and they're
going to take us all down with them. That's really
what eventually happens. Continue down this pathway of bullshit, essentially,
I mean like, think about this, really think about this,
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and I'm gonna just use I'm gonna use a random
person for the sake of example, Let's say bad Bunny
or a Beyonce incredible platforms, right and not to each
their own they've eached. I'm not this is even me
calling I'm just literally just using them for the sake
of like two of the biggest, well known figures in
the entire world, who have a tremendous amount of influence. Right,
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if somebody like that was to say, hey, everybody, go
donate to this foundation, you realize the record number of
donations that foundation would get. Something as simple as like
them posting on social media, right, the same way that
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they post merch and things like that, Like if they
were just post that, and I'm sure each of them
has you know, Oh, they've each brought attention to things.
I'm not taking away anything, I'm just having a hypothetical conversation,
but literally just doing something as simple as that could
have a profound effect on a lot of people's lives.
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That's the power that you have when having a platform
with numbers like that, and that comes with a certain
level of responsibility. But we're giving that responsibility to people
who are not worthy of that based upon us sort
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of just wanting to feed the worst parts of ourselves, right,
us wanting to be entertained by the train wreck rather
than wanting to be a part of the greater good.
And that's so much of what we see, and I
think what is so incredibly frustrating, And I don't you know,
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I mean, I don't know where I'm even going with it.
I'm just sort of venting because I watch all these things.
I'm like, man, the amount of just good that can happen.
If like the right people were fucking famous at the
end of the day. And I hate the word fame,
but whatever, the right people had a certain community or following,
we could really impact so much change or in the
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political sense, if we actually cared about real issues and
just stopped for a second and just got baseline educated
on things that actually are happening and matter, maybe we
would demand more from candidates, or maybe we would demand
better candidates at the end of the day. But instead
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it is who can attract the most attention, and tension
is the greatest currency, and unfortunately, we the consumer will
reward nonsense over substance nine out of ten times. So
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I don't know something to think about next time you.
I don't know when you're gonna renew your Zeus subscription
or whatever fuck it is. And someone is putting out
a show of Baddies of the South or whatever the
fuck it is, and it's literally just women who are
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are okay with the idea of getting into fights on
camera for no reason whatsoever. Then our entertainment, that's literally
what like the show is based around. That's what is
all this money is getting spent on. And that's what
people are tuning into. That's why money's being expended because
people are tuning into it. Or even something like Nick Cannon.
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I think it's on zeus. He has like that while
now thing and like it features all of these women
and they're just fighting with one another, and that is
like getting reposted on the blogs, and he's putting his
money behind that. Like it's just what are we doing?
What are we doing? What are we doing? Honestly, I
wish i'd better. I don't know. I don't know what
we're doing. All right, We're to take a quick break here.
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I do want to touch on Anita in a second.
We'll take a quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right, we are back, and I want to quickly
touch on the story. Anita. She's a Brazilian singer. Very famous.
She's known as Brazil's biggest pop star. She released a
music video depicting rituals of the Afro Brazilian faith Gone Lob.
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I think it's called and it sparked controversy. Ironically, a
song is called except it's been viewed over a million
times since it was released this week as of the
recording of this, I'm sure now and they're saying it
is it is her just showcasing her religion that has
been long practiced in Fio digenetro. Now in posting this video,
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Anita said she lost two hundred thousand of her sixty
five million followers on Instagram. And I think this speaks
to sort of what I was talking about, of like
tolerance of one another's differences, right, I think you can
be a fan of Anita and not practice the same
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religion that she does. Right, You don't have to unfollow
her because she's showcasing a part of her culture. It's
as simple as that. You could be a fan of
the music, the art, like why you know? And and also,
I mean, this is something that is so much a
part of our culture, right, Like and if Anita posted
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a video about her being Christian, I would wonder if
she would have lost two hundred thousand followers. I'd argue
probably not. But there is like this this sort of
narrative around anything that is non European centric, right, These
are African based religions, and even like I think about
my own upbringing, however, really talked about this, uh too much.
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Maybe ever, I don't, I don't know, but like when
I grew up in my family, you know, the the
older generations on my dad's side, they practiced in African religion.
It's not Santaria. It is I can't reader the actual
name of it, but it's something similar to that, but
it's it's African, you know, African based religion. Obviously you
had the slave trade that went through the Caribbean, so
you have a you know, an African culture and history
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that that was in Puerto Rico. It still is in
Puerto Rico. And part of that was a religion they
brought with them. And I can remember that it was
like this point, this like shame point where we didn't
speak about it to like anybody outside of the house.
Like my you know, remember my dad used to practice
it even in the house and had like a little
area set up, and it was like this hush hush
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hush thing. Even to this day, he probably made at
me for it, saying, you know, mentioning this. But it's
ironic that because it's different, because it doesn't fit into
the white European standards, all of a sudden it's bad.
And yeah, there are certain parts of the practice that
I'm not necessarily like fond of or believed to be necessary.
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But I'm also not going to like judge somebody for
having a different religion than myself, right, just because it's
something I don't personally understand or I'm not familiar with.
And again, I would wonder if if she was like
in a church, like a Christian church, and the theme
was her, you know, celebrating her Christian religion, if she
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would have lost two hundred thousand followers, it probably would
have been opposite, right, They would be so excited to
like embrace that. And again, I think it's just like
this idea of different is bad type of thing, And
that is something that scares me when I think about
liberals and the left right, we become no sensitive And
I'm not on my Andrew Tates shure right now, but
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I think there is a point to be made of
an intolerance that happens when you are attempting to be
too woke or too tolerant, right, because you can't just say, oh,
we have to be inclusive for everybody and all these
things which I agree, but then right off or want
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to cancel somebody because they don't agree with that. That's
literally like the thing you're fighting against, you're also a
part of. And again there's a line if somebody is
being hateful, if they're being bigoted, or if they are
impeding on somebody else's quality of life or ability to
live their life as they see fit. Absolutely, yeah, there's
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something wrong there. Right, we can talk about I mean,
I've subscribe to that they of canceling, but definitely saying
like I'm not no longer going to support this person
like Kanye or something like that, right, who is railed
off against like the Jewish community in a very hateful
what manner, Right, I think there's warrant in saying it.
You know what, I'm gonna sit out from Kanye for
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a little bit. But if somebody has a difference of
opinion than you and they're just saying, hey, I just
I don't believe in it, Tolerance has to go both ways, right,
And that's part of the that's part of the issue
with like Republican, Democrat, all these different things. It is.
