December 12, 2024 • 33 mins
Dramos deep dives into trending stories from the week including an update from the murder case of the United Health Care CEO, Selena Gomez getting criticized for her Spanish, how to survive the holidays, Juan Soto's big pay day and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go. He said, you live in life pas
a ringo where you question where you fit in every
time you mingle.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
They say you do. This would not.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This Life as a Getingo. Yes, hello, and welcome to
another episode of Life as a Getting Go. I am Dramos,
of course, and it's Thursday, so I mean it's time
for our Thursday trends is sued.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You've been talking about a bunch of stuff on the
show today, just a warning.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I want to get ahead of this, just to you know,
not surprised anybody. I feel like I've been terrible at
letting you know what my schedule is. In like days,
I'm gonna be taking off. So we'll have this week,
we will have next week, and then we'll have two
weeks off for Christmas and New Year's so I won't
(00:59):
be bad after next week until Tuesday the seventh, which
sounds incredible, have some time off. So just getting ahead again,
we have all next week's gonna be dropping new episodes,
and then next Thursday will be the last episode of
twenty twenty five and we will return on the seventh
(01:23):
of January, the first full week of January.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So with that in mind. What's been going on this
last week? Man. We have an update on.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The murderer of the CEO of United Healthcare. We'll talk
about some updates there. I want to talk about this
story of.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You had Selena Gomez facing some.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Backlash about her Spanish. She was speaking Spanish in a
new project and there are some critiques.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The Internet came to her defense, so we'll talk a
bit about that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Also, getting ahead of the holidays here, I want to
touch on some survival tips that I came across how
to survive and thrive through Latino family holiday gatherings. Because
it's almost that time of the year. We will talk
about that, and then Army hit that segment. As much
as it breaks my heart as a Yankee fan, we
have to celebrate Juan Soto and his legendary contract that
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he just got with the New York Mets, So we'll
talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But first and Foremos, let's start with the nonsense.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
The bs in a segment call for the people in
the back, say a lot of the people in the
say a lot of the people in the people. All right,
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So we I did, like pretty much all of last
week's Thursday Trends episodes, on this story about the murderer
of you know Healthcare CEO.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He has now since been caught.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He is Luigi Mangioni, a twenty something year old kid
picked up in Pennsylvania. Now I'm just kind of giving
updates that we talked a lot about it. He is
product of a wealthy family and somebody that they say
began to have far more anger and resentment and talks
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about the healthcare system. I've been here in conflicting reports
or different stories, one of which that apparently he had
back surgery and has suffered tremendous back pain since then
and was disgruntled with the healthcare system. And then apparently
also his mother suffered allegedly with a disease and she
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was actually covered by United Healthcare and had all types
of issues with them related to.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Her getting the treatment that she needed.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And you know, he was picked up apparently in a
McDonald's in Pennsylvania after a McDonald's worker called the police
saying that they think they saw him in there. On
him apparently he had all types of handwritten notes, his
manifesto with not mistaken a weapon. They're saying that he
used a three D printed gun. And I did with
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the internet, it's hard to keep track of what the
fuck is you know, everything going on. But basically this
guy's reasoning, which is much of what we kind of suspected,
was a frustration with the with corporate America essentially, but
specifically in his case, with the healthcare system and feeling
like it was taking advantage of people. And he actually
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left a review on I think the Uti Bombers book
that he ended up writing and talking about the idea
that I guess violence sometimes is the only answer, and
discussing the idea that these people inflict violence upon the
people that they take advantage of on a daily basis, essentially,
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and that therefore the violence against them is justified. And
I guess that's the logic. I mean, it's not. None
of this was a surprise, right, And again it's further
commentary on on a lot of the things that I
touched on last week about what happens when you push
people to their breaking point. And again, I don't look
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at this guy as personally. I don't look at him
like a hero. I think he took another human being's
life and I don't ever see a justification for that,
unless you know, we're really talking about in the moment,
it's you were them type of situation and you have
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to defend yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I guess I am.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Conflicted on this whole topic of conversation. I guess what
interests me about it and why I try to explore
it as much as possible is the unfortunate and harsh
reality is when we are peaceful, when we are passive,
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even when we protest peacefully, it's very rare that the
powers that be will actually give a damn and listen
to the people. And unfortunately, it seems like when you
bring the violence to their doorstep, when you instill some
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sort of fear in them, that's when they want to listen. Right,
And it's the same same thing with you know, and
and all these different things.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's like people only have remorse when they're when they're
when they're discovered and found guilty essentially, right then they're
crying in court. When when their pockets are being hit,
then they feel remorse for what they've done. And it's
the unfortunate truth that people really only seem to.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Respond to violence or some sort of grave danger or
perceived threat, and that's that they're not going to do
it as the goodness of their heart right. And we've seen
a lot of peaceful protest movements, I mean, even with
empty promises from someone like Biden, who ran on a
platform of police reform in the wake of all we
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saw with George Floyd and his murder in twenty twenty
and really didn't come through on any of that.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Even you think.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
About as misguided and sort of no real end goal,
as there was in something like occupied Wall Street, where
you had all those people down on Wall Street in
New York essentially setting up camp there as a form
of protests for an extended period of time and drawing
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attention to the idea of inequality and inequity. Even you're talking,
it feels like ten years ago it might have been less.
But I want to say ten years ago if I
think about where I was during that time, and peacefully protested,
made noise, people had to pay attention, and nothing came
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of it. And in fact, not only did nothing come
of it, but the inequity an inequality has gotten even greater.
