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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Love me. Talking about there we go, he said, you
live in life as a ringo, where you question where
you fit in every time you mingle, they say you
do this would not that.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Yes, Hello, and welcome to another episode of Life as
a Gringo. I am Dramos, of course, and it's Thursday,
so I mean it's time for our Thursday Trends episode.
I'm flying solo on today's show, and we had a
guest the last two episodes, so you know, I want
to selfishly just take over today's show and we're gonna
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touch on a few things. Obviously big news when it
comes to the presidential campaign with Kamala Harris and h
picking her running mates, so we'll talk all about that
and kind of I guess some of the conversation that's
been happening around Kambala in.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
The last couple of weeks, so we'll touch on that.
I did not have an episode last Thursday, so I
missed out on talking about all that's going on in Venezuela,
so we will touch on that's just crazy, crazy times
right now. And on the positive side of things, Olympics
is obviously going on. There's a really beautiful moment in
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the gymnastics metal ceremony at least one of the events
where you had women of color standing at the podium
together just celebrating one Another's just remarkable in a beautiful
moment to see. So we will talk all about that,
but first and foremost, let's just get into the nonsense.
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The BS in a segment, call for the people in
the back, say a lot for the people in the
say a lot of the people in the All right,
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So we're here, like what two three weeks now into
Kamala Harris being the Democratic nominee for their presidential candidate
in this year's presidential race. And it's interesting, man, And
I guess it's not surprising, but it's it makes me sad.
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You know, I'm definitely my father's son in some sort
of ways. My dad is is to a degree when
it comes to thinking people are going to do the
right thing. He's a bit of an eternal optimist, right,
And at times I find myself falling into that, And
then I'm reminded of, man, just how many fucked up
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people there are in this world, and how many messed
up opinions. A lot of people still sort of hold
on to and just old toxic narratives. And I've been
reminded of that when I've seen some of the conversation
around Vice President Harris and you know, her credibility as
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far as running for candidate, and even you know, you
had people on on Fox News or Fox Business. I
should say, I'm sorry for to hear my dog rolling
around in the background. He waits until we turned the
microphone on to start bouncing around the walls over here.
But he's he's my sidekicks, so I can't kick him
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out of the studio. But you know, it's you had
that Fox Business And I made a post about this
on Instagram, I think last week of the week before,
somebody calling Kamala Harris the original Hawk to a girl,
saying that she slept her way into her position, and
you know, just really derogative statements like that one directed
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at Kamala Harris, and I think, really, you know, exposing
the misogyny that still very much exists in this country,
the sort of toxic ideas, masculine ideas, and obviously I'm
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not talking about everybody, but I don't know, it's it's
just a reminder, and you know what, I think we
need moments like this because I think, you know, we
all sort of to a degree exist in our own bubbles, right,
We're probably surrounded by people, hopefully that share in the
important ideology that that you know, we we sort of
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have as the cornerstones to the way we got ourselves
in life. Like you know, for me, I am not
going to be surrounded by people who are you know,
hateful towards women and hateful towards you know, the LGBTQ
community and people of obviously. So you know, I think
it's easy to sort of assume that everybody thinks like you,
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at least in terms of their level of respect towards
you know, various communities, and I guess people's just individual
right to exist in this world. And then you reminded
of no, there are still people with really old world ideas.
There are still people who want to tear down a woman,
and because they don't have the ability to tear her
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down politically, they're just going to sort of find these
different narratives that they can run with to destroy her character. Right.
These really just disgusting character attacks, And it's ironic coming
from a side whose candidate literally paid a porn star
to have sex with him while his wife was at
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home with his newborn child, or a candidate who is
a convicted felaon, literally a convicted felon, but they are
finding ways to character, you know, to assassinate the character
of a woman like Kamala, who has really done so
much and really is proof of the quote unquote American dream.
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You know, she has defied all the expectations and risen
to a place that many wouldn't even think was possible
up until, you know, a couple of years ago. And
it's a beautiful sight to see and again a sad
reminder when we see people using these tactics to tear
someone like her down. And there was this really interesting
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article on We Are Me Too where they talk about
a study that was published by the Wilson Center, and
you had Jen cow Sitz, Jillian Hunsack, Alexandria, Alexandra Padaluke,
Celia Davies, Shannon Pearson, and Zoe Kaufman who discovered through
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their their studies some really disturbing information. They say their
study revealed the shocking extent of sexist and sexualized misinformation
directed at women in public life. Worst. The researchers found
that these attacks affect women's participation in democracy and national security.
