January 24, 2025 • 28 mins
Strike! Nimene travels to Texas to witness Emma Tenayuca fight for workers’ rights, and Broadway star Mandy Gonzalez performs a brand new hip-hop track about the pioneering labor activist.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey listeners, Niminy here, host of historical records.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Get ready to hear about a historical hero through hip hop.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Also, parents and teachers, you can download a free activity
related to today's episode by visiting story pirates dot com
slash Historical Records and now onto the show. After a
few words for the grown ups, Hey listeners, Nimini here,
(00:30):
what's that ringling sound?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You ask?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, nothing, just this awesome scooter I found. Can you
believe it was just lying on the floor of the bunker.
Perfect timing too, you see. I woke up this morning
and realize just how.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Much history there is.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
There is so much work to do when we hear
at historical records are simply not working fast enough. But
this scooter will help me get it all done. First,
let me put on my helmet.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Then let's see you just how fast I can go.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Hey, robot voice, robot voice initiating initiating.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hurry up, robot voice, I need you to time me
while I scoop to the other end of the hall.
There's no time to lose, Okay, start the clock in
three two one go?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
What and so how long was that?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Four point three seconds?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
A new record.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've got a need to speed.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Indeed, think of how much work I can get done,
all the historical figures I can learn about, all the
songs I can write. Oh, this is going to be
my most productive episode ever. Listeners, it's time to get
this show on the road.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Its historical record.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You are now listening to historical We're.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Called to make history.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You get I have struggles to make history.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
You got to show pois cannot.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Be quiet loud as the riot to make history, you
gotta make some noise.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Welcome back to Historical Records, where we conduct highly experimental
experiments combining history and hip hop. Working at top speed
gets me a bit winded. But those are the breaks,
or I guess these are the breaks.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Today's episode is about labor activist Emma tenne Yuka.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But before we get to her, there's so much work
to do.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
First order of business, check in on Tina and the
rest of the Raccoons and see how today's beat is
coming along.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I'll just give a knock here on the studio door.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hey, Tina, I hope you don't mind that I opened
the door, but I couldn't wait for you to open it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Time waiting is time wasted.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anyway, I'm checking in on today's beat, and what what
is going on? You're doing yoga? There's no time for yoga.
TikTok tina. We have to finish this song cut out.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
If you already finished the first half of today's beat, ye.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You'd better get started on the second half.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Chop chop hop to it. No time to waste. Let
me turn off these yoga tunes so you can focus.
I said, no time. I'm off to check on Phil
the hype Man. We need Phil to be ready with
his A plus hype game or we'll fall behind schedule.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Off to film office.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I can't believe I.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Caught those raccoons slippings. How are we gonna get everything
done if we don't do it fast, fast, fast? Hey,
maybe I should look into adding a laptop connection to
the scooter so I can get even more work done
on the go.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh, look at that, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Already at FIL's office, even though Robot Voice and the
raccoons were doing some new age lollygaggon. There's no need
to worry about philm It's basically a hue An energy drink,
so that's absolutely no way he'll be fast asleep.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Part of people say what yeah, wo oh.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He even hipes when he snores.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, niminy, don't be distracted by how cute Phil
is when he's sleep HIPing.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Get back to work and wake this man up so
we can get.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
To work, I said, Pila, Oh he's still fast.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Asleep, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Phil is a textbook hype man, so he always keeps
an airhorn nearby and in three two one, Hello.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Hey Phil, quick question for you.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh, I bet it's a good world.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Lead on me, Sure thing, Phil? What were you doing sleeping?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Tough foot bear? I just felt like my batteries needed
with charge.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
And you know, since there wasn't any hype in to do,
I thought maybe I'd make like a cat and take
a quick nap.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Miro, philter, there.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Is always hyping to do. Coffee deal, seize the day,
Rise and grind.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Okay, rise and grind. What am I grinding?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Coffee beans? Maybe here? Take these?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Are these coffee beans?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
But you don't drink coffee, Philly, my man?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Is that what a hype man would say?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I mean, yeah, coffee. You know, I'm always on the
coffee grind 'spresso.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Drip woo that's more like it. Gosh, I'm glad I
found this scooter. I'm getting so much done. Now off
to the library to check on Gabe Today's Historian.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And look, I'm gonna have a schedule. I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm working faster and smarter. I'm headed for the library.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Good thing I was wearing my helmet.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Nimini, I heard a huge crash.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm fine? Sorry about your books, Gabe, no worries.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
The books are fine. I'll clean them up after lunch.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Lunch.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, this is my lunch break, today's panini day. Yum game.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There's no time for my historian to take lunch. We
have to explore the life of Emma Tenna Yuka, write
a song, and now we have to put away these books.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We can't fall behind. Schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What schedule?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The one that we don't want to fall behind.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Niminy, really don't worry about it. You just crashed a scooter.
You should sit and take a break. Have some of
my panini. I've got extra.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Panini, more like panin no as in no time. We
have to get to today's historical figure. If you're still hungry,
I have a great idea for eating on the go.
I call it on the go gulp tube for gulping
food on the go.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
That sounds awful, Bye awful? Do you mean efficient? I
do not.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Food isn't meant to be gulped on the go. Lunch
breaks are good for people, and they're good for workers.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They are they are.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
There's something Emma Tana Yuka would have passionately supported too.