The blind excessive greed that goes far beyond wealth has
gotten the thirst for it has gotten even great The
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willingness to maintain and grow wealth by rich people, by
any means necessary. Their brashness and boldness has gotten even greater,
and it begs the question of how do you make
them listen and see the error of their ways? And
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that's where I personally struggle, because I don't want to
see people lose their lives. I don't want to see
people become radicalized where they take out their frustrations into
the street like this young man did.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And you know, twenty something years old, his entire life
is gone.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Now he took somebody else's life, and his, as he
knows it, is gone as well. It's gonna be riting
in a jail cell somewhere probably. And yeah, but now
we're all having the conversation, right, And that's the fuck
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up and scary part about this.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It takes.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
This horrific incident for everybody to stop in their tracks
and say, oh shit, yeah, things are kind of bad,
aren't they.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Same thing with George Floyd.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It took watching that horrific video for people to stop
for a second and say, you know what, maybe there
is some real truth to police brutality. And even with that,
we haven't seen change and it's an unfortunate truth. And
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again I don't support condoned co sign encourage violence, but
I do sit back sort of wondering, like, well, what
is the answer. How do you get people to pay attention?
How do you get people to see the error of
their ways? How do you galvanize people to express their
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outrage and to force change? And that's the difficult question
that I think remains unanswered for me personally. And I
guess what I struggle when I hear these stories like
this one. I can see from both sides of like
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people celebrating this kid and other people saying like this
is no hero. And I think there's truth in sort
of both of them, in some way, shape or form,
and in a dark, the dark reality that we live in.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And I really wish that it didn't take.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
These sort of disgusting moments to happen in order for
us to stop and refer reflect on how far off
track we've gotten and all that needs to change in
order to become a better and healthier society. Unfortunately, it
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seems like people only give a fuck when it's after
a tragedy like this one. And yeah, I don't I
don't know. I wish I had a better a better
solution or reflection. But that's kind of where I'm at,
where I'm you know, personally struggle with on these topics
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of conversation, but just kind of want to give an
update with.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You know, all that new information and what I've been
pondering since.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Now we'll take a quick break here and then we'll
be back talking about Spanish speakers critiquing those who are
trying their best.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We'll be right back. All right, we are back, and
I want to touch on this story.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
From well, I got it from Rearmy two, but it's
going on on the internet for a minute. You had
an Mexican actor, Eugenio Durbez critiquing Selena Gomez on a podcast,
and the internet came for this man's neck. He has
since apologized, but does spark a really interesting conversation, one
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that is obviously very relevant to many of us who
are part of this community here. But on the podcast,
he said, quote Selena is indefensible speaking of her performance.
I was there watching the movie with people, and every
time a scene came with her in it, we looked
at each other to say, Wow, what is this. The
host of the podcast, Gabby Messa, recognized that while Gomez
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is a quote very talented actress, very good singer, and
has an Emmy nomination for her role in Only Murders
in the Building.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Spanish is neither her primary nor secondary language, nor fifth.
And that's why I feel she doesn't know what she
is saying. And it seems like she doesn't know what
she's saying. She can't give her acting any nuance, and
that is why her performance is not only unconvincing, but uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Derbez was in complete agreement with Bez's perspective, adding, I'm
glad you're saying that, because I was saying I can't
believe no one is talking about it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
These conversations because I do understand the criticism, right. I
think it's natural for all of us to watch something
and have a critique of it, whether it's like something
like a somebody's accent when speaking Spanish or in general. Right.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I mean, I was watching a critique. If somebody talking.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
About Brad Pitt's Jamaican accent in the movie, I was
gonna say Vanilla Scott, but not that movie, the movie
where he is.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Places death. Essentially, what is that? I have to look this.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Up Brad Pitt movie as Death. Meet Joe Black, Right,
Meet Joe Black. He has his seed where.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He he.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Was speaking to a Jamaican lady for some reason, he
went to a Jamaican accent. So yeah, that was I
saw a lot of people critiquing, critiquing men's how that way,
But I think it's natural, and I think and what
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happens with podcasts is they're supposed to sort of emulate
a person, a person conversation that you're having amongst friends,
essentially oftentimes like a candid conversation.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That's why we love them so much.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Is that it's a stripped down version of media, essentially,
right and on a version for the most part. And
to play Devil's advocate, he was just conveying his raw
reaction when watching the movie. And what was the name
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of the movie. I thought I'd written it down, Emily.
