March 14, 2024 • 44 mins
Dramos tackles trending stories including the potential Tik Tok band, relaxing gun laws in Lousiana, Bad Bunny suing a concert-goer, a Latina moment at the Oscars and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
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a Gringo, where you question where you fit in at
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not Yes, Hello and welcome to another episode of Life
as a Gringo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I am Dramos, of course, and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thursday, so means time five a Thursday Trends episode. Flying
solo on today's show because same as I kind of
said last week, we've had a lot of guests. Sometimes
I just want to get on here and talk my ship.
Even though I am currently dying from allergies, I'd feel
like I have a new ailment every show.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I apologize if I am.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Becoming that person who complains all the time, but man,
allergy season is starting early, and allergies got me messed up.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I feel exhausted for no reason because I jeez, I
can't breathe out of my nose. Yeah, I'm touching my
eyes constantly. So if I sound crazy to hear some sniffles, whatever,
it is, just bear with me. I am riding the
struggle bus today. But of course we got to bring
you an amazing show as per usual. Now today we'll
be talking about this potential TikTok band that everyone on
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the internet is losing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Their shit over.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We'll talk about what the hell that even means, why
is it happening, And we'll also talk about some new
gun law in Louisiana that makes it even easier to
carry that thing on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You, even though you know, the world we live in today.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Has proven we probably should have stricter gun laws, but
we'll get into that. We'll talk about bad Bundy suing
a fan over YouTube videos, and then in a positive note,
there was a really beautiful moment at the Oscars between
two incredible Latinas that we will discuss. So a bunch
to get into today further Ado, let's just dive into
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the nonsense the bs in a segment we call for
the people in the back, say a lot of.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The people in the.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Say a lot of the people in the.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Say a lot of the people.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
All right, so let's start with TikTok and again apologies
by sound crazy, or you're watching the video version of
this on YouTube, which if you're not aware, there's a
video version of it on the micro Thura podcast YouTube channel,
or just probably search life is going to go and
you'll find it. But I'm sure I look crazy as
all hell. Right now, my nose is probably red? Is
how my eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Bear with me? All Right? We going through this. If
you have allergies, you get it. You understand. We in
this together. Now, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You had the House of Representatives passing legislation yesterday actually
giving TikTok two choices, find a buyer or face a
nationwide band in the US. Now President Biden has indicated
he would sign the bill. Of course, it now has
to pass through the Senate, where they're saying it faces
an uncertain future. This according to MPR, they're kind of
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talking about how several other anti TikTok efforts in the
Senate have stalled.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So it's too soon to say whether.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Or not this is all going to actually go into effect,
whatever happens to the other saying it marks the first
time a chamber of Congress has passed a bill that
could shut down a social media platform. Now, this is
something that you know, civil liberties activists say tramples on
the free speech of millions of Americans. Now, my initial
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thoughts on this, my hating ass was like, good, one
less social media platform, don't have to worry about, but.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Also I get it, you know, it's it's a little
scary to think that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The government could just kind of take control like this, Right,
I think I don't trust the government enough to have
them start controlling all the things that we do or
ingest as far as content things like that go.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So obviously there are some fears within that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I think it is interesting that they are taking these measures,
and I'm curious why they feel it's so serious, why
this is something that they've decided to move forward with.
And then I also my heart does go out to
people who have created a livelihood via platform like TikTok
and then to now have that stripped away. It's scary.
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It's scary at the end of the day. Now, let's
kind of break this whole thing down a little bit further,
because I feel like there's a lot of details that
I'm not getting from the little mini things on the
internet on social media. So we're learned about this, you know, together,
I'm bringing this off for the first time and kind
of diving into what the hell all this means.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right, So what exactly does the House bill do?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So the bill gives bite Dance six months to find
a buyer for TikTok if the company cannot sell the
app in that time, it would become illegal for app
stores and web hosting companies to offer TikTok as long
as it remains under the control of a quote foreign adversary.
That in turn would force Apple and Google to remove
TikTok from its app stores. It will require Internet service
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providers to make TikTok inaccessible on Internet browsers in the US. Now,
they're saying there's no way to make TikTok disappear for
the one hundred and seventy million Americans who have already
downloaded it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But removing TikTok.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
From app stores would mean that users would not be
able to download any further software updates, and experts say
without the ability to update regularly, the app would become slow, glitchy, buggy,
and rife with other problems, to the point where using
it at all would just be basically impossible. In other words, TikTok,
as they say, would die a slow, gradual death rather
than a swift demise.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Again, all this, according to NPR, the one thing that
rubbed me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The wrong way as I just read this, TikTok being
inaccessible on Internet browsers in the US. That sounds something
like what happens in China with most websites, right, So
the fact that we are adapting something that is common
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practice in communist countries is a little bit scary. Now,
moving on to what more details are of this, let's
read along. What is the case that TikTok poses a
national security risk? Many in Washington, include lawmakers from both
parties and top intelligence officials, fear the Chinese government could
use TikTok to spy on Americans, push pro China propaganda,
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or use the service to interfere with US elections.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
To date, lawmakers have.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Not offered any evidence of the Chinese Communist Party using
TikTok as a weapon against American interest. Now, I read this,
and all that does sound well and good. Right, they're
concerned learned about China interfering with elections or spying on Americans.
How come they're not concerned with the fact that these
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companies are able to take our data and then sell
it off. That sounds like just about the same.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Thing to me.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You know, we all sign up for these social media platforms,
Facebook and Instagram and everything else.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We sign away our rights.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Essentially, we give them the right to take our data,
right and they sell it to advertisers. I mean, I
think they even sell it to law enforcement. Is like
a legal workaround that law enforcement could use to get
information to me that should be also be a concern, Like, yeah,
I understand the foreign communist government aspect of it is
a bit scary, but I also feel like, why should
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they legally be able to take my data and sell
it to somebody without my permission? And I know I'm
signing it away, so therefore it's like, you know, whatever
I'm engaging in that for the ability to scroll mindlessly
for hours on end. But and I'm just being you know,
facetious there. Obviously I love social media, and yeah, it's
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given me a lot, but.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I just think if we're gonna be concerned with things,
we should be concerned with more than just this one thing.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And that's what comes to mind as well. That was
rubb me the wrong way though. The data thing scares me,
even though again I'm willingly signing it over.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Moving out of the article, they say, have there been
developments that have troubled officials in Washington and they say, yes,
there's actual things that they are concerned with.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They say.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Byte Dance admitted to twenty twenty two that former employees
but not government officials, had surveilled Americans on TikTok, including
several journalists who were writing critical stories about the company,
and last year, a former byte Dance executive said in
a court filing that the Chinese government has in the
past been granted a quote super user credential on TikTok.
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That it was you that it used to spy on
Hong Tong protesters in twenty eighteen, something that the company denies.
Okay so i former employee says they did this, companies
denying it. While neither incident shows that the Chinese government
has used TikTok for espionage or disinformation campaigns on US users,
the developments have fueled a growing worry that Beijing could
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order that the apps algorithm the manipulated to shape what
millions of American users see when they scroll. And yeah,
that's kind of scary. As we learned about these different
details here. Listen, man, social media is scary in general, right,
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potentially scary in general because nobody really knows how this
shit works except for the people who developed these algorithms.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
At the end of the day, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I can always guarantee you that in ten years we're
gonna hear all kinds of crazy fucking stories from Instagram
and Facebook and and all these different people about wild
things that they did to spy on people or way
is that they have affected society in some sort of
way beat elections or consumer habits or whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Right, And.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's a slippery slope. This is entirely a slippery slope.
The amount of power that social media platforms have been
given sort of unpoliced.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
For so long.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's kind of like now you're you're trying to put
Pandora back in the box, you know. And unfortunately, you
had a lot of people in positions of power that
I think didn't really understand how social media worked, don't
didn't take it seriously, and allowed these companies to become
incredibly powerful. To now you're at this point, we are
now where it's like, man, they really can potentially fuck
up a lot of shit.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
If they're not monitored properly.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Right, So, I mean, listen, to a degree, I get it,
and I guess we'll see what the hell happens with this,
It's a really interesting sort of time period to be
And I'm personally, even after reading that, I'm still like
on the fence because it is scary to think about
the potential power a foreign government could have over millions
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of Americans just via this platform. But again, I don't
feel safe with the American social media companies the power
that they have, you know, I think like, as a whole,
we need to be looking into all these companies, into
all these platforms. Just it's a lot. Man, it's scary.
