March 13, 2025 • 38 mins
Dramos dives into trending stories including Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University protester, is now facing deportation after being targeted for his activism—raising serious questions about free speech and immigration rights. Meanwhile, a racist realtor got fired after celebrating mass deportations online (instant karma). We also get into the latest on Yolanda Saldívar’s possible parole—could Selena’s killer actually walk free? Plus, The Office star Oscar Nuñez is making a comeback, and Bad Bunny is using his music to highlight history and resistance with La Mudanza.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Let me talk about talk.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
He said he lived in life pas a ringo.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Wait, you question when you fit in?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Every time you mingle, they say you do this with not.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Life.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Ingo.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, hello, and welcome to another sort of life as
a gringo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I am dramas, of course.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And it is Thursday, so that means time for our
Thursday trans episode. I'm gonna try to do a healthy
balance today of just like light fun stories mixed with
ship that you know reminds you that the world feels
like it's burning around us.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We'll try to keep balance today, though, well.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We'll talk on the heavier side of things. You have
a green card holder who is being threatened of being
deported because he participated in a peaceful protest at a university.
We'll talk a bit about that. We'll quickly touch Yolanda Salazar,
who is the woman who murdered Selena and she is
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up for parole and potentially could get out this next month.
We'll see about that. We'll touch on a story about
a realtor in Ohio who you know loves herself some
Fox News apparently and left a racist notes on a
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waiters on the check when she paid at a Mexican restaurant. Ironically,
now she is jobless. We'll talk a bit about that.
On the positive side of things, this is just like
a personal thing because I love the Office. There is
a what would you call it, it's not a reboot,
(01:54):
a spinoff happening potentially of the Office. We'll talk a
bit about that, and then listen. This is a Bad
Bunny Stand podcast. He just dropped a new music video.
We got to touch on that. But first and foremost,
let's start with the nonsense. The bs in a segment
we call for the people in the back, say a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The people in the back, say a lot of for
the people in the say a lot of the people
in the back.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I actually want to first touch on a story that
I talked about last week about Puerto Rico and potential independence.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
For Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There's a lot of mixed things going on in that story.
The gist of it was this sort of report that
Trump was being pressured to make Puerto Rico independent as
it means to save money. Now, since I reported it,
the local government in Puerto Rico has come out and
(03:02):
said that this is not a real story, that it's
a hoax, So just want to give you that side
of things.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Personally, not sold on them saying it's just a hoax.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Obviously, the government in Puerto Rico right now is a
pro statehood government. The governor, Jennifer Gonzalez, she has been
in Washington trying to lobby for for Puerto Rico to
become a state. That is the sort of priority she has.
So of course she is invested in this and it
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would not look good on her if sort of getting
elected and focusing all her energy on Puerto Rico become
a state only for Trump to then just give them
independence to get rid of them. So obviously they would
want to deny this story as much as possible. That's
what sort of keeps me on the fence of like,
I don't I'm not one hundred percent believing that it's
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a hoax just because they said that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, they have their own.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Motives in this as well, So we'll kind of see,
I guess what develops. But I just want to keep
everybody updated for the sake of, you know, making sure
that all the information is always out there as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Now on to current events, Let's start with Let's start with.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
This gentleman, Mohammad Khalil, Now he is a student activist.
He was a part of the twenty twenty four Columbia
University pro Palestinian campus occupations, and he was actually arrested
by Ice earlier this month, and they're threatening to deport
him even though he has a green card. Now Marco
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Rubio is the Secretary of State issuing a strong statement
talking about how they'll be revoking green cards and piss
of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported. Now,
from all accounts, this gentleman is not a Hamas supporter,
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a terrorist supporter. He's a pro Palestinian activist, like many
people are pro Palestinian in regards to what is going
on in Israel and the ongoing conflict that has been
happening over there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Two things can be true.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You could not believe in terrorism, and you can believe
in Israel's rights to defend itself while simultaneously being against
the murder of more and more innocent people and the
use of extreme unnecessary force. Right, and you can be
pro Palestinian without being pro Hamas that the two are
(05:53):
not inter you know, like one and the same essentially, right,
and the iron like what comes up with this sort
of story. I mean, it's a few things. Ay, this
dude actually has a green card, be his wife is
actually an American citizen. So this is not somebody who
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is here illegally. It is somebody who is followed the
rules so to speak that the Right and the Republicans
claim that they are in favor of, but they're trying
to make an example here, and that's sort of the
scary part about this entire story.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Now judges temporarily blocked him being deported, but.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
This begins to impede kind of on a lot of
the things that we have been talking about, or I've
been mentioning here on the show of.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Sort of a government that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Is scared of any sort of criticism and is incredibly Unamerican.
And we saw this when it came to now the
way that the press is going to be selected in
terms of who gets to cover the Oval office, you know,
like the executive signings.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And now with this Trump talking about anybody protesting on
a college campus being labeled as a terrorist and it
being illegal. These are things that impede upon our First
Amendment rights of free speech and of course they'll say
that it.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Doesn't you know.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The Marco Rubs argument is that people with visas and
green cards are essentially, you know, being given a gift
and they should not be doing anything that is I
guess to them Unamerican. These are the beginning steps of
sort of this dictatorship where only one side of things
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makes its way where you know, you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Got to really.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Regardless of where you fall on this whole idea of
what's happening in Palestine and Israel and the conflict. The
day that we can't take to the streets and voice
our opinions and peacefully organized is the end of democracy
as we know it. That's what this country has been
founded upon, is the ability to critique the government, to
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express how we feel, to say or acknowledge or try
to hold accountable the government we feel like they're falling short. Right,
Protesting has been a long tradition of showcasing and making
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aware the opinions of the American people. It was a
part of the Civil rights movement, you know, that eventually
led to the end of segregate This is a long
part of our history. It's a tool of people to
have a voice and to say and now, ironically, with
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a party that claims that, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Everybody's so soft and everybody is so.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Weak on the left and sensitive, they can't handle any
sort of critique, and they do everything they can to
shut down anybody who speaks or has a.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Different opinion than they do.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And again, the scary part about all of this stuff
is these are are sort of just the beginning, right
If Trump and his administration are able to get away
with something like this, where does it end at that point?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Where where does the line sort of end where now
none of us you know, oh shit, I might be
raided by the fucking you know, the FBI or whatever
just for having this podcast and talking negatively on him,
Like that's very possible. That's the road we begin to
go down if this goes unchecked. Right again, it starts
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with these, with these seemingly.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Little things or.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
These easy targets in the form of someone who has
a green card that you know is not a citizen.