That was called Emily Perez. And he's giving his natural
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his natural reaction, right, We in a setting where that's
what he's supposed to do. And then those set listen
amongst friends, we kind of roast things, we make fun
of things, we critique things, whatever it might be. So
I get that I don't like condemn the man for that. Unfortunately,
it got picked up by a lot of other people,
and that conversation that in the moment, and I'm sure
felt just like a one on one with a friend,
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Candid got into a big thing that actually made it
back to the person who he's essentially talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Most of the time, if.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We are watching movie and we think the actor sucks,
our conversation afterwards with our friends is not going to
make it back to them and we don't have to
deal with them face to face.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Basically right.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
On the other side of it, it is more of
the same narrative that I think holds a lot of
us back who aren't native speakers, right, and you have
to give credit to somebody like Selina Gobez.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I think this is the.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Unfair part, and I didn't I admittedly I'm not going
to listen to this entire podcast. I'm looking at the
quote set from the story, but I feel like there
was a way to say it in and sort of
not in a way of tearing her down, but also
stating listen. And I think to a degree that the
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host kind of said that but understanding like, hey, you
know how difficult it probably was for her to show
up there and push herself in that way and to
take an artistic risk, and knowing that unlike for most
of us, no one is ever going to really see
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or hear you on a wide scale, you know. I mean,
should I get nervous talking to a stranger when I
land the Puerto Rico sometimes, you know, or even worse
here in the States, I'm even more nervous for no
reason whatsoever. I can imagine being on a film set
and you know the world is going to see this,
and you're a gigantic star, and you're alongside people like
Zoe's Hawdana, and you're alongside a bunch of other native
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Spanish speaking people.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I think we should have more understanding I want to
say about that, And I think you have to commend
her for sort of taking that risk. And I haven't
watched the.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Movie.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I definitely am going to check it out, but maybe
I during my time off, I'll check it out. But
also I would say, like, more than blaming her, I
would have a critique of like the people on the set,
Like I don't know how bad it is, but if
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it really is that bad, then people should have have
had her back and helped her coach her through that
to make it more believable.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
But I don't know, man, I think.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think there's a lack of empathy in understanding how
difficult I'm sure it is for someone.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Like her to take that artistic risk, to go outside of.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Her comfort zone and to put herself in a position
where she knows she's going to be judged, particularly by
our community, who could be very harsh in sort of
these purity tests, language often being one of the stipulations.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And yeah, I don't know. I think in general we
probably oft to have a little.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Bit more empathy for people, even if they're celebrities, even
if they're stars, they're still humans at the end of
the day. And also, I think one of the greatest
things that has held me back from mastering Spanish and
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pushing myself is the fear of judgment, because I was
judged as a kid, even if it was in a
joking way by my parents for the way that I
spoke Spanish or my attempts at speaking Spanish, and it
created this like block and this nervousness whenever I have
to speak it, and even to this day, I'm like
when I go and travel by myself. I'm far more
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comfortable and I feel like I'm far more affluent. But
if I'm bullshitting with my parents and I try to
go into Spanish, I'm like nervous and I start fumbling
and I start mispronouncing things just because that's in my
head like that insecurity of how does it sound right?
And I think there has to be a little bit
more empathy in terms of people's understanding of that struggle
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of wanting to participate but at the same time all
of the backlash that comes along from you just trying
to participate and just trying to be in community. And
I think we could use a little bit more empathy
in that manner. That's my thoughts on that. He did
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apologize though, since so, yeah, you know, a little.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Be a little nicer. Now. Last thing I want touch
on real quick. Holidays are coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I want to do this a little bit earlier in
the show, but Me or Me two has put together
a list how to survive through the family holidays. How
to survive and thrive, they say, and as always link
in the show notes for all this stuff, I'll quickly
go through their suggestions here. The first one they say,
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is set boundaries early and stick to them. They say, yes,
we know that boundaries is almost a taboo word in
Latino families, but here us out. If you think back
to your mom fighting with hersuegra and the entirety of
your Latino holidays being haunted by flashbacks of getting up
at the crack of dawn to stuff damalis, then boundaries
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are your friends. The unspoken presence of doing everything from
cooking to having a spotless home can turn your holiday.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Dreams into a nightmare. That's why you have to communicate
your limits.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If you're hosting, be clear by the time, place and
who's bringing what, and also permit yourself to say no
if you're coming as a guest but can't make it
to all the gatherings or even pre party prep pulling
the quote no carr is fine, and yeah, you gotta
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you gotta protect your fucking beast. It's it's a lot.
You got, you got the holidays, you got New Year's
we just came off with Thanksgiving. It is a lot
of fucking to be thrown at you, essentially, right, uh.
And sometimes you go and handle things in small doses,
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and I think that that's okay. I've set boundaries, like
we now, we do Christmas Eve, it is our big day.
Christmas Day is kind of whatever. It Usually it's at
my my brother in law's parents' house Christmas Day, and
for me, I'm kind of want to just chill the
fuck out on Christmas. I'll usually go and pop in
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over there and I'll go for about an hour or
two and then I'm out. My parents will spend like
half the day there. I'm like, I'm good, I'm I'm
I'll go there, eat something, and I'm on my way.
You know, I'm not gonna over extend and drain my
social battery.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And I think you could be okay with.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That, you know, and designating what you are willing to
do what you're not willing to do. And it's okay
to have those boundaries and to not be a part
of everything and be everything for everyone. I think that's
a part of it as well. And they're going to
say you can power up your party with potluck style dining,
somebody everybody brings something.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Love that. I mean, I'm not. I've been I've been
bringing the fun.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
If I've been bringing wah wah, if you're I think
it's only the East cause, but wo wa, mac and
cheese is phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm bringing a couple of tubs of that. People are happy, So.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not going crazy personally. I'm I'm
fortunately in that way. My mom be cooking up a storm.
Before that, my grandma used to be cooking up a storm.
So we're spoiled a little bit in my house. They're
also going to say create a secret Santa or a
gift exchange to lesson expenses. They say gift giving in
Latino families can be intense, especially when you are transitioning
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from your role as a child who receives into an
adult who gifts. Over Balancing your finances with buying things
for your family probably doesn't even need to be challenging
in today's economy. Our best advice create a gift exchange
for your family. That sounds nice. I think I've developed
a strategy of, like, listen, once y'all had kids, my
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niece and nephew, they get the big gifts, and y'all
gonna get the scraps at this point, because you know
it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I went from paying buying.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Gifts for just my sister and my brother in law
to now the two of them and their two kids, Like,
we gotta be realistic here, so yeah, you know, you
gotta live within your means. I feel like we also
have a tendency. It's like a culture like we be
maybe everybody does, but like I know my mom. I'd
be telling this to my mom all the time, Like
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I understand you want to, like you feel like we
deserve this stuff and the kids deserve all this stuff,
but like it's not worth stretching you financially, so then
you're uncomfortable and suffering for the next few months trying
to pay down credit cards because you went way too far.
