March 7, 2024 • 60 mins
Dramos deeps dive into trending stories from this last week including new laws being proposed targeting migrants, Miami Beach cancels Spring Break, someone makes a life-changing donation, Latina's leading the way in higher learning and more!
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https://wearemitu.com/wearemitu/news/woman-donates-1-billion-medical-school/
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talking about talk. There we go, he said
he live in life as a ringle, where you question
where you fit in every time you mingle, they say
you do.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This would not of that.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, hello, and welcome to another episode of Life as
a Gringo. I am dramas, of course, and it is
Thursdays and means time for I were Thursday Trends episode.
And I kind of felt like I've been having a
lot of guests on the show, which I absolutely love doing.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I love doing interviews.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I love bringing in interesting people to have conversations and
give their takes, so it's not just one side, it's
not just me. But with that said, I've got a
lot of guests coming up, and this whole season thus
far has been with guests, So I kind of figured
I would just fly solo on today's show and you know,
just be selfish and make it all about me today.
(01:00):
I hope that that's okay with you all. I hope
you enjoy me by myself enough to listen to an episode,
which I know I've done a lot in the past,
or some new listeners here, but you know, we out here, man.
This is the beauty of it being my podcast. If
I want to be selfish and then talk for a
little bit I can, and hope you enjoy that. Yeah,
I'm on some real shit. I'm being a bit facetious
(01:21):
with it. I do feel like this podcast is like
my baby, you know. And again, I love doing all
the interviews, I love having guests on, and it's amazing
to do so. But there are times where I feel like,
for me, this is like journaling, Like I want to
just like turn on the camera, turn on the mics,
and just sort of let it all out. And sometimes
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that's with some of the stories we're talking about or
trying to give you some insight into, you know, kind
of what I've been going through in life or E've
been thinking about. So today's just one of those days
I just felt like I wanted to like just sit
down and just get it all out, you know. So,
without further ado, on today's show and be talking about man,
these easy laws that are coming into player being proposed
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that are targeting migrants, really scary stuff that are only
going to bring on violence and more hatred towards migrants.
So we'll talk a bit about that, specifically talking about
a bill that's being introduced by Republican lawmakers in Arizona
as well as Georgia voting to pass a bill that
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is also I think problematic.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So we'll talk a bit about that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I want to touch on something I talked a bit
about on Instagram, and that is spring break and Miami
Beach trying their best to ban spring Break from happening
this year because of the over ratchetness that happened over
I think the last couple of years. And I just
think it's an interesting conversation in general. Like I'm not
of spring break age anymore, sadly, but I do think
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it's an interesting conversation of just like the current society
you live in in people really living in their own
world and thinking that everything revolves around them. And we'll
get into it, just there's a level of disrespect and
it wasn't just my beach or places that we saw
videos of people just traveling and being complete douches, honestly.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So we'll talk a bit about that climate.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then actually on today's show farm we hit the
seg We have two positive things we're gonna talk about.
We're gonna talk about somebody who donated a bunch of
money to help people through school for free.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
As well as latinas.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You guys are just the backbone of our community, making
us proud constantly. And you guys are out here making
strides for the betterment of yourselves and future generation. So
we'll talk all about that. It is women's I think
it's Women's History Month. I think was it was it
Women's History Day this last week. I think it's I
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think it's an entire month. If I'm not mistaken, it
should be a month.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Whatever. That's where we're piggybacking off of that. I apologize.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know, I could just I could just google if
it's Women's History Month. Yeah, March Women's History Month, So
beautiful time for that. We got a women's empowerment story,
which I love so again to all that. But first
and foremost, as we always do, let's just tackle some
of the nonsense the bs. In a segment, we call
for the people in the back, say a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
For the people in the say a lot for the
people in the say a lot of for the people
of the.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, So I want to first start in the
state of Arizona, where Republican lawmakers have introduced HB twenty
eight forty three, which would justify using force quote in
defense of premises unquote.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And they're saying that this is according to were me
two dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I'm reading from their article, they say a masterful misrepresentation
of legal language. The bill would make it legal to
kill people cross any property to illegally and to the
United States. While the bill makes no mention of immigration,
its sponsor, Republican Representative Justin Heap, told a committee hearing
that this bill would close a loophole. It would help
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ranchers who may witness someone trespassing on any section of
their land, not just within a mile of their home.
So basically, because all this shit is like dog whistling,
and it's you know, buried under language, and they won't
blatantly say, hey, we want you to kill mogrants.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They won't blatantly say that. But that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You're going to give some rancher out there in Arizona
who's had a little bit too much sun the freedom
to just shoot and kill another human being for merely
crossing over potentially a part of their property. That's what
we're doing. We don't know if they've actually posed any
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danger to you. They literally could be passing through. But
this is a way and by the way, this whole
thing is like just to appease the base.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Let's be very clear about that. That's what this is.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Because people like Republican lawmaker let me pull his name
here justin heap, they know that this is just going
to excite those ranchers. They get to use all these
guns that they're hoarding, and it's going to you know,
galvanize their base and feel like, man.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
All Republicans are doing something out here for us. They're
out here protecting us from these mognants. They're doing some
I'm trying to fix the problem. And I don't know
why I'm automatically to a Southern accent. I know there's
plenty of you who are Southern that are incredibly intelligent,
and I apologize that's very old.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
World of me, but it's I just feel like it's
you know, I think of ranchers. That's what I think
of right anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I apologize, y'all know my heart, as I like to say.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But but it's just it's sickening. At the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'm trying to make light of it and not like
you know, be too doomsdayish, but this is just sickening.
It's sad that we have people in office who are
literally doing things that put the lives of other people
in danger unnecessarily just for the sake of getting their
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name in the news, getting their base to be excited
about them in office, and continuing to vote Republican.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I mean. And Donald Trump is obviously starring the pot and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Saying that once he gets elected that he's going to
have the largest deportation in history, and all types of
restrictions and things like that. And again, it's just this
sort of migrant hatred, this anti migrant rhetoric, anti immigrant
rhetoric that will then continue to fuel chaos around the country,
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continue to fuel hatred, and we're going to see it
play out in the streets unfortunately, and people like this
representative introduces this BILM. Of course, they are not going
to take responsibility for it when these hate crimes eventually happened,
I mean. And we're seeing this in Georgia as well, right,
So another bill, you have the Georgia House of Representatives
wanting to allow the detention of anyone suspected of being
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an illegal immigrant. So Georgia, their House of Representatives voted
in ninety seven to seventy four to pass House Bill
eleven oh five. This bill would allow police to detain,
with probable cause, anyone suspected of being in the United
States illegally and hold them for deportation. Now, Georgia also
just passed a law allowing the police to arrest anyone
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they even suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. Texas recently
passed a similar law. These very obviously unconstitutional laws will
have catastrophic effects on both immigrants and American citizens. Again,
pulling this from an article on vrbtwo dot com as
always links going to be in the show notes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But look at this. This is stopping frisk all over again.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But Chamban is not familiar. This is you know, old
New York stuff where anybody that looked like if they
were a potential threat i e. A person of color,
the police could stop them without any sort of probable
cause and frisk them essentially. And of course this led
to all types of altercations between the public and the
police unnecessarily And what does an undocumented immigrant look like?
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Because we've seen plenty of videos. There was the Karen
and her boyfriend I believe it was in Connecticut, who
were accusing a Puerto Rican brother a group of brothers
who owned a landscape and company were accusing them of
being undocumented. So now psychopaths like that one are going
to be able to see somebody speaking Spanish or another language,
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and automatically, of course, with their racism, assume this person
is undocumented and then take it upon themselves to detain
this person.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And what do you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I don't know about you guys, And I'm not trying
to like talk like I'm mister tough guy over here,
but I'm not just gonna sit there and allow now
somebody to detain me what I'm going about my business
like that doesn't seem very American or safe for me
as a human being.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean, are we it?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Shit?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
In Georgia? What happened with Ahmad Aubrey?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The young black man who was jogging and ended up
being killed by two assholes who decided they wanted to
pretend to be police and accused this man of breaking
into a home that was under construction. And again it
led to an altercation that sadly ended with this young
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man of mot Aubrey being murdered for no reason whatsoever.
His life ended for literally no reason whatsoever. And these
sort of bills again, it's propaganda. Again, it's a performance
by the Republicans. It's a performance for their psychotic base,
or the psychotic portion of their base.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And while they're sitting there.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Playing political games to try and get elected, they are
potentially setting up everyday people for being put in harm's way.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And of course, who do you think is going to be.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Targeting this It's not going to be people with an
Irish accent, right, It's it's not gonna be people with
a Polish accent.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's going to be brown people.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's who's going to be targeted, people who speak Spanish,
people look like you and I. And the fact that
police can arrest anyone they even suspect, what is again,
what does that mean? They suspect that you're an undocumented immigrant,
you can be arrested. And honestly, if I was a
police officer, I would be I would be like so
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against all of these things, because you're also putting my
safety in danger. Because now it's like, all right, one
of my co workers is so gung ho on this shit,
decides that he's gonna throw himself into a situation unnecessarily
to an act, you know, to enforce one of these
laws just because he can, and now we're in an altercation.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's what happened with.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Up and frisk. Also, you're putting police officers lives in
danger because people are gonna nevily be pissed off because
you are harassing them for no reason whatsoever and not
saying that you should attack police or fight police or
any of the above, but it's going to play out
that way at times when people feel like they're being
violated and harassed.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right, human emotion at times is going to take over.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
On top of that, as a police officer, you're making
my job harder because now you are telling people who
are even more unqualified than you know, the average police officer,
which sadly is is underqualified to begin with. You're now
asking the everyday citizen who's sitting around waiting for some
reason to fucking use their gun or to feel like
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a hero, so then now go out there and play cop.
