Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to Season to fifty seven,
Speaker 1: Episode five of Dirt Dailies. I Guys Stay, production of
Speaker 1: I Heart Radio. This is a podcast where we take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into America's shared consciousness. And it's Friday,
Speaker 1: October seven. My name is Jack O'Brien a K. I
Speaker 1: saw the first real Woodstock was a boomer in my prime.
Speaker 1: Met your grandma in the mud was the summer of
Speaker 1: sixty nine. That is courtesy of Johnny Davis. Just working
Speaker 1: off of that bad mental image. We had discussing where
Speaker 1: where the this generation of kids came from. And it's uh,
Speaker 1: at least some of them must have been conceived that
Speaker 1: the line started in the mud in the summer of
Speaker 1: sixty nine. What stock. Anyways, I am thrilled to be
Speaker 1: joined by a very special guest co host producer on
Speaker 1: many great podcasts, great podcasts such as The Daily Za guys,
Speaker 1: it's super producer Becca Roma. Uh don't have an a K.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy to be here. Yeah, you are here
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that. Thank you so much. And Becca,
Speaker 1: we are thrilled to be joined in our third seat
Speaker 1: by an organizer with Unite Here Local eleven in l
Speaker 1: A who is and has been successfully fighting to win
Speaker 1: material games for workers, immigrants, the unhoused, people of color,
Speaker 1: young people, everyone who has been neglected by the city
Speaker 1: of l A. He's currently doing that by running for
Speaker 1: city council in l a thirteenth district, where he got
Speaker 1: the most votes in the first round of the election,
Speaker 1: upsetting a heavily funded incumbent. Please welcome to the show, Hugo.
Speaker 1: So tell Martinez what's up? Thank you Jack, Thank you Becca.
Speaker 1: Happy to happy to be here, happy to represent just thirteen. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: excited the the election is coming up, the beginning of
Speaker 1: what how many days out are we? We have thirty
Speaker 1: three days last death. Yeah, how are you feeling? You
Speaker 1: seem energized, you seeing everybody in the neighborhood, everybody because
Speaker 1: I am District thirteen, and people seem energized, motivated. The
Speaker 1: signs are showing up. I'm loving to see it. The
Speaker 1: signs showed up on my yard. But yeah, it's exciting times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're very excited. Feeling good. We're locked in, were zoned in,
Speaker 1: you know, just looking forward to election day. Nice. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we are going to get to know you a little
Speaker 1: bit better in a moment. First, we're gonna tell our
Speaker 1: listeners a couple of things we're talking about today. I
Speaker 1: am going to ask you why why we should be
Speaker 1: thinking locally when we're facing these massive global problems. I
Speaker 1: don't I that's something I struggle with And I know
Speaker 1: we come back to a lot on this show, is
Speaker 1: you know, as we talk about these intractable, huge problems
Speaker 1: like climate change and you know, just a massive corporate
Speaker 1: media like what why come back to two local? Because
Speaker 1: that that is what we talked about a lot is
Speaker 1: like that's where you can do stuff. But I just
Speaker 1: want to hear hear your thoughts on that. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about jaywalking laws because that that was actually a
Speaker 1: history I didn't know about. But is I think a
Speaker 1: good example of a a local change that happened a
Speaker 1: hundred years ago nineteen. I believe that ended up sort
Speaker 1: of designing the world that we live in in sort
Speaker 1: of a bad way. So like a small change and
Speaker 1: then outward ripples and not Now. I don't want to
Speaker 1: teach my kids to ride their bike in because I'm
Speaker 1: worried they're gonna get hit by a cargoing fifty in
Speaker 1: in l a. So we'll talk about jay walking laws.
Speaker 1: We might even talk about a big controversy that's happening.
Speaker 1: And I didn't want to like get you on the
Speaker 1: record on something too controversial, but this is this is
Speaker 1: a big one that I think people want to know
Speaker 1: where you fall on, and that is the fact that
Speaker 1: the new Super Mario brother released a teaser for the
Speaker 1: new movie and his cakes are missing. He's he's got
Speaker 1: no butt and so you know, the petitions out, So
Speaker 1: we obviously want to talk about that and just get
Speaker 1: you on the record on something incredibly stupid. The people
Speaker 1: want to know, the people want to want to know.
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's the first question you're getting at rallies
Speaker 1: right now, so I mean you might as well just
Speaker 1: do it here right Before we get to any of that, though,
Speaker 1: we do like to ask our guests, what is something
Speaker 1: from your search history is revealing about who you are? Well,
Speaker 1: let's let's pull up my phone right here we go action, Yeah, uh, okay,
Speaker 1: there should be no surprises. How many days until November eight? Okay,
Speaker 1: that's the first thing on my on my search bar.