Did you know she believed in workers' rights so strongly
that she went to jail?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Really, that's amazing. I need to see that. Where's this
week's history simulator?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
You're standing on it the scooter? Yep, I was wondering
where I left it. Let me just flip the simulator
switch on.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Ready to go?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Aren't you forgetting something?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
All right?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
My helmet?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Now we're ready to go.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Welcome to San Antonio, nineteen twenty.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Woo, this place is busy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Theyre's singers, speakers, people waving newspapers.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Are we in some kind of plaza?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
We are in the Plaza Plaza del Zacupte to be exact.
It's known today as Millam Park, but in the nineteen
twenties it was the place for Mexican Americans to exchange
news and ideas. It was where a lot of socialists
and anarchists would come and spread their ideas about radical
social change.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I've heard the phrase getting on your soapbox, but I've
never seen anyone actually do it.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Look at that guy over there with the newspaper. What's
he doing.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
He's reading the latest news from Mexico. There was a
recent revolution where people fought against the government. Some people
had to flee, and a lot of them ended up
here in San Antonio. So they're anxious to hear the
latest news about the new government back in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Hey, I see a little girl. Is that who I
think it is? It?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Sure is that's a young Amma Tanayuka here with her grandfather.
He's helping to raise Emma and he's making sure she
learns everything. So he brings her here. Mika, go and
listen to the different speakers and bring me back some
interesting news.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, whale, Look at her run.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
She's so eager to hear the news.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
She soaks up all the energy and political discussion in
the plaza like a sponge. The plaza is her school
outside of school, where she learns about religion, socialism, labor movements,
the injustice of segregation and the struggle of the poor
all over the world.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Ooh, here's your gums, and she is ronic. I wonder
what she heard a willow. The railroad workers have voted
to go on strike.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Very good, Micha, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
She can't be more than what eight. How amazing that
she is learning all this stuff at such.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
A young age.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
She's off to a radical start. Wait until you see
her in high school.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It's nineteen thirty three, right smack in the middle of
the Great Depression. People all over the United States and
the rest of the world are having a really hard
time make a living and getting enough to eat.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I see Emma, she's under that tree reading a book.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Emma is always reading books. She's a junior in high school,
where she's both a star athlete and a star scholar.
Did you know she formed an afterschool reading club.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Awesome?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I love books, so do I, and so does Emma.
Looks like she's reading The Advancing Proletariats.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
It's a booklet published by the Industrial Workers of the World.
The IWW, also known as the Wobbles, are an international workers'
union that was founded in nineteen oh five. That pamphlet
is encouraging workers to unite and use their collective power
to fight for better treatment.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
She's learning about workers' unions at sixteen.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh yeah, she's learning all kinds of advanced stuff. She
reads enthusiastically about the Wobbleys, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Tolstoy,
Charles A. Beard and Moore. Do you see the size
of her book?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
How does she even carry it?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Santa could never? Hey, who's that boy approaching Emma?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's one of her classmates. He's a member of one
of the school's Latino groups. La Emma go mostas Ola.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He looks like he wants to ask her something, but
he's hesitating.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Probably because he already knows the answers.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
No.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
He's part of the League of United Latin American Citizens
and he wants Emma to join their cause.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But why would she say no?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Because this group and other groups like it advocate for
something called assimilation.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
They want to gain acceptance in society by acting more
like the white people who often treat them unfairly. Emma
knows that they want her to join just because she
has lighter skin, meaning white people might be more willing
to accept her. But she's only interested in a movement
that helps all people.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Ah, I see.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh, now she's getting up and packing her book away.
Where's she off to.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
She's on her way to the Fink Cigar Company to
join the picket line.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
What's a picket line?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I'll show you. Let's go. We've arrived at the Fink
Cigar Company. See that big group of people walking in
front of the factory.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
They're holding signs enchanting st strip.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
That's a picket line. It's one way that workers fight
for better treatment. They refuse to go into the building
to work and instead stay outside and protest the low
pay and the bad working conditions.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And there's Emma.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
She's holding a sign yup at the young age of sixteen,
Emma is joining the Fink Cigar Company strike.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Police whistles, What are the police doing here? Nobody here
is in danger.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Business owners don't like it when workers go on strike.
It costs them money, so they often use the police
to try to break up the picket lines and force
the workers to give up their cause.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
You're there, you're under arrest.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Oh, they're arresting Emma. Oh, but she didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It'll be okay, and Emma will be okay. In fact,
getting arrested is what inspires her to go on to
make history. Let's go to nineteen thirty eight. It's January
thirty first, nineteen thirty eight, and we're outside of the
Delicious Pecan Company.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Ooh, pecans. That explains the delicious smell. Are we stopping
for a snack?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
No, we're here because this is where Emma Tenayuka made
her biggest contribution to the workers' rights movement. Niminy, what
do you know about shelling pecans?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
P conzap shalls?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Not once these workers are through with them. But shelling
pecans is hard, dangerous work. These women work seven days
a week, all will being exposed to respiratory diseases like tuberculosis,
and they get paid less than two dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh that is so unfair.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Emma thought so too, which is why she took up
the cans. Look here she is giving one of her
trademark passionate speeches.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Workers, We must unite against these unfair conditions. La laitana.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What are they calling her?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
La capitana, which means the captain. They've unanimously elected Emma
as their leader, and they're about to follow her to
the picket line.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
We can no longer tolerate these terrible working conditions.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We are on.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Strike, strike shut.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
There are so many of them.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Almost twelve thousand workers walked off the job. It's the
largest strike in San Antonio history, and it was the
first major Mexican American action for civil rights and economic justice.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I can't believe Emma is leading this huge movement. She's
only twenty two.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Oh no, the police are coming to this strike too.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
The mayor of San Antonio sent the police out with
tear gas and clubs to break up the picket lines.
