February 13, 2025 • 45 mins
Dramos breaks down the latest on Elon Musk and the threats he poses to this country, Google’s surprising move to appease Trump by altering its maps, raising big questions about corporate influence on politics, ICE impersonators are on the rise, and to lighten things up, a list of must-watch Latino-led films for Valentine’s Day.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk. There we go, he said.
He live in life as a Lingo, where you question
where you fit in every time you mingle, they say
you do this with not of fat my life as
a Lingo. Yes, hello, and welcome to another episode of
Life as a Lingo. I am dramas, of course, and
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it's Thursday, so I it's time for our Thursday Trends episode. Ma'am.
I want to preface today's show. I just want to
say something real quick. I saw a post about this,
and I thought it was very a very wise way
to navigate the dumpster fire that is our current world
right now, and politics are heavy, and I see this
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with my father, him just getting so riled up and
frustrated every day over whatever the latest Trumpian news is
and the fear that comes for the future of this
country and everything in between. Right and a post I
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saw today I might have mentioned an inkling of this,
but this is all happening by design, and we have
to keep that in mind. The flurry of like executive
orders and just flurry of shit happening is by design.
They're trying to overwhelm us, because when they overwhelm us,
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we then get burnt out, and then we sort of
just become passive and it's like we don't have anything
left to fight essentially, right, we lose all our will
to fight, if you will. So this is by design.
And there's a book they reference called The Shock Doctrine,
very famous book. I actually have it. I have it
in my house. I haven't read it. I was meant
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to be like a gift for my dad a while back,
and then I ended up getting here something else and
I was like, you know how, I should read this book.
Nami Klein wrote it, very famous book. But it sort
of talks about what people like Trump do in order
to sort of make the people bend at their will, right,
What do governments do? What do you know those want
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to be, you know, leaders, if you will, quote unquote,
what do they do to sort of just make people
follow behind them or at least stop fighting them. So
definitely check out that book if you're sort of interested
in just a bit of the psychology of it all.
I probably should give that book to my father now
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he might now or whatever. But anyway, keeping in mind
that all this is by design, right, So not allowing
yourself to get overly worked up or overwhelmed by all this,
and one of the other pieces of advice that they
gave in the is like a TikTok clip. She talks
about sort of setting boundaries and picking one or two
issues that you are truly passionate about, not that you
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don't give a shit about, you know, anything or anyone
outside of that, but the reality is we can't be
one hundred percent informed and passionate and fighting for every
single cause that exists in this world. It doesn't mean
that if an opportunity presents itself, you know, you shouldn't
try to get behind something, but it can't be the
thing that you're you know, you can't care so much
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about every single thing. It's impossible. We don't have the
bandwidth as human beings, So you know, sort of setting
that boundary and saying, hey, you know what, I can't
sit here and you know, try to listen to every
single thing that's happening every single day or about every
single issue facing every single marginalized community. I need to
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sort of just hunker down and set a boundary where
I'm only going to really focus on one or two
things that I'm very passionate about. And that's sort of
where I'm gonna send my energy to in terms of
my activism or my education process, you know. And again
I think having general working knowledge of what's going on
is great, but not overdoing it. You know, you can't
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again be everywhere, at every time or everything for everyone. Right,
We've we've talked about a million one time. So I
think it's something I'm trying to kind of keep in
mind and sort of you know, giving myself the freedom
to turn it off, right, to not be as heavily
informed or invested in everything that's going on, you know.
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And there are times right like even this morning, I
was like getting find myself getting angry listening to like
just the morning podcast, the fifteen minute one that I
listened to get you know, the latest news, and I
kind of had to remind my sorry, don't like fall
into that trap of it all. Be informed, but don't
allow it to sort of overtake your day. So that's
what I'm working on. Just want to share that tidbit,
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if you will, hopefully helps people with that said, what
we're talking about today, we'll do a quick little update
on Elong Musk. I really just think I want to
you know, really dig it into our brains. Just how
like scary and you know what's happening and what potentially
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could happen with a billionaire tech guy being so powerful
even though he wasn't even elected to office. It's just
it's som Just touching on some a couple of things there.
We're seeing Google bowed down to Daddy Trump in various ways.
We'll talk about that. There have been some Ice impersonators
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targeting Latinos. So just want to touch on that story
and for me hit that segment. We'll just get real
light and fluffy with it. I feel like I used
to do a lot more back in the day, but
it's Valentine's Day this weekend. We'll talk about some Valentine's
Day picks as far as movies go, if you're going
to be staying inside, you know you want to do
a little Netflix and chill with your boo or with yourself,
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why not watch a romantic movie that stars a Latino
or is you know, written by directed whatever it might
be by Latino. So we'll touch on some suggestions for that.
But first it's getting to nonsense of bs. In a segment,
call for the people in the back say a lot
of for the people in the say, A lot of
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the people in the say a lot of the people
in the Okay. So I'm not gonna spend a ton
of time on this because it's infuriating. But Musk was
giving up briefing from the fucking Oval office the other
day as Donald Trump sat down at his desk proudly.
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I guess Elon Musk was called out for some misinformation
he was putting out there and basically said, well, you
know what, these mistakes are going to happen, you know,
and it's it's fine, it's a part of the process. Well,
it's dangerous, is what it is. When you are not
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fact checking even yourself, and you're the one in the
ear of the president, and you have a gigantic platform,
and you are spewing lies to the millions of people
who follow you, and the algorithm has been skewed to
make it so that you are seen at a higher
rate than the average X user, it is incredibly dangerous,
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and you probably should be fact checking every single thing
that you say or post publicly, just to make sure
you're not putting lies out there and in turn sending
the people that follow you into a frenzy of reinforcing
their hatred for the other side. Unfortunately, El Musk doesn't
seem to want to bear the responsibility that comes along
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with his position in life. With that said, his doge,
so called the Department of Government Efficiency, is just going
ham on various government agencies. They want to destroy the
Department of Education, and it's it's it's this thing that
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happens when you become incredibly rich, you forget how the
other half lives, essentially, and they want to destroy the
Department of Education, which has programs in place that help
underprivileged kids, which help kids as far as you know,
extra attention needed for things like math and and just
in general. I think we can all agree that education
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is incredibly important in terms of the future of our children.
And America already ranks pretty low in terms of you know,
established countries around the world in education. Why would we
then hinder the education system even further when we are
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not producing the best And this is a you know,
this is a part of the life I have American exceptionalism,
the propaganda that America is the best, that the rest
of the world is just sort of waiting hands and
knees for America to like baby bird, drop them their
next meal or a next idea. It's just not the
reality in twenty twenty five, We're not, you know, superior
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in just about anything, healthcare, education, We're not producing the
best and brightest, like we really are a country in decline.
But the propaganda of American exceptionalism and the way that
we have masked propaganda as patriotism is not allowing us
to face the hard truths that we need to in
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order to be, you know, a in elite country in
this world that truly is number one in the way
that we like to claim, you know. And unfortunately, the
people benefiting from the propaganda but not actually producing real
results are those like Elon Musk, who are these billion
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in airs that are just squeezing every penny they possibly
can for no reason other than the fact that they
are just greedy and can't seem to quench their thirst
for more and more. And it's just said, it really is.
And beyond the idea of our government being in decline
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in the way that it operates, what's scary is also
what happens when you begin to start stripping these agencies
of the necessary staffing or replacing crucial positions with loyalists.
You begin to then erase the checks and balances system
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that is needed. Right, they're trying to get get They're
trying to get rid of the Consumer Protection you know
agency essentially, and they're trying to destroy the Consumer Protection Bureau,
which is literally put in place to make sure that
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the American people are not taken advantage of by big companies.