So they're sort of treading on uh on, I don't
know this, trading on water? Are you like, trading on
acumen of this? Why am I so bad at remembering sayings?
But you're I don't know it's I know, there's something
(10:42):
with the ground, treading on fragile ground. We'll say that,
but you know, you're you're kind of walking on eggshells almost.
I don't think that's the right one.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But essentially, you're you're here.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You don't have the same rights as a full American citizen,
and there are certain stipulations to you having a green
card and your status of being here legally.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So they're an easy target.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And especially with the sort of anti Muslim sentiment and
a word like terrorism being able to be thrown around so.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Easily, they're easy targets.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But eventually, if this works, if they're successful in silencing
this person, deporting this person, these are fear tactics. It's
meant to make us think twice about raising our voices
against the nonsense that's happening. And we should all be
very scared, and we should all be very much invested
in sort of seeing and hearing what happens with stories
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like this one, because it does have real implications on
potentially our freedoms as Americans moving forward.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So that's why this story is so important.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And just like, I don't know, scary, if you will,
I'll leave a link to the full story of the
show notes you want to check that out. Let's quickly
touch on this story here about a racist realtor in Columbus, Ohio.
Her name is Stephanie Lovin's. She was having dinner at
Casueles Mexican Casuelas Mexican restaurant and cantina in Columbus. When
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she got the bill, she refused to leave a tip
and wrote, quote, I hope Trump deports you on the check.
I hope Trump reports you. End quote, and she wrote
that on the check. Now, the Internet did its thing.
People rallied around the server and they found love and
who Apparently people in the area have known her as
(12:45):
a racist realtor and they demanded justice.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And according to social media, I think she got fired.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
She got fire from Century twenty one.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And the person that was her server that she wrote this.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Is allegedly a man who is a disabled veteran and
United States citizen, so he was racially profiled by this woman. Also, ironically,
this white woman goes to a Mexican restaurant and is
triggered by the fact that there are people of color
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working inside of a Mexican restaurant. This is the irony
of everything, Like, if this isn't white America in a nutshell,
I don't know what else is. They love our culture,
they love our food, they just don't love us. So
they would love to have our culture a Mexican restaurant,
but just white, you know, blonde hair, blue eyed people
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working there. That's their fucking dream. They can have themselves,
some tacos, some fucking gay sadiyas, the whole nine, except
the don't have to look at anybody who does isn't white.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Basically, that's how that's their dream.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The fucking irony, the irony, right, and and they wrote,
and she wrote in the tip line. The tip line
read zero, you suck. I hope Trump deports you. First
of all, I've had some I don't know, I like,
you'd be a special kind of psychopath to like, you know,
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I don't know. I've never personally, I've had some shitty servers,
some shitty service, shitty restaurants.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
In my day.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I've never been that riled up about it where I'm
gonna fucking write a note on there and also not
tip them. Maybe I'll tip them the minimum, but at
the end of the day, I cervix hard. It's not
a fucking easy job. Also, this chick was probably paying
the fucking ass at the same time. But this is
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again the effects.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Of rhetoric of words.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
This idiot has seen the television, has heard the rhetoric,
and then now uses it out there in.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The real world and.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Has this feeling of superiority as a result of the
rhetoric from people like Donald Trump. And then ironically, the
person that she's fucking telling I hope Trump deports you
is a fucking veteran of this country at a citizen.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And again, if that.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Isn't the plight of people of color in this country,
I don't know what else is right. You do your part,
you contribute to the betterment of this country, and they
promise you the dream. You're right, Oh you're you're a hero,
You're a veteran. Thank you so much for your service.
But their true colors always shine. You will never be
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recognized at the same level as them. And obviously it's
it's like she knew this guy was a veteran. But
it just goes to show you because so many people,
you know, the Latinos for Trump and all they think, oh,
I'm gonna be a good Latino gonna support trumpet all
these things. The reality is you'll never be viewed as
on their level. Right, all this work you're doing to
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be viewed as the perfect American and you're thinking that
adapting their belief systems and ignoring, you know, your own
people and culture and history will buy you the golden
ticket of white acceptance. It never really does, because you're
always gonna have an instance like this, right the way,
come to Jesus moment where somebody in this country reminds you,
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regardless of all that you've done, all that you contribute
on a regular basis to this country, you will never
be viewed as equal to a white person. You will
always be substandard to a white person. No matter how
excellent you are, what you do, how many fucking degrees
you have, and we see this with fucking the DEI
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stuff and all these things, you will always be sub
par to the average white person. And that's the sad
truth of this country. And you know, stories like this
one are a dark reminder of that. And thankfully she
got fired. The internet did what it did, and thank
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god it was just a comment on a check and
it wasn't you know, uh, there wasn't violence that followed this.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But again when people are like, oh, it's just words.
Do you think Trump just talks?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, it matters when you have a platform like that
and you have crazy people that are obsessed with him
like that, they're going to take everything he fucking says
and ingested and then repeat it out into their everyday lives.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And you and I are the ones who have to
deal with that. It matters.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Sad reality that we live in, but that's that's the
reality of life in this country.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
With that said, we'll take a quick break and then
we'll talk about a couple more things. All right, we
are back, and let's quickly talk about Yolanda Salazar.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Now, she is a woman who killed Selena thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
She wants out of prison, obviously she's eligible for parole,
and making it known that she feels like she deserves
her freedom. People like Internet obviously not pleased with this.
Twenty days until Yolanda is eligible for parole. Now her
potential release date could be March thirtieth of twenty twenty five.
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She maintained still this crazy person that the shooting was
accidental and considers her time in prison to be enough
for the murder. They say she's a most hated woman
in the Latino community. It's interesting. I've act she's changed
her rhetoric. I felt like at one point she had
some sort of crazy conspiracy conspiracy story that she wasn't
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the one, she was being set up. Now she's acknowledged
this killing Selena. She was sentenced to a life in
prison with the possibility parole after thirty years, so she
now is eligible for it. It's crazy that Selena was
only twenty three years old at the time of her murder.
Just wild Man twenty three. It's interesting with like celebrity
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like kind of ages you or you view these people
that are icons and we think about them or we
view them as like, you know, I guess personally, like
especially I guess as a kid, but you almost see
them as like so much older than they actually are,
or having lived so much more life or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
H and Man twenty three years old.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's just so incredibly incredibly sad. Yeah, so she's out
for parole. We're gonna kind of see what ends up
happening here. Obviously Selena fans are not having it. General
public is not giving her, uh the the sympathy her
family is saying enough time has served. Again they're under
(20:10):
the premise that she accidentally shot and killed Selena. But like,
this is the why did you have a gun? Why
would you point a gun in the first place at her?