Researchers analyze more than three hundred and thirty six thousand
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insulting messages directed at thirteen female politicians on six social
media platforms. They found how widespread and coordinated these attacks are.
The result nearly two hundred thousand users are sharing insulting content,
and this includes mainstream media platforms. And this answers a
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lot of questions right when we talk about why is
the political makeup of our country historically and primarily made
up of elite And I say elite in terms of
their financial status or their college education. Elite white men
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definitely not elite in their thinking. But again I'm talking
about economically and connection wise, why is that? Well, we
see it right here. Anybody who is different is going
to be torn down, not because they are not credible
at being able to do the given job or the
office that they're running for, but because of their circumstance
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of who they are. They're a woman, We're going to
find ways to discredit them via sexist narratives that have
existed for generations. They're a person of color, We're going
to discredit them, you know, in any way we can
and have underlying dog whistling, racist you undertones to why
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they're not qualified. And I think these are the growing
pains right that we're going to see. It's unfortunate, it's frustrating,
it's disgusting. Many of these people spouting this hate have children,
have daughters themselves, and really just sends a terrible message.
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But I think, you know, these are the growing pains
as things begin to change, as the face of politics
begins to shift. The people who love the old way
of thinking, the people who are benefiting from that old
method of thinking, that old ideology, of course, they are
going to feel threatened, and they're going to come out
in any way they possibly can, and sadly, rather than
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trying to beat somebody by just being better at what
you do, they're going to use personal attacks and they're
going to tap into people's underlying sexism or racism. And
that's sort of the tactic that we're seeing on display here,
which is really terrible. On the positive side of things,
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I love who Kamala Harris picked for her running mate.
You have Tim Walls, who's the governor of Minnesota up
and I don't know if you've been anybody's been watching
the rallies they they've had a few. First of all,
he's he's like the polar opposite of Kamalo, which unfortunately
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is sort of what you need, optic wise, for the
part of the country who still can't get their head
around the idea of a woman being an office little
of color. Optically, he's a good balance. He's a six
year old, balding white guy from the Middle America, right,
But if you've heard him speaking at these these rallies,
he's fucking on fire, right, He's just killing it. He
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is sort of the polar opposite of what the Republicans
try to paint Democrats out to be like these elitists.
Because he's I'm gonna read off some facts. I'm really
stoked on this guy. I think he's he's absolutely incredible.
So he's actually a veteran. He is a former principal.
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He was the faculty advisor for the school that he
worked at, their first Gay Straight Alliance chapter, and this
is in nineteen ninety nine. So he is somebody who
from you know, early in his career and before really
the LGBTQ community began to truly have a mainstream voice.
He is somebody who stood by them. Last year, Minnesota
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legalized recreational marijuana. He also signed a bill last May
expanding voting rights for an estimated fifty five thousand formally
incarcerated residents, right, which is incredibly important, and especially the
irony of you could be a convicted felon but still
run for office, but you can't vote for president. That
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is ridiculous. And people who have been incarcerated and served
their time are supposed to now have the opportunity to
reclaim their lives, and voting is part of that. So
amazing that he signed that bill. And in twenty twenty
three last year, he signed in an executive order protecting
access to gender affirming care right, so again he remains
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with his support of the LGBTQ community. And he also
signed legislation codifying abortion rights, repealing essentially all of the
state's restrictions and adding protections for patients to travel from
states where abortion is restricted. So on the issue of abortion,
he is somebody who has done his part to make
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his state a place where women do have the right
to choose. And I bring up you know these facts
because it's easy to get caught up in the nonsense
of social media, and it's important to sort of know
where people stand, right especially if you're somebody who is
on the fence or you're just not politically inclined or
whatever it might be. It's important to at least have
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some sort of information and to you know, participate in
the gift that is being able to vote. I mean,
we're going to talk about Venicel Well on a second.
