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Let

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me go. He

0:11

said he lived in life as a gringo, where

0:13

you question when you fit in every time you mingo.

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Let's say you do this with not that my

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raperence really bad?

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Yes, Hello, and welcome to another

0:23

episode of Life as a Gringo. I

0:25

am dramas. Of course, it's

0:28

Thursday, some mean time, our Thursday

0:30

trends episode, and

0:32

my guest today is an attorney

0:35

but also has a second

0:37

career as a popular TikToker. Uh.

0:40

He was actually recommended by a listener

0:42

of the show. So first and foremost shout out to

0:44

UH, to Victor for for

0:47

letting me know about this person, because I really enjoyed

0:49

his content. So, without

0:51

further ado, my guests today helped me break

0:54

down some of these trending stories. Louis,

0:57

are you failing? My bro? I'm doing good

0:59

man. I I like the Puerto

1:02

Rico. You know gear that you're always

1:04

always rocket, always always represented, which

1:06

I love. You got to represent the island, especially

1:08

with what's going on right now with the hurricane and stuff.

1:10

So always nice to me. Yeah,

1:13

yeah, no, for sure, and we'll we'll get into into

1:16

all of that. And I just want to talk about

1:18

how you have gotten so into

1:20

TikTok at this point. So we'll dive into

1:22

a bunch of that stuff. But first

1:24

and foremost, Man, I want to I want to kind of

1:26

do a bit of of a deep dive

1:28

into a few topics. I mean, it's obviously

1:31

Hispanic Heritage month. That's

1:33

a bit of a loaded word these days, so

1:36

we'll talk a bit about that. Um,

1:38

we'll talk about man on

1:41

a sad note and and sadly to

1:43

too common these days, another

1:45

shooting in Texas and this was involving

1:48

a twelve year old. I know that you had

1:50

some content, um you found to be

1:52

really interesting, so I want to definitely

1:54

get your your your take on that.

1:56

We'll talk about as you put it,

1:59

the tangerine deem in Donald Trump, he

2:03

can't seem to keep his name out of

2:05

the news. Is a new book that talks about

2:08

a lot of really wacky things that

2:10

that just confirmed what a lot of us know. But specifically

2:13

in this in this discussion of Greenland, which

2:15

Puerto Rico somehow sadly got thrown into the

2:17

mix as well, we'll talk about that, um

2:19

and then on a on a positive note for army

2:22

hint, that segment will honor somebody from the community

2:24

who's doing incredible work. So man, let's

2:27

let's just start off with the deep dive in

2:29

a a segment that we call for the people

2:31

in the back, same A lot of

2:33

the people in the back, same,

2:40

A lot of the people in the

2:41

same,

2:47

aout of the people in the back. Let's

2:50

start by talking about Hispanic

2:52

Heritage Month. Right, And

2:55

and this has become, like I said, a bit of a

2:57

loaded word, the word Hispanic. Um

2:59

I did a bit more of a deep dive on it last

3:01

year for anybody who hasn't checked that, just

3:03

kind of the history of the word Hispanic and

3:05

and some of the arguments that are being made on either

3:07

side. Now you have people, you

3:10

know, uh, saying Latino is

3:12

wrong, saying Latino Latin Heritage

3:14

Month, Latin X Heritage Month, right, all

3:16

of the above. A lot of people get triggered by the

3:18

word Latin X from our community as well. So, um,

3:21

let me just here your your perspective

3:24

on this conversation as a whole,

3:26

and I guess kind of where you fall on on

3:29

this. Yeah, I think you know, inclusive

3:32

is a inclusive language

3:34

is a problem for many communities in

3:36

the Latino or Latina or

3:38

Latino X community. UM. I

3:41

have always been on the mindset that we should use words

3:43

that make the most amount of

3:45

people comfortable. You know. Sure,

3:48

I have no problem using pronouns

3:51

and using UM inclusive terminology

3:54

because I see it as ally you should, and I also

3:56

think that it's important for the people UM

4:00

to to feel included. UM.

4:02

It's a complex process and a lot of people, especially

4:04

people in my age bracket, including between

4:06

forty five, they

4:09

are still not used to it. There's still

4:12

the old ways. If anything, my daughter

4:14

was the one that teached me a lot on these things,

4:16

because I myself didn't know a lot about it,

4:19

and my daughter who's eighteen, was kind

4:21

enough to educate me and on it and explained

4:24

to me a lot of these things. And why is it important,

4:26

UM to include everybody

4:28

in the conversation. UM.

4:31

It's a very difficult topic because a lot of people

4:33

still don't agree with it. They want to be called

4:35

Latin, they want you know. I

4:37

think it's in a process that it's going to take

4:39

a long amount of time to evolve into

4:42

what we really wanted to be right right,

4:44

And I think what what you you started

4:46

with was was great. The idea of inclusivity,

4:49

right, because I think so many people

4:51

are like taking this ship personally like it's an

4:53

attack on everything they know about

4:55

their culture. But it's it's just

4:57

simply people wanted to feel a part of it.

5:00

And you know, I don't want to get into, like I said,

5:02

too much of the backstory because I've already gone through a

5:04

deep dive of that. But you know, historically,

5:07

the word Hispanic leaves out certain

5:09

countries, right or or you know, uh, you

5:11

know certain parts of Latin America that may not speak

5:13

Spanish like our Brazilian you know, brothers and sisters

5:15

where you know, Portuguese is the dominant uh

5:18

language in that in that country, right and and

5:20

then obviously when it comes to gender pronouns and all

5:22

of the above. Right. Um, But I think you

5:24

brought up a good point. A lot of people oftentimes

5:28

have a problem adapting to change. I

5:30

mean, it's what we see with our buddies

5:32

on the far right as well, don't seem to

5:34

want to accept change, uh, and

5:36

and they're doing anything to fight against

5:39

it. But but yeah, I appreciate people of

5:41

of your generation having these kinds of conversations.

5:44

And I always appreciate when I have listeners who are

5:46

you know of of you know, older age

5:48

than I am, and tell me that they're learning things

5:50

from me, because I just think that that's the way it should be, right.

5:52

We all have uh something to to

5:55

offer one another. And I don't think that this is an attack

5:57

on our culture. It's just you know, away

5:59

for us to maybe evolved into something a

6:01

little bit better. Yeah, not at all. I think

6:04

the problem is basically we

6:06

were a lot of us were raised um conservative,

6:08

you know, and there's still a lot of hold

6:11

those conservative use and even those who are

6:13

straight away from it still have a

6:15

little bit of conservative views

6:18

lingering underneath that there might not even

6:20

be aware of. Um And

6:22

even I do, you know, I have a lot of macho

6:25

bullshit and old dumb views that

6:28

have to slowly get rid of. And

6:30

you know, it's a matter of self improvement. But self

6:32

improvement it is difficult, you know, it takes time

6:36

to get there. But we still got to fight

6:38

the good fight, you know. Yeah, No, absolutely,

6:40

And I mean I think that's a perfect kind of segue into

6:42

this next conversation, which is a bit more um

6:45

you know serious, but it's one that I wanted to talk to

6:47

you about. Because I think the first video I saw from

6:49

you was addressing the idea

6:51

of gun reform, and you were speaking about it

6:54

from the perspective if I'm not mistaken of someone

6:56

who is in fact a gun owner yourself. Right. Yeah,

6:58

I was a going owner for while, and not only

7:01

that. I used to be an attorney for going

7:03

ownership in Puerto Rico. I used

7:05

to be the one um I was a member

7:07

of the n r A. I used to um

7:10

work because because if I don't know if

7:12

you know this or your viewers know this, but in Puerto Rico, there's

7:14

not an amendment for going ownership. Right

7:16

in Puerto Rico is a privilege. So you have a

7:19

privilege that is allowed to you by

7:21

the courts for you to carry I can still weapon in

7:23

Puerto Rico, and you have to do it to an attorney,

7:25

and that attorney has to apply to the court, and you have

7:27

to pay a bunch of fees. Now it's gotten a

7:29

little bit more streamline, and now it's way easier

7:31

than it used to be. But I used to be who

7:34

dealt with people getting ownership of fires.