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It is truly like, oh you vote Republican, I hate you,
and this, that and the third, and it's like, yeah,
I get it. It's loaded because of what the Republican
Party has become. But the only way we truly get
to a place of healing is being able to sit
down at the table, being able to have conversations, being
able to say, whatever you practice this religion, I practice
this one. We can still co exist and enjoy each
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other as human beings and support one another as human beings.
And I think that is what is missing when we
get too woke, too much on the side of canceled,
Like yeah, you're canceling. Somebody is silly to begin with, right,
unless they like commit a crime, you know, you know,
they do something really just extreme. I get that. But
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just because somebody has a difference of opinion or they
make a mistake doesn't mean we write them off for life.
Yeah they have to. Depending on what they did. They
should sort of I don't want to say repent, if
that's the right word, but there should be some sort
of like education process that happens around them going down
a path of recognizing why they're wrong and and you know,
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whatever that looks like for them, and hopefully within that
they could get to a healthier place that then we
can invite them back in the conversation. Sure, but all out,
just you make one mistake, you're canceled. You know, it's
just come on, I think I think we're getting too much.
It's an overcorrection, is what my personal opinion. Now again,
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I don't think. I don't. I don't think like, oh,
woke is bad, Like, come on, well, you're ware aware
and being far more talerant. It's a beautiful way to
move and progress as a culture. But again, we don't.
They can't. We can't let it go on the other
side of it, where someone like Anita is showcasing her culture,
her religion, and it's like, oh, I love to this
artist at one point, but now because they practice a
religion that I don't understand, I can no longer support them.
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That's kind of a little a little like she's literally
not doing anything that should be controversial. It's her expressing
how she grew up her culture, her own personal belief system.
That's just silly at the end of day to write
her off because it's not what you practice. And I'm
just using this as an example. I think to like,
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you know, bring this conversation to light, you know. And
I say this to somebody who believes himself to be
very progressive. But at the same time, I'm not going
to allow my beliefs to make me a robot. Robot
that lacks empathy or doesn't feel like he should be
able to exist with other people. And again, it's hard.
I have family members, extended family members sometimes of like medicine,
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preparing myself for what I'm going into because I know
it's gonna be a bit of an exhausting conversation. But
it doesn't mean that they are bad people per se.
It doesn't mean that there aren't things that we can
enjoy amongst each other's company. I just have to be
able to keep it open minded. As long as we're
both doing that and being respectful of one another's views
and viewpoints, then you know there's a relationship to be had.
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And I think that is a healthier way of looking
at things for our society as a whole, rather than
just completely looking to write people off as soon as
they disagree with you or as soon as they have
a different stance on something that you believe in. Just
food for thought for me on this Thursday. Now with
that said, man, we're gonna get some positive here for
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our behind this segment. But first we'll take a quick
break and then we'll be right back. All right. So,
as we all know, Latina's run the world basically, right, So,
you have this organization called Latinas in Tech and they're
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doing some incredible work. They actually reach more than eighteen
thousand members, eighteen thousand members in nineteen cities across the
US and six international chapters. Now we are too sat
down with Frosia van nier Ope, who is the co
founder and CEO of the organization Latina Is in Tech,
And I just wanted to showcase, like I think, just
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amazing things like this because you know, I'm big on
community and finding community in the right places, and obviously
in the tech space people of color are underrepresented, but
specifically I can imagine like women of color being incredibly
underrepresented in in this space, and it's amazing to kind
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of see people, you know, sort of take the reins
and to take it upon themselves to kind of, like
I always talk about, be the change that you want
to see right. So this organization was created twenty fourteen
as a space for Latinas in tech to come together
and connect. Moreover, it grew out of a reality that
Rossillo and looks like Gretel, who is the co founder,
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we're experiencing firsthand. They talk about working on a few
different tech projects or a few different companies. I think
Rosillo worked on Prezy and Perea worked on ever Notes,
so two different tech companies are apps that they were
working on. And they said, quote, we realized we were
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often the only Latinas in the room and that there
was a need for greater representation and more connection between
Latinas in the tech industry. And they began to grow
from Florida sixteen women before long having thousands of Latinos
who were looking for real community. And it's just it's
amazing to see people kind of come together, right. And Yeah,
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for as much shit as I talked about in like
the first half of this episode, stuff like this really
begins to give me faith, right, And maybe at the
end of the day, I have to just stop looking
at the sort of mainstream narrative or conversations and just
sort of accept that they will be what they will be,
and which is hard. It's a hard pill for me
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to swallow. But the fact that you have eighteen thousand
Latta as a part of just this one organization here,
you know, working together to enact change, is incredibly uplifting
if you will, right. And it's just I think, a
powerful representation or example of the power that each of
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us have if we just sort of organize around an
idea or concept. Right. These are are two women who saw,
you know, an issue in their respective industry and decided
they were going to be the ones to do something
about it, right, And they didn't wait for the government
to make a difference or some big bad savior to
do it. They just said, how can we start? We
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start with us two, and then four people, sixteen, then
eventually thousands. I think that's really inspiring and a lot
of what I talk about why I get I guess
I get frustrated with people with platforms who do nothing
with it, because here are people who are your every
day you know, sort of nine to five workers in
tech figure out a way to organize thousands of people.
Imagine if you already had a gigantic platform that reaches
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millions of people, how much easier it would be to
create a community that is large in numbers and deep
in opportunity and the ability to create change. It would
be so much easier and quicker and streamlined and supported
if it was somebody with a gigantic platform doing this.
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And that's why I think it's frustrated to me, because
you're seeing these sort of crazy feats of the everyday
person and examples like this one, and I wonder what
would happen if more people with a larger following decided
to do some of this work. And that's why I
get a little bit frustrated. But this is a positive
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segment anyway. They say that nearly sixty percent of Latinas
in Tech their members are in the early stages of
their careers, right. They say that this is a pivotal stage.
The organization offers a range of resources and support. This
includes mentoring programs, networking opportunities, skill building workshops, and access
to employment opportunities and amazing So you have people a
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majority of people in this organization who join it are
young people looking to basically start their career at the
early stages of it, and this provides them with a
sort of launching point to really, I don't want to
say fast track, but really get on a good path
that allows them the best opportunity for success now. As
Rosio explains, some of the most effective strategies for creating
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more inclusive workplaces are fostering a culture of belonging, providing
diversity and inclusion, trading, and amplifying underrepresented voices, saying quote,
it's essential for organizations to provide dei efforts and commit
to creating environments where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered
to succeed now, they say. According to recent reports, Latina
entrepreneurs are the fastest growing group of business owners, leading
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nearly two million businesses nationwide. We form businesses six times
faster than other US groups. For Rossio, this is due
to a combination of factors quote. Firstly, Latinos often possess
a formidable work ethic and stilled by cultural values that
prioritize hard work and perseverance. This dedication fuels their entrepreneurial pursuits,
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propelling them to overcome obstacles and pursue their goals with unwavering,
determined nation just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff. Latinos around the world,
as per usual, UH is always these sort of I
think take away from this, these types of conversations, and
again it's it's just the power of people coming together.
