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What's up guys? It's Gene from Lincoln Bio.

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We're here today to talk to John La Guzzo about his new

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show, American Historia,

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untold stories on PBS.

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Let's go chat with him.

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Why did you guys make American Historia?

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And who's it for?

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We had no choice but to make it.

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I mean, Latin facts and Latin history and Latin contributions are

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completely erased from American history.

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So it behooves us for our Children,

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our grandchildren, our great grandchildren to start putting it back into

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history. Exactly. I remember watching when John was doing

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rehearsals for his new one man show,

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Latin History for morons.

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That was part of the inspiration is that John was uncovering these

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incredible stories in front of theater audiences in front of even remember

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we would have like public school teachers that you were enlightening

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and we just kind of realized,

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wait a second, there's something here.

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So around 2018, we were like,

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you know what, let's put this on a,

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on a, on a TV show.

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We're excited to put this story out here because a lot of

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Latino youth, they don't realize that they should have so much

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pride in our roots.

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That's really what it's about,

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it's about showing up and showing that,

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you know what we've been here.

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We've been giving contributions to the planet since the,

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since the dawn of time.

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First episode is our empire.

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So thousands of years before it was America,

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you know, our great empires,

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we, we contributed so much to the world that never gets

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said. And then episode two is from the conquest to the

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19 hundreds. And the third episode is the 19 hundreds to

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the seventies to all the activism that we were part of because

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we were also fighting against segregation,

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red lining Jim Crow laws against us,

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basically living in an apartheid system in,

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in the West and Southwest.

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So the we wanna include all that.

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Yeah. On stage,

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there's only so much you can cover.

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People are there to see a broadway show with this one.

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We were really ready to dig in and go a little deeper

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One of the amazing things that we did on the trip

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to Mexico, what d with the wan we,

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we actually went under the pyramid.

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That was incredible. It was something that had just been discovered

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maybe 20 years ago.

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And John and me and the camera crew that was incredible.

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Remember we on, we're excited to share with the world and

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excited for people to see it.

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September 27th American story,

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the untold history. Should they see it?

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Because you need to,

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you deserve to be in love.

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You need to be educated.

American Historia Interview