May 9, 2024 • 53 mins
Dramos deep dives into trending stories including new changes for DACA recepients, gas companies price gouging, Millenials not having children, No Sabo Kids taking over social medi aand more!
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you question where you fit in every time you mingle,
they say you do this would not that.
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Yes, hello, and welcome to another episode of Life as
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I am dramas of course, and it is Thursday, so
that means time for Thursday Trends episode.
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Flying solo today. Just applying solo today, That's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And let's just kind of get into it, man, you know,
let's just dive into these these trending trending stories.
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You know, we'll kind of cut out the the uh.
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of it. Now, with that said, let's get to these
Thursday trends, these stories.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Today.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We've been talking about DOCTA recipients now being eligible for
some healthcare.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We'll get into that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We're also going to be talking about what's going on
with gas companies and California is actually a state trying
to hold them accountable for potential price gouging, so.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We'll talk a bit about that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Let's talk about millennials not having children and what that
could mean for the US economy moving.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Forward a bit. We'll talk about that, and on the
positive side of things, let's get into the age old
topic of the nods and this movement that's happening online
of people releasing the shame around not speaking Spanish fluently
and your Latin is being brought into question. You know,
(03:30):
all the good stuff that this podcast is based upon.
We'll get into that for Army Head that segments. But
first man, let's just let's dive into the nonsense into
the bs in a segment, call for the people in
the back.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Say a lot for the people in the say a
lot for the people in the Say a lot for
the people in the back.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
All right, So let's start here with DACA, right, and
anybody not familiar, DACA is short for Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals. It basically was a policy for migrants who
were brought here as children. They are able to basically
get like work permits and there's you know, they're safe
from deportation. They have to essentially renew every two years
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or something like that. And that's that's the DACA policy, right.
And now under our current President Joe Biden, DOCA recipients
will be eligible for federal health care coverage. So this
is over one hundred thousand young immigrants without health insurance
will now be able to buy affordable health care for
the plan, the administration estimates.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
They're say more than one hundred thousand young immigrants.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will
soon become eligible to receive federal health care coverage for
the first time since DACA was implemented. Over a DAYCAS
to go, the Biden administration will announce a new federal
rule Friday allowing DOCCA recipients to enroll in a qualified
health plan through the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace or
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become eligible for coverage through a basic health program. They're
saying that an estimated five hundred and eighty thousand young
adults who lack legal immigration status have lived in the
US since they were children are currently working or studying
without fear of deportation under DACA. In overwhelming majority of
doc recipients were born in Mexico and other Latin American countries,
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even though the program has helped them access better paying
jobs and educational opportunities. Since it first was implemented in
twenty twelve, DOCA beneficiaries have been barred from accessing federally
funded health insurance despite contributing billions in federal taxes, pouring
funds into the nation's federal health insurance system for years.
While many DOCTA recipients get health insurance through their jobs,
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more than a quarter are estimated to be currently uninsured.
By meanting a federal rule expanding the definition of lawful
presence quote unquote to include DOCER recipients, they are no
longer excluded from receiving coverage from a high quality health
plan and financial assistance as well. Now this is according
to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Beesera.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
This is what they told reporters this last week. So
good news right there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And listen, it's an election season, baby, right And obviously
the DOCER recipients are not citizens, so they're ineligible to
vote for the presidency.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But I think as a Latino, as a human being who.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Cares about the quality of life of others, you take
note of things like this, right of things that the
body and administration is doing. And obviously this doesn't correct
all that we've seen or all of the critique that
many of us, myself included, have But again, in this
landscape where I don't know, man, it feels like the
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good just doesn't travel as quickly or as popularly as
the negative shit in the news cycle. Right, So when
Bidy does something good, it's kind of like a blip
on the radar.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
When he is slacking it some sort of way.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It is, you know, people going crazy on social media
and the news in general.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And I think it's important to acknowledge the progress that
is slowly being made as well, because to be fair,
they are paying, as it says here, you know, in
their jobs that they have here that they're legally working.
They're paying taxes just like you and I, and they're
paying into things that they don't.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Have access to, which is unfair at the end of
the day. Right.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And I think the sort of narrative around immigration and
migrants have sort of allowed us to sort of poison
the view of everybody overall. But you know, DOCA recipients
are like the ideal sort of immigrants you want coming
into this country, you know. And of course there are
people up in armous about this, but again, they're doing
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everything right, everything lawfully. They should be rewarded in that
way with the benefits that come along with doing things
the quote unquote right way.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now moving on to something else, that is.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Frustrating and one of the main sort of critiques of
our country, our politicians, obviously the president in general, is
going to get blowback with these types of things. Gas prices, right,
a lot of people are pissed off about gas prices,
and rightfully so. And I've talked about this on the
show a bunch of times of like who are we,
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you know, really trying to blame, Like who are we
actually focusing our energy in the right places? Because these
companies are gouging customers, right, There's no way you can.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Tell me that they're not.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
So it's up to our politicians to try and do
something about it. And in California, you actually have this narrative,
this conversation or real conversation being had. So you had
a hearing that was amongst California lawmakers in the state
Senate and it's an oversight hearing on the state's new
law that attempts to hold oil companies accountable for spiking
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gas prices. Now, the hearing comes as the California Energy
Commission moves forward with its work in determining if it
should set a cap on oil refiner profits and establish
a penalty for companies when they make too much money
off of California drivers. Now, obviously I don't live in California,
but things like this could begin to set a precedent
for those around the country. Also, friends of mine who
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live in LA are always talking about the fucking gas
prices out there, so obviously it is some sort of
an issue here right now they say that the companies
are making too much money off of California drivers. Obviously,
the law was at the center of a special session
Governor Gavin Newsom called last year in response to high
gas prices.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You have Siva Gunda, who's.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The vice president of the Commission, telling the Senate's Energy
and Utilities Committee that so far the evidence of price
there's not any clear evidence of price gouging found, uh huh,
but noted that companies are profiting off of the price spikes. Listen,
I am the product of a New Jersey public school system,
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so I am. I am maybe not the sharpest knife
in the draw here, but no evidence of price gouging.
But not of the companies are profiting off of the
price spikes, are they? I'm assuming if they're making a distinction,
they're profiting. We're not just saying they're profiting as normal.
We're saying that they are profiting above average with the
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price spikes. To me, would that appear to be probably
price gouging if they're profiting more again New Jersey Public
School System. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here. Maybe
I am reading it the wrong way that they intended,
but that's what it sounds like to me. And they
say that California has had three significant gas price spikes
in the last five years right now. Oil industry leaders
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warned lawmakers that the action could drive refiners out of
the state and further limit the.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
State's oil supply.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And if you want to know everything that is fucking
wrong with our society, specifically this topic conversation, our country
as a whole, that's the sentence right there. Oil industry leaders,
right the top of the top in their industry, the
fucking wealthiest of the wealthiest, the most successful in the
oil industry, in this company, sorry, in this country, are
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warning lawmakers that if they penalize them for price gouging
their customers unnecessarily, this could drive them out of the
state of California. So them being held accountable for taking
advantage of customers will cause them to leave the state
(12:04):
as payback, basically, right, because.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's not enough that they're already a healthy, profiting business. No, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
They also want to be able to gouge customers as
they see fit, and they are putting that out there publicly.
We're willing to leave the entire fucking state, pick up
our entire operation, and move on if you decide to
hold us accountable for price gouging. Again, these aren't like
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your local pizzerias that are fucking you know, operating on
razor thin margins. Here, these are incredibly successful companies, incredibly
successful executives working at said companies, shareholders, all that shit.
They are fucking printing money and they are threatening payback retaliation.
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Just we're being held accountable because they are taking advantage
everyday person, which is fucking crazy to me. And as
we're talking, I'm gonna look this up, big big four
fuel companies. Right, let's see what the big four are.
So it's Xon, Shell and Total Energies and BP. Right,
I'm just gonna look this up right now. Let's just say,
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all right, revenue x on mobile two hundred and eighty
six billion dollars. Let's see Shell two hundred and seventy
three billion dollars total energies one hundred and eighty five
billion dollars BP one hundred and sixty four billion.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Dollars in revenue.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Let's look up how much money does Xon Exon CEO salary?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Let's just for the sake of it. Okay, let's see Xon.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Mobile Handed's this is in twenty twenty three, x On
Mobile hands It's chief executive a fifty two percent pay
increase to thirty five point nine million dollars for twenty
twenty two, after the oil company recorded its Hyatt's profits bid,
Russia's invasion of the U crate. Oh boy, oh boy, folks,
(14:10):
the president is not the end of you here.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's not inflation. I mean, listen, Inflation is the thing.
But in this case, Exceon gave their CEO a fifty
two percent pay increase to thirty five point nine million
dollars after the company reported its highest profits ever.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
In twenty twenty two. Now, let's look up gas price
surge twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Let's see. Let's see. Let's see huh.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Okay, rising crude oil prices and increased gasoline demand in
early twenty twenty two contributed to rising US retail gas
prices in the summer. Okay, why were gas prices so
high in twenty twenty two? Gas price over This is
an article from twenty paper. Gas price over the last
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twelve months were well above the six year national average,
hitting four dollars nine nine cents a gallon in the
week of June sixteenth, twenty twenty two, a week in
which Californians paid a wopping six point.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Four to three dollars per gallon. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I read it like that because I'm used to reading
the millions of these of these CEOs. I think Californians
paid a wopping six dollars forty three cents per gallon
of gasoline twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty two, Exxon
Mobile's chief executive had a fifty two percent pay increase
to thirty five point nine million dollars twenty twenty two.
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Huh share awards, so the shares they hold surged by
eighty percent in twenty twenty two, while Californians were paying
six dollars a gallon for gaz There's your problem, folks.