Speaker 1: How do you deal with how do you deal with
Speaker 1: like the stress around that, Like do you are you
Speaker 1: just kind of in the zone one day at a
Speaker 1: time type, or you're just checking in every day being
Speaker 1: like you're feeling the noose tightening or I feel like
Speaker 1: I would not deal well with that stress. But how
Speaker 1: are you feeling? You know it feels Uh, I feel good.
Speaker 1: I feel focused. Uh, you know. I I've done other
Speaker 1: campaigns nationally, and it's just a little different because it's me.
Speaker 1: But I we have our plan or executing it and
Speaker 1: you know, just really day by day. But I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to election day for sure. Yeah, what's it? What's
Speaker 1: sort of your plan is? I mean, it seems like
Speaker 1: your plan has been kind of laser focused to this point.
Speaker 1: But what is there anything new you're doing as you
Speaker 1: get closer to the election or their new obstacles that
Speaker 1: have arisen as you're getting closer. Yeah, the I mean
Speaker 1: the biggest thing is we you know, we're planning a
Speaker 1: big rally on on on Sunday or well this Sunday.
Speaker 1: I don't know when folks will hear this this episode,
Speaker 1: but but that's a big one. We want we want
Speaker 1: to turn out two people, but it's really to build
Speaker 1: momentum for last election day, and so I always say
Speaker 1: that in the last moments of an election, it is
Speaker 1: it is your community and your support that will carry you.
Speaker 1: Happens every single time. It's like you're getting close to
Speaker 1: the crunch time and people's ability to come through. You
Speaker 1: just gotta let it, let it happen. So, but that's
Speaker 1: going to be the inflection point. Is this weekend? Nice?
Speaker 1: What is something you think is overrated? I went, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna name names because I have a lot of
Speaker 1: respect for this taco spot, but it's it's it's a
Speaker 1: it's a very delicious food that you eat, but it's
Speaker 1: not a taco. It is not a taco, and so
Speaker 1: it was a little overrated. I was like, this is
Speaker 1: not This is hard because you're like, Okay, what places
Speaker 1: selling tacos that aren't tacos that are naming them tacos?
Speaker 1: In l A, there's so many places. Again, you can
Speaker 1: see the red string behind me. Yeah, I understand your
Speaker 1: diplomatic stance, but as someone who likes to eat, I
Speaker 1: would like to offline learn what the spot is. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me just say that a taco does not have cheese,
Speaker 1: or or or or a bunch of It's very decorative.
Speaker 1: It was very delicious. But I would say, text mex
Speaker 1: tacos do I will I'll die on that hill as
Speaker 1: the as the Texan in the room, text mex tacos
Speaker 1: have cheese. Okay, let's just say it's not my mama's taco.
Speaker 1: There you go and you're you're allowed to have that.
Speaker 1: I will also say my mom was taco was taking
Speaker 1: me to Taco Bell and they also have cheese and
Speaker 1: shredded lettuce. I don't know where where you fall on that,
Speaker 1: but what so it's cheat. Cheese is the main offender.
Speaker 1: That's the ingredient that you will not allow on a taco.
Speaker 1: But what about like cohita cheese cheese? Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like tacos, don't. I mean Mexican? What was so interesting
Speaker 1: because it's the same recipe. It's it's tortilla and and
Speaker 1: and meat and but we call different things different things,
Speaker 1: like now that keep those which is different. Tacos does
Speaker 1: have cheese, that is acceptable, That is acceptable. I'm a
Speaker 1: case to a guy because I'm a I'm a little baby.
Speaker 1: I like cheese. Whenever there's a taco stand at like
Speaker 1: a birthday party or something, I'm I pretend like I'm
Speaker 1: getting an order from my kids and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I lit it up with cheese and they and they're
Speaker 1: give me. They love it. They love the cheese. Now yeah,
Speaker 1: actually they really like cheese. It's could you could you
Speaker 1: double it up? Just really really well? That sucker up
Speaker 1: my four year old. You know what is something you
Speaker 1: think is underrated? As far as movies go, There's there's
Speaker 1: one movie that I really really love, like the watches
Speaker 1: over and over, and that's the movie Little Nikki. Okay,
Speaker 1: I love that movie. It's in my top five I
Speaker 1: never heard movie Becca's Very Young. Little Nikki is Adam Sandler.