But you know, democracy, we take it for granted in
this country. It is not a given. I mean shit,
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something like Donald Trump is really making moves to try
and not make it a thing here anymore. I mean
he had a rally where he told Christians, you know, Christians,
we really need you to get out here and vote,
and this will be the last time you know you
have to do so what does that mean? Very ominous
open ended thing of the last time you're gonna have
to come out and vote. Why would that be? If
we live in a democracy, we're supposed to have these
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elections every four years. Again, that's what's on the ticket.
I've said that for you know the beginning of this
election cycle is democracy is what's on the ticket right now.
And you know it's I think you have a strong
No longer are we just having to vote out of that.
We actually, I think have a strong Democratic candidate and
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strong running mate that are in line with a lot
of really amazing value that will help continue to progress
this country and not bring us back into an era
where it was really only good for a select few people,
rich white people basically. So again, just you know, things
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to think about and you have to vote. It's you know,
it's interesting to me these people. And it was like
somebody on Facebook. I randomly was off I love Facebook marketplace,
so I'll log onto Facebook and like on my way
to the marketplace, you'll randomly see people's posts on there,
and it's always people from like high school and your
hometown that you grew up and things like that. But
I saw a post from somebody that I was from
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my hometown or I went to where I went to
high school. And as with anything, if you're still posting
on Facebook, you're probably just like over sharing mundane updates
about your life. But anyway, not to frul shade anybody
who who uh you know, is on Facebook, but that's
kind of the norm. But she posted like, oh, it's
just uh just registered to vote and then she posted
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it for She said, I just read to vote. This
is my first time voting, and I don't know how
many years whatever. She's like in her thirties, So first
time voting now in her thirties. And she said, and
that she gave an explanation. Yeah, prior to I never
registered to vote because I wanted to avoid getting called
for jury duty. But now that I found out they
could still call you for jury duty, I have registered
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because it's too important. Maga hashtag maga, and I love
this hashtag, maga make America great again. I just have
to vent at the idiocracy of that. You claim to
care so much about this country. That's why it's so
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important that you have to vote. Yet you are somebody
who avoided and listen, I get it. I haven't done
jury duty in a long time, but you actively avoided
participating in democracy where people have literally lost their lives
to give you the right to vote. You avoided doing
that just so you could avoid having to again participate
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in something that is a gift of democracy, where you
are judged by a jury of your peers. Are you
really a patriot when you literally do not want to
participate in the things that make this country great? What
are we talking about? I found it to be ironic.
Maybe I'm just inventing at you know, stupidity that I
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run into it from time to time. But anyway, this
election is important. I encourage you to continue to read
up on these things, read up on where these candidates stand.
And Donald Trump has been losing his shit on social
media and trying to attack Kamala in any way, shape
or form and insert all types of conspiracy theories that
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Joe Biden is going to jump back in the race,
like all types of bullshit. Obviously he's feeling a bit
scared right now. But that's where we're at. Yeah, MISOGYNYUS
sexism still very real in this country, unfortunately, but we're
getting there. These are the growing pains, That's what I
tell myself. Now. With that said, I want to talk
about Venezuela. But we'll first take a quick break and
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then we'll be right back. All right, So we were
or I was off last week. We're back, by the way,
and I was off for Thursday. Trends and Venezuela has
a lot of controversy in its election right now, and
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it is all surrounding Nicholas maludo. Right, and he's somebody
who took into cap it to power. I should say
twenty thirteen. He took over after the death of Ugo
Chavez and I got this information we army two dot com.
They talk about how he led Venezuela into the worst
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economic crisis in its history. More than eight million Venezuelans,
a quarter of the pop that have fled the country
as best they can. Meanwhile, the regime has been accused
of drug trafficking and terrorism. It's currently under investigation by
the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Right, You
had an election on July twenty eighth, and it was
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the highest electoral participation in the country's history. Millions of
people from all corners of the national territory traveled and
stood in line for hours to vote. Now, think about that.