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This is like what I am trying to do, what
I am so passionate about. It's it's having those connections.
Like if you're a part of a group of people
who are are literally sort of at your I don't
want to see your back and call, but like you
have clear access to them and they're doing what you
want to do, or they have connections. We're all helping
each other out and helping the community grow and helping
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people really better their lives at the end of the day,
just by by us extending a hand and extending our
you know, expertise from our from our own experiences, right,
And these are you know, relatively easy things to do
that have the ability to create lasting impact for generations
to come. So I just salute people who do this work,
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really amazing stuff. Latinas and Tech again is the name
of the organization. If that is your field, and salute
to them for all the work that they're doing. Now,
with that said, let's tie everything we talked about today
in any little Boat and a segment we call conclusion
STU time for comp All right, so we touched on
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a lot of different things. I mean a lot of
us related, I guess, but I don't know this. This
person running for office in Missouri, this latina just spewing nonsense.
It's more of the world that we live in. It
is again, how can I out crazy than the last person? Basically,
(42:35):
and that's like your ticket towards everything you ought in
this life. How controversial can I be? What al landishit
can I say to get the attention that will then
garner me opportunity. And unfortunately a lot of people don't
care how they get that attention as long as they
get it. And that's what we see here with people
like her tagging somebody like Andrew Tate, like I want
(42:56):
to read her at the point that she's claiming that
she believes the LGBTQ plus community is grooming children. So
just claiming she cares about the livelihood of children while
tagging somebody Andrew Tate who is behind bars in Romania
(43:16):
on human trafficking charges. We've gone I think what really
frustrates me. I'm just gonna say this one thing. What
really frustrates me and drives me absolutely insane because it
defies logic. Is the fact that all the information is
right there. The irony and hypocrisy are are literally no,
(43:38):
they're not even trying to hide it anymore. You don't
have to dig deep. Yet no one seems to give
a shit. This person's claiming they care about the children
while also virtually showing their support for somebody behind bars
for human trafficking. Nobody sees the iron in it. I
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really don't get it. That's what drives me crazy. And
like and again I talked about a lot of things today.
Have the Christian extreamers kicker from Kansas City Chiefs who
is just spewing all kinds of misogynistic views and hateful
views and toxic this it's just so crazy at crazy time.
(44:22):
And this asshole is getting paid to give aims to
speech to college and then he's like getting up broke,
you know, getting emotional as if like he's saying something
fucking profound, and like like they get out of your
own bubble and just see the world a little bit,
people and understand that there's a lot, a lot more
things out there than what you've grown up around, and
(44:43):
a lot you know, a lot of just beauty in
other people living as they see fit and it's okay
if they do. And also like left wing media stop
with the jo Donald Trump trial coverage, Like yeah, you
could talk about it, but like, we don't need that's
not helping us. I don't need to know what his
penis looks like. I don't need to know what the
sex between him and this porn star was. How is
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that helping me? Like that this is just in socialism
at the end of the day, and that the left
media is a part of the problem as well with
this country the world in general. And then Anita, God forbid,
she has a different faith in you. I guess that
means that you can't support her anymore. We just we
got to find some balance in this world. Man. On
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the positive side of things, I love it. I love
this organization, Latinas in tech coming together again. This just
speaks to the idea of the power of community, the
power of us coming together, and the lives are going
to be changed as a result of this. You're now
part of a gigantic network of Latinas in tech who
can potentially help you finding jobs, finding opportunities, answering questions,
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mentoring you and helping you get the best opportunity to
build a successful career that will inevitably change the course
of your life and the generations of you know, people
to follow who look like you or are part of
your family as well. So just beautiful stuff, salute to them,
and that's it. That's our Thursday trends. We touched a
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lot of random stuff today, or really it wasn't that random,
but I feel like a lot of it was actually
more connected, I should say, you know, than anything else.
But yeah, that's my my vent session. Just be social
club community I'm trying to build here. You want to
be a part of it. D have me at DJ
Dramos or email brand at my named Young Lord, friends
(46:26):
and family. We're opening up now and we'll be doing
the full blown launch towards the end of the month.
But yeah, that's that. Have a great weekend, be safe,
and I will talk to you on Tuesday. Life as
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Let me talk about talk. There we go. He said,
you live in life as a ringo, where you question
when you fit in. Every time you mingle, they say
you do. This would not that ingo. Yes, hello, and
welcome to another episode of life. As in gringo. I
am dramas, of course, and it is Thursday, so it
(00:28):
means it's time have a Thursday trends episode and we're
just gonna get into it. Man, there are there are
some things happening. I would even say this isn't even like,
you know, gigantic stuff, but it also is just like
this reflection of the world that we live in today.
(00:49):
And I have some thoughts, of course. So there's this
story about a Missouri Republican candidate who is just s
viewing some nonsense and it just feeds into this fucking
cult narrative of this weird world that we live in today. Yeah,
and I'll actually probably piggyback. I don't if you've seen
the viral video of Kansas City Chiefs Kicker and this
(01:16):
commencement speech he gave at a college, we'll talk about
that as well. We'll touch on it. I'm gonna touch
on I think just as a whole like where we
are politically culturally, trub will be involved in there somehow,
some way. I'll also talk about Anita and a new
music video that she dropped that has a lot of
people up at arms, and it's her talking about her
(01:39):
Afro Brazilian faith essentially. I know, I grew up with
some people in my family practicing African religions that were
passed down to us, so I have some opinions on
this as well. We'll also, on a positive note, we'll
talk about Latina's in Tech, an organization that is really
doing some amazing work to help encourage and facilitate and
(02:03):
give community to Latinas in the tech industry. Just a
few things. I'm just gonna just kind of go in
today and we'll kind of rail on some topics. A right,
So we'll start with the nonsense the bs in a
segment we call for the people in the back, say
a lot for the people in the say a lot
(02:24):
for the people in the say a lot of the people.