And it's a beautiful thing to want to give the
kids a Christmas that they you know, will always remember
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and things.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Of that nature, but you gotta be smart about it
as well.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
My mom's still am an adult, and my mom will
still be taking to far ey with my own gifts
or my sister. I'm like, I'm good. You don't have
to go crazy, you know, but just for like every
calm down. Next thing they say is be mindful of
family dynamics and safeguard your mental health. Family gatherings can
be wonderfully warm, but let's get real. They can be
a wreck to get through, especially when the chiefs meant
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running hot through the house with the chief meant running
hot to the house. Plus, would it be a real
Latino family gathering without the underlying animosity between relatives, We
think not as much as we thrive on spilling. The
cafesito that keeps you surviving the holidays is recognize as
in these family patterns and finding ways of staying grounded.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
For one, manager.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Expectations, your mother and SWEGAA will probably complain that they
would have done it better. Remind them that you're in
charge now. Yeah, I mean, I have no host to
a holiday party yet, and nobody could. Luckily for us,
nobody complains that they would have done it better. The
one thing we got to keep out is politics. And
my dad, like my dad can't fucking help himself. He'll
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just start stir the pot until we get it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
He'll start. My dad will find a way to connect
anything to politics.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Just so he can get into that debate we were
talking about. We were talking about like how good the
the benilas that my mom made, and somehow my dad
will tie that into like the cost of pork going
up because Donald Trump's going to be in office, and
now enjoy it now because we won't be able to
have pork next year and then next thing. You know,
it's a whole political conversation. So I feel like I
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have to keep trying to rain him in. I have
to have a conversation with him because he was getting
a little bit out of hand. At our last family gathering,
they say, set up family games and a great playlist. Yeah,
games are fun. My sister's really good at that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I enjoy. I enjoy that. Also, the fire playlist you
gotta do like.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The day Christmas just fucking running hot in our household,
like some Southside Christmas classics. Also Nat King Cole Christmas album.
I'm just gonna throw this out there, goat greatest of
all time Christmas album. Absolutely Ever, you can't be in
a bad move while listening to Nat King Cole singing
chestnuts on an open fire.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Shit's fucking fire. That's redundant. But you get what I'm saying. So, yeah,
that was a cute little a cute little list.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
But I think more than anything else, like you got
to prioritize your mental health. You gotta be okay with
saying no, and just remembering you can't be everything for everyone,
and you can't spread yourself in and just because it's
the holidays doesn't mean you should fucking put yourself into
some you know, spiraling out of control mentally because you're
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trying to fucking.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Just be the good strong soldier.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Like, if you're not fucking with something, it's okay to
walk away, to limit your exposure to it, even if
that means your your family.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So just saying, the holidays, man, a little wild, wild
wild time holidays anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Also positivity, Let's talk about somebody who's now fucking richer
than any of us could ever hope to be at
the expense of my of my New York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We'll take a quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right, So this one hurts.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
My heart, but but you gotta show love.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
One of our own got a big payday.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Juan Soto, outfielder for the Yankees last season. He was
the biggest free agent on the market this year, and
my man has just signed a historic seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar deal with the New York next
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And they're saying that with escalators, it actually could go
up to an eight hundred and five million dollars. So
my guy almost got a billy and Quon Soto is
a Dominican, so we got to show love here as
much again as it breaks my fucking heart hoping that
the Yankees would have retained him.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Quite honestly though, I wouldn't have I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I think it's too much money and a lot of
the requests that you're hearing around. I don't want to
take away I don't want I don't want to dim
his moment. Also, as long as he didn't go to
Boston or La, I'm okay with this, but it does
hurt my heart that the Yankees lost out in it
on getting Uan Soda. That would have been great to
keep him. We were so close.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I know this is supposed to be like the positive
part of the show, but like you know, anyway, that.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Man just got generation changing money, and again it's for
his greatness.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And he's Dominican. We got to celebrate him.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, congratulations Swan Soto on historic contracts whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But that's said.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's the time of thing we talked about today in
a neat little vote in a segment we call conclusion
STU time for comp All right, so I gave the
latest on Luigi Mangioni. I mean, it's an interesting case.
The world is captivated by it. We'll keep following again.
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I think the greater conversation that it's happening is interesting.
Will anything come from it? Who knows.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't know what the answer is, to like wake.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
People up and also to start getting some accountability from
these companies that are really taking advantage of people and
really making it difficult to live right now, and we
got to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Stevey Gome is the Spanish kidding critiqued. Listen. More power
to her.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That's my bigger takeaway than anything else. Good for her
taking a risk, trying something new, doing it on a
gigantic stage that she knows she's going to be critiqued.
She went for it, and she challenged herself, and I
respect the hell of that. Most people would not have
the guts to do something like that, So good for her.
Surviving family gatherings during the holidays. Boundaries, Chill the fuck out,
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you know, don't don't let people you know push you around.
But also don't take shit too seriously, don't take it
to heart. Just do your best to enjoy the holidays
and make it through. And juant Soto USOB congratulations on
a historic deal seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
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with the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Congrats.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
All right, with that said, I hope you have an
amazing weekend. One more week is sh and then I'm
off for two weeks and then we're back in the
new year. But I will see you on Tuesday with
a brand new episode. So then stay safe and we'll
talk soon. Life as a GREENO is a production of
the micro Thurda podcast network and iHeartRadio.
