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We all have a voice,
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and those of us who have a vote must use it to
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improve our community. I hope to get to a day where
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we don't have to be political about the arts.
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We don't have to be political in our songs.
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We don't have to be political in our speeches.
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I, I strive for that.
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But umama, noestamojayengeo momento,
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that's not where we are right now.
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Anna, it is such a pleasure to have you on.
00:30
How did we get here?
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How are you? I'm thrilled to be on with you.
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You bring me so much joy.
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You have no idea how much I have been following you,
00:38
and so it's a pleasure for me as well.
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Oh, that means so much coming from you.
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Let's get started with your Instagram bio.
00:46
It reads, Nicaraguan by birth,
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American by choice, Miamian by luck.
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How have those three identities shaped how you take up space?
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I think the fact that I'm from Miami,
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that I've lived in Miami now 47 years.
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And Miami is one of these places in the United States that
01:04
because it has been built by immigrants,
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the wave of Cubans that came in 1960s and
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the Venezuelans, Nicaraguans,
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Colombians, Haitians, it's a place where you can be incredibly
01:19
comfortable being a hyphenated American,
01:22
being Nicaraguan-American, being Mexican-American,
01:25
being Colombian. American.
01:27
You don't have to apologize for it.
01:28
You don't have to give explanations for it.
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And I love somebody that I heard say the other day,
01:34
you know, it was Becky G actually.
01:36
She said, I'm not 50% this,
01:40
I am 100% this and 100% that,
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and that's, and I think,
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Miami gives you the space to be that.
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You can speak Spanglish,
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you can speak English,
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you can speak Spanish.
01:53
actually, I feel a little sorry for you if
01:55
you live in Miami and you don't speak Spanish because you're missing
01:59
We talk all sorts of music,
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have a diversity of friends.
02:03
It's a place where diversity is seen as a virtue by most
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of us, not as a deficiency.
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Absolutely, we were just out there in Miami for the World
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Baseball Classic, actually,
02:14
and our team had me do an idea where I was testing
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people's Spanish speaking abilities,
02:21
you guys, tool mundaquia la espanol.
02:24
If anything, they're gonna hit us.
02:26
With another language they know what they're talking about.
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Imagine that there were 3 people that I had to,
02:32
I had to do the opposite.
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I'm like, you know what,
02:34
let's, let's, what is it in English then?
02:37
And, and we pivoted,
02:39
but I love Miami always,
02:41
and I'm born and raised in LA.
02:43
But I do feel a sense of home in Miami because I
02:45
see me everywhere I go.
02:47
And who are you rooting for at the at the,
02:50
Well, originally Colombia,
02:53
but we were eliminated before I even landed in Miami.
02:56
So then I, I went for Dominican Republic,
02:59
and then they got eliminated.
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So Venezuela loud and proud,
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quiorguyo paratolo Latinos. It was a great night,
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you know, Venezuelans have gone through so much,
03:08
not just lately, but for 25 years of oppression and dictatorship
03:13
And this crazy transition that's going on now,
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so I was so happy for Venezuela that they got this moment
03:20
of just sheer joy to celebrate.
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Likewise. You touched on it,
03:25
but growing up, did you see Nicaraguan representation in media that
03:29
inspired you, or did you feel like you had to carve
03:34
I still don't see Nicaraguan representation in media.
03:38
there's not that many Nicaraguans out there,
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for me why alliances and,
03:47
and friendships and collaborations amongst Latinos means so much.
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Because there's big groups of Latinos in the United States with representation
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in media, in politics,
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and business, and so many different aspects,
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right? So you've got Mexican-Americans and you've got Cuban-Americans,
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and you've got Puerto Ricans,
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and, and, and those are,
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I would say the big three groups.
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And then there's, there's the rest of us,
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and I think that's why it's so important,
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why I so appreciate.
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The Latinos that have opened doors for me,
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despite the fact that they may not be Nicaraguans,
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despite the fact that they may not be political exiles,
04:23
despite the fact that we may disagree on politics,
04:27
that we may have had different experiences growing up,
04:30
but that have opened up the doors,
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and I think it's really important that we as Latinos do that
04:35
not get caught up on the Nicaraguan,
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Colombian, Venezuelan, and Guatemala.
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Val and Salvadorian of it because,
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and I'll tell you why,
04:45
because we can all be very proud of where we come from
04:48
but people who are racist against Latinos,
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they don't give a shit.