Why do you have a gun for this meeting in
the motel room. I don't like that to me, erases
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any sort of accidental part. You were you you brought
Selena to the motel under the guise of you're gonna
give her proof that you know the money wasn't stolen,
whatever it was, and for some.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Reason you thought you would bring a gun.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You would not only bring a gun, but then also
take out the gun during the meeting. Like, to me,
that's premeditation right there. That's that's murder. Nah, like lock
her up, throw away the key. That's also like the
irony in this country, like murder and the idea of
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like parole after thirty years.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That just seems I don't know, for premeditated murder, that
just seems kind of crazy to me. We'll see how
it plays out, obviously, I'll be following along with everybody else.
And I remember she had like didn't she have a
documentary recently? Like this lady's collecting checks while in prison
for fucking murderings.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Like, it's a dark world we live in.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now. I start getting pissed off when I think about
it in that in that way. But yeah, we'll follow
along and see where this ends up. With that said, now,
how about some positivity. We'll talk about some positive things
for our me hint the segment, but first we'll take
a quick break and then we'll be right back. All right,
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positive things real quick. I'm a huge off fan of
the show The Office, particularly when Steve Corow was there,
lost this luster for me the last two seasons.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I kind of fell off from.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
There, but big fan of The Office and the Latino
on the show, Oscar actually Oscar Martinez. If you're a
fan of the show, sorry if you're not. This is
just I guess I gotta excite you. When I read this,
they're actually speculating a I see they're calling it a
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reboot in this article.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
A spin off more than anything. But they're saying that
Oscar Nunez, who's the actor who plays Oscar Martinez, has
officially signed on with Peacock and they're talking about it's
going to be upcoming a mockumentary series tentatively titled The Paper. Now,
he's the first confirmed returning cast member, and they're saying
(23:01):
that it's created by the Office mastermind Greg Daniels and Nathan.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
For You. Oh, Nathan for You is another show co creator,
Michael Coleman.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And it follows a documentary crew that previously chronicled life
at dunder Mifflin. So it's the crew that followed the
dunder Mifflin cast as, and it's they're chronicling them as
they search for their next big subject, saying, this time
they turned their cameras towards a historic Midwest newspaper and
the publisher struggling to keep it alive.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now they're saying Nunias may.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Not be the lead, but he's confirmed to be a
part of the new series script from the start. While
details about his character arc remain under wraps, his presence
suggests that The Paper will maintain ties to the original show,
The Office, while introducing a fresh storyline. A bunch of
confirmed cast members nobody who's name I recognize off the
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top of my head. Yeah, exciting, That's really all I
could say. I was excited about that. I love this show.
There's a bunch of shows like I had to make
It in America. By the way, if you've never watched
the show has nothing at the office. But I'm just
thinking of like my favorite shows ever that I wish
could come back. How to make It in America? HBO show,
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go watch it. I think it's on demand if you
you have HP on demand. Greatest, I literally greatest show
of all time. I'll die on that cross. Super inspirational.
Just reminds me of like it was New York. I
would call it like mid to late two thousands and
(24:42):
I and it was just like I remember living it
in real time and it was like, Oh, that show
just brings back so many memories. I don't know why we'll
get in on this tangent anyway. Uh yeah, so Office
spin off on Peacock. Excited about that. Now, let's talk
about Bad Bunny and get He just dropped a video
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for my favorite song on his new album. The song
is called La Mulansta, and he's like, again, I don't
I know, this is sound like I'm beating a dead horse.
You're probably sick of me talking about I'm sick of
me talking about this, right, But the First of all,
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Happy lated birthday to him. He celebrated his birthday by
dropping this video. He's thirty one years old now, and
he just keeps fucking doing it like and not for nothing.
Like my parents were over the night it dropped and
we watched it together. There's a beauty in like the
way that he's bringing people together, even that experience of
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watching it with my parents and also my father being
the proud perto Rican that he is. And then this
video having so much symbolism for the island of Puerto Rico,
it like just hits every like every which way you
could possibly.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's that's what's sort of beautiful about it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I mean, the video has all kinds of, you know,
stories of resistance and strength from the Puerto Rican people.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
There's there's all.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Kinds of imagery and symbolism within it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It references, you.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Know, the African culture of the tiny Indian culture with
some of the the masks that were being worn here.
You have women in the final scene dancing wearing traditional
hebatal dresses. Bet Buddy also has his straw hat in there.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
He's running with the Puerto Rican flag while being traced
by military men. The hat you know. The straw hat
is also associated.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
With the PDP, which is the Popular Democratic Party of
Puerto Rico, which is pro independence. There's also black and
white photos in the final scene that tells the story
of the Puerto Rican resistance in nineteen seventy nine and
when the Puerto Rican people were protesting and pushing back
against the United States government and US occupation. There's a
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whole bunch of little symbolisms in here, specifically talking about
the island of Vicks, which was used as basically like
a place to test out bombs in Puerto Rico. It's
an island that's a part of Puerto Rico, but a
separate island where a Navy head of base. And yeah, man,
I don't know it. Like I watched these things and
(27:38):
I guess for me, what is particularly u touching about it?
Or I guess what gets me really hopped up about it?
Aside from it just being obviously.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know, Puerto Rican.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It gets me thinking what can I do? How can
I contribute? And I think that is sort of the
the beauty of this kind of thing, is it like
inspires activates and it's it's a call to action and
almost like in watching it. I'm you know, I found
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myself like even thinking about my own art, my own
you know, think everything that I do, how can I
go a level deeper?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
How can I do my part the way he's doing
his right? And I think that is so incredible to
have that kind of effect through your artwork that you
inspire others to join the cause, to be a part
of the community, to to do something positive. And again
I've said this a million and one times in general,
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but like, particularly with this shallow entertainment space that has
pretty much always existed. To see somebody having this level
lookscess right, like even as a DJ playing his music
in the club, particularly from this album, it's one of
the greatest rewards and greatest feelings, not only because I
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love the music, you know, his past music I've loved
deeply and enjoy listening to it and dancing to it
and seeing people react, but particularly.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
This what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's like a form of resistance, a form of protest,
a form of cultural celebration. But at the same time
it's a fucking banger that's going off in the club,
right And I can't say, aside from a couple of
Mark Anthony Records, and even those you sort of have
to be in the right environment for really to hit
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the right way. Aside from that, I can't really think
of any other artist or any other music that gives
me that same feeling.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Like when I play it, I feel.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Like I'm doing as stupid as it sounds and as
small as it is, I feel like I'm contributing something
to the culture, to my people, and I'm representing them.