7:37

But it evolved to something different

7:39

because even though I was a believer in the Second

7:42

Amendment, and I'm still am I still

7:44

think it should be highly regulated in the

7:46

United States because the problem is

7:48

that here we have a different we

7:51

have a microcosm of what is going

7:53

ownership and safego ownership in the United

7:55

States that is wildly different from

7:57

any other country in the world. And though

8:00

I do think you have a right to preserve a

8:02

firearm in your possession to protect your loved

8:04

ones, they should be like regulated

8:07

in a different manner because we also have a mental

8:09

health problem in the United States that is completely

8:11

un checked and no one is doing anything

8:13

about it. And my video was creating awareness

8:15

and saying, look, I am a gon owner,

8:18

but I think we need to go back to the table, sit

8:20

down, and have these conversations

8:22

to see how we can all solve the problem.

8:24

Because our children are loved ones, are the

8:26

ones that their lives are being taken over something

8:29

that we have the power to solve

8:31

or to at least make it a little bit right

8:33

right now. I think those are all all great points

8:35

and I think are great lesson

8:38

especially when you you think about this story that I'm

8:41

gonna mention that there was a shooting in Texas

8:43

by a twelve year old and

8:45

and uh, you know this was apparently

8:48

this this this girl had a murder pack with

8:50

her her friend and the plan was

8:52

to both shoot their fathers and then runaway.

8:54

Essentially, it's dark and you know,

8:56

you speak to kind of a mental health crisis in this country,

8:59

and I think a lot of that pry fall under under

9:01

that umbrella. But this twelve year girl from weather

9:03

for Texas, you know, she was found wounded in the street

9:05

from a self inflicted gunshot wound after

9:07

shooting her father in the stomach. And at this point

9:10

they don't have any updates on their

9:12

conditions through to privacy and the police, but

9:14

both were airlifted to two local

9:16

hospitals. And it's just another stark

9:20

reminder of the carelessness

9:23

of many gun owners in this country

9:25

to the point that a twelve year old could

9:28

gain access to to a

9:30

weapon, you know, I think and it speaks to a lot of what

9:32

you're talking about with we're just far too

9:35

laxed on this idea of gun ownership,

9:37

way to lax and you know, going owners

9:40

will always say that it's a problem of people,

9:42

not a problem of guns. But it's

9:44

it's a double edged sword because we have such

9:47

readily easily access to guns

9:50

and firearms in the United States, that it's

9:52

just too easy for a kid to get a going

9:55

and then just commit mayhem.

9:57

You know, we need better. I am a going

9:59

owner. I have my safe, all my guns are in the

10:01

safe at all times. But the problem

10:04

is that a lot of people don't take that practice

10:06

into into fruition and it creates

10:08

these types of situations that you can't come back

10:10

from. You know, those lives are taken and they're gone.

10:13

So we need to do better. Yeah, now, and that's

10:16

a great point. I mean, especially what

10:18

Alway is like pisces me off,

10:20

is that you see other countries doing

10:22

certain things better than us, right, yet

10:25

we we find it so hard to adapt

10:27

things. I mean, healthcare is a whole another conversation. But

10:30

um, you know, gun ownership. We've seen countries

10:32

like New Zealand and Japan have these

10:34

really strict gun ownership

10:37

laws and it has

10:39

like by far, like night and day

10:41

between what they had before as far as gun related

10:44

violence and and now right, so we've seen it work.

10:46

We know that making it harder, uh,

10:49

you know, it will

10:51

will eliminate some of these crimes, you know,

10:53

and especially at your point the

10:55

background checks, like why are we fighting so hard

10:57

against more you know, serious background

11:00

on checks, right, especially when you talk about

11:02

what happened in like Veal, the Texas where that kid

11:04

was able to buy the guns legally, right, and

11:06

and when you pull up somebody like his jacket

11:08

like you usually do, there's there's reports of kids talking

11:11

about him with you know, certain behaviors,

11:13

or the schools being aware of certain things. And somehow

11:16

we don't have a comprehensive system that

11:19

tracks all of that stuff on a serious way.

11:21

When we're talking about buying yeah, uh, something

11:23

that has the ability to take somebody's life, it just seems

11:25

so crazy to me. Yeah, we do not. We don't

11:28

have safety measures in place to regulate

11:30

this in a in a cohesive manner. And the

11:32

problem is that the gun culture in the United

11:34

States is deeply rooted in the

11:36

American psyche. It's very different

11:38

from where all over the world. Because, um,

11:41

people cling to the Constitution

11:43

like it's written in stone, like it's the Mormon

11:47

you know, and they're like, well, Constitution, Like

11:49

the Constitution was written by men who

11:52

they didn't have you know, test las running

11:54

around and machine gun their

11:57

knowledge at that time was so limited

11:59

that they it what good with what they have,

12:02

But they never you know, thought about

12:04

the fathom the amount of firearms

12:06

and weapons and complicated um machinery

12:09

that we have right now that can cost death in

12:12

a massive amount and the larger scale.

12:14

And people need to understand that we

12:16

need to temper things to the ways that

12:18

things are right now. But you know, unfortunately

12:21

they don't want to. And that's why Roby Wade, you

12:23

know, got over turn is you want to go back

12:25

these always or stay in these

12:28

always of thinking that are not

12:30

progressive and that are not sensible

12:32

to the needs of the present human kindness. Just

12:34

ridiculous. Yeah, And I love

12:37

hearing that from you as an attorney because I know,

12:39

you know, in law school, you're you're

12:41

studying the Constitution, right, You're studying

12:43

these really uh sometimes

12:45

old like really generationally old cases

12:47

right, that have set the precedent for for the current

12:50

state of affairs. And my girlfriends in law school right

12:52

now, so by proxy, I feel like I've been like

12:55

a student myself. But you know you're

12:57

gonna study whither exactly.

13:00

Yeah, you have no choice, I have to.

13:02

You know what you're gonna hear Marbary Bess Madison

13:04

and the people. It's

13:07

gonna drive you crazy for

13:10

it already has it already has. But

13:12

blessings to her, she's in her last year. But

13:14

but man, I think for you, as

13:16

an attorney, you're taught to like value

13:19

the constitution right, and the law of the land

13:21

and and all that kind of stuff. So I think

13:23

it's it's refreshing to hear that perspective

13:26

of like, yeah, but this ship was written by a

13:28

bunch of old white men in the time that was far different

13:30

than now, and we probably should be far more open

13:32

to changing absolutely and then and

13:34

we have to even laws that our president,

13:37

we have to think ahead of our own

13:39

time and think what is the possibility

13:41

of these things stay in the same way.

13:44

But the problem is that people

13:46

are just you know, it's to make America

13:48

great against slogan. You know, people want

13:50

to stay back and go back to the way

13:52

things were used to, you know, with

13:55

with label ownership and bassism and segregation

13:58

and the Shaws, and you know, people

14:01

have a skewed view of what America

14:03

should be. And unfortunately, I feel,

14:06

well, I don't want to say half, maybe a third of the population

14:08

of the United States doesn't want

14:10

things to change, and they're offering this

14:13

very heavy resistance to looking

14:15

at things with a different lengths. You

14:17

know that, I understand it. But

14:19

at the same time, we're only harming

14:21

our children because I'm not gonna be here years.