Speaker 1: This is one of the early Adam Sandler movies I've
Speaker 1: never seen because it coincided with me starting to I
Speaker 1: think it came out in two thousand and it coincided
Speaker 1: with me starting to take myself seriously as like a
Speaker 1: movie fan, and also like at that time, water Boy
Speaker 1: was my least favorite Adam Sandler movie because he like
Speaker 1: did the same silly voice the whole movie, and it
Speaker 1: seemed like the same thing was happening with Little Nikki. Right,
Speaker 1: doesn't he do like a voice the whole time? Yeah?
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. So I didn't give it a shot.
Speaker 1: This is my fault. I think there's a limitation on
Speaker 1: my part. This came right before Punch Drunk Glove, which
Speaker 1: was when we got our first like serious Sandler, and
Speaker 1: I was like, it's like, yes, this is this is me.
Speaker 1: I am a pretentious person. Yeah, I prefer my Sandler
Speaker 1: aged and matured um, which is obviously, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: missed this one. What what is it about little Nikki
Speaker 1: that speaks to you? I don't know. It's just so
Speaker 1: so different, some of these jokes and cameo appearances and
Speaker 1: the Harlem Globetrotters come out on it. As I got talking,
Speaker 1: there's a talking dog. I mean, it's just it's just
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just very unique. It's very unique.
Speaker 1: Are you an Adam Sandler fan in general or just
Speaker 1: like a little nicky purist. You know, I grew up.
Speaker 1: I was in I graduate high school in two thousand
Speaker 1: and one, so I think Adam Summer was like kind
Speaker 1: of a hit, you know, it was kind of in
Speaker 1: formative years. But yeah, I would say I like him, yes,
Speaker 1: but this is my farm most favorable. That's so funny, man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it definitely matters what point in your
Speaker 1: life you're at when when the movie hits, right, Because
Speaker 1: I was just like I was in at that age
Speaker 1: when I think Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore we're hitting
Speaker 1: and those movies, I'm like, oh, they're unimpeachable classics, and
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the Yeah, all right, well
Speaker 1: let's let's talk a little bit about that. That first
Speaker 1: question of like, you know, I get into spirals of
Speaker 1: despair when we're doing the show and talking about climate
Speaker 1: change that seems insurmountable, a mainstream political system and mainstream
Speaker 1: media that seems incapable of telling the truth when the
Speaker 1: truth does not drive profit and profitability, you know, police
Speaker 1: carcetral system that is rightly viewed as a horror show
Speaker 1: just around around the country. So the question I find
Speaker 1: myself asking a lot is like what can we do
Speaker 1: other than like talk about these big, massive issues, Like
Speaker 1: how how do you get into action? And you know,
Speaker 1: I know you're an organizer, but just how do you
Speaker 1: generally like think about that? Interesting? You know, I I
Speaker 1: think about this a lot because I grew up in
Speaker 1: south central Los Angeles, very poor. My parents were street vendors.
Speaker 1: You know, the feeling of despair around me. I think
Speaker 1: it was something that formed my personality. And I remember
Speaker 1: and I remember seeing, you know, my dad was heard
Speaker 1: he was disabled and wasn't working. My mom was like
Speaker 1: working too three jobs. My older brother was in jail,
Speaker 1: and I remember that I thought, I cannot change the
Speaker 1: circumstances around but I can change how I interact with them,
Speaker 1: and so and so I said, what are the one
Speaker 1: thing I could do that can change my condition? Now
Speaker 1: at that moment in time, was just go to college? Right,
Speaker 1: So my goal was to go to cut and then
Speaker 1: after college was you know, try to go to law
Speaker 1: school and so. But but but I really think about
Speaker 1: those formative years as me as as as a teenager,
Speaker 1: and how it's been applied to the movement here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. And become a union organizer at twenty three,
Speaker 1: and you you become exposed to how terrible the world is.
Speaker 1: Like it's like at some point you start learning more
Speaker 1: and more and more and you're like, wow, this really sucks.
Speaker 1: What can I do? But the same concept, right, it's
Speaker 1: like we organize one workplace at a time, can we
Speaker 1: win the union at one one place here? And then
Speaker 1: another place here in another place here, And so I
Speaker 1: always think, just start small. And I got that from
Speaker 1: my formative years of day when all that was happening,
Speaker 1: my family, applying it to the union, and over time
Speaker 1: you will see the change. Right, It's just you're watering
Speaker 1: one seed at a time, and I think what we
Speaker 1: see now in Los Angeles is that those seeds we
Speaker 1: have watered one at a time are coming to fruition,
Speaker 1: and it's very exciting. I've never been the most hopeful
Speaker 1: I have in my entire life than I am today.
Speaker 1: Really are main to hear because I feel like I
Speaker 1: get into extential dread spirals like at least once a day.
Speaker 1: It's nice to year. So what was such a positive outlook?
Speaker 1: Like there is hope, you know, because I think there's
Speaker 1: so much bad news coming at you from all sides.