And again, that makes police officers more jobs harder because
they have to go police this shit right now.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And it's just ridiculous on so many levels. But it's
just racism. The end of the day, and.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The power that it still has in this country in
twenty twenty four, the amount of hatred that still exists
for people of color, specifically in this instance, immigrants, And
on top of that, because I don't want to just
make it seem like well, of course you have a
long history of racism and things of that nature, it's
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only being made worse and exaterbated, exacerbated by.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
The people who are running for office.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Donald Trump has essentially designed this playbook, and his strategy
is obviously to give you a boogeyman to be afraid
of and him to be the savior, the Republican Party
to be the savior. And again, this game he's playing
is an incredibly dangerous one.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Because it affects the lives of everyday people.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There's been so many instances we can point to where
people felt empowered to take the law quote unquote into
their own hands and do something, or have been motivated
by the hatred they're seeing on Fox News and buy
their own politicians and feel like they're losing the country
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they love so much so they have to do something
about it. I mean January sixth being a perfect example
of that, and all this type of shit just continues
to add fuel to that fire and really helps to
empower people who really don't need any more reason to
be energized behind their racism, Right, they already feel the
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way that they do, and you are just making it
even worse. You are telling people who are already racist,
who already have these biases, that not only is what
you feel to be true, but it's much scarier and
much worse than what you think. And in fact, if
you don't fight back, your very way of life and
this country as a whole will no longer exist. It
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will cease to exist. And that's what's incredibly scary about
all this rhetoric. Yeah, just not good times, not good
times at all, obviously, and again being a bit facetious here,
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but yeah, I don't. All I can do is just
talk about this to bring attention to what's really happening,
and I hopefully continue to magnify just how crazy this is.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And again, it's like it speaks to.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The conversation we had with Linda vet Chavez on Tuesday's episode. Right,
we're talking about why aren't our stories being able to
break through the mainstream, We're being able to be viewed
as universal when it comes to television or film or
things like that. And it's, like she said, there's so
much sort of shame around our community and culture based
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off of racism, based off of hatred towards us and immigrants.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And you know people of color.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That the second they see us pop up on TV,
they are enraged or feel like it's a takeover. I
feel like it's a threat to them because of all
the political pots during that's happening, all of the history
that has obviously been going on since the inception of
this country, and again that is only made worse by
people using this pre existing hatred as it means to retain, maintain,
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and gain.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
More and more power in this country.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And it's genuinely a scary time to be living in
And I would be incredibly fearful if I was to
be living in any one of those states as a
person of color, specifically as a Latino. I mean shit,
I live in New Jersey and I still have moments
where I'm like, man, am impletely safe here when I
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see I have a few people in.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Some of the more.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Out there parts of my area that have gigantic Trump
signs and anti immigrant signage all plastered outside of their
homes proudly, right, I think to myself, I ran to
that kind of person, and they're fueled by all this
type of shit. And I'm wearing like a Puerto Rican
flag or something like that, Like, how is that interaction
possibly going to go? And these are real fears that unfortunately,
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we as people of color, we as Latinos in this country,
have to live with every day and again have to
try and make sense of a growing hatred that is
being brought on our people and those who even just
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look like us, right, And yeah, I mean this is
why voting is obviously more important now than ever local elections,
just as much, if not more, of the presidency. But
you know, we really have to do our part. There's
there's sort of.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No way around it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Too much is at stake right now for us to
sit this out, you know. And I know we talk
about politics a lot and disappointments with the Democrats or
Biden and things of that nature, but the alternative is
so extreme and so detrimental to our well being that
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we have no choice, you know, but to support the
lesser of the two evils.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And and here's the other thing, too as well.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You have like the Republican latinos and and and they
exist obviously in decent numbers. Y'all are going to be
mistaken just like anybody else with with bills like these
if they're past, right, even if you are a documented
in this country, what do you think happens when they
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start stopping brown people left and right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That they suspect of being illegal?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And what they suspect it because they are they look Latin,
and they speak Spanish. They don't give a fuck who
you voted for. You are on the chopping block just
like anybody else. And that's what they need to get
through their heads. You know, anybody who falls into that camp.
This is a dangerous time to be living in a
scary time like this stuff matters, you know, I don't
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care if you think that Trump is interesting to listen
to it like a fucking pro wrestler, Like his rhetoric
is trickling down in an incredibly scary way that is
making our lives potentially dangerous on a daily basis. So
just again things to think about. Now, we'll take a
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pause here, will take a quick break, and then we'll
be right back.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All right, We are back.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And I wanted to also touch on this spring break story.
I know it's you know, many of us are probably
not of spring breaking age anymore. And I said sadly before,
but I honestly probably thank God at this point, I
don't those are fun times like that period of life,
but it was just so complicated at the same time.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I mean again, adulthood is really complicated. Yeah, I don't know.
I wouldn't want to go back.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I know this isn't even what we're talking about, but
I think about, like, if you could go back, would
you write, like, man, my life is awesome now. I
love it. It's far more peaceful and like relaxing. I
don't I wouldn't want to be twenty something again. Maybe
I would do a weekend, or maybe I would do
a week. If you were like, hey, we'll give you
a week of being in your twenties, is that cool?
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I probably, Okay, that's fine, But even I think about it, man,
I think about Miami and the first time I went
down there, and I didn't go down there specifically for
spring break. I was far too poor and also came
from incredibly strict parents who were not going to let
me travel to spring Break when I was, you know whatever,
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twenty years old or something like that, because I think
I could. I want to go to Porto Rico one
time as a whole. We bought tickets and everything to
go in, thinking that once we bought the tickets, our
parents wouldn't be able to say no. My parents still
said no. I lost those tickets. I think I was
nineteen because at the drinking agent was eighteen in Porto Rico,
so that was the plan. Anyway, So by the time
I went to a spring Break experience, it was in
Miami South Beach, I was probably twenty three twenty four,
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maybe around there, twenty three twenty four, twenty five at most,
I'd say probably twenty three to four whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Anyway, I'm bad with like ag and dates.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But I went down and it just coincidentally happened to
coincide with spring Break. I went down for like a
DJ conference that they do in Miami Winter Music Conference
and listen. I had a blast. It was a shit show,
but I remember it was like a strug.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I was poor.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I was broke as fuck, Like I was trying to
survive off a couple hundred bucks for an entire week
and being able to eat and like drink and things
like that, and like we couldn't even afford to buy
drinks at the bars the clubs like we would we
had flasks we would buy, like a bottle of whiskey,
which I hate whiskey with all my heart. We'd fill
up our flasks, we'd keep it in our waistbands, and
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we would just sneak to the bathroom and take a
couple of swigs and come back out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And that's what we were doing.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
We were only going to free parties, which were always
the worst parties for the most part. And the only
reason we got into anything good was at the time,
I was working for a music blog and we were
like their correspondence, like we would for the week, and
we would like film stuff and do some interviews and
things like that. So we got into a couple of
cool parties because of that. But you know, for the
most part, just wandering around as some broke kids. And
I guess there's there's some fun in that, but yeah,
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I don't know, man, I don't. Life is so so
much more peaceful now anyway, This isn't about me. So
Miami Beach is quote unquote breaking up with Spring breakers.
So they did this social media campaign like ads, and
they had people that looked like locals basically saying like,
you know, I'm breaking up with you.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's not you, it's me type of thing. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So Florida has, uh, you know the city in Florida,
Miami Beach. They're releasing a new ad campaign which outlined
its plans for.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Restricter rules for tourists.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This comes a year after Miami Beach declared a state
of emergency falling two fatal shootings during spring break. It
was the third unirow that Mima Beach had to enact
emergency measures to control disorderly crowds. Miami Beach officials said
the city would implement curfews, bag checks, restricted beach access,
duy checkpoints, and expensive parking fees. It also said it
would increase law enforcement. This according to nbcnews dot Com.
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So basically Miami has turned into a shit show during
spring break. And it's not the only place I can remember.
Even during the pandemic, this was happening. A lot people
were traveling, obviously to get away from like areas that restricter,
I know, Puerto Rico. There were a lot of like
viral videos of tourists just wilding out and having complete
and utter disregard. And I think what I wanted to
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talk about in this article or this this part, you know,
talking about this article. I touched on it on my Instagram.
It's like a quick video that I've been doing. They're
at d J Dramas Phone check those out. But it's
to me when I look at stuff like this and
I see these videos of and their kids at the
end day, Listen, these are people in the twenties who
are you know, they're adults, but like we all do
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stupid shit.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And that's not an excuse. But you know, I think
partially I take a little bit of the.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Earnest off of them or the blame off of them.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
But I look at this and it's like, man, it's
such a showcase of people really living in their own
world and thinking that everything revolves around them, Like they
are going to these places of business and just doing
whatever the fuck they want because they think they can, right,
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Especially when I look at like people going to Puerto Rico,
people from the States, and I saw this even when
I was in like Mexico, these were with like adults
where it was just like the air of superiority that
they think they can just go to somebody else's home
and do whatever they want. But in Puerto Rico, I
remember seeing, like you know, there was such a lack
of respect for locals and local law and a place
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that wasn't your home. And I really think.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
This generation, I think people in general, but I think
specifically a generation that's been brought up where everything is
at your fingertips. Everything is on demand, every you know, man,
every movie, every song, every person you've ever wanted to
see naked is probably out there on the internet. Like everything,
every little thing you could ever imagine is at your fingertips, right,
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you don't have to wait for anything. I can't help
but feel like it creates a bit of a sense
of entitlement. And I feel it as a DJ when
I'm in the clubs. And there's always been annoying people
when it comes to requests and things like that, but
it does feel a bit more dramatic than it used
to be, this era of not even just people making
a request, but people not even being able to have
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fun if you're not giving them exactly what they want
when they want it, right, Like people don't want to
be introduced to anything new. They don't want you to
create a vibe. They just want to keep getting their
shit on demand, over and over and over again, essentially,
right or else they're not going to party and again.
I think all of this begins to just speak to
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this entitlement that's being created in our society. And I
know a lot of people are quick to shit on
Gen z and Millennials. We got the brunt of it
as well. Now it's moving down to Gen Zays and
I'm personally always on the other side of like, you
can't critique an entire generation. I think these kids are
smarter and have more resources and opportunity than we did,
so of course they might have I don't know, different
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metrics of what's important.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
To them or how they're going to work or not
work or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
But I think, as with anything, when there's some sort
of like you know, very loud voice in the room,
there's probably some truth within there, right, And I think
this younger generation really has existed in a world without
any real boundaries.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I feel like where they they really have an abundance
of access and access is amazing. But I think when
you are I don't know, given too much of something, as.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
With anything else, it can you know, sort of become
a rotten thing. And I think when you have too
much access, you begin to lack patience, you begin to
lack discipline, you begin to get used to sort of
the world kind of revolving around you in your own
selfish way, right. And I think it's just like you know,
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whatever pretty person syndrome, where like you'll have somebody who's like,
you know, a beautiful model, and they'll think that it's
normal that people are sort of always trying to do
things for you, always fawn over you, or whatever the
case might be. Or people who are born into wealth
are so used to being treated a certain way they
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think that it's normal that everybody's treated that way, and
then they sort of go about their day thinking that
this is normal, this is the way they should be treated.
And I think we sort of are so used to
having all of our needs met so quickly and having
instant gratification that we sort of it's like the ternology
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of like main character energy, right. I think that was
created to be like, oh, you're a confident human being.
But I think people take it a step too far
where they literally think they are not only the main
character in their own story, but they're the main character
in everybody else's story, you know. And I think that's
sort of a lot of the mindset that happens. Think
we forget that we're sharing a planet with eight billion
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other people. We think that because we're on vacation, we're
celebrating this event, this birthday, whatever the case is, that
the world should stop and just sort of be at
our beck and call so we can do whatever the
fuck we want. And I think that's what a lot
of people do when they're going away now to spring
break and all these different things. It's like they're not
you know, again, there's alcohol and shoit always happened at
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these events and stuff like that. But I think obviously
when I was going, they weren't having states of emergency
interacting these things.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
They were embracing the tourism.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So I think it's people losing a bit of common
sense and just awareness as to what it means to
be a human being coexisting together and that you have
to have boundaries in this life, in this world when
you're interacting with other people, and you aren't just able
to go do whatever the fuck you want because you
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feel like doing it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Obviously, you could have fun.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
We can get blackout drunk, we can get ratchet with
our friends, we can do all of the above. But
there has to be a line that you don't cross
where you begin to then impede on other people's ability
to enjoy themselves as well. Right, Like, it's not just
about you and your group of friends having fun and
fuck everybody else type of thing or at the expense
of everyone else. It should be, you know, kind of
being able to coexist together. And I'm not trying to
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pitch like this utopian idea of human existence amongst a
bunch of drunk twenty something year old kids.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I know shit's gonna happen, just like any anything else.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
But I do think there is a very much a
prevalent lack of awareness in.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Our society as a whole.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But I think it's very obvious in this sort of
younger generation that is sort of just coming of age
to begin to experience things like spring break.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And again, it's not all their fault.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
They've been brought up in front of TV screens, in
front of you know, phone screens, technology, social media.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
They've been fed algorithms that just give them more and.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
More and more of what they like and what they want, right,
you know, they're that's that's a part of the issue
as well, is like we're literally fooled into thinking that
this is exactly how the world is and this is
how everybody else thinks, not realizing that we've just been
fed more and more or of the same shit that
keeps us in our own bubble and we're not as
social anymore. You know, people are you know, lacking these
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social skills needed to be able to operate in the
world and not get themselves into shit, you know. And
I think that's a big part of it as well,
and I think it leads to this sort of entitlement
generation to a degree.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And I'm not bad mouthing these kids completely.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I think there's also you know, because I think it's
also like a conservative talking point or even just like
a capitalism talking point, where it's like nobody.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Wants to work anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
These kids, they don't appreciate anything, they don't want to work,
and it's like, bro, listen, you have been taking advantage
of the working person for generations. These kids now have
options where they don't have to feel like they're getting
taken advantage of by some soulist company or some asshole
boss like in that regard.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Now, maybe this, you know, overabundance of opportunity leads to
a question will work ethic in the traditional sense.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, we can have that conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
But again, they have far more opportunity to do things
that make them happy than I did. So yeah, why
would they pigeonhole themselves into something that they hate doing
when they know there's plenty of other options out there
for them if they just get a little bit creative.