I hate to break it to you. It's not Joe
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Biden gouging you out of your fucking gas prices. It
is greedy corporate executives in a summer where twenty twenty
two the gas price is surged above a six year
average where Californians were paying almost six dollars and fifty
cents per gallon.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The Exxon Mobile chief executive in that same year.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Received a fifty two percent pay increase to thirty five
point nine million dollars after the company reported its highest
ever profits. You're getting priced gouged, right, You're having trouble
filling up your tank to go to work because this
guy is getting a fifty two percent pay increase and
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they're reporting record profits off of your struggle. That's your
fucking enemy right there.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I don't care what.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Side of the aisle you fall on. Corporate America gouging
the shit out of you at every turn just so
they can fucking line their pockets they're already wealthy pockets,
so that they can make a thirty five point nine
million dollars a year salary.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That right there is the issue.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Wake up, Stop getting fooled by the polarization that's happening
on social media. This party is doing this, this party's
doing that. You're all having the veil pulled in front
of you. Corporate greed is why we are fucking getting
gouged every time we leave the house.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's why.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And now that the government, like in California, is trying
to do something, they're trying to create laws that will
penalize oil companies for price gouging. Now the oil companies
are saying, instead of being normal, just rational, like moral
human beings, saying, you know what, we made our extra money,
They're right, we can't keep taking advantage of the everyday person.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
No, instead of that, they're threatening, we.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Will just leave the state of California completely if you
have the nerve to penalize us for price gouging your customers,
your constituents. Because we need to keep giving our CEOs
fifty two percent pay.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Increases and report these record fucking numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
We enjoy that so much we don't care if it
comes at the expense of the everyday person not being
able to put gas in their car to get to
fucking work. And how dare you, as lawmakers try and
hold us accountable for our greed. And if you try
to hold us accountable for our excessive greed. We are
gonna we are just going to punish you and punish
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the people of your state by just picking up and
leave because God forbid, I can't buy one more fucking yacht.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's where we are. That's the logic. Wake up.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
This is your enemy. It's not red, it's not blue,
it's fucking green. It's corporate greed at the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Wake up. Now it's a great time to take a break.
We're gonna take a break. I'm gonna have some water
and we'll have more. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
All right, we are back, And I mean there's kind
of piggybacks off of that last story. I was just
going in on millennials, my generation. I believe a millennial is.
Let's look this up, because I was having an argument
with somebody the other day who was trying to claim
that they were a millennial, and I had to check them.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I was like, you don't even go here. For if
you were born between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety six,
you are a millennial. Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Millennials are having fewer kids than previous generations, and they're
saying that it could be a drag.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
On the economy for the next decade.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So millennials aren't having as many kids as previous generations
and that fact could end up dragging down economic growth
for more than a decade. And I just want to
pause for one second because I want to reference the.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
The gas things. I know The Guardian was the publication
that reported on the x On mobile CEO. I'm going
to actually put that in the show notes.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
If you want to read that full article, I'm gonna
put that in the show notes. Back to this millennials, right,
millennials not having as many kids, and they're saying it
could end up dragging down the economic growth for more
than a decade. Now, that may not phase some of
the child free millennials. And this is all a I
believe this is let me just with the website. We'll
make sure giving you the real real deal here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, So this is.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Business Insiders where I'm getting this article from. And I
was like inspired by a conversation I saw on Bill
Maher that is that. But Business Insider, they're saying this
may not face some child free millennials who are using
the money that would be spent on childcare to splurge
on lavis, vacations, flashy boats, and other luxuries popular among dinks.
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This is a thing now, couples who live on double
income with no kids, all right, they have an acronym
for everything.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But that kind of spending won't be enough to offset
the drag of shrinking population on the economy over the
long run, especially considering that the US birth rate has
collapsed over the last half century. And this is economists
telling the Business Insider publication. They're saying that in twenty
twenty two, we've been speaking about twenty twenty two a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
There were just eleven point one births per every one
thousand people.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's
a fifty three percent plunge. Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
So in twenty twenty two, while there was a fifty
three percent plunge in birth rates, there was a fifty
two percent rise in the salary of xod's CEO.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Huh. I don't know why numbers. It's just correlating here anyway, anyway,
not even I'm like saying like this discover something profound.
Nothing just happenstance. But anyway, that's crazy for ed.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
They're saying like in nineteen sixty, right, because I think
it is that the boomer generation who's always like very outspoken,
thinking that it's still nineteen sixty. They are saying that
nineteen sixty it was twenty three point seven berths for
every one thousand people, So you're talking about more than
double that, right, And they're saying that this puts the
US at risk for seeing quote, extremely low population levels
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over the long run, not unlike what country is like China,
where the population decline is so dire that the government
is giving out cash to convince people to have more kids.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's so bad in China they're paying you to bone
your partner, basically to raw dog your partner if you will.
Sorry for being crassed. Hope the kids aren't in the car.
We're all adults here anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
The shrinking birth rate in the US could drag down
the GDP by one to two percentage points each year,
according to Ton Todd. Todd bush I was already looking
at the last name and trying to sound this out Busholtz,
a former White House economy Why am I having trouble
saying the word economist? That coffee be hidden right now?
(23:30):
I just want to throw that there. It's the coffee.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And I'm so ramped up on the fucking like exonomobile
the gasoline conversation as well. Right now, I'm like tearing
through my notes on this economist. I can say the word,
I can say it separately anyway over several decades, that's
the equivalent of slashing the US growth rate by a third.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So this could slash our growth rate by a third,
wiping out the estimated productivity increases from artificial intelligence, or
saying so even AI can't make up for the r
lack of boning. Okay, And they're saying in the worst
case scenario, GDP growth could nose dive.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Three to four percentage points. And they're saying that fewer
Americans being born means fewer workers in the economy. Shocker.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I love how they like, and I'm not saying calling
out business insider, but I just love how.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
General people are like what's going on? Millennials. It's because
they're on their iPads and iPhones all the time, you know,
on the tiktoks.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's like, no, you old greedy bastards have created a
world that is so fucking toxic to live in. We
are questioning our natural impulse to reproduce. You've created a
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world where the quality of life is so poor, be
it economically, be it morality wise, that people are seriously saying,
do I really want to bring a kid into this world?
And that's not even me just like you know, standing
on my fucking high horse and you know, being uh,
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mister morality. These are legitimate conversations that I hear amongst
my single or soon you know, not married yet or
just married friends who are millennials. A genuine question of
with all the shit going on in this world and
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how fucking increasingly difficult it is to just exist, do
I really want to bring a child into all of that.
That's a very real question, a very real thing that
we all have to consider. My age group, you know,
or on the flip side of it, because I'm in
my thirties, I don't have any children. I would like
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to have children, but economically this country is so fucking
difficult that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And also I mean I would.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Economically dating wise, there's a lot of interesting things going
on anyway, let's stick to economics.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
The reality is.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I would feel a bit concerned right now bringing a
kid into this world because of how fucking expensive it
is just to take care of myself.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And my dog.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Genuinely, that's a real I mean, it's a real thing
I think anybody has to consider. But it's a real
fear that, with how things are, how the fuck am
I supposed to provide for another human being without sacrificing
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my entire quality of life? And obviously that's a decision
that every parent, I think, has to make some way,
shape or form. But it's not fucking nineteen sixty right
when you could have one person working and the other
person being a full time stay at home parent. Obviously
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in that time period was mostly the mother and they
could still have the family car and the house and
raise the family of kids in the suburbs on one salary.
It's not like that anymore. For the average person, that's
a fucking pipe dream. So yeah, people are going to
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reconsider going out and having a family or not doing
it young, or they're gonna think to themselves, I deal
with so much bullshit on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I want to spend my money on enjoying this world,
enjoying this life, reminding myself of what good in this world.
Because there's no shortage of reminders of what's bad in
this world.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And this is what I got into this because I
saw a clip on on TikTok, of course so typical.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It was Bill Maher and I can't remember the dude
he was talking to them was a guest on his show.
I'm actually gonna try to pull it up later watch
on demand. But it's when he does like the little
panel thing. Bill Maher's like hit him miss for me.
But I do enjoy the conversations anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This guy was basically talking about the fact that boomers
are ruining this country like the older generation, and no
offense if you fall into that. We're talking generally, obviously
casting a wide net here, but the older generation is
ruining this country because they're sticking to ideals and vantage
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points that are no longer relevant for my generation and younger. Again,
the older generation lived in a time period where on
one salary you could have the white picket fence, the
house in a respectable neighborhood, have the family car, the
wife stays at home, takes care of the kids, takes
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care of the home, and you can do all that
on one salary. Take your one vacation a year. It's
not like that anymore. We're being fucking gouged left and right.
That's why I brought the gasoline thing too. Bro, we
live in a world where corporate greed is at an
all time high. They're nikolin diming us every which way
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they possibly can, just to line, they're all ready full
pockets everywhere we turn. We are overpaying for absolutely everything.
Like it's a fucking scary place to be in if
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you are in my age group were younger.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I thank god almost every.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Day that I just fucking got something in me and
was like now or never when I bought my property
towards the end of twenty twenty, because what I remember
when I was starting to look at properties, they were
getting snatched up really quickly. Had I waited a month longer,
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I would still be a renter, And no shame in that.