I just talked about voting in the United States of America,
and which I know they're trying to make it more
difficult in certain places like Georgia. But you had people
driving from all across the country waiting in line for
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hours just to have their voice heard. That's how important
this is. Right, and we take that for granted. They
talk about how citizens reported of regularities in the voting
centers from early hours in the day, from false ballots
in favor of Mabudu to the theft of electoral material
by military forces. Many feared the way worst. At the
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end of the day, after hours of delays and uncertainty,
the regime assured that Maludo had won with fifty one
percent against forty four percent of the opposition candidate at
Mundo Gonzalez. And that's what we've been seeing on the
news is a reaction like protests and a lot of
said violence. But people had their elections stolen from them
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right by a dictator, and Maluto, who's in power right now,
refused to leave office. He's like another putin. But he
is somebody who, from what I've read, if he wasn't
to be president, he would be arrested for multiple things
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that he's been charged with or being investigated for. So
he has to maintain office in order to not go
to jail. So basically, so of course he's holding on
with a death gript and unfortunately it's at the sort
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of expense of the citizens of Venezuela. And you know,
to me, this is where foreign policy with the United
States needs to kick in right, and I would critique
the Biden administration for this because we talk about immigration
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and you know it being an issue in this country,
too many people coming over not doing it there, you know,
the process, and we're just being overwhelmed in our systems.
If people didn't have to flee their home country, they wouldn't.
So it's in our benefit to have better foreign policy,
have better relationships where we can help stabilize these countries.
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And again I don't I'm not a politician out of
the plans, but this should be a bigger issue because
this man staying in office will only cause more people
to flee and more people to try and find, you know,
safety in the United States of America, which I'm not
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saying I don't want Venezuelan's here, But what I'm saying
is if the system is overwhelmed, more people are just
going to be added to that overwhelmed system because of
how dire and scary the circumstances are shaping up in
a place like Venezuela. Now, this article and I'll always
put the Lincoln the show notes, they do highlight a
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woman who's actually been doing great work in the government
over there, trying to fight back against the corruption. Her
name is Marie Coorina Machalo, and she is someone who
has been at the forefront of opposition against the government
for more than two decades. They say she is a
presidential candidate who has been gagged and threatened by the
regime for years, and they're actually giving her a lot
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of credit for being one of the people who galvanized
and motivated people to actually go out and vote. And
what she is saying is that the votes were actually
more so seventy percent in favor of Gonzales actually coming
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and winning. She says, quote, we won in every demographic
in every state. It was overwhelming. We won, and the
whole world knows this, even the regime knows what happened.
And she's actually with somebody who is running for presidency herself.
And then in twenty twenty three, the Venezuelan government actually
just qualified her from a holding office for fifteen years.
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And then even after her disqualification, she still stayed in there,
put in the work, and she actually again her work
and her voice has inspired Venezuelan opposition to fight back.
They're saying that her support was crucial in boosting and
Mundo Gonzalez's and Mundo Gonzales Urithia candidacy, who became the
opposition the facto candidate in the twenty twenty four president's elections.
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My Childel's role in galvanizing public support and maintaining pressure
on the Maduro regime underscored her pivotal position in Venezuela's
struggle for democracy. So I love that that article just
because I think it's easy to lose hope. And I'm
sure if you're in Venezuela and you have a lot
of family back there and you think about these things,
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and I think, even just as a human being, to
think that people are being suppressed like that in twenty
twenty four, for a dictator who is allegedly involved in
drug trade and all types of crimes, it's sad and
it really is just unnecessary, you know. And again, these
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are the growing pains, and it doesn't happen as quickly
as we'd like them to. But you see people like
this fighting back and this election being historic and obviously
unfortunately being stolen, and we'll kind of see how it
continues to play out. But this is an important story
to follow. And again, even us here the United States
it's something that affects us. You know, these are our neighbors,
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you know, and we are a better place when the
world is at peace. Right, the world is in a
better place when all countries are at peace, and when
when suffering is at a minimum and countries are operating
at a at a higher level, right, that provides more
opportunity for stable life all across the world. You know,
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we're really all part of the same ecosystem. So all
these things just incredibly important. Salute to to her for
for fighting back. And yeah, I mean, just an important
story to follow that I think needs to continue to
get more mainstream press, and we'll see, you know, doing
my part obviously to speak about it. So you know,
my my my prayers and my my thoughts and my
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heart goes out to all the people of Venezuela fighting
a good fight. And I really hope that, you know,
this is a start to turning things around and getting
them to a better place, and we'll see how it
plays out. Now, with that said, I want to talk
about some positive stuff the Olympics, a really beautiful moment
that happened. We'll do that in our hint this segment,
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but first we'll take a quick break and then we'll
be right back. All right. The Olympics have been going on.