And we've seen the results. They've gone after banks, who
are you know, and who are taking money away from
the everyday person and and they have shit. I mean,
we need more consumer protection, right, There's so much more,
but the needs to be done. Imagine if this didn't
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exist at all, And again, who is it benefiting? And
I probably I'm like literally on a stream of thought here,
like as just a person talking to you about like
my greatest fears in all that I'm seeing. But when
you don't have a checks and balances system, and these
corporations and these billionaires have shown you that they have
no moral compass, they will not stop at anything to
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make another dollar, there are no guard rails to protect
you and I and that actually leads to real world danger, right,
the FAA. When there's a reason why there are regulations
on airlines because they need to hold these airlines accountable
to make sure that they are putting out the best
product that is safest for the people of this country
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to utilize to use travel wise. And we've seen all
types of issues with the airline companies. Imagine if they
weren't regulated the way that they are, how many more
issues would we see, God forbid, plane crashes or even
just minor things that lead to delays and lead to
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a far worse customer service experience than it already is. Right,
there's a reason why we haven't had a major plane
crash up until this year in roughly over twenty years.
It's because of the regulations. And even with that, we
started already seeing sort of you know, some kinks in
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the armor, if you will, with Boeing right and some
of their planes having issues over the last couple of years.
So that's what these agencies do. They provide these guardrails.
And again, why is somebody like Elon Musk so interested
in gutting these agencies. They claim that it is, you know,
that they're oh, they're spending too much money and all
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these different things. And I'm sure that there is some
truth to that, right, I'm all for that, let's get
a more transition, because this is what I was trying
to explain to my father the other day, and it
went off the rails because he claims I'm trying to
play both sides, and I'm not the reason why somebody
like Trump has won, or why so many people from
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the Democratic Party have maybe jumped ship or just stopped voting,
whatever it might be, is because on the surface, these
ideas make sense, not all of them, but on the surface,
like the basic idea, the idea of like, hey, why
don't we do a like an extreme audit of every
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government agency and see where we have wasteful spending? Like
on the surface, yeah, that's a great idea, and that's
a great idea that I would stand behind as long
as it's being executed intelligently and in a way that
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does not negatively affect the people of this country. But
this is sort of the problem with the Trump administration
because again, some of these ideas on the surface do
make sense, but their execution is like a bull in
a china shop because they don't actually want to execute
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these ideas for the betterment of the American people. What
they're doing is masking. What is a like, you know,
a sort of gimme idea or or a sort of
I don't know why I can't think of a phrase.
It's like a literally a common phrase. Hey, when this
happens to it, like, I'm like a great train of
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thought and you're like the dumbest, like everyday phrase that
we use. Common sense. I literally could not remember the
word common sense. I have a lot going on, y'all,
but common sense a common sense idea like, yes, let's
make sure there's not government overspending, right, let's save where
we can, Let's do like a real audit, and you
know what, let's have some transparency for the American people
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so they know where their tax money is going and
maybe they'll be a little bit less disgruntled about having
to pay taxes. Right. But what they do is with
this common sense idea, they use it as a means
to mask the disgusting sort of real reason behind what
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they're trying to do, right, Like their real motive is
not to actually help the American people and to make
their lives better. They mask their motive with a like
common sense idea, But the motive behind someone like Elon
Musk doing This is he's trying to create less and
less regulation so that people like himself and their companies
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can benefit without having to jump through so many hoops
and having to go through so much red tape to
bring their ideas to life and essentially make more money.
Right because for them, they would love to not be
so heavily regulated so they can cut corners and save
money and then essentially make more money. Right. So that's
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what's dangerous about someone like Elon Musk having this position
is because he has a major conflict of interest. Right,
even with the destroying the Consumer Protection Agency, some of
his companies would fall under scrutinization from that agency. Right,
he has a finance company through Tesla that has to
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answer to the Consumer Protection Agency and make sure that
they are operating in a manner that is not taking
advantage of the American people of the consumer. So without
that agency, they can do all kinds of shady practices
through their finance company. Right, and that's just one of them.
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The also danger of Elon Musk having this position is
he has access to all types of back end information
and potentially information on direct competitors. So now he has
privileged information that is only supposed to be for the government,
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but because technically he's a contracted government or employee by
the president, he now can potentially peek behind the curtain
and see the operations of his direct competitors. How is
that fair? How is that not a conflict of interest.
There's also a digital wallet that he's getting ready to
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launch right again, that would fall under the Consumer Protection
Agency making sure that he's operating in good faith of
the people. And I think that was where they were saying,
he can look peek into the direct the because they're
you know, investigating now the Consumer Protection Agency. Potentially he
has information about his direct competitor in the field of
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digital wallets. That's a conflict of interest, a scary one.
An even scarier one is the fact that he has
SpaceX right, which already has billions of dollars in government
contracts and was having issues with various government regulators before
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this new administration. Now, because because of the pressure from
the the former head of the FA who resigned now
because of his tangles with Musk, they're gonna put in
or have put in a loyalist who is not gonna
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hold Musk to that same standard. And this is scary. Shit.
We're talking about private space travel right here, that is
being held to less and less of a standard because
the people in charge have to bow down to Daddy
Trump and President Musk. And it only benefits President Musk
because that means his company can continue to operate without
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having to meet certain criteria. That's fucking scary. And they're
even talking about the idea of their use of artificial
intelligence intelligence right. All of this gives an opportunity for
Musk to catch up to his competitors. He has Xai, right,
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he's not even trying to purchase open ai, which owns
chat gibt if I'm not mistaken. And then in this article,
I'll put the link in the show notes, they say
quote his cheerleading for shuddering. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
comes less than two weeks after x announced a deal
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with Visa to provide its users peer to peer payment services,
which are regulated by the CFPB, which is the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. It's not a coincidence. He's trying to
create an easy pathway to essentially do whatever he wants
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without any sort of checks and balances system. And when
billionaires are able to do that, and these tech brods
are able to do that, these tech giants, and nobody
is holding them accountable. They've already shown they have no heart,
no moral compass, and the results will be them getting
richer and richer at the expense of the everyday people
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and the livelihood of the everyday people. And for them,
it doesn't matter what or who they destroy, because they
will be okay with their money. If this country burns
to the ground, they can easily go buy a mansion
in another country and be completely fine, leaving the rest
of us to have to struggle and scatter to pick
up what's left of these pieces. And that's what really Again,
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I've talked to this a ton musk is like the
scariest thing to me in this whole conversation. But that said,
we'll take a quick break and then we'll be her back.
All right, we are back, and I want to quickly
touch on Google, who has repeatedly bowed down to Daddy
Trump and is now once again doing so, as they
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have just changed the map in Google Maps to reflect
Golf of America rather than Golf of Mexico, which it
is literally known as. And on the surface, it's kind
of like, okay, this, it's just dumb in general, a
dumb that we're even having to have this fucking conversation.
But again, it's they're showing their loyalty. Google is showing
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its loyalty to Daddy Trump. One of the biggest and
most powerful tech companies in the entire world has sold
itself to a political candidate. That's dangerous for all of
us who have now become reliant on using their platform
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and technology for our everyday lives. I mean, it's the
same thing with Meta and like how many businesses are
myself included brands. Businesses rely on using things like Instagram
to showcase what we do and to continue to grow
ourselves and our brands. It's scary. It's it's just again
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this showcase of these tech companies and these billionaires and
we're all sort of treading very dangerous water seeing how
far they're willing to go. Because it's very scary, I mean,
the mustling and it leads into this, I mean, even
little things, right. Google Calendar has removed key cultural events
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from their site, including Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, Jewish Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and Indigenous People's Month.
Does that not feel like we're being targeted. We're being
sent a message we don't want to acknowledge you. Indigenous
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people's months, sorry, you're off the calendar. Hispanic Heritage off
the calendar, Jewish Heritage off the calendar, Holocaust Remembrance Day
off the calendar, Black History Month off the calendar, Pride
Month off the calendar. It's just a message. And of
course they're gonna know spin this and gas slight us
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into being like, oh, well, it's just we're only honoring
federal holidays. That's what we did. That's all it is.
But it's it's it's obviously much deeper than that. If
you're going out of your way to do this, that's
a message that you, at the very least don't value
the people of this community, but probably more accurately, don't
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believe in these people sort of right to have their heritage,
their existence, and you probably look down upon them or
view them as a problem, right, something that needs to
be corrected, much like these DEI you know, the targeting
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of of DEI programs, and that's what Google is falling
in line with. We want everything to be white America, white,
heterosexual America. That's what we want. We don't want anything
different here. We don't want anybody acknowledging anything different, anything
other than why heterosexual America, because that is what is
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viewed as superior in the eyes of these people. Just gross.