No shame if you're living at home, still trying to
figure it out, if you're renting, whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
It might be. But for me, my goal was was
owning property.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I probably wouldn't have been able to cross that off
the list had I've waited even a month longer, because
shit has gotten so out of hand over people are
overpaying for fucking rent now, which is absolutely and say
they're actually saying it might be more expensive to ramp
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than actually own a property for the first time ever,
that's how bad it's gotten. So of course it's like, Man,
I'm fucking barely surviving here by myself.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I'm now going to bring a kid into this world.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And then at that point it's like you're living on
a fucking shoestring budget where you don't even get to
enjoy life. You're just burning yourself out. You're working just
to keep the fucking lights on. And it's not just you,
but most likely it's you and your fucking significant other
both burning the Canada, both ends just to maintain some
semblance of the American dream and tradition. Meanwhile, everybody is
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trying to figure out, how can they squeeze another dollar
out of you? How much more can we charge for
this before people stop paying for it? Because our CEO
needs to make more millions each year and guess what
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his salary is going to come from? Price gadging us
and underpaying their employees, the everyday person, the lower level
employees of those companies. Yet no shit, my generation younger
are not rushing to raise families or having them at
lesser of a rate because of what it means for
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our quality of life. So it's like, am I going
to work for the next eighteen years of my life,
fucking you know, down to the bone, never having a break,
burning myself out because we can't possibly afford a vacation
and a family at the same time. Or am I
just gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna love these
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I'm gonna love some kids from Afar, you know, my niece, nephew, cousins, whatever,
And I'm I'm just going to take advantage of all
this life has, you know, all that this life has
to offer, and travel around with my partner because if
I don't, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. If
all I do is work. That's the decision basically that's
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being made for us because of how crazy shit is.
I'm a single person. I can't go to the fucking
supermarket without dropping almost two hundred dollars every single week.
And I promise you I'm not buying fucking filt Mignon
and all this shit. I'm legitimately buying groceries enough for
the week for one person and a large, eighty something
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pound big baby of a dog to survive. That's it.
And for me, it's almost two hundred dollars. Imagine if
I was paying if I had to pay then for
my spouse, which I would hope we'd be chipping in.
But imagine I paid for my spouse and then a
kid or two, what four hundred dollars a week on
groceries and I'm going to trade a Joe's Whole Food's.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Dramas died a long time ago. That's Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
That's supposed to be like some good pricing, you know,
fair pricing, And I'm spending almost two dollars. Could I
maybe do without the duce that they let you, you know,
ice cream?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
But is that a choice I want to make working
my ass off? If I want to have a little
sweet treat at the end of the night, I can't
have that.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now. These are the decisions that my generation has.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
To make life. Man, fucking old people are ruining it, y'all.
Y'all your lack of progression and critique. It's like, bitch, no,
we're not lazy. We're fucking tired of the bullshit. We're
tired of the bullshit that you guys have created as
a means of making yourselves wealthier and trying to teach
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us some fucking lesson that isn't a real thing.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
We get it.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You walked fourteen miles barefoot in the snow for some
reason to school every morning. So I don't know how,
but you somehow did that. Somehow, every single fucking person
over the age of fucking sixty walked barefoot or fifty
even walked barefoot into snow every single morning, no matter
where they lived. They all have the same fucking story. Basically,
somehow all of you were walking fourteen miles in barefoot
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in the snow. I'm sorry that that is not my struggle,
but I really don't think you finding ass nine ways
to burden me in my quality of life. I don't
understand how that helps any of us. Go get a
fucking therapist and and fucking deal with your childhood trauma
about how difficult your upbringing was, and stop trying to
punish the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Period. That's it. That's all I got to say on
man anyway, anyway, fucking boomers, man, get a fucking life
like that's what we're trying to do. We're legitimate.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I just want to fucking have a house in a
nice area. I want to fucking eat healthy food. I
want to be able to have a spouse, a couple
of kids, go to fucking Puerto Rico, you know, when
it makes sense for us, that's it, that's all I want.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
But you greedy bastards are just bleeding us all dry
and then pretending like we're not where we want to
be because we don't know the value of a hard
day's work. Fuck out of here, Jesus. That's it, all right,
I'm before, I'm now I'm gonna fucking go off on
a real tangent anyway. So that's our for the people
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in the back segment. Let's talk about the positivity because
we need it, you know, I mean, hint the segment,
we'll take another quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right, we have had I don't know about y'all.
(36:58):
I like.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Maybe because it's I don't know what the fuck is happening.
I'm I'm wound the fuck up on these conversations. I'm
so annoyed in so many fucking way. I think also,
to be honest with y'all, I've kind of taken a
back seat to some of like the this is positive
segment I promised me had that, Yes, positive stuff'll getting
in a second.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
But I think I've taken a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Back seat for my own personal mental health. So like
really being super invested in the news cycle I'm watching,
I'm like, obviously I'm maintaining from afar what's going on
because I want to be informed and I have a
duty to do that. But I'm not like I used
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every single day I would like watch the hour the
news for at least an hour and just like really
know what the fuck is going on, you know what
I mean, like really not even just knowing, but like
be digging deep into it, right, Especially when I was
doing my TV show where a lot of political stuff,
it was like I had to fucking be up on
some shit, right, And I've taken like a step back
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from that for my own quality of life because.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It gets dark.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Man, It's easy to get really fucking angry, and like
all those last couple of things I talked about, like
that's I think what's coming up. Because it's like when
I stop moving and I sit back and think about
all the fuckery, I'm like, it's legitimately so fucking deenergizing
to think about the lack of fucking morality and just
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like simple fixes that are possible, but because of greed,
we're okay with them not happening and their justification for it.
Like the previous generation, it's like, this is America. It's
available for everybody. You too can become a greedy corporate
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monster making millions on the backs of the everyday person.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
The Fuck's that shouldn't be the goal, not for nothing.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Like we as America, if you talk about rankings in
quality of life, we are towards the bottom when it
comes to like developed countries.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Regardless of fucking what our GDP is and.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
The value of our dollar and all these other our
stocks and all these other shit quality of life, we're
very much so in a troubled place. It's because of
that mentality, and they fucking try to sell us on
this dream and fool us into all these things.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
It's America that's available for everybody. Bro.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I don't want to be some fucking finance bro dickhead
that only cares about money and doesn't care about what
he has to do to get it, and cares about
money for the sake of having money and for the
sake of saying he has money for the sake of
blowing it on stupid shit that's not interesting to me. Yeah,
I want to have a high quality of life, but
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I also want to see people around me thriving and
not see unnecessary struggles and not see people being taken
advantage of. I don't know, man, anyway, onto me hit
this segment.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I might need to get back to like some sort
of my politics shit because it's need event obviously completely
unrelated here positive stuff. This is an article from the
I think I also got this from NBC News. They
actually have a Latino News section on there if you're interested.
And actually this is like a great well, like far
lengthier than what I'm going to get into, a really
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interesting article. If anybody interested in this topic, I think
you're listening to this podcast, you're probably interested in this topic, right,
No kids, kids that don't speak Spanish fluently, they did
it great one here. Obviously link is giving me a
show notes, but they're saying that no SAPO kids are
pushing back on Spanish language shaming.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
On social media. Teens and young adults will poke fun
at no experiences. Most videos are playful and even hilarious.
The growing trend of Latinos clapping back at the policy
or the policing of Spanish, I should say, has opened
up an age old debate on what it means to
be Hispanic or Latino in the US. Doctor David Hayes Batista,
Professor director at the UCLA Study Center for the Study
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of Latino Health and Culture, said he likes to remind
people that being Latino is separable from Spanish, and that
being Latino isn't a monoliths. Some may speak Spanish, some
may speak indigenous dialects, and some may only know English.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Putting this out there, Brenda, if you are listening, please
remind me.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
We got to get doctor David Hayes, a Batista on
the podcast to talk about this. Putting it out there,
to remind myself and remind Brenda of she's listening.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Hopefully she is.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
They say that there are about sixty three million Latinos
in the United States, and no two people are Latino
in the same way. It's not language that makes you Latino.
Preacher to the choir about these the doctor about theista
over here. The debate is relevant for a growing number
of Americas. Currently a quarter of US children are Latino.
A corner of US children are Latino.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
We fuck it out here, baby, let's go.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
In twenty twenty one, over seven and ten Latinos age
five and up spoke English proficiently, and increase of fifty
nine percent since two thousand, according to the Pew Research Center.
While there's been a decline in those who speak Spanish
at home, as the Nosemble kids say in their own
words online, they still hold a connection to the Latino
culture despite any language challenges. Right, It's obviously something we
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talk about here. My Spanish hasn't been getting better. By
the way, my ninety eight year old grandfather, who is
Spanish speaking living in Puerto Rico and his wife, who
doesn't really speak any English, both compliment your boy on
his Spanish speaking skills.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
So we out here coming up in the world.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Right, twenty twenty four is my year to become fluent
in Spanish, putting it out there.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
My ninety eight year old the grandfather has co signed this.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Anyway, They say it's resulted in Latinos who have decided
to learn the language on their own and on their
own terms, in a new and creative way. Right, And
they say, take a look at how previous generation of
Americans were discouraged from speaking.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Spanish or not even allowed to.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
We're gonna go down a fucking history lesson, by the way,
because it's not all our faults, right some it's our parents.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
My parents are looking at y'all.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
But did you know that in California they initially had
a bilingual constitution.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
The region was formerly Mexican and Spanish.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
As Hispanics in the state legislature began to lose political power,
so did their right to speak Spanish publicly. The US
has a history of forcing Americans to speak English. This
was the case with Native American boarding schools, for example,
Mexican American children were put through similar violent language training.
Alexandro Jose Garradilla, an associate professor of Chicano's Studies at
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California State University Fulton, said they were physically hit and
beat for speaking Spanish at school. Teachers had the rights
to physically punish children. Brenda, if you're listening, we need
to also get Alexandro Josse Gradilla, associate professor of Chicano
studies at California State University Fullton, on the podcast, drawing
that out there they were able to.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Whoop your ass for not speaking English.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
But if you spoke some Spanish at this school, boom,
you were getting hit with them with that stick. That's crazy.