14:24

They're the ones who are going to inherit this goddamn

14:26

mess. If we don't fix it now, then they'll have

14:28

a harder time, right right, And and

14:30

actually maybe I could I could get your take, because

14:32

that's something that doesn't make sense to me. But you mentioned

14:35

Roe View Wade to me, what wouldn't

14:37

that blatantly violate

14:39

the idea of that we're supposed to have, you

14:41

know, separation of church and state, right, because

14:44

the Supreme Court is like these highly you

14:46

know, Christian conservatives that are the

14:48

ones irresponsible for for making this move.

14:51

How is that not an obvious

14:53

argument or how does that go overlook when

14:55

this is very obviously a

14:58

religious battle essentially correct, Well,

15:00

because they don't want separation of church and state,

15:02

they say legally it should

15:05

be implemented. But you have to understand

15:07

something that the right wing movement and Republicans

15:09

in the United States are the most

15:12

hypocritical group that has ever existed.

15:15

It's all about convenience for them. You know. They'll

15:17

tell you, well, this is protected by the Second

15:19

Amendment, but this we can

15:21

have opinions and we can change it and unlets,

15:25

whereas the privacy rights is

15:27

explicitly, explicitly

15:29

included in the thirteenth Amendment. It's all there.

15:31

The problem is that they want to see

15:33

things the way they want to see it, you know, so

15:35

it's all a little bit of cashtony

15:38

to put mine fuck games

15:40

where they adjust things as they see fit. If

15:43

you read the decision of the overturning

15:45

of Roby Waite, I read. The entire thing I have on

15:47

my computer is like a hundred pages. Um,

15:50

they all say the same thing, all six judges.

15:52

They're like, well, the interpretation

15:54

of Roby Waite was erroneous,

15:57

which it was not. Roby Waite

15:59

is one of the most clearly

16:02

legal documents you can

16:04

when you read it makes sense. And

16:06

them saying well, no, it was interpreted incorrectly,

16:09

and you read the arguments of why, you

16:11

can clearly see that it's it comes from

16:13

a bias religious background.

16:16

You know, it's very odd, and it's also

16:19

by men who are not affected

16:21

by it. You know, of

16:23

Amy Coin Barrett who has internalized misogyny,

16:26

and that's an entirely different conversation. Yeah,

16:30

it's you know, they want to play these games

16:32

and interpret things the way they want when it's convenient

16:34

to them, when it's not the descript

16:36

and then the Constitution is the all powerful book.

16:39

It's just them. It's playing games for them, you know.

16:41

And we have to battle and you know, and name

16:43

more judges that are more liberal and that

16:46

have different views. Luckily we got

16:48

Catani Jackson in there, and that's gonna make good

16:50

changes and good policy change, but

16:52

it takes time and effort. Right

16:56

now, and that's a great point that the hypocrisy

16:58

because they want less government, but

17:00

then they want the government to tell a woman what she can or

17:03

can't do with her body, right, so like it, it makes

17:05

no sense at all. It's

17:07

ridiculous, you know, And we have to think

17:10

also, you know, how long are we gonna

17:12

let this ride because the problem

17:14

is that the more and and you know, it's also

17:16

on the Democrats to be honest, because they had

17:18

a chance, they had a chance to quotify

17:21

all this stuff, but they sat on it

17:23

and they didn't do it because they were more

17:25

busy passing other laws that were

17:27

more priority than this, and then when

17:29

the truck came and hit them in the back, they

17:31

were like, ye I forgot about this

17:34

little tid bit. But they did it

17:37

for a long time in front of them, and they just sat

17:39

on it. Now they're scrambling, right,

17:41

because it's as a sense of but

17:43

they never thought about it. This problem could

17:45

have been solved a long time ago and they didn't do it, so

17:49

right, right, Yeah, I love that you

17:51

brought up that contrast, because, yeah, the Democrats ship

17:53

the bet on that you know, they're the Democrats have proven

17:55

to be terrible at offense, and then they just end up

17:57

having to play defense all the time because they didn't

18:00

take advantage when they could. That's a fantastic

18:02

way of putting it. I never thought about it that way.

18:04

But we're off

18:08

deepens. Yeah, it's a great way to always

18:10

wait for the problem to you know, get

18:13

right. Yeah, and then all of a sudden

18:15

they're fucking inspired to do work and do something

18:17

for the people. It's like, it's

18:19

it's so frustrating. I'm

18:21

loving the conversation. I think now is a good time,

18:23

though, to take a quick break and then we'll

18:25

be right back. All

18:30

right, we are back, and Donald Trump

18:32

that the Tantry deevid,

18:35

this new book that's being reported

18:37

from from one of his insires, and just

18:40

literally like it's at this point,

18:42

we know the factory that went on

18:44

there, but it never ceases to amaze

18:46

me the level of like depth of it, you

18:48

know what I mean, And like the fear

18:51

that his people had of like this guy

18:54

literally might get us in a war with multiple

18:56

countries before he leaves office, you know, or

18:58

if he comes back hopefully not right,

19:00

oh my god, yeah, well yeah, even even worse

19:02

at that point, but because at that point he's he's

19:05

you know, impenetrable, right, um,

19:07

you know. But but this specific thing

19:09

as it pertains to Greenland,

19:11

and then the implications that had been reported

19:13

a while ago about him talking about not

19:16

only wanted to get Greenland, but then

19:18

potentially trade the island of Puerto Rico following

19:21

the hurricane for this, and

19:23

and now it's being reported that this conversation

19:25

was actually far more serious than we even thought it was,

19:28

um and and to the point that

19:31

that he actually had his National Security

19:33

advisor acting as like a correspondent

19:36

between the US and the Danish government,

19:38

and that essentially that

19:41

the talks stopped when this became public

19:43

and it was just terrible press and and that's sort

19:45

of what what killed this

19:47

this conversation. And this

19:51

is incredibly triggering on

19:53

on so many levels. I mean, as a human being,

19:55

the lack of humanity to see

19:57

the people of Puerto Rico, especially given what they just

19:59

went there with Herricane Maria, and then

20:02

just thinking hey, let's just dump them off on

20:04

somebody else and ignore the fact that they are American

20:06

citizens in need, and then be

20:10

it brings up the elephant

20:12

in the room of like, no matter how

20:14

much you know, many Puerto Ricans

20:16

think that they're doing their own thing, they're at

20:18

the beck and call of what the United States government

20:21

decides what they can or can't do. That's

20:23

really scary, always, always

20:26

has been, always will be. Looks like, because

20:28

the problem is I should write a book

20:30

that is called the Puerto Rico Problem because

20:32

it's really easy. Yeah, let's break it

20:35

down. It's a it's a situation

20:37

that the Greenland thing. Let's start by the first one

20:39

that you address about it. It's never gonna happen,

20:42

you know. The first thing we need to understand is

20:44

Puerto Rico is a commodity of the United

20:46

States of America. It's like coffee,

20:50

and it's like any other commodity,

20:52

right. The difference is that they will never

20:54

trade it, but they keep getting money

20:56

from it in perpetuity. It's perfect

20:58

for them. But they don't have to give us

21:01

all the rights that U. S citizens have. They

21:03

don't have to give us all the money that we are

21:05

entitled to. They don't have to give us all

21:07

the help that we need. All they have

21:09

to all they have to do is keep us like

21:13

closely fed enough to where

21:15

we won't hate them, but bamboo

21:18

bool enough to where we will stay

21:20

there like a rabbit and a magic trick

21:22

inside a hat right now moving

21:24

we're not reacting, just kind of waiting for

21:26

the magic trick to end, and then we

21:28

rustrians, repeat and do it all over the again. We

21:31

are a territory and a colony of the United

21:33

States of America. They do with us

21:36

as they please. And the problem

21:38

is that it seems that it will never go away

21:41

because Puerto Ricans cannot get to

21:43

a point where we all agree on the same thing.