There's a full article on all that Google's been doing
again in the show notes. I just wanted to touch
on that. Last thing I want to quickly touch on
is these fake ICE agents that have been terrorizing Latino communities. Now,
obviously we've been seeing and hearing and some people have
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been affected by various immigration raids that have been ramping
up around the country, and they say people are in
personating immigration officials and assaulting others. There was an incident
that happened in South Carolina where a man has been
charged with three counts of kidnapping and one count each
of impersonating law enforcement, petty larceny, assault, and battery. He
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flipped out when when these guys started speaking. He impersonated
an ICE officer, had these guys essentially you know, over
to the side in their car, was telling them that
he's an ICE agent, then sort of just flipping out
when they started speaking Spanish. He's posted his two hundred
thirty thousand dollars bail and is out on jail pending
a court date. According to CNN, his family is pleading
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with the presiding judge to give him mercy that they
claim that he suffers from mental health issues and they're
attempting to get him help. Okay, there was also a
man in North Carolina. Is disgusting man in North Carolina
impersonated an ice officer and it's actually assaulted a woman,
threatening to deport her if she refused to take part.
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It's absolutely disgusting that was in rally North Carolina. Why
don't we deport him? Right? I loved on social media
these these guys who when you talk about these immigration rates,
they're like, oh, you must love race then, because all
the because that's what these guys are. They're trying to
get these rapists out of our country. If you were,
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if you were so passionate about rape victims, where is
your outrage on the over one hundred thousand rape cases
that are reported each and every year? Are you not?
Why are you not calling for justice on the perpetrators
of all of those acts? Why are you not so
invested in those stories? You'd rather just blanket statement that
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all immigrants coming into this country are rapists and criminals,
and then just ignore the crime, including rape, that happens
by American citizens on a regular basis each and every year.
It's it's like this fake it's it's this fake activism,
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this theatrical activism that is used as a means to
mask their racism. They put on this theatrical activism like, oh,
we just want to fight crime. You don't want to
make this place safer. People are getting raped out here,
and they use that as a means to not feel
so bad about the fact that they're just racist. Maybe
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they even convinced themselves that they're not a racist, right,
like this is what helps them sleep at night, is
they're not racist. They're patriots who are trying to save
this country and obviously anybody with common sense. But no, no,
you're you're just a racist, just a racist. There was
also an incident at Temple University that's in Philadelphia, where
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Aiden Stegelmann tried entering a residence hall by impersonating an
ICE agent. Pretending to be an Ice agent. Police were
called to Temple's Johnson and Hardwick residence hall on the
university's North Philly campus it's not immediately clear what the
intention behind the visit to the residence hall was. Steiglemann
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allegedly met two other suspects who attempted to gain access
to the building, but we're denied police. Then I also
arrested a twenty four year old man in Missouri after
he assaulted a man demanding paperwork while impersonating an ice officer.
Just fucking scary times. And I mean, a be aware,
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but you know we stories. I'm not meant to like,
I'm not trying to fear monger anybody, but yeah, be
aware that there are some crazy, fucking people out there
right now. But it also is a sad reminder of
what happens when this rhetoric plays out in the real world.
And we've always talked about this that on this show,
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and anybody with half a brain can recognize that, like
words matter, the rhetoric that is spewed out there matters.
Like when you put hate out there and you create
these narratives like those around immigration, it then spills out
into real world events like these where you have these
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people who are just undying lovers of Donald Trump and
MAGA and have fooled themselves into thinking their patriots go
out and want to play police officer literally, and bad
things can happen. People get assaulted. This this woman here
was unfortunately raped. We saw it in Georgia a couple
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of years ago where Amatt Aubrey was murdered by those
those guys who uh chase him down, claiming he was
breaking into houses. They want to be police officers. Essentially,
a lot of that hate that causes them to go
to the streets is because of the rhetoric that's pushed
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out there. They're being told, these people are coming for
everything you have, you need, we need to fight, we
need to protect ourselves. And unfortunately, some of these people
take it literally. And that's the responsibility you have when
you have a large platform, be it social media or
be it the ultimate platform of being the fucking president
of the United States, and when you don't take it seriously, unfortunately,
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there are real world implications and sad things and sad
moments and tragedies play out in the street as a
result of the words that you're putting out there. But
that's that. But that said, let's get a letter note here, right,
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Let's talk about Valentine's Day. It's about some love, all right,
but first to take a quick break and then we'll
be right back, all right. So I feel like I
used to do this a lot more around like the
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holidays and things like that. I would like I would
I would talk about, you know, like fun little things
that are you know, and somehow we got way too serious.
I think there's a lot going on, you know, in
the world. It's hard to be like fun and fluffy,
but I think we need it right now. Also, not
for nothing, I love not to be redundant, but I'm
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a big fan of romantic movies, romantic dramas, comedies. I
love it. I'm a huge fan. I am a big
rom com guy. Okay, I have no shame in emitting it.
So here are five films Latino love on screen. This
according to r ME two that you can snuggle up
with this Valentine's Day. So something nice here, little Netflix
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and show. The first one they mentioned is In the Heights,
the twenty twenty one version. This film stars Anthony Jnamos
and Melissa Behea, and it is an adaptation of the
stage play. The musical follows a group of friends in
Washington Heights fighting against gentrification. A story leads to the
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two thousand and three blackout in New York City and
their relationships wild ride through the movie, Usnabi and Vanessa
have a will they won't they thing going on. The
love story highlights and Latino's love. So the love story
highlights a lot of love. In this sentence, the love
story highlights Latino loves joy. I don't know if that
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still didn't make sense to me, but I said this
love Watching their love bloom on the TV while holding
your love one close is the best, one of the
best ways to spend your Valentine's Day. I've actually never
seen this movie. I'm a big fan of Anthony Ramos Mlissa,
but I also just hate musicals in general. But I might.
I know it's I know. I even talked about this
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when it came out. I have to give this a shot.
I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna give it
a shot. We'll give a shot, guys chat, I'm gonna
do it. This one. I could speak to someone great.
This is a twenty nineteen Netflix film following three friends
who enjoy one last epic day together following Jenny's breakup.
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Jenny Young, a musical journalist played by Gina Rodriguez, is
devastated by a breakup. Aaron Kennedy played by Dewanda Wise
and Blair Helms played by Brittany Snow give her one
last incredible day. Her Besie Send spend the day off
work to make some last memories before Jenny moves to
San Francisco. What follows is a wild adventure of twist
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and turns and a concert that only happens in New
York City. This is a fun filled movie to celebrate
friendship during Valentine's Day. You I fucking love this movie.
I feel like there's another Hofle of Gena Rodriguez. There's
another one similar to this, but we'll focus on this
Gena Rodriguez one. I love this movie. It's a chick flip.
I love chick flix. That's what I was looking for.
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This is a great movie, great music. The soundtrack is fire.
Jesse Rayes also played a cameo in this performing This
is also the movie that Lizzo's Truth Hurts became like
a gigantic hit off of. I've seen this a couple
of times. I love this movie. A big fan. Highly
recommend Fools Rush In nineteen ninety seven, This is a classic.
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I've seen this in bits and piece. I actually probably
should watch this in full. But Salbajayak plays Isabel Fuentes
in this massiful nineties romantic comedy. Isabel meets Alex Whitman
played by Matthew Perry on a one night stand, and
it turns into a life changing moment. Alex learns that
Isabel is pregnant months after the one night stand. Obviously,
he decides to uproot his life, leaving behind his bachelor
(35:39):
lifestyle and Mary. Isabel. A job promotion for Alex puts
their future in limbo. He's left to decide between his
life in Las Vegas and his success in New York City.
This one is a sweet Valentine's Day gift. I've seen
this one in parts. I love Sambajayak for many reasons,
but I love Sambajayak. I've seen this in parts. It
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was great. I don't know why I never finished it.
I'm really bad when it comes to movies, like finishing movies,
Like I watched everything in parts, so this could have
been one where I was like watching it in parts,
and then like life happened and I started watching another
show and I got distracted. That actually happened with Carli
does Way not a romantic movie. Per Se is loving it,
but I gotta finish that one as well. With Appa China,
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I might have a I was just say I might
have a movie weekend, but I'm DJing both Saturday and Sunday.