This is an illegal gathering. You are ordered to disburse immediately.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
These workers are not backing down.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
The Pecan shullers went on strike for a whole three months.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Tena.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yuka's passionate speeches brought national attention to the strike and
earned her the nickname Lapacion Nadia de dejas. Historians today
regard the strike as the first successful large scale act
of Mexican American struggle for civil rights and justice.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I can't believe someone would care so much about fair
working conditions that they risk getting arrested or beaten up.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Or something worse. Emma received a lot of threats of
violence and death just for striking sort of. Emma was
a member of something called the Communist Party in the
nineteen thirties. People were very afraid of the Communists and
believed that they had to stop them at all costs.
It made Emma's work very dangerous. Even the FBI came
(16:02):
to spy on her.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh my goodness, does she go into hiding.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Nope. She left the picket lines, but spent the rest
of her life teaching and mentoring other activists. A lot
of people say that without Emma Tenayuka, there may have
been no Delores Squerta or Caesar Chavez. Let's check out
what she said in an interview in her seventies.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
She still has such fire in her eyes.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And a lot to say.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
What started out as a movement for organizing for equal
wages turned into a mass movement against starvation, for civil rights,
for a minimum wage law, and it changed.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The character of westside San Antonio.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
The goal of her activism wasn't a certain ideology or
an abstract concept, but simply food.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Food as in food that should be eaten on a
RESTful lunch break and not gulped on the go exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Hmmm, this gives me a lot to think about.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I think I might need to make some changes to
the way I've been working. Let's head back to the bunker.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We made it back. Oh hey, all the raccoons are here.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I can't wait to tell you all about Emma tenne Yuga.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, it is time for the song.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Indeed, let's turn this history into an epic showstopping song
for the ages, featuring Broadway legend Mandy Gonzalez.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So here's what you need to know.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Year's nineteen thirty eight, San Antonio. Strike it for our
right to get what we old. Strikes running long though,
and the mood is low. Just want to little mod
but they still say no. Up to twenty thousand strong
our number scroll.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Reason by men. They will hit it stiff. They may eical.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
This ain't ever happening in the us BI boat. Three
months with thousand, we've been off the blow, and we
don't know how long that the throng can go, like
a powder cake that's about to blown.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But thank god we got a leader to control the flow. Management.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
How it's working long even on the weekends making only peanuts.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yet we be selling peek. Can'st need it? Some hope.
A young sister the beacon and Emma, Tenna, you got.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Here's what you.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Speaking fucking.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
For.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They treated how they do and it to a simple tune.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
For the.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Goodness, and you were goods for strong zuers, dream big
yours a Latina, you go.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Emma's parents were poor but practical, but in the plaza.
Had at night with her gramps, she would listen to
the radicals. She read works magical, picked up common sense
from Thomas Paine.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And from Mark.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
She learned of capital first trying to strike at sixteen.
She wasn't natural arrested at the protest, which made her
fight more fanatical. Her plight was rational, living under the
fists of capitalists with their backing all.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
She joined an org, found a lack in the leadership,
especially bat at, reaching the Latina membership.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
After high school, she led more and led more, read
more manifestos.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No Emma scene as read the peak can't strike.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
She runs it at twenty one workers getting poor conditions
and low fun. Emma's on the front lines. The crowd
is at a low hum. On the megaphone, she is
shouting out the ball.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Fully treated. How add a dot of simple.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Tude for you reduce.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Stronger than Mazurkas dreamding, hallo.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Your ten. We're singing actions.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Our factions had enough, we uper deals, but they still
be passing up sick the boar.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh honest, they harassing us. We marching mass, but the
brass here gassing us.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Oh now they're targeting our comrade, Emma speature so powerful
they are like an antenna raw casted wide from the
press to the wrong manner. This creates in the movement
a wrong level. There's a rift afraid. The public would
be niffed if they knew the leader of the striker
was cat.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
The communists just applied.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
To try to make the people stuf, but consequently Emma lost.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Her special stayed on unofficial to combat.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
The regime won the battle, but i'd a told for
our tea secure and raise until the greedy came and
stole our dream A few months later.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Were replaced with.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Machines bas fucking courier before they treated how they do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And a dot as simple.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Joy for rods the order organizing you producer for stronger
than a zulkas dream big Halluia.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yours a montenac.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I continue to organize for a few boy years, a
crucial time from the woods and Fox. I left, the party, left,
the triumph, left the tears.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Became a teacher, And this is what I taught bas
sucking courier. Bully treated heavy.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And simple.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
For no.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
When the.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Organize and you producer for stronger than Missulcus, dream big.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Helloluia, yours a montena. You bullly treated heavy and as simple.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
For noon the organize and you producer for stronger than Missulcus.