21:46

Either we get to the point where we are an independent

21:48

and sovereign nation, or we get to the

21:50

point where we become a state of the United States

21:53

with all of the rights of normal U.

21:55

S. Citizens, where we get vote, we

21:57

get representation for the president in our

21:59

own land, and we get all the

22:01

benefits that are in title to us as US

22:03

citizens. But the problem is we still have this stupid

22:06

Commonwealth lingering on us, which is a quality

22:08

people. A lot of those of

22:11

us still gravitate to that because we never

22:13

better. Right My mother, who was she

22:16

was a popular and supported the Commonwealth,

22:18

said well, you never know anything better,

22:20

why are you looking for something different? And I'm

22:22

like, that's precisely why. Because what

22:24

we have right now is not working. And you can consisting

22:27

on the same thing working when it doesn't

22:29

over and over again, and that's the definition of being

22:32

nuts. But we

22:34

have to think outside the box. This

22:36

thing that happened with the hurricane just now is a prime

22:38

example of it. When we have a bar with

22:40

a non U. S. Flag sitting

22:43

sitting in the middle of the fucking ocean with all

22:45

the diesel that we might do, but we can't

22:47

let it in because we have the Jones sacks strangling

22:50

or saying, oh well, if it doesn't have a U.

22:52

S. Flag. It can't go in when the planet

22:54

wants to help us, the United States

22:56

hope hold on us saying no, you'll

22:58

get help when I want how I want.

23:01

It's a tragedy. We are truly a colony

23:03

of the United States, probably one of the last

23:05

colonies of the planet. Right, but we're

23:07

there with no end in sight. Yeah,

23:10

yeah, I think, yeah, you're

23:12

hitting on a lot of ship. I mean to me, we

23:15

already know the fucked up

23:17

colonial mindset of the United States,

23:19

right, It's it's it's there. It's plain to

23:21

see. We we've seen the language

23:24

that we are of an alien race, you know, is how

23:26

they've described us, you know, historically and things

23:28

of that nature. We've seen that,

23:30

you know, we are not funded the same

23:32

way even the poor state in this country is when it comes

23:34

to things like health care um and

23:37

and there was a report recently on that infrastructure of

23:39

the healthcare system in Puerto Rico and just the lack

23:41

of doctors that are available for for patients

23:43

that are needed. It's a scary, scary thing

23:46

what you just said that I want to reiterate.

23:48

There's literally a fucking ship with supplies that people

23:51

need that are you know, going through devastation

23:53

and they can't even deliver it to them because of nonsensical

23:56

paperwork, um, you know, and

23:59

out out of the US bullshit. I

24:01

feel like this is a safe space from

24:03

one Puerto Ricanto another. I'm

24:05

always very careful about how

24:08

I'm worried these things. But the Puerto

24:10

Rican government also isn't doing guesst any fucking

24:12

favors, and neither are the

24:15

people to your to your point, because

24:17

they're just fighting in circles and not recognizing

24:20

what the fun is going on right And I think there's a bit of a

24:23

generational war happening right now in Puerto Rico

24:25

between the young generation, who is you know, out

24:27

there in the streets protesting and wants that independence

24:30

and the older generation that still is like being

24:33

sold the beauty of what would what would happen

24:35

if Puerto Rico was the state that they would all just be rolling

24:37

in money and and you know, brand

24:39

new cars and jobs and all these opportunities.

24:41

Right, Um, what

24:43

do you say to what you see going on in Puerto Rico.

24:46

I've heard you talk about the corrupt government and things like

24:48

that. I'd like to kind of address also

24:50

how Puerto Rico itself is a bit shooting itself

24:52

in the foot essentially. Yeah, but

24:54

listen, we have to also be fair on these things

24:56

because it's like Nelson Dennis, the autor

24:59

of water on Puerto ric and staff you know

25:01

where I'm colonia,

25:03

where I'm ministering the colony right, A

25:05

lot of people asking all the time on taketok oh we

25:08

see or you should go back and you should run and you

25:10

will win. And I'm like, listen, probably

25:12

who knows, I might even win. But here's the problem

25:15

you're giving me. You're giving me like a gigantic,

25:18

like shit situation,

25:20

and tell me, okay, do the best

25:22

that you can what you have with this

25:25

ship. It's like you're giving me a house with

25:28

you know, no electricity, you know, running what Oh

25:30

make this a BMB. I'm like, okay,

25:34

but the problem is that we cannot

25:36

administer the colony. I always tell people

25:38

the exact same answer. When they told me to run from Puerto

25:40

Rico, I tell I told him, all run for governor

25:43

if it's independent or if it's a state, because

25:45

if it's dependent, I can negotiate trade deals

25:47

with a bunch of other countries. And if it's

25:50

uh a state. Then

25:52

I have representation and I can vote against

25:54

or in favor of Republicans or Democratic three

25:57

point five million people that can back me up to

25:59

vote for the resident and have power to wield.

26:02

But if I am ministering the solo

26:04

or the colony, we are

26:06

all screwed. This is like a zero something

26:08

game because there's always somebody, and

26:11

somebody's gonna win, and it's always gonna be the United

26:13

States who's gonna win because we have

26:15

no power. How are you gonna minister

26:17

with no power in hand? You're just basically

26:20

taking a job for four years and then getting

26:22

some money out of it and then leave. That's

26:25

all that they're doing, and for them, for the

26:27

politicians is very lucrative because

26:29

there's really never gonna be no true change. It's

26:31

just a matter of getting paid and getting the checks

26:34

from their diets, from their traveling

26:36

around the island and getting money for food. It's just

26:39

two zero some game. It's it doesn't make any sense.

26:41

That's why corruption in Puerto Rico is happening.

26:44

This because it's a perfect recipe for it.

26:46

You can't leave a fruit in the middle of the table

26:48

and then come two months later and look at it and be like, oh,

26:50

why is it wrong? You

26:53

didn't put it in a fucking fridge, you didn't put

26:55

it in the topper. You just let it sit there

26:58

waiting for something miraculous to happen it.

27:00

It's very easy to blame people for

27:02

not doing their best when you're not giving them

27:04

the adequate tools to do right. I

27:07

think that that that is a fair fair point, I guess

27:09

for me as a human being, it hurts

27:11

my heart to see people like one of the vast quiz

27:14

fucking like you took over

27:16

in such dire circumstances and

27:18

then you just decided that you would still,

27:21

you know, take advantage of the people and line

27:23

your fucking pockets instead of just being and

27:25

your Pucan like like, think about it like as

27:27

an American, we're all coming from different places, but

27:29

as a Puerto Rican, you're from the fucking island.