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go. He said, you live in life pas
a ringo where you question where you fit in every
time you mingle.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
They say you do. This would not.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
This Life as a Getingo. Yes, hello, and welcome to
another episode of Life as a Getting Go. I am Dramos,
of course, and it's Thursday, so I mean it's time
for our Thursday trends is sued.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
You've been talking about a bunch of stuff on the
show today, just a warning.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I want to get ahead of this, just to you know,
not surprised anybody. I feel like I've been terrible at
letting you know what my schedule is. In like days,
I'm gonna be taking off. So we'll have this week,
we will have next week, and then we'll have two
weeks off for Christmas and New Year's so I won't
(00:59):
be bad after next week until Tuesday the seventh, which
sounds incredible, have some time off. So just getting ahead again,
we have all next week's gonna be dropping new episodes,
and then next Thursday will be the last episode of
twenty twenty five and we will return on the seventh
(01:23):
of January, the first full week of January.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
So with that in mind. What's been going on this
last week? Man. We have an update on.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
The murderer of the CEO of United Healthcare. We'll talk
about some updates there. I want to talk about this
story of.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
You had Selena Gomez facing some.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Backlash about her Spanish. She was speaking Spanish in a
new project and there are some critiques.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
The Internet came to her defense, so we'll talk a
bit about that.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Also, getting ahead of the holidays here, I want to
touch on some survival tips that I came across how
to survive and thrive through Latino family holiday gatherings. Because
it's almost that time of the year. We will talk
about that, and then Army hit that segment. As much
as it breaks my heart as a Yankee fan, we
have to celebrate Juan Soto and his legendary contract that
(02:26):
he just got with the New York Mets, So we'll
talk about that.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
But first and Foremos, let's start with the nonsense.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
The bs in a segment call for the people in
the back, say a lot of the people in the
say a lot of the people in the people. All right,
(02:52):
So we I did, like pretty much all of last
week's Thursday Trends episodes, on this story about the murderer
of you know Healthcare CEO.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
He has now since been caught.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
He is Luigi Mangioni, a twenty something year old kid
picked up in Pennsylvania. Now I'm just kind of giving
updates that we talked a lot about it. He is
product of a wealthy family and somebody that they say
began to have far more anger and resentment and talks
(03:29):
about the healthcare system. I've been here in conflicting reports
or different stories, one of which that apparently he had
back surgery and has suffered tremendous back pain since then
and was disgruntled with the healthcare system. And then apparently
also his mother suffered allegedly with a disease and she
(03:53):
was actually covered by United Healthcare and had all types
of issues with them related to.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
Her getting the treatment that she needed.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
And you know, he was picked up apparently in a
McDonald's in Pennsylvania after a McDonald's worker called the police
saying that they think they saw him in there. On
him apparently he had all types of handwritten notes, his
manifesto with not mistaken a weapon. They're saying that he
used a three D printed gun. And I did with
(04:25):
the internet, it's hard to keep track of what the
fuck is you know, everything going on. But basically this
guy's reasoning, which is much of what we kind of suspected,
was a frustration with the with corporate America essentially, but
specifically in his case, with the healthcare system and feeling
like it was taking advantage of people. And he actually
(04:48):
left a review on I think the Uti Bombers book
that he ended up writing and talking about the idea
that I guess violence sometimes is the only answer, and
discussing the idea that these people inflict violence upon the
people that they take advantage of on a daily basis, essentially,
(05:10):
and that therefore the violence against them is justified. And
I guess that's the logic. I mean, it's not. None
of this was a surprise, right, And again it's further
commentary on on a lot of the things that I
touched on last week about what happens when you push
people to their breaking point. And again, I don't look
(05:36):
at this guy as personally. I don't look at him
like a hero. I think he took another human being's
life and I don't ever see a justification for that,
unless you know, we're really talking about in the moment,
it's you were them type of situation and you have
(05:57):
to defend yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
But I guess I am.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Conflicted on this whole topic of conversation. I guess what
interests me about it and why I try to explore
it as much as possible is the unfortunate and harsh
reality is when we are peaceful, when we are passive,
(06:22):
even when we protest peacefully, it's very rare that the
powers that be will actually give a damn and listen
to the people. And unfortunately, it seems like when you
bring the violence to their doorstep, when you instill some
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sort of fear in them, that's when they want to listen. Right,
And it's the same same thing with you know, and
and all these different things.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
It's like people only have remorse when they're when they're
when they're discovered and found guilty essentially, right then they're
crying in court. When when their pockets are being hit,
then they feel remorse for what they've done. And it's
the unfortunate truth that people really only seem to.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Respond to violence or some sort of grave danger or
perceived threat, and that's that they're not going to do
it as the goodness of their heart right. And we've seen
a lot of peaceful protest movements, I mean, even with
empty promises from someone like Biden, who ran on a
platform of police reform in the wake of all we
(07:48):
saw with George Floyd and his murder in twenty twenty
and really didn't come through on any of that.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Even you think.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
About as misguided and sort of no real end goal,
as there was in something like occupied Wall Street, where
you had all those people down on Wall Street in
New York essentially setting up camp there as a form
of protests for an extended period of time and drawing
(08:15):
attention to the idea of inequality and inequity. Even you're talking,
it feels like ten years ago it might have been less.
But I want to say ten years ago if I
think about where I was during that time, and peacefully protested,
made noise, people had to pay attention, and nothing came
(08:38):
of it. And in fact, not only did nothing come
of it, but the inequity an inequality has gotten even greater.
The blind excessive greed that goes far beyond wealth has
gotten the thirst for it has gotten even great The
(09:02):
willingness to maintain and grow wealth by rich people, by
any means necessary. Their brashness and boldness has gotten even greater,
and it begs the question of how do you make
them listen and see the error of their ways? And
(09:23):
that's where I personally struggle, because I don't want to
see people lose their lives. I don't want to see
people become radicalized where they take out their frustrations into
the street like this young man did.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
And you know, twenty something years old, his entire life
is gone.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
Now he took somebody else's life, and his, as he
knows it, is gone as well. It's gonna be riting
in a jail cell somewhere probably. And yeah, but now
we're all having the conversation, right, And that's the fuck
(10:00):
up and scary part about this.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
It takes.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
This horrific incident for everybody to stop in their tracks
and say, oh shit, yeah, things are kind of bad,
aren't they.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Same thing with George Floyd.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
It took watching that horrific video for people to stop
for a second and say, you know what, maybe there
is some real truth to police brutality. And even with that,
we haven't seen change and it's an unfortunate truth. And
(10:42):
again I don't support condoned co sign encourage violence, but
I do sit back sort of wondering, like, well, what
is the answer. How do you get people to pay attention?