I don't have the right answer. It's just fucking scary.
That's That's literally all I could say. Now, speaking of
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scary shit, let's talk about guns in the United States
of America.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Because.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
This is a hot button topic apparently even though it's
a real issue and people don't want to admit it. Now, Louisiana,
you had the Governor Jeff Landry this month signing legislation
to allow permitless carry, which effectively rolls back Louisiana's foundationial
gun safety policy that requires Louisiana's to receive training and
obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm in public.
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The bill has passed by both chambers during Louisiana's special
legislation session, and we'll go into effect on July fourth.
So essentially, before this, you need to have a special
permit to have a concealed carry permit. Basically, I know
it's not a redundant, so to carry a concealed weapon
you had to have a special permit. Now they've rolled
back that completely. Effective July fourth, you will be able
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to carry that thing on you without having to get
any sort of permit or training.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Okay, now this is obviously scary shit.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And I found an organization called Mom's Demand Action that had.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Some really startling statistics on this topic.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now they say the bill was signed into law despite
research showing that states that have a weekend or have
eliminated their permit requirements, like Tennessee and Missouri, have experienced
a thirteen to fifteen percent increase.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
In violent crime.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So states like Tennessee and Missouri that have weakened or
eliminated their permit requirements have sperience a thirteen to fifteen
percent increase in violent crimes. They say, in an average year,
one hund and twenty five people die and two thousand,
nine hundred and thirty six are wounded by guns in Louisiana.
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Louisiana has the second highest rate of gun deaths in
the US. In Louisiana, eighty four percent of all homicides
involve a gun, compared to seventy eight percent nationwide. Guns
are the leading cause of death among children and teens
in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Again, according to Mom's Demand Action Organization.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, so we have a gun problem Louisiana, and the
solution is let's just make it easier for.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
People to carry guns. That makes sense, right.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't. It's crazy. You know what's crazy to me.
What's wild to me is let's just call it what
it is. You want to support the NRA. You have
a voting base there that loves their guns. You want
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to get re elected, so you're gonna make it easier
for them to do what they want and to make
it seem like you are on the team of pro gun.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's it. That's what this is.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
There's no other argument that could be made, like why
would you need to make it easier for someone to
carry a concealed weapon. It's wild to think, like the
it was already legal. They just had to go through
the proper channels. So what excuse could you say is
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the need for you to roll back the process and
make it even easier now for someone to just buy
a gun and then keep it on them at all times. Again,
it's just to sell more guns or to appease a
voting base that loves their fucking guns. There's nothing else
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you could say, and and they'll bullshit say, oh, this
isn't gonna affect gun sales, blah blah blah blahst gun
owners or are you know respectable being sure, but you
have a state that has a gun problem, a problem
with violence at the hands of guns, and you're gonna
make it easier for people to carry guns on them.
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And again again, I look at police officers, I'm like, Yo,
if I was a police.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Union, I would be standing up and be like, what
the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
You're making our life far more difficult because now any
asshole potentially could have.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
A gun on them when we pull them over, Like
it's crazy. I if the.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Logic is that most gun owners are responsible, why would
those responsible gun owners not want the process to be
a little bit more difficult, not want the process of
having a gun buying a gun, owning a gun, carrying
a gun to have levels to it that you have
to prove that you are a responsible gun owner. It's
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like driving a car. There's levels to getting a driver's license.
It's just crazy to be like, you can't buy a beer,
but you can fucking carry a concealed weapon on you. You
could buy and carry a concealed weapon on you in
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these states. That's just wild to me. Again, there's no
real logic to it, Like it's literally it's just because
you're getting probably donations from the NRA, and your base
loves their guns, and that's the popular rhetoric that amongst
your voters and you're trying to appease them.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What other justification could you have in a state that
has a gun problem that you want to just make
it easier for more people to keep guns on them. Yeah,
I'm literally, I'm just I'm just bringing you these stories
to just I don't even know, I guess drive your
blood pressure up, because that's what it does to me.
It's just frustrating, it's fucking dumb, it's annoying, obviously, it's ridiculous.
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And this is you know, unfortunately a large part of
America and their belief system that just nobody wants to
think critically or or people believe that their personal beliefs
should supersede what's probably right for society as a whole.
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That's that's really where we are, and the you know,
good laws and lack thereof are are always going to
be a great showcase of people's selfishness at the other day,
So that's that. I'm not even gonna go further that
story because it's just stuff like this annoys the shit
out of me. With that said, that was a perfect
time to take a quick break. We'll do that and
then we'll be right back. All right, we are back,
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and on a bit of a lighter note here, let's
talk about Bad Bunny and why he is suing a
fan over YouTube videos. So, according to TMZ, Bad Buddy
is suing a fan named Eric Guermo Madronald Garron for
posting concert footage to his YouTube channel Mad for Live Music. Okay,
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I chuckle, I wish I had like one of the
like the long Latin names. I gotta like, I gotta
figure out what mine is. I know I obviously have it,
but I gotta figure out where it's confusing because it's
like they include I think the mother's maiden name.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It traditionally in there somewhere. I gotta I want to
figure out mine.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I'm gonna go buy my long ass name and I
have that put on my driver's license.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I just think I love that. It's beautiful anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Gotrong allegedly went to Bad Buddy's concert on February twenty
first in Salt Lake City, youtab He recorded multi videos
of the live performance then shared them online, quote unquote,
without consent. This according to the lawsuit, Bad Buddy owns
the rights to his live performance music, which fans cannot
use for profit unless they have his authorization. The lawsuit
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documents state that Gaon coundnot use the singer's name and
music to drive traffic and ad revenue through his YouTube channel.
The lawsuit notes that Bad Buddy and his team tried
to issue standard takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act without success.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Okay, now they say, if.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You are personally concerned about posting your video, sharing your
your experience on the concert, you don't have anything to fear,
because they're saying Goton was actually using high quality camera
equipment and also had a great view, so it was
actually like he was setting up a professional shoot. I
guess they're not really too concerned about your Grady cell
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phone videos where you document pretty much the entire concert
for your Instagram story. Bad Buddies also seeking either one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each video or the
profits that were made from ad revenues on YouTube, and
they're saying that one of the videos that was still
up on this guy's channel as of last week was
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nine minutes long.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It almost looked like a professional recording of the show.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now the guy got hung is objecting to removal of
the bootlegs from YouTube, and they're saying there's all kinds
of disputes. I think he actually even filed a counter
lawsuit against Bad Buddy. Got Hong is saying that he
made legitimate use of the content. I believe his page
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has since been taken down or suspended by YouTube since now.
This is also a lesson right here in why you
need to read the deeper story than just the headline,
because if you following any of any like Latin centric pages,
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I think even TMZ to a degree on on social media,
the headline was Bad Bunny sues fan for posting a
concert video on YouTube. And when you read that initially,
you're like, man, what the fuck has gotten into Bad Bunny?
And he's suing the everyday man, a fan of his,
for posting the video he took at the concert.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
What an asshole.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
But here's the here's the difference, because when I first
read it, I was like, man, has Bad Bunny become
you know, has the Kardashian curse scotten him? He's now
becoming like this bougeiss you know, artist, and the verdict
is still out I guess to a degree on certain things.
But now reading this, my man basically bought concert tickets,
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got the you know, pristine view, with the intention of
setting up a semi professional video shoot so that he
can capture the concert and then to redistribute it on
his own YouTube channel for profit. I kind of get
why he's being sued. And also before being sued, they
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gave him the chance, like, hey, take this down, you
don't own the rights to it, and he refused.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You're stealing somebody else's work, repurposing it for your own profit,
not giving them any of the credit or compensation for it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's why you know, TV.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Networks have to license like pro sports or concerts and
things like that. They strike deals because you're licensing somebody
else's work for profit. So therefore the person you're licensing
from needs to be compensated because you're making money.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Why wouldn't why shouldn't they be making money? Right, you're
making money off of their art.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now, obviously it's this guy's I mean, for all we know,
becoming a millionaire off of this potentially could hypothetically he
could if he did this at enough concerts and the
footage was good enough enough people watched it, he could
become the fucking mister Beast of bootleg concert footage.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
But that, you know, it's it's the brazenness of the
fact that he refused.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To take it down. I think to me that this
is incredible lawsuit. I don't knock bad buddy for this
at the end of the day, you know, because we
don't know, you know, what he was potentially, you know,
looking to do with this, uh, with this footage.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Maybe he was gonna.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Put out a live concert documentary type of thing, right,
And obviously it's definite different footage than the guy had,
But I'm saying he might have been planning on putting
out a concert. You know, back in the day it
was a DVD on YouTube or whatever the hell it is.
