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Girl Ultra’s Inner ‘Control Freak’ and Nike’s NSFW Uniform

April 17, 2024
Girl Ultra recalls being “afraid” to write songs in Spanish, author and Stanford Prof. Ana Raquel Minian on how immigrant detention shaped mass incarceration, new blood tests promise early cancer detection, the DOJ plots a Live Nation takedown, and Nike’s Olympic uniforms are put on blast.
Show transcript
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Down. Yeah, you have not forgotten brother.
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You have not forgotten.
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My head ran free.
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I hear it when I sleep to our papa.
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Thank you sister for the warm welcome guys.
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I'm excited to be back and into the mix of all
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this crazy news in this crazy world,
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super girl dad in the building.
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Yeah, but yeah,
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we have a, a cool show planned for you guys today
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I I think I remember how to do this.
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So we have childhood star Latino Collapse and actually Nike is back
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in the news and for some new uniforms,
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they got specifically tied to the Olympics.
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Dang. Ok. And we're testing cancer with a drop
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of blood now apparently and then Ticketmaster actually is getting sued and
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plus girl ultra hangs with us.
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All right, let's get into it.
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Nike's women's track and field uniforms for the Olympics are facing backlash
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for being revealing and sexist.
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So you guys let me know what's wrong with this picture.
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I mean, look at this section.
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Competitors reacting to the skimpy design say I can't be exposing myself
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in such ways. My ho is gonna be out and this
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is not made for performance with that uniform.
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It looks like the races are gonna be tight and anyone can
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win by a hair.
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You get it. No.
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Well, that's bad news for the Brazilian Dam.
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It's like NBC had Nike up and was like,
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yo, we need ratings.
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Damn, but not like this.
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So Nike responded that these are limited samples and that they're letting
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track and field athletes choose from 50 uniform pieces.
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They also will provide tailors at the Olympics.
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So this, I guess this is just an option like who
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wearing this? Hey,
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if you wanna stand out with Quin para,
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stand out with all your assets.
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No pun intended. Anyhoo.
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Let's move on Jenny.
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Did you know that cancer is the leading cause of death for
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Latinos in the USA and it's not dating Latina women.
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That's crazy, right?
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Most of these cancers are preventable but honestly,
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like myself, like I'm never getting tested and I think that's
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the thing with Latino,
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especially Latino men because like my dad never likes to go to
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the hospital. It's like a chore for him to go get
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like to go get his physicals and you kinda have to be
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like go go. So it's like a Latino man thing that
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they never wanna go.
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That sounds like me in the future.
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I'm scared of needles and yeah,
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but they have a new blood test that scientists say can detect
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cancer signals early. Yeah,
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so I might, I might make it guys due to this
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new test. There are 20 tests in development right now,
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but it doesn't work for all the cancers.
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But, but it's like they're getting close,
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they're getting close.,
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the technology isn't FDA approved yet and,
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and it isn't covered by insurance,
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but there's a bill in Congress right now and it could approve
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it. Ok. We're getting there.
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It's good news because right now it's sad there's so many people
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with cancer that I,
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that I personally know that I'm just like,
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dude, like what's happening?
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And now and now with this thing,
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man, it makes a difference.
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Yeah, yeah. So we'll see what happens.
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Ticketmaster is finally getting what they deserve.
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Ticketmaster A K A live Nation is being sued by the DOJ
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and it's about time finally,
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every time I try to buy tickets,
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like they hide all these fucking fees.
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Like it's like when you buy a ticket from Bola and you're
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like, hey, I got a deal and then all of
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a sudden they, oh yeah,
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like $60 per baggage and,
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and all these other fees is like,
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dude, Cobra Porto,
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they need to get hit with Rico charges is like how I'm
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paying $300 for a,
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for $100 ticket. Like what dude?
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Yeah, it's all these fees,
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y'all just making shit up at this point and,
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and now the doj is finally suing their ass is good to
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see them doing their jobs for basically starting a monopoly.
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I'm with it. I'm with it.
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I'm with it too now.
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We just need to get the,
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the bots, the bots out of here too because they're part
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of it too. Well,
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I don't know, what will this make?