That was legal in our country. That was a real thing.
A notable example took place in Marfa, Texas at the
Blackwell School, which has since turned into a National Historic Site.
Bill as a segregated school for Mexican American and Mexican children,
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in nineteen oh nine, students were beaten with paddles and
forced to speak only English on campus. In nineteen fifty four,
the school had a mock funeral ceremony and buried slips
of paper with Spanish war words written on them. The
school closed in nineteen sixty five. Think about this though.
This is like perspective I just want to put out
there as well. If you're watching the video version, I'm
just doing Atlanta stags on my hands. I don't know why,
(45:09):
I'm just fucking energized here. Nineteen sixty five is when
that school closed. People are still alive and well, who
grew up in that era. They're actually the ones causing
havoc on my generation. As we've stated before, so a
lot of people's algays like, oh, well, that's all dead history.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Who cares or doesn't matter anymore?
Speaker 3 (45:30):
Bitch, It does because these things still existed in the
lifetime of people who are very much so out here,
thriving and living in today's day and age. That school
did close on nineteen sixty five. In fifty four, they
had a mock funeral for fucking Spanish language.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Basically, what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
So just remember these talking points next time, Like one
of your cousins, your premos or your premos are trying
to give you shit about your Spanish. You know, I
can let them know some history out here, all right,
hold this episode up to their ear and let them
listen to this shit, all right, let this let this
sizzle in their stupid critique of you and your lack
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of Spanish. The beauty is, though, if you do want
to learn Spanish, I listen. I want to learn Spanish.
It doesn't make me more Spanish. It's just something I
want to do to be able to communicate more with
my community. And the beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Is there are resources out there.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
So there's actually this card game, uh, and it was
created by Carlos Torres and Jessica Jessica Ho Salez, both
Mexican American.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
There are a couple and they have a card game
called No Sable.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
And it's an easy way for us to remember some
tricky Spanish words and help monolingual Latinos reconnect with their childhood.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
I'm gonna pick this game up. I have the link
to the article and I just put the showf with
the link to the card game that show ups that
they have it here. But I love this shit. Man.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
We out here reclaiming our stuff, and we are not
ashamed that we're gonna create some funny ass little card game,
you know what I'm saying, and going to connecting the
way that we see fit.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
And again, it's not all our fault. Historically we have
been shaving in many many ways as we just heard here.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
But I just love this, Like, bro, this is authenticity
on display. This is us being like, listen, this is
me baby, all right, take it or leave it. It's okay,
it's all right. I don't got to fit your standards.
I'm out here.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
It's still Latino. What's up? You know.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
That's what we're doing out here, That's what life is
going to go is if you've been here, with since
day one. I know we've evolved into a lot of
different things, but at its core, this is a safe
place where we could show up authentically say fuck you
the NBA's got a issue with it, and also push
ourselves to grow where we see fit.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Love this, love this conversation, just good stuff, great stuff
out here. That's a positive way to kind of like
turn this ship around a little bit.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
We needed that. I needed that, definitely, my heart needed that. That.
With that said, let's hire everything we talked about in
a neat little bow in a segment we called conclusion
stoo time conclusion. All right, let's quickly recap always because
I went in.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
I don't want to fucking rile myself up all over again, right.
I mean doctor recipient thing was beautiful. Uh, I know
that was like at the beginning, and you know I
put that in like the heavier stories, I could have
put them that you hit that segment actually in retrospect.
But love that doctor recipients are getting access to healthcare,
especially like and when you have these conversations. That is
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why I like to bring these types of things up
because I think it's all good for all of us
to have a bit of working knowledge. These are people
that are paying their taxes, they're paying their fair share.
They should have access, you know, to these things. They're
paying into it, right, just like you and I. And
it's only fair that they get access to these things
and get the rewards of doing things the quote unquote
right way right, the way that everybody's asking them to do.
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Why why wouldn't they be rewarded for that?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Right? The other thing we talked about today gas prices.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
Like and then this this, in fact, it is even
a conversation, and like there's fear mongering happening amongst these companies.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
We'll just take our gasoline and go somewhere else. You
fucking dickheads, you multi millionaire dickheads. Just crazy, it's crazy,
it's crazy. We have to even have these conversations. Man, Like, bro,
you guys have made out like bandits. You had a
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good run. Stop the price gouge, and it's all right,
you're still gonna be very rich. It's gonna be okay.
But no, it's not enough. It's never enough. It's never enough.
They want even more money that they will never spend.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
They need it, they need that fifth house man, they
need it, right, they got that unclaimed.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Family in Columbia, right, wife doesn't know about it. They
gotta pay heavily for that. They need it, they need
to do that.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
I fucking hate I hate, Oh my god, I hate
these fucking capitalistic, fucking dickheads. Anyway, Ah, and then millennials
are having fewer kids. Yeah, because you old fucks ruined
it for us. How about that, you guys and your
fucking greed have ruined it. You've ruined this fucking country.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
And yeah, I don't want to be a pessimist. I's
like such a like I'm exhausted, y'all. I'm fucking exhausted.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
I know I'm not alone in the exhaustion of like,
what the fuck is happening right now?
Speaker 1 (50:34):
What is happening? God?
Speaker 3 (50:37):
I need you to I'm gonna put a prayer out here. God,
just give me, give me exceptional wealth.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
And I promise you I will pass that ship down
like it's nobody's business. I'm sorry for cursing. I will
pass that down. I promise you.
Speaker 3 (50:50):
I promise you stop giving the guy from ex on
the rays. Let me get a couple bucks, and I
promise you I will make good on it. Help me
help you please, because we're already we're making people wealthy
who don't deserve to be wealthy.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
They just want it for the sake of being wealthy.
Let's start making the good guys wealthy in this world.
Let's support what they do. Man, and then on the
positive side of things, No sampo kids, units we out.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Here, man, we out here, We out here, just reclaiming
our Latin. This fuck you and everything you think if
you got a problem with it, and we're gonna buy
some card games to learn some more Spanish. I actually
have a children's book of like Dino Indian, which is
the natives of Puerto ricodyno Indian like symbols and language.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Stuff that I flipped through as well, just to like,
you know, I want to educate myself and all this stuff.
I think it's a beautiful thing. Love my culture, love
my history. My Spanish is also up. Baby, we up
this year, A little by little we get in there.
Watch soon I'm gonna do a whole fucking episode in Spanish.
How about that? How about that? Maybe that, maybe that's
a goal. I can't promise that this here, maybe I
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can should I challenge myself to that one of the
final episodes of this year is gonna be an all Spanish.
That's a challenge, upset for myself. We're gonna do that.
It's gonna be fucking brutal. What we'll do it. We'll
do it. That's a challenge. We all here together, all right?
Me sounding god awful for an hour long Spanish language
(52:23):
episode is going to free any of you who have
any sort of complex about speaking your Spanish. All right,
Let my embarrassment be your freedom, be your freeing moment
you come to Jesus moment, all right, Embrace who you are,
authenticity baby, And that's it, man, that's it. I had
too much fun recording this episode. I think I needed this.
(52:46):
I needed this anyway. That's our Thursday Trends episode.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
Just be social club. I want to see y'all there
DMB before gon be a part of it. Friends and
family will open it up to you guys now brendatmindiyonglord
dot com. Y'all want to have her sending the link right,
you want it a little more formal, that's cool as well.
And that's it, man, have an amazing weekend. Just be
aware of these issues. Don't let them weigh you down.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Too much. That's That's where I'm trying to trying to
ride that wave right now. That's what I'll leave you with.
Have an amazing weekend, Stay safe, we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Here we go.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
He said, you live in life as a ringo, where
you question where you fit in every time you mingle,
they say you do this would not that.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This lio.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Yes, hello, and welcome to another episode of Life as
a Gringo.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I am dramas of course, and it is Thursday, so
that means time for Thursday Trends episode.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Flying solo today. Just applying solo today, That's what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
And let's just kind of get into it, man, you know,
let's just dive into these these trending trending stories.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
You know, we'll kind of cut out the the uh.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
I don't know, do you guys like when I catch
you up on what's also going on in my life
as we start the pod? If you will, I feel
like I spill my heart. If you have to check
out Tuesday's episode, I just gonna throw this out there.
If you are somebody who comes here for the trends,
I ask you to stay for the I don't have
a cool name for the Tuesday one, but I was
really I don't know. Tuesday was a very therapeutic episode
(01:10):
from WAH, just kind of getting clarity on what's important
in my life.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
So if you haven't checked that out, I definitely check
it out. Check out my.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Wellness brand just be as well. Let's just let's just
some house cleaning here, because I feel like I haven't done.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
A great job.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
I am the world's worst promoter of things that I'm
working on because I always feel terrible, like feeling like
I'm selling people on things, you know, like I want
us to have a genuine relationship and connection here and
this to just be a very honest and pure place,
but I, you know, as a result, kind of sell
(01:43):
myself short with a lot of things that I'm passionate
about that I'm working on. If you haven't checked out,
just be at justb dot nyc on Instagram and all that.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Just be dot nyc is also the website. It's my
wellness brand.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
We got to just be social club, which is our
like Mastermind that we're not building out. It's like a
full fledged community which we're beginning to open the doors on.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
This new evolution of it. So yeah, you want to
be a part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
DM me at DJ Dramos and we'll get you the
info or email Brenda at Mindivyonglord dot com. Because in
the show notes for that. I don't know, man, I
just think, like you know, I think a legacy in
life's work. I really just see that being something bigger.