So that I get, I'm not somebody's just shooting on
gen Z and I think gen X and the next one.
I think, I'm not you know that person, But I
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think there is something missing.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
It's like there's there's a fucking screw loose.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Somewhere when it comes to gen Z where they just
don't seem to get this whole thing of you know,
being human, I think just yet.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
But yeah, I just want to touch on that as well.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now we're done with the bs, done with the nonsense,
so we will get into some positive stories here for
our hinte segment. All right, so let's start with some
philanthropy here I just think this is a beautiful thing.
You had a woman donating one billion dollars billion, would
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they be a billy to the medical school in the
Bronx making it to istion free. You had ninety three
year old widow doctor Ruth. I think it's goatsman making
history at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the
Boogie down Bronx. Now, the professor of pediatrics announced to
the students on Monday that she would donate a billion
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dollars to make the school quote tuition free. And they're
saying that this is the largest ever donation made to
any medical school. And this means that no student at
Einstein Medical School will have to pay tuition again quote unquote.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Wow, just wow.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
This is the type of shit I'm talking about. And obviously,
a billion dollars a lot of fucking money. And she's
ninety something years old. You know, she's she's led alife.
She doesn't need that billion anymore. But this is what
I talk about when I talk about I know I'm
ten redundant when I speak about artists, musicians, fam is people,
wealthy people of the community.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Bro, you have the ability to make so much fucking change,
like so much substantial change.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You could create a fund that raises a billion dollars
or half a million dollars, whatever it is, and put
it towards something that you are passionate about, and it
will change lives forever. This is a medical school in
the Bronx where kids will no longer have to pay
tuition because of this woman's donation. Like, fuck a government,
We the people have a lot of power as well.
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Think about that. In an industry like medicine and where
schooling is so fucking expensive, we're running out of doctors
here in the States. That's amazing. And this is what
I'm talking about, Like, man, this is what I genuinely
dream about. This And I'm not fucking just selling you
a boat down the river or so to speak, if
that's the saying. I genuinely dream of a day where
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I can fucking just make it rain on one of
my favorite causes and change the lives of people in
an instant.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Like that's goals as fuck right there, And that don't
get twisted. I know a house I'm gonna buy. I know,
you know.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I don't think i'd get like a fancy car, but
definitely my house my temple is going to be the
thing I invest in. I know exactly where it is,
I know how much it is, and it's not even
anything extravagant. But that is a top priority for me
because that's what it's going to. You know, where I'm
going to be laying my head at night. I'm gonna
have my family being raised there and off the above
right my my forever home.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Outside of that, I want.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
To have some change to be able to create the
stuff I want to create, go on vacations when my
family take care of them. But bro the rest of it,
I don't need to be living this extravagant life.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'm not gonna buy a two hundred thousand dollars Car'd
rather donate two hundred thousand dollars to helping out a
displaced family in pr you know, buying a block and
turning that into low income housing, you know, ran controlled
housing for people, and I'm going to ten thousan a
lot of money. That's just an example. But yeah, I
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want to be in a position where I can do that,
where I have the connections to have powerful friends and
acquaintances where we can work together and do those things
like that's that's goals as fuck right there. Man, that's
such a beautiful, beautiful thing. And yeah, I don't I
want that to be the norm. I don't want to
be celebrating this. I mean, it deserves to be celebrated,
but I don't want whenever it happens to feel like
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it's outside the norm. I want this to be the
normal thing. I just want to change the philosophy, change
the mindset a little bit, Like you don't need the
Bugatti kid, Like, you know, I get it, you deserve it,
You've earned it. But bro, how much better would it
feel then driving this car around a little bit only
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to get bored of it for the next one? How
much cooler would it feel to know that you just
change the course of somebody's life for generations?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Because that's what this is too. You just made this
tuition free.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
These these kids are gonna grow, graduate from the school
with their degree, go on to hopefully work well paying jobs,
debt free, where they now can reinvest in themselves and
their family and break all types of financial generational curses.
That's what this fund is doing. It's amazing and it's
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in the bros. Man, come on, like, that's amazing, and
that's what I like, I feel like is like missing
so much. It's like, how do we correct human nature
where we value the material so much? Like how do
we how do we place the emphasis where it's like, man,
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wait till I get my money, I'm gonna get this chain,
I'm gonna get this car, blah blah blah blah blah.
What if if we can change the mentality? And again,
I know, I begin to sound like I'm trying to
exist in some world where like pain doesn't exist, and
it's like some topian society. I know that that's not real,
but there has to be a way to begin to
shift the mindset of donating and helping out becomes the
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new chain, it becomes the new car, right, it becomes the.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Third summer home.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Right? How does that become the new goal? That's what
I'm wanting to get at. How do we change our
mindsets where we value giving back and view that as
the flex right because we're really just flexing when we
buy these things. Right, it's a show of our success,
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our wealth, our power, stature. And I get it to
a degree, But how do we change in our community
the mindset.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Of what a flex is how do we redefine a flex.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
How do we say, instead of having a two hundred
thousand dollars car, the real flex is the donation you
made to this family, this charity, this cause.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
How do we make that cool? Right? And And that's
the question, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I hope we can begin to get towards where it's
like we see somebody like Mike Epps buying back his
block in Indiana to turn it into you know, better
housing for people of color, for people who look like him, building.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Brand new houses with it.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
With my understanding of the encouragement of if then being
you know, bought or rented by you know, fellow people
who grew up in the area, Like, how how do
we make that the symbolization of success of cool of
I've made it that that's what needs to shift a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
And yeah, I'm I'm on my soapbox a little bit.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
But that's that's what I would love to kind of
see in And maybe I'm too idealistic about these kinds
of things, but I don't know, man, And I'm not
all cynical here either. I think we are moved in
a direction where there's a lot of positivity being put
out there. And for as much as I critique the
self help movement, I think it's a part of that.
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And I think we're authenticity and real change, real progress
is being elevated and is being valued at a higher rate,
if you will, maybe we are moving in a direction
where eventually that does become the flex where it's like
people not wearing their wealth but instead being able to
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showcase where they gave it away to. That'd be a
beautiful thing. Now, lastly, on positive stuff, I want to
talk about. We got to celebrate our Latinas. Of course,
the queens of our lives here, Okay, the just magic
that is this world, Okay, the women in our lives
specifically here talking about Latinas. You have a new study
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revealing that Latinas college degree rate, while drupled in the
last decades, according to a new analysis, the proportion of
Latinos in the US with a four year college degree
has only quadrupled in the last two decades. According to
a new analysis by the UCLA Latino Policy Institute, the
percentage of Latinos with a college degree increased from five
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percent in two thousand to twenty percent in twenty twenty one.
With the highest rates amongst those of Venezuelan fifty seven percent,
Argentinian forty six percent, and Chilean forty two percent origin.
These figures disprove any doubt that women are leading the
way in progress.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
In fact, according to the new study, the.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Percentage of Latina college graduates is higher than that of
Latino men, a trend scene across all races and ethnicities.
So US men are kind of slackened a little bit here, right,
they say that. In another UCLA study focused on community
college educational programs, researchers found that despite the obstacles, Latino
graduates can earn about twenty two thousand, six hundred dollars
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more per year.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Beautiful. Now, listen, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Critic of college to a degree, and I don't think
it's for everybody. I don't think that it's the proper
usage of time, money investment for every single person. But
with that said, I love to see that people from
our community, specifically Latinas here, are really taking it upon
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themselves to put themselves in the best position possible to
live the life that they dream about, to be able
to put on for their family, to be able to
break generational curses to live a successful life. I think
it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Now we have obviously the
flip side of it. They say that despite the exponential
growth in the rate of Latinas with a bachelor's degree
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or higher in the US, our educational attainment still lags
behind that of the general US population in twenty twenty
one twenty percent versus thirty three percent for the male
population and thirty five percent for the general female population. Furthermore,
while a college degree offers workers greater op security and
higher wages, Latinas with a bachelor's degree or higher earn
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a lower median hourly wage than most other college educated groups,
regardless of race or gender. According to the latest UCLA study,
in twenty twenty one, Latina's with a bachelor's degree or
higher earned a median hourly wage of twenty six dollars,
the second lowest of all workers by race, ethnicity, and gender,
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compared to similarly educated Latino men, who earned six dollars
less per hour. Compared to equally educated white men, latin
has earned fourteen.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Dollars less per hour.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Gosh, ooh, y'all, oh, y'all, miss me speak God's name
in vain over here, Latina has earned fourteen dollars less
per hour to equally educated white men.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
We were on a positive role here.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
I don't want to take with it from like the
listen beautiful, y'all get in some school and getting some college.
But obviously there's there's a fucking issue here. Latina's earned
fourteen ten dollars less per hour compared to equally educated
white men. Man, I don't have a daughter. I don't
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even have, like, you know, a boat in that race,
so to speak. Right now, I'm pissed off right now
for my daughter, my future daughter.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I'm gonna pat that one more time because that's that
just sounds so fucking wild to me. Latina's earned fourteen
dollars less per hour compared to equally educated white men.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Bro, I'm like, how do you race? Come on?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Now, I'm like, I'm getting frustrated because I'm thinking about
like conversations that I have with people where they're like, well, is.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Everything about a raise?
Speaker 1 (44:46):
We're all talking about a race. It's like, yeah, motherfucker,
because if we don't talk about race, then shit like
this keeps happening if we don't call it out and
make you guys fucking observe a month from us and
have to hear all these things and have to hire
us and have to do this, you know, pay attention
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to you know, people applying or are or are from
marginalized communities who are just as educated, by the way,
and just as qualified, but you choose to ignore them
if we don't force you to do this.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Look what happened, and actually.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
This is happening under you being forced to consider marginalized
groups above all others. This is still happening. Imagine if
there wasn't any focus on this, if there wasn't a
conversation happening, if there wasn't laws in place as much
as you know, they're being dismantled as we speak like.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
This, this crazy, crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Distinction and pay this gap that is happening for people
who have equal education. It's happening under a time period
where people are claiming we're too woken to serned about
race and all these different things, that this is why
we have to fucking talk about it, because look how
bad it is even as we're talking about it. Oh man,
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And obviously, like I'm thinking of personal I don't want
to call this person out, But like I had, I've
had I have this conversations with somebody that I see
on a fairly regular basis and not a bad person,
but like just has this blind spot that they're probably
choosing to to not correct and has arguments.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Like that, why.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
This is why, Because these things fucking happen, these gaps
happen solely because of race. And of course it's not
going to blatantly said, but come on, come on anyway,
shouts all Latinos out there pushing themselves for better even
though the system is working against you.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
I salute you, I see you, I love you.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
You're amazing, just amazing.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
But that's said. Man, Let's let's talk about college a
little bit. I'm gonna get y'all's take for ask a
giving go segment. We'll get into that, but let's take
a quick break and then we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Ask question.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
So I wanted to touch on the topic of college
because again I was celebrating our Latinas for graduating at
a great rate and quadrupling the rate.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Amazing stuff. I'm not I genuinely mean that. I think
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
I think people are putting themselves in the best position
to find success. With that said, I am on the
fence about college in twenty twenty four. I don't think
it is the sure proof plan to find success that
it's been made out to be. I mean, I think
my generation is proving that where we're not getting the
jobs that we were promised, we're not getting the salaries
we were promised in.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
The job market.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
If anybody has had to apply for jobs in the
last few years, you know, applying for job is basically
a full time job. Now it's incredibly difficult even just
to get in the interview process, especially with the advent
of Internet and everything. It's like you're competing at so
many people who have similar qualifications because everybody was sold
this dream of go to college you can get a job, right,
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So I simply just ask thoughts on college still worth it?