All right, So let's start here with this Latina Republican
candidate in Missouri who her name is Valentino Gomez. She's
been causing a stir with her viral stunts where she
(02:46):
burned LGBTQ books with a flame thrower, saying quote, this
is what I do with grooming books when I'm Secretary
of State. Last Sunday, apparently she was back on the
influencer kick jogging wearing a bulletproof vest, saying quote, in America,
(03:08):
you can be anything you want, so don't be weak
and gay. End quote. She also appears briefly holding a
rifle and pistol in the video, and to no surprise,
she tagged the dude Andrew Tait, who many people know
on the internet as like this misogynistic guy who has
(03:33):
been brought up on human trafficking charges. He was arrested
in Romania on human trafficking charges. So that's the person
that she's getting her influence from. Apparently. Now this is
a perfect example of your skin folk ain't always your kinfolk. Right.
Just because she's a Latina doesn't mean that she is
(03:54):
somebody we need to support, right, And I just think
this speaks to a larger conversation, right. Obviously I told
it first of all, books that are grooming children. Somebody
being gay is not grooming children. I this like idea
of pedophilia or the idea that it's influencing kids to
(04:15):
be gay like that is so ridiculous. Like again, I
think I've said this a million times on the podcast before.
But you want to talk about places of where pedophilia
is has been traditionally been proven to be rampant, look
no further than your church, right, that has been proven
time and time again. Or the Boy Scouts of America,
(04:35):
which I believe now are just the Scouts of America,
like these are all this is all just to rile
people up. And how do you rile people up? Talk
about their children? Right? Of course, we all care about
the children in our lives and just the children of
the world. So now let's create this fake boogeyman and
(04:56):
go off on that. She also accuses the Biden administration
of pushing a gay agenda or being gay. It's just
it's hard to make sense of it. But again, when
you're tagging people like Andrew Tate, who is literally ironically
behind bars in Romania, or was, at least I haven't
been doing my Andrew Tate you know check up as
(05:17):
of late, but definitely was arrested in Romania for human trafficking.
That like nobody sees the hypocrisy in all of this,
you're talking about caring about the children, and then you're tagging,
meaning you're idolizing, trying to gain the fan base of
(05:38):
somebody who literally is being brought up on charges of
human trafficking. What the fuck is happening in this sad like?
This is this is the sad thing about all of this,
And I really want to just like break this down,
(05:58):
you know, a means of like and all these things,
like you're playing into the fears and emotions of people,
and you're doing all of it to go viral, to
become famous in some sort of way. Right, because again
she knows as a Latina, if she runs with the
crazy conservative talking points, it's gonna gain far more attention
(06:21):
than she's another AOC basically right, because it's expected that
somebody of color is going to be progressive and doing
those things. But now you're a hardcore Trump supporter. You're
one of the ones that they can point to and say, hey,
how could Trump be racist? You have a Latino who
supports him, right, That's basically what it is, these types
of things, and then also saying crazy shit about like
(06:43):
don't be weak and gay, like what are we talking about.
This is what this is Andrew Tate's playbook. Let me
say outlandish stuff and give people a boogeyman, right, Andrew
Tate feeds into the narrative of men being weak, and
you've been taught to be soft. That's why your life
is a mess. Right. So you have a slew of
(07:05):
men out there who either were a the bully in
high school and now society has told them that doesn't
have a place, so they feel lost without being able
to be the bully, or be men who themselves were
bully their entire life and are looking for some sort
of solution. And now the solution is this hyper toxic
masculine Andrew Tape who promises you a life surrounded by women,
(07:26):
a life of money, and a life of nobody bullying
you anymore, basically, And all you have to do is
just become a toxic asshole at the end of the
day like these are. But again, all of these people
are preying upon these individuals who are searching for community
because we all are searching for community, right we Unfortunately
some of us look for it in the wrong places.
(07:46):
But this podcast was created as it means for me
to find community you're listening, probably as a means of
feeling like you're a part of a community. I would hope, right,
we're all searching for that. Unfortunately, some of us are
misguided in that search and have certain traumas that are
then preyed upon by people like Andrew Tate or by
(08:08):
people like Donald Trump and this governor. Right, and we
become susceptible. This is why people join colts and things
like that, like, you know, where they believe that some
dude is the you know, the Messiah of of you know,
the fucking human savior of earth, right, and he's really
just some crusty asque guy who had nothing else going
on in his life, but like could you know, spew
(08:29):
some bullshit essentially, right, I e. Charles Manson like literally
like a homeless vagrant, you know, type of dude who
literally had nothing else going on in his life, but
was able to spew some bullshit and could prey upon
people who were feeling lost in their life essentially, right,
Young people who were lost. And that's all that we're
seeing here. It's just different medium. It's like a way
(08:51):
to go viral on the internet is just be how
can I be more ridiculous than the next person. Right,
and and and the unfortunate thing is you have a
lot of people again who are searching for meaning in
their life or grow up in their bubbles. Right. That's
part of the problem with Christian extremists. They grew up
in such a tight knit bubble where they are constantly
surrounded by people who look like them, talk like them,
(09:12):
come from their background, and they never experience anything outside
of that. So they are so naive to how the
world works or afraid of anything different because they've been
groomed essentially by living in this tight knit bubble of
the church. And that's a perfect example of the chiefs
kicker Harrison buck Butker, who gave a commencement speech at
(09:34):
a college and was really just like degrading women. I mean,
here's some direct quotes here. How many of you are
sitting here now about to cross the stage and are
thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going
to get in your career. Some of you may go
on to lead successful careers in the world, Buker said,
But I would venture to guess that the majority of
you are most excited about your marriage and the children
(09:56):
you will bring into this world. And he's specifically speaking
to women here, right, He's he's saying, listen, there's this
he is is is going on to say basically that
a woman can only truly be fulfilled by being a homemaker,
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and that you are throwing your life away by being
career motivated as a woman. And then he even like
begins to get you know, fucking like emotional when talking
about his wife and and how you know she's essentially
(10:43):
relinquished herself to being a homemaker. And again, there's nothing
wrong with being a homemaker, but to tell women that
he said, quote he's talking about his wife, right, and
he said quote his wife basically truly started or sorry,
he went on to tell the graduates that his wife
(11:04):
would agree that her life quotes truly started when she
began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother.
So basically, women out there, your life begins and ends
with your ability to be a homemaker and a caregiver
to a family. Essentially, that's what people like this are pushing.
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And he's one of these Bible thumpers, these hardcore Bible thumpers.
And again, I don't think there's anything wrong with religion.