Dream big, Hallolua yours a montena.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You come.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
We'll be right back after a few words for the
grown ups. Wow, I could really feel Emma's passion coming
through in every beat and every note.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Great work, Raccoons.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
One other thing, I'm sorry I was pushing you all
so hard earlier. Seeing how hard Emma Tenna Yuka fought
for workers to be treated fairly made me realize I
was taking fair working conditions for granted. People fought to
earn those rights, and I shouldn't be so quick to
forget that.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Hey, have you guys ever thought of starting a union? Yeah,
here's a pamphlet. It's called so you're a raccoon who
wants to start a union. I got it from Gabe.
I know it's pretty specific. Leave it to Gabe to
find the perfect literature for the moment. I feel just
(23:44):
the hype man I was looking for.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I don't need to finish that sentence. I know exactly
what you want to hear. Don't worry.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I've been hyping non stap since we had a little talk.
I told Tina that she made the sigss be i've
ever heard.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I told some birds outside the bunker that their.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Nest was off the hook, and I told robot boys
I won't stop hyping until it gig up works.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Who actually, Phil, I was going to ask you to
take a break. Well, I want to apologize for interrupting
your nap earlier. Going forward, you can take all the
naps you need, as long as we are too behind
the schedule.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Of course, of.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Course, I wear this tying alarm clock for a reason.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You know, Oh, I thought wearing clocks was just the
standard hype man uniform.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
It is, but.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
It's because being a hype man requires impeccable timing, including
getting up from naps right on time.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah awesome, Oh hey, are you interested in joining a union?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Here's a pamphlet.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
So you're a hype man who wants to join a
union that's made up of mostly raccoons.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Simony, how did you know?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Hollah?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Peruse that at your leisure.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
At my leisure, shouldn't we rides and gride?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I hereby declare that we have finished our work for
the day, and so we can spend the rest of
the day taking care of ourselves. In fact, I think
today is the perfect day.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Oh she's pausing, so you know the rest of the
sentence is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
God to open up the bunker poolay, robot voice, Please
open the door to the bunker.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Pool active eighteen door.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And when you're done, take a nice long break and
join us pool side.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You've earned it, Thank you.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
I am overcome with emotion.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
All right, y'all, last one in the pool?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
And who play Mary? All right, robot voice? Good Rid Marco.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
By Marco, who is going to be difficult to win
this game without a corporeal on.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
How's the water fil water is?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Come out in and play around on Marco polo with us.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I will just give me one second to end this episode. Listeners,
Thanks for joining in today and for going on a
journey with me to learn about legendary labor activists and
a Tenayoka, and a huge thanks to today's musical guest,
Mandy Gonzalez. We'll be back next week with another episode,
another song, and another hero.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
For now, it's time to get in the pool, because
it's my turn to be Marco.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Until next time, remember to make history, you gotta make
some noise.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
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Executive produced by Emir Questlove Thompson, John Glickman, Lee Overtree
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by Camilla Franklin. This episode was written by Alexis Simpson.
The song Emma Tenna Yuka was written by Dan Foster
and Eric Gerson and produced by Micah James. Special guest
Mandy Gonzalez. This episode features performances by Peter McNerney Kento,
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Marita Lee Overtree, Gabe Pacheco, Rebecca Roblaz, Austin Sanders, and
Matt Sombrano.
Hey listeners, Niminy here, host of historical records.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Get ready to hear about a historical hero through hip hop.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Also, parents and teachers, you can download a free activity
related to today's episode by visiting story pirates dot com
slash Historical Records and now onto the show. After a
few words for the grown ups, Hey listeners, Nimini here,
(00:30):
what's that ringling sound?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
You ask?
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Oh, nothing, just this awesome scooter I found. Can you
believe it was just lying on the floor of the bunker.
Perfect timing too, you see. I woke up this morning
and realize just how.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Much history there is.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
There is so much work to do when we hear
at historical records are simply not working fast enough. But
this scooter will help me get it all done. First,
let me put on my helmet.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Then let's see you just how fast I can go.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Hey, robot voice, robot voice initiating initiating.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Hurry up, robot voice, I need you to time me
while I scoop to the other end of the hall.
There's no time to lose, Okay, start the clock in
three two one go?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
What and so how long was that?
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Four point three seconds?
Speaker 5 (01:25):
A new record.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I've got a need to speed.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Indeed, think of how much work I can get done,
all the historical figures I can learn about, all the
songs I can write. Oh, this is going to be
my most productive episode ever. Listeners, it's time to get
this show on the road.
Speaker 5 (01:50):
Its historical record.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
You are now listening to historical We're.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Called to make history.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You get I have struggles to make history.
Speaker 6 (02:01):
You got to show pois cannot.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Be quiet loud as the riot to make history, you
gotta make some noise.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Welcome back to Historical Records, where we conduct highly experimental
experiments combining history and hip hop. Working at top speed
gets me a bit winded. But those are the breaks,
or I guess these are the breaks.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Anyway.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
Today's episode is about labor activist Emma tenne Yuka.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
But before we get to her, there's so much work
to do.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
First order of business, check in on Tina and the
rest of the Raccoons and see how today's beat is
coming along.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
I'll just give a knock here on the studio door.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hey, Tina, I hope you don't mind that I opened
the door, but I couldn't wait for you to open it.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Time waiting is time wasted.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Anyway, I'm checking in on today's beat, and what what
is going on? You're doing yoga? There's no time for yoga.