And on top of that, it's like a crowd is
just going off and having the most fun listening to it, right,
And it's it's just it. That's what touches me, I
guess on such a deep level. The video is dope
though too. Go check that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Out for la.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And with that said, let's time of thing we talked
about today in a neat little boat in a segment
we call conclusion.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Stew time for conclusion, all right, So kind of tying
everything together here.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
My fear, my two greatest fears here. There's a lot
of things I fear in the current administration, and I
think my two greatest ones that I fear because one
because on one side, it's our basic right as Americans,
and I can't imagine living any other way.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And then the other thing is the idea that.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
The very institution of government that was put in place
to protect us will no longer exist and basically we
will be even further and officially at the will of
rich people, which if you're not rich like myself, I
don't think it's going to bode well for you. I
think I said that wrong. If you're not rich like me,
(31:28):
I am not rich. That sounds like I was rich.
If you're not rich like myself, you're fuck That's what it.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Sounds like I was saying.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If you're not rich as I am not rich, we
are all fucked. Is basically it's gonna bode badly for
all of us.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Want to clarify that.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
But like, okay, So the first thing is the idea
of like our basic right to express ourselves gone, like
again when he starts with the cherry picking of who's
the press allowed to be in a room and allowed
to ask questions. And now this when it comes to
(32:05):
this man who is potentially facing deportation for a peaceful
protest at a college campus. Again, historically these are places
where protests happen and somebody who's here legally it sets
the stage for a sort of sketchy reality of what
(32:31):
the fuck is gonna happen, Like, especially again, I'm somebody
who I have a platform. I've never lived in fear
of like critiquing Donald Trump or somebody like that and
thinking to myself, my safety or my livelihood is going
to be put.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
At risk.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Now, I've known that by being outspoken, corporate money might
be put at risk, but as far as my ability
to just exist, that's something I've never thought about until now,
because again it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
These are the beginning stages of potentially living in a
world like that where you cannot critique the government publicly
or there will be repercussions. And again I never thought
in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
That would be a possibility, But that's literally sort of
the pathway we're heading down if these things go unchecked,
And that's what scares me.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
And then the flip side of that, like.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I talk about all the time, my other greatest fear
is like the Elon Musk thing of like the idea
of basically you're handing over the keys of the government
to this rich billionaire who is just gutting all of
our programs that are meant to help the everyday people. Right,
this country is supposed to be in service of its citizens,
but instead they're running it like a ruthless corporation that
(33:57):
as a corporation, you know, the blueprint of a ruthless
capitalistic corporation is turn profit for its uh you know,
board and executives by any means possible. And the country
can't operate that way because you and I, as everyday citizens,
are the people who are gonna feel the brunt of
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them squeezing us and bleeding us dry.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
We're the ones who are gonna suffer. Those are two
things that scare me. And then this this realtor in.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Uh Columbus, Ohio, Like you couldn't this is like a
fucking Chappelle show skit. Almost a racist goes to a
Mexican restaurant and then is racist against the brown person
at a Mexican restaurant, Like that's a fucking sketch right there.
And then ironically, the person she's racist against not only
(34:51):
happens to be a fucking citizen but a military veteran,
which again doubles down the fact that no matter how
much to this America kool aid you drink, and how
much you try to be one of these good old boys,
there will always be a moment that reminds you they
do not view you as your equal. And it's it's
(35:13):
moments like this one that God she got fired shots
the centry twenty one for firing her stupid ass just
said again, who knows how many people were fucked out
of like potential properties or whatever because of this fucking
racist idiot. Anyway us some positivity or no Landa Salazar. Listen,
(35:34):
I don't I think the she kills Elena. You brought
a gun to a fucking knife fight base and it
wasn't even a knife fight, it was a meeting.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Like, I'm sorry, that's premeditated murder.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
There was no reason, no accident, shouldn't have the gun
there in the first place, in a position to kill
Like that's crazy like that.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
No, lock her up throwing the key. I don't want
to see her getting parole. Fucked that.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We'll follow that story now on some positive things, the
office story. I'm just happy about something. I love the office, hopefully.
I mean, I'm fearful because most of the time these
things kind of suck and they like are never as
good as the original, obviously, but if they get some
of the original cast, I think it could be fun
and nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You know. I love The Office, it's a great show.
And then Bad Buddy. I love Bad Buddy again. It's inspiring. Man, Like.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
This is how I'm thinking of I'm gonna leave it
at this. I don't want to keep getting in my
fucking soapbox. But I guess, in a nutshell, when I
look at Bad Bunny, I'm reminded that I don't have
to have one or the other. I don't have to
have success at the expense of what I care about,
and I don't have to be an advocate for my
(36:47):
people at the expense of my livelihood. I can be
successful monetarily career wise while still doing the work of
my people and representing my people. And that is what
is so fucking inspiring to me about somebody like a
Bad Bundy. It doesn't mean you have to do it
as a singer, as an artist, as a fucking celebrity,
whatever your field of expertise, of talent, of passion of
interest is, you could still bring that same you know,
(37:13):
audacity and activism for your people and still find success
and that's why what he does is so special.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I fucking love that song. It's my favorite song on
the album.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
The video did not disappoint it again, like I'll forever
remember when I'm old and gray. Like the way that
this artist brought me and my family together, that we
can like listen to music together and watch his videos
and have conversations and enjoy it, like this album in
particular because of the South Side, because.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Of the Bonlanta.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
The fact that we can, like I can play it
for them and they can genuinely enjoy it because I
can I get them to them is like, you know,
they they're older and it's not their music. You know,
they celebrate the artists because they're perto Rican and things
like that, but like this is the first time where
like they would actually listen to the songs by themselves
without me there type of thing, And there's a beautiful
(38:05):
connection in that. And like the way we can now
have conversations and go back and forth, and you know,
I can hear more history about them with salsa, and like,
I don't know, it made us far more connected.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
There's something beautiful about that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
So I don't know, I waxed poetic a little long there,
but that's uh, that's how I feel. But that said,
thank you'all so much for tuning in. I will catch
you on Tuesday with a brand new episode.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
So let's stay safe and we'll talk soon, please.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Life as a Greno is a production of the micro
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
There we go.
Speaker 1 (00:10):
He said he lived in life pas a ringo.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Wait, you question when you fit in?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Every time you mingle, they say you do this with not.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Life.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Ingo.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, hello, and welcome to another sort of life as
a gringo.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I am dramas, of course.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
And it is Thursday, so that means time for our
Thursday trans episode. I'm gonna try to do a healthy
balance today of just like light fun stories mixed with
ship that you know reminds you that the world feels
like it's burning around us.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We'll try to keep balance today, though, well.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
We'll talk on the heavier side of things. You have
a green card holder who is being threatened of being
deported because he participated in a peaceful protest at a university.