04:52
If you are from Colombia or if you're from Cuba or if
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you're from Mexico or if you're from Nicaragua or you're from Venezuela
04:58
if you're from Uruguay,
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they, they basically lump us all in,
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so we should fight back as one big alliance.
05:08
Comonodijo like Bad Bunny did in the in in the Super
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Bowl halftime. Everybody,
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the more I appreciate that alliance,
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and we have to stop competing with each other because when one
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of us rises, all of us rises.
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I appreciate your insight on that as a Colombian.
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American, I agree there's the big 3 and then there's the
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rest of us, and they kind of all assume we are
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all one. That's what they see,
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and we do have to hold our hands and fight back together
05:39
I can imagine that you've experienced moments of being the Latina
05:43
in a room, depending on the space you're in,
05:45
of course you actually got to interview Carol G on The View
05:49
How does it feel to see more.
05:50
Us enter these rooms.
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First, I love Carol G,
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and I'm very excited.
05:54
I think I'm gonna see her,
05:57
She's got a charity event in Miami.
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a foundation that does wonderful things for children,
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and,, and I think I'm gonna head out there
06:06
and, and support her this weekend.
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And didn't she look beautiful in that Oscars after party?
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I mean, that dress didn't look like you could sit in
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she's looking gorgeous.,
06:20
it's really important to have a platform where I talk about our
06:23
perspectives and where I talk about the issues that are affecting us
06:26
It's really important,
06:27
particularly at this time,
06:29
where we are seeing what we're seeing with immigration and the attacks
06:32
on immigrants. To be able to tell the story of what
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being an immigrant in this country is like,
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to be able to tell the positive stories and highlight the abuses
06:42
I wanna be on The View or on CNN or on
06:45
my podcast talking about the little five year old Liam Ramos who
06:50
got used as bait in Minneapolis by ICE.
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I wanna be able to talk about the Mariachi boys who got
06:57
detained in the Rio Grande Valley.
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I want to be able to bring up those stories.
07:02
I want to be able to pronounce those last names,
07:05
to call out our heroes,
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people like Congressman Joaquin Castro,
07:09
who is busting his ass on a,
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on a case by case basis to get some of these unjust
07:16
detentions ended. And people released,
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you know, and I also wanna be able to celebrate us
07:23
I wanna be able to celebrate Bad Bunny and say it
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like you should say,
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not Bad Bunny. Bad body.
07:31
Bad Bo. I wanna be able to talk about Carol G
07:34
I wanna bring Carlos Vives to The View and have him
07:37
play, play his guitar.
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Can I tell you the Carlos Vives story,
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please,, I'm seated.
07:45
Tell me more. Carlos Vives is our,
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like, he has our national anthem,
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Cii cuenta memasbor.
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He is one of the nicest,
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best people in the world,
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and he was, and I had asked him to come to
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the view because one of the things I like to do.
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it's one thing to have people in front of the camera,
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but you also need to have people,
08:10
behind the camera because the bookings are made by people
08:13
behind the cameras. The,
08:14
the choices of the topics are,
08:16
you know, made in collaboration with people behind the camera.
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So anyways, so I'm always like on a crusade to bring
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more Latino guests to The View because we don't get enough,
08:26
I convinced Carlos to come to The View.
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New York. He was gonna do.
08:30
An event, a concert in Carnegie Hall.
08:34
And Carlos is coming to The View and the,
08:36
the day before, I'm having.
08:39
Lunch with him. And,
08:41
and, and his wife Claudia Elena.
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And I've got, you know,
08:44
the script of the questions that we're gonna ask him,
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let me go through some of these with you,
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you know, I start showing him and he goes.
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You're not Engle. I'm like,
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what do you mean you don't speak English?
08:58
What do you mean you have an entire song,
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Carlito have pay attention.
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Carlitojangle come onvaja a cirque.
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You don't speak English.
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you, you fell in love with your English teacher.
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I did, but I didn't learn English.
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Carlos, bring the guitar because appar apparently you're not.
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So he came. I translated.
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I called my producer after the lunch,
09:21
and I said, I got news for you.
09:23
You know, all those questions we got for Carlos Williams?
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Well, he can't answer one of them because he doesn't speak
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I, I, we asked him very few questions which I
09:34
simultaneously translated like they do at the UN.