And now this guy could potentially be affecting the views
that he gets from that from his ability to monetize it, right,
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because there's other videos of the concert out there, high quality.
Either way, it is his right, this is his work.
He put together this concert, he's paying for it, you know,
he created all the details for it or hired the
team to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And this guy, this is like, I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Gonna I feel like I'm always sounding like the grumpy
old man, but I feel like a lot of people
like in conversations around art, I think the social media
era really is sort of fucking up.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The meaning of art or the value of art.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And to a degree, social media era has given so
many people, myself included, the ability to be out on
their own, essentially because of the advents in technology. You
no longer have to have a gigantic brand behind you,
right or you need you don't need a gigantic production
in order to create content and to distribute it to
the world.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That's the beautiful thing, right, But.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
At the same time, a lot of people are stealing
other people's creative work, repurposing it for themselves online for
the sake of their own profit, or gaining popularity from
somebody else's work.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Like that's common practice. And social media is a.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Video becomes popular on TikTok or Instagram, you download it,
repost it to your own page to hopefully gain some
of that popularity. And I'm not gonna lie. I've done
it before because it's common practice. Like people who do
social media for a living, that's what they tell you
to do, like, oh, recreate this person's video, use the
same exact.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Sound, same format saying this, Oh download this.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
One, you know, kind of put your own, your own
watermark on it and a headline and re purpose it
to your page now to gain there, to gain potential followers,
right because we know this video works. And I stopped
doing it a because I just think it's cordy. It's
like unauthentic and unoriginal, but like inauthentic and un original,
but also it's like, man, you are and I don't
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always credit people, you know, but it's something about it
feels wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You're taking somebody else's creative work and then just like.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Feeding it to whoever follows you as if you just
did something profound, right.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's like a lazy way of creating.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And maybe that's why my social media fog doesn't grow
as quickly as other people's because I, you know, have
a bit more of a I don't know a pure
mind about it, or are some morals or I just
want to be a bit more authentic and want to
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Giving to people. But I think that's what this is.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Essentially, you're taking somebody else's creative work there are, and
you're just stealing it. You're looking to profit off of it.
And does bad Buddy need the money, of course not.
I think this is is more so setting an example.
I think he gave this guy the opportunity because that's
what I want to make sure I put out there
as well, because the narrative is always going to be
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bad Buddy is the bad guy here, and we have
I have to discuss the fact that he gave this
person the opportunity to take it down to say, hey,
I don't I didn't approve this. I don't want you
using my work in this way. Can you please take
this down? And the guy was like basically fuck you,
and that's why he's getting sued. So yeah, you deserve
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to get sued if you're going to not respect the
creator's wishes of utilizing their artwork, because it's a and
this is like, you know, the line that we all
have to figure out where we stand when it comes
to social media, when it comes to internet culture, technology,
because it's you have the ability to profit off of
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a lot of things these days, including other people's hard work.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
So this guy basically, and not to say he's not
putting in some sort of work, right because he has
to buy the equipment, he has to show up, he
has to buy the ticket, whatever. Sure, but basically Bad
Bundy puts together this entire concert, right that's meant to
be experienced live, and this guy is just like, you
know what, I'm going to take my fancy camera, I'm
going to set up a tripod, buy this ticket, and
(28:09):
then I'm just going to go and turn this into
my business, right because his YouTube channel is mad for
live music, so basically taking other people's work repurposing it
on YouTube for his own profit.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And there's a gray area there where it's like is
it that serious?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Probably not, but at the same time, you're really just
stealing somebody else's thing and then just repackaging it and
profiting off of it. And that's sort of a norm
in so much of internet technology, internet sales, internet culture.
There's just this like we're normalizing people just sort of
(28:49):
taking somebody else's work, doing the bare minimum to sort
of repurpose it or repackage it, and then profiting off
of it. And I don't know as a creative, as
an artist, that rubbed you the wrong way a bit.
And I'm trying not to get stuck in an old mindset.
I'm all about pivoting, all about adapting to new technology,
(29:10):
but we do begin to get to a point where
we're just devaluing art completely, and that's what scares me
a bit. And again, I talk a lot about overcorrections
and things of that nature, and this is where we
might be going too far into the realm of like
modern technology and what it can provide us, where we
lose the humanity in life and in creation. And I
(29:36):
think that takes away a bit of the beauty of
art at the end of the day. And it sort
of moves into this like you're almost kind of like
pushing the line of being kind of scummy here of
how you're choosing to profit off of things, right, because
it's like, yeah, you have this quote unquote entrepreneurial idea,
(30:00):
but it's not really much of an idea. You're just like, Hey,
I could take some somebody else's hard work, do the
bare minimum, make a channel and profit off of it.
And I respect the hustle, but there's a laziness to
it that bothers me a bit, and the griminess to
it that rubs me the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's just you know, and.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Again, and then to have to brash this to refute
like the cease and desist or the fucking take that
notice and just be like nah, fuck you, Like that's
like that to me is a new level of lack
of awareness. Like, bro, my man, you are profiting off
of somebody else's work. You're lucky that you haven't gotten
sued before. Just take this one l and move on
(30:41):
with your life, you know what I'm saying, Like, how
do you not recognize that? That's like being a drug dealer.
The police roll up on you and instead and they
give you two choices. They say, either you dump the
drugs down on the drade, or you give us the
drugs or your drugs, or we take you to prison.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And the dude is like, oh, I'm not fucking throwing
away this. You know this cocaine? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I spent all this time packaging it, and I've put
in the work to you know, be here on the
corner for hours, like this is my product.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I bought this.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna sit here
and just give it away. Take me in jail, like what,
it makes no sense where you're doing something illegal.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Just take the lesser l here. You're lucky, you got
away with it for so long. That's it. Move on,
cut your losses. But it's like the brashness of the
society where they today, where we think we have a
right to this ship where it's normal.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And that's what's wild to me, And I think scary
as an artist, and I'm putting my artist hat on now.
I'm speaking from an artist's perspective, even from an entrepreneurial perspective,
like yeah, I respect the grind or the hustle, but
it's like, how could I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Know, person, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I mean this kid can be doing this in the
background for we know, I don't know this person, but
I wouldn't be too proud of like this being my
entrepreneurial idea, I would, you know what I mean? Like
it's like this isn't that cool? I am just doing
the bare minimum for this, you know. And again, maybe
that's why I don't have a million followers across social media,
(32:26):
because I have a moral line that I try not
to cross.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Potentially could be, but I can live with that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I can can live with that because I know the
type of life that I want and type of person
I want to be.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Again with me.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
The craziest thing about this entire story, aside from this
kid being like nope, fuck you, I'm keeping this shit
on here and he lost his page, as like, bro, again,
cut your losses. You could be stealing somebody else's concert
footage right now if you just said yes and took
it down like a normal person.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Also, again, the headlines across social.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Media Bad Bunny Sue's fan for posting some of his
footage on YouTube. That makes Bad Buddy look like the
biggest asshole, and most people are not going to bother
reading any deeper than that, so again that that also
is a cause for concern these days. With that said,
that's enough of the nonsense to bes. Now we're gonna
talk about some positivity. A beautiful moment shared at the Oscars.
(33:24):
We'll talk about that for Army hint this segment. But
first to take a quick break and then we'll be
right back.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
So I have been catching up on the Oscars via
social media. I didn't watch it live. I was djaying
my monthly party gon Fuego, so very different experience than
sitting at home on the couch, relax and watching the Oscars.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
But like I said, I've been catching up via social media.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And a beautiful moment I did see was the legendary
Rita Moreno honoring America for air Now America Fair was
nominated for Best Supporting Actress from the movie Barbie. She
didn't win, but again had this legendary moment from the
first Latina to ever win an Oscar. And I think
the premise that they had, if I'm not mistaken, was
(34:15):
they had previous winners of the award introduced the nominees essentially,
and Rita introduced America. And I'm gonna give you a little
snippet of what she said. We can't play the audio
for legal reasons because I don't want to get sued,
but I can read it to you. Quotes, America, Your
powerful Barbie monologue is perhaps the most talked about moment
(34:37):
in the most talked about movie of the past year.