We'll talk a bit about that. We'll quickly touch Yolanda Salazar,
who is the woman who murdered Selena and she is
(01:12):
up for parole and potentially could get out this next month.
We'll see about that. We'll touch on a story about
a realtor in Ohio who you know loves herself some
Fox News apparently and left a racist notes on a
(01:33):
waiters on the check when she paid at a Mexican restaurant. Ironically,
now she is jobless. We'll talk a bit about that.
On the positive side of things, this is just like
a personal thing because I love the Office. There is
a what would you call it, it's not a reboot,
(01:54):
a spinoff happening potentially of the Office. We'll talk a
bit about that, and then listen. This is a Bad
Bunny Stand podcast. He just dropped a new music video.
We got to touch on that. But first and foremost,
let's start with the nonsense. The bs in a segment
we call for the people in the back, say a
lot of.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
The people in the back, say a lot of for
the people in the say a lot of the people
in the back.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
All right.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
I actually want to first touch on a story that
I talked about last week about Puerto Rico and potential independence.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
For Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
There's a lot of mixed things going on in that story.
The gist of it was this sort of report that
Trump was being pressured to make Puerto Rico independent as
it means to save money. Now, since I reported it,
the local government in Puerto Rico has come out and
(03:02):
said that this is not a real story, that it's
a hoax, So just want to give you that side
of things.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Personally, not sold on them saying it's just a hoax.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Obviously, the government in Puerto Rico right now is a
pro statehood government. The governor, Jennifer Gonzalez, she has been
in Washington trying to lobby for for Puerto Rico to
become a state. That is the sort of priority she has.
So of course she is invested in this and it
(03:41):
would not look good on her if sort of getting
elected and focusing all her energy on Puerto Rico become
a state only for Trump to then just give them
independence to get rid of them. So obviously they would
want to deny this story as much as possible. That's
what sort of keeps me on the fence of like,
I don't I'm not one hundred percent believing that it's
(04:03):
a hoax just because they said that.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
You know, they have their own.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Motives in this as well, So we'll kind of see,
I guess what develops. But I just want to keep
everybody updated for the sake of, you know, making sure
that all the information is always out there as much
as possible.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Now on to current events, Let's start with Let's start with.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
This gentleman, Mohammad Khalil, Now he is a student activist.
He was a part of the twenty twenty four Columbia
University pro Palestinian campus occupations, and he was actually arrested
by Ice earlier this month, and they're threatening to deport
him even though he has a green card. Now Marco
(04:53):
Rubio is the Secretary of State issuing a strong statement
talking about how they'll be revoking green cards and piss
of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported. Now,
from all accounts, this gentleman is not a Hamas supporter,
(05:14):
a terrorist supporter. He's a pro Palestinian activist, like many
people are pro Palestinian in regards to what is going
on in Israel and the ongoing conflict that has been
happening over there.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Two things can be true.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
You could not believe in terrorism, and you can believe
in Israel's rights to defend itself while simultaneously being against
the murder of more and more innocent people and the
use of extreme unnecessary force. Right, and you can be
pro Palestinian without being pro Hamas that the two are
(05:53):
not inter you know, like one and the same essentially, right,
and the iron like what comes up with this sort
of story. I mean, it's a few things. Ay, this
dude actually has a green card, be his wife is
actually an American citizen. So this is not somebody who
(06:18):
is here illegally. It is somebody who is followed the
rules so to speak that the Right and the Republicans
claim that they are in favor of, but they're trying
to make an example here, and that's sort of the
scary part about this entire story.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Now judges temporarily blocked him being deported, but.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
This begins to impede kind of on a lot of
the things that we have been talking about, or I've
been mentioning here on the show of.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Sort of a government that.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Is scared of any sort of criticism and is incredibly Unamerican.
And we saw this when it came to now the
way that the press is going to be selected in
terms of who gets to cover the Oval office, you know,
like the executive signings.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
And all that.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
And now with this Trump talking about anybody protesting on
a college campus being labeled as a terrorist and it
being illegal. These are things that impede upon our First
Amendment rights of free speech and of course they'll say
that it.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Doesn't you know.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
The Marco Rubs argument is that people with visas and
green cards are essentially, you know, being given a gift
and they should not be doing anything that is I
guess to them Unamerican. These are the beginning steps of
sort of this dictatorship where only one side of things
(07:58):
makes its way where you know, you.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Got to really.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Regardless of where you fall on this whole idea of
what's happening in Palestine and Israel and the conflict. The
day that we can't take to the streets and voice
our opinions and peacefully organized is the end of democracy
as we know it. That's what this country has been
founded upon, is the ability to critique the government, to
(08:28):
express how we feel, to say or acknowledge or try
to hold accountable the government we feel like they're falling short. Right,
Protesting has been a long tradition of showcasing and making
(08:48):
aware the opinions of the American people. It was a
part of the Civil rights movement, you know, that eventually
led to the end of segregate This is a long
part of our history. It's a tool of people to
have a voice and to say and now, ironically, with
(09:13):
a party that claims that, you know.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Everybody's so soft and everybody is so.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Weak on the left and sensitive, they can't handle any
sort of critique, and they do everything they can to
shut down anybody who speaks or has a.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Different opinion than they do.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
And again, the scary part about all of this stuff
is these are are sort of just the beginning, right
If Trump and his administration are able to get away
with something like this, where does it end at that point?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Right?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Where where does the line sort of end where now
none of us you know, oh shit, I might be
raided by the fucking you know, the FBI or whatever
just for having this podcast and talking negatively on him,
Like that's very possible. That's the road we begin to
go down if this goes unchecked. Right again, it starts
(10:17):
with these, with these seemingly.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Little things or.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
These easy targets in the form of someone who has
a green card that you know is not a citizen.
So they're sort of treading on uh on, I don't
know this, trading on water? Are you like, trading on
acumen of this? Why am I so bad at remembering sayings?
But you're I don't know it's I know, there's something
(10:42):
with the ground, treading on fragile ground. We'll say that,
but you know, you're you're kind of walking on eggshells almost.
I don't think that's the right one.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
But essentially, you're you're here.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
You don't have the same rights as a full American citizen,
and there are certain stipulations to you having a green
card and your status of being here legally.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
So they're an easy target.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
And especially with the sort of anti Muslim sentiment and
a word like terrorism being able to be thrown around so.