Whatever life of a you know, as a single man,
I just have so much, you know, going My schedule
is two packed. I'm gonna be watching movies all weekend,
that's what you know. But I don't, actually don't. I
don't think I would actually love to have that problem
where I'm a single man just in bed watching romantic
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movies by myself all weekend. That sounds delightful. Actually, unfortunately
I've made too much going on these days. You didn't
need to know them. But here we are anyway, Made
in Manhattan. This is one of my mom's favorite movies. Actually,
this made in Manhattan. And what the fuck was the
other one? Wedding Planner. I would actually say Wedding Planner
over made in Manhattan personally, but this one's good as well.
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Made in Manhattan from two thousand and two. Jenny j
Lo Jennifer Lopez. This was like peek j Lo like
just fucking crushing it. She plays Marissa and Thua, a
single mom from New York City's Boroughs. She works as
a housekeeper in a luxury hotel in Manhattan. Marissa is
always a model employee, but lets herself try on a
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guest outfit. She gets caught by Christopher Marshall played by
Ralph phineas Fienz Fiennis and has to pretend she's a guest.
The courtship grows, and Marissa officially eventually has to face
the music and tell Christopher who she is. This kind
of love story will bring you back to the early
two thousands. Get ready for so much nostalagia. Perfect for
Valentine's dad. This one's fire, not gonna lie to you.
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It is hard to watch now because the dude who's
the actor in it went on to play one of
those serial killers in Hannibal, the movie. I believe one
of the song the Lambs, I think it was Hannibal.
He was one of the serial killers in that. Vicious
played it beautifully, so it's kind of hard to see him.
He made in Manhattan as like the love interest, but like,
once you can get past that, I think it's kind
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of fire. I fuck with this movie. I really do
think wedding planner I would have said wedding planned over this,
And the last one is hitch fucking classic Hitch two
thousand and five. We're talking about peak even Mendez. Like,
first of all, Mendez his age like a fine wine.
She might actually look better, more beautiful in today's day, today,
like than she did even back then. But when I
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say peak even Mendez, I met like I was obsessed
with Eve Mendez, like even it should have gotten a
restraining order. It gets me in the fire. Probably I
was obsessed with her, loved her, never got creepy, obviously,
But I'm just saying, like just to kind of like
give you an analogy of like my level of love
for even Mendez. It still runs deep, still runs deep.
But you know she's a married woman. She's got a
whole kids, whole life ahead of her. Anyway. In Hitch,
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Will Smith plays Alex hitch Hitchins, a smooth talking pickup
artist who teaches men how to pick up women. However,
Alex becomes enamored with Sarah Maylis or Melis I think
they pronounced it Sarah Melis in the movie, played by
Iva Mendez. Sarah is a tabloid journalist trying to dig
up dirt on the love life of one of Alex's clients.
Alex quickly becomes a clumsy, less smooth person around Sarah
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and realizes he's in love. How sweet hitch tries to
get the woman he loves to fall in love with him.
A surprise realization threatens everything Alex has worked for. You
can find out what happens on Valentine's Day when you
watch it. This is a great one great movie. It's
also like I feel like peek Will Smith Box Office
Will Smith at this point. I love this movie. We
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don't talk about enough. I think it's funny, it's romantic,
takes place in New York City, which you know points
points right there. But I love this movie. You know
whatever this is like, this is one of the movies
FX be doing this toube FX has whoever's curating, like
the weekend movies they be throwing on Fax or like
(40:00):
nighttime movies. Like they're not getting paid enough. I don't
know what they're any paper, They're not getting paid enough
because they may be just hitting boy like you be
flipping the channels and again I'm not even like a
big TV person, but god forbid, I scrolled through FX
and they got one of these classics on. I'm done
for it. I don't care where in the like where
in the film we are, I'm gonna finish watching it.
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Hitch is one of those movies you just jump up,
like literally anywhere it is in the movie. I'm gonna
watch it if it's on TV. So that's that. Hopefully
that helped you make some Valentine's Day plans. You know,
you can chill out a little bit. Doesn't have the
all fancy. I've always been like, like I would it
sounds like hell on earth to me to go to
a restaurant or some big event on Valentine's Day Like
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that sounds like absolute hell on earth to me. I
would much rather like order some banging takeout, you know
what I'm saying. Be be in my living room, comfy
clothes with my significant other just watching some romantic ass movie.
Is all weekend not for nothing. This doesn't have any
Latinos in it. The Killers are Latino technically ghosts. Classic
(41:06):
fucking movie. Underrated. I think it's nineteen ninety. Demi Moore,
Patrick Swayze Whoopi Goldberg. I love that movie. That's like
a top three for me of all time. Nodding Hill,
Julia roberts as all white people in it, but great movie.
And also if you're looking for like an action love story,
true romance, Christian Slater, I mean, it's it's a little
(41:29):
bit of a dark it's dark, but it's love. But
it's dark. You know it stars, It has a lot
of murder. The love interest is a prostitute in the
main person, Christians Slater is kind of like a crazy person.
Drugs are involved as well. I mean it's it's like,
you know, it's not your traditional love story, but I
(41:51):
fuck with it. True romance love that one cult classic anyway. Yeah,
so Valentine's that you get a lot of options. You're welcome.
But that's Salla's time. That thing we talked about today
in the Little Bow in a s we call conclusion
STU time for comp all right, just quickly running through
this stuff here, Musk scares me and we should all
(42:14):
be scared. And it seems like there are less and
less guardrails as the days go on to protect us
from these greedy billionaires who really seem to stop want
to stop at nothing just to keep getting more and
more rich. Scary Google being another example of that, again,
a scary company that is a part of our everyday
lives and that we use in various ways we use
(42:35):
our technology. Being ultra loyalist to Trump very scary. One
thing I didn't I also didn't mention I forgot to
something to watch, which is scary is our freedom of press.
Trump blocked out AP News Associated Press from being in
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the Oval Office to document a new executive order signing.
And this comes on the heels of AP refusing to
acknowledge the Golf of Mexico as the Golf of America.
So it seems like retied. Of course, they're guess lighting
you into saying, well, you know, it's a privilege to
have access, you know, even though AP News AP has
(43:20):
been there for the other executive order signings. Seems like retaliation.
And that's what's scary as well, is if the media
doesn't fall in line, they're going to be retaliated against.
And again, we the people are going to be affected
by that because that is a intimidation tactic to make
the media post stories or operate in a way that
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is in line with this president's agenda, and that literally
goes against the backbone of this country and our freedom
of press that is essential to our constitution and our
freedom as Americans. But you know, again, it's selective patriotism.
It's theatrical patriotism that these people love to employ as
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it means to hide their true motives and their true
feelings and ice impersonators. It's disgusting, just absolutely disgusting. I
don't have any other commentary, but again, this is what
happens when you use a messaging of hate and you
have a large platform, You're going to see it spill
out into the streets. And that's why words do matter.
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And lastly, Valentine's Day, I hope you got a little
booth thing. If not listen, it's all right sorry. Being single,
I would listen. I would love to date, Like I
would love to take myself on a long, three day
weekend date right now, literally just sitting in my living
room ordering takeout for every meal, binge watching some of
my favorite movies like that sounds delightful. Unfortunately I have
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too busy of a weekend do so. But you know,
if you're taking or single, those movie suggestions that we
just gave you are fire link in the show notes
if you forgot something or you want to check out
the trailers for them. Highly recommend. Anyway, have an amazing weekend,
enjoy your Valentine's Day. You know, if you're single or
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you are booed up, enjoy it nonetheless, and I'll talk
to you on Tuesday with a brand new episode. Till
that's stay safe, We'll talk soon. Life as a Greeno
is a production of the micro Tura podcast Network and iHeartRadio.
Let me talk about talk. There we go, he said.
He live in life as a Lingo, where you question
where you fit in every time you mingle, they say
you do this with not of fat my life as
a Lingo. Yes, hello, and welcome to another episode of
Life as a Lingo. I am dramas, of course, and
(00:27):
it's Thursday, so I it's time for our Thursday Trends episode. Ma'am.