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But I said, just bring your guitar,
09:40
and you're gonna have to play,
09:42
basically a cappella because music is international,
09:46
and that everybody will get or music used to be international before
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people tried to make it.
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Political. Political. I love that story.
09:56
I also the fact that that lyric no,
10:02
but you still made it happen and you speak something that is
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so important to recognize.
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Yes, we need Latinos up here on camera using our voice
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but we need Latinos everywhere.
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You're right. The booking,
10:13
the producers, the simple fact that you can't say my last
10:17
name. Correctly, get it right.
10:20
Like, it really does take all of us in every single
10:23
sector in space that we could get to.
10:25
And I, I often encourage my friends,
10:29
give it a try because I promise you that we,
10:31
we are worthy of these spaces.
10:34
your story proves that point exactly.
10:37
So thank you for sharing that insight.
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I can't wait to tell my parents that.
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you did come up as a Republican strategist,
10:47
and now today in 2026,
10:50
you are one of Donald Trump's biggest critics.
10:53
How did we get here?
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well, it's not in 2026.
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I have been a critic of Donald Trump since the day he
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came down that escalator and called Mexicans rapists and criminals.
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and then there were just so many things he did
11:06
which I found abhorrent and unacceptable,
11:11
the attacks on, and the mocking of the disabled reporter.
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I have a disabled brother.
11:16
The attacks on John McCain as not being a hero.
11:18
John McCain was my personal hero.
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The attacks on Rosie O'Donnell,
11:23
she was my colleague and my friend.
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The, the hearing him boast about sexual assault on those Access
11:30
Hollywood tapes. The question I have is not why am I
11:34
a critic. The question I have to other Latinos,
11:37
particularly the ones that voted for him,
11:38
is how are they not critics?
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And so I was not willing to put partisanship.
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It was the first time.
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in my life that I voted for a Democrat for
11:47
president, I was not willing to look the other way on
11:51
all of those objectionable,
11:53
abhorrent,, character flaws and lifelong character flaws of Donald
11:59
Trump just because he was a Republican.
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So that's how we got here.
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I put my moral compass,
12:08
I put My identity as a woman,
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as an immigrant, as a,
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as the sister of a special needs brother,
12:19
as all of those things,
12:20
I put that before the partisan,
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I can, I can live with that.
12:27
I can live with being shunned.
12:29
I can live with the criticisms from Donald Trump and his supporters
12:35
With, with the costs that come from being critical
12:39
of the president of the United States,
12:42
what I can't live with is being an accomplice of a man
12:47
who has targeted and attacked and demeaned.
12:54
our community who has disappeared,
12:56
our men, most of them without criminal backgrounds into the worst
13:02
hellhole in Latin America in El Salvador,
13:04
who has separated our families,
13:06
who has killed US citizens who have been willing to go out
13:09
there and speak up for their immigrant.
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you know, that I can't live with.
13:15
At this point in your career,
13:16
you've been embraced in both conservative Republican and Democrat liberal spaces,
13:22
more or less, depending on the time in the news.
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Do you feel politically at home anywhere right now?
13:31
You know what I mean?
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but,, I think because,
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I have grown in my beliefs,
13:44
and I've grown in my life experiences.
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I don't have to To have a political home
13:53
because I have Very strong political beliefs and political principles and
14:05
I, I don't have to kind of pretend that I like
14:09
what one side is saying or I like what the other side
14:11
is saying. I can be,
14:12
I can just be who I am and,
14:15
and call balls and strikes as I see them.
14:20
I really, probably right now if,
14:22
if I were truthful with you,
14:23
I am more of an independent than anything else because there's things
14:27
that I disagree with on every side.
14:31
But I just think right now,
14:34
the biggest danger to democracy is Donald Trump.
14:38
And so, I will side with the team that is
14:44
fighting him because what he is trying to do to elections,
14:47
what he's trying to do to freedom of the press,
14:49
what he's, the way he's weaponizing government against those who are
14:54
critical of him. So that's my home right now is with
14:58
Those defending American democracy.
15:01
I think many Americans can relate to that sentiment.
15:04
Do you have advice or words for Latinos who will be voting
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during these upcoming midterm elections?
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Yeah,, get out and vote,
15:16
realize what's happening to our community.
15:22
particularly Latino men.,
15:24
bought what Donald Trump was selling and thought that they were going
15:28
to be doing better off economically and it was better for our
15:31
community if he was elected.