TikTok tina. We have to finish this song cut out.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Well.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
If you already finished the first half of today's beat, ye.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
You'd better get started on the second half.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Chop chop hop to it. No time to waste. Let
me turn off these yoga tunes so you can focus.
I said, no time. I'm off to check on Phil
the hype Man. We need Phil to be ready with
his A plus hype game or we'll fall behind schedule.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Off to film office.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
I can't believe I.
Speaker 1 (03:36):
Caught those raccoons slippings. How are we gonna get everything
done if we don't do it fast, fast, fast? Hey,
maybe I should look into adding a laptop connection to
the scooter so I can get even more work done
on the go.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Oh, look at that, I'm.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Already at FIL's office, even though Robot Voice and the
raccoons were doing some new age lollygaggon. There's no need
to worry about philm It's basically a hue An energy drink,
so that's absolutely no way he'll be fast asleep.
Speaker 7 (04:07):
Part of people say what yeah, wo oh.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
He even hipes when he snores.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right, niminy, don't be distracted by how cute Phil
is when he's sleep HIPing.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Get back to work and wake this man up so
we can get.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
To work, I said, Pila, Oh he's still fast.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Asleep, Thank goodness.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
Phil is a textbook hype man, so he always keeps
an airhorn nearby and in three two one, Hello.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
Hey Phil, quick question for you.
Speaker 7 (04:47):
Oh, I bet it's a good world.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Lead on me, Sure thing, Phil? What were you doing sleeping?
Speaker 7 (04:55):
Tough foot bear? I just felt like my batteries needed
with charge.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
And you know, since there wasn't any hype in to do,
I thought maybe I'd make like a cat and take
a quick nap.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Miro, philter, there.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
Is always hyping to do. Coffee deal, seize the day,
Rise and grind.
Speaker 7 (05:12):
Okay, rise and grind. What am I grinding?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Coffee beans? Maybe here? Take these?
Speaker 7 (05:20):
Are these coffee beans?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
But you don't drink coffee, Philly, my man?
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Is that what a hype man would say?
Speaker 7 (05:28):
I mean, yeah, coffee. You know, I'm always on the
coffee grind 'spresso.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Drip woo that's more like it. Gosh, I'm glad I
found this scooter. I'm getting so much done. Now off
to the library to check on Gabe Today's Historian.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And look, I'm gonna have a schedule. I'm doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I'm working faster and smarter. I'm headed for the library.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Good thing I was wearing my helmet.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Nimini, I heard a huge crash.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Are you okay?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I'm fine? Sorry about your books, Gabe, no worries.
Speaker 5 (06:07):
The books are fine. I'll clean them up after lunch.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Lunch.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yeah, this is my lunch break, today's panini day. Yum game.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
There's no time for my historian to take lunch. We
have to explore the life of Emma Tenna Yuka, write
a song, and now we have to put away these books.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
We can't fall behind. Schedule.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What schedule?
Speaker 3 (06:27):
The one that we don't want to fall behind.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
Niminy, really don't worry about it. You just crashed a scooter.
You should sit and take a break. Have some of
my panini. I've got extra.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
Panini, more like panin no as in no time. We
have to get to today's historical figure. If you're still hungry,
I have a great idea for eating on the go.
I call it on the go gulp tube for gulping
food on the go.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
That sounds awful, Bye awful? Do you mean efficient? I
do not.
Speaker 5 (06:58):
Food isn't meant to be gulped on the go. Lunch
breaks are good for people, and they're good for workers.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
They are they are.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
There's something Emma Tana Yuka would have passionately supported too.
Did you know she believed in workers' rights so strongly
that she went to jail?
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Really, that's amazing. I need to see that. Where's this
week's history simulator?
Speaker 5 (07:21):
You're standing on it the scooter? Yep, I was wondering
where I left it. Let me just flip the simulator
switch on.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
Ready to go?
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Aren't you forgetting something?
Speaker 5 (07:33):
All right?
Speaker 7 (07:34):
My helmet?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Now we're ready to go.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Welcome to San Antonio, nineteen twenty.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Woo, this place is busy.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Theyre's singers, speakers, people waving newspapers.
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Are we in some kind of plaza?
Speaker 5 (07:55):
We are in the Plaza Plaza del Zacupte to be exact.
It's known today as Millam Park, but in the nineteen
twenties it was the place for Mexican Americans to exchange
news and ideas. It was where a lot of socialists
and anarchists would come and spread their ideas about radical
social change.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
I've heard the phrase getting on your soapbox, but I've
never seen anyone actually do it.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Look at that guy over there with the newspaper. What's
he doing.
Speaker 5 (08:25):
He's reading the latest news from Mexico. There was a
recent revolution where people fought against the government. Some people
had to flee, and a lot of them ended up
here in San Antonio. So they're anxious to hear the
latest news about the new government back in Mexico.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Hey, I see a little girl. Is that who I
think it is? It?
Speaker 5 (08:43):
Sure is that's a young Amma Tanayuka here with her grandfather.
He's helping to raise Emma and he's making sure she
learns everything. So he brings her here. Mika, go and
listen to the different speakers and bring me back some
interesting news.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yes, whale, Look at her run.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
She's so eager to hear the news.