Speaker 1 (11:18):
Easily, they're easy targets.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
But eventually, if this works, if they're successful in silencing
this person, deporting this person, these are fear tactics. It's
meant to make us think twice about raising our voices
against the nonsense that's happening. And we should all be
very scared, and we should all be very much invested
in sort of seeing and hearing what happens with stories
(11:45):
like this one, because it does have real implications on
potentially our freedoms as Americans moving forward.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
So that's why this story is so important.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
And just like, I don't know, scary, if you will,
I'll leave a link to the full story of the
show notes you want to check that out. Let's quickly
touch on this story here about a racist realtor in Columbus, Ohio.
Her name is Stephanie Lovin's. She was having dinner at
Casueles Mexican Casuelas Mexican restaurant and cantina in Columbus. When
(12:23):
she got the bill, she refused to leave a tip
and wrote, quote, I hope Trump deports you on the check.
I hope Trump reports you. End quote, and she wrote
that on the check. Now, the Internet did its thing.
People rallied around the server and they found love and
who Apparently people in the area have known her as
(12:45):
a racist realtor and they demanded justice.
Speaker 1 (12:51):
And according to social media, I think she got fired.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
She got fire from Century twenty one.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
And the person that was her server that she wrote this.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Is allegedly a man who is a disabled veteran and
United States citizen, so he was racially profiled by this woman. Also, ironically,
this white woman goes to a Mexican restaurant and is
triggered by the fact that there are people of color
(13:29):
working inside of a Mexican restaurant. This is the irony
of everything, Like, if this isn't white America in a nutshell,
I don't know what else is. They love our culture,
they love our food, they just don't love us. So
they would love to have our culture a Mexican restaurant,
but just white, you know, blonde hair, blue eyed people
(13:52):
working there. That's their fucking dream. They can have themselves,
some tacos, some fucking gay sadiyas, the whole nine, except
the don't have to look at anybody who does isn't white.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Basically, that's how that's their dream.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
The fucking irony, the irony, right, and and they wrote,
and she wrote in the tip line. The tip line
read zero, you suck. I hope Trump deports you. First
of all, I've had some I don't know, I like,
you'd be a special kind of psychopath to like, you know,
(14:28):
I don't know. I've never personally, I've had some shitty servers,
some shitty service, shitty restaurants.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
In my day.
Speaker 2 (14:35):
I've never been that riled up about it where I'm
gonna fucking write a note on there and also not
tip them. Maybe I'll tip them the minimum, but at
the end of the day, I cervix hard. It's not
a fucking easy job. Also, this chick was probably paying
the fucking ass at the same time. But this is
(14:57):
again the effects.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Of rhetoric of words.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
This idiot has seen the television, has heard the rhetoric,
and then now uses it out there in.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
The real world and.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Has this feeling of superiority as a result of the
rhetoric from people like Donald Trump. And then ironically, the
person that she's fucking telling I hope Trump deports you
is a fucking veteran of this country at a citizen.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
And again, if that.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Isn't the plight of people of color in this country,
I don't know what else is right. You do your part,
you contribute to the betterment of this country, and they
promise you the dream. You're right, Oh you're you're a hero,
You're a veteran. Thank you so much for your service.
But their true colors always shine. You will never be
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recognized at the same level as them. And obviously it's
it's like she knew this guy was a veteran. But
it just goes to show you because so many people,
you know, the Latinos for Trump and all they think, oh,
I'm gonna be a good Latino gonna support trumpet all
these things. The reality is you'll never be viewed as
on their level. Right, all this work you're doing to
(16:19):
be viewed as the perfect American and you're thinking that
adapting their belief systems and ignoring, you know, your own
people and culture and history will buy you the golden
ticket of white acceptance. It never really does, because you're
always gonna have an instance like this, right the way,
come to Jesus moment where somebody in this country reminds you,
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regardless of all that you've done, all that you contribute
on a regular basis to this country, you will never
be viewed as equal to a white person. You will
always be substandard to a white person. No matter how
excellent you are, what you do, how many fucking degrees
you have, and we see this with fucking the DEI
(17:01):
stuff and all these things, you will always be sub
par to the average white person. And that's the sad
truth of this country. And you know, stories like this
one are a dark reminder of that. And thankfully she
got fired. The internet did what it did, and thank
(17:22):
god it was just a comment on a check and
it wasn't you know, uh, there wasn't violence that followed this.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
But again when people are like, oh, it's just words.
Do you think Trump just talks?
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, it matters when you have a platform like that
and you have crazy people that are obsessed with him
like that, they're going to take everything he fucking says
and ingested and then repeat it out into their everyday lives.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
And you and I are the ones who have to
deal with that. It matters.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Sad reality that we live in, but that's that's the
reality of life in this country.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Right now.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
With that said, we'll take a quick break and then
we'll talk about a couple more things. All right, we
are back, and let's quickly talk about Yolanda Salazar.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Now, she is a woman who killed Selena thirty years ago.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
She wants out of prison, obviously she's eligible for parole,
and making it known that she feels like she deserves
her freedom. People like Internet obviously not pleased with this.
Twenty days until Yolanda is eligible for parole. Now her
potential release date could be March thirtieth of twenty twenty five.
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She maintained still this crazy person that the shooting was
accidental and considers her time in prison to be enough
for the murder. They say she's a most hated woman
in the Latino community. It's interesting. I've act she's changed
her rhetoric. I felt like at one point she had
some sort of crazy conspiracy conspiracy story that she wasn't
(19:04):
the one, she was being set up. Now she's acknowledged
this killing Selena. She was sentenced to a life in
prison with the possibility parole after thirty years, so she
now is eligible for it. It's crazy that Selena was
only twenty three years old at the time of her murder.
Just wild Man twenty three. It's interesting with like celebrity
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like kind of ages you or you view these people
that are icons and we think about them or we
view them as like, you know, I guess personally, like
especially I guess as a kid, but you almost see
them as like so much older than they actually are,
or having lived so much more life or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
H and Man twenty three years old.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
It's just so incredibly incredibly sad. Yeah, so she's out
for parole. We're gonna kind of see what ends up
happening here. Obviously Selena fans are not having it. General
public is not giving her, uh the the sympathy her
family is saying enough time has served. Again they're under
(20:10):
the premise that she accidentally shot and killed Selena. But like,
this is the why did you have a gun? Why
would you point a gun in the first place at her?