15:33
It hasn't been better for anybody in America.
15:36
We are right now paying $5 a gallon at the pump.
15:41
are more and more expensive every time I go to the grocery
15:45
store. We are We are at a,
15:46
in a war that he chose to throw us into and there's
15:51
Americans dying and there's Americans being injured,
15:56
our community is under attack.
15:58
If you don't are not willing to see it,
16:01
then noapeor sciego que quenoquiere where it's if you're not seeing our
16:06
community under attack, and,
16:09
the abuses of power,
16:12
the Women dragged through the streets,
16:15
the women shot and injured,
16:18
the,, people who are legal permanent residents who will
16:22
have asylum claims,,
16:24
pending, who have lived in this country as decent contributing people
16:31
being deported and treated worse than we would allow animals to be
16:35
treated. If you don't see it,
16:36
it's because you don't wanna see it.
16:40
I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna vote for Liam Ramos.
16:45
this administration, they want us to forget mass deportations.
16:49
They have told Republicans running for office.
16:51
That they should not use the term mass deportations,
16:55
that they should not use,
16:57
flout that term and,
16:59
and be proud of that,
17:01
as an accomplishment. Well,
17:03
OK, they might not be using the term,
17:05
but I sure as hell I'm not gonna forget our tias and
17:07
our abuelas and our amigos that have been,
17:12
put into a reign of terror because of this administration.
17:15
So yeah, I'm gonna go vote for all of those people
17:17
We must remember and we must not shut up about it
17:20
It's, it's our duty.
17:21
Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl,
17:23
Iran pulling out of the World Cup,
17:24
Venezuela beating the United States in the World Baseball Classic.
17:27
Some people argue that art,
17:29
music, sports, and culture should not be mixed with politics
17:34
What's your stance on that?
17:35
Do you believe everything is political?
17:39
I think you can choose,
17:42
to live in a bubble that's not political,
17:46
if, if, if you can manage that in this day
17:54
and I don't, you know,
17:55
I don't think that if you are a bad bunny,
17:57
to, to use him as an example,
18:00
you can ignore the fact that Puerto Rico is treated like they
18:06
are, the Puerto Ricans are treated like second-class citizens.
18:09
You can't ignore the fact.
18:11
That this many years after Maria,
18:14
their electrical grid is still a disaster and they,
18:19
and the electricity goes out there practically every week,
18:22
if not more, more regularly than that.
18:26
They're, they're part of the United States.
18:28
Where else in the United States would it be OK for there
18:32
to, to be a disastrous electrical situation 10 years after a
18:37
hurricane? Nowhere else would they allow it.
18:38
You think they would have allowed it in Texas?
18:40
You think they would have allowed it in Florida?
18:42
You think they would have allowed it in,
18:46
But somehow for Puerto Rico,
18:49
I, I would have a real issue if Bad Bunny wasn't
18:52
thinking. that his concerts in the United States could be used
18:58
to bait and lure and then trap immigrants that were going there
19:05
I don't know how you can be Latino right now in particular
19:13
not respond in the arts,
19:16
anytime you have a platform,
19:17
and we all have a platform,
19:18
you don't have to be on TV.
19:19
You don't have to be an international renowned singer,
19:24
you have a dinner table,
19:25
you have a circle of friends,
19:27
you have a Twitter account,
19:28
you have an Instagram account,
19:29
you have a TikTok account.
19:31
we don't all need to have the same level of platform.
19:34
We all have a voice and those of us who have a
19:37
vote must use it to improve our community,
19:39
so. I hope to get to a day where I can
19:44
you know, we don't have to be political about,
19:46
about The arts, we don't have to be political in our
19:50
songs. We don't have to be political in our speeches.
19:52
I, I strive for that.
19:55
I wanna be there singing about bunnies and,
19:58
and songs and puppies and apple pie,
20:01
but umama no estamojayengeo momento.
20:03
That's not where we are right now.
20:06
I, I. I appreciate your sentiment and I know you
20:10
you got to see Bad Bunny at the halftime show yourself
20:14
I, I can imagine there weren't many of us that
20:17
were able to make it to the stadium,
20:18
but I can imagine the joy and the,
20:20
the, the feeling of representation that was.
20:23
Felt by those that we all saw it,
20:26
you know, on in TV in our living rooms,
20:28
the lasada con mommy con papi colos abuelos,
20:32
and, and I appreciate that he took the space
20:34
and he, he spoke for all of us.