I'm not gonna lie. I haven't been as invested in
it as I have been in the past. I think
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I'm just busier. Life gets hard, man, I don't I
don't watch the much TV anymore either. And also the
one thing I did watch I was off on was
it this past Saturday, and I watched Puerto Rico Versus
US and basketball and the US just spank that ad.
So that was that was a bit deflating my first
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time this this Olympic season participating, and I watched Portirico
get their asshops. I'm obviously I'm cheering on TMSA as
well though, but uh yeah, that was that was that
but amazing moment here as you had Brazilian gymnast Rebecca
Andrade winning Olympic gold. Now. She is Brazilian born born
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in Guarulhos, Brazil, and she actually is the most decorated
Brazilian Olympian in history. After winning four medals in Paris.
She actually has a total of six right now, which
is crazy. Andrade took home one of the medals, the
gold on Monday for the women's floor exercise final, beating
her quote toughest competition, Simone Biles, who's legendary, who ended
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up getting the silver. But the moment that everybody's talking
about in this, aside from from her just being brilliant,
there was a moment where andrad Mobiles and the bronze
medal winner Jordan Chiles or Child's from the US made
up the first all black podium in Olympics history. And
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then you actually had someone Biles and Jordan Chiles bowing
down to uh, to the winner Rebecca Andrade just kind
of showing respect, and some Mobiles after that talked very
highly of her and how she didn't want to have
to face her again, and just that talent that she was.
Just a beautiful moment. Man, I think, I think, uh,
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I mean, if you're like hypersensis and things like race
and like you know, you're it wasn't like okay cool,
But I think what what is a beautiful thing is?
I can imagine there's probably some young black girl or
many of them, or of all ages, anybody of color
I think can even appreciate this watching the optics of
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these three black women standing on the Olympic podium with
their medals and it's just inspiring. Like there's no way
around that, right. I think I've always talked about this,
but like these moments matter. Representation matters. Being able to
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see yourself or see somebody who looks like you, comes
from your background. Just achieving something great it puts It
allows you to plant the seed in your mind of
one day, maybe that could be me. And sometimes that's
all you need, right, I mean, that's been you know,
my greatest motivations. Right. My sort of way of keeping
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ongoing is like I'll watch documentaries or YouTube videos on
people that I enjoy, that I look up to, that
are doing cool things, and it implants that seed me, right,
me seeing there how they got started and seeing the
pathway and then seeing them at the top. It's like, man,
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I could do that, you know, I could see and
relate to certain parts of their story. So why can't
I also be one of those people who's standing up
there one day? And at times in my darkest moments,
that's what I've needed. That's all that I've needed to
keep on pushing and it's helped me to continue to
fight on another day. Right, And that's why moments like
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this were so incredibly beautiful and it was it's ironic too.
I saw I saw some critique of like people like oh,
some mobile shouldn't be bowing down to It's like, bro,
we have this, like I this really toxic idea about
what it means to be strong. Right, you're allowed to
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give credit where credit is due. Right, that's vulnerability. That's
real strength right there, to be able to be like, man,
this person is in credible. I'm incredible, but they are
incredible at what they do and they had the better day.
I'm going to salute you. That doesn't make you any
less of a competitor. I mean that's like you're you're
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appreciating and recognizing greatness. That's a beautiful thing. We're all
like it speaks to this idea, like we are so
trained that we have to like put on this show
at all times and pretend to be this like impenetrable force,
and like I get it where it's like trauma responses
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that we've been trained to do that to not show weakness, right,
to not put ourselves in a position to potentially be harmed.
But it's like it's just unnecessary. I think we don't
have to exist on an island and we don't have
to look at other people's success as detrimental to our own.
And I think also, yeah, they are competing against each other,
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but they're in community together, and they both share the
same path and craft and are both operating at the
highest level possible. Uh, And there's something beautiful about that
to be a part of that, right, And why wouldn't
you want to celebrate somebody who you share community with
basically in that way, right, you're both a part of something,
a part of a moment that will live on forever.
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So it's just I don't know that whole like, you know,
nonsense of like uh, never show any more, just playing on.
We're all pretending so much. Man, It's it's fucking silly.
But so to them, it's just again, beautiful moment. Man.