Would you do it again? If you did, do it, explain.
I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I almost fucked up
and didn't ask this question prior to recording, and I
pretty much did because I just just asked it right
before I started recording.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
So at this point I only got one response.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
So shout out to at DJ Tony a day to
day Underscore says, not worth it. I feel like people
only look for work experience. Everything is online.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
And yeah, I think you know this is interesting as well.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
It's like, because what jobs like to fucking do these
days now is like pay you an entry level salary,
but ask you to have a certain amount of work
experience just to get the job. And they're doing it
because they know they can because of how competitive the
job market is right now, because of how comparable all
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all of our situations are. Most of us are applying
with a college degree for the most part, not everybody obviously,
but most of us. And I think to his point,
I've heard from a lot of people friends of mine
and people working where they really got hired because of
their experience and the network that it led them to
being a part of, and that is what got them
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the job over other people who on paper traditionally might
have been more qualified because they went to school or
you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
It might be.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Right if I'm speaking of somebody I know who it
doesn't have a college degree but got a credible job
because of their experience and their connection to the network,
you know that that was far more valuable than any
college degree could be and I think we're probably moving
a bit more into that. And listen, I could be
wrong here. I'm not you know, hiring in you know,
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a large company right now. But even for me, like
you know, when I'm moving into the phase and we
kind of are now where I begin to bring people
on board onto the team and things like that, I'm
not really that impressed that concern with a college degree. Great,
you know, yeah, it's great. It's like a cool little
little thing. You know, all right, cool, you went to
school for marketing or whatever it is. But like, what
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can you show me that proves to me you're the
person I need or would be good at this job?
Right I'm personally especially and obviously I know I'm like,
this is where I want to make sure I'm very like,
very very deliberate about saying I could have a lot
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of ignorance to things outside of my own industry. So
I'm speaking personally from probably more of a creative industry
where I can say to somebody, I don't need to
know your college credentials, show me your portfolio. You're a
video editor, show me what you worked on. You're a
graphic designer, you are a social media marketer. Cool, what
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stuff you worked on that you can show me that
worked and that proves you are competent in whatever skill
that you are trying to sell me on. And to me,
that would be far more impressive than anybody's college degree,
you know, and for me even you know, I think
about like, I have a bachelor's degree and I honestly
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haven't needed it. But again I got into it from
a situation of I was it was the network that
I had created that got me the opportunity to be
considered to get a job in radio. Now, I think
they do like when they put their requirements, they say like,
you know, college degree, blah blah blah type of thing.
But like people that I know in hiring positions, they
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don't really give a shit about that's what's your experience,
what's your connection to this type of thing?
Speaker 2 (51:48):
What is your network? What proven track record do you have?
Speaker 1 (51:52):
You know, I think that's always, above all going to
be far more beneficial than the college is in twenty
twenty four. Now, obviously certain jobs you are a teacher,
you are a lawyer, you are a doctor that you
think you can't you know, bs your way into those positions,
per se there are certain qualifications that you have to have,
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you know, certifications, things like that.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
But other jobs out there. To me, if I was
if I was a eighteen.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Year old kid and I didn't want to have one
of those jobs and I wasn't completely sure what I wanted,
I would go out and just do the thing that
I'm interested in, create a business out of it, and
try to use that as my portfolio to find a
job somewhere. Or you know, if I was interested in marketing,
how can I help out somebody with marketing and you
know whatever, a successful local brand, successful social media creative
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and use them then as like my portfolio for proven
track record in knowing what the fuck I'm doing in
that field. You know, that to me is far more
the you know, better use of time and obviously money
at the end of the day, Like I'd rather spend
four years of just throwing myself into the industry that
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I want to be in and just whatever, if I
have to work for free for four years, if I
have to work for you know, minimum wage for four years,
I'd rather do that than just go to school to
get a degree only to have to go back through
the struggle phase to you know, try and get a
job as well and be an intern or whatever it
ends up being, right, I'd rather just try to get
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whatever real world experience I could get in my chosen field.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
And again, that's not going to work for everybody.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
That's not going to match up with every single job
out there, you know, speaking from you know, probably more
than my own experiences than anything else. But you know,
I just think you have to be very cautious. It's
an investment, man, just like anything else. It is an investment.
You're investing your time and money, and it's a risk.
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Every investment is a potential risk. You don't know how
it's going to turn out. You do your best to plan,
to hope, to prepare, but at the end of the day,
things can and usually always will go awry in some
sort of way. And that's what college is. College is
an investment at the end of the day. But it's
a risk as well, and you have to look at
it in that manner and is it worth the risk.
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Do I need to take this risk, Is it a
necessary risk in order for me to live the life
that I want to live, or do I have another
option where it's a risk as well?
Speaker 2 (54:26):
But maybe I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
It a little bit more, and maybe I don't get
myself into tens of thousands of dollars of debt for
taking said risk. And that's that's I think where I
stand on college and all that kind of stuff, if
that makes sense. But yeah, and I'm sorry I'm slacking
on the asset geting. I got to get these out
earlier so that y'all have time to see it and participate.
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And I promise I will get better at that, or
slightly better than we were on Tuesday. Tuesday, we'd even
do it. So got to, you know, give myself a
little win where I can at data dramas to Instagram
might be a part of these conversations.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Now, with that said, let's quickly tie all we talked.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
About today in a neat little boat in a segmently
called conclusion. Still time, all right, short, sweet to the point,
because you've heard me talk about this for you know,
the entirety of this show at this point, so I'm
not saying anything you've never heard Arizona the Republican lawmaker
(55:26):
introducing a bill there, Representative Justin Heap talking about giving
ranchers the ability to shoot to kill anybody who trespasses
on their property, i e.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
People crossing the border.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
You have in Georgia a bill being passed that would
allow police to detain, with probable cause, anyone suspected of
being in the United States and hold them for deportation.
They also have the ability to arrest anyone they suspect
of being an undocumented immigrant.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
And I know I touched on it when I was
talking about this.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
I talked about, like, you know, the average person being
in power to detain somebody. Obviously, it's it's saying that
police will be able to detain people, but I think
so I misspoke for a second there, but I was
getting at like, you're going to have people who decide
that because the police can do it, or because it's
a law, that they can then sort of take it
into their own hands and do it like a citizen's
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arrest or something. And like, again, this is all a
way to create fear around the idea of immigrants, of migrants,
to make their base feel raw, raw, riled up, like
they you know, are fighting to take their country back,
you know. And again it's all a performance to just
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get votes in an election year and in general to
keep their their you know, their bass bloodthirst satisfied. But again,
what they're doing here is satisfying their own political agendas
and then the process putting the lives of innocent people
in danger and how they sleep at night doing so
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is beyond me. But it's just disgusting. And vote, vot, vote, votevote.
That's all we can do now, spring Breakers in Miami, listen,
spring break culture is kind of toxic anyway in general.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
I'm not like hung up on on that.
Speaker 1 (57:18):
I'm sure actually, I'm sure it does suck, probably for
some local businesses who rely on that tourism.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
My heart goes out to them. And again, it's just like.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
We gotta do our best to like really bridge this
gap I feel like between.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Technology and just the human experience.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
And maybe it means as parents of the next generation,
like really doing our best to create boundaries for our kids,
to let them know that the world doesn't revolve around them.
But I think also having an understanding of the detriment
that things like social media can be because of the
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algorithms and how it just keeps feeding you the same
shit over and over again. It's addictive, and how it
takes you away from social settings, right being. Having an
awareness around that I think you know, is really important
and making sure that we are doing our best. I
know it's easier said than done. Kids are kids, but
doing our best to train our kids and set themselves,
set them up to lead quality lives as adult human
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beings where they can be positive, you know, contributors to
society and not just like narcissistic assholes who think the
world revolves around them, which it feels like a lot
of that kind of happens now because of social media,
the on demand culture, and the instant gratification culture we
live in now. On the positive side of things, this
woman just gave a billion dollars to in medical school
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that now will no longer have to charge tuition to
its students. Amazing, And y'all know, I went on a
whole fucking tangent about.
Speaker 2 (58:52):
This, like the power we all have as people.
Speaker 1 (58:55):
If we just come together and we stop getting tracked
in fucking material and status symbols, we could really do
so much good in this world.
Speaker 2 (59:04):
I really hope there's a mindset shift happening little by little.
Speaker 1 (59:08):
And then Latina's just putting on man, y'all are out
here getting these damned college degrees. You're not making as
much money as you deserve, and I feel feel on
that we gotta do something about that. But we're going
to celebrate your hard work right now. And you guys
are putting yourself in the best position possible, as you
see it, to break generational curses and give yourselves and
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your families and next generation is a better opportunity. So
it's a beautiful thing. We talked about college a bunch
again to each their own. I'm not shitting on it.
You have to make the right decision for what makes
sense for the life that you want. But my last
take on it is recognize that it's an investment. But
just like any investment, you are risking a loss. At
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the end of the day, it might not pan out.
So you have to make sure that it is a
credible investment, one that you believe in that you are
willing to take that risk on because you think it
gives you the best shot at whatever it is that
you want. That's you have to view college these days.
I think, hey, man, that's it. Hope you all enjoyed
and didn't hate too much just having me talking at
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you for this episode. I really felt I got some
shit off my chest, so I'm feeling a lot lighter
right now, a lot more energized. So I'm glad I
got to to kind of, you know, take this one
on by myself for today, selfishly. We'll be back on Tuesday,
though with a brand new episode. Thank y'all so much
for tuning in. Until then, stay safe, have an amazing weekend,
and I'll talk to y'all soon. Life as a GREENO
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Let me talking about talk. There we go, he said
he live in life as a ringle, where you question
where you fit in every time you mingle, they say
you do.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
This would not of that.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Yes, hello, and welcome to another episode of Life as
a Gringo. I am dramas, of course, and it is
Thursdays and means time for I were Thursday Trends episode.
And I kind of felt like I've been having a
lot of guests on the show, which I absolutely love doing.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
I love doing interviews.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
I love bringing in interesting people to have conversations and
give their takes, so it's not just one side, it's
not just me. But with that said, I've got a
lot of guests coming up, and this whole season thus
far has been with guests, So I kind of figured
I would just fly solo on today's show and you know,
just be selfish and make it all about me today.
(01:00):
I hope that that's okay with you all. I hope
you enjoy me by myself enough to listen to an episode,
which I know I've done a lot in the past,
or some new listeners here, but you know, we out here, man.