27:32

You're there, you were one of the people raised

27:34

there. You understand the how how

27:36

die are certain circumstances are there, and

27:38

you're still like okay with robbing

27:41

them blind. For me, that's what really pisses me off,

27:43

you know, first and foremost with a lot of

27:45

the corruption that I see there, it's like you are one of the

27:47

people in the most real way possible,

27:49

unlike any other politician in the United States. Yeah,

27:52

no doubt. It's tragic what some of Puerto Ricans

27:55

that are people that live and were born in doing

27:57

to the island itself. There's no hiding. The

28:00

problem is that the people who are honest and

28:02

want to fix the island don't want to run, you

28:05

know, people like me, Like if I were

28:07

there, I would probably you know. But the problem is

28:09

again, the people that are honest don't want to take

28:11

the problem and make it their own. This

28:14

is too much. I will grow like gray

28:16

hair all over and fucking go crazy because

28:18

it's so much to fix with

28:20

no help from the US. And then

28:22

who are you going to put in that is of your confidence

28:25

that you can trust. Where right now, there's

28:27

so many people that are despread that are just gonna

28:29

take the easy route and just steal much. It's

28:32

ter It's a very it's the one.

28:34

The Oscar situation is one of the worst ones I've

28:36

ever seen. He had power

28:38

and she had the money, and she still wanted more. Greed

28:40

is a motherfuck. Let's I want to I

28:42

want to touch on when it comes to Puerto Rico because I

28:44

I I saw this on your TikTok

28:47

um and it was a viral thing in general,

28:49

the gentrifiers of Puerto Rico running

28:51

with their tails between their legs when the hurricane

28:54

was was hitting. And to

28:56

me, this this should seem like a very cut

28:58

and dry like fucking thing for anybody

29:00

watching, like, yeah, these people are coming through that and not contribute

29:03

anything but reaping all the benefits. But when

29:05

I posh it about it, I still get people arguing

29:07

back and forth about like, well, what do you what's

29:09

wrong with it? These people are contributing to the local

29:12

economy when they come over there and they go

29:14

right it breaking down a bit for us. They

29:17

do because you're looking at it

29:19

in a microcosm of the one percent,

29:22

the one people need to understand a lot

29:24

of things when it comes to the economy. Number

29:26

one, the one person doesn't contribute

29:28

to the entire economy. Right when one

29:31

person buys a ferrari in Puerto Rico, that person

29:33

is not contributing to the economy of it

29:36

just contributed to the people that

29:38

sell eighty dollar stakes and

29:40

three and fifty th cars.

29:42

The people that contribute to the economy is the

29:44

middle class, which comprises like sixty

29:47

of the well not even that, because now half

29:49

of the population of Puerto Rico is under poverty

29:51

uidelines, maybe like a forty

29:54

comprised the middle class in Puerto Rico.

29:57

But what happens where you're giving the problem is

29:59

that the rag and manage the reagant mindset

30:01

of the trickle down economics. We're gonna

30:03

give rich people tax benefits

30:05

so they don't pay any taxes. They put in Puerto Rico,

30:07

they employed three people, they invest

30:10

in the island, and then everything is gonna

30:12

be fixed. That is a lie because number one,

30:14

the people that are coming in those jobs

30:17

that they're employing are not high paying jobs.

30:19

They're mostly people that clean up

30:21

the house or somebody that runs

30:23

errands for the millionaires that goes to the detox

30:26

so they don't have to do that fucking line. And

30:28

then they pay like sixty dollars a day.

30:30

That is, you're not stimulating the economy.

30:33

And then on top of that, you're buying property

30:36

from Puerto Ricans, you're marking

30:38

it up b and being at a higher

30:40

place. And then you're gentrifying in real

30:43

time because you're taking pure communities, turning

30:45

it into rich communities, kicking those people

30:47

out and making this so that only rich

30:50

people can afford it. It's literally

30:52

reentrifying. It's like there's

30:54

no hiding it, there's

30:56

no there's no fucking

30:58

complicated. Then they say the

31:01

same ship I come, people come in my faith. Well,

31:03

there's Puerto Ricans passing the law. Yeah, it's

31:05

Puerto Ricans passing the law. Because

31:07

the Puerto Ricans that are passing the law politicians

31:09

who are benefiting from it, because these millionaires

31:12

are donating to their campaigns. It

31:15

makes complaine fucking sense for them, but it doesn't

31:17

make sense for the people of Puerto Rico. And

31:19

what's gonna happen is eventually that the Puerto

31:21

Ricans that live in the island are are no more, and

31:24

then when you go to the island in twenty years, it's

31:26

gonna be just Americans. Listen, whoever.

31:30

I was there with Amy, like six months ago. I

31:33

went to three places, a pizzeria, a

31:35

joint where they saw like capurias

31:37

and something else. I think it was like a rental

31:40

shop for gear for sure, and they were I

31:42

went to and I'm gonna way, I'm

31:44

sorry. I don't speak Spanish, bro,

31:49

I mean fucking like I mean, I mean, like like Twilight

31:51

Stone, is this like black? I I mean

31:53

like sucking Puerto Rico my island, and

31:56

you don't get speaking my own language for

31:58

for for context, for anybody, you're to Collabra,

32:00

which is one of the small island off of Puerto

32:03

Rico, which historically when I

32:05

was growing up, it was fucking difficult to

32:07

get to Collabra or viks because the ferry

32:09

system. You had to get there like fucking five in the morning.

32:11

All this stuff. The

32:13

fact that that it's like gentrifies

32:15

the point where people not to be in Spanish is

32:17

fucking mind blowing insane,

32:19

dude. Same thing with the fucking when I went to Oh,

32:22

I'm sorry, there was this like like American

32:25

dude, only English, and I'm like, wow,

32:27

this is like a microcosmos. What's going to happen

32:30

in the entire island in a few years to we keep

32:32

telling properly like this and

32:34

it's expensive to be there. But that's on the worst

32:36

part. You know what the worst part is that the people

32:38

of Puerto Rico, people that have lived there their entire

32:41

life, do not get that benefit, right,

32:43

What does that say about close that with the

32:45

people that we let the island colonize

32:48

it like years ago, a hundred years ago or whatever time,

32:51

and then they rain in of their resources,

32:53

took all that money, became rich, left

32:55

the island to their own demands. Now

32:58

come back a hundred years later when it's

33:00

so fucked up and do it again.

33:03

What would be Now we're gonna take over again,

33:05

and we're gonna get the toxes again, and we're gonna buy from

33:07

you again, and we're gonna gentrify it again.

33:09

I'm like, this is incredible. Yea, this

33:12

is literally lightning destroying the same place

33:14

twice. Right. Well, well, to your point, it

33:16

shows you that, yeah, they're

33:18

not allowing Puerto Ricans to to take advantage

33:21

of it because they want that white dollar. They they're

33:23

right that, like the colonial mindset of the

33:25

white skin tone being superior is

33:27

at work there, and even the

33:30

Puerto Ricans in power there would prefer

33:32

that, which is the fucking scary thing um

33:34

about it. And and to your point, when it comes to contributing

33:37

to the local economy, many of these guys

33:39

live in fucking gated communities like Dorado

33:41

where they literally don't even have to leave to

33:43

go fucking food shopping. Right, it's all right

33:46

there inside of the community. They don't have to leave

33:48

those walls and interact with the local

33:50

Puerto Ricans. So that's what I think. They're not contributing.

33:53

They're not contributing anything because when the hurricane

33:56

hit, what happened, they don't left.

33:59

I'm like, well, I thought you were Puerto

34:01

Rican. You you show up camera

34:03

all the time on sucking YouTube Puerto Rican

34:06

ever weekend, but you're so fing.

34:09

Then do Puerto Rican ship go and

34:11

help people out. And then people were coming

34:13

in my comments will come in, Oh, well, you're

34:15

a hippop because you left. Yeah. I left because

34:17

they fucking destroyed the island and I had no choice

34:19

because I couldn't make a buck. But if

34:21

you give me a tax break, I'll go back.

34:24

If I know taxes. No, I

34:26

don't get that they do. And that's the difference.