How do you get people to see the error of
their ways? How do you galvanize people to express their
(11:03):
outrage and to force change? And that's the difficult question
that I think remains unanswered for me personally. And I
guess what I struggle when I hear these stories like
this one. I can see from both sides of like
(11:27):
people celebrating this kid and other people saying like this
is no hero. And I think there's truth in sort
of both of them, in some way, shape or form,
and in a dark, the dark reality that we live in.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
And I really wish that it didn't take.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
These sort of disgusting moments to happen in order for
us to stop and refer reflect on how far off
track we've gotten and all that needs to change in
order to become a better and healthier society. Unfortunately, it
(12:12):
seems like people only give a fuck when it's after
a tragedy like this one. And yeah, I don't I
don't know. I wish I had a better a better
solution or reflection. But that's kind of where I'm at,
where I'm you know, personally struggle with on these topics
(12:32):
of conversation, but just kind of want to give an
update with.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
You know, all that new information and what I've been
pondering since.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Now we'll take a quick break here and then we'll
be back talking about Spanish speakers critiquing those who are
trying their best.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
We'll be right back. All right, we are back, and
I want to touch on this story.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
From well, I got it from Rearmy two, but it's
going on on the internet for a minute. You had
an Mexican actor, Eugenio Durbez critiquing Selena Gomez on a podcast,
and the internet came for this man's neck. He has
since apologized, but does spark a really interesting conversation, one
(13:24):
that is obviously very relevant to many of us who
are part of this community here. But on the podcast,
he said, quote Selena is indefensible speaking of her performance.
I was there watching the movie with people, and every
time a scene came with her in it, we looked
at each other to say, Wow, what is this. The
host of the podcast, Gabby Messa, recognized that while Gomez
(13:48):
is a quote very talented actress, very good singer, and
has an Emmy nomination for her role in Only Murders
in the Building.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Spanish is neither her primary nor secondary language, nor fifth.
And that's why I feel she doesn't know what she
is saying. And it seems like she doesn't know what
she's saying. She can't give her acting any nuance, and
that is why her performance is not only unconvincing, but uncomfortable.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Now.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Derbez was in complete agreement with Bez's perspective, adding, I'm
glad you're saying that, because I was saying I can't
believe no one is talking about it.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
And you know, it's interesting.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
These conversations because I do understand the criticism, right. I
think it's natural for all of us to watch something
and have a critique of it, whether it's like something
like a somebody's accent when speaking Spanish or in general. Right.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
I mean, I was watching a critique. If somebody talking.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
About Brad Pitt's Jamaican accent in the movie, I was
gonna say Vanilla Scott, but not that movie, the movie
where he is.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Places death. Essentially, what is that? I have to look this.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Up Brad Pitt movie as Death. Meet Joe Black, Right,
Meet Joe Black. He has his seed where.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
He he.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Was speaking to a Jamaican lady for some reason, he
went to a Jamaican accent. So yeah, that was I
saw a lot of people critiquing, critiquing men's how that way,
But I think it's natural, and I think and what
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happens with podcasts is they're supposed to sort of emulate
a person, a person conversation that you're having amongst friends,
essentially oftentimes like a candid conversation.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
That's why we love them so much.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Is that it's a stripped down version of media, essentially,
right and on a version for the most part. And
to play Devil's advocate, he was just conveying his raw
reaction when watching the movie. And what was the name
(16:19):
of the movie. I thought I'd written it down, Emily.
That was called Emily Perez. And he's giving his natural
(16:41):
his natural reaction, right, We in a setting where that's
what he's supposed to do. And then those set listen
amongst friends, we kind of roast things, we make fun
of things, we critique things, whatever it might be. So
I get that I don't like condemn the man for that. Unfortunately,
it got picked up by a lot of other people,
and that conversation that in the moment, and I'm sure
felt just like a one on one with a friend,
(17:03):
Candid got into a big thing that actually made it
back to the person who he's essentially talking about.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Most of the time, if.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
We are watching movie and we think the actor sucks,
our conversation afterwards with our friends is not going to
make it back to them and we don't have to
deal with them face to face.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Basically right.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
On the other side of it, it is more of
the same narrative that I think holds a lot of
us back who aren't native speakers, right, and you have
to give credit to somebody like Selina Gobez.
Speaker 1 (17:38):
I think this is the.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Unfair part, and I didn't I admittedly I'm not going
to listen to this entire podcast. I'm looking at the
quote set from the story, but I feel like there
was a way to say it in and sort of
not in a way of tearing her down, but also
stating listen. And I think to a degree that the
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host kind of said that but understanding like, hey, you
know how difficult it probably was for her to show
up there and push herself in that way and to
take an artistic risk, and knowing that unlike for most
of us, no one is ever going to really see
(18:23):
or hear you on a wide scale, you know. I mean,
should I get nervous talking to a stranger when I
land the Puerto Rico sometimes, you know, or even worse
here in the States, I'm even more nervous for no
reason whatsoever. I can imagine being on a film set
and you know the world is going to see this,
and you're a gigantic star, and you're alongside people like
Zoe's Hawdana, and you're alongside a bunch of other native
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Spanish speaking people.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
So I understand.