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Like ticket prices more affordable?
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Well, we'll see.
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I guess. I hope so.
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I hope so. I'm rooting for the DOJ at this point
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because damn dude, my wallet right now,
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especially in this inflation.
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Oh, so have you guys been scammed by Ticketmaster and let
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us know in the comments.
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So we have an update on murder rates.
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What now? It's not what you think,
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brother. It's actually a good thing nationwide.
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All murder rates have gone down 20%.
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I mean, I mean it may not look like it from
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social media because it looks like shit has been hitting the fan
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on there and that crime.
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Oh my God. Like what's happening to the world?
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Like everything's bad. I'm on the West Covina 626 Instagram like
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oh fuck my city.
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Yo, like shit is going down like it's cool.
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The ring app is popping the ring but no it's just
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kind of like what they pay us to like it to be
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you know, look at Boston 82% drop.
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San Antonio San Diego Vegas,
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40% in Vegas. Ok.
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Yeah, dude, it's getting lower and lower but you know
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this is actually the steepest drop off.
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Since the nineties. So I don't know what the hell is
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going on. I mean,
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what do you think it is?
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You know what? Maybe I,
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I've been such a,
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I, I feel such a positive and cheerful person and maybe
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the world isn't so bad after all.
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You know what it shows there's data to back that up.
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There you go. Well,
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I mean, I can only hope for it to go,
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keep going lower and lower.
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So we'll just have to see,
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stay safe out there.
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Stay safe guys. It's safer.
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Supposedly. Nickelodeon Star Drake Bell commented on Peso Plumas Instagram live
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and yes, it is real.
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He did in fact comment on the live asking for a collaboration
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with him. Oh my God,
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shoot or shoot, right?
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I mean, shoot your shot.
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You never know. Yes,
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dude. It was so funny.
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He said he said us Una Cancion Conmigo way,
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dude. It's the way for me.
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It's the way but Peso Pluma Loki ignored him.
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I mean, he's busy,
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bro. It's a lot.
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He was about to be on Coachella too.
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Yeah, it was literally the,
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I think it was like the Thursday night,
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I think. Yeah,
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it was crazy. So,
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I mean, how do you think a Corrido tumb like between
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them would sound though supposedly Drake has done Spanglish songs before and
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I mean, remember when he wanted to change his name to
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Drake Drake Campana, I think it was like legit.
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Yeah, people are posting about that.
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So Dr Campana and the Peso Puma collab.
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I mean, I'm down.
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All right. So these childhood star collabs would be kind of
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cool. So our,
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our crew put them together.
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Let's see, what's up?
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All right, let's see.
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Hey, I can see this though.
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Like, hey, now,
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hey, now and then I could totally see Belinda and you
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know what, Belinda actually already collaborated with the Cheetah Girls.
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Yes. On their cheat on the Cheetah girls movie.
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It was in Spain.
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I think the first or second one and she act the second
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one. There you go.
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Only you Cheetah girl.
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I'm a cheer. But yeah,
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Belinda, she collaborated with him so I could see,
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I could see Hillary Duff.
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She already has her experience to Disney World.
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Yeah. Yeah. We're here for it.
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Here for it. Here for it.
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Yeah. Oh Of the Cheetah girls bunny.
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He could put the Yeah.
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Yeah. Yeah. In their song.
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Hold on. What's the song?
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Cheetah girls? Cheetah sister is like,
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oh which one we stand?
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It's like God is stronger and they never gonna change and I
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could hear I could OK.
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OK. I, I'm with it.
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Yes. All right.
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So let's do the next 10 Ariana Grande and no,
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that's no, that's Ariana Grande.
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What I say? No Grande because in Spanish I didn't say
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the Ariana Grande because she's Italian.
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I know. But I'm saying because of the Mexican and it's
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right. You did.
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I heard any of her music that much but she is such
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a natural. Yeah,
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with the, that's so check that out.
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But, yeah, I think that'd be cool too.
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I'm not that excited for it but it'd be cool.
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Well, they both do the high notes.
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Really? Well. Well,
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there you go. Perfect.
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So, let's see.