And not to toot my own horn or anything, but yeah,
we get you know, We've had some really good feedbacks,
some people really doing some amazing things. Obviously not like
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all because of what we're doing, but just having being
able to have those conversations I guess with other people
has brought a lot of clarity for many people. So
that is something I'm very proud of. So just throwing
that out there, just be social Club'll be a part
of it. Now, with that said, let's get to these
Thursday trends, these stories.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Today.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
We've been talking about DOCTA recipients now being eligible for
some healthcare.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We'll get into that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
We're also going to be talking about what's going on
with gas companies and California is actually a state trying
to hold them accountable for potential price gouging, so.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
We'll talk a bit about that.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Let's talk about millennials not having children and what that
could mean for the US economy moving.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Forward a bit. We'll talk about that, and on the
positive side of things, let's get into the age old
topic of the nods and this movement that's happening online
of people releasing the shame around not speaking Spanish fluently
and your Latin is being brought into question. You know,
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all the good stuff that this podcast is based upon.
We'll get into that for Army Head that segments. But
first man, let's just let's dive into the nonsense into
the bs in a segment, call for the people in
the back.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
Say a lot for the people in the say a
lot for the people in the Say a lot for
the people in the back.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
All right, So let's start here with DACA, right, and
anybody not familiar, DACA is short for Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals. It basically was a policy for migrants who
were brought here as children. They are able to basically
get like work permits and there's you know, they're safe
from deportation. They have to essentially renew every two years
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or something like that. And that's that's the DACA policy, right.
And now under our current President Joe Biden, DOCA recipients
will be eligible for federal health care coverage. So this
is over one hundred thousand young immigrants without health insurance
will now be able to buy affordable health care for
the plan, the administration estimates.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
They're say more than one hundred thousand young immigrants.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will
soon become eligible to receive federal health care coverage for
the first time since DACA was implemented. Over a DAYCAS
to go, the Biden administration will announce a new federal
rule Friday allowing DOCCA recipients to enroll in a qualified
health plan through the Affordable Care Act insurance marketplace or
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become eligible for coverage through a basic health program. They're
saying that an estimated five hundred and eighty thousand young
adults who lack legal immigration status have lived in the
US since they were children are currently working or studying
without fear of deportation under DACA. In overwhelming majority of
doc recipients were born in Mexico and other Latin American countries,
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even though the program has helped them access better paying
jobs and educational opportunities. Since it first was implemented in
twenty twelve, DOCA beneficiaries have been barred from accessing federally
funded health insurance despite contributing billions in federal taxes, pouring
funds into the nation's federal health insurance system for years.
While many DOCTA recipients get health insurance through their jobs,
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more than a quarter are estimated to be currently uninsured.
By meanting a federal rule expanding the definition of lawful
presence quote unquote to include DOCER recipients, they are no
longer excluded from receiving coverage from a high quality health
plan and financial assistance as well. Now this is according
to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Beesera.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
This is what they told reporters this last week. So
good news right there.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
And listen, it's an election season, baby, right And obviously
the DOCER recipients are not citizens, so they're ineligible to
vote for the presidency.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But I think as a Latino, as a human being who.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Cares about the quality of life of others, you take
note of things like this, right of things that the
body and administration is doing. And obviously this doesn't correct
all that we've seen or all of the critique that
many of us, myself included, have But again, in this
landscape where I don't know, man, it feels like the
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good just doesn't travel as quickly or as popularly as
the negative shit in the news cycle. Right, So when
Bidy does something good, it's kind of like a blip
on the radar.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
When he is slacking it some sort of way.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
It is, you know, people going crazy on social media
and the news in general.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Right.
Speaker 3 (07:26):
And I think it's important to acknowledge the progress that
is slowly being made as well, because to be fair,
they are paying, as it says here, you know, in
their jobs that they have here that they're legally working.
They're paying taxes just like you and I, and they're
paying into things that they don't.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Have access to, which is unfair at the end of
the day. Right.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
And I think the sort of narrative around immigration and
migrants have sort of allowed us to sort of poison
the view of everybody overall. But you know, DOCA recipients
are like the ideal sort of immigrants you want coming
into this country, you know. And of course there are
people up in armous about this, but again, they're doing
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everything right, everything lawfully. They should be rewarded in that
way with the benefits that come along with doing things
the quote unquote right way.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Now moving on to something else, that is.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
Frustrating and one of the main sort of critiques of
our country, our politicians, obviously the president in general, is
going to get blowback with these types of things. Gas prices, right,
a lot of people are pissed off about gas prices,
and rightfully so. And I've talked about this on the
show a bunch of times of like who are we,
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you know, really trying to blame, Like who are we
actually focusing our energy in the right places? Because these
companies are gouging customers, right, There's no way you can.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Tell me that they're not.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
So it's up to our politicians to try and do
something about it. And in California, you actually have this narrative,
this conversation or real conversation being had. So you had
a hearing that was amongst California lawmakers in the state
Senate and it's an oversight hearing on the state's new
law that attempts to hold oil companies accountable for spiking
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gas prices. Now, the hearing comes as the California Energy
Commission moves forward with its work in determining if it
should set a cap on oil refiner profits and establish
a penalty for companies when they make too much money
off of California drivers. Now, obviously I don't live in California,
but things like this could begin to set a precedent
for those around the country. Also, friends of mine who
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live in LA are always talking about the fucking gas
prices out there, so obviously it is some sort of
an issue here right now they say that the companies
are making too much money off of California drivers. Obviously,
the law was at the center of a special session
Governor Gavin Newsom called last year in response to high
gas prices.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
You have Siva Gunda, who's.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
The vice president of the Commission, telling the Senate's Energy
and Utilities Committee that so far the evidence of price
there's not any clear evidence of price gouging found, uh huh,
but noted that companies are profiting off of the price spikes. Listen,
I am the product of a New Jersey public school system,
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so I am. I am maybe not the sharpest knife
in the draw here, but no evidence of price gouging.
But not of the companies are profiting off of the
price spikes, are they? I'm assuming if they're making a distinction,
they're profiting. We're not just saying they're profiting as normal.
We're saying that they are profiting above average with the
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price spikes. To me, would that appear to be probably
price gouging if they're profiting more again New Jersey Public
School System. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here. Maybe
I am reading it the wrong way that they intended,
but that's what it sounds like to me. And they
say that California has had three significant gas price spikes
in the last five years right now. Oil industry leaders
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warned lawmakers that the action could drive refiners out of
the state and further limit the.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
State's oil supply.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And if you want to know everything that is fucking
wrong with our society, specifically this topic conversation, our country
as a whole, that's the sentence right there. Oil industry leaders,
right the top of the top in their industry, the
fucking wealthiest of the wealthiest, the most successful in the
oil industry, in this company, sorry, in this country, are
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warning lawmakers that if they penalize them for price gouging
their customers unnecessarily, this could drive them out of the
state of California. So them being held accountable for taking
advantage of customers will cause them to leave the state
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as payback, basically, right, because.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
It's not enough that they're already a healthy, profiting business. No, no, no,
no no.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
They also want to be able to gouge customers as
they see fit, and they are putting that out there publicly.
We're willing to leave the entire fucking state, pick up
our entire operation, and move on if you decide to
hold us accountable for price gouging. Again, these aren't like
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your local pizzerias that are fucking you know, operating on
razor thin margins. Here, these are incredibly successful companies, incredibly
successful executives working at said companies, shareholders, all that shit.
They are fucking printing money and they are threatening payback retaliation.
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Just we're being held accountable because they are taking advantage
everyday person, which is fucking crazy to me. And as
we're talking, I'm gonna look this up, big big four
fuel companies. Right, let's see what the big four are.
So it's Xon, Shell and Total Energies and BP. Right,
I'm just gonna look this up right now. Let's just say,
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all right, revenue x on mobile two hundred and eighty
six billion dollars. Let's see Shell two hundred and seventy
three billion dollars total energies one hundred and eighty five
billion dollars BP one hundred and sixty four billion.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Dollars in revenue.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Let's look up how much money does Xon Exon CEO salary?
Speaker 1 (13:40):
Let's just for the sake of it. Okay, let's see Xon.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Mobile Handed's this is in twenty twenty three, x On
Mobile hands It's chief executive a fifty two percent pay
increase to thirty five point nine million dollars for twenty
twenty two, after the oil company recorded its Hyatt's profits bid,
Russia's invasion of the U crate. Oh boy, oh boy, folks,
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the president is not the end of you here.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's not inflation. I mean, listen, Inflation is the thing.
But in this case, Exceon gave their CEO a fifty
two percent pay increase to thirty five point nine million
dollars after the company reported its highest profits ever.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
In twenty twenty two. Now, let's look up gas price
surge twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1 (14:50):
Let's see. Let's see. Let's see huh.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Okay, rising crude oil prices and increased gasoline demand in
early twenty twenty two contributed to rising US retail gas
prices in the summer. Okay, why were gas prices so
high in twenty twenty two? Gas price over This is
an article from twenty paper. Gas price over the last
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twelve months were well above the six year national average,
hitting four dollars nine nine cents a gallon in the
week of June sixteenth, twenty twenty two, a week in
which Californians paid a wopping six point.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Four to three dollars per gallon. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
I read it like that because I'm used to reading
the millions of these of these CEOs. I think Californians
paid a wopping six dollars forty three cents per gallon
of gasoline twenty twenty two. In twenty twenty two, Exxon
Mobile's chief executive had a fifty two percent pay increase
to thirty five point nine million dollars twenty twenty two.
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Huh share awards, so the shares they hold surged by
eighty percent in twenty twenty two, while Californians were paying
six dollars a gallon for gaz There's your problem, folks.