I have my own faith in I don't subscribe to
a religion specifically, but I believe in God, and I
think there's something healthy about that. But when you begin
to go to extreme, you start having some pretty outlandish
ideas based upon your limited capacity of viewing life because
(11:47):
of the bubble you probably grew up in, right, and
these are just really toxic ideas. Like I think if
I had a daughter, right, I would never tell her
her life begins and ends based upon her ability to
be a good wife. Right. I want her to experience
(12:09):
life in the fullest way possible. And if she chooses
to want to be a homemaker, beautiful, I love that
that's what you want. But to tell her that her
the real fulfillment in this life will only come as
it means to that is fucking crazy and absolute bullshit. Like, meanwhile,
her husband is allowed to go out and chase whatever
dream and career he has. Like, that's the narrative this
(12:31):
guy is pushing. He's saying that he's basically been able
to chase his career because his wife sacrificed her entire livelihood.
Essentially and realisticly, Yeah, there's a level of sacrifice that
that will happen. We talked about that. But to say
your life is at home, I'm going to go out
there and chase my dream and just be happy doing
(12:52):
that is so fucking toxic and absolutely ridiculous, And it's
just a scary thought about the state of the world
that we live in. That First of all, what asshole
hired this guy? Two? Oh, obviously this is what it is.
Benedictine College hired this guy to give a commencement speech.
(13:14):
Benedictine College is a Catholic liberal arts school in Kansas. Right,
And he even went on to, of course, when he
got this platform, touch against abortion, Pride Month and COVID
nineteen lockdown measures. This is the world we live in.
(13:36):
This is the world that we live in. Extremism And
by the way, extremism goes both ways. Right, it goes
on either direction. Unfortunately, one extremism is fueled by just
hatred for anything different than yourself. Right, that's the Republican Party.
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But also I think, listen, I'm getting a little bit
fed up. I'm getting very fed up with some of
the extremism on the right to a degree. Right, there's
the right and the left. I should say, there's just
so much intolerance happening. People are allowed to have difference
of opinion. Even if I, like with all my bones,
(14:18):
disagree with you, You're entitled to that as a human being.
Now are you entitled to spew hate speech? Are you
entitled to affect the way of living of somebody else
because you disagree with you know, their their life? Of course,
not that that's where it ends. But other than that,
you're allowed to say, you know, hey, I want I
don't want my kids, you know whatever, I'm not going
to have my kid be involved in this or blah
blah blah. Okay, that's that's your prerogative. I'm you know,
(14:42):
I might disagree, but it's your prerogative. Who I'm going
to tell you how to raise your children or something
like that, or how to live your life. But we
have to sort of keep this balance of saying like
everybody's allowed to sort of exist as long as your
existence doesn't impede upon the life of anybody else. And
then and you know, obviously there's a lot of false
narratives around, like if target has a pride shirt, so
(15:04):
that somehow impedes upon your fucking quality of life, it
doesn't stop, right, for people who claim that, like, oh,
the left is so sensitive and woke and snowflakes, You're
literally getting upset about a T shirt at a department store, Like,
what are we talking about right now? Right, I'm trying
to cut you know, snacks and like excessive sugar of
(15:26):
my life. I'm not offended by the fact that there
is an entire cookie aisle in Target and I have
to be passed by and be tempted every time I
go in there. No, Okay, if that's for somebody who
is able to partake and eating a lot of cookies, right,
that's their lifestyle. Awesome. I'm not going to be mad
at Target because they stock something that I'm trying to
have discipline to stay away from that I know is
(15:47):
not good for me. Right, And obviously it's like a
false equivalency. But it's just again, it's like, Okay, we're
allowed to like all coexist together and you could have
your opinion, your way of life whatever, blah blah blah.
But unfortunately that's sort of not the narrative we live in.
And again, even like I want to touch on all
that's happening with Donald Trump, right, and these trials and
things like that, and good, I hope he gets convicted
(16:10):
if he's in fact found guilty, but we're also hyper
obsessed with it, Like if you watch the I haven't
watched the news in a minute, like really sad to
I used to watch least an hour of a day.
Now I'll just sort of like listen to a podcast
that kind of gives me a rundown of the top
headlines and things like that. I'll listen to that daily
to keep informed. But dude, it's so like fucking it's
(16:35):
like entertainment tonight. It's ET it's it's TMZ. You turn
it on and it's live up to the minute coverage
of Donald Trump's trial where they're talking about what his
penis looks like, you know, and it's like, what are
we talking about? This is what is the news cycle?
This is sensationalism. We don't need to be covering up
(16:55):
to the minute this trial. Yeah, you could give updates
on it, whatever it is, but like literally they're basing
their entire news show around checking in on every piece
of testimony, you know, from a porn star, and it's
like what a why? And people watching this for hours
on end. That's not healthy that's not educating me on
(17:16):
what's going out in the world or what issues are
actually happening that I need to be aware of. That's
just you feeding off of the bloodthirst that people have
to see a Donald Trump conviction, and to me, that's toxic.
That's just as bad as anything else. You're not giving
people what they actually need, which is relevant news and information.
(17:37):
You're just feeding into more and more hatred and more
and more sensationalism and nonsense. And I'm just a bit
exhausted by all the bullshit. I think at the end
of the day, I think we're all getting caught up
in so much stuff that doesn't matter, and we're being
played like fools via social media and all these like
(17:59):
like what a doing? What are we doing it? It's
a world where the motto is like the way of life,
the pathway to success is how can I out crazy
the next person. That's literally what people are doing. I
don't care if I believe what I'm saying. I don't
(18:20):
care if if what I say or do is a
detriment to society as a whole. All I care about
is the next fucking click, and how can I accumulate
more and more views. How can I out crazy the
next person into becoming the next most spoken about person.
That then leads me to some other nonsense, because the
bloodthirst of media, of culture, of society is going to
(18:43):
reward me for attention, even if it's the wrong kind
of attention. That's where we exist, and it's rotting us
away as a society. And I'm not saying we can't
have entertainment, we can't have fun, we can't laugh, we
can't just sort of have mindless things that take us
(19:04):
away from from our everyday life. But unfortunately this nonsense
has creeped its way into every part of our life.
It's the way people run political campaigns is how crazy
can I be and how scared can I make those
watchings so that they feel like I'm their savior? Right
it is, Oh, there is a now a POC run
(19:27):
television network or organization. Let me feed them the most
violent and worst parts of our culture so that they
will tune into it. Right that, Like, that's the formula
for success. And then we feed into as a consumer,
because if they were feeding us good information and positive
aspects all the time, we wouldn't be tuning in. They'd
(19:48):
be getting the low ratings, right, but we want to
see you know, each other beating the hell out of
one another, arguing and platforming. Just crazy people who have
nothing to offer this world aside from the train wreck
that is their life. That's what we keep participating in.
And yeah, maybe I'm boring, I'm getting old or whatever.