34:28

I left. I had no fucking choice.

34:30

They came back because they have all the choices

34:32

in the world that we're giving to them because of the privilege.

34:35

There's a fucking difference and people don't see it,

34:37

but they don't care. The law says they

34:39

have to be there a hundred and eighties six days. That's it.

34:42

They won't be there that day, and not even that because

34:44

with vacation at special concessions

34:46

by the law that gives them like fourteen days where they

34:48

can leave in case there's a fucking emergency declared

34:51

by female which just happened. They leave.

34:53

You don't give a ship. They just want to get their breaks, drinking

34:56

out, get drunk and enjoy this song, that's

34:58

all. And if if

35:00

the government is even keeping a real eye on them

35:02

to make sure they're upholding that that standard,

35:04

which we've seen right has been an issue.

35:07

Uh man. So I loved having that

35:09

that talk with you. I hope it was eye opening for

35:11

for a lot of people. Now we've gotten the

35:13

bullshit out of the way, we've got some of the

35:15

the heavier topics. I want to move

35:17

on to something positive and celebrate somebody

35:20

from our community who's being honored and do

35:22

amazing things. Uh in army hent that segment.

35:25

But first let's take a quick break and then we'll

35:27

be right back, all

35:37

right. So, like I said, we talked about a lot

35:39

of the nonsense. Uh. We we got

35:41

some shit off our chest today. Let's let's

35:44

talk about a highlight from

35:46

from our culture right now. Uh Bad

35:48

Bunny, right, who has been a

35:51

really just incredible representative

35:53

for Latinos, not just Puerto Ricans, but Latin

35:55

culture as a whole, and of course as Puerto

35:57

rican is a very special place in all of our hearts.

36:00

But he's having a really cool thing happened.

36:02

Uh you know, he's doing everything. But San

36:05

Diego State University is actually offering

36:07

a class on Bad Bunny,

36:10

which is incredible and even

36:12

Kulu when you when they break down what the class

36:14

will talk about. Right, So, students at

36:17

STS you will be able to delve

36:19

deeper into his influence in the world

36:21

of music, politics, fashion,

36:23

and culture and explore his contributions

36:26

to changing norms of masculinity

36:29

as well as how Puerto Rico is

36:31

perceived to the rest of the world. You have to get a big,

36:33

big shout out to the professor Dr

36:35

Nathy and Shy Rodriguez, who actually also

36:37

taught a class about Selena before that UM

36:40

and chose Bad Bunny this year

36:42

because of his undeniable impact on on Latin

36:44

culture that they're saying, So, man, you

36:47

see this that I'm sure this popped up on

36:49

your your timeline somewhere. How do you feel

36:51

seeing this happen. I think it's fantastic. I

36:53

think it's awesome. I think bad Bunny

36:56

it's ironic because he has a lot of haters,

36:58

right, a lot of people who they are

37:00

from the Tycoonia, right, who think they're fancy in

37:02

Parigo, and Bonny is like, that's

37:04

bad, you know. But people

37:06

don't understand how much of an impact

37:08

and how much um of our

37:11

culture is exposed out there for the

37:13

world to see. Whereas if

37:15

bat Bunny didn't exist, a lot of people

37:18

wouldn't even know where Puerto Rico is when

37:20

you think about it. And now when people

37:22

see me, I went to Colombia recently, I wasn't in

37:24

uh uh and they

37:27

were like, oh ba Bunny and they were like, you

37:29

know, they my hat and they immediately

37:31

thought bad Bonny. So it's cool that

37:33

at least they can place me, you know, and

37:36

he's putting us out in the map. But there's also a

37:38

lot of stuff that we can learn from him in terms of

37:41

our culture. When he said and

37:44

like, people don't know what it's like like

37:46

unless you live in Puerto Rico. And then I

37:48

talked to Americans and he's like, no, there's a place

37:51

that's tourists and we used to go when we were roam

37:53

around our cars were like wow,

37:55

I didn't know that. And to see Americans

37:57

faces light up knowing these

38:00

things that they didn't know and knowing what he means,

38:02

I think it's something really cool because it's hits

38:05

close to my home, you know. I

38:07

think it's fantastic that they're teaching that, and I hope

38:09

that a lot of Americans that have never been in Puerto

38:11

Rico even can learn from you know. Yeah, And

38:14

I love that it's deeper than just music that they're

38:16

talking about all the other contributions and conversations

38:18

that he has, And I think, yeah, Bad

38:20

Bunny is incredible to me because

38:24

he's a picture of what it means

38:26

to be authentically yourself and how

38:28

the world can embrace you for being authentically

38:30

you. I mean, Bad Buddy is the biggest artist

38:32

in the world, and those numbers

38:34

that he's doing are not just Spanish speaking

38:36

people, it's also white Americans who don't understand

38:39

what he's saying but feel the music somehow, some way right.

38:41

And absolutely that's it particularly

38:44

impactful because I love that he also

38:47

stuck so true to his culture, because if you

38:49

know, like historically, many Latin singers

38:51

too kind of cross over to white

38:53

audiences, had to start singing in English, right,

38:56

Selena Mark Anthony, Right, they all

38:58

had to make an English album in order

39:00

to find success. And Beat Bunny is finding

39:02

more success in than all of them, you know, during

39:05

their hey day. And he's doing it in his native tongue,

39:07

which I think is is so incredible that he

39:09

like stuck to his guns like that. The

39:12

first Latino to ever get

39:15

a Grammy in his own

39:17

fucking language,

39:20

the only one I remember watching

39:22

the movie Selena, how Much Hair that

39:25

insistent you have to transform,

39:27

you have to English, and blah blah blah, and I'm

39:30

gonna do me and eventually

39:32

they'll see it. And he was right, And that is

39:35

caressing impressive, not

39:37

to talk to the fact that he's also eliminating

39:40

misergenty, eliminating stupid

39:43

macho tropes of gender

39:45

norms, eliminating all these

39:47

phobias and being open

39:50

to the LGBT community and bringing everyone

39:52

together. What he is doing is beautiful

39:55

for the youth of Puerto Rico. But you always have these

39:57

two conservatives that have their way,

40:00

you know, that's whatever. We always will have that.

40:02

But you know what he is opening the door

40:04

to this new generation. Think of how many people

40:06

that were trans lost their lives in

40:08

Puerto Rico because of dysphobia, and

40:11

he is like, no, let's change

40:13

that, let's be inclusive, let's love everyone.

40:16

And also he's the ultimate philanthropist.

40:18

You know, he's using his power with

40:21

Bianca to create this amazing documentary

40:24

and to create awareness

40:26

of what's happening in Puerto Rico with gentrification,

40:29

with our relationship with the United

40:31

States. With curricane he helped

40:34

take out a governor with we're

40:37

no one going to do ship and he hopped up in a

40:39

in a caravan and said, no, this

40:41

is all right. He's not gonna people

40:44

in Puerto Rico. He

40:45

was. He was in another

40:47

European tour and it was like sorry, we

40:49

have to postpone and flying back to Puerto Rico. Like

40:51

that's huge. Yes, people

40:54

forget the true idols of the island.