I hate to break it to you. It's not Joe
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Biden gouging you out of your fucking gas prices. It
is greedy corporate executives in a summer where twenty twenty
two the gas price is surged above a six year
average where Californians were paying almost six dollars and fifty
cents per gallon.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
The Exxon Mobile chief executive in that same year.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Received a fifty two percent pay increase to thirty five
point nine million dollars after the company reported its highest
ever profits. You're getting priced gouged, right, You're having trouble
filling up your tank to go to work because this
guy is getting a fifty two percent pay increase and
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they're reporting record profits off of your struggle. That's your
fucking enemy right there.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
I don't care what.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Side of the aisle you fall on. Corporate America gouging
the shit out of you at every turn just so
they can fucking line their pockets they're already wealthy pockets,
so that they can make a thirty five point nine
million dollars a year salary.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
That right there is the issue.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Wake up, Stop getting fooled by the polarization that's happening
on social media. This party is doing this, this party's
doing that. You're all having the veil pulled in front
of you. Corporate greed is why we are fucking getting
gouged every time we leave the house.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
That's why.
Speaker 3 (17:54):
And now that the government, like in California, is trying
to do something, they're trying to create laws that will
penalize oil companies for price gouging. Now the oil companies
are saying, instead of being normal, just rational, like moral
human beings, saying, you know what, we made our extra money,
They're right, we can't keep taking advantage of the everyday person.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
No, instead of that, they're threatening, we.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Will just leave the state of California completely if you
have the nerve to penalize us for price gouging your customers,
your constituents. Because we need to keep giving our CEOs
fifty two percent pay.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Increases and report these record fucking numbers.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
We enjoy that so much we don't care if it
comes at the expense of the everyday person not being
able to put gas in their car to get to
fucking work. And how dare you, as lawmakers try and
hold us accountable for our greed. And if you try
to hold us accountable for our excessive greed. We are
gonna we are just going to punish you and punish
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the people of your state by just picking up and
leave because God forbid, I can't buy one more fucking yacht.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That's where we are. That's the logic. Wake up.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
This is your enemy. It's not red, it's not blue,
it's fucking green. It's corporate greed at the end of
the day.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Wake up. Now it's a great time to take a break.
We're gonna take a break. I'm gonna have some water
and we'll have more. We'll be right back.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
All right, we are back, And I mean there's kind
of piggybacks off of that last story. I was just
going in on millennials, my generation. I believe a millennial is.
Let's look this up, because I was having an argument
with somebody the other day who was trying to claim
that they were a millennial, and I had to check them.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
I was like, you don't even go here. For if
you were born between nineteen eighty one and nineteen ninety six,
you are a millennial. Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Millennials are having fewer kids than previous generations, and they're
saying that it could be a drag.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
On the economy for the next decade.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
So millennials aren't having as many kids as previous generations
and that fact could end up dragging down economic growth
for more than a decade. And I just want to
pause for one second because I want to reference the.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
The gas things. I know The Guardian was the publication
that reported on the x On mobile CEO. I'm going
to actually put that in the show notes.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
If you want to read that full article, I'm gonna
put that in the show notes. Back to this millennials, right,
millennials not having as many kids, and they're saying it
could end up dragging down the economic growth for more
than a decade. Now, that may not phase some of
the child free millennials. And this is all a I
believe this is let me just with the website. We'll
make sure giving you the real real deal here.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Okay, So this is.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
Business Insiders where I'm getting this article from. And I
was like inspired by a conversation I saw on Bill
Maher that is that. But Business Insider, they're saying this
may not face some child free millennials who are using
the money that would be spent on childcare to splurge
on lavis, vacations, flashy boats, and other luxuries popular among dinks.
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This is a thing now, couples who live on double
income with no kids, all right, they have an acronym
for everything.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
But that kind of spending won't be enough to offset
the drag of shrinking population on the economy over the
long run, especially considering that the US birth rate has
collapsed over the last half century. And this is economists
telling the Business Insider publication. They're saying that in twenty
twenty two, we've been speaking about twenty twenty two a lot.
Speaker 3 (21:51):
There were just eleven point one births per every one
thousand people.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That's
a fifty three percent plunge. Shut the fuck up.
Speaker 3 (22:03):
So in twenty twenty two, while there was a fifty
three percent plunge in birth rates, there was a fifty
two percent rise in the salary of xod's CEO.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
Huh. I don't know why numbers. It's just correlating here anyway, anyway,
not even I'm like saying like this discover something profound.
Nothing just happenstance. But anyway, that's crazy for ed.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
They're saying like in nineteen sixty, right, because I think
it is that the boomer generation who's always like very outspoken,
thinking that it's still nineteen sixty. They are saying that
nineteen sixty it was twenty three point seven berths for
every one thousand people, So you're talking about more than
double that, right, And they're saying that this puts the
US at risk for seeing quote, extremely low population levels
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over the long run, not unlike what country is like China,
where the population decline is so dire that the government
is giving out cash to convince people to have more kids.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
It's so bad in China they're paying you to bone
your partner, basically to raw dog your partner if you will.
Sorry for being crassed. Hope the kids aren't in the car.
We're all adults here anyway.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
The shrinking birth rate in the US could drag down
the GDP by one to two percentage points each year,
according to Ton Todd. Todd bush I was already looking
at the last name and trying to sound this out Busholtz,
a former White House economy Why am I having trouble
saying the word economist? That coffee be hidden right now?
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I just want to throw that there. It's the coffee.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
And I'm so ramped up on the fucking like exonomobile
the gasoline conversation as well. Right now, I'm like tearing
through my notes on this economist. I can say the word,
I can say it separately anyway over several decades, that's
the equivalent of slashing the US growth rate by a third.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
So this could slash our growth rate by a third,
wiping out the estimated productivity increases from artificial intelligence, or
saying so even AI can't make up for the r
lack of boning. Okay, And they're saying in the worst
case scenario, GDP growth could nose dive.
Speaker 1 (24:09):
Three to four percentage points. And they're saying that fewer
Americans being born means fewer workers in the economy. Shocker.
Speaker 3 (24:20):
I love how they like, and I'm not saying calling
out business insider, but I just love how.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
General people are like what's going on? Millennials. It's because
they're on their iPads and iPhones all the time, you know,
on the tiktoks.
Speaker 3 (24:32):
It's like, no, you old greedy bastards have created a
world that is so fucking toxic to live in. We
are questioning our natural impulse to reproduce. You've created a
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world where the quality of life is so poor, be
it economically, be it morality wise, that people are seriously saying,
do I really want to bring a kid into this world?
And that's not even me just like you know, standing
on my fucking high horse and you know, being uh,
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mister morality. These are legitimate conversations that I hear amongst
my single or soon you know, not married yet or
just married friends who are millennials. A genuine question of
with all the shit going on in this world and
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how fucking increasingly difficult it is to just exist, do
I really want to bring a child into all of that.
That's a very real question, a very real thing that
we all have to consider. My age group, you know,
or on the flip side of it, because I'm in
my thirties, I don't have any children. I would like
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to have children, but economically this country is so fucking
difficult that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
And also I mean I would.
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Economically dating wise, there's a lot of interesting things going
on anyway, let's stick to economics.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
The reality is.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
I would feel a bit concerned right now bringing a
kid into this world because of how fucking expensive it
is just to take care of myself.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
And my dog.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Genuinely, that's a real I mean, it's a real thing
I think anybody has to consider. But it's a real
fear that, with how things are, how the fuck am
I supposed to provide for another human being without sacrificing
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my entire quality of life? And obviously that's a decision
that every parent, I think, has to make some way,
shape or form. But it's not fucking nineteen sixty right
when you could have one person working and the other
person being a full time stay at home parent. Obviously
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in that time period was mostly the mother and they
could still have the family car and the house and
raise the family of kids in the suburbs on one salary.
It's not like that anymore. For the average person, that's
a fucking pipe dream. So yeah, people are going to
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reconsider going out and having a family or not doing
it young, or they're gonna think to themselves, I deal
with so much bullshit on a regular basis.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I want to spend my money on enjoying this world,
enjoying this life, reminding myself of what good in this world.
Because there's no shortage of reminders of what's bad in
this world.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
And this is what I got into this because I
saw a clip on on TikTok, of course so typical.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
It was Bill Maher and I can't remember the dude
he was talking to them was a guest on his show.
I'm actually gonna try to pull it up later watch
on demand. But it's when he does like the little
panel thing. Bill Maher's like hit him miss for me.
But I do enjoy the conversations anyway.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This guy was basically talking about the fact that boomers
are ruining this country like the older generation, and no
offense if you fall into that. We're talking generally, obviously
casting a wide net here, but the older generation is
ruining this country because they're sticking to ideals and vantage
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points that are no longer relevant for my generation and younger. Again,
the older generation lived in a time period where on
one salary you could have the white picket fence, the
house in a respectable neighborhood, have the family car, the
wife stays at home, takes care of the kids, takes
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care of the home, and you can do all that
on one salary. Take your one vacation a year. It's
not like that anymore. We're being fucking gouged left and right.
That's why I brought the gasoline thing too. Bro, we
live in a world where corporate greed is at an
all time high. They're nikolin diming us every which way
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they possibly can, just to line, they're all ready full
pockets everywhere we turn. We are overpaying for absolutely everything.
Like it's a fucking scary place to be in if
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you are in my age group were younger.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
I thank god almost every.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Day that I just fucking got something in me and
was like now or never when I bought my property
towards the end of twenty twenty, because what I remember
when I was starting to look at properties, they were
getting snatched up really quickly. Had I waited a month longer,
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I would still be a renter, And no shame in that.