I want to preface today's show. I just want to
say something real quick. I saw a post about this,
and I thought it was very a very wise way
to navigate the dumpster fire that is our current world
right now, and politics are heavy, and I see this
(00:50):
with my father, him just getting so riled up and
frustrated every day over whatever the latest Trumpian news is
and the fear that comes for the future of this
country and everything in between. Right and a post I
(01:14):
saw today I might have mentioned an inkling of this,
but this is all happening by design, and we have
to keep that in mind. The flurry of like executive
orders and just flurry of shit happening is by design.
They're trying to overwhelm us, because when they overwhelm us,
(01:35):
we then get burnt out, and then we sort of
just become passive and it's like we don't have anything
left to fight essentially, right, we lose all our will
to fight, if you will. So this is by design.
And there's a book they reference called The Shock Doctrine,
very famous book. I actually have it. I have it
in my house. I haven't read it. I was meant
(01:56):
to be like a gift for my dad a while back,
and then I ended up getting here something else and
I was like, you know how, I should read this book.
Nami Klein wrote it, very famous book. But it sort
of talks about what people like Trump do in order
to sort of make the people bend at their will, right,
What do governments do? What do you know those want
(02:17):
to be, you know, leaders, if you will, quote unquote,
what do they do to sort of just make people
follow behind them or at least stop fighting them. So
definitely check out that book if you're sort of interested
in just a bit of the psychology of it all.
I probably should give that book to my father now
(02:38):
he might now or whatever. But anyway, keeping in mind
that all this is by design, right, So not allowing
yourself to get overly worked up or overwhelmed by all this,
and one of the other pieces of advice that they
gave in the is like a TikTok clip. She talks
about sort of setting boundaries and picking one or two
issues that you are truly passionate about, not that you
(03:00):
don't give a shit about, you know, anything or anyone
outside of that, but the reality is we can't be
one hundred percent informed and passionate and fighting for every
single cause that exists in this world. It doesn't mean
that if an opportunity presents itself, you know, you shouldn't
try to get behind something, but it can't be the
thing that you're you know, you can't care so much
(03:21):
about every single thing. It's impossible. We don't have the
bandwidth as human beings, So you know, sort of setting
that boundary and saying, hey, you know what, I can't
sit here and you know, try to listen to every
single thing that's happening every single day or about every
single issue facing every single marginalized community. I need to
(03:43):
sort of just hunker down and set a boundary where
I'm only going to really focus on one or two
things that I'm very passionate about. And that's sort of
where I'm gonna send my energy to in terms of
my activism or my education process, you know. And again
I think having general working knowledge of what's going on
is great, but not overdoing it. You know, you can't
(04:05):
again be everywhere, at every time or everything for everyone. Right,
We've we've talked about a million one time. So I
think it's something I'm trying to kind of keep in
mind and sort of you know, giving myself the freedom
to turn it off, right, to not be as heavily
informed or invested in everything that's going on, you know.
(04:28):
And there are times right like even this morning, I
was like getting find myself getting angry listening to like
just the morning podcast, the fifteen minute one that I
listened to get you know, the latest news, and I
kind of had to remind my sorry, don't like fall
into that trap of it all. Be informed, but don't
allow it to sort of overtake your day. So that's
what I'm working on. Just want to share that tidbit,
(04:49):
if you will, hopefully helps people with that said, what
we're talking about today, we'll do a quick little update
on Elong Musk. I really just think I want to
you know, really dig it into our brains. Just how
like scary and you know what's happening and what potentially
(05:12):
could happen with a billionaire tech guy being so powerful
even though he wasn't even elected to office. It's just
it's som Just touching on some a couple of things there.
We're seeing Google bowed down to Daddy Trump in various ways.
We'll talk about that. There have been some Ice impersonators
(05:34):
targeting Latinos. So just want to touch on that story
and for me hit that segment. We'll just get real
light and fluffy with it. I feel like I used
to do a lot more back in the day, but
it's Valentine's Day this weekend. We'll talk about some Valentine's
Day picks as far as movies go, if you're going
to be staying inside, you know you want to do
a little Netflix and chill with your boo or with yourself,
(05:55):
why not watch a romantic movie that stars a Latino
or is you know, written by directed whatever it might
be by Latino. So we'll touch on some suggestions for that.
But first it's getting to nonsense of bs. In a segment,
call for the people in the back say a lot
of for the people in the say, A lot of
(06:20):
the people in the say a lot of the people
in the Okay. So I'm not gonna spend a ton
of time on this because it's infuriating. But Musk was
giving up briefing from the fucking Oval office the other
day as Donald Trump sat down at his desk proudly.
(06:44):
I guess Elon Musk was called out for some misinformation
he was putting out there and basically said, well, you
know what, these mistakes are going to happen, you know,
and it's it's fine, it's a part of the process. Well,
it's dangerous, is what it is. When you are not
(07:06):
fact checking even yourself, and you're the one in the
ear of the president, and you have a gigantic platform,
and you are spewing lies to the millions of people
who follow you, and the algorithm has been skewed to
make it so that you are seen at a higher
rate than the average X user, it is incredibly dangerous,
(07:28):
and you probably should be fact checking every single thing
that you say or post publicly, just to make sure
you're not putting lies out there and in turn sending
the people that follow you into a frenzy of reinforcing
their hatred for the other side. Unfortunately, El Musk doesn't
seem to want to bear the responsibility that comes along
(07:48):
with his position in life. With that said, his doge,
so called the Department of Government Efficiency, is just going
ham on various government agencies. They want to destroy the
Department of Education, and it's it's it's this thing that
(08:09):
happens when you become incredibly rich, you forget how the
other half lives, essentially, and they want to destroy the
Department of Education, which has programs in place that help
underprivileged kids, which help kids as far as you know,
extra attention needed for things like math and and just
in general. I think we can all agree that education
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is incredibly important in terms of the future of our children.
And America already ranks pretty low in terms of you know,
established countries around the world in education. Why would we
then hinder the education system even further when we are
(08:54):
not producing the best And this is a you know,
this is a part of the life I have American exceptionalism,
the propaganda that America is the best, that the rest
of the world is just sort of waiting hands and
knees for America to like baby bird, drop them their
next meal or a next idea. It's just not the
reality in twenty twenty five, We're not, you know, superior
(09:19):
in just about anything, healthcare, education, We're not producing the
best and brightest, like we really are a country in decline.
But the propaganda of American exceptionalism and the way that
we have masked propaganda as patriotism is not allowing us
to face the hard truths that we need to in
(09:39):
order to be, you know, a in elite country in
this world that truly is number one in the way
that we like to claim, you know. And unfortunately, the
people benefiting from the propaganda but not actually producing real
results are those like Elon Musk, who are these billion
(10:00):
in airs that are just squeezing every penny they possibly
can for no reason other than the fact that they
are just greedy and can't seem to quench their thirst
for more and more. And it's just said, it really is.
And beyond the idea of our government being in decline
(10:22):
in the way that it operates, what's scary is also
what happens when you begin to start stripping these agencies
of the necessary staffing or replacing crucial positions with loyalists.
You begin to then erase the checks and balances system
(10:44):
that is needed. Right, they're trying to get get They're
trying to get rid of the Consumer Protection you know
agency essentially, and they're trying to destroy the Consumer Protection Bureau,
which is literally put in place to make sure that
(11:07):
the American people are not taken advantage of by big companies.
And we've seen the results. They've gone after banks, who
are you know, and who are taking money away from
the everyday person and and they have shit. I mean,
we need more consumer protection, right, There's so much more,
but the needs to be done. Imagine if this didn't
(11:28):
exist at all, And again, who is it benefiting? And
I probably I'm like literally on a stream of thought here,
like as just a person talking to you about like
my greatest fears in all that I'm seeing. But when
you don't have a checks and balances system, and these
corporations and these billionaires have shown you that they have
no moral compass, they will not stop at anything to
(11:49):
make another dollar, there are no guard rails to protect
you and I and that actually leads to real world danger, right,
the FAA. When there's a reason why there are regulations
on airlines because they need to hold these airlines accountable
to make sure that they are putting out the best
product that is safest for the people of this country
(12:11):
to utilize to use travel wise. And we've seen all
types of issues with the airline companies. Imagine if they
weren't regulated the way that they are, how many more
issues would we see, God forbid, plane crashes or even
just minor things that lead to delays and lead to
(12:34):
a far worse customer service experience than it already is. Right,
there's a reason why we haven't had a major plane
crash up until this year in roughly over twenty years.