Speaker 2 (18:51):
I think we should have more understanding I want to
say about that, And I think you have to commend
her for sort of taking that risk. And I haven't
watched the.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
Movie.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
I definitely am going to check it out, but maybe
I during my time off, I'll check it out. But
also I would say, like, more than blaming her, I
would have a critique of like the people on the set,
Like I don't know how bad it is, but if
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it really is that bad, then people should have have
had her back and helped her coach her through that
to make it more believable.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
But I don't know, man, I think.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
I think there's a lack of empathy in understanding how
difficult I'm sure it is for someone.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Like her to take that artistic risk, to go outside of.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Her comfort zone and to put herself in a position
where she knows she's going to be judged, particularly by
our community, who could be very harsh in sort of
these purity tests, language often being one of the stipulations.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
And yeah, I don't know. I think in general we
probably oft to have a little.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Bit more empathy for people, even if they're celebrities, even
if they're stars, they're still humans at the end of
the day. And also, I think one of the greatest
things that has held me back from mastering Spanish and
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pushing myself is the fear of judgment, because I was
judged as a kid, even if it was in a
joking way by my parents for the way that I
spoke Spanish or my attempts at speaking Spanish, and it
created this like block and this nervousness whenever I have
to speak it, and even to this day, I'm like
when I go and travel by myself. I'm far more
(20:53):
comfortable and I feel like I'm far more affluent. But
if I'm bullshitting with my parents and I try to
go into Spanish, I'm like nervous and I start fumbling
and I start mispronouncing things just because that's in my
head like that insecurity of how does it sound right?
And I think there has to be a little bit
more empathy in terms of people's understanding of that struggle
(21:17):
of wanting to participate but at the same time all
of the backlash that comes along from you just trying
to participate and just trying to be in community. And
I think we could use a little bit more empathy
in that manner. That's my thoughts on that. He did
(21:37):
apologize though, since so, yeah, you know, a little.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
Be a little nicer. Now. Last thing I want touch
on real quick. Holidays are coming up.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
I want to do this a little bit earlier in
the show, but Me or Me two has put together
a list how to survive through the family holidays. How
to survive and thrive, they say, and as always link
in the show notes for all this stuff, I'll quickly
go through their suggestions here. The first one they say,
(22:12):
is set boundaries early and stick to them. They say, yes,
we know that boundaries is almost a taboo word in
Latino families, but here us out. If you think back
to your mom fighting with hersuegra and the entirety of
your Latino holidays being haunted by flashbacks of getting up
at the crack of dawn to stuff damalis, then boundaries
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are your friends. The unspoken presence of doing everything from
cooking to having a spotless home can turn your holiday.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Dreams into a nightmare. That's why you have to communicate
your limits.
Speaker 2 (22:45):
If you're hosting, be clear by the time, place and
who's bringing what, and also permit yourself to say no
if you're coming as a guest but can't make it
to all the gatherings or even pre party prep pulling
the quote no carr is fine, and yeah, you gotta
(23:06):
you gotta protect your fucking beast. It's it's a lot.
You got, you got the holidays, you got New Year's
we just came off with Thanksgiving. It is a lot
of fucking to be thrown at you, essentially, right, uh.
And sometimes you go and handle things in small doses,
(23:26):
and I think that that's okay. I've set boundaries, like
we now, we do Christmas Eve, it is our big day.
Christmas Day is kind of whatever. It Usually it's at
my my brother in law's parents' house Christmas Day, and
for me, I'm kind of want to just chill the
fuck out on Christmas. I'll usually go and pop in
(23:48):
over there and I'll go for about an hour or
two and then I'm out. My parents will spend like
half the day there. I'm like, I'm good, I'm I'm
I'll go there, eat something, and I'm on my way.
You know, I'm not gonna over extend and drain my
social battery.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
And I think you could be okay with.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
That, you know, and designating what you are willing to
do what you're not willing to do. And it's okay
to have those boundaries and to not be a part
of everything and be everything for everyone. I think that's
a part of it as well. And they're going to
say you can power up your party with potluck style dining,
somebody everybody brings something.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Love that. I mean, I'm not. I've been I've been
bringing the fun.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
If I've been bringing wah wah, if you're I think
it's only the East cause, but wo wa, mac and
cheese is phenomenal.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
I'm bringing a couple of tubs of that. People are happy, So.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Yeah, I'm not. I'm not going crazy personally. I'm I'm
fortunately in that way. My mom be cooking up a storm.
Before that, my grandma used to be cooking up a storm.
So we're spoiled a little bit in my house. They're
also going to say create a secret Santa or a
gift exchange to lesson expenses. They say gift giving in
Latino families can be intense, especially when you are transitioning
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from your role as a child who receives into an
adult who gifts. Over Balancing your finances with buying things
for your family probably doesn't even need to be challenging
in today's economy. Our best advice create a gift exchange
for your family. That sounds nice. I think I've developed
a strategy of, like, listen, once y'all had kids, my
(25:25):
niece and nephew, they get the big gifts, and y'all
gonna get the scraps at this point, because you know
it's a lot.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I went from paying buying.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Gifts for just my sister and my brother in law
to now the two of them and their two kids, Like,
we gotta be realistic here, so yeah, you know, you
gotta live within your means. I feel like we also
have a tendency. It's like a culture like we be
maybe everybody does, but like I know my mom. I'd
be telling this to my mom all the time, Like
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I understand you want to, like you feel like we
deserve this stuff and the kids deserve all this stuff,
but like it's not worth stretching you financially, so then
you're uncomfortable and suffering for the next few months trying
to pay down credit cards because you went way too far.