No shame if you're living at home, still trying to
figure it out, if you're renting, whatever.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
It might be. But for me, my goal was was
owning property.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I probably wouldn't have been able to cross that off
the list had I've waited even a month longer, because
shit has gotten so out of hand over people are
overpaying for fucking rent now, which is absolutely and say
they're actually saying it might be more expensive to ramp
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than actually own a property for the first time ever,
that's how bad it's gotten. So of course it's like, Man,
I'm fucking barely surviving here by myself.
Speaker 1 (31:14):
I'm now going to bring a kid into this world.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
And then at that point it's like you're living on
a fucking shoestring budget where you don't even get to
enjoy life. You're just burning yourself out. You're working just
to keep the fucking lights on. And it's not just you,
but most likely it's you and your fucking significant other
both burning the Canada, both ends just to maintain some
semblance of the American dream and tradition. Meanwhile, everybody is
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trying to figure out, how can they squeeze another dollar
out of you? How much more can we charge for
this before people stop paying for it? Because our CEO
needs to make more millions each year and guess what
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his salary is going to come from? Price gadging us
and underpaying their employees, the everyday person, the lower level
employees of those companies. Yet no shit, my generation younger
are not rushing to raise families or having them at
lesser of a rate because of what it means for
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our quality of life. So it's like, am I going
to work for the next eighteen years of my life,
fucking you know, down to the bone, never having a break,
burning myself out because we can't possibly afford a vacation
and a family at the same time. Or am I
just gonna say, you know what, I'm gonna love these
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I'm gonna love some kids from Afar, you know, my niece, nephew, cousins, whatever,
And I'm I'm just going to take advantage of all
this life has, you know, all that this life has
to offer, and travel around with my partner because if
I don't, I'm going to lose my fucking mind. If
all I do is work. That's the decision basically that's
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being made for us because of how crazy shit is.
I'm a single person. I can't go to the fucking
supermarket without dropping almost two hundred dollars every single week.
And I promise you I'm not buying fucking filt Mignon
and all this shit. I'm legitimately buying groceries enough for
the week for one person and a large, eighty something
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pound big baby of a dog to survive. That's it.
And for me, it's almost two hundred dollars. Imagine if
I was paying if I had to pay then for
my spouse, which I would hope we'd be chipping in.
But imagine I paid for my spouse and then a
kid or two, what four hundred dollars a week on
groceries and I'm going to trade a Joe's Whole Food's.
Speaker 1 (33:59):
Dramas died a long time ago. That's Trader Joe's.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
That's supposed to be like some good pricing, you know,
fair pricing, And I'm spending almost two dollars. Could I
maybe do without the duce that they let you, you know,
ice cream?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
Absolutely?
Speaker 3 (34:15):
But is that a choice I want to make working
my ass off? If I want to have a little
sweet treat at the end of the night, I can't
have that.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
Now. These are the decisions that my generation has.
Speaker 3 (34:25):
To make life. Man, fucking old people are ruining it, y'all.
Y'all your lack of progression and critique. It's like, bitch, no,
we're not lazy. We're fucking tired of the bullshit. We're
tired of the bullshit that you guys have created as
a means of making yourselves wealthier and trying to teach
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us some fucking lesson that isn't a real thing.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
We get it.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
You walked fourteen miles barefoot in the snow for some
reason to school every morning. So I don't know how,
but you somehow did that. Somehow, every single fucking person
over the age of fucking sixty walked barefoot or fifty
even walked barefoot into snow every single morning, no matter
where they lived. They all have the same fucking story. Basically,
somehow all of you were walking fourteen miles in barefoot
(35:16):
in the snow. I'm sorry that that is not my struggle,
but I really don't think you finding ass nine ways
to burden me in my quality of life. I don't
understand how that helps any of us. Go get a
fucking therapist and and fucking deal with your childhood trauma
about how difficult your upbringing was, and stop trying to
punish the rest of us.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Period. That's it. That's all I got to say on
man anyway, anyway, fucking boomers, man, get a fucking life
like that's what we're trying to do. We're legitimate.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
I just want to fucking have a house in a
nice area. I want to fucking eat healthy food. I
want to be able to have a spouse, a couple
of kids, go to fucking Puerto Rico, you know, when
it makes sense for us, that's it, that's all I want.
Speaker 1 (36:13):
But you greedy bastards are just bleeding us all dry
and then pretending like we're not where we want to
be because we don't know the value of a hard
day's work. Fuck out of here, Jesus. That's it, all right,
I'm before, I'm now I'm gonna fucking go off on
a real tangent anyway. So that's our for the people
(36:36):
in the back segment. Let's talk about the positivity because
we need it, you know, I mean, hint the segment,
we'll take another quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right, we have had I don't know about y'all.
(36:58):
I like.
Speaker 3 (37:00):
Maybe because it's I don't know what the fuck is happening.
I'm I'm wound the fuck up on these conversations. I'm
so annoyed in so many fucking way. I think also,
to be honest with y'all, I've kind of taken a
back seat to some of like the this is positive
segment I promised me had that, Yes, positive stuff'll getting
in a second.
Speaker 1 (37:18):
But I think I've taken a bit of a.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Back seat for my own personal mental health. So like
really being super invested in the news cycle I'm watching,
I'm like, obviously I'm maintaining from afar what's going on
because I want to be informed and I have a
duty to do that. But I'm not like I used
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every single day I would like watch the hour the
news for at least an hour and just like really
know what the fuck is going on, you know what
I mean, like really not even just knowing, but like
be digging deep into it, right, Especially when I was
doing my TV show where a lot of political stuff,
it was like I had to fucking be up on
some shit, right, And I've taken like a step back
(38:02):
from that for my own quality of life because.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
It gets dark.
Speaker 3 (38:07):
Man, It's easy to get really fucking angry, and like
all those last couple of things I talked about, like
that's I think what's coming up. Because it's like when
I stop moving and I sit back and think about
all the fuckery, I'm like, it's legitimately so fucking deenergizing
to think about the lack of fucking morality and just
(38:29):
like simple fixes that are possible, but because of greed,
we're okay with them not happening and their justification for it.
Like the previous generation, it's like, this is America. It's
available for everybody. You too can become a greedy corporate
(38:53):
monster making millions on the backs of the everyday person.
Speaker 1 (39:00):
The Fuck's that shouldn't be the goal, not for nothing.
Speaker 3 (39:04):
Like we as America, if you talk about rankings in
quality of life, we are towards the bottom when it
comes to like developed countries.
Speaker 1 (39:13):
Regardless of fucking what our GDP is and.
Speaker 3 (39:15):
The value of our dollar and all these other our
stocks and all these other shit quality of life, we're
very much so in a troubled place. It's because of
that mentality, and they fucking try to sell us on
this dream and fool us into all these things.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
It's America that's available for everybody. Bro.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
I don't want to be some fucking finance bro dickhead
that only cares about money and doesn't care about what
he has to do to get it, and cares about
money for the sake of having money and for the
sake of saying he has money for the sake of
blowing it on stupid shit that's not interesting to me. Yeah,
I want to have a high quality of life, but
(39:55):
I also want to see people around me thriving and
not see unnecessary struggles and not see people being taken
advantage of. I don't know, man, anyway, onto me hit
this segment.
Speaker 1 (40:19):
I might need to get back to like some sort
of my politics shit because it's need event obviously completely
unrelated here positive stuff. This is an article from the
I think I also got this from NBC News. They
actually have a Latino News section on there if you're interested.
And actually this is like a great well, like far
lengthier than what I'm going to get into, a really
(40:41):
interesting article. If anybody interested in this topic, I think
you're listening to this podcast, you're probably interested in this topic, right,
No kids, kids that don't speak Spanish fluently, they did
it great one here. Obviously link is giving me a
show notes, but they're saying that no SAPO kids are
pushing back on Spanish language shaming.
Speaker 3 (40:55):
On social media. Teens and young adults will poke fun
at no experiences. Most videos are playful and even hilarious.
The growing trend of Latinos clapping back at the policy
or the policing of Spanish, I should say, has opened
up an age old debate on what it means to
be Hispanic or Latino in the US. Doctor David Hayes Batista,
Professor director at the UCLA Study Center for the Study
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of Latino Health and Culture, said he likes to remind
people that being Latino is separable from Spanish, and that
being Latino isn't a monoliths. Some may speak Spanish, some
may speak indigenous dialects, and some may only know English.
Speaker 1 (41:33):
Putting this out there, Brenda, if you are listening, please
remind me.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
We got to get doctor David Hayes, a Batista on
the podcast to talk about this. Putting it out there,
to remind myself and remind Brenda of she's listening.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
Hopefully she is.
Speaker 3 (41:47):
They say that there are about sixty three million Latinos
in the United States, and no two people are Latino
in the same way. It's not language that makes you Latino.
Preacher to the choir about these the doctor about theista
over here. The debate is relevant for a growing number
of Americas. Currently a quarter of US children are Latino.
A corner of US children are Latino.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
We fuck it out here, baby, let's go.
Speaker 3 (42:12):
In twenty twenty one, over seven and ten Latinos age
five and up spoke English proficiently, and increase of fifty
nine percent since two thousand, according to the Pew Research Center.
While there's been a decline in those who speak Spanish
at home, as the Nosemble kids say in their own
words online, they still hold a connection to the Latino
culture despite any language challenges. Right, It's obviously something we
(42:35):
talk about here. My Spanish hasn't been getting better. By
the way, my ninety eight year old grandfather, who is
Spanish speaking living in Puerto Rico and his wife, who
doesn't really speak any English, both compliment your boy on
his Spanish speaking skills.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
So we out here coming up in the world.
Speaker 3 (42:55):
Right, twenty twenty four is my year to become fluent
in Spanish, putting it out there.
Speaker 1 (43:00):
My ninety eight year old the grandfather has co signed this.