40:56

Felix Treening that way he spoke about backs

40:58

and the bombings. Is

41:01

that new generation who's doing the same And

41:03

we all allot to him. We

41:07

you know, these people are bringing awareness

41:10

to our island. Better than the politicians. For

41:14

yep, yep, know that that. That's a

41:16

fact. And I'm glad we got to talk about

41:18

that because I think a lot of people think it's all hype,

41:20

but it's not. It's really somebody

41:23

like firing on all cylinders. His art is

41:25

amazing, but then also recognizing the

41:27

power that he has and using it for the good of

41:29

people. I think is is incredible. You know,

41:32

um, And I think you're you're doing the same

41:34

thing with your your TikTok's. I want to dive into

41:36

that a little bit, man, because listen,

41:45

man, I think you're having

41:47

a lot of really good conversations

41:49

and it's obviously, like like I said, somebody

41:51

told me about you, so you're having that impact,

41:53

which is amazing. Um. Obviously

41:56

you're not of the TikTok generation. Ship, I'm not

41:58

of the TikTok generation. How

42:01

does this whole thing happen where it becomes

42:03

such a big part of your life, listen to

42:05

I have no idea. I

42:09

listen, it's been not even a year because

42:11

when I did my first video. I was talking to am Me

42:13

the other day because we were in Seattle and I

42:15

got bored. Was she could going

42:17

something else in Seattle that visiting family

42:19

or something. I was at the hotel alone and I saw

42:21

this TikTok and I used to browse it because

42:24

my daughter was like, hey, you should check out TikTok. I think

42:26

you like it. It's a lot of weird stuff. And I started looking at videos

42:29

of cats and ship it's

42:31

kind of cool. There's a squirrel surfing. One

42:34

day, I put a video and I'm like, let me just put

42:36

something out there that I have to say and see how and

42:39

you know whatever, if two people see it and

42:42

I put there something about Puerto Rico

42:44

and twenty that's

42:46

weird. And I did like another

42:48

one on something I thought about women

42:51

and they saw you. And

42:55

then it went from like ten thousand

42:57

people following me in the first month, I was like, whoa,

42:59

I got in thousand followers strange. Then

43:02

it went to like twin Then in two months

43:04

it was like

43:05

six. I

43:08

mean it's not even a year yet, and I saw three

43:10

hundred. I'm like this, And I

43:12

talked to people who have been on TikTok for two or three years.

43:14

They have fifty thousand follows. So honestly,

43:17

something is resonating where people want to hear

43:19

my messages. I try to make it about fun,

43:22

about roasting, because people

43:24

a roaster in nature, stupid

43:27

ship on my page, and I'm going to roast. I

43:30

like it because I think we've taken enough insults

43:32

and now it's to pay the insults back. And I do

43:35

it in a way and I enjoyed it. Yeah,

43:38

people like it. That's what I said in my last three

43:40

hundred attributed people like it. I'm gonna keep

43:42

doing it, and so far it's worked, So I

43:44

don't know. I think it's it's beautiful,

43:47

especially as a as a person of color,

43:49

you know what I mean, because it's like there are

43:52

many platforms or people we can kind

43:54

of look to, you know, at least

43:56

not in the same regularity that we know, like all

43:58

the fucking white political pundits that are famous

44:00

out there, you know, be on social media or on

44:03

the regular media, you know, and and media.

44:06

I was doing a talk to the day and I looked up a stat

44:08

where it was like the you

44:10

know, entertainment industry specifically media

44:12

had like the worst rate of

44:14

of Latin representation, like behind

44:16

or in front of the camera. Like it was like the

44:18

industry had the worst diversity

44:20

of any other industry. Yeah, this

44:22

is the one that literally fucking sets the mindset

44:25

of everybody in this country essentially

44:27

in some sort of way. It sets the beauty standards,

44:30

right, it sets how we think about things

44:32

in politics or or our opinion

44:34

on popular culture. Yet we don't

44:36

have that representation. That's why I think things

44:39

like TikTok are incredible.

44:41

I mean, as as as many downsides

44:43

that has, it also empowers creators

44:46

and it empowers voices that otherwise would

44:48

have been silenced by mainstream media. And I think

44:50

that's why you're seeing that reaction,

44:53

because you're putting something out there that many people were thirsting

44:55

for, but ship didn't have anywhere to go to, you know what I

44:57

mean. So I think that's a beautiful thing. Thank you. I appreciate

45:00

your beautiful and kind words. And I also see

45:02

people approach me on the street, which is weird. They're

45:04

like, oh my god, are you're doing this important?

45:06

Like people of New York when I was there, people

45:08

in other stings, people from other countries

45:10

New Zealand, like England, guy, the

45:12

other thing, Cambodia, Kodia listening

45:16

to my ask. It's sage that

45:18

there's these people over the world that I'm impacting,

45:20

but especially in the Latin American community,

45:23

which I think is I have a lot of Mexicans

45:25

following me, people from from

45:28

everywhere, but I see and

45:30

it's really cool because they're like, oh my god, you're giving

45:32

us a voice so that people can see we're

45:34

all not We're not all like this

45:37

box of people that I work in construction.

45:39

No, there's the lawyers, there's astronauts,

45:41

there's people, entertainment, there's

45:44

in whatever in construction, there's everything everything.

45:46

We do a lot of things. We're not just this

45:49

tiny group of people who just do this. And

45:51

I think cool that we gave that exposure out

45:53

and that I helped promote it. And there's a lot of other good

45:56

content creators like being worked as I'm just

45:58

so yogi. There's um, you

46:00

know, so many good people that are putting

46:02

a good representation over our island and our

46:04

Latino community out there. And I

46:07

just try to, you know, boost other people

46:09

and help everybody out and at the same time create

46:11

awareness and education on

46:13

our island and where we come from, what we do

46:15

and what is happening. I think it's important as well, and

46:18

I feel how that I do that even if it's

46:20

in a small scale or a large scale. Hopefully

46:22

I'll keep growing and keep creating more awareness.

46:24

I want to get into politics and helping politicians

46:26

now, and bush In does that favored

46:29

impact the Latino community as well,

46:31

So hopefully we'll see well that I

46:33

love that goal because it's it's it's much needed

46:35

because many Democrats were some

46:38

have fucking shocked when they realized that not all

46:40

Latinos vote exactly the same way in this last

46:42

selection news to them where we're like,

46:45

I doesn't make any sense, But hopefully

46:47

the numbers will go down as I keep roasting

46:50

right ye, preaching

46:53

what not? Where can people follow you? Anybody

46:56

listening that that doesn't follow you on TikTok? Yet?

46:58

What what's your hand? They can buy TikTok?

47:00

Candle is basically my my Luisito,

47:04

Luis Torio, Luisito

47:06

are I oh seven eight seven

47:08

the old area code for Puerto Rico.

47:10

Luis too um

47:14

And in that account I also have an alternate

47:17

aco which you can see in case

47:19

they banned me, Man, I'm so glad

47:21

that we got to connect, dude, and I

47:24

was telling me, I think I told I was trying to reach out to you for a

47:26

minute and I couldn't find your infot randomly

47:28

you started following me, so it's just kind of like the universe

47:30

put us together. But I really appreciate

47:32

the conversation, my bro. We definitely gotta gotta do

47:34

this again and then hopefully collap on something that I love what

47:36

you're doing. Absolutely, thank you for the invite

47:39

and for let me hang out with you

47:41

for a little bit. And if you ever want to do

47:43

this again, let me know. I always like to. I think

47:45

TikTok. You know it compresses you into

47:47

three minutes, but this podcast right because

47:50

you can amplify so much more on the topics

47:52

and shoeople get a sense of who you really

47:54

are. So I appreciate that. But yeah, good

47:56

luck on your on your show, keep pushing um

47:58

all this wonderful information that you got. Any

48:01

of you want to do it again, let me know you've got a friend out

48:03

here in Colorado. Thank you, my bro. I appreciate

48:05

that you have a good one man. Big shout

48:07

to Luis for hopping on the show.