(20:10):
Like dude, y'all are not recognizing the impact that's having
on our society and us as a culture. We're dumbing
ourselves down, We're numbing ourselves out. It's why idiots are
getting put in office. It's why we're making the wrong
people famous and giving them tons and tons of money
and platforms to waste, while there's so much other good
(20:34):
that could be done in this world if we made
the right people wealthy, if we made the right people famous,
if we gave the right people platforms, if we cared
about actual issues rather than who's dating who and who
said what on Twitter or X What the fuck is
called these days? You can sit in your bubble and
say none of it matters, it's just social media, but
(20:56):
it's not anymore. This is a part of our everyday
lives and takes how we live our everyday lives. It
really does and the effects of it probably aren't going
to be felt for you know, long after I'm gone,
where you're going to see the just complete dissolve of society.
I think as a whole, and not to be conspiracy
theorists or doom daish, but I think to a degree,
(21:19):
we can't keep going a route where we vote based
upon scare tactics rather than based upon who's actually best
for the job, right, who's actually has a plan of
action and is doing things. We're empowering people who have
no credible accolades or knowledge or interest in helping anyone
(21:47):
out or doing the right thing or making the world
a better place. So what do you think is eventually
going to happen? Inmates are running the asylum and they're
going to take us all down with them. That's really
what eventually happens. Continue down this pathway of bullshit, essentially,
I mean like, think about this, really think about this,
(22:10):
and I'm gonna just use I'm gonna use a random
person for the sake of example, Let's say bad Bunny
or a Beyonce incredible platforms, right and not to each
their own they've eached. I'm not this is even me
calling I'm just literally just using them for the sake
of like two of the biggest, well known figures in
the entire world, who have a tremendous amount of influence. Right,
(22:34):
if somebody like that was to say, hey, everybody, go
donate to this foundation, you realize the record number of
donations that foundation would get. Something as simple as like
them posting on social media, right, the same way that
(22:54):
they post merch and things like that, Like if they
were just post that, and I'm sure each of them
has you know, Oh, they've each brought attention to things.
I'm not taking away anything, I'm just having a hypothetical conversation,
but literally just doing something as simple as that could
have a profound effect on a lot of people's lives.
(23:18):
That's the power that you have when having a platform
with numbers like that, and that comes with a certain
level of responsibility. But we're giving that responsibility to people
who are not worthy of that based upon us sort
(23:39):
of just wanting to feed the worst parts of ourselves, right,
us wanting to be entertained by the train wreck rather
than wanting to be a part of the greater good.
And that's so much of what we see, and I
think what is so incredibly frustrating, And I don't you know,
(24:05):
I mean, I don't know where I'm even going with it.
I'm just sort of venting because I watch all these things.
I'm like, man, the amount of just good that can happen.
If like the right people were fucking famous at the
end of the day. And I hate the word fame,
but whatever, the right people had a certain community or following,
we could really impact so much change or in the
(24:29):
political sense, if we actually cared about real issues and
just stopped for a second and just got baseline educated
on things that actually are happening and matter, maybe we
would demand more from candidates, or maybe we would demand
better candidates at the end of the day. But instead
(24:55):
it is who can attract the most attention, and tension
is the greatest currency, and unfortunately, we the consumer will
reward nonsense over substance nine out of ten times. So
(25:18):
I don't know something to think about next time you.
I don't know when you're gonna renew your Zeus subscription
or whatever fuck it is. And someone is putting out
a show of Baddies of the South or whatever the
fuck it is, and it's literally just women who are
(25:39):
are okay with the idea of getting into fights on
camera for no reason whatsoever. Then our entertainment, that's literally
what like the show is based around. That's what is
all this money is getting spent on. And that's what
people are tuning into. That's why money's being expended because
people are tuning into it. Or even something like Nick Cannon.
(26:01):
I think it's on zeus. He has like that while
now thing and like it features all of these women
and they're just fighting with one another, and that is
like getting reposted on the blogs, and he's putting his
money behind that. Like it's just what are we doing?
What are we doing? What are we doing? Honestly, I
wish i'd better. I don't know. I don't know what
we're doing. All right, We're to take a quick break here.
(26:24):
I do want to touch on Anita in a second.
We'll take a quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right, we are back, and I want to quickly
touch on the story. Anita. She's a Brazilian singer. Very famous.
She's known as Brazil's biggest pop star. She released a
music video depicting rituals of the Afro Brazilian faith Gone Lob.
(26:48):
I think it's called and it sparked controversy. Ironically, a
song is called except it's been viewed over a million
times since it was released this week as of the
recording of this, I'm sure now and they're saying it
is it is her just showcasing her religion that has
been long practiced in Fio digenetro. Now in posting this video,
(27:11):
Anita said she lost two hundred thousand of her sixty
five million followers on Instagram. And I think this speaks
to sort of what I was talking about, of like
tolerance of one another's differences, right, I think you can
be a fan of Anita and not practice the same
(27:31):
religion that she does. Right, You don't have to unfollow
her because she's showcasing a part of her culture. It's
as simple as that. You could be a fan of
the music, the art, like why you know? And and also,
I mean, this is something that is so much a
part of our culture, right, Like and if Anita posted
(27:53):
a video about her being Christian, I would wonder if
she would have lost two hundred thousand followers. I'd argue
probably not. But there is like this this sort of
narrative around anything that is non European centric, right, These
are African based religions, and even like I think about
my own upbringing, however, really talked about this, uh too much.
(28:14):
Maybe ever, I don't, I don't know, but like when
I grew up in my family, you know, the the
older generations on my dad's side, they practiced in African religion.
It's not Santaria. It is I can't reader the actual
name of it, but it's something similar to that, but
it's it's African, you know, African based religion. Obviously you
had the slave trade that went through the Caribbean, so
you have a you know, an African culture and history
(28:36):
that that was in Puerto Rico. It still is in
Puerto Rico. And part of that was a religion they
brought with them. And I can remember that it was
like this point, this like shame point where we didn't
speak about it to like anybody outside of the house.
Like my you know, remember my dad used to practice
it even in the house and had like a little
area set up, and it was like this hush hush
(28:58):
hush thing. Even to this day, he probably made at
me for it, saying, you know, mentioning this. But it's
ironic that because it's different, because it doesn't fit into
the white European standards, all of a sudden it's bad.
And yeah, there are certain parts of the practice that
I'm not necessarily like fond of or believed to be necessary.
(29:21):
But I'm also not going to like judge somebody for
having a different religion than myself, right, just because it's
something I don't personally understand or I'm not familiar with.