It's because of the regulations. And even with that, we
started already seeing sort of you know, some kinks in
(12:55):
the armor, if you will, with Boeing right and some
of their planes having issues over the last couple of years.
So that's what these agencies do. They provide these guardrails.
And again, why is somebody like Elon Musk so interested
in gutting these agencies. They claim that it is, you know,
that they're oh, they're spending too much money and all
(13:15):
these different things. And I'm sure that there is some
truth to that, right, I'm all for that, let's get
a more transition, because this is what I was trying
to explain to my father the other day, and it
went off the rails because he claims I'm trying to
play both sides, and I'm not the reason why somebody
like Trump has won, or why so many people from
(13:36):
the Democratic Party have maybe jumped ship or just stopped voting,
whatever it might be, is because on the surface, these
ideas make sense, not all of them, but on the surface,
like the basic idea, the idea of like, hey, why
don't we do a like an extreme audit of every
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government agency and see where we have wasteful spending? Like
on the surface, yeah, that's a great idea, and that's
a great idea that I would stand behind as long
as it's being executed intelligently and in a way that
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does not negatively affect the people of this country. But
this is sort of the problem with the Trump administration
because again, some of these ideas on the surface do
make sense, but their execution is like a bull in
a china shop because they don't actually want to execute
(14:43):
these ideas for the betterment of the American people. What
they're doing is masking. What is a like, you know,
a sort of gimme idea or or a sort of
I don't know why I can't think of a phrase.
It's like a literally a common phrase. Hey, when this
happens to it, like, I'm like a great train of
(15:05):
thought and you're like the dumbest, like everyday phrase that
we use. Common sense. I literally could not remember the
word common sense. I have a lot going on, y'all,
but common sense a common sense idea like, yes, let's
make sure there's not government overspending, right, let's save where
we can, Let's do like a real audit, and you
know what, let's have some transparency for the American people
(15:26):
so they know where their tax money is going and
maybe they'll be a little bit less disgruntled about having
to pay taxes. Right. But what they do is with
this common sense idea, they use it as a means
to mask the disgusting sort of real reason behind what
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they're trying to do, right, Like their real motive is
not to actually help the American people and to make
their lives better. They mask their motive with a like
common sense idea, But the motive behind someone like Elon
Musk doing This is he's trying to create less and
less regulation so that people like himself and their companies
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can benefit without having to jump through so many hoops
and having to go through so much red tape to
bring their ideas to life and essentially make more money.
Right because for them, they would love to not be
so heavily regulated so they can cut corners and save
money and then essentially make more money. Right. So that's
(16:35):
what's dangerous about someone like Elon Musk having this position
is because he has a major conflict of interest. Right,
even with the destroying the Consumer Protection Agency, some of
his companies would fall under scrutinization from that agency. Right,
he has a finance company through Tesla that has to
(16:58):
answer to the Consumer Protection Agency and make sure that
they are operating in a manner that is not taking
advantage of the American people of the consumer. So without
that agency, they can do all kinds of shady practices
through their finance company. Right, and that's just one of them.
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The also danger of Elon Musk having this position is
he has access to all types of back end information
and potentially information on direct competitors. So now he has
privileged information that is only supposed to be for the government,
(17:39):
but because technically he's a contracted government or employee by
the president, he now can potentially peek behind the curtain
and see the operations of his direct competitors. How is
that fair? How is that not a conflict of interest.
There's also a digital wallet that he's getting ready to
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launch right again, that would fall under the Consumer Protection
Agency making sure that he's operating in good faith of
the people. And I think that was where they were saying,
he can look peek into the direct the because they're
you know, investigating now the Consumer Protection Agency. Potentially he
has information about his direct competitor in the field of
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digital wallets. That's a conflict of interest, a scary one.
An even scarier one is the fact that he has
SpaceX right, which already has billions of dollars in government
contracts and was having issues with various government regulators before
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this new administration. Now, because because of the pressure from
the the former head of the FA who resigned now
because of his tangles with Musk, they're gonna put in
or have put in a loyalist who is not gonna
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hold Musk to that same standard. And this is scary. Shit.
We're talking about private space travel right here, that is
being held to less and less of a standard because
the people in charge have to bow down to Daddy
Trump and President Musk. And it only benefits President Musk
because that means his company can continue to operate without
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having to meet certain criteria. That's fucking scary. And they're
even talking about the idea of their use of artificial
intelligence intelligence right. All of this gives an opportunity for
Musk to catch up to his competitors. He has Xai, right,
(19:54):
he's not even trying to purchase open ai, which owns
chat gibt if I'm not mistaken. And then in this article,
I'll put the link in the show notes, they say
quote his cheerleading for shuddering. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
comes less than two weeks after x announced a deal
(20:17):
with Visa to provide its users peer to peer payment services,
which are regulated by the CFPB, which is the Consumer
Financial Protection Bureau. It's not a coincidence. He's trying to
create an easy pathway to essentially do whatever he wants
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without any sort of checks and balances system. And when
billionaires are able to do that, and these tech brods
are able to do that, these tech giants, and nobody
is holding them accountable. They've already shown they have no heart,
no moral compass, and the results will be them getting
richer and richer at the expense of the everyday people
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and the livelihood of the everyday people. And for them,
it doesn't matter what or who they destroy, because they
will be okay with their money. If this country burns
to the ground, they can easily go buy a mansion
in another country and be completely fine, leaving the rest
of us to have to struggle and scatter to pick
up what's left of these pieces. And that's what really Again,
(21:25):
I've talked to this a ton musk is like the
scariest thing to me in this whole conversation. But that said,
we'll take a quick break and then we'll be her back.
All right, we are back, and I want to quickly
touch on Google, who has repeatedly bowed down to Daddy
Trump and is now once again doing so, as they
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have just changed the map in Google Maps to reflect
Golf of America rather than Golf of Mexico, which it
is literally known as. And on the surface, it's kind
of like, okay, this, it's just dumb in general, a
dumb that we're even having to have this fucking conversation.
But again, it's they're showing their loyalty. Google is showing
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its loyalty to Daddy Trump. One of the biggest and
most powerful tech companies in the entire world has sold
itself to a political candidate. That's dangerous for all of
us who have now become reliant on using their platform
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and technology for our everyday lives. I mean, it's the
same thing with Meta and like how many businesses are
myself included brands. Businesses rely on using things like Instagram
to showcase what we do and to continue to grow
ourselves and our brands. It's scary. It's it's just again
(22:56):
this showcase of these tech companies and these billionaires and
we're all sort of treading very dangerous water seeing how
far they're willing to go. Because it's very scary, I mean,
the mustling and it leads into this, I mean, even
little things, right. Google Calendar has removed key cultural events
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from their site, including Pride Month, Black History Month, Holocaust
Remembrance Day, Jewish Heritage, Hispanic Heritage, and Indigenous People's Month.
Does that not feel like we're being targeted. We're being
sent a message we don't want to acknowledge you. Indigenous
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people's months, sorry, you're off the calendar. Hispanic Heritage off
the calendar, Jewish Heritage off the calendar, Holocaust Remembrance Day
off the calendar, Black History Month off the calendar, Pride
Month off the calendar. It's just a message. And of
course they're gonna know spin this and gas slight us
(24:01):
into being like, oh, well, it's just we're only honoring
federal holidays. That's what we did. That's all it is.
But it's it's it's obviously much deeper than that. If
you're going out of your way to do this, that's
a message that you, at the very least don't value
the people of this community, but probably more accurately, don't
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believe in these people sort of right to have their heritage,
their existence, and you probably look down upon them or
view them as a problem, right, something that needs to
be corrected, much like these DEI you know, the targeting
(24:45):
of of DEI programs, and that's what Google is falling
in line with. We want everything to be white America, white,
heterosexual America. That's what we want. We don't want anything
different here. We don't want anybody acknowledging anything different, anything
other than why heterosexual America, because that is what is
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viewed as superior in the eyes of these people. Just gross.