48:10

Always appreciate here and

48:12

you know, educated people from our community

48:14

having really important conversations like

48:16

he's doing on TikTok. Big shout out once again

48:18

to Victor for connecting us. And that's why

48:20

you should just you know, DM me your feedback.

48:22

This is an open you know, communications

48:25

source. This isn't just my show, but I want to hear

48:27

what you know, y'all think, and what you want

48:29

to talk about and people who might want to see or hear

48:32

me talk to So always at DJ

48:34

dramas if you want to connect in that

48:36

way. And speaking of real quick, we're gonna

48:39

hear hear y'all's voice for the first time

48:41

here our season two get your take

48:43

on one of these topics we've been talking about in a

48:45

segment we call ask a Gringo.

48:48

Ask alright,

48:54

so anybody knew here for

48:56

for man for season two of

48:58

of Life is a gringo. Allow you all to be a part

49:00

of the conversation, because again, the show is just

49:03

as much about you as it is me.

49:05

So at DJ Dramas on Instagram you want

49:07

to be part of these conversations.

49:09

And we'll make this quick. Some this episodes running a

49:11

little bit long. But let me see

49:13

I asked y'all in regards to bad

49:16

bunnies, Uh, you know, class

49:18

at San Diego State University. I

49:21

asked y'all simply, who would you want to take

49:23

a class on and why

49:26

now? First one, uh, it sounds

49:28

only fitting and it's from

49:31

at v as Ayori

49:33

And they said Bad Bunnies

49:36

Manager because he's a genius.

49:38

And yeah, this is another great example

49:40

of somebody I definitely love to pick the brain. Their brain

49:42

I agree with. And not a

49:45

lot of people know. Behind the

49:47

scenes, it's begun to be talked about a bit,

49:49

but Bad Bunny not only is having

49:51

like a crazy moment in his career, but

49:54

behind the scenes, financially, the way

49:56

that him and his team have set up

49:58

his his finances, he has so much

50:00

more ownership over his music therefore

50:03

gets a bigger cut of the money than

50:05

probably any other artist in the world right now.

50:08

And it's just because of a genius

50:10

way to to secure leverage and

50:12

and build up his name to a point that the labels

50:15

had to give him whatever he wanted. So y're definitely a

50:17

Bad Buddies manager. I'll put it on my list as well.

50:21

And let's see, I'll read one more here

50:23

at a mad one

50:26

nine, says

50:28

a Mexican actor now doing English movies

50:31

like Black Panther, too, and

50:33

uh, I love that. I mean, I think anybody who

50:35

has had a successful career

50:38

in the Latin space and then now it's finding ways

50:40

to cross over into English

50:43

movies, I mean obviously they're finding a way to navigate

50:45

the industry and make a name for themselves and get those opportunities.

50:48

So yeah, I think that's beautiful, a

50:50

quickly safe for me. I

50:52

think I probably

50:54

have to go bad money already exists. I'd have to

50:56

go with Nipsey Hustle. I think he's

50:58

somebody who man gone

51:01

far too too soon, but somebody who I've always

51:03

enjoyed hearing the way that his mind thinks.

51:05

And I've I've read a book, you

51:08

know, about his life and his story and

51:10

all that kind of stuff, and I just found it so inspiring

51:12

and so fascinating. I took a lot away from it.

51:14

So I think, you know, doing an entire class

51:16

on him would definitely be something, you know, I would

51:18

would love to be be a part of, for sure,

51:21

And thank you all so much for participating and

51:23

are asking good segment for this week again

51:25

at dj Dromos on Instagram. Would be a

51:27

part of these conversations. And with that said,

51:30

man, let's quickly tie everything we talked about

51:32

today in a neat little bow and

51:34

it's segmentally called conclusion. Stu.

51:43

All right, So Luis and I we we dove

51:46

into a lot of this stuff pretty deeply. So I'm not

51:48

gonna gonna overdo it here

51:50

with the the kind of uh, you know, simplifying

51:53

and all that we've talked about. But

51:55

you know, the idea Hispanic Heritage month, you know,

51:57

versus Latino Latin next, these these different

52:00

terms that are that are happening, you know. I

52:02

think we have to understand that it's it's not about

52:05

you know, people being overly woke

52:07

or this, that it's about inclusion, right

52:10

and making a space that everybody

52:12

feels like they can call their own, you know.

52:14

And it doesn't mean

52:16

that it's dumb just because it goes uh

52:19

you know, or it is different, I should

52:21

say, than than what we learned growing

52:23

up. Right, ideas evolved, you all involved,

52:26

hopefully as human beings, and and that's

52:28

the goal of all of this, right, So I

52:30

think we have to just keep an open minded things begin

52:32

to change and evolve and understand

52:35

that it's generally speaking, it's it's for the better. Now,

52:37

we talked about gun control and this this

52:39

latest shooting that we saw here in Texas,

52:41

and I loved his perspective,

52:43

you know, Luis as A, as a gun owner himself, and

52:45

somebody who even you know, advocate on behalf

52:47

of gun owner rights, um to

52:50

to come to the table and say, listen, you know, as

52:52

much as I believe in the right to bear

52:54

arms, we have to revisit this and

52:56

and and do something to fix

52:59

what is an obvious is a glaring problem.

53:01

And I just wish that more people, you know,

53:03

had a similar mindset to him, to understand

53:05

that this is bigger than your own personal right of

53:08

wanting to own a firearm. You

53:10

know, this is something that is really

53:12

becoming man in an epidemic

53:14

in this country gun violence,

53:17

and we have to do something to to stop

53:19

it. Essentially right now when

53:21

it comes to Trump and man, this latest book

53:23

in Greenland and Puerto Rico, to

53:25

me, you know, Trump is gonna Trump. I

53:28

think the the idea of Puerto

53:30

Rico being traded to Greenland, you know, uh,

53:33

even if it wasn't necessarily really going to

53:35

happen. I think the fact that the Puerto Rican

53:37

people, like the Wes said, are just a commodity

53:39

that can be thrown on the table for

53:42

a potential trade. Just speaks

53:44

to how funn that the current situation is in the status

53:46

of Puerto Rico and and why

53:49

this really needs to be addressed, and why

53:52

Congress needs to start taking this seriously and

53:54

understand that, you know, people want to

53:56

have their voice heard on this, and we need to

53:59

make a decision and stop leaving Puerto Rico

54:01

in this this limbo state that it is

54:03

just incredibly inhumane by standards.

54:06

Now back to Bad Bunny, man, you

54:09

just you gotta love to see

54:11

the recognition someone like him is

54:13

getting. It is beautiful and it is

54:15

so well deserved. Somebody who is

54:17

incredible at his craft and then decides

54:20

to use his platform for good. I

54:22

will always celebrate that and shout out

54:24

to this professor at the university over

54:27

at San Diego State University for understanding

54:29

the cultural impact someone like bad Bunny

54:32

is having and creating a class like that where

54:34

students can really learn about him

54:36

and our culture and all the work that he's

54:38

doing. So man, big shout out to

54:40

to that professor, and thank you all

54:42

so much for tuning into our Thursday Trends

54:44

episode. I appreciate you. First one

54:46

of season two. You know, we do this

54:49

every single Thursday Thursday

54:51

Trends episode. Make should go follow

54:53

Luis on TikTok. He's doing a lot of amazing

54:55

stuff and man, I'll catch you on Tuesday

54:57

for a brand new episode. So then

55:00

and stay safe, have an amazing weekend

55:02

and I'll talk to you all soon. Peace. Life

55:07

as a gringo as the production of I Hearts

55:09

Michael Ta Podcast Network. Yeah,