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The next one. 00,
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the high school music with Daddy Yankee?
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Oh, this one is random as hell.
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Because they like we're all like,
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how would that work?
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Yeah. A da da da in high school.
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I don't know. But then he,
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he all about Christ now so he probably was gonna probably like
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I don't know,
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do some, some Christian stuff.
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You're not here for that.
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I'm here. If the beat is right.
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Oh If the beat is right for,
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for Christ, I was like,
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you're gonna say that it's true.
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He gave me this body to what your mama gave you.
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Yeah. But I mean those calls are pretty cool.
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I think I would say so too.
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Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Which one would you be most excited about?
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I think the bad bunny with the cheetah girls.
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I'm sorry, I'm a cheetah sister.
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OK. Yes. Love that.
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Love that. OK,
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guys. So you let us know which collab,
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which Disney channel collab would you like to see with the Latino
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artist? Let us know in the comments.
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Do you wanna hear something crazy?
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So you know Oma Bay.
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Right, the high level security prison for terrorists.
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And definitely, yeah.
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So, apparently that used to be used for Immigration detention center
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Really? Like,
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we know immigration is not anything new but there's so much history
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that in the US and it's wild.
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So there's like a correlation between,
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like, prison and detention centers.
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Exactly. Oh, my God.
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That's crazy. Like,
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and it's like one did crimes and the other ones didn't.
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But luckily we have an author joining us to give us
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a more in depth breakdown of a little bit of his history
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Yeah. Oh,
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my gosh. Ok.
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Well, I'm ready to hear it in their new book In
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The Shadow of Liberty Stanford History Professor Ana Raquel Mian traces the
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history of immigration detention and how it shaped mass incarceration.
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Hi, Anna. Hi,
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welcome. Thank you.
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Thank you so much for having me here today.
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Of course, of course.
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So we wanted to get into it.
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How can the prison industry be traced back to the immigrant detention
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system? How are they connected?
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And how could we have one without the other?
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Even the fact that they're connected is very surprising because they're supposed
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to work for different reasons.
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On the one hand,
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the prison system is supposed to incarcerate people for breaking the law
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That's not the case with the detention system in the detention
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system. The idea is people are being held while the government
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decides whether they can enter the country or not or while waiting
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to be removed or deported.
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So, the fact that these two have become so intertwined is
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rather surprising. But in fact,
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the two have such a long history and such deep connections that
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now they're basically inseparable from each other.
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So I guess that kind of leads to my next question specifically
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about Guantanamo Bay. Is that specific facility linked to immigration detention
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Yeah, that's a great point to be because we generally
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think of Guantanamo as a naval base where suspected terrorists were
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being held. But actually before George W Bush started to use
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Guantanamo Bay to imprison suspected terrorists.
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His father in 1991 1st used the facility as a detention center
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to old Haitian refugees who were fleeing their country because of oppression
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So how does denying rights to undocumented people entering the country
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endanger the rights of citizens are here in the US,
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you know, today their rights.
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So in 1891 when with the inception of the federal immigrant detention
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system, a law passed that said that people apprehended at the
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border, those who were stopped at the border could be detained
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in the United States but had no rights.
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This is what we currently refer to as the entry fiction.
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So it's this idea,
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migrants can be detained anywhere in the United States.
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The detention centers are on the US map,
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but the entrance held in them are imagined are legally imagined to
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be outside the country and because they're legally not here,
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they don't deserve the constitutional rights that we provide and,
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and should the government abolish immigration detention centers?
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And how would that like,
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future look like? There is very little reason for immigrant detention
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centers to exist. Currently,
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people think that immigrant detention centers are needed because if we release
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people while determining whether they can enter the country or not,
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they're going to abscond and you know,
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flee and never come back.
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But actually, data shows that that is not the case.
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Well, over 80% of all people who are supposed to show
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to immigration court and are released,
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they're not being held in detention centers actually appear to court.
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And that number rises to 99% for all asylum seekers as well
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as for those who have access to a lawyer.
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So this idea that we need to hold them in prisons while
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we decide their right to enter is absolutely not true.
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And it costs us a lot.
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It costs us in human terms.