20:36
I got to spend time with him and see him when he
20:40
Saturday Night Live skit,
20:42
the, the opening Saturday Night Live skit,
20:46
I don't do football.
20:49
I'm not gonna go spend the money to trek across the country
20:52
Well, I'd rather go see him in Spain than see
20:54
him in the Super Bowl,
20:55
but I did see him in that Saturday Night,
20:59
and I had the chance.
21:01
not only to thank him,
21:03
and, and recognize his accomplishments,
21:06
but to thank Lorne Michaels for,
21:10
having Marcelo Hernandez in the cast,
21:13
doing all these skits about Latino humor and involving Latino situations and
21:19
having Benito there in the,
21:26
of Saturday Night Live,
21:27
and again, doing skits,
21:29
where, where we get to,
21:32
our idiosyncrasy and show our identity and be proud of it,
21:36
it's a huge platform,
21:40
where he was featuring two Latinos,
21:43
I'm very thankful that at this time,
21:45
there's people like Lorne Michaels doing that.
21:47
Yes, shout out to Lorne Michaels and seeing Marcello's success and
21:51
rise is so inspiring.
21:54
Hearing that accent every time him making Ryan Gosling,
21:58
do a Cuban poppy on screen,
22:01
it's gold. It's gold,
22:02
and, and shout out Lorne Michaels.
22:04
I appreciate that you carried.
22:06
Ryan Gosling is gonna be on The View,
22:10
this Friday. And honestly,
22:13
all I wanna talk to him about is being married to a
22:16
we're now seeing content creators and influencers like Carlos Eduardo Espina and
22:22
Hassan Picar or Piker in political spaces.
22:26
What are your thoughts on them holding power in political discourse?
22:30
I think we need to talk politics in every which way that
22:34
reaches people. So whatever that content is,
22:39
and I love that there's These new outlets that that give
22:46
more voice to more people right and that that that are
22:50
different ages and look different and come from different backgrounds I just
22:53
think that is a a good thing but it's something that you
22:57
know it's something that Obama knew how to do very well probably
23:01
hasn't been done as well since Obama which was reach people in
23:05
a micro level where,
23:07
they are and with what interests them so I think
23:09
it's terrific. What do you think about that?
23:12
Oh, as a young person,
23:14
I love it because I feel like it gives us the chance
23:18
to be in more spaces.
23:19
I feel like in red carpets in particular,
23:22
there have been moments where influencers hop on and don't quite know
23:26
how to speak. On on a carpet or how to approach
23:30
certain conversations and I think that all leads back to the lack
23:34
of preparation and lack of research and lack of OK if you're
23:37
gonna be in this space do the work that everyone else did
23:40
to to be there in that moment other than that I
23:44
think the more representation and the more control that we have,
23:47
you know, given the state of media at this.
23:51
it's powerful to have more of us in there and as a
23:55
that's, that's why I'm here speaking with you today,
23:58
as, as someone who wouldn't probably be chosen to
24:02
be here so early on in my career so I'm for it
24:06
given those circumstances. Thank you for asking me though.
24:09
I'm gonna pick your brain at some point about how to reach
24:11
out, how to reach young Latinos,
24:16
It's a, it's a subgroup that just hasn't been effectively communicated
24:20
with, and people don't take them into consideration.
24:25
and they create rumors about us.
24:27
They say Gen Z doesn't like to work.
24:28
Gen Z doesn't have sex,
24:30
Gen Z doesn't drink alcohol,
24:31
and that's like the narrative that's out about us right now.
24:34
And I wish that people were eager to actually get to know
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us. So I appreciate that.
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work, you like to have sex,
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and you like to drink alcohol.
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Listen, listen, listen,
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I just think it's unfair to go around saying we all don't
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So that's my formal response there.
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As much. I know alcohol consumption is down throughout the country
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It's down significantly, and I know it's not my generation drinking
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less, so I don't know who we're gonna blame for.
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Well, Ana, before we go,
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I'd like your point of view on some topical stories.
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Cuba has faced hardship.
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The people of Cuba are now feeling the repercussions after the US
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fuel blockade. Trump the other day said full chest that he
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could take Cuba and do anything he wants with it.
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Does the US need to take over Cuba.