Why do you have a gun for this meeting in
the motel room. I don't like that to me, erases
(20:30):
any sort of accidental part. You were you you brought
Selena to the motel under the guise of you're gonna
give her proof that you know the money wasn't stolen,
whatever it was, and for some.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Reason you thought you would bring a gun.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
You would not only bring a gun, but then also
take out the gun during the meeting. Like, to me,
that's premeditation right there. That's that's murder. Nah, like lock
her up, throw away the key. That's also like the
irony in this country, like murder and the idea of
(21:09):
like parole after thirty years.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
That just seems I don't know, for premeditated murder, that
just seems kind of crazy to me. We'll see how
it plays out, obviously, I'll be following along with everybody else.
And I remember she had like didn't she have a
documentary recently? Like this lady's collecting checks while in prison
for fucking murderings.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Like, it's a dark world we live in.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Now. I start getting pissed off when I think about
it in that in that way. But yeah, we'll follow
along and see where this ends up. With that said, now,
how about some positivity. We'll talk about some positive things
for our me hint the segment, but first we'll take
a quick break and then we'll be right back. All right,
(22:05):
positive things real quick. I'm a huge off fan of
the show The Office, particularly when Steve Corow was there,
lost this luster for me the last two seasons.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
I kind of fell off from.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
There, but big fan of The Office and the Latino
on the show, Oscar actually Oscar Martinez. If you're a
fan of the show, sorry if you're not. This is
just I guess I gotta excite you. When I read this,
they're actually speculating a I see they're calling it a
(22:36):
reboot in this article.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
I think it's.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
A spin off more than anything. But they're saying that
Oscar Nunez, who's the actor who plays Oscar Martinez, has
officially signed on with Peacock and they're talking about it's
going to be upcoming a mockumentary series tentatively titled The Paper. Now,
he's the first confirmed returning cast member, and they're saying
(23:01):
that it's created by the Office mastermind Greg Daniels and Nathan.
Speaker 1 (23:07):
For You. Oh, Nathan for You is another show co creator,
Michael Coleman.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
And it follows a documentary crew that previously chronicled life
at dunder Mifflin. So it's the crew that followed the
dunder Mifflin cast as, and it's they're chronicling them as
they search for their next big subject, saying, this time
they turned their cameras towards a historic Midwest newspaper and
the publisher struggling to keep it alive.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Now they're saying Nunias may.
Speaker 2 (23:38):
Not be the lead, but he's confirmed to be a
part of the new series script from the start. While
details about his character arc remain under wraps, his presence
suggests that The Paper will maintain ties to the original show,
The Office, while introducing a fresh storyline. A bunch of
confirmed cast members nobody who's name I recognize off the
(23:58):
top of my head. Yeah, exciting, That's really all I
could say. I was excited about that. I love this show.
There's a bunch of shows like I had to make
It in America. By the way, if you've never watched
the show has nothing at the office. But I'm just
thinking of like my favorite shows ever that I wish
could come back. How to make It in America? HBO show,
(24:21):
go watch it. I think it's on demand if you
you have HP on demand. Greatest, I literally greatest show
of all time. I'll die on that cross. Super inspirational.
Just reminds me of like it was New York. I
would call it like mid to late two thousands and
(24:42):
I and it was just like I remember living it
in real time and it was like, Oh, that show
just brings back so many memories. I don't know why we'll
get in on this tangent anyway. Uh yeah, so Office
spin off on Peacock. Excited about that. Now, let's talk
about Bad Bunny and get He just dropped a video
(25:02):
for my favorite song on his new album. The song
is called La Mulansta, and he's like, again, I don't
I know, this is sound like I'm beating a dead horse.
You're probably sick of me talking about I'm sick of
me talking about this, right, But the First of all,
(25:22):
Happy lated birthday to him. He celebrated his birthday by
dropping this video. He's thirty one years old now, and
he just keeps fucking doing it like and not for nothing.
Like my parents were over the night it dropped and
we watched it together. There's a beauty in like the
way that he's bringing people together, even that experience of
(25:46):
watching it with my parents and also my father being
the proud perto Rican that he is. And then this
video having so much symbolism for the island of Puerto Rico,
it like just hits every like every which way you
could possibly.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
It's that's what's sort of beautiful about it.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
I mean, the video has all kinds of, you know,
stories of resistance and strength from the Puerto Rican people.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
There's there's all.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Kinds of imagery and symbolism within it.
Speaker 1 (26:15):
It references, you.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Know, the African culture of the tiny Indian culture with
some of the the masks that were being worn here.
You have women in the final scene dancing wearing traditional
hebatal dresses. Bet Buddy also has his straw hat in there.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
He's running with the Puerto Rican flag while being traced
by military men. The hat you know. The straw hat
is also associated.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
With the PDP, which is the Popular Democratic Party of
Puerto Rico, which is pro independence. There's also black and
white photos in the final scene that tells the story
of the Puerto Rican resistance in nineteen seventy nine and
when the Puerto Rican people were protesting and pushing back
against the United States government and US occupation. There's a
(27:13):
whole bunch of little symbolisms in here, specifically talking about
the island of Vicks, which was used as basically like
a place to test out bombs in Puerto Rico. It's
an island that's a part of Puerto Rico, but a
separate island where a Navy head of base. And yeah, man,
I don't know it. Like I watched these things and
(27:38):
I guess for me, what is particularly u touching about it?
Or I guess what gets me really hopped up about it?
Aside from it just being obviously.
Speaker 1 (27:53):
You know, Puerto Rican.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
It gets me thinking what can I do? How can
I contribute? And I think that is sort of the
the beauty of this kind of thing, is it like
inspires activates and it's it's a call to action and
almost like in watching it. I'm you know, I found
(28:19):
myself like even thinking about my own art, my own
you know, think everything that I do, how can I
go a level deeper?
Speaker 1 (28:28):
You know?
Speaker 2 (28:28):
How can I do my part the way he's doing
his right? And I think that is so incredible to
have that kind of effect through your artwork that you
inspire others to join the cause, to be a part
of the community, to to do something positive. And again
I've said this a million and one times in general,
(28:50):
but like, particularly with this shallow entertainment space that has
pretty much always existed. To see somebody having this level
lookscess right, like even as a DJ playing his music
in the club, particularly from this album, it's one of
the greatest rewards and greatest feelings, not only because I
(29:14):
love the music, you know, his past music I've loved
deeply and enjoy listening to it and dancing to it
and seeing people react, but particularly.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
This what it feels like.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's like a form of resistance, a form of protest,
a form of cultural celebration. But at the same time
it's a fucking banger that's going off in the club,
right And I can't say, aside from a couple of
Mark Anthony Records, and even those you sort of have
to be in the right environment for really to hit
(29:45):
the right way. Aside from that, I can't really think
of any other artist or any other music that gives
me that same feeling.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
Like when I play it, I feel.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
Like I'm doing as stupid as it sounds and as
small as it is, I feel like I'm contributing something
to the culture, to my people, and I'm representing them.