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
She soaks up all the energy and political discussion in
the plaza like a sponge. The plaza is her school
outside of school, where she learns about religion, socialism, labor movements,
the injustice of segregation and the struggle of the poor
all over the world.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
Ooh, here's your gums, and she is ronic. I wonder
what she heard a willow. The railroad workers have voted
to go on strike.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
Very good, Micha, very good.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
She can't be more than what eight. How amazing that
she is learning all this stuff at such.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
A young age.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
She's off to a radical start. Wait until you see
her in high school.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Now.
Speaker 5 (09:50):
It's nineteen thirty three, right smack in the middle of
the Great Depression. People all over the United States and
the rest of the world are having a really hard
time make a living and getting enough to eat.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I see Emma, she's under that tree reading a book.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Emma is always reading books. She's a junior in high school,
where she's both a star athlete and a star scholar.
Did you know she formed an afterschool reading club.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Awesome?
Speaker 5 (10:16):
I love books, so do I, and so does Emma.
Looks like she's reading The Advancing Proletariats.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
What is that?
Speaker 5 (10:24):
It's a booklet published by the Industrial Workers of the World.
The IWW, also known as the Wobbles, are an international workers'
union that was founded in nineteen oh five. That pamphlet
is encouraging workers to unite and use their collective power
to fight for better treatment.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
She's learning about workers' unions at sixteen.
Speaker 5 (10:46):
Oh yeah, she's learning all kinds of advanced stuff. She
reads enthusiastically about the Wobbleys, Thomas Paine, Karl Marx, Tolstoy,
Charles A. Beard and Moore. Do you see the size
of her book?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
How does she even carry it?
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Santa could never? Hey, who's that boy approaching Emma?
Speaker 7 (11:06):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
That's one of her classmates. He's a member of one
of the school's Latino groups. La Emma go mostas Ola.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Hmm.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
He looks like he wants to ask her something, but
he's hesitating.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Probably because he already knows the answers.
Speaker 9 (11:20):
No.
Speaker 5 (11:21):
He's part of the League of United Latin American Citizens
and he wants Emma to join their cause.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
But why would she say no?
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Because this group and other groups like it advocate for
something called assimilation.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What does that mean?
Speaker 5 (11:34):
They want to gain acceptance in society by acting more
like the white people who often treat them unfairly. Emma
knows that they want her to join just because she
has lighter skin, meaning white people might be more willing
to accept her. But she's only interested in a movement
that helps all people.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Ah, I see.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh, now she's getting up and packing her book away.
Where's she off to.
Speaker 5 (11:58):
She's on her way to the Fink Cigar Company to
join the picket line.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
What's a picket line?
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I'll show you. Let's go. We've arrived at the Fink
Cigar Company. See that big group of people walking in
front of the factory.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
They're holding signs enchanting st strip.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
That's a picket line. It's one way that workers fight
for better treatment. They refuse to go into the building
to work and instead stay outside and protest the low
pay and the bad working conditions.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
And there's Emma.
Speaker 5 (12:33):
She's holding a sign yup at the young age of sixteen,
Emma is joining the Fink Cigar Company strike.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Police whistles, What are the police doing here? Nobody here
is in danger.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
Business owners don't like it when workers go on strike.
It costs them money, so they often use the police
to try to break up the picket lines and force
the workers to give up their cause.
Speaker 7 (12:56):
You're there, you're under arrest.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Oh, they're arresting Emma. Oh, but she didn't do anything wrong.
Speaker 5 (13:02):
It'll be okay, and Emma will be okay. In fact,
getting arrested is what inspires her to go on to
make history. Let's go to nineteen thirty eight. It's January
thirty first, nineteen thirty eight, and we're outside of the
Delicious Pecan Company.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Ooh, pecans. That explains the delicious smell. Are we stopping
for a snack?
Speaker 5 (13:27):
No, we're here because this is where Emma Tenayuka made
her biggest contribution to the workers' rights movement. Niminy, what
do you know about shelling pecans?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
P conzap shalls?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Not once these workers are through with them. But shelling
pecans is hard, dangerous work. These women work seven days
a week, all will being exposed to respiratory diseases like tuberculosis,
and they get paid less than two dollars a week.
Speaker 3 (13:53):
Oh that is so unfair.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Emma thought so too, which is why she took up
the cans. Look here she is giving one of her
trademark passionate speeches.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Workers, We must unite against these unfair conditions. La laitana.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
What are they calling her?
Speaker 5 (14:14):
La capitana, which means the captain. They've unanimously elected Emma
as their leader, and they're about to follow her to
the picket line.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
We can no longer tolerate these terrible working conditions.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
We are on.
Speaker 7 (14:29):
Strike, strike shut.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
There are so many of them.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Almost twelve thousand workers walked off the job. It's the
largest strike in San Antonio history, and it was the
first major Mexican American action for civil rights and economic justice.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I can't believe Emma is leading this huge movement. She's
only twenty two.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Oh no, the police are coming to this strike too.
Speaker 7 (14:56):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (14:57):
The mayor of San Antonio sent the police out with
tear gas and clubs to break up the picket lines.
This is an illegal gathering. You are ordered to disburse immediately.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
These workers are not backing down.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
The Pecan shullers went on strike for a whole three months.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Tena.