Your words and the passion with which you delivered them
about the most impossible standards females must try to live
up to. Galvanized not only women, but everyone with a pulse, America.
From one woman to another, congratulations on.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Your tour de force.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Beautiful and I don't know, ninety two years old, she
looks absolutely amazing, like amazing, amazing, and just a beautiful
moment Like I can only imagine if one of my
heroes got up there and was saying some nice speech
about me, Imagine how I would feel. I think, in general,
(35:19):
it's just I think about the optics of it. Okay,
let's think about the optics here, because you have this
Latina woman up there on stage, a legend speaking to
a legend in the making, if not a legend already
in America. Ferrera at the Oscars, which is a room
(35:49):
that traditionally has not catered to people like you and die.
But now in twenty twenty four, you have this beautiful
exchange between two women of color on a national platform
(36:13):
and being celebrated for their collective greatness and their individual greatness.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Like, you know, Hollywood is whatever. I think there's obviously
value in it. I have a story to tell that
I want to tell and for personal and what it
can mean for our community.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
So I don't ever want to like, I don't write
off like Hollywood is fuck Hollywood, it's whatever. There's a
lot of bullshit to it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
But at the same time, because of how powerful it
is within the culture of society, it does matter, and
it can matter a lot more if we choose to
use its power for moments like this one. And I
think that's what's beautiful to say. Again, yeah, I think
(37:11):
it's just a beautiful moment.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I would would imagine anybody with a little girl at
home watching that, or anybody who's on their journey, whatever
age it might be. Shit, it doesn't matter if you
are a little girl, little boy, you are they, you
are whatever it might be.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's an inspiration to see people.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Who are quote unquote not supposed to be there, being
there and being celebrated for their greatness, and that's what's
beautiful about it.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
And so to read them mono for you know, her
greatness and America frayer for her greatness and for being somebody.
That's what like, especially in getting.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
To know a bit more of how it hands out
America has been in the project she's been working on.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
She's exactly what we need more of.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
More people from our community in positions of power, willing
to then bear some of the weight of putting on
for our community.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's what we need more of.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And it's beautiful when that does happen, when people look
past their own personal ego and say, I want to
live for something bigger than myself. I want my legacy,
my story to have been for something bigger than myself
and my own personal accolades. I want to empower the
next generation. I want to be somebody who contributed to.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Our progression at the end of the day. I love that.
I salute that.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
That's the philosophy I personally try to live by, and
it's beautiful to see somebody doing it at the highest
level like America Ferra and just a beautiful moment that
was shared between the two of them.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
So salute to both of those legends. Right there.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Now, what I said, Let's tie everything we talked about
today in a neat little bow in a segment we
call conclusion.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
STU, time for conclusion soon.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
All right, we somehow have made it. The allergies have
not kept me down. Full disclosure. I had to take
a pause between every single topic, basically to blow my
nose and collect myself because I am dying a slow
death out here. Somehow, some way, I feel okay, now,
I think I've maybe gotten out of my system.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
But we made it. We out here.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I feel so bad for whoever has to edit the
video footage of this podcast and watch it back and
just seize me in all of my grossness and just
not just it's just not a pretty sight. So I
am sorry to whoever edits the video. And there's like
a there's a few people I would call about my name,
but I'm not sure specifically ed my videos. But absolutely you know,
(40:00):
I think you I owe you a Christmas card or
a holiday card, whatever it is that that you celebrate.
I have to figure who actually edits my videos. Again,
there's a few people on the chain I'm not being
not pretentious for I like, I don't care what anybody
his name is on the team. There's a few people
on the team. I'm not sure who specifically. I think
it's Jordan's Jordan. Jordan might be able who edits my videos.
Shout out to Jordan if it is you who is
(40:22):
actually hands on editing the videos, and I apologize for
what you had to see. Alergiy haesn't got me fucked up.
And it's not even spring yet officially anyway, TikTok potentially
being banned still has to go through the fucking sentate,
so it's not all those our shit yet.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
There's a lot of interesting questions being asked here.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Am I scared of the government, you know, having you know,
taking control over companies?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yes, it scares me. Am I scared of the Chinese
government potentially spying on us? Yes? That scares me. Am
I scared of our own government spying on us.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Because we sign away our rights whatever we sign up
for one of these platforms, even they're American oarth, Yes,
said scares me. My data getting sold to companies scares
the fuck out of me. Social media is incredible. It's
also scary as fuck. I don't know where I stand
on it. I think we have allowed this thing to
get way too big, and now we are trying to
figure out how to.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Put Pandora back in the box. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
I'm gonna keep following along at home, and we'll see
where this whole thing lands. It's scary, other scary shit
guns again. I don't know what it's going to take
for people to say, maybe we should pause this whole
gun thing and rethink it rather than just trying to
(41:36):
make it easier and easier for the sake of getting
more votes. Yeah, I don't know what it's gonna take.
Obviously them nri checks must be amazing and living in
fear of the people who are on the most extreme
part of your party.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
That stuff works, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Re elections to help the thing, I guess depending on
where you live, I don't know. Bad Bunny suing a
fan over YouTube videos again, headline is deceiving. This person
is creating a whole business based upon the creative content
of other people, profiting off fit.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
That's why he's being sued.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
He was giving the chance to take it down, refused,
and now he's being sued for it.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
That's that I mean, I I.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
This is one of those ones where I'm not gonna
call bad Bunny the bad guy here and social media
headlines are very deceiving. I don't know why that rubbed
you the wrong way, but it's like, tell them, you know,
find the way. I know it's a headline.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We're supposed to read deeper.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Most people don't read deeper, and they're just you know,
the headline is always going to be the thing when
people run with Yeah, I don't. It's what a weird
time we live. I like, I can't grasp it all completely.
I just because I feel like I don't know. I'm
not angry about the time we live, and I just
want people to have a little bit more common sense.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
That's it anyway, and.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Ended a beautiful moment Arita Moreno and America Frera celebrating
I guess one another, or more so Rita Rono celebrating
America Frera. Almost it feels like kind of passing that
baton down to a degree. I think it's a beautiful thing,
that's legendary. And the optics of those two women on
camera at the Oscars, the biggest night in Hollywood, a
place where we've been left out of for for a
(43:21):
long periods of time.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I love to see that. I think it's it's a
beautiful sign of the changing of the times. Potentially.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Obviously there's a lot more work to be done, but
but we are, I think, heading in the right direction.
Things like this give me a lot of hope. So
beautiful thing. And again, the video version of the podcast.
You want to watch it, throw it on in the
background where you cook, he or something. Check it out
in the micro Dura podcast YouTube channel. Even if you
just search life as a great you should find the show.
(43:50):
You'll get all the visual you know, effects of what
I'm talking about. You'll get the cameos from my dog
who just restlessly wanders around the set for no reason whatsoever.
And yeah, there's a lot going on here. Check out
the YouTube channel. With that said, I'll catch you guys
(44:11):
on Tuesday with a brand new episode. Until then, have
an amazing weekend, Stay safe, take your allergy medication, just
don't leave the house. I don't know what the answer is,
but if you are suffering like me, we are in
this together.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
We're gonna be all right. Have an amazing weekend, Stay
safe and I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
Pace Life as a Good Ino is a production of
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Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go, he said he live in Life as
a Gringo, where you question where you fit in at
the time you mingle, they say you do this withou
not Yes, Hello and welcome to another episode of Life
as a Gringo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I am Dramos, of course, and it's.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Thursday, so means time five a Thursday Trends episode. Flying
solo on today's show because same as I kind of
said last week, we've had a lot of guests. Sometimes
I just want to get on here and talk my ship.