The Olympics is always good for for certain moments like
this one, and it's just beautiful. You love to see it, man,
I loved the Like if you look at the picture,
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it gave me chills when I looked at it. It's
just again, I can guarantee there's some kid out there
watching somewhere that is incredibly inspired by that and will
be the next Simone Biles or Rebecca Andra there. Right,
it's just incredible, so big suit to them and everybody's
competing in the Olympics and doing their thing. I believe
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that you is just dominating right now when it comes
to metals like they have like twenty five or twenty
six or something like that. So cool, cool stuff as well.
And yeah, that said, that's high everything we talked about
today in a neat little boat in a segondent we
call conclusion STU time for co all right, so I
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touched on Kamala Harris again a stark reminder of sexism,
and then that that article, that study that was done
speaks to why it's been so tough for women to
get involved, for people of color to get involved, because
of all the the challenges that they're going to face
that their white counterparts don't face, that their male counterparts
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don't face. You know, again, it's the age old thing
of like if a guy sleeps with a woman, he's
getting a high five. If a woman sleeps with the man,
she's just being looked at, you know, as as lesser than,
as dirty or whatever it is. And that sort of
toxic mentality carries on into other aspects of life and
even in politics. And in politics it's a dirty game
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and they're going to find the low hanging fruit, and unfortunately,
for women, it's going to be based around, you know,
sexuality and their gender and you know, all things that
have nothing to do with their actual skill set for
said job. But again, I think we're in the growing
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Pains version of our political system. I think these are
the things that are going to pop up. But the
fact that somebody like Kamala Harris is in the position
she's in and running for president as the Democratic nominee,
as a black woman, I think it is beginning to
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break the mold for what the face of politics looks like.
And of course you're going to have the opposition, the
old world guard, wanting to keep up the old ways
that benefit them. But you know, I think as a
whole zooming out, we're seeing a lot of progress happening
and a gay love her pick for Tim Wall's great
sort of track record. All that's going on in Venezuela
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right now. My heart goes out to everybody in Venezuela,
people who have family there, And I think as a whole,
it's a reminder of like this is what we are
why we as Americans have to show up to vote
so that we don't find ourselves in a position like this,
because Donald Trump is very similar to Vladimir Putin or
Nicholas Maludo, right, all criminals in their own way, all
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people who are narcissists and don't believe in the democratic process.
Now we're lucky we're in the United States of America
where there are a lot more guardrails. But even with that,
we have seen the Supreme Court being incredibly biased and
doing a lot of shady shit to support their biases.
We have Donald Trump talking about that this will be
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the last time you have to come out and vote
in this way. You know, what does that mean? You know, obviously,
you know it could be taking a bunch of different ways.
But he's also shown a lack of respect for the
democratic process. I think January sixth was a part of that.
I think him you know, never admitting his defeat is
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a part of that. And he wants to be in
a position like someone like Nicholas Madoodle where he has
the utmost power and there isn't a true democratic voting
process that happens. So, you know, this is what we're
voting for and what is on the docket for twenty
twenty four. We got to keep fighting the good fight again.
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You got to salute people like Mariecorina Machildo who's standing
in opposition, putting her life at risk for the sake
of the people of Venezuela. Being able to experience democracy.
And then the Olympics. Olympics is just heartwarming I think
in general, Like I've seen clips and things online and
it's just it's a beautiful thing to say. People wearing there,
They're country on their sleeve. Literally, it's beautiful. And then
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this beautiful moment that happened with a Brazilian gymnast, Rebecca Andrade,
where she uh to came the gold for the women's
floor exercise final gymnastics competition, beating out something like some
more bios who's obviously legendary, but again the first time
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ever having an all black podium at the Olympics where
the gold, silver, and bronze winner were all black women,
just beautiful to see, inspiring and you know, something to
get you fired up on this Thursday going into the weekend,
anything is possibly always just got to keep pushing With
that said, thank y'all so much for listening to today's show.
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I'm begetting the dms for the Just Be Social Club,
the Mastermind group that I host. I'm slowly building it out.
If you joined to be patient with me, but again,
DM me at dj Dramos on Instagram. I'll send you
the link to Joints Free. I'll see the private link
so you can hop up in our community that we
are building. And that's it. Man, have a beautiful weekend.
I will catch you on Tuesday with a brand new episode,
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so then stay safe. We'll talk soon. Life as a
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