And it's a beautiful thing to want to give the
kids a Christmas that they you know, will always remember
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and things.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
Of that nature, but you gotta be smart about it
as well.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
My mom's still am an adult, and my mom will
still be taking to far ey with my own gifts
or my sister. I'm like, I'm good. You don't have
to go crazy, you know, but just for like every
calm down. Next thing they say is be mindful of
family dynamics and safeguard your mental health. Family gatherings can
be wonderfully warm, but let's get real. They can be
a wreck to get through, especially when the chiefs meant
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running hot through the house with the chief meant running
hot to the house. Plus, would it be a real
Latino family gathering without the underlying animosity between relatives, We
think not as much as we thrive on spilling. The
cafesito that keeps you surviving the holidays is recognize as
in these family patterns and finding ways of staying grounded.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
For one, manager.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Expectations, your mother and SWEGAA will probably complain that they
would have done it better. Remind them that you're in
charge now. Yeah, I mean, I have no host to
a holiday party yet, and nobody could. Luckily for us,
nobody complains that they would have done it better. The
one thing we got to keep out is politics. And
my dad, like my dad can't fucking help himself. He'll
(27:25):
just start stir the pot until we get it.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
He'll start. My dad will find a way to connect
anything to politics.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Just so he can get into that debate we were
talking about. We were talking about like how good the
the benilas that my mom made, and somehow my dad
will tie that into like the cost of pork going
up because Donald Trump's going to be in office, and
now enjoy it now because we won't be able to
have pork next year and then next thing. You know,
it's a whole political conversation. So I feel like I
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have to keep trying to rain him in. I have
to have a conversation with him because he was getting
a little bit out of hand. At our last family gathering,
they say, set up family games and a great playlist. Yeah,
games are fun. My sister's really good at that.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
I enjoy. I enjoy that. Also, the fire playlist you
gotta do like.
Speaker 2 (28:12):
The day Christmas just fucking running hot in our household,
like some Southside Christmas classics. Also Nat King Cole Christmas album.
I'm just gonna throw this out there, goat greatest of
all time Christmas album. Absolutely Ever, you can't be in
a bad move while listening to Nat King Cole singing
chestnuts on an open fire.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Shit's fucking fire. That's redundant. But you get what I'm saying. So, yeah,
that was a cute little a cute little list.
Speaker 2 (28:37):
But I think more than anything else, like you got
to prioritize your mental health. You gotta be okay with
saying no, and just remembering you can't be everything for everyone,
and you can't spread yourself in and just because it's
the holidays doesn't mean you should fucking put yourself into
some you know, spiraling out of control mentally because you're
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trying to fucking.
Speaker 1 (28:58):
Just be the good strong soldier.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
Like, if you're not fucking with something, it's okay to
walk away, to limit your exposure to it, even if
that means your your family.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
So just saying, the holidays, man, a little wild, wild
wild time holidays anyway.
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Also positivity, Let's talk about somebody who's now fucking richer
than any of us could ever hope to be at
the expense of my of my New York Yankees.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
We'll take a quick break and then we'll be right back.
All right, So this one hurts.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
My heart, but but you gotta show love.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
One of our own got a big payday.
Speaker 2 (29:48):
Juan Soto, outfielder for the Yankees last season. He was
the biggest free agent on the market this year, and
my man has just signed a historic seven hundred and
sixty five million dollar deal with the New York next
(30:12):
And they're saying that with escalators, it actually could go
up to an eight hundred and five million dollars. So
my guy almost got a billy and Quon Soto is
a Dominican, so we got to show love here as
much again as it breaks my fucking heart hoping that
the Yankees would have retained him.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
Quite honestly though, I wouldn't have I don't.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
I think it's too much money and a lot of
the requests that you're hearing around. I don't want to
take away I don't want I don't want to dim
his moment. Also, as long as he didn't go to
Boston or La, I'm okay with this, but it does
hurt my heart that the Yankees lost out in it
on getting Uan Soda. That would have been great to
keep him. We were so close.
Speaker 1 (30:55):
I know this is supposed to be like the positive
part of the show, but like you know, anyway, that.
Speaker 2 (31:01):
Man just got generation changing money, and again it's for
his greatness.
Speaker 1 (31:10):
And he's Dominican. We got to celebrate him.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, congratulations Swan Soto on historic contracts whatever.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But that's said.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
That's the time of thing we talked about today in
a neat little vote in a segment we call conclusion
STU time for comp All right, so I gave the
latest on Luigi Mangioni. I mean, it's an interesting case.
The world is captivated by it. We'll keep following again.
(31:42):
I think the greater conversation that it's happening is interesting.
Will anything come from it? Who knows.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
I don't know what the answer is, to like wake.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
People up and also to start getting some accountability from
these companies that are really taking advantage of people and
really making it difficult to live right now, and we
got to figure that out.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
Stevey Gome is the Spanish kidding critiqued. Listen. More power
to her.
Speaker 2 (32:06):
That's my bigger takeaway than anything else. Good for her
taking a risk, trying something new, doing it on a
gigantic stage that she knows she's going to be critiqued.
She went for it, and she challenged herself, and I
respect the hell of that. Most people would not have
the guts to do something like that, So good for her.
Surviving family gatherings during the holidays. Boundaries, Chill the fuck out,
(32:29):
you know, don't don't let people you know push you around.
But also don't take shit too seriously, don't take it
to heart. Just do your best to enjoy the holidays
and make it through. And juant Soto USOB congratulations on
a historic deal seven hundred and sixty five million dollars
(32:51):
with the New York Mets.
Speaker 1 (32:52):
Congrats.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
All right, with that said, I hope you have an
amazing weekend. One more week is sh and then I'm
off for two weeks and then we're back in the
new year. But I will see you on Tuesday with
a brand new episode. So then stay safe and we'll
talk soon. Life as a GREENO is a production of
the micro Thurda podcast network and iHeartRadio.
Host
DJ Dramos
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