This is the beauty of it being my podcast. If
I want to be selfish and then talk for a
little bit I can, and hope you enjoy that. Yeah,
I'm on some real shit. I'm being a bit facetious
(01:21):
with it. I do feel like this podcast is like
my baby, you know. And again, I love doing all
the interviews, I love having guests on, and it's amazing
to do so. But there are times where I feel like,
for me, this is like journaling, Like I want to
just like turn on the camera, turn on the mics,
and just sort of let it all out. And sometimes
(01:42):
that's with some of the stories we're talking about or
trying to give you some insight into, you know, kind
of what I've been going through in life or E've
been thinking about. So today's just one of those days
I just felt like I wanted to like just sit
down and just get it all out, you know. So,
without further ado, on today's show and be talking about man,
these easy laws that are coming into player being proposed
(02:03):
that are targeting migrants, really scary stuff that are only
going to bring on violence and more hatred towards migrants.
So we'll talk a bit about that, specifically talking about
a bill that's being introduced by Republican lawmakers in Arizona
as well as Georgia voting to pass a bill that
(02:25):
is also I think problematic.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So we'll talk a bit about that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I want to touch on something I talked a bit
about on Instagram, and that is spring break and Miami
Beach trying their best to ban spring Break from happening
this year because of the over ratchetness that happened over
I think the last couple of years. And I just
think it's an interesting conversation in general. Like I'm not
of spring break age anymore, sadly, but I do think
(02:51):
it's an interesting conversation of just like the current society
you live in in people really living in their own
world and thinking that everything revolves around them. And we'll
get into it, just there's a level of disrespect and
it wasn't just my beach or places that we saw
videos of people just traveling and being complete douches, honestly.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
So we'll talk a bit about that climate.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
And then actually on today's show farm we hit the
seg We have two positive things we're gonna talk about.
We're gonna talk about somebody who donated a bunch of
money to help people through school for free.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
As well as latinas.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
You guys are just the backbone of our community, making
us proud constantly. And you guys are out here making
strides for the betterment of yourselves and future generation. So
we'll talk all about that. It is women's I think
it's Women's History Month. I think was it was it
Women's History Day this last week. I think it's I
(03:46):
think it's an entire month. If I'm not mistaken, it
should be a month.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Whatever. That's where we're piggybacking off of that. I apologize.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
You know, I could just I could just google if
it's Women's History Month. Yeah, March Women's History Month, So
beautiful time for that. We got a women's empowerment story,
which I love so again to all that. But first
and foremost, as we always do, let's just tackle some
of the nonsense the bs. In a segment, we call
for the people in the back, say a lot.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
For the people in the say a lot for the
people in the say a lot of for the people
of the.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
All right, So I want to first start in the
state of Arizona, where Republican lawmakers have introduced HB twenty
eight forty three, which would justify using force quote in
defense of premises unquote.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
And they're saying that this is according to were me
two dot com.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
I'm reading from their article, they say a masterful misrepresentation
of legal language. The bill would make it legal to
kill people cross any property to illegally and to the
United States. While the bill makes no mention of immigration,
its sponsor, Republican Representative Justin Heap, told a committee hearing
that this bill would close a loophole. It would help
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ranchers who may witness someone trespassing on any section of
their land, not just within a mile of their home.
So basically, because all this shit is like dog whistling,
and it's you know, buried under language, and they won't
blatantly say, hey, we want you to kill mogrants.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
They won't blatantly say that. But that's what this is.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
You're going to give some rancher out there in Arizona
who's had a little bit too much sun the freedom
to just shoot and kill another human being for merely
crossing over potentially a part of their property. That's what
we're doing. We don't know if they've actually posed any
(05:49):
danger to you. They literally could be passing through. But
this is a way and by the way, this whole
thing is like just to appease the base.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Let's be very clear about that. That's what this is.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Because people like Republican lawmaker let me pull his name
here justin heap, they know that this is just going
to excite those ranchers. They get to use all these
guns that they're hoarding, and it's going to you know,
galvanize their base and feel like, man.
Speaker 4 (06:20):
All Republicans are doing something out here for us. They're
out here protecting us from these mognants. They're doing some
I'm trying to fix the problem. And I don't know
why I'm automatically to a Southern accent. I know there's
plenty of you who are Southern that are incredibly intelligent,
and I apologize that's very old.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
World of me, but it's I just feel like it's
you know, I think of ranchers. That's what I think
of right anyway.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I apologize, y'all know my heart, as I like to say.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But but it's just it's sickening. At the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
I'm trying to make light of it and not like
you know, be too doomsdayish, but this is just sickening.
It's sad that we have people in office who are
literally doing things that put the lives of other people
in danger unnecessarily just for the sake of getting their
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name in the news, getting their base to be excited
about them in office, and continuing to vote Republican.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
I mean. And Donald Trump is obviously starring the pot and.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Saying that once he gets elected that he's going to
have the largest deportation in history, and all types of
restrictions and things like that. And again, it's just this
sort of migrant hatred, this anti migrant rhetoric, anti immigrant
rhetoric that will then continue to fuel chaos around the country,
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continue to fuel hatred, and we're going to see it
play out in the streets unfortunately, and people like this
representative introduces this BILM. Of course, they are not going
to take responsibility for it when these hate crimes eventually happened,
I mean. And we're seeing this in Georgia as well, right,
So another bill, you have the Georgia House of Representatives
wanting to allow the detention of anyone suspected of being
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an illegal immigrant. So Georgia, their House of Representatives voted
in ninety seven to seventy four to pass House Bill
eleven oh five. This bill would allow police to detain,
with probable cause, anyone suspected of being in the United
States illegally and hold them for deportation. Now, Georgia also
just passed a law allowing the police to arrest anyone
(08:33):
they even suspect of being an undocumented immigrant. Texas recently
passed a similar law. These very obviously unconstitutional laws will
have catastrophic effects on both immigrants and American citizens. Again,
pulling this from an article on vrbtwo dot com as
always links going to be in the show notes.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
But look at this. This is stopping frisk all over again.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But Chamban is not familiar. This is you know, old
New York stuff where anybody that looked like if they
were a potential threat i e. A person of color,
the police could stop them without any sort of probable
cause and frisk them essentially. And of course this led
to all types of altercations between the public and the
police unnecessarily And what does an undocumented immigrant look like?
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Because we've seen plenty of videos. There was the Karen
and her boyfriend I believe it was in Connecticut, who
were accusing a Puerto Rican brother a group of brothers
who owned a landscape and company were accusing them of
being undocumented. So now psychopaths like that one are going
to be able to see somebody speaking Spanish or another language,
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and automatically, of course, with their racism, assume this person
is undocumented and then take it upon themselves to detain
this person.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
And what do you think that's gonna happen?
Speaker 1 (09:51):
I don't know about you guys, And I'm not trying
to like talk like I'm mister tough guy over here,
but I'm not just gonna sit there and allow now
somebody to detain me what I'm going about my business
like that doesn't seem very American or safe for me
as a human being.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I mean, are we it?
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Shit?
Speaker 2 (10:11):
In Georgia? What happened with Ahmad Aubrey?
Speaker 1 (10:13):
The young black man who was jogging and ended up
being killed by two assholes who decided they wanted to
pretend to be police and accused this man of breaking
into a home that was under construction. And again it
led to an altercation that sadly ended with this young
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man of mot Aubrey being murdered for no reason whatsoever.
His life ended for literally no reason whatsoever. And these
sort of bills again, it's propaganda. Again, it's a performance
by the Republicans. It's a performance for their psychotic base,
or the psychotic portion of their base.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
And while they're sitting there.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Playing political games to try and get elected, they are
potentially setting up everyday people for being put in harm's way.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
And of course, who do you think is going to be.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Targeting this It's not going to be people with an
Irish accent, right, It's it's not gonna be people with
a Polish accent.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
It's going to be brown people.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
That's who's going to be targeted, people who speak Spanish,
people look like you and I. And the fact that
police can arrest anyone they even suspect, what is again,
what does that mean? They suspect that you're an undocumented immigrant,
you can be arrested. And honestly, if I was a
police officer, I would be I would be like so
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against all of these things, because you're also putting my
safety in danger. Because now it's like, all right, one
of my co workers is so gung ho on this shit,
decides that he's gonna throw himself into a situation unnecessarily
to an act, you know, to enforce one of these
laws just because he can, and now we're in an altercation.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
That's what happened with.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Up and frisk. Also, you're putting police officers lives in
danger because people are gonna nevily be pissed off because
you are harassing them for no reason whatsoever and not
saying that you should attack police or fight police or
any of the above, but it's going to play out
that way at times when people feel like they're being
violated and harassed.
Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right, human emotion at times is going to take over.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
On top of that, as a police officer, you're making
my job harder because now you are telling people who
are even more unqualified than you know, the average police officer,
which sadly is is underqualified to begin with. You're now
asking the everyday citizen who's sitting around waiting for some
reason to fucking use their gun or to feel like
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a hero, so then now go out there and play cop.
And again, that makes police officers more jobs harder because
they have to go police this shit right now.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
And it's just ridiculous on so many levels. But it's
just racism. The end of the day, and.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
The power that it still has in this country in
twenty twenty four, the amount of hatred that still exists
for people of color, specifically in this instance, immigrants, And
on top of that, because I don't want to just
make it seem like well, of course you have a
long history of racism and things of that nature, it's
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only being made worse and exaterbated, exacerbated by.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
The people who are running for office.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Donald Trump has essentially designed this playbook, and his strategy
is obviously to give you a boogeyman to be afraid
of and him to be the savior, the Republican Party
to be the savior. And again, this game he's playing
is an incredibly dangerous one.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Because it affects the lives of everyday people.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
There's been so many instances we can point to where
people felt empowered to take the law quote unquote into
their own hands and do something, or have been motivated
by the hatred they're seeing on Fox News and buy
their own politicians and feel like they're losing the country
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they love so much so they have to do something
about it. I mean January sixth being a perfect example
of that, and all this type of shit just continues
to add fuel to that fire and really helps to
empower people who really don't need any more reason to
be energized behind their racism, Right, they already feel the
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way that they do, and you are just making it
even worse. You are telling people who are already racist,
who already have these biases, that not only is what
you feel to be true, but it's much scarier and
much worse than what you think. And in fact, if
you don't fight back, your very way of life and
this country as a whole will no longer exist. It
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will cease to exist. And that's what's incredibly scary about
all this rhetoric. Yeah, just not good times, not good
times at all, obviously, and again being a bit facetious here,
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but yeah, I don't. All I can do is just
talk about this to bring attention to what's really happening,
and I hopefully continue to magnify just how crazy this is.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
And again, it's like it speaks to.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
The conversation we had with Linda vet Chavez on Tuesday's episode. Right,
we're talking about why aren't our stories being able to
break through the mainstream, We're being able to be viewed
as universal when it comes to television or film or
things like that. And it's, like she said, there's so
much sort of shame around our community and culture based
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off of racism, based off of hatred towards us and immigrants.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
And you know people of color.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
That the second they see us pop up on TV,
they are enraged or feel like it's a takeover. I
feel like it's a threat to them because of all
the political pots during that's happening, all of the history
that has obviously been going on since the inception of
this country, and again that is only made worse by
people using this pre existing hatred as it means to retain, maintain,
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and gain.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
More and more power in this country.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
And it's genuinely a scary time to be living in
And I would be incredibly fearful if I was to
be living in any one of those states as a
person of color, specifically as a Latino. I mean shit,
I live in New Jersey and I still have moments
where I'm like, man, am impletely safe here when I
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see I have a few people in.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Some of the more.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Out there parts of my area that have gigantic Trump
signs and anti immigrant signage all plastered outside of their
homes proudly, right, I think to myself, I ran to
that kind of person, and they're fueled by all this
type of shit. And I'm wearing like a Puerto Rican
flag or something like that, Like, how is that interaction
possibly going to go? And these are real fears that unfortunately,
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we as people of color, we as Latinos in this country,
have to live with every day and again have to
try and make sense of a growing hatred that is
being brought on our people and those who even just
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look like us, right, And yeah, I mean this is
why voting is obviously more important now than ever local elections,
just as much, if not more, of the presidency. But
you know, we really have to do our part. There's
there's sort of.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No way around it.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Too much is at stake right now for us to
sit this out, you know. And I know we talk
about politics a lot and disappointments with the Democrats or
Biden and things of that nature, but the alternative is
so extreme and so detrimental to our well being that
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we have no choice, you know, but to support the
lesser of the two evils.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
And and here's the other thing, too as well.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You have like the Republican latinos and and and they
exist obviously in decent numbers. Y'all are going to be
mistaken just like anybody else with with bills like these
if they're past, right, even if you are a documented
in this country, what do you think happens when they
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start stopping brown people left and right.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That they suspect of being illegal?