And on top of that, it's like a crowd is
just going off and having the most fun listening to it, right,
And it's it's just it. That's what touches me, I
guess on such a deep level. The video is dope
though too. Go check that.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Out for la.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
And with that said, let's time of thing we talked
about today in a neat little boat in a segment
we call conclusion.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Stew time for conclusion, all right, So kind of tying
everything together here.
Speaker 2 (30:35):
My fear, my two greatest fears here. There's a lot
of things I fear in the current administration, and I
think my two greatest ones that I fear because one
because on one side, it's our basic right as Americans,
and I can't imagine living any other way.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
And then the other thing is the idea that.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
The very institution of government that was put in place
to protect us will no longer exist and basically we
will be even further and officially at the will of
rich people, which if you're not rich like myself, I
don't think it's going to bode well for you. I
think I said that wrong. If you're not rich like me,
(31:28):
I am not rich. That sounds like I was rich.
If you're not rich like myself, you're fuck That's what it.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Sounds like I was saying.
Speaker 2 (31:33):
If you're not rich as I am not rich, we
are all fucked. Is basically it's gonna bode badly for
all of us.
Speaker 1 (31:41):
Want to clarify that.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
But like, okay, So the first thing is the idea
of like our basic right to express ourselves gone, like
again when he starts with the cherry picking of who's
the press allowed to be in a room and allowed
to ask questions. And now this when it comes to
(32:05):
this man who is potentially facing deportation for a peaceful
protest at a college campus. Again, historically these are places
where protests happen and somebody who's here legally it sets
the stage for a sort of sketchy reality of what
(32:31):
the fuck is gonna happen, Like, especially again, I'm somebody
who I have a platform. I've never lived in fear
of like critiquing Donald Trump or somebody like that and
thinking to myself, my safety or my livelihood is going
to be put.
Speaker 1 (32:51):
At risk.
Speaker 2 (32:52):
Now, I've known that by being outspoken, corporate money might
be put at risk, but as far as my ability
to just exist, that's something I've never thought about until now,
because again it's a slippery slope.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
These are the beginning stages of potentially living in a
world like that where you cannot critique the government publicly
or there will be repercussions. And again I never thought
in the United States of America.
Speaker 2 (33:26):
That would be a possibility, But that's literally sort of
the pathway we're heading down if these things go unchecked,
And that's what scares me.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
And then the flip side of that, like.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I talk about all the time, my other greatest fear
is like the Elon Musk thing of like the idea
of basically you're handing over the keys of the government
to this rich billionaire who is just gutting all of
our programs that are meant to help the everyday people. Right,
this country is supposed to be in service of its citizens,
but instead they're running it like a ruthless corporation that
(33:57):
as a corporation, you know, the blueprint of a ruthless
capitalistic corporation is turn profit for its uh you know,
board and executives by any means possible. And the country
can't operate that way because you and I, as everyday citizens,
are the people who are gonna feel the brunt of
(34:18):
them squeezing us and bleeding us dry.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
We're the ones who are gonna suffer. Those are two
things that scare me. And then this this realtor in.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Uh Columbus, Ohio, Like you couldn't this is like a
fucking Chappelle show skit. Almost a racist goes to a
Mexican restaurant and then is racist against the brown person
at a Mexican restaurant, Like that's a fucking sketch right there.
And then ironically, the person she's racist against not only
(34:51):
happens to be a fucking citizen but a military veteran,
which again doubles down the fact that no matter how
much to this America kool aid you drink, and how
much you try to be one of these good old boys,
there will always be a moment that reminds you they
do not view you as your equal. And it's it's
(35:13):
moments like this one that God she got fired shots
the centry twenty one for firing her stupid ass just
said again, who knows how many people were fucked out
of like potential properties or whatever because of this fucking
racist idiot. Anyway us some positivity or no Landa Salazar. Listen,
(35:34):
I don't I think the she kills Elena. You brought
a gun to a fucking knife fight base and it
wasn't even a knife fight, it was a meeting.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
Like, I'm sorry, that's premeditated murder.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
There was no reason, no accident, shouldn't have the gun
there in the first place, in a position to kill
Like that's crazy like that.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
No, lock her up throwing the key. I don't want
to see her getting parole. Fucked that.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
We'll follow that story now on some positive things, the
office story. I'm just happy about something. I love the office, hopefully.
I mean, I'm fearful because most of the time these
things kind of suck and they like are never as
good as the original, obviously, but if they get some
of the original cast, I think it could be fun
and nostalgic.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
You know. I love The Office, it's a great show.
And then Bad Buddy. I love Bad Buddy again. It's inspiring. Man, Like.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
This is how I'm thinking of I'm gonna leave it
at this. I don't want to keep getting in my
fucking soapbox. But I guess, in a nutshell, when I
look at Bad Bunny, I'm reminded that I don't have
to have one or the other. I don't have to
have success at the expense of what I care about,
and I don't have to be an advocate for my
(36:47):
people at the expense of my livelihood. I can be
successful monetarily career wise while still doing the work of
my people and representing my people. And that is what
is so fucking inspiring to me about somebody like a
Bad Bundy. It doesn't mean you have to do it
as a singer, as an artist, as a fucking celebrity,
whatever your field of expertise, of talent, of passion of
interest is, you could still bring that same you know,
(37:13):
audacity and activism for your people and still find success
and that's why what he does is so special.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
I fucking love that song. It's my favorite song on
the album.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
The video did not disappoint it again, like I'll forever
remember when I'm old and gray. Like the way that
this artist brought me and my family together, that we
can like listen to music together and watch his videos
and have conversations and enjoy it, like this album in
particular because of the South Side, because.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Of the Bonlanta.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
The fact that we can, like I can play it
for them and they can genuinely enjoy it because I
can I get them to them is like, you know,
they they're older and it's not their music. You know,
they celebrate the artists because they're perto Rican and things
like that, but like this is the first time where
like they would actually listen to the songs by themselves
without me there type of thing, And there's a beautiful
(38:05):
connection in that. And like the way we can now
have conversations and go back and forth, and you know,
I can hear more history about them with salsa, and like,
I don't know, it made us far more connected.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
There's something beautiful about that.
Speaker 2 (38:17):
So I don't know, I waxed poetic a little long there,
but that's uh, that's how I feel. But that said,
thank you'all so much for tuning in. I will catch
you on Tuesday with a brand new episode.
Speaker 1 (38:27):
So let's stay safe and we'll talk soon, please.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
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