Even though I am currently dying from allergies, I'd feel
like I have a new ailment every show.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I apologize if I am.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Becoming that person who complains all the time, but man,
allergy season is starting early, and allergies got me messed up.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
I am.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I feel exhausted for no reason because I jeez, I
can't breathe out of my nose. Yeah, I'm touching my
eyes constantly. So if I sound crazy to hear some sniffles, whatever,
it is, just bear with me. I am riding the
struggle bus today. But of course we got to bring
you an amazing show as per usual. Now today we'll
be talking about this potential TikTok band that everyone on
(01:20):
the internet is losing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Their shit over.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
We'll talk about what the hell that even means, why
is it happening, And we'll also talk about some new
gun law in Louisiana that makes it even easier to
carry that thing on.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
You, even though you know, the world we live in today.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Has proven we probably should have stricter gun laws, but
we'll get into that. We'll talk about bad Bundy suing
a fan over YouTube videos, and then in a positive note,
there was a really beautiful moment at the Oscars between
two incredible Latinas that we will discuss. So a bunch
to get into today further Ado, let's just dive into
(02:02):
the nonsense the bs in a segment we call for
the people in the back, say a lot of.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
The people in the.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Say a lot of the people in the.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Say a lot of the people.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
All right, so let's start with TikTok and again apologies
by sound crazy, or you're watching the video version of
this on YouTube, which if you're not aware, there's a
video version of it on the micro Thura podcast YouTube channel,
or just probably search life is going to go and
you'll find it. But I'm sure I look crazy as
all hell. Right now, my nose is probably red? Is
how my eyes.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Bear with me? All Right? We going through this. If
you have allergies, you get it. You understand. We in
this together. Now, TikTok.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You had the House of Representatives passing legislation yesterday actually
giving TikTok two choices, find a buyer or face a
nationwide band in the US. Now President Biden has indicated
he would sign the bill. Of course, it now has
to pass through the Senate, where they're saying it faces
an uncertain future. This according to MPR, they're kind of
(03:13):
talking about how several other anti TikTok efforts in the
Senate have stalled.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
So it's too soon to say whether.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Or not this is all going to actually go into effect,
whatever happens to the other saying it marks the first
time a chamber of Congress has passed a bill that
could shut down a social media platform. Now, this is
something that you know, civil liberties activists say tramples on
the free speech of millions of Americans. Now, my initial
(03:42):
thoughts on this, my hating ass was like, good, one
less social media platform, don't have to worry about, but.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Also I get it, you know, it's it's a little
scary to think that.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The government could just kind of take control like this, Right,
I think I don't trust the government enough to have
them start controlling all the things that we do or
ingest as far as content things like that go.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So obviously there are some fears within that.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I think it is interesting that they are taking these measures,
and I'm curious why they feel it's so serious, why
this is something that they've decided to move forward with.
And then I also my heart does go out to
people who have created a livelihood via platform like TikTok
and then to now have that stripped away. It's scary.
(04:37):
It's scary at the end of the day. Now, let's
kind of break this whole thing down a little bit further,
because I feel like there's a lot of details that
I'm not getting from the little mini things on the
internet on social media. So we're learned about this, you know, together,
I'm bringing this off for the first time and kind
of diving into what the hell all this means.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Right, So what exactly does the House bill do?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
So the bill gives bite Dance six months to find
a buyer for TikTok if the company cannot sell the
app in that time, it would become illegal for app
stores and web hosting companies to offer TikTok as long
as it remains under the control of a quote foreign adversary.
That in turn would force Apple and Google to remove
TikTok from its app stores. It will require Internet service
(05:18):
providers to make TikTok inaccessible on Internet browsers in the US. Now,
they're saying there's no way to make TikTok disappear for
the one hundred and seventy million Americans who have already
downloaded it.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
But removing TikTok.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
From app stores would mean that users would not be
able to download any further software updates, and experts say
without the ability to update regularly, the app would become slow, glitchy, buggy,
and rife with other problems, to the point where using
it at all would just be basically impossible. In other words, TikTok,
as they say, would die a slow, gradual death rather
than a swift demise.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
Again, all this, according to NPR, the one thing that
rubbed me.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
The wrong way as I just read this, TikTok being
inaccessible on Internet browsers in the US. That sounds something
like what happens in China with most websites, right, So
the fact that we are adapting something that is common
(06:18):
practice in communist countries is a little bit scary. Now,
moving on to what more details are of this, let's
read along. What is the case that TikTok poses a
national security risk? Many in Washington, include lawmakers from both
parties and top intelligence officials, fear the Chinese government could
use TikTok to spy on Americans, push pro China propaganda,
(06:41):
or use the service to interfere with US elections.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
To date, lawmakers have.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Not offered any evidence of the Chinese Communist Party using
TikTok as a weapon against American interest. Now, I read this,
and all that does sound well and good. Right, they're
concerned learned about China interfering with elections or spying on Americans.
How come they're not concerned with the fact that these
(07:07):
companies are able to take our data and then sell
it off. That sounds like just about the same.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Thing to me.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
You know, we all sign up for these social media platforms,
Facebook and Instagram and everything else.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
We sign away our rights.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Essentially, we give them the right to take our data,
right and they sell it to advertisers. I mean, I
think they even sell it to law enforcement. Is like
a legal workaround that law enforcement could use to get
information to me that should be also be a concern, Like, yeah,
I understand the foreign communist government aspect of it is
a bit scary, but I also feel like, why should
(07:50):
they legally be able to take my data and sell
it to somebody without my permission? And I know I'm
signing it away, so therefore it's like, you know, whatever
I'm engaging in that for the ability to scroll mindlessly
for hours on end. But and I'm just being you know,
facetious there. Obviously I love social media, and yeah, it's
(08:11):
given me a lot, but.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
I just think if we're gonna be concerned with things,
we should be concerned with more than just this one thing.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
And that's what comes to mind as well. That was
rubb me the wrong way though. The data thing scares me,
even though again I'm willingly signing it over.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Moving out of the article, they say, have there been
developments that have troubled officials in Washington and they say, yes,
there's actual things that they are concerned with.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
They say.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Byte Dance admitted to twenty twenty two that former employees
but not government officials, had surveilled Americans on TikTok, including
several journalists who were writing critical stories about the company,
and last year, a former byte Dance executive said in
a court filing that the Chinese government has in the
past been granted a quote super user credential on TikTok.
(08:57):
That it was you that it used to spy on
Hong Tong protesters in twenty eighteen, something that the company denies.
Okay so i former employee says they did this, companies
denying it. While neither incident shows that the Chinese government
has used TikTok for espionage or disinformation campaigns on US users,
the developments have fueled a growing worry that Beijing could
(09:18):
order that the apps algorithm the manipulated to shape what
millions of American users see when they scroll. And yeah,
that's kind of scary. As we learned about these different
details here. Listen, man, social media is scary in general, right,
(09:39):
potentially scary in general because nobody really knows how this
shit works except for the people who developed these algorithms.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
At the end of the day, we don't know.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
I can always guarantee you that in ten years we're
gonna hear all kinds of crazy fucking stories from Instagram
and Facebook and and all these different people about wild
things that they did to spy on people or way
is that they have affected society in some sort of
way beat elections or consumer habits or whatever.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Right, And.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's a slippery slope. This is entirely a slippery slope.
The amount of power that social media platforms have been
given sort of unpoliced.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
For so long.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
It's kind of like now you're you're trying to put
Pandora back in the box, you know. And unfortunately, you
had a lot of people in positions of power that
I think didn't really understand how social media worked, don't
didn't take it seriously, and allowed these companies to become
incredibly powerful. To now you're at this point, we are
now where it's like, man, they really can potentially fuck
up a lot of shit.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
If they're not monitored properly.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Right, So, I mean, listen, to a degree, I get it,
and I guess we'll see what the hell happens with this,
It's a really interesting sort of time period to be
And I'm personally, even after reading that, I'm still like
on the fence because it is scary to think about
the potential power a foreign government could have over millions
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of Americans just via this platform. But again, I don't
feel safe with the American social media companies the power
that they have, you know, I think like, as a whole,
we need to be looking into all these companies, into
all these platforms. Just it's a lot. Man, it's scary.
I don't have the right answer. It's just fucking scary.
That's That's literally all I could say. Now, speaking of
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scary shit, let's talk about guns in the United States
of America.
Speaker 1 (11:33):
Because.