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It costs us in ethical terms.
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If you think about people having no rights in them,
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it costs us in constitutional terms.
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And of course, it also costs us in financial terms.
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In 2018, when President Trump introduced this family separation policy,
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we spent over $3 billion in immigrant detention.
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And just to give you an idea that same year,
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the T A spent 8.8 billion only three times more as in
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the money we had used to detain migrants could have very well
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been used to reduce pollution,
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improve human health, et cetera.
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Most definitely. No.
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And well, thank you so much,
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Anna. We really appreciate you breaking it down for us and
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congrats on the new book as well.
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And where can we follow you and find the book even so
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people can read it?
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Well, you can follow me on Twitter at Anna R
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Minion or at my website Ana Raquel min.com.
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And you can buy the book from my publisher in Viking or
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Penguin Press as well as in Amazon or any other bookstore.
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Awesome. Amazing. Thank you so much,
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Anna. We appreciate you being on the show.
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Thank you so much for having me.
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I appreciate you. Thank you.
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Take care. OK,
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take care. Bye girl ultra is in the building.
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Welcome. Welcome, Amiga.
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So we let's get into it.
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How did your musical journey start?
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Like and what are your earliest?
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Music? Memories? Gracias,
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gracias por por What brought me into music was like the
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diversity between what my dad liked and my mom liked.
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I was thrilled about all of these like spectrum and colors of
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of music. And I always felt very drawn to that
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to like sounds and images that came with sounds
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And I don't know,
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I feel, I feel like that that was the beginning
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of everything. And then I had a band in high school
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And, well,
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basically girl ultra started with the detachment of,
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of the band and that's pretty much it.
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That's cool. And so what music did your dad like?
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And that your mom,
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like, like what are,
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what are some art music artists that they liked that inspired
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you, you would say,
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well, my dad is a roque espanol dad,
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100% caan, there's this band he likes called s that's like
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a more like underground punk band.
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But he was like a very ro espanol.
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So and all the cheesy that stuff like Rio Speed Wagon
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electric, light orchestral,
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all, all of that stuff I grew up with and yeah
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I, I mean,
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like, they, they were pretty diverse.
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My mom was also like a very pop,
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like eighties pop, girly.
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So I had like all,
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all of those C DS in my home,
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in my home. Yeah,
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that's awesome for you.
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Are there differences between songwriting like in English or in Spanish?
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Definitely. I mean,
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I feel like a lot of music,
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like when I was growing up that I listened to was in
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in English. So I feel like I understood the way
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of like song writing in English and I was afraid to,
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to like, actually make a song in Spanish because it's,
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it's a complex language.
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It's beautiful, but they are long words.
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They're like very strong pronunciations.
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And I took the task of actually like building ideas on my
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own language for a while.
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So I, I feel like I,
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I like to make music in Espanol and you feel like it
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hits more like in Spanish because a lot of people say like
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el Espanol como, I don't know the way like people like
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even curse in Spanish or like,
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do you feel like it,
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the the sentients? I it's more there.
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To me it is,
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I feel like I feel more myself whenever I'm like making
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a, a statement in Spanish or like cursing in Spanish,
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like it hits different,
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it does hit different.
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And how much control do you have over like the visual
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aspect of your music career?
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Like your nineties style scan flyers or where do you draw like
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inspiration from? I'm a control freak.
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Oh really? Yeah,
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I mean, I,
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I try to be part of every aspect.
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I love collaboration.
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I love to find the great fit for like design for
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flyers, for fashion in my,
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what's in my hands.
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So I just try to,
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to like, make the team bigger and make friends within
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all of that. So I feel like when you,
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you gain that kind of confidence in,
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in the, in the term of like collaboration,
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good things happen for sure.
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You probably feel like you have to like,
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really trust like everyone like in your team and everything because that's
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like your vision Right.
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Yeah. Yeah. I mean,
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like Claro Clara, I mean,
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you can control but then you have to trust other people's talent
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I mean, I cannot do everything.
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I just try to find people that can do things better with
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my vision and that's,
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that's a great experiment.
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Definitely, definitely. And recently like fans expressed like shock
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at Paco de Miguel being your brother.