Speaker 1 (19:09):
And what they suspect it because they are they look Latin,
and they speak Spanish. They don't give a fuck who
you voted for. You are on the chopping block just
like anybody else. And that's what they need to get
through their heads. You know, anybody who falls into that camp.
This is a dangerous time to be living in a
scary time like this stuff matters, you know, I don't
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care if you think that Trump is interesting to listen
to it like a fucking pro wrestler, Like his rhetoric
is trickling down in an incredibly scary way that is
making our lives potentially dangerous on a daily basis. So
just again things to think about. Now, we'll take a
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pause here, will take a quick break, and then we'll
be right back.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
All right, We are back.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And I wanted to also touch on this spring break story.
I know it's you know, many of us are probably
not of spring breaking age anymore. And I said sadly before,
but I honestly probably thank God at this point, I
don't those are fun times like that period of life,
but it was just so complicated at the same time.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
I mean again, adulthood is really complicated. Yeah, I don't know.
I wouldn't want to go back.
Speaker 1 (20:27):
I know this isn't even what we're talking about, but
I think about, like, if you could go back, would
you write, like, man, my life is awesome now. I
love it. It's far more peaceful and like relaxing. I
don't I wouldn't want to be twenty something again. Maybe
I would do a weekend, or maybe I would do
a week. If you were like, hey, we'll give you
a week of being in your twenties, is that cool?
(20:50):
I probably, Okay, that's fine, But even I think about it, man,
I think about Miami and the first time I went
down there, and I didn't go down there specifically for
spring break. I was far too poor and also came
from incredibly strict parents who were not going to let
me travel to spring Break when I was, you know whatever,
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twenty years old or something like that, because I think
I could. I want to go to Porto Rico one
time as a whole. We bought tickets and everything to
go in, thinking that once we bought the tickets, our
parents wouldn't be able to say no. My parents still
said no. I lost those tickets. I think I was
nineteen because at the drinking agent was eighteen in Porto Rico,
so that was the plan. Anyway, So by the time
I went to a spring Break experience, it was in
Miami South Beach, I was probably twenty three twenty four,
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maybe around there, twenty three twenty four, twenty five at most,
I'd say probably twenty three to four whatever.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Anyway, I'm bad with like ag and dates.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
But I went down and it just coincidentally happened to
coincide with spring Break. I went down for like a
DJ conference that they do in Miami Winter Music Conference
and listen. I had a blast. It was a shit show,
but I remember it was like a strug.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
I was poor.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
I was broke as fuck, Like I was trying to
survive off a couple hundred bucks for an entire week
and being able to eat and like drink and things
like that, and like we couldn't even afford to buy
drinks at the bars the clubs like we would we
had flasks we would buy, like a bottle of whiskey,
which I hate whiskey with all my heart. We'd fill
up our flasks, we'd keep it in our waistbands, and
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we would just sneak to the bathroom and take a
couple of swigs and come back out.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
And that's what we were doing.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
We were only going to free parties, which were always
the worst parties for the most part. And the only
reason we got into anything good was at the time,
I was working for a music blog and we were
like their correspondence, like we would for the week, and
we would like film stuff and do some interviews and
things like that. So we got into a couple of
cool parties because of that. But you know, for the
most part, just wandering around as some broke kids. And
I guess there's there's some fun in that, but yeah,
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I don't know, man, I don't. Life is so so
much more peaceful now anyway, This isn't about me. So
Miami Beach is quote unquote breaking up with Spring breakers.
So they did this social media campaign like ads, and
they had people that looked like locals basically saying like,
you know, I'm breaking up with you.
Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's not you, it's me type of thing. Whatever.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
So Florida has, uh, you know the city in Florida,
Miami Beach. They're releasing a new ad campaign which outlined
its plans for.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
Restricter rules for tourists.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
This comes a year after Miami Beach declared a state
of emergency falling two fatal shootings during spring break. It
was the third unirow that Mima Beach had to enact
emergency measures to control disorderly crowds. Miami Beach officials said
the city would implement curfews, bag checks, restricted beach access,
duy checkpoints, and expensive parking fees. It also said it
would increase law enforcement. This according to nbcnews dot Com.
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So basically Miami has turned into a shit show during
spring break. And it's not the only place I can remember.
Even during the pandemic, this was happening. A lot people
were traveling, obviously to get away from like areas that restricter,
I know, Puerto Rico. There were a lot of like
viral videos of tourists just wilding out and having complete
and utter disregard. And I think what I wanted to
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talk about in this article or this this part, you know,
talking about this article. I touched on it on my Instagram.
It's like a quick video that I've been doing. They're
at d J Dramas Phone check those out. But it's
to me when I look at stuff like this and
I see these videos of and their kids at the
end day, Listen, these are people in the twenties who
are you know, they're adults, but like we all do
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stupid shit.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
And that's not an excuse. But you know, I think
partially I take a little bit of the.
Speaker 1 (24:29):
Earnest off of them or the blame off of them.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
But I look at this and it's like, man, it's
such a showcase of people really living in their own
world and thinking that everything revolves around them, Like they
are going to these places of business and just doing
whatever the fuck they want because they think they can, right,
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Especially when I look at like people going to Puerto Rico,
people from the States, and I saw this even when
I was in like Mexico, these were with like adults
where it was just like the air of superiority that
they think they can just go to somebody else's home
and do whatever they want. But in Puerto Rico, I
remember seeing, like you know, there was such a lack
of respect for locals and local law and a place
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that wasn't your home. And I really think.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
This generation, I think people in general, but I think
specifically a generation that's been brought up where everything is
at your fingertips. Everything is on demand, every you know, man,
every movie, every song, every person you've ever wanted to
see naked is probably out there on the internet. Like everything,
every little thing you could ever imagine is at your fingertips, right,
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you don't have to wait for anything. I can't help
but feel like it creates a bit of a sense
of entitlement. And I feel it as a DJ when
I'm in the clubs. And there's always been annoying people
when it comes to requests and things like that, but
it does feel a bit more dramatic than it used
to be, this era of not even just people making
a request, but people not even being able to have
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fun if you're not giving them exactly what they want
when they want it, right, Like people don't want to
be introduced to anything new. They don't want you to
create a vibe. They just want to keep getting their
shit on demand, over and over and over again, essentially,
right or else they're not going to party and again.
I think all of this begins to just speak to
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this entitlement that's being created in our society. And I
know a lot of people are quick to shit on
Gen z and Millennials. We got the brunt of it
as well. Now it's moving down to Gen Zays and
I'm personally always on the other side of like, you
can't critique an entire generation. I think these kids are
smarter and have more resources and opportunity than we did,
so of course they might have I don't know, different
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metrics of what's important.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
To them or how they're going to work or not
work or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
But I think, as with anything, when there's some sort
of like you know, very loud voice in the room,
there's probably some truth within there, right, And I think
this younger generation really has existed in a world without
any real boundaries.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
I feel like where they they really have an abundance
of access and access is amazing. But I think when
you are I don't know, given too much of something, as.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
With anything else, it can you know, sort of become
a rotten thing. And I think when you have too
much access, you begin to lack patience, you begin to
lack discipline, you begin to get used to sort of
the world kind of revolving around you in your own
selfish way, right. And I think it's just like you know,
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whatever pretty person syndrome, where like you'll have somebody who's like,
you know, a beautiful model, and they'll think that it's
normal that people are sort of always trying to do
things for you, always fawn over you, or whatever the
case might be. Or people who are born into wealth
are so used to being treated a certain way they
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think that it's normal that everybody's treated that way, and
then they sort of go about their day thinking that
this is normal, this is the way they should be treated.
And I think we sort of are so used to
having all of our needs met so quickly and having
instant gratification that we sort of it's like the ternology
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of like main character energy, right. I think that was
created to be like, oh, you're a confident human being.
But I think people take it a step too far
where they literally think they are not only the main
character in their own story, but they're the main character
in everybody else's story, you know. And I think that's
sort of a lot of the mindset that happens. Think
we forget that we're sharing a planet with eight billion
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other people. We think that because we're on vacation, we're
celebrating this event, this birthday, whatever the case is, that
the world should stop and just sort of be at
our beck and call so we can do whatever the
fuck we want. And I think that's what a lot
of people do when they're going away now to spring
break and all these different things. It's like they're not
you know, again, there's alcohol and shoit always happened at
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these events and stuff like that. But I think obviously
when I was going, they weren't having states of emergency
interacting these things.
Speaker 2 (29:20):
They were embracing the tourism.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
So I think it's people losing a bit of common
sense and just awareness as to what it means to
be a human being coexisting together and that you have
to have boundaries in this life, in this world when
you're interacting with other people, and you aren't just able
to go do whatever the fuck you want because you
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feel like doing it.
Speaker 2 (29:44):
Obviously, you could have fun.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
We can get blackout drunk, we can get ratchet with
our friends, we can do all of the above. But
there has to be a line that you don't cross
where you begin to then impede on other people's ability
to enjoy themselves as well. Right, Like, it's not just
about you and your group of friends having fun and
fuck everybody else type of thing or at the expense
of everyone else. It should be, you know, kind of
being able to coexist together. And I'm not trying to
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pitch like this utopian idea of human existence amongst a
bunch of drunk twenty something year old kids.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
I know shit's gonna happen, just like any anything else.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
But I do think there is a very much a
prevalent lack of awareness in.
Speaker 2 (30:22):
Our society as a whole.
Speaker 1 (30:24):
But I think it's very obvious in this sort of
younger generation that is sort of just coming of age
to begin to experience things like spring break.
Speaker 2 (30:34):
And again, it's not all their fault.
Speaker 1 (30:36):
They've been brought up in front of TV screens, in
front of you know, phone screens, technology, social media.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
They've been fed algorithms that just give them more and.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
More and more of what they like and what they want, right,
you know, they're that's that's a part of the issue
as well, is like we're literally fooled into thinking that
this is exactly how the world is and this is
how everybody else thinks, not realizing that we've just been
fed more and more or of the same shit that
keeps us in our own bubble and we're not as
social anymore. You know, people are you know, lacking these
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social skills needed to be able to operate in the
world and not get themselves into shit, you know. And
I think that's a big part of it as well,
and I think it leads to this sort of entitlement
generation to a degree.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
And I'm not bad mouthing these kids completely.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
I think there's also you know, because I think it's
also like a conservative talking point or even just like
a capitalism talking point, where it's like nobody.