Speaker 2 (11:35):
This is a hot button topic apparently even though it's
a real issue and people don't want to admit it. Now, Louisiana,
you had the Governor Jeff Landry this month signing legislation
to allow permitless carry, which effectively rolls back Louisiana's foundationial
gun safety policy that requires Louisiana's to receive training and
obtain a permit to carry a concealed firearm in public.
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The bill has passed by both chambers during Louisiana's special
legislation session, and we'll go into effect on July fourth.
So essentially, before this, you need to have a special
permit to have a concealed carry permit. Basically, I know
it's not a redundant, so to carry a concealed weapon
you had to have a special permit. Now they've rolled
back that completely. Effective July fourth, you will be able
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to carry that thing on you without having to get
any sort of permit or training.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
Okay, now this is obviously scary shit.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
And I found an organization called Mom's Demand Action that had.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
Some really startling statistics on this topic.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Now they say the bill was signed into law despite
research showing that states that have a weekend or have
eliminated their permit requirements, like Tennessee and Missouri, have experienced
a thirteen to fifteen percent increase.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
In violent crime.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
So states like Tennessee and Missouri that have weakened or
eliminated their permit requirements have sperience a thirteen to fifteen
percent increase in violent crimes. They say, in an average year,
one hund and twenty five people die and two thousand,
nine hundred and thirty six are wounded by guns in Louisiana.
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Louisiana has the second highest rate of gun deaths in
the US. In Louisiana, eighty four percent of all homicides
involve a gun, compared to seventy eight percent nationwide. Guns
are the leading cause of death among children and teens
in Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Again, according to Mom's Demand Action Organization.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Okay, so we have a gun problem Louisiana, and the
solution is let's just make it easier for.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
People to carry guns. That makes sense, right.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I don't. It's crazy. You know what's crazy to me.
What's wild to me is let's just call it what
it is. You want to support the NRA. You have
a voting base there that loves their guns. You want
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to get re elected, so you're gonna make it easier
for them to do what they want and to make
it seem like you are on the team of pro gun.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
That's it. That's what this is.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
There's no other argument that could be made, like why
would you need to make it easier for someone to
carry a concealed weapon. It's wild to think, like the
it was already legal. They just had to go through
the proper channels. So what excuse could you say is
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the need for you to roll back the process and
make it even easier now for someone to just buy
a gun and then keep it on them at all times. Again,
it's just to sell more guns or to appease a
voting base that loves their fucking guns. There's nothing else
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you could say, and and they'll bullshit say, oh, this
isn't gonna affect gun sales, blah blah blah blahst gun
owners or are you know respectable being sure, but you
have a state that has a gun problem, a problem
with violence at the hands of guns, and you're gonna
make it easier for people to carry guns on them.
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And again again, I look at police officers, I'm like, Yo,
if I was a police.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Union, I would be standing up and be like, what
the fuck are you doing?
Speaker 2 (15:35):
You're making our life far more difficult because now any
asshole potentially could have.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
A gun on them when we pull them over, Like
it's crazy. I if the.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Logic is that most gun owners are responsible, why would
those responsible gun owners not want the process to be
a little bit more difficult, not want the process of
having a gun buying a gun, owning a gun, carrying
a gun to have levels to it that you have
to prove that you are a responsible gun owner. It's
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like driving a car. There's levels to getting a driver's license.
It's just crazy to be like, you can't buy a beer,
but you can fucking carry a concealed weapon on you. You
could buy and carry a concealed weapon on you in
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these states. That's just wild to me. Again, there's no
real logic to it, Like it's literally it's just because
you're getting probably donations from the NRA, and your base
loves their guns, and that's the popular rhetoric that amongst
your voters and you're trying to appease them.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
What other justification could you have in a state that
has a gun problem that you want to just make
it easier for more people to keep guns on them. Yeah,
I'm literally, I'm just I'm just bringing you these stories
to just I don't even know, I guess drive your
blood pressure up, because that's what it does to me.
It's just frustrating, it's fucking dumb, it's annoying, obviously, it's ridiculous.
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And this is you know, unfortunately a large part of
America and their belief system that just nobody wants to
think critically or or people believe that their personal beliefs
should supersede what's probably right for society as a whole.
(17:42):
That's that's really where we are, and the you know,
good laws and lack thereof are are always going to
be a great showcase of people's selfishness at the other day,
So that's that. I'm not even gonna go further that
story because it's just stuff like this annoys the shit
out of me. With that said, that was a perfect
time to take a quick break. We'll do that and
then we'll be right back. All right, we are back,
(18:07):
and on a bit of a lighter note here, let's
talk about Bad Bunny and why he is suing a
fan over YouTube videos. So, according to TMZ, Bad Buddy
is suing a fan named Eric Guermo Madronald Garron for
posting concert footage to his YouTube channel Mad for Live Music. Okay,
(18:31):
I chuckle, I wish I had like one of the
like the long Latin names. I gotta like, I gotta
figure out what mine is. I know I obviously have it,
but I gotta figure out where it's confusing because it's
like they include I think the mother's maiden name.
Speaker 1 (18:44):
It traditionally in there somewhere. I gotta I want to
figure out mine.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I'm gonna go buy my long ass name and I
have that put on my driver's license.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
I just think I love that. It's beautiful anyway.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Gotrong allegedly went to Bad Buddy's concert on February twenty
first in Salt Lake City, youtab He recorded multi videos
of the live performance then shared them online, quote unquote,
without consent. This according to the lawsuit, Bad Buddy owns
the rights to his live performance music, which fans cannot
use for profit unless they have his authorization. The lawsuit
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documents state that Gaon coundnot use the singer's name and
music to drive traffic and ad revenue through his YouTube channel.
The lawsuit notes that Bad Buddy and his team tried
to issue standard takedown notices under the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act without success.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Okay, now they say, if.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
You are personally concerned about posting your video, sharing your
your experience on the concert, you don't have anything to fear,
because they're saying Goton was actually using high quality camera
equipment and also had a great view, so it was
actually like he was setting up a professional shoot. I
guess they're not really too concerned about your Grady cell
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phone videos where you document pretty much the entire concert
for your Instagram story. Bad Buddies also seeking either one
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for each video or the
profits that were made from ad revenues on YouTube, and
they're saying that one of the videos that was still
up on this guy's channel as of last week was
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nine minutes long.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
It almost looked like a professional recording of the show.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now the guy got hung is objecting to removal of
the bootlegs from YouTube, and they're saying there's all kinds
of disputes. I think he actually even filed a counter
lawsuit against Bad Buddy. Got Hong is saying that he
made legitimate use of the content. I believe his page
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has since been taken down or suspended by YouTube since now.
This is also a lesson right here in why you
need to read the deeper story than just the headline,
because if you following any of any like Latin centric pages,
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I think even TMZ to a degree on on social media,
the headline was Bad Bunny sues fan for posting a
concert video on YouTube. And when you read that initially,
you're like, man, what the fuck has gotten into Bad Bunny?
And he's suing the everyday man, a fan of his,
for posting the video he took at the concert.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
What an asshole.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
But here's the here's the difference, because when I first
read it, I was like, man, has Bad Bunny become
you know, has the Kardashian curse scotten him? He's now
becoming like this bougeiss you know, artist, and the verdict
is still out I guess to a degree on certain things.
But now reading this, my man basically bought concert tickets,
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got the you know, pristine view, with the intention of
setting up a semi professional video shoot so that he
can capture the concert and then to redistribute it on
his own YouTube channel for profit. I kind of get
why he's being sued. And also before being sued, they
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gave him the chance, like, hey, take this down, you
don't own the rights to it, and he refused.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
I get it.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
You're stealing somebody else's work, repurposing it for your own profit,
not giving them any of the credit or compensation for it.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
That's why you know, TV.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Networks have to license like pro sports or concerts and
things like that. They strike deals because you're licensing somebody
else's work for profit. So therefore the person you're licensing
from needs to be compensated because you're making money.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Why wouldn't why shouldn't they be making money? Right, you're
making money off of their art.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Now, obviously it's this guy's I mean, for all we know,
becoming a millionaire off of this potentially could hypothetically he
could if he did this at enough concerts and the
footage was good enough enough people watched it, he could
become the fucking mister Beast of bootleg concert footage.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
But that, you know, it's it's the brazenness of the
fact that he refused.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To take it down. I think to me that this
is incredible lawsuit. I don't knock bad buddy for this
at the end of the day, you know, because we
don't know, you know, what he was potentially, you know,
looking to do with this, uh, with this footage.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Maybe he was gonna.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Put out a live concert documentary type of thing, right,
And obviously it's definite different footage than the guy had,
But I'm saying he might have been planning on putting
out a concert. You know, back in the day it
was a DVD on YouTube or whatever the hell it is.