And again, I would wonder if if she was like
in a church, like a Christian church, and the theme
was her, you know, celebrating her Christian religion, if she
(29:43):
would have lost two hundred thousand followers, it probably would
have been opposite, right, They would be so excited to
like embrace that. And again, I think it's just like
this idea of different is bad type of thing, And
that is something that scares me when I think about
liberals and the left right, we become no sensitive And
I'm not on my Andrew Tates shure right now, but
(30:04):
I think there is a point to be made of
an intolerance that happens when you are attempting to be
too woke or too tolerant, right, because you can't just say, oh,
we have to be inclusive for everybody and all these
things which I agree, but then right off or want
(30:25):
to cancel somebody because they don't agree with that. That's
literally like the thing you're fighting against, you're also a
part of. And again there's a line if somebody is
being hateful, if they're being bigoted, or if they are
impeding on somebody else's quality of life or ability to
live their life as they see fit. Absolutely, yeah, there's
(30:46):
something wrong there. Right, we can talk about I mean,
I've subscribe to that they of canceling, but definitely saying
like I'm not no longer going to support this person
like Kanye or something like that, right, who is railed
off against like the Jewish community in a very hateful
what manner, Right, I think there's warrant in saying it.
You know what, I'm gonna sit out from Kanye for
(31:08):
a little bit. But if somebody has a difference of
opinion than you and they're just saying, hey, I just
I don't believe in it, Tolerance has to go both ways, right,
And that's part of the that's part of the issue
with like Republican, Democrat, all these different things. It is.
(31:32):
It is truly like, oh you vote Republican, I hate you,
and this, that and the third, and it's like, yeah,
I get it. It's loaded because of what the Republican
Party has become. But the only way we truly get
to a place of healing is being able to sit
down at the table, being able to have conversations, being
able to say, whatever you practice this religion, I practice
this one. We can still co exist and enjoy each
(31:55):
other as human beings and support one another as human beings.
And I think that is what is missing when we
get too woke, too much on the side of canceled,
Like yeah, you're canceling. Somebody is silly to begin with, right,
unless they like commit a crime, you know, you know,
they do something really just extreme. I get that. But
(32:16):
just because somebody has a difference of opinion or they
make a mistake doesn't mean we write them off for life.
Yeah they have to. Depending on what they did. They
should sort of I don't want to say repent, if
that's the right word, but there should be some sort
of like education process that happens around them going down
a path of recognizing why they're wrong and and you know,
(32:39):
whatever that looks like for them, and hopefully within that
they could get to a healthier place that then we
can invite them back in the conversation. Sure, but all out,
just you make one mistake, you're canceled. You know, it's
just come on, I think I think we're getting too much.
It's an overcorrection, is what my personal opinion. Now again,
(32:59):
I don't think. I don't. I don't think like, oh,
woke is bad, Like, come on, well, you're ware aware
and being far more talerant. It's a beautiful way to
move and progress as a culture. But again, we don't.
They can't. We can't let it go on the other
side of it, where someone like Anita is showcasing her culture,
her religion, and it's like, oh, I love to this
artist at one point, but now because they practice a
religion that I don't understand, I can no longer support them.
(33:21):
That's kind of a little a little like she's literally
not doing anything that should be controversial. It's her expressing
how she grew up her culture, her own personal belief system.
That's just silly at the end of day to write
her off because it's not what you practice. And I'm
just using this as an example. I think to like,
(33:42):
you know, bring this conversation to light, you know. And
I say this to somebody who believes himself to be
very progressive. But at the same time, I'm not going
to allow my beliefs to make me a robot. Robot
that lacks empathy or doesn't feel like he should be
able to exist with other people. And again, it's hard.
I have family members, extended family members sometimes of like medicine,
(34:04):
preparing myself for what I'm going into because I know
it's gonna be a bit of an exhausting conversation. But
it doesn't mean that they are bad people per se.
It doesn't mean that there aren't things that we can
enjoy amongst each other's company. I just have to be
able to keep it open minded. As long as we're
both doing that and being respectful of one another's views
and viewpoints, then you know there's a relationship to be had.
(34:28):
And I think that is a healthier way of looking
at things for our society as a whole, rather than
just completely looking to write people off as soon as
they disagree with you or as soon as they have
a different stance on something that you believe in. Just
food for thought for me on this Thursday. Now with
that said, man, we're gonna get some positive here for
(34:50):
our behind this segment. But first we'll take a quick
break and then we'll be right back. All right. So,
as we all know, Latina's run the world basically, right, So,
you have this organization called Latinas in Tech and they're
(35:14):
doing some incredible work. They actually reach more than eighteen
thousand members, eighteen thousand members in nineteen cities across the
US and six international chapters. Now we are too sat
down with Frosia van nier Ope, who is the co
founder and CEO of the organization Latina Is in Tech,
And I just wanted to showcase, like I think, just
(35:37):
amazing things like this because you know, I'm big on
community and finding community in the right places, and obviously
in the tech space people of color are underrepresented, but
specifically I can imagine like women of color being incredibly
underrepresented in in this space, and it's amazing to kind
(35:57):
of see people, you know, sort of take the reins
and to take it upon themselves to kind of, like
I always talk about, be the change that you want
to see right. So this organization was created twenty fourteen
as a space for Latinas in tech to come together
and connect. Moreover, it grew out of a reality that
Rossillo and looks like Gretel, who is the co founder,
(36:19):
we're experiencing firsthand. They talk about working on a few
different tech projects or a few different companies. I think
Rosillo worked on Prezy and Perea worked on ever Notes,
so two different tech companies are apps that they were
working on. And they said, quote, we realized we were
(36:41):
often the only Latinas in the room and that there
was a need for greater representation and more connection between
Latinas in the tech industry. And they began to grow
from Florida sixteen women before long having thousands of Latinos
who were looking for real community. And it's just it's
amazing to see people kind of come together, right. And Yeah,
(37:07):
for as much shit as I talked about in like
the first half of this episode, stuff like this really
begins to give me faith, right, And maybe at the
end of the day, I have to just stop looking
at the sort of mainstream narrative or conversations and just
sort of accept that they will be what they will be,
and which is hard. It's a hard pill for me
(37:30):
to swallow. But the fact that you have eighteen thousand
Latta as a part of just this one organization here,
you know, working together to enact change, is incredibly uplifting
if you will, right. And it's just I think, a
powerful representation or example of the power that each of
(37:54):
us have if we just sort of organize around an
idea or concept. Right. These are are two women who saw,
you know, an issue in their respective industry and decided
they were going to be the ones to do something
about it, right, And they didn't wait for the government
to make a difference or some big bad savior to
do it. They just said, how can we start? We
(38:15):
start with us two, and then four people, sixteen, then
eventually thousands. I think that's really inspiring and a lot
of what I talk about why I get I guess
I get frustrated with people with platforms who do nothing
with it, because here are people who are your every
day you know, sort of nine to five workers in
tech figure out a way to organize thousands of people.