Speaker 3 (43:03):
Anyway, They say it's resulted in Latinos who have decided
to learn the language on their own and on their
own terms, in a new and creative way. Right, And
they say, take a look at how previous generation of
Americans were discouraged from speaking.
Speaker 1 (43:16):
Spanish or not even allowed to.
Speaker 3 (43:19):
We're gonna go down a fucking history lesson, by the way,
because it's not all our faults, right some it's our parents.
Speaker 1 (43:26):
My parents are looking at y'all.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
But did you know that in California they initially had
a bilingual constitution.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
The region was formerly Mexican and Spanish.
Speaker 3 (43:36):
As Hispanics in the state legislature began to lose political power,
so did their right to speak Spanish publicly. The US
has a history of forcing Americans to speak English. This
was the case with Native American boarding schools, for example,
Mexican American children were put through similar violent language training.
Alexandro Jose Garradilla, an associate professor of Chicano's Studies at
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California State University Fulton, said they were physically hit and
beat for speaking Spanish at school. Teachers had the rights
to physically punish children. Brenda, if you're listening, we need
to also get Alexandro Josse Gradilla, associate professor of Chicano
studies at California State University Fullton, on the podcast, drawing
that out there they were able to.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
Whoop your ass for not speaking English.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
But if you spoke some Spanish at this school, boom,
you were getting hit with them with that stick. That's crazy.
That was legal in our country. That was a real thing.
A notable example took place in Marfa, Texas at the
Blackwell School, which has since turned into a National Historic Site.
Bill as a segregated school for Mexican American and Mexican children,
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in nineteen oh nine, students were beaten with paddles and
forced to speak only English on campus. In nineteen fifty four,
the school had a mock funeral ceremony and buried slips
of paper with Spanish war words written on them. The
school closed in nineteen sixty five. Think about this though.
This is like perspective I just want to put out
there as well. If you're watching the video version, I'm
just doing Atlanta stags on my hands. I don't know why,
(45:09):
I'm just fucking energized here. Nineteen sixty five is when
that school closed. People are still alive and well, who
grew up in that era. They're actually the ones causing
havoc on my generation. As we've stated before, so a
lot of people's algays like, oh, well, that's all dead history.
Speaker 1 (45:28):
Who cares or doesn't matter anymore?
Speaker 3 (45:30):
Bitch, It does because these things still existed in the
lifetime of people who are very much so out here,
thriving and living in today's day and age. That school
did close on nineteen sixty five. In fifty four, they
had a mock funeral for fucking Spanish language.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
Basically, what the fuck?
Speaker 3 (45:51):
So just remember these talking points next time, Like one
of your cousins, your premos or your premos are trying
to give you shit about your Spanish. You know, I
can let them know some history out here, all right,
hold this episode up to their ear and let them
listen to this shit, all right, let this let this
sizzle in their stupid critique of you and your lack
(46:12):
of Spanish. The beauty is, though, if you do want
to learn Spanish, I listen. I want to learn Spanish.
It doesn't make me more Spanish. It's just something I
want to do to be able to communicate more with
my community. And the beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
Is there are resources out there.
Speaker 3 (46:25):
So there's actually this card game, uh, and it was
created by Carlos Torres and Jessica Jessica Ho Salez, both
Mexican American.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
There are a couple and they have a card game
called No Sable.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
And it's an easy way for us to remember some
tricky Spanish words and help monolingual Latinos reconnect with their childhood.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
I'm gonna pick this game up. I have the link
to the article and I just put the showf with
the link to the card game that show ups that
they have it here. But I love this shit. Man.
Speaker 3 (46:53):
We out here reclaiming our stuff, and we are not
ashamed that we're gonna create some funny ass little card game,
you know what I'm saying, and going to connecting the
way that we see fit.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
And again, it's not all our fault. Historically we have
been shaving in many many ways as we just heard here.
Speaker 3 (47:11):
But I just love this, Like, bro, this is authenticity
on display. This is us being like, listen, this is
me baby, all right, take it or leave it. It's okay,
it's all right. I don't got to fit your standards.
I'm out here.
Speaker 1 (47:23):
It's still Latino. What's up? You know.
Speaker 3 (47:26):
That's what we're doing out here, That's what life is
going to go is if you've been here, with since
day one. I know we've evolved into a lot of
different things, but at its core, this is a safe
place where we could show up authentically say fuck you
the NBA's got a issue with it, and also push
ourselves to grow where we see fit.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Love this, love this conversation, just good stuff, great stuff
out here. That's a positive way to kind of like
turn this ship around a little bit.
Speaker 4 (47:54):
Right.
Speaker 1 (47:55):
We needed that. I needed that, definitely, my heart needed that. That.
With that said, let's hire everything we talked about in
a neat little bow in a segment we called conclusion
stoo time conclusion. All right, let's quickly recap always because
I went in.
Speaker 3 (48:13):
I don't want to fucking rile myself up all over again, right.
I mean doctor recipient thing was beautiful. Uh, I know
that was like at the beginning, and you know I
put that in like the heavier stories, I could have
put them that you hit that segment actually in retrospect.
But love that doctor recipients are getting access to healthcare,
especially like and when you have these conversations. That is
(48:34):
why I like to bring these types of things up
because I think it's all good for all of us
to have a bit of working knowledge. These are people
that are paying their taxes, they're paying their fair share.
They should have access, you know, to these things. They're
paying into it, right, just like you and I. And
it's only fair that they get access to these things
and get the rewards of doing things the quote unquote
right way right, the way that everybody's asking them to do.
(48:56):
Why why wouldn't they be rewarded for that?
Speaker 1 (48:58):
Right? The other thing we talked about today gas prices.
Speaker 3 (49:02):
Like and then this this, in fact, it is even
a conversation, and like there's fear mongering happening amongst these companies.
Speaker 1 (49:08):
We'll just take our gasoline and go somewhere else. You
fucking dickheads, you multi millionaire dickheads. Just crazy, it's crazy,
it's crazy. We have to even have these conversations. Man, Like, bro,
you guys have made out like bandits. You had a
(49:29):
good run. Stop the price gouge, and it's all right,
you're still gonna be very rich. It's gonna be okay.
But no, it's not enough. It's never enough. It's never enough.
They want even more money that they will never spend.
Speaker 4 (49:43):
They need it, they need that fifth house man, they
need it, right, they got that unclaimed.
Speaker 3 (49:53):
Family in Columbia, right, wife doesn't know about it. They
gotta pay heavily for that. They need it, they need
to do that.
Speaker 4 (50:03):
I fucking hate I hate, Oh my god, I hate
these fucking capitalistic, fucking dickheads. Anyway, Ah, and then millennials
are having fewer kids. Yeah, because you old fucks ruined
it for us. How about that, you guys and your
fucking greed have ruined it. You've ruined this fucking country.
Speaker 1 (50:21):
And yeah, I don't want to be a pessimist. I's
like such a like I'm exhausted, y'all. I'm fucking exhausted.
Speaker 3 (50:31):
I know I'm not alone in the exhaustion of like,
what the fuck is happening right now?
Speaker 1 (50:34):
What is happening? God?
Speaker 3 (50:37):
I need you to I'm gonna put a prayer out here. God,
just give me, give me exceptional wealth.
Speaker 1 (50:42):
And I promise you I will pass that ship down
like it's nobody's business. I'm sorry for cursing. I will
pass that down. I promise you.
Speaker 3 (50:50):
I promise you stop giving the guy from ex on
the rays. Let me get a couple bucks, and I
promise you I will make good on it. Help me
help you please, because we're already we're making people wealthy
who don't deserve to be wealthy.
Speaker 1 (51:07):
They just want it for the sake of being wealthy.
Let's start making the good guys wealthy in this world.
Let's support what they do. Man, and then on the
positive side of things, No sampo kids, units we out.
Speaker 3 (51:19):
Here, man, we out here, We out here, just reclaiming
our Latin. This fuck you and everything you think if
you got a problem with it, and we're gonna buy
some card games to learn some more Spanish. I actually
have a children's book of like Dino Indian, which is
the natives of Puerto ricodyno Indian like symbols and language.
Speaker 1 (51:39):
Stuff that I flipped through as well, just to like,
you know, I want to educate myself and all this stuff.
I think it's a beautiful thing. Love my culture, love
my history. My Spanish is also up. Baby, we up
this year, A little by little we get in there.
Watch soon I'm gonna do a whole fucking episode in Spanish.
How about that? How about that? Maybe that, maybe that's
a goal. I can't promise that this here, maybe I
(52:01):
can should I challenge myself to that one of the
final episodes of this year is gonna be an all Spanish.
That's a challenge, upset for myself. We're gonna do that.
It's gonna be fucking brutal. What we'll do it. We'll
do it. That's a challenge. We all here together, all right?
Me sounding god awful for an hour long Spanish language
(52:23):
episode is going to free any of you who have
any sort of complex about speaking your Spanish. All right,
Let my embarrassment be your freedom, be your freeing moment
you come to Jesus moment, all right, Embrace who you are,
authenticity baby, And that's it, man, that's it. I had
too much fun recording this episode. I think I needed this.
(52:46):
I needed this anyway. That's our Thursday Trends episode.
Speaker 3 (52:49):
Just be social club. I want to see y'all there
DMB before gon be a part of it. Friends and
family will open it up to you guys now brendatmindiyonglord
dot com. Y'all want to have her sending the link right,
you want it a little more formal, that's cool as well.
And that's it, man, have an amazing weekend. Just be
aware of these issues. Don't let them weigh you down.
Speaker 1 (53:11):
Too much. That's That's where I'm trying to trying to
ride that wave right now. That's what I'll leave you with.
Have an amazing weekend, Stay safe, we'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (53:22):
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