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can you imitate him?
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I won't because he imitates me.
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He stole my personality.
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No, no, no,
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no, no. I mean,
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we grew up with the same people.
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I mean, every character in his universe is part of like
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Aia or somebody we grew up with so I,
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I can get the shock but we actually look a lot alike
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So people were like,
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oh my gosh, wait,
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it makes sense. But I don't know,
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it, it was fun to grew up in a loud house
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because he's a very loud person and I was like singing my
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ass off my house so poor,
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poor, poor of my mom.
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What is he talking about?
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Why she's got some talented kids?
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Like that's pretty cool.
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Yeah. Yeah, for sure.
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That's awesome. Well,
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thank you so much.
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We appreciate having you here and,
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and where can people find you and like stream your music?
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I'm like you can look for me ear ultra everywhere.
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Those Laos nice. And do you have any shows coming up
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or? Oh yeah,
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I do have a second week,
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Coachella, second weekend on Saturday and then I'm touring with Chromeo
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on September. Oh my God.
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That's awesome. Oh my God.
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I'm so proud of you.
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Thank you so much.
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So do. All right.
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Well, you guys heard it like.
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So thank you so much.
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We appreciate having you here.
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Thank you. Yes,
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sister. You know me,
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I showed them my Starbucks a little late.
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But, but anyways I saw they have these new drinks,
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these spicy lemonade, refreshers,
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spicy spicy, bro.
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So I don't know what they put in here.
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They put some tajin or some chi,
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I don't know. I thought we should try them.
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Let's, let's get in.
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All right. So just to give you a little tour of
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what we're trying here today like a wine.
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So we're starting off with a spicy pineapple.
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OK? And then we move up a little bit to a
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spicy dragon fruit. And last,
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but not least we have a spicy strawberry.
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OK? Let's go.
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So which one would you like to start with today?
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Miss a little towel,
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dude. I know you need a little towel.
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Let's do this one.
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I used to be a barista.
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So technically if you're doing a coffee tasting you swish right
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A little bit.
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You can smell the I'm getting beach Cancun the vibes,
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the summer vibes. Perfect.
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All right. And so table you're supposed to slurp like ready
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123 go. It is actually a little spicy.
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It is a little spicy.
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Not gonna lie. Hm.
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Mm. Oh, yeah,
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for sure. Like I don't know if you may remember
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the chom some of those in Mexico.
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I don't know. Pineapple like spicy paleta.
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This literally tastes like a liquid version of the mango spicy paleta
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but it's pineapple.
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It honestly. Ok.
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It tastes more like mango to me.
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Ok. All right.
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So next up we have the spicy Dragon fruit.
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Oh, I kinda like that one.
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I'm not gonna say.
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Yeah for me. Ok.
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Alright. So spicy dragon fruit.
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Ok. I kinda like this one too because it's you can
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like I like crunchy the dragon fruit.
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Yeah, I like to crunch it.
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I see you and this one last but now I used to
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have a spicy strawberry.
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So sal yo that strawberry pretty bus and dude what?
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You got all the fruit and all of them?
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I like the fruit.
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You mean this one too?
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Oh, ok. I mean I didn't try any of that
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I was like sipping but I'm like,
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alright cool. I'm the I'm the type of girl that,
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that has a Taqui on the rim and it's like a deep
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conversation like that's me.
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I'm the Tajin girl.
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So let's pick our favorite.
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All right. So on three you just kind of push it
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out. All right ready.
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123. Oh that one was pretty good.
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I love that one.
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And the dragon fruit.
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So the whole like the whole drink and it's so refreshing to
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me. But you know what?
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Really? It's very sweet to me.
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Maybe the pineapple or is it,
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it tastes like mango to you?
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Yeah, it tastes more like mango to me.
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All right guys. So they're available at Starbucks now.
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So walk. Don't run.
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There's spicy lemonade today.
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Don't run, don't walk,
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I thought. But anyways cheers sister.
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Well, guys, that's the show.
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Once again. I am Alejandro and I'm Jenny and we'll see
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you on the next episode of Lincoln Bio.
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Bye. What is like that?
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Bye.