There's a full article on all that Google's been doing
again in the show notes. I just wanted to touch
on that. Last thing I want to quickly touch on
is these fake ICE agents that have been terrorizing Latino communities. Now,
obviously we've been seeing and hearing and some people have
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been affected by various immigration raids that have been ramping
up around the country, and they say people are in
personating immigration officials and assaulting others. There was an incident
that happened in South Carolina where a man has been
charged with three counts of kidnapping and one count each
of impersonating law enforcement, petty larceny, assault, and battery. He
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flipped out when when these guys started speaking. He impersonated
an ICE officer, had these guys essentially you know, over
to the side in their car, was telling them that
he's an ICE agent, then sort of just flipping out
when they started speaking Spanish. He's posted his two hundred
thirty thousand dollars bail and is out on jail pending
a court date. According to CNN, his family is pleading
(26:23):
with the presiding judge to give him mercy that they
claim that he suffers from mental health issues and they're
attempting to get him help. Okay, there was also a
man in North Carolina. Is disgusting man in North Carolina
impersonated an ice officer and it's actually assaulted a woman,
threatening to deport her if she refused to take part.
(26:43):
It's absolutely disgusting that was in rally North Carolina. Why
don't we deport him? Right? I loved on social media
these these guys who when you talk about these immigration rates,
they're like, oh, you must love race then, because all
the because that's what these guys are. They're trying to
get these rapists out of our country. If you were,
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if you were so passionate about rape victims, where is
your outrage on the over one hundred thousand rape cases
that are reported each and every year? Are you not?
Why are you not calling for justice on the perpetrators
of all of those acts? Why are you not so
invested in those stories? You'd rather just blanket statement that
(27:30):
all immigrants coming into this country are rapists and criminals,
and then just ignore the crime, including rape, that happens
by American citizens on a regular basis each and every year.
It's it's like this fake it's it's this fake activism,
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this theatrical activism that is used as a means to
mask their racism. They put on this theatrical activism like, oh,
we just want to fight crime. You don't want to
make this place safer. People are getting raped out here,
and they use that as a means to not feel
so bad about the fact that they're just racist. Maybe
(28:12):
they even convinced themselves that they're not a racist, right,
like this is what helps them sleep at night, is
they're not racist. They're patriots who are trying to save
this country and obviously anybody with common sense. But no, no,
you're you're just a racist, just a racist. There was
also an incident at Temple University that's in Philadelphia, where
(28:36):
Aiden Stegelmann tried entering a residence hall by impersonating an
ICE agent. Pretending to be an Ice agent. Police were
called to Temple's Johnson and Hardwick residence hall on the
university's North Philly campus it's not immediately clear what the
intention behind the visit to the residence hall was. Steiglemann
(28:57):
allegedly met two other suspects who attempted to gain access
to the building, but we're denied police. Then I also
arrested a twenty four year old man in Missouri after
he assaulted a man demanding paperwork while impersonating an ice officer.
Just fucking scary times. And I mean, a be aware,
(29:23):
but you know we stories. I'm not meant to like,
I'm not trying to fear monger anybody, but yeah, be
aware that there are some crazy, fucking people out there
right now. But it also is a sad reminder of
what happens when this rhetoric plays out in the real world.
And we've always talked about this that on this show,
(29:45):
and anybody with half a brain can recognize that, like
words matter, the rhetoric that is spewed out there matters.
Like when you put hate out there and you create
these narratives like those around immigration, it then spills out
into real world events like these where you have these
(30:07):
people who are just undying lovers of Donald Trump and
MAGA and have fooled themselves into thinking their patriots go
out and want to play police officer literally, and bad
things can happen. People get assaulted. This this woman here
was unfortunately raped. We saw it in Georgia a couple
(30:31):
of years ago where Amatt Aubrey was murdered by those
those guys who uh chase him down, claiming he was
breaking into houses. They want to be police officers. Essentially,
a lot of that hate that causes them to go
to the streets is because of the rhetoric that's pushed
(30:54):
out there. They're being told, these people are coming for
everything you have, you need, we need to fight, we
need to protect ourselves. And unfortunately, some of these people
take it literally. And that's the responsibility you have when
you have a large platform, be it social media or
be it the ultimate platform of being the fucking president
of the United States, and when you don't take it seriously, unfortunately,
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there are real world implications and sad things and sad
moments and tragedies play out in the street as a
result of the words that you're putting out there. But
that's that. But that said, let's get a letter note here, right,
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Let's talk about Valentine's Day. It's about some love, all right,
but first to take a quick break and then we'll
be right back, all right. So I feel like I
used to do this a lot more around like the
(32:03):
holidays and things like that. I would like I would
I would talk about, you know, like fun little things
that are you know, and somehow we got way too serious.
I think there's a lot going on, you know, in
the world. It's hard to be like fun and fluffy,
but I think we need it right now. Also, not
for nothing, I love not to be redundant, but I'm
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a big fan of romantic movies, romantic dramas, comedies. I
love it. I'm a huge fan. I am a big
rom com guy. Okay, I have no shame in emitting it.
So here are five films Latino love on screen. This
according to r ME two that you can snuggle up
with this Valentine's Day. So something nice here, little Netflix
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and show. The first one they mentioned is In the Heights,
the twenty twenty one version. This film stars Anthony Jnamos
and Melissa Behea, and it is an adaptation of the
stage play. The musical follows a group of friends in
Washington Heights fighting against gentrification. A story leads to the
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two thousand and three blackout in New York City and
their relationships wild ride through the movie, Usnabi and Vanessa
have a will they won't they thing going on. The
love story highlights and Latino's love. So the love story
highlights a lot of love. In this sentence, the love
story highlights Latino loves joy. I don't know if that
(33:31):
still didn't make sense to me, but I said this
love Watching their love bloom on the TV while holding
your love one close is the best, one of the
best ways to spend your Valentine's Day. I've actually never
seen this movie. I'm a big fan of Anthony Ramos Mlissa,
but I also just hate musicals in general. But I might.
I know it's I know. I even talked about this
(33:52):
when it came out. I have to give this a shot.
I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna give it
a shot. We'll give a shot, guys chat, I'm gonna
do it. This one. I could speak to someone great.
This is a twenty nineteen Netflix film following three friends
who enjoy one last epic day together following Jenny's breakup.
(34:13):
Jenny Young, a musical journalist played by Gina Rodriguez, is
devastated by a breakup. Aaron Kennedy played by Dewanda Wise
and Blair Helms played by Brittany Snow give her one
last incredible day. Her Besie Send spend the day off
work to make some last memories before Jenny moves to
San Francisco. What follows is a wild adventure of twist
(34:33):
and turns and a concert that only happens in New
York City. This is a fun filled movie to celebrate
friendship during Valentine's Day. You I fucking love this movie.
I feel like there's another Hofle of Gena Rodriguez. There's
another one similar to this, but we'll focus on this
Gena Rodriguez one. I love this movie. It's a chick flip.
I love chick flix. That's what I was looking for.
(34:55):
This is a great movie, great music. The soundtrack is fire.
Jesse Rayes also played a cameo in this performing This
is also the movie that Lizzo's Truth Hurts became like
a gigantic hit off of. I've seen this a couple
of times. I love this movie. A big fan. Highly
recommend Fools Rush In nineteen ninety seven, This is a classic.
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I've seen this in bits and piece. I actually probably
should watch this in full. But Salbajayak plays Isabel Fuentes
in this massiful nineties romantic comedy. Isabel meets Alex Whitman
played by Matthew Perry on a one night stand, and
it turns into a life changing moment. Alex learns that
Isabel is pregnant months after the one night stand. Obviously,
he decides to uproot his life, leaving behind his bachelor
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lifestyle and Mary. Isabel. A job promotion for Alex puts
their future in limbo. He's left to decide between his
life in Las Vegas and his success in New York City.
This one is a sweet Valentine's Day gift. I've seen
this one in parts. I love Sambajayak for many reasons,
but I love Sambajayak. I've seen this in parts. It
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was great. I don't know why I never finished it.