Speaker 5 (15:18):
Yuka's passionate speeches brought national attention to the strike and
earned her the nickname Lapacion Nadia de dejas. Historians today
regard the strike as the first successful large scale act
of Mexican American struggle for civil rights and justice.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
Amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
I can't believe someone would care so much about fair
working conditions that they risk getting arrested or beaten up.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Or something worse. Emma received a lot of threats of
violence and death just for striking sort of. Emma was
a member of something called the Communist Party in the
nineteen thirties. People were very afraid of the Communists and
believed that they had to stop them at all costs.
It made Emma's work very dangerous. Even the FBI came
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to spy on her.
Speaker 3 (16:04):
Oh my goodness, does she go into hiding.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Nope. She left the picket lines, but spent the rest
of her life teaching and mentoring other activists. A lot
of people say that without Emma Tenayuka, there may have
been no Delores Squerta or Caesar Chavez. Let's check out
what she said in an interview in her seventies.
Speaker 3 (16:26):
She still has such fire in her eyes.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
And a lot to say.
Speaker 10 (16:30):
What started out as a movement for organizing for equal
wages turned into a mass movement against starvation, for civil rights,
for a minimum wage law, and it changed.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
The character of westside San Antonio.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
The goal of her activism wasn't a certain ideology or
an abstract concept, but simply food.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Food as in food that should be eaten on a
RESTful lunch break and not gulped on the go exactly.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Hmmm, this gives me a lot to think about.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I think I might need to make some changes to
the way I've been working. Let's head back to the bunker.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
We made it back. Oh hey, all the raccoons are here.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
I can't wait to tell you all about Emma tenne Yuga.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yes, it is time for the song.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Indeed, let's turn this history into an epic showstopping song
for the ages, featuring Broadway legend Mandy Gonzalez.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So here's what you need to know.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Year's nineteen thirty eight, San Antonio. Strike it for our
right to get what we old. Strikes running long though,
and the mood is low. Just want to little mod
but they still say no. Up to twenty thousand strong
our number scroll.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Reason by men. They will hit it stiff. They may eical.
Speaker 9 (18:12):
This ain't ever happening in the us BI boat. Three
months with thousand, we've been off the blow, and we
don't know how long that the throng can go, like
a powder cake that's about to blown.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
But thank god we got a leader to control the flow. Management.
Speaker 9 (18:29):
How it's working long even on the weekends making only peanuts.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
Yet we be selling peek. Can'st need it? Some hope.
A young sister the beacon and Emma, Tenna, you got.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Here's what you.
Speaker 6 (18:40):
Speaking fucking.
Speaker 5 (18:43):
For.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
They treated how they do and it to a simple tune.
Speaker 9 (18:49):
For the.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Goodness, and you were goods for strong zuers, dream big
yours a Latina, you go.
Speaker 9 (19:04):
Emma's parents were poor but practical, but in the plaza.
Had at night with her gramps, she would listen to
the radicals. She read works magical, picked up common sense
from Thomas Paine.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
And from Mark.
Speaker 9 (19:16):
She learned of capital first trying to strike at sixteen.
She wasn't natural arrested at the protest, which made her
fight more fanatical. Her plight was rational, living under the
fists of capitalists with their backing all.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
She joined an org, found a lack in the leadership,
especially bat at, reaching the Latina membership.
Speaker 9 (19:36):
After high school, she led more and led more, read
more manifestos.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
No Emma scene as read the peak can't strike.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
She runs it at twenty one workers getting poor conditions
and low fun. Emma's on the front lines. The crowd
is at a low hum. On the megaphone, she is
shouting out the ball.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Fully treated. How add a dot of simple.
Speaker 11 (20:01):
Tude for you reduce.
Speaker 6 (20:10):
Stronger than Mazurkas dreamding, hallo.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Your ten. We're singing actions.
Speaker 9 (20:20):
Our factions had enough, we uper deals, but they still
be passing up sick the boar.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Oh honest, they harassing us. We marching mass, but the
brass here gassing us.
Speaker 9 (20:31):
Oh now they're targeting our comrade, Emma speature so powerful
they are like an antenna raw casted wide from the
press to the wrong manner. This creates in the movement
a wrong level. There's a rift afraid. The public would
be niffed if they knew the leader of the striker
was cat.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
The communists just applied.
Speaker 9 (20:51):
To try to make the people stuf, but consequently Emma lost.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Her special stayed on unofficial to combat.
Speaker 9 (20:58):
The regime won the battle, but i'd a told for
our tea secure and raise until the greedy came and
stole our dream A few months later.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
Were replaced with.
Speaker 6 (21:07):
Machines bas fucking courier before they treated how they do.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
And a dot as simple.
Speaker 11 (21:15):
Joy for rods the order organizing you producer for stronger
than a zulkas dream big Halluia.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yours a montenac.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
I continue to organize for a few boy years, a
crucial time from the woods and Fox. I left, the party, left,
the triumph, left the tears.
Speaker 2 (21:51):
Became a teacher, And this is what I taught bas
sucking courier. Bully treated heavy.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
And simple.
Speaker 12 (22:06):
For no.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
When the.
Speaker 6 (22:10):
Organize and you producer for stronger than Missulcus, dream big.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Helloluia, yours a montena. You bullly treated heavy and as simple.