Imagine if you already had a gigantic platform that reaches
(38:38):
millions of people, how much easier it would be to
create a community that is large in numbers and deep
in opportunity and the ability to create change. It would
be so much easier and quicker and streamlined and supported
if it was somebody with a gigantic platform doing this.
(38:58):
And that's why I think it's frustrated to me, because
you're seeing these sort of crazy feats of the everyday
person and examples like this one, and I wonder what
would happen if more people with a larger following decided
to do some of this work. And that's why I
get a little bit frustrated. But this is a positive
(39:20):
segment anyway. They say that nearly sixty percent of Latinas
in Tech their members are in the early stages of
their careers, right. They say that this is a pivotal stage.
The organization offers a range of resources and support. This
includes mentoring programs, networking opportunities, skill building workshops, and access
to employment opportunities and amazing So you have people a
(39:42):
majority of people in this organization who join it are
young people looking to basically start their career at the
early stages of it, and this provides them with a
sort of launching point to really, I don't want to
say fast track, but really get on a good path
that allows them the best opportunity for success now. As
Rosio explains, some of the most effective strategies for creating
(40:04):
more inclusive workplaces are fostering a culture of belonging, providing
diversity and inclusion, trading, and amplifying underrepresented voices, saying quote,
it's essential for organizations to provide dei efforts and commit
to creating environments where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered
to succeed now, they say. According to recent reports, Latina
entrepreneurs are the fastest growing group of business owners, leading
(40:27):
nearly two million businesses nationwide. We form businesses six times
faster than other US groups. For Rossio, this is due
to a combination of factors quote. Firstly, Latinos often possess
a formidable work ethic and stilled by cultural values that
prioritize hard work and perseverance. This dedication fuels their entrepreneurial pursuits,
(40:48):
propelling them to overcome obstacles and pursue their goals with unwavering,
determined nation just beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff. Latinos around the world,
as per usual, UH is always these sort of I
think take away from this, these types of conversations, and
again it's it's just the power of people coming together.
(41:10):
This is like what I am trying to do, what
I am so passionate about. It's it's having those connections.
Like if you're a part of a group of people
who are are literally sort of at your I don't
want to see your back and call, but like you
have clear access to them and they're doing what you
want to do, or they have connections. We're all helping
each other out and helping the community grow and helping
(41:32):
people really better their lives at the end of the day,
just by by us extending a hand and extending our
you know, expertise from our from our own experiences, right,
And these are you know, relatively easy things to do
that have the ability to create lasting impact for generations
to come. So I just salute people who do this work,
(41:54):
really amazing stuff. Latinas and Tech again is the name
of the organization. If that is your field, and salute
to them for all the work that they're doing. Now,
with that said, let's tie everything we talked about today
in any little Boat and a segment we call conclusion
STU time for comp All right, so we touched on
(42:15):
a lot of different things. I mean a lot of
us related, I guess, but I don't know this. This
person running for office in Missouri, this latina just spewing nonsense.
It's more of the world that we live in. It
is again, how can I out crazy than the last person? Basically,
(42:35):
and that's like your ticket towards everything you ought in
this life. How controversial can I be? What al landishit
can I say to get the attention that will then
garner me opportunity. And unfortunately a lot of people don't
care how they get that attention as long as they
get it. And that's what we see here with people
like her tagging somebody like Andrew Tate, like I want
(42:56):
to read her at the point that she's claiming that
she believes the LGBTQ plus community is grooming children. So
just claiming she cares about the livelihood of children while
tagging somebody Andrew Tate who is behind bars in Romania
(43:16):
on human trafficking charges. We've gone I think what really
frustrates me. I'm just gonna say this one thing. What
really frustrates me and drives me absolutely insane because it
defies logic. Is the fact that all the information is
right there. The irony and hypocrisy are are literally no,
(43:38):
they're not even trying to hide it anymore. You don't
have to dig deep. Yet no one seems to give
a shit. This person's claiming they care about the children
while also virtually showing their support for somebody behind bars
for human trafficking. Nobody sees the iron in it. I
(44:01):
really don't get it. That's what drives me crazy. And
like and again I talked about a lot of things today.
Have the Christian extreamers kicker from Kansas City Chiefs who
is just spewing all kinds of misogynistic views and hateful
views and toxic this it's just so crazy at crazy time.
(44:22):
And this asshole is getting paid to give aims to
speech to college and then he's like getting up broke,
you know, getting emotional as if like he's saying something
fucking profound, and like like they get out of your
own bubble and just see the world a little bit,
people and understand that there's a lot, a lot more
things out there than what you've grown up around, and
(44:43):
a lot you know, a lot of just beauty in
other people living as they see fit and it's okay
if they do. And also like left wing media stop
with the jo Donald Trump trial coverage, Like yeah, you
could talk about it, but like, we don't need that's
not helping us. I don't need to know what his
penis looks like. I don't need to know what the
sex between him and this porn star was. How is
(45:03):
that helping me? Like that this is just in socialism
at the end of the day, and that the left
media is a part of the problem as well with
this country the world in general. And then Anita, God forbid,
she has a different faith in you. I guess that
means that you can't support her anymore. We just we
got to find some balance in this world. Man. On
(45:23):
the positive side of things, I love it. I love
this organization, Latinas in tech coming together again. This just
speaks to the idea of the power of community, the
power of us coming together, and the lives are going
to be changed as a result of this. You're now
part of a gigantic network of Latinas in tech who
can potentially help you finding jobs, finding opportunities, answering questions,
(45:45):
mentoring you and helping you get the best opportunity to
build a successful career that will inevitably change the course
of your life and the generations of you know, people
to follow who look like you or are part of
your family as well. So just beautiful stuff, salute to them,
and that's it. That's our Thursday trends. We touched a
(46:05):
lot of random stuff today, or really it wasn't that random,
but I feel like a lot of it was actually
more connected, I should say, you know, than anything else.
But yeah, that's my my vent session. Just be social
club community I'm trying to build here. You want to
be a part of it. D have me at DJ
Dramos or email brand at my named Young Lord, friends
(46:26):
and family. We're opening up now and we'll be doing
the full blown launch towards the end of the month.
But yeah, that's that. Have a great weekend, be safe,
and I will talk to you on Tuesday. Life as
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