Speaker 2 (31:35):
Wants to work anymore.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
These kids, they don't appreciate anything, they don't want to work,
and it's like, bro, listen, you have been taking advantage
of the working person for generations. These kids now have
options where they don't have to feel like they're getting
taken advantage of by some soulist company or some asshole
boss like in that regard.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
Now, maybe this, you know, overabundance of opportunity leads to
a question will work ethic in the traditional sense.
Speaker 2 (32:02):
Yeah, we can have that conversation.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
But again, they have far more opportunity to do things
that make them happy than I did. So yeah, why
would they pigeonhole themselves into something that they hate doing
when they know there's plenty of other options out there
for them if they just get a little bit creative.
So that I get, I'm not somebody's just shooting on
gen Z and I think gen X and the next one.
I think, I'm not you know that person, But I
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think there is something missing.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
It's like there's there's a fucking screw loose.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Somewhere when it comes to gen Z where they just
don't seem to get this whole thing of you know,
being human, I think just yet.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
But yeah, I just want to touch on that as well.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Now we're done with the bs, done with the nonsense,
so we will get into some positive stories here for
our hinte segment. All right, so let's start with some
philanthropy here I just think this is a beautiful thing.
You had a woman donating one billion dollars billion, would
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they be a billy to the medical school in the
Bronx making it to istion free. You had ninety three
year old widow doctor Ruth. I think it's goatsman making
history at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the
Boogie down Bronx. Now, the professor of pediatrics announced to
the students on Monday that she would donate a billion
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dollars to make the school quote tuition free. And they're
saying that this is the largest ever donation made to
any medical school. And this means that no student at
Einstein Medical School will have to pay tuition again quote unquote.
Speaker 2 (33:39):
Wow, just wow.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
This is the type of shit I'm talking about. And obviously,
a billion dollars a lot of fucking money. And she's
ninety something years old. You know, she's she's led alife.
She doesn't need that billion anymore. But this is what
I talk about when I talk about I know I'm
ten redundant when I speak about artists, musicians, fam is people,
wealthy people of the community.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
Bro, you have the ability to make so much fucking change,
like so much substantial change.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
You could create a fund that raises a billion dollars
or half a million dollars, whatever it is, and put
it towards something that you are passionate about, and it
will change lives forever. This is a medical school in
the Bronx where kids will no longer have to pay
tuition because of this woman's donation. Like, fuck a government,
We the people have a lot of power as well.
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Think about that. In an industry like medicine and where
schooling is so fucking expensive, we're running out of doctors
here in the States. That's amazing. And this is what
I'm talking about, Like, man, this is what I genuinely
dream about. This And I'm not fucking just selling you
a boat down the river or so to speak, if
that's the saying. I genuinely dream of a day where
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I can fucking just make it rain on one of
my favorite causes and change the lives of people in
an instant.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Like that's goals as fuck right there, And that don't
get twisted. I know a house I'm gonna buy. I know,
you know.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I don't think i'd get like a fancy car, but
definitely my house my temple is going to be the
thing I invest in. I know exactly where it is,
I know how much it is, and it's not even
anything extravagant. But that is a top priority for me
because that's what it's going to. You know, where I'm
going to be laying my head at night. I'm gonna
have my family being raised there and off the above
right my my forever home.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Outside of that, I want.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
To have some change to be able to create the
stuff I want to create, go on vacations when my
family take care of them. But bro the rest of it,
I don't need to be living this extravagant life.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
I'm good.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I'm not gonna buy a two hundred thousand dollars Car'd
rather donate two hundred thousand dollars to helping out a
displaced family in pr you know, buying a block and
turning that into low income housing, you know, ran controlled
housing for people, and I'm going to ten thousan a
lot of money. That's just an example. But yeah, I
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want to be in a position where I can do that,
where I have the connections to have powerful friends and
acquaintances where we can work together and do those things
like that's that's goals as fuck right there. Man, that's
such a beautiful, beautiful thing. And yeah, I don't I
want that to be the norm. I don't want to
be celebrating this. I mean, it deserves to be celebrated,
but I don't want whenever it happens to feel like
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it's outside the norm. I want this to be the
normal thing. I just want to change the philosophy, change
the mindset a little bit, Like you don't need the
Bugatti kid, Like, you know, I get it, you deserve it,
You've earned it. But bro, how much better would it
feel then driving this car around a little bit only
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to get bored of it for the next one? How
much cooler would it feel to know that you just
change the course of somebody's life for generations?
Speaker 2 (36:56):
Because that's what this is too. You just made this
tuition free.
Speaker 1 (36:59):
These these kids are gonna grow, graduate from the school
with their degree, go on to hopefully work well paying jobs,
debt free, where they now can reinvest in themselves and
their family and break all types of financial generational curses.
That's what this fund is doing. It's amazing and it's
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in the bros. Man, come on, like, that's amazing, and
that's what I like, I feel like is like missing
so much. It's like, how do we correct human nature
where we value the material so much? Like how do
we how do we place the emphasis where it's like, man,
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wait till I get my money, I'm gonna get this chain,
I'm gonna get this car, blah blah blah blah blah.
What if if we can change the mentality? And again,
I know, I begin to sound like I'm trying to
exist in some world where like pain doesn't exist, and
it's like some topian society. I know that that's not real,
but there has to be a way to begin to
shift the mindset of donating and helping out becomes the
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new chain, it becomes the new car, right, it becomes the.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Third summer home.
Speaker 1 (38:20):
Right? How does that become the new goal? That's what
I'm wanting to get at. How do we change our
mindsets where we value giving back and view that as
the flex right because we're really just flexing when we
buy these things. Right, it's a show of our success,
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our wealth, our power, stature. And I get it to
a degree, But how do we change in our community
the mindset.
Speaker 2 (38:50):
Of what a flex is how do we redefine a flex.
Speaker 1 (38:53):
How do we say, instead of having a two hundred
thousand dollars car, the real flex is the donation you
made to this family, this charity, this cause.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
How do we make that cool? Right? And And that's
the question, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (39:09):
I hope we can begin to get towards where it's
like we see somebody like Mike Epps buying back his
block in Indiana to turn it into you know, better
housing for people of color, for people who look like him, building.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
Brand new houses with it.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
With my understanding of the encouragement of if then being
you know, bought or rented by you know, fellow people
who grew up in the area, Like, how how do
we make that the symbolization of success of cool of
I've made it that that's what needs to shift a
little bit.
Speaker 2 (39:45):
And yeah, I'm I'm on my soapbox a little bit.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
But that's that's what I would love to kind of
see in And maybe I'm too idealistic about these kinds
of things, but I don't know, man, And I'm not
all cynical here either. I think we are moved in
a direction where there's a lot of positivity being put
out there. And for as much as I critique the
self help movement, I think it's a part of that.
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And I think we're authenticity and real change, real progress
is being elevated and is being valued at a higher rate,
if you will, maybe we are moving in a direction
where eventually that does become the flex where it's like
people not wearing their wealth but instead being able to
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showcase where they gave it away to. That'd be a
beautiful thing. Now, lastly, on positive stuff, I want to
talk about. We got to celebrate our Latinas. Of course,
the queens of our lives here, Okay, the just magic
that is this world, Okay, the women in our lives
specifically here talking about Latinas. You have a new study
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revealing that Latinas college degree rate, while drupled in the
last decades, according to a new analysis, the proportion of
Latinos in the US with a four year college degree
has only quadrupled in the last two decades. According to
a new analysis by the UCLA Latino Policy Institute, the
percentage of Latinos with a college degree increased from five
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percent in two thousand to twenty percent in twenty twenty one.
With the highest rates amongst those of Venezuelan fifty seven percent,
Argentinian forty six percent, and Chilean forty two percent origin.
These figures disprove any doubt that women are leading the
way in progress.
Speaker 2 (41:31):
In fact, according to the new study, the.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Percentage of Latina college graduates is higher than that of
Latino men, a trend scene across all races and ethnicities.
So US men are kind of slackened a little bit here, right,
they say that. In another UCLA study focused on community
college educational programs, researchers found that despite the obstacles, Latino
graduates can earn about twenty two thousand, six hundred dollars
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more per year.
Speaker 2 (41:57):
Beautiful. Now, listen, I'm a.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
Critic of college to a degree, and I don't think
it's for everybody. I don't think that it's the proper
usage of time, money investment for every single person. But
with that said, I love to see that people from
our community, specifically Latinas here, are really taking it upon
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themselves to put themselves in the best position possible to
live the life that they dream about, to be able
to put on for their family, to be able to
break generational curses to live a successful life. I think
it's a beautiful, beautiful thing. Now we have obviously the
flip side of it. They say that despite the exponential
growth in the rate of Latinas with a bachelor's degree
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or higher in the US, our educational attainment still lags
behind that of the general US population in twenty twenty
one twenty percent versus thirty three percent for the male
population and thirty five percent for the general female population. Furthermore,
while a college degree offers workers greater op security and
higher wages, Latinas with a bachelor's degree or higher earn
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a lower median hourly wage than most other college educated groups,
regardless of race or gender. According to the latest UCLA study,
in twenty twenty one, Latina's with a bachelor's degree or
higher earned a median hourly wage of twenty six dollars,
the second lowest of all workers by race, ethnicity, and gender,
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compared to similarly educated Latino men, who earned six dollars
less per hour. Compared to equally educated white men, latin
has earned fourteen.
Speaker 2 (43:33):
Dollars less per hour.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
Gosh, ooh, y'all, oh, y'all, miss me speak God's name
in vain over here, Latina has earned fourteen dollars less
per hour to equally educated white men.
Speaker 2 (43:48):
We were on a positive role here.
Speaker 1 (43:50):
I don't want to take with it from like the
listen beautiful, y'all get in some school and getting some college.
But obviously there's there's a fucking issue here. Latina's earned
fourteen ten dollars less per hour compared to equally educated
white men. Man, I don't have a daughter. I don't
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even have, like, you know, a boat in that race,
so to speak. Right now, I'm pissed off right now
for my daughter, my future daughter.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
I'm gonna pat that one more time because that's that
just sounds so fucking wild to me. Latina's earned fourteen
dollars less per hour compared to equally educated white men.
Speaker 2 (44:32):
Bro, I'm like, how do you race? Come on?
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Now, I'm like, I'm getting frustrated because I'm thinking about
like conversations that I have with people where they're like, well, is.
Speaker 2 (44:45):
Everything about a raise?
Speaker 1 (44:46):
We're all talking about a race. It's like, yeah, motherfucker,
because if we don't talk about race, then shit like
this keeps happening if we don't call it out and
make you guys fucking observe a month from us and
have to hear all these things and have to hire
us and have to do this, you know, pay attention
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to you know, people applying or are or are from
marginalized communities who are just as educated, by the way,
and just as qualified, but you choose to ignore them
if we don't force you to do this.
Speaker 2 (45:22):
Look what happened, and actually.
Speaker 1 (45:23):
This is happening under you being forced to consider marginalized
groups above all others. This is still happening. Imagine if
there wasn't any focus on this, if there wasn't a
conversation happening, if there wasn't laws in place as much
as you know, they're being dismantled as we speak like.
Speaker 2 (45:43):
This, this crazy, crazy.
Speaker 1 (45:48):
Distinction and pay this gap that is happening for people
who have equal education. It's happening under a time period
where people are claiming we're too woken to serned about
race and all these different things, that this is why
we have to fucking talk about it, because look how
bad it is even as we're talking about it. Oh man,
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And obviously, like I'm thinking of personal I don't want
to call this person out, But like I had, I've
had I have this conversations with somebody that I see
on a fairly regular basis and not a bad person,
but like just has this blind spot that they're probably
choosing to to not correct and has arguments.