And now this guy could potentially be affecting the views
that he gets from that from his ability to monetize it, right,
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because there's other videos of the concert out there, high quality.
Either way, it is his right, this is his work.
He put together this concert, he's paying for it, you know,
he created all the details for it or hired the
team to do it.
Speaker 1 (24:13):
And this guy, this is like, I'm.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
Gonna I feel like I'm always sounding like the grumpy
old man, but I feel like a lot of people
like in conversations around art, I think the social media
era really is sort of fucking up.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
The meaning of art or the value of art.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And to a degree, social media era has given so
many people, myself included, the ability to be out on
their own, essentially because of the advents in technology. You
no longer have to have a gigantic brand behind you,
right or you need you don't need a gigantic production
in order to create content and to distribute it to
the world.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
That's the beautiful thing, right, But.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
At the same time, a lot of people are stealing
other people's creative work, repurposing it for themselves online for
the sake of their own profit, or gaining popularity from
somebody else's work.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
Like that's common practice. And social media is a.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Video becomes popular on TikTok or Instagram, you download it,
repost it to your own page to hopefully gain some
of that popularity. And I'm not gonna lie. I've done
it before because it's common practice. Like people who do
social media for a living, that's what they tell you
to do, like, oh, recreate this person's video, use the
same exact.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Sound, same format saying this, Oh download this.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
One, you know, kind of put your own, your own
watermark on it and a headline and re purpose it
to your page now to gain there, to gain potential followers,
right because we know this video works. And I stopped
doing it a because I just think it's cordy. It's
like unauthentic and unoriginal, but like inauthentic and un original,
but also it's like, man, you are and I don't
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always credit people, you know, but it's something about it
feels wrong.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
You're taking somebody else's creative work and then just like.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Feeding it to whoever follows you as if you just
did something profound, right.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
It's like a lazy way of creating.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
And maybe that's why my social media fog doesn't grow
as quickly as other people's because I, you know, have
a bit more of a I don't know a pure
mind about it, or are some morals or I just
want to be a bit more authentic and want to
you know.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Giving to people. But I think that's what this is.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Essentially, you're taking somebody else's creative work there are, and
you're just stealing it. You're looking to profit off of it.
And does bad Buddy need the money, of course not.
I think this is is more so setting an example.
I think he gave this guy the opportunity because that's
what I want to make sure I put out there
as well, because the narrative is always going to be
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bad Buddy is the bad guy here, and we have
I have to discuss the fact that he gave this
person the opportunity to take it down to say, hey,
I don't I didn't approve this. I don't want you
using my work in this way. Can you please take
this down? And the guy was like basically fuck you,
and that's why he's getting sued. So yeah, you deserve
(27:17):
to get sued if you're going to not respect the
creator's wishes of utilizing their artwork, because it's a and
this is like, you know, the line that we all
have to figure out where we stand when it comes
to social media, when it comes to internet culture, technology,
because it's you have the ability to profit off of
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a lot of things these days, including other people's hard work.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Right.
Speaker 2 (27:46):
So this guy basically, and not to say he's not
putting in some sort of work, right because he has
to buy the equipment, he has to show up, he
has to buy the ticket, whatever. Sure, but basically Bad
Bundy puts together this entire concert, right that's meant to
be experienced live, and this guy is just like, you
know what, I'm going to take my fancy camera, I'm
going to set up a tripod, buy this ticket, and
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then I'm just going to go and turn this into
my business, right because his YouTube channel is mad for
live music, so basically taking other people's work repurposing it
on YouTube for his own profit.
Speaker 1 (28:23):
And there's a gray area there where it's like is
it that serious?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Probably not, but at the same time, you're really just
stealing somebody else's thing and then just repackaging it and
profiting off of it. And that's sort of a norm
in so much of internet technology, internet sales, internet culture.
There's just this like we're normalizing people just sort of
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taking somebody else's work, doing the bare minimum to sort
of repurpose it or repackage it, and then profiting off
of it. And I don't know as a creative, as
an artist, that rubbed you the wrong way a bit.
And I'm trying not to get stuck in an old mindset.
I'm all about pivoting, all about adapting to new technology,
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but we do begin to get to a point where
we're just devaluing art completely, and that's what scares me
a bit. And again, I talk a lot about overcorrections
and things of that nature, and this is where we
might be going too far into the realm of like
modern technology and what it can provide us, where we
lose the humanity in life and in creation. And I
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think that takes away a bit of the beauty of
art at the end of the day. And it sort
of moves into this like you're almost kind of like
pushing the line of being kind of scummy here of
how you're choosing to profit off of things, right, because
it's like, yeah, you have this quote unquote entrepreneurial idea,
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but it's not really much of an idea. You're just like, Hey,
I could take some somebody else's hard work, do the
bare minimum, make a channel and profit off of it.
And I respect the hustle, but there's a laziness to
it that bothers me a bit, and the griminess to
it that rubs me the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (30:20):
It's just you know, and.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
Again, and then to have to brash this to refute
like the cease and desist or the fucking take that
notice and just be like nah, fuck you, Like that's
like that to me is a new level of lack
of awareness. Like, bro, my man, you are profiting off
of somebody else's work. You're lucky that you haven't gotten
sued before. Just take this one l and move on
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with your life, you know what I'm saying, Like, how
do you not recognize that? That's like being a drug dealer.
The police roll up on you and instead and they
give you two choices. They say, either you dump the
drugs down on the drade, or you give us the
drugs or your drugs, or we take you to prison.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
And the dude is like, oh, I'm not fucking throwing
away this. You know this cocaine? Are you kidding me?
Speaker 2 (31:13):
I spent all this time packaging it, and I've put
in the work to you know, be here on the
corner for hours, like this is my product.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
I bought this.
Speaker 2 (31:22):
I'm not gonna you know, I'm not gonna sit here
and just give it away. Take me in jail, like what,
it makes no sense where you're doing something illegal.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Just take the lesser l here. You're lucky, you got
away with it for so long. That's it. Move on,
cut your losses. But it's like the brashness of the
society where they today, where we think we have a
right to this ship where it's normal.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
And that's what's wild to me, And I think scary
as an artist, and I'm putting my artist hat on now.
I'm speaking from an artist's perspective, even from an entrepreneurial perspective,
like yeah, I respect the grind or the hustle, but
it's like, how could I don't.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
Know, person, I don't I don't know.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
I mean this kid can be doing this in the
background for we know, I don't know this person, but
I wouldn't be too proud of like this being my
entrepreneurial idea, I would, you know what I mean? Like
it's like this isn't that cool? I am just doing
the bare minimum for this, you know. And again, maybe
that's why I don't have a million followers across social media,
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because I have a moral line that I try not
to cross.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Potentially could be, but I can live with that.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
I can can live with that because I know the
type of life that I want and type of person
I want to be.
Speaker 1 (32:39):
Again with me.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
The craziest thing about this entire story, aside from this
kid being like nope, fuck you, I'm keeping this shit
on here and he lost his page, as like, bro, again,
cut your losses. You could be stealing somebody else's concert
footage right now if you just said yes and took
it down like a normal person.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
Also, again, the headlines across social.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Media Bad Bunny Sue's fan for posting some of his
footage on YouTube. That makes Bad Buddy look like the
biggest asshole, and most people are not going to bother
reading any deeper than that, so again that that also
is a cause for concern these days. With that said,
that's enough of the nonsense to bes. Now we're gonna
talk about some positivity. A beautiful moment shared at the Oscars.
(33:24):
We'll talk about that for Army hint this segment. But
first to take a quick break and then we'll be
right back.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
All right.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
So I have been catching up on the Oscars via
social media. I didn't watch it live. I was djaying
my monthly party gon Fuego, so very different experience than
sitting at home on the couch, relax and watching the Oscars.
Speaker 1 (33:52):
But like I said, I've been catching up via social media.