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Cuba needs freedom, and the people of Cuba have lived,
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without human rights,
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without,, political parties,
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without free elections, without freedom of the press for 67 years
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67 years. My entire lifetime plus,
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I really yearn for a day when we will have
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a, a free Cuba for when,
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you know, my husband can take his kids there to see
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where he grew up and where he was born.
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do I think the United States should take Cuba?
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Well, I think that before they take Cuba,
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they should fix Puerto Rico.
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Right? We don't need another Commonwealth that gets treated the way
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that Puerto Rico is being treated right now.
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I do think though that right now because of actions that Trump
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has taken. The people of Cuba are,
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going through incredible hardship,
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and it's not just because of actions that Trump has taken.
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It's because of 67 years of dictatorship and corruption where the Cuban
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government has gotten rich.
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they've got billions of dollars that they have stolen,
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and at the same time the people of Cuba have gotten,
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you know, starving poor.
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it, it breaks my heart that they have right
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now no electricity, no food,
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no water, no nothing,
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I don't know what's gonna happen there.
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I don't hear a plan from Trump as to how to bring
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about real democracy. When,
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when there's been a dictatorship that's 67 years old,
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that thing is ingrained into the society and the culture.
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So this is not like,
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you know, a lot of times there's been regime change in
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the past. There's where,
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where the dictators flee to another country and everything changes from one
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I don't know that that will happen in Cuba.
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I don't know that that can happen in Cuba.
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All I know is that the people of Cuba deserve to live
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in freedom and have their human rights respected after 67 years of
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oppression and poverty and corruption.
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Anna, today the news broke.
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Civil rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed that she is a survivor of
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Cesar Chavez and his sexual misconduct.
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Should that change the way America and Latinos celebrate his legacy?
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it's a very painful topic.
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it's a very painful topic,
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I think for me and for so many in the community.
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I, I've known about it for a couple of days because
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I had heard about this New York Times investigation and,
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there's a Dolores Huerta aspect to it,
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but I think just as important it is that we give coverage
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and, and time to the two women who were Allegedly minors
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when he sexually assaulted them.
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two young women who were Very young and and,
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and were part of the,
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the commune where I guess they all lived and are alleging
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that they were sexually assaulted and tell very similar stories.
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Is something you don't come back from,
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cause you're talking about pedophilia,
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you're talking, and I,
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and I think for too long,
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I myself have been incredibly critical of those who knew and enabled
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what Jeffrey Epstein was doing,
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and he was, you know,
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this guy with power,
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and I think all the common thread here is always about men
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with power and enablers.
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Who helped them get away with sexual assault,
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particularly on minors. That's unjustifiable.
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I also, I have to tell you,
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I love, my heart goes out to those women.
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My heart goes out to,
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to his followers and to,
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I'm very good friends with Julie Rodriguez,
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his granddaughter, who was in the Biden White House and did
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a spectacular job. And that White House has always been an
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advocate for, for women,
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has always been an advocate for those who have no voice,
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and I can only think about how devastating this is for the
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women who were assaulted,
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their families, and also for the,
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of, of Cesar Chavez and the,
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of, of the supporters and collaborators of Cesar Chavez who,
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who are just learning something that's so incredibly traumatic.
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I don't know how you can,
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You can acknowledge his accomplishments and you can,
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but you cannot look the other way,
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if we're talking about pedophilia.
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You just can't. That's,
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that's a, a line on the sand you just cannot cross
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I think many in the community,
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share your sentiments and are grieving the news today in
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support of Dolores Huerta and the two additional survivors.
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You and I think the word of using grieving is,
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we are a community that lacks.
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that lacks heroes recognized nationally,
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you know, there's not that many Latinos who have schools and
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streets and buildings named for them all over the country,
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you know, days that they're recognized all over the country,
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Cesar Chavez was, was that guy for the Latino community and
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so. At a time when our community so desperately needs
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a, a, a hero and recognition,
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and it's devastating to lose the guy we have.
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It is devastating. It it's going to take some time to
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process, but I think I've heard from many devastation,
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and regardless of our connection to Dolores or not,
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many women especially,,
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see themselves in, in this story,
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especially coming off of the release of the Epstein files
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So it's, it's important to.
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Continue to hold these conversations and and vouch for survivors and their
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stories. I think media and and the system,
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tends to disregard us.
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So,, I appreciate your insight there.
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You've actually worked in legacy near media,
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in separate spaces across your entire career.