Speaker 2 (46:27):
Like that, why.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
This is why, Because these things fucking happen, these gaps
happen solely because of race. And of course it's not
going to blatantly said, but come on, come on anyway,
shouts all Latinos out there pushing themselves for better even
though the system is working against you.
Speaker 2 (46:44):
I salute you, I see you, I love you.
Speaker 1 (46:46):
You're amazing, just amazing.
Speaker 2 (46:50):
But that's said. Man, Let's let's talk about college a
little bit. I'm gonna get y'all's take for ask a
giving go segment. We'll get into that, but let's take
a quick break and then we'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (47:06):
Ask question.
Speaker 2 (47:12):
All right.
Speaker 1 (47:12):
So I wanted to touch on the topic of college
because again I was celebrating our Latinas for graduating at
a great rate and quadrupling the rate.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Amazing stuff. I'm not I genuinely mean that. I think
it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (47:25):
I think people are putting themselves in the best position
to find success. With that said, I am on the
fence about college in twenty twenty four. I don't think
it is the sure proof plan to find success that
it's been made out to be. I mean, I think
my generation is proving that where we're not getting the
jobs that we were promised, we're not getting the salaries
we were promised in.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
The job market.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
If anybody has had to apply for jobs in the
last few years, you know, applying for job is basically
a full time job. Now it's incredibly difficult even just
to get in the interview process, especially with the advent
of Internet and everything. It's like you're competing at so
many people who have similar qualifications because everybody was sold
this dream of go to college you can get a job, right,
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So I simply just ask thoughts on college still worth it?
Would you do it again? If you did, do it, explain.
I'm not gonna lie to y'all. I almost fucked up
and didn't ask this question prior to recording, and I
pretty much did because I just just asked it right
before I started recording.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
So at this point I only got one response.
Speaker 1 (48:27):
So shout out to at DJ Tony a day to
day Underscore says, not worth it. I feel like people
only look for work experience. Everything is online.
Speaker 2 (48:35):
And yeah, I think you know this is interesting as well.
Speaker 1 (48:39):
It's like, because what jobs like to fucking do these
days now is like pay you an entry level salary,
but ask you to have a certain amount of work
experience just to get the job. And they're doing it
because they know they can because of how competitive the
job market is right now, because of how comparable all
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all of our situations are. Most of us are applying
with a college degree for the most part, not everybody obviously,
but most of us. And I think to his point,
I've heard from a lot of people friends of mine
and people working where they really got hired because of
their experience and the network that it led them to
being a part of, and that is what got them
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the job over other people who on paper traditionally might
have been more qualified because they went to school or
you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (49:30):
It might be.
Speaker 1 (49:31):
Right if I'm speaking of somebody I know who it
doesn't have a college degree but got a credible job
because of their experience and their connection to the network,
you know that that was far more valuable than any
college degree could be and I think we're probably moving
a bit more into that. And listen, I could be
wrong here. I'm not you know, hiring in you know,
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a large company right now. But even for me, like
you know, when I'm moving into the phase and we
kind of are now where I begin to bring people
on board onto the team and things like that, I'm
not really that impressed that concern with a college degree. Great,
you know, yeah, it's great. It's like a cool little
little thing. You know, all right, cool, you went to
school for marketing or whatever it is. But like, what
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can you show me that proves to me you're the
person I need or would be good at this job?
Right I'm personally especially and obviously I know I'm like,
this is where I want to make sure I'm very like,
very very deliberate about saying I could have a lot
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of ignorance to things outside of my own industry. So
I'm speaking personally from probably more of a creative industry
where I can say to somebody, I don't need to
know your college credentials, show me your portfolio. You're a
video editor, show me what you worked on. You're a
graphic designer, you are a social media marketer. Cool, what
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stuff you worked on that you can show me that
worked and that proves you are competent in whatever skill
that you are trying to sell me on. And to me,
that would be far more impressive than anybody's college degree,
you know, and for me even you know, I think
about like, I have a bachelor's degree and I honestly
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haven't needed it. But again I got into it from
a situation of I was it was the network that
I had created that got me the opportunity to be
considered to get a job in radio. Now, I think
they do like when they put their requirements, they say like,
you know, college degree, blah blah blah type of thing.
But like people that I know in hiring positions, they
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don't really give a shit about that's what's your experience,
what's your connection to this type of thing?
Speaker 2 (51:48):
What is your network? What proven track record do you have?
Speaker 1 (51:52):
You know, I think that's always, above all going to
be far more beneficial than the college is in twenty
twenty four. Now, obviously certain jobs you are a teacher,
you are a lawyer, you are a doctor that you
think you can't you know, bs your way into those positions,
per se there are certain qualifications that you have to have,
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you know, certifications, things like that.
Speaker 2 (52:15):
But other jobs out there. To me, if I was
if I was a eighteen.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
Year old kid and I didn't want to have one
of those jobs and I wasn't completely sure what I wanted,
I would go out and just do the thing that
I'm interested in, create a business out of it, and
try to use that as my portfolio to find a
job somewhere. Or you know, if I was interested in marketing,
how can I help out somebody with marketing and you
know whatever, a successful local brand, successful social media creative
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and use them then as like my portfolio for proven
track record in knowing what the fuck I'm doing in
that field. You know, that to me is far more
the you know, better use of time and obviously money
at the end of the day, Like I'd rather spend
four years of just throwing myself into the industry that
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I want to be in and just whatever, if I
have to work for free for four years, if I
have to work for you know, minimum wage for four years,
I'd rather do that than just go to school to
get a degree only to have to go back through
the struggle phase to you know, try and get a
job as well and be an intern or whatever it
ends up being, right, I'd rather just try to get
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whatever real world experience I could get in my chosen field.
Speaker 2 (53:33):
And again, that's not going to work for everybody.
Speaker 1 (53:36):
That's not going to match up with every single job
out there, you know, speaking from you know, probably more
than my own experiences than anything else. But you know,
I just think you have to be very cautious. It's
an investment, man, just like anything else. It is an investment.
You're investing your time and money, and it's a risk.
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Every investment is a potential risk. You don't know how
it's going to turn out. You do your best to plan,
to hope, to prepare, but at the end of the day,
things can and usually always will go awry in some
sort of way. And that's what college is. College is
an investment at the end of the day. But it's
a risk as well, and you have to look at
it in that manner and is it worth the risk.
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Do I need to take this risk, Is it a
necessary risk in order for me to live the life
that I want to live, or do I have another
option where it's a risk as well?
Speaker 2 (54:26):
But maybe I enjoy.
Speaker 1 (54:28):
It a little bit more, and maybe I don't get
myself into tens of thousands of dollars of debt for
taking said risk. And that's that's I think where I
stand on college and all that kind of stuff, if
that makes sense. But yeah, and I'm sorry I'm slacking
on the asset geting. I got to get these out
earlier so that y'all have time to see it and participate.
(54:49):
And I promise I will get better at that, or
slightly better than we were on Tuesday. Tuesday, we'd even
do it. So got to, you know, give myself a
little win where I can at data dramas to Instagram
might be a part of these conversations.
Speaker 2 (54:59):
Now, with that said, let's quickly tie all we talked.
Speaker 1 (55:01):
About today in a neat little boat in a segmently
called conclusion. Still time, all right, short, sweet to the point,
because you've heard me talk about this for you know,
the entirety of this show at this point, so I'm
not saying anything you've never heard Arizona the Republican lawmaker
(55:26):
introducing a bill there, Representative Justin Heap talking about giving
ranchers the ability to shoot to kill anybody who trespasses
on their property, i e.
Speaker 2 (55:36):
People crossing the border.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
You have in Georgia a bill being passed that would
allow police to detain, with probable cause, anyone suspected of
being in the United States and hold them for deportation.
They also have the ability to arrest anyone they suspect
of being an undocumented immigrant.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
And I know I touched on it when I was
talking about this.
Speaker 1 (55:57):
I talked about, like, you know, the average person being
in power to detain somebody. Obviously, it's it's saying that
police will be able to detain people, but I think
so I misspoke for a second there, but I was
getting at like, you're going to have people who decide
that because the police can do it, or because it's
a law, that they can then sort of take it
into their own hands and do it like a citizen's
(56:18):
arrest or something. And like, again, this is all a
way to create fear around the idea of immigrants, of migrants,
to make their base feel raw, raw, riled up, like
they you know, are fighting to take their country back,
you know. And again it's all a performance to just
(56:39):
get votes in an election year and in general to
keep their their you know, their bass bloodthirst satisfied. But again,
what they're doing here is satisfying their own political agendas
and then the process putting the lives of innocent people
in danger and how they sleep at night doing so
(57:03):
is beyond me. But it's just disgusting. And vote, vot, vote, votevote.
That's all we can do now, spring Breakers in Miami, listen,
spring break culture is kind of toxic anyway in general.
Speaker 2 (57:16):
I'm not like hung up on on that.
Speaker 1 (57:18):
I'm sure actually, I'm sure it does suck, probably for
some local businesses who rely on that tourism.
Speaker 2 (57:23):
My heart goes out to them. And again, it's just like.
Speaker 1 (57:27):
We gotta do our best to like really bridge this
gap I feel like between.
Speaker 2 (57:34):
Technology and just the human experience.
Speaker 1 (57:39):
And maybe it means as parents of the next generation,
like really doing our best to create boundaries for our kids,
to let them know that the world doesn't revolve around them.
But I think also having an understanding of the detriment
that things like social media can be because of the
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algorithms and how it just keeps feeding you the same
shit over and over again. It's addictive, and how it
takes you away from social settings, right being. Having an
awareness around that I think you know, is really important
and making sure that we are doing our best. I
know it's easier said than done. Kids are kids, but
doing our best to train our kids and set themselves,
set them up to lead quality lives as adult human
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beings where they can be positive, you know, contributors to
society and not just like narcissistic assholes who think the
world revolves around them, which it feels like a lot
of that kind of happens now because of social media,
the on demand culture, and the instant gratification culture we
live in now. On the positive side of things, this
woman just gave a billion dollars to in medical school
(58:45):
that now will no longer have to charge tuition to
its students. Amazing, And y'all know, I went on a
whole fucking tangent about.
Speaker 2 (58:52):
This, like the power we all have as people.
Speaker 1 (58:55):
If we just come together and we stop getting tracked
in fucking material and status symbols, we could really do
so much good in this world.
Speaker 2 (59:04):
I really hope there's a mindset shift happening little by little.
Speaker 1 (59:08):
And then Latina's just putting on man, y'all are out
here getting these damned college degrees. You're not making as
much money as you deserve, and I feel feel on
that we gotta do something about that. But we're going
to celebrate your hard work right now. And you guys
are putting yourself in the best position possible, as you
see it, to break generational curses and give yourselves and
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your families and next generation is a better opportunity. So
it's a beautiful thing. We talked about college a bunch
again to each their own. I'm not shitting on it.
You have to make the right decision for what makes
sense for the life that you want. But my last
take on it is recognize that it's an investment. But
just like any investment, you are risking a loss. At
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the end of the day, it might not pan out.
So you have to make sure that it is a
credible investment, one that you believe in that you are
willing to take that risk on because you think it
gives you the best shot at whatever it is that
you want. That's you have to view college these days.
I think, hey, man, that's it. Hope you all enjoyed
and didn't hate too much just having me talking at
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you for this episode. I really felt I got some
shit off my chest, so I'm feeling a lot lighter
right now, a lot more energized. So I'm glad I
got to to kind of, you know, take this one
on by myself for today, selfishly. We'll be back on Tuesday,
though with a brand new episode. Thank y'all so much
for tuning in. Until then, stay safe, have an amazing weekend,
and I'll talk to y'all soon. Life as a GREENO
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