Speaker 2 (33:54):
And a beautiful moment I did see was the legendary
Rita Moreno honoring America for air Now America Fair was
nominated for Best Supporting Actress from the movie Barbie. She
didn't win, but again had this legendary moment from the
first Latina to ever win an Oscar. And I think
the premise that they had, if I'm not mistaken, was
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they had previous winners of the award introduced the nominees essentially,
and Rita introduced America. And I'm gonna give you a little
snippet of what she said. We can't play the audio
for legal reasons because I don't want to get sued,
but I can read it to you. Quotes, America, Your
powerful Barbie monologue is perhaps the most talked about moment
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in the most talked about movie of the past year.
Your words and the passion with which you delivered them
about the most impossible standards females must try to live
up to. Galvanized not only women, but everyone with a pulse, America.
From one woman to another, congratulations on.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Your tour de force.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Beautiful and I don't know, ninety two years old, she
looks absolutely amazing, like amazing, amazing, and just a beautiful
moment Like I can only imagine if one of my
heroes got up there and was saying some nice speech
about me, Imagine how I would feel. I think, in general,
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it's just I think about the optics of it. Okay,
let's think about the optics here, because you have this
Latina woman up there on stage, a legend speaking to
a legend in the making, if not a legend already
in America. Ferrera at the Oscars, which is a room
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that traditionally has not catered to people like you and die.
But now in twenty twenty four, you have this beautiful
exchange between two women of color on a national platform
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and being celebrated for their collective greatness and their individual greatness.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
That's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
Like, you know, Hollywood is whatever. I think there's obviously
value in it. I have a story to tell that
I want to tell and for personal and what it
can mean for our community.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
So I don't ever want to like, I don't write
off like Hollywood is fuck Hollywood, it's whatever. There's a
lot of bullshit to it.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
But at the same time, because of how powerful it
is within the culture of society, it does matter, and
it can matter a lot more if we choose to
use its power for moments like this one. And I
think that's what's beautiful to say. Again, yeah, I think
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it's just a beautiful moment.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
You know.
Speaker 2 (37:16):
I would would imagine anybody with a little girl at
home watching that, or anybody who's on their journey, whatever
age it might be. Shit, it doesn't matter if you
are a little girl, little boy, you are they, you
are whatever it might be.
Speaker 1 (37:35):
It's an inspiration to see people.
Speaker 2 (37:36):
Who are quote unquote not supposed to be there, being
there and being celebrated for their greatness, and that's what's
beautiful about it.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
And so to read them mono for you know, her
greatness and America frayer for her greatness and for being somebody.
That's what like, especially in getting.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
To know a bit more of how it hands out
America has been in the project she's been working on.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
She's exactly what we need more of.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
More people from our community in positions of power, willing
to then bear some of the weight of putting on
for our community.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
That's what we need more of.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
And it's beautiful when that does happen, when people look
past their own personal ego and say, I want to
live for something bigger than myself. I want my legacy,
my story to have been for something bigger than myself
and my own personal accolades. I want to empower the
next generation. I want to be somebody who contributed to.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Our progression at the end of the day. I love that.
I salute that.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
That's the philosophy I personally try to live by, and
it's beautiful to see somebody doing it at the highest
level like America Ferra and just a beautiful moment that
was shared between the two of them.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
So salute to both of those legends. Right there.
Speaker 2 (39:00):
Now, what I said, Let's tie everything we talked about
today in a neat little bow in a segment we
call conclusion.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
STU, time for conclusion soon.
Speaker 2 (39:13):
All right, we somehow have made it. The allergies have
not kept me down. Full disclosure. I had to take
a pause between every single topic, basically to blow my
nose and collect myself because I am dying a slow
death out here. Somehow, some way, I feel okay, now,
I think I've maybe gotten out of my system.
Speaker 1 (39:32):
But we made it. We out here.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
I feel so bad for whoever has to edit the
video footage of this podcast and watch it back and
just seize me in all of my grossness and just
not just it's just not a pretty sight. So I
am sorry to whoever edits the video. And there's like
a there's a few people I would call about my name,
but I'm not sure specifically ed my videos. But absolutely you know,
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I think you I owe you a Christmas card or
a holiday card, whatever it is that that you celebrate.
I have to figure who actually edits my videos. Again,
there's a few people on the chain I'm not being
not pretentious for I like, I don't care what anybody
his name is on the team. There's a few people
on the team. I'm not sure who specifically. I think
it's Jordan's Jordan. Jordan might be able who edits my videos.
Shout out to Jordan if it is you who is
(40:22):
actually hands on editing the videos, and I apologize for
what you had to see. Alergiy haesn't got me fucked up.
And it's not even spring yet officially anyway, TikTok potentially
being banned still has to go through the fucking sentate,
so it's not all those our shit yet.
Speaker 1 (40:39):
There's a lot of interesting questions being asked here.
Speaker 2 (40:43):
Am I scared of the government, you know, having you know,
taking control over companies?
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Yes, it scares me. Am I scared of the Chinese
government potentially spying on us? Yes? That scares me. Am
I scared of our own government spying on us.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
Because we sign away our rights whatever we sign up
for one of these platforms, even they're American oarth, Yes,
said scares me. My data getting sold to companies scares
the fuck out of me. Social media is incredible. It's
also scary as fuck. I don't know where I stand
on it. I think we have allowed this thing to
get way too big, and now we are trying to
figure out how to.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
Put Pandora back in the box. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (41:15):
I'm gonna keep following along at home, and we'll see
where this whole thing lands. It's scary, other scary shit
guns again. I don't know what it's going to take
for people to say, maybe we should pause this whole
gun thing and rethink it rather than just trying to
(41:36):
make it easier and easier for the sake of getting
more votes. Yeah, I don't know what it's gonna take.
Obviously them nri checks must be amazing and living in
fear of the people who are on the most extreme
part of your party.
Speaker 1 (41:56):
That stuff works, I guess. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (41:58):
Re elections to help the thing, I guess depending on
where you live, I don't know. Bad Bunny suing a
fan over YouTube videos again, headline is deceiving. This person
is creating a whole business based upon the creative content
of other people, profiting off fit.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
That's why he's being sued.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
He was giving the chance to take it down, refused,
and now he's being sued for it.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
That's that I mean, I I.
Speaker 2 (42:27):
This is one of those ones where I'm not gonna
call bad Bunny the bad guy here and social media
headlines are very deceiving. I don't know why that rubbed
you the wrong way, but it's like, tell them, you know,
find the way. I know it's a headline.
Speaker 1 (42:40):
We're supposed to read deeper.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
Most people don't read deeper, and they're just you know,
the headline is always going to be the thing when
people run with Yeah, I don't. It's what a weird
time we live. I like, I can't grasp it all completely.
I just because I feel like I don't know. I'm
not angry about the time we live, and I just
want people to have a little bit more common sense.
Speaker 1 (42:57):
That's it anyway, and.
Speaker 2 (42:59):
Ended a beautiful moment Arita Moreno and America Frera celebrating
I guess one another, or more so Rita Rono celebrating
America Frera. Almost it feels like kind of passing that
baton down to a degree. I think it's a beautiful thing,
that's legendary. And the optics of those two women on
camera at the Oscars, the biggest night in Hollywood, a
place where we've been left out of for for a
(43:21):
long periods of time.
Speaker 1 (43:24):
I love to see that. I think it's it's a
beautiful sign of the changing of the times. Potentially.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
Obviously there's a lot more work to be done, but
but we are, I think, heading in the right direction.
Things like this give me a lot of hope. So
beautiful thing. And again, the video version of the podcast.
You want to watch it, throw it on in the
background where you cook, he or something. Check it out
in the micro Dura podcast YouTube channel. Even if you
just search life as a great you should find the show.
(43:50):
You'll get all the visual you know, effects of what
I'm talking about. You'll get the cameos from my dog
who just restlessly wanders around the set for no reason whatsoever.
And yeah, there's a lot going on here. Check out
the YouTube channel. With that said, I'll catch you guys
(44:11):
on Tuesday with a brand new episode. Until then, have
an amazing weekend, Stay safe, take your allergy medication, just
don't leave the house. I don't know what the answer is,
but if you are suffering like me, we are in
this together.
Speaker 1 (44:26):
We're gonna be all right. Have an amazing weekend, Stay
safe and I'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 2 (44:30):
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