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How do you see the media landscape right now and who's actually
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holding the power? Well,
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I think the people are holding the power.
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I think the viewers and the consumers of information are the ones
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holding their the power because there's so many different options and they
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just have so many different choices that the people making the choices
32:33
are the ones that are determining what media does,
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right? I, I grew up,
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when I was a little kid in this country,
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we had Three networks,
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The, the level of choices we have now between YouTube and
32:49
podcast and streaming, and,
32:53
you know, Netflix and chill and all of those things,
32:57
it's just so many choices,
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And people competing for eyeballs,
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which I think makes content that much better.
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And now we have the leap.
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We get to listen to your podcast.
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Let's talk all about it.
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What are the conversations that you're hoping to,
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to hold on your new podcast?
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I want it to be all sorts of conversations,
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topical about what's going on,
33:23
in the news and And issues that I have questions
33:26
about. I want to be able to do a deeper dive
33:29
into some things than I can on The View,
33:32
where the interviews are relatively shorter on CNN where again the
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interviews are relatively short.
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I had Maria Hinojosa.
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Brown, who's a journalist from the Miami Herald that,
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the expanse of the pedophilia,
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I just had Carlos del Toro on.
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He's a former Secretary of the Navy to talk about what's happening
34:00
in Iran and in Cuba,
34:03
where he was born and in Venezuela,
34:04
give his perspective as somebody that was a.
34:07
Secretary of the Navy and a commandant of a missile
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it's all over the gamut this week.
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I'm gonna be interviewing,
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Congresswoman Jayapal because I want a deeper dive on the
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SA Act. I feel like a lot of us don't really
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understand what's in this bill,
34:26
and it's a really big deal what Donald Trump is trying to
34:29
do affecting the the elections,
34:31
and I like. The way Jayapal explains things,
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that's why we have her on today.
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She's really good at breaking down complicated,
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like this, but I also talk about like I,
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I have a segment where I talk about.
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The coward of the week and the hero of the week,
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right, and you know,
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so Cobarde de la semana and the and and Eero de la
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semana, I talk about the things that are bringing me joy
35:00
that,, are making me happy because I think it's
35:03
really important that as all of this shit is going on all
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that we find balance,
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that we take care of ourselves,
35:10
that we give ourselves grace,
35:13
and, and that we accept that joy is.
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It's a form of resistance and that we've gotta still find things
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that make us happy and make us laugh and make us dance
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I, I highlight that as well,
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and I call it bleep,
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as I was telling you before,
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because on The View,
35:31
you know, daytime network TV if,
35:34
if I say a bad word here and then they'll
35:36
bleep me and so sometimes I've tried to say the bad words
35:38
in Spanish thinking they wouldn't know and maybe I'll get through.
35:43
but they're on to me.
35:44
So right now anything I say in Spanish,
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like, literally if I say jamoni queso,
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they'll bleep it because they don't know what's happening.
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OK, could she be saying a bad word?
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Is that a bad word and so?
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Some Hispanic country, right?
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So this is unbleeped.
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I get to choose the topics.
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I get to choose the guests.
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I get to say the words I wanna say,
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appreciative of people who are following on the,
36:17
on the journey we've been charting.
36:19
In amongst the top shows of of Apple Podcasts since the first
36:24
week. So now I gotta,
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I feel all this pressure to keep it up,
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but it's a wonderful,
36:29
news outlet and new media outlet.
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I, I'm getting my feet wet and seeing how
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Well, congratulations. I can't wait to see you unbleeped and
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continue to hold these important conversations you mentioned like breaking down these
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very complex, complicated,
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scary acts and political,
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you know, realities of the moment that I think will only
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help us better understand the importance of making sure mom.
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Papi laguita Tiotia, get out there and vote because yes,
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that will have repercussions just like we're seeing and living in right
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now. Well, thank you so much.
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Where can our audience tune into what's to come for Bleep and
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any upcoming guests? Well,
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you can tune in anywhere you get your podcasts.
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we're also on YouTube,
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and, and I'm reading all the comments and replies and suggestions
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on how to make it better and what topics you all want
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Amazing. Well, familia,
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me too. Ana Navarro,
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thank you so, so much for joining us today.
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Thank you. Thank you,
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thank you. I mucho hexito mini preciosa.
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I, plaer er espeoconocer temperalgiajalajalazo una brazote saludos muchas gracias
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