I'm really bad when it comes to movies, like finishing movies,
Like I watched everything in parts, so this could have
been one where I was like watching it in parts,
and then like life happened and I started watching another
show and I got distracted. That actually happened with Carli
does Way not a romantic movie. Per Se is loving it,
but I gotta finish that one as well. With Appa China,
(36:22):
I might have a I was just say I might
have a movie weekend, but I'm DJing both Saturday and Sunday.
Whatever life of a you know, as a single man,
I just have so much, you know, going My schedule
is two packed. I'm gonna be watching movies all weekend,
that's what you know. But I don't, actually don't. I
don't think I would actually love to have that problem
where I'm a single man just in bed watching romantic
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movies by myself all weekend. That sounds delightful. Actually, unfortunately
I've made too much going on these days. You didn't
need to know them. But here we are anyway, Made
in Manhattan. This is one of my mom's favorite movies. Actually,
this made in Manhattan. And what the fuck was the
other one? Wedding Planner. I would actually say Wedding Planner
over made in Manhattan personally, but this one's good as well.
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Made in Manhattan from two thousand and two. Jenny j
Lo Jennifer Lopez. This was like peek j Lo like
just fucking crushing it. She plays Marissa and Thua, a
single mom from New York City's Boroughs. She works as
a housekeeper in a luxury hotel in Manhattan. Marissa is
always a model employee, but lets herself try on a
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guest outfit. She gets caught by Christopher Marshall played by
Ralph phineas Fienz Fiennis and has to pretend she's a guest.
The courtship grows, and Marissa officially eventually has to face
the music and tell Christopher who she is. This kind
of love story will bring you back to the early
two thousands. Get ready for so much nostalagia. Perfect for
Valentine's dad. This one's fire, not gonna lie to you.
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It is hard to watch now because the dude who's
the actor in it went on to play one of
those serial killers in Hannibal, the movie. I believe one
of the song the Lambs, I think it was Hannibal.
He was one of the serial killers in that. Vicious
played it beautifully, so it's kind of hard to see him.
He made in Manhattan as like the love interest, but like,
once you can get past that, I think it's kind
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of fire. I fuck with this movie. I really do
think wedding planner I would have said wedding planned over this,
And the last one is hitch fucking classic Hitch two
thousand and five. We're talking about peak even Mendez. Like,
first of all, Mendez his age like a fine wine.
She might actually look better, more beautiful in today's day, today,
like than she did even back then. But when I
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say peak even Mendez, I met like I was obsessed
with Eve Mendez, like even it should have gotten a
restraining order. It gets me in the fire. Probably I
was obsessed with her, loved her, never got creepy, obviously,
But I'm just saying, like just to kind of like
give you an analogy of like my level of love
for even Mendez. It still runs deep, still runs deep.
But you know she's a married woman. She's got a
whole kids, whole life ahead of her. Anyway. In Hitch,
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Will Smith plays Alex hitch Hitchins, a smooth talking pickup
artist who teaches men how to pick up women. However,
Alex becomes enamored with Sarah Maylis or Melis I think
they pronounced it Sarah Melis in the movie, played by
Iva Mendez. Sarah is a tabloid journalist trying to dig
up dirt on the love life of one of Alex's clients.
Alex quickly becomes a clumsy, less smooth person around Sarah
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and realizes he's in love. How sweet hitch tries to
get the woman he loves to fall in love with him.
A surprise realization threatens everything Alex has worked for. You
can find out what happens on Valentine's Day when you
watch it. This is a great one great movie. It's
also like I feel like peek Will Smith Box Office
Will Smith at this point. I love this movie. We
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don't talk about enough. I think it's funny, it's romantic,
takes place in New York City, which you know points
points right there. But I love this movie. You know
whatever this is like, this is one of the movies
FX be doing this toube FX has whoever's curating, like
the weekend movies they be throwing on Fax or like
(40:00):
nighttime movies. Like they're not getting paid enough. I don't
know what they're any paper, They're not getting paid enough
because they may be just hitting boy like you be
flipping the channels and again I'm not even like a
big TV person, but god forbid, I scrolled through FX
and they got one of these classics on. I'm done
for it. I don't care where in the like where
in the film we are, I'm gonna finish watching it.
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Hitch is one of those movies you just jump up,
like literally anywhere it is in the movie. I'm gonna
watch it if it's on TV. So that's that. Hopefully
that helped you make some Valentine's Day plans. You know,
you can chill out a little bit. Doesn't have the
all fancy. I've always been like, like I would it
sounds like hell on earth to me to go to
a restaurant or some big event on Valentine's Day Like
(40:44):
that sounds like absolute hell on earth to me. I
would much rather like order some banging takeout, you know
what I'm saying. Be be in my living room, comfy
clothes with my significant other just watching some romantic ass movie.
Is all weekend not for nothing. This doesn't have any
Latinos in it. The Killers are Latino technically ghosts. Classic
(41:06):
fucking movie. Underrated. I think it's nineteen ninety. Demi Moore,
Patrick Swayze Whoopi Goldberg. I love that movie. That's like
a top three for me of all time. Nodding Hill,
Julia roberts as all white people in it, but great movie.
And also if you're looking for like an action love story,
true romance, Christian Slater, I mean, it's it's a little
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bit of a dark it's dark, but it's love. But
it's dark. You know it stars, It has a lot
of murder. The love interest is a prostitute in the
main person, Christians Slater is kind of like a crazy person.
Drugs are involved as well. I mean it's it's like,
you know, it's not your traditional love story, but I
(41:51):
fuck with it. True romance love that one cult classic anyway. Yeah,
so Valentine's that you get a lot of options. You're welcome.
But that's Salla's time. That thing we talked about today
in the Little Bow in a s we call conclusion
STU time for comp all right, just quickly running through
this stuff here, Musk scares me and we should all
(42:14):
be scared. And it seems like there are less and
less guardrails as the days go on to protect us
from these greedy billionaires who really seem to stop want
to stop at nothing just to keep getting more and
more rich. Scary Google being another example of that, again,
a scary company that is a part of our everyday
lives and that we use in various ways we use
(42:35):
our technology. Being ultra loyalist to Trump very scary. One
thing I didn't I also didn't mention I forgot to
something to watch, which is scary is our freedom of press.
Trump blocked out AP News Associated Press from being in
(42:59):
the Oval Office to document a new executive order signing.
And this comes on the heels of AP refusing to
acknowledge the Golf of Mexico as the Golf of America.
So it seems like retied. Of course, they're guess lighting
you into saying, well, you know, it's a privilege to
have access, you know, even though AP News AP has
(43:20):
been there for the other executive order signings. Seems like retaliation.
And that's what's scary as well, is if the media
doesn't fall in line, they're going to be retaliated against.
And again, we the people are going to be affected
by that because that is a intimidation tactic to make
the media post stories or operate in a way that
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is in line with this president's agenda, and that literally
goes against the backbone of this country and our freedom
of press that is essential to our constitution and our
freedom as Americans. But you know, again, it's selective patriotism.
It's theatrical patriotism that these people love to employ as
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it means to hide their true motives and their true
feelings and ice impersonators. It's disgusting, just absolutely disgusting. I
don't have any other commentary, but again, this is what
happens when you use a messaging of hate and you
have a large platform, You're going to see it spill
out into the streets. And that's why words do matter.
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And lastly, Valentine's Day, I hope you got a little
booth thing. If not listen, it's all right sorry. Being single,
I would listen. I would love to date, Like I
would love to take myself on a long, three day
weekend date right now, literally just sitting in my living
room ordering takeout for every meal, binge watching some of
my favorite movies like that sounds delightful. Unfortunately I have
(44:47):
too busy of a weekend do so. But you know,
if you're taking or single, those movie suggestions that we
just gave you are fire link in the show notes
if you forgot something or you want to check out
the trailers for them. Highly recommend. Anyway, have an amazing weekend,
enjoy your Valentine's Day. You know, if you're single or
(45:10):
you are booed up, enjoy it nonetheless, and I'll talk
to you on Tuesday with a brand new episode. Till
that's stay safe, We'll talk soon. Life as a Greeno
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