Speaker 13 (22:31):
For noon the organize and you producer for stronger than Missulcus.
Dream big, Hallolua yours a montena.
Speaker 7 (22:44):
You come.
Speaker 1 (22:49):
We'll be right back after a few words for the
grown ups. Wow, I could really feel Emma's passion coming
through in every beat and every note.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Great work, Raccoons.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
One other thing, I'm sorry I was pushing you all
so hard earlier. Seeing how hard Emma Tenna Yuka fought
for workers to be treated fairly made me realize I
was taking fair working conditions for granted. People fought to
earn those rights, and I shouldn't be so quick to
forget that.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
Thanks.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
Hey, have you guys ever thought of starting a union? Yeah,
here's a pamphlet. It's called so you're a raccoon who
wants to start a union. I got it from Gabe.
I know it's pretty specific. Leave it to Gabe to
find the perfect literature for the moment. I feel just
(23:44):
the hype man I was looking for.
Speaker 7 (23:46):
I don't need to finish that sentence. I know exactly
what you want to hear. Don't worry.
Speaker 8 (23:50):
I've been hyping non stap since we had a little talk.
I told Tina that she made the sigss be i've
ever heard.
Speaker 7 (23:57):
I told some birds outside the bunker that their.
Speaker 8 (23:59):
Nest was off the hook, and I told robot boys
I won't stop hyping until it gig up works.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Who actually, Phil, I was going to ask you to
take a break. Well, I want to apologize for interrupting
your nap earlier. Going forward, you can take all the
naps you need, as long as we are too behind
the schedule.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
Of course, of.
Speaker 7 (24:23):
Course, I wear this tying alarm clock for a reason.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You know, Oh, I thought wearing clocks was just the
standard hype man uniform.
Speaker 7 (24:31):
It is, but.
Speaker 8 (24:32):
It's because being a hype man requires impeccable timing, including
getting up from naps right on time.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Yeah awesome, Oh hey, are you interested in joining a union?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Here's a pamphlet.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
So you're a hype man who wants to join a
union that's made up of mostly raccoons.
Speaker 7 (24:51):
Simony, how did you know?
Speaker 1 (24:54):
Hollah?
Speaker 3 (24:55):
Peruse that at your leisure.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
At my leisure, shouldn't we rides and gride?
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Nope?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
I hereby declare that we have finished our work for
the day, and so we can spend the rest of
the day taking care of ourselves. In fact, I think
today is the perfect day.
Speaker 8 (25:10):
Oh she's pausing, so you know the rest of the
sentence is gonna be.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
God to open up the bunker poolay, robot voice, Please
open the door to the bunker.
Speaker 5 (25:23):
Pool active eighteen door.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
And when you're done, take a nice long break and
join us pool side.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
You've earned it, Thank you.
Speaker 11 (25:33):
I am overcome with emotion.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
All right, y'all, last one in the pool?
Speaker 7 (25:38):
And who play Mary? All right, robot voice? Good Rid Marco.
Speaker 6 (25:48):
By Marco, who is going to be difficult to win
this game without a corporeal on.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
How's the water fil water is?
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Come out in and play around on Marco polo with us.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
I will just give me one second to end this episode. Listeners,
Thanks for joining in today and for going on a
journey with me to learn about legendary labor activists and
a Tenayoka, and a huge thanks to today's musical guest,
Mandy Gonzalez. We'll be back next week with another episode,
another song, and another hero.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
For now, it's time to get in the pool, because
it's my turn to be Marco.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Until next time, remember to make history, you gotta make
some noise.
Speaker 12 (26:33):
Bine Historical Records is produced in partnership with Story Pirate Studios,
(26:56):
Questloves two on five Entertainment, John Glickman and iHeart Podcasts
Executive produced by Emir Questlove Thompson, John Glickman, Lee Overtree
and Benjamin Salka. Executive produced for iHeart Podcasts by Noel Brown.
Producers for Story Pirate Studios are Isabella Riccio, Sam Bear,
(27:17):
Eric Gerson, Andrew Miller, Lee Overtree, Peter McNerney and niminy Ware.
Producers for two one five are Sean ge Britney, Benjamin
and Zarah Zolman. Hosted by niminy Ware. Our head writer
is Duke Doyle. Our historians are Gabe Pacheco and Lee Polos.
Music supervision for two one five by Stroe Elliott. Scoring
(27:38):
and music supervision for Story Pirate Studios by Eric Gerson.
Sound designed and mixing by Sam Bear at the Relic
Room in New York City. Additional recording by Brett Tuban,
song mastering by Josh Hahn. Theme song by Dan Foster
and Eric Gerson and produced by Eric Gerson. Production coordination
by Isabelle Riccio. Production management by Maggie Lee. The line
(28:00):
producer for Story Pirate Studios is Glennis Brault. Pr for
Story Pirate Studios is provided by Naomi Shaw. Episode artwork
by Camilla Franklin. This episode was written by Alexis Simpson.
The song Emma Tenna Yuka was written by Dan Foster
and Eric Gerson and produced by Micah James. Special guest
Mandy Gonzalez. This episode features performances by Peter McNerney Kento,
(28:23):
Marita Lee Overtree, Gabe Pacheco, Rebecca Roblaz, Austin Sanders, and
Matt Sombrano.
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