Speaker 1: With how vast and vapid the internet is, that it's
Speaker 1: hard to take a step back and breathe and just
Speaker 1: like be like, let me be present in my community,
Speaker 1: in my local space, in my personal space and my
Speaker 1: my home bubble versus like constantly doom scrolling, so to speak. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that, you know, I think the internet
Speaker 1: right has also change the way we the way we
Speaker 1: view things that we want instant gratification. We want things now,
Speaker 1: we want things that. But movements are not built that way. Movements.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think about the civil rights movement. The
Speaker 1: Montgomery bus boycott was and Dr King didn't have another
Speaker 1: real victory until nine Those were eight years of them
Speaker 1: trying to and then they had Birmingham, right, and that
Speaker 1: sort of put it on an international scale. But it's
Speaker 1: about being diligent and not understanding that the results don't
Speaker 1: come immediately. M hm, and I think you will have success.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about one of the seeds that you've
Speaker 1: seen like bloom over time. I know, some of the
Speaker 1: big issues in this specific election or like that in
Speaker 1: everything having to do with l A is you know,
Speaker 1: safety and the unhoused population and like those are big issues.
Speaker 1: And I know you guys just had a rally where
Speaker 1: you were talking about like renters rights being being important
Speaker 1: on that front. But can you talking about just yeah,
Speaker 1: what what's making you hopeful right now at a local level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the the one that is making me the most hopeful
Speaker 1: is the conversation around housing. That that is one where
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of the conversations are making me hopefully,
Speaker 1: but this one in particular, it feels like there has
Speaker 1: been so much organizing across city, county, and state that
Speaker 1: things are starting to sort of collalesce, you know, And
Speaker 1: so this issue around unaffordability, and now it's tied to housing.
Speaker 1: We see Measure ul A is going to be on
Speaker 1: the ballot in November, which I've hoped folks vote yes
Speaker 1: on that will put between six hundred million and one
Speaker 1: point one billion dollars in the building of affordable housing
Speaker 1: and acquisition of affordable housing and tenant protections and things
Speaker 1: like that. And then the governor that's just at the
Speaker 1: city level, and then at the state level. The governor
Speaker 1: just passed s B six seven nine, which would create
Speaker 1: a countywide housing authority similar to Metro Metro's a countywide
Speaker 1: authority over transportation that crosses the eight s B six
Speaker 1: seven nine would create a housing authority over the eight
Speaker 1: cities within the county to really accelerate the building affordable housing.
Speaker 1: And so that's happening now, and so we can get
Speaker 1: those things that the money plus the housing authority plus
Speaker 1: elected officials really talking about truly building affordable housing or
Speaker 1: social housing. The recipe feels that it's there for the taking.
Speaker 1: And again there's been years of years of fighting, but
Speaker 1: it feels like, finally, you know, we can for the
Speaker 1: first time in over twenty or fifty years, we can
Speaker 1: maybe build social housing in the city of Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: which would be incredible. Yeah. Yeah, just hearing you speak
Speaker 1: at at one of your rallies of about just the
Speaker 1: you know, the status quo got us to this situation
Speaker 1: where there is a you know, crisis of unhoused people
Speaker 1: in in the city of l a And you know,
Speaker 1: just the the fact that continuing to just use this
Speaker 1: approach of like the police kind of moving them around
Speaker 1: and doing these sweeps, and like you you, you seem
Speaker 1: to be more attacking it at the Okay, So what
Speaker 1: is what is the cause of this crisis, and like
Speaker 1: how do we actually address it? Right? Absolutely, I think that,
Speaker 1: you know, elected officials are so quick to think about
Speaker 1: how can I score political points now? Right? What can
Speaker 1: make me look good? Now? How can the decisions I
Speaker 1: make influenced the public so that I can get reelected? Right?
Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a it's a question of self preservation.
Speaker 1: Upholding the status quo. The more difficult conversation is, well,
Speaker 1: what's causing it? Let's actually look at the root and
Speaker 1: and it's it's you know, they're decisions based on fear
Speaker 1: and you know, unwilling to go into the public and
Speaker 1: just be just be honest, just be honest with people,
Speaker 1: you know about like what's the real cause of this?
Speaker 1: And so so yeah, absolutely, we're we're going to the
Speaker 1: to the root of it, and we're not being shy
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah, what is the cause? Like what what
Speaker 1: what do you tell? But like, what's the honest message
Speaker 1: that they're not getting elsewhere? I Mean, the number one
Speaker 1: reason people become homeless is because because it's it's about
Speaker 1: deep poverty, you know, it's you know, the biggest stat
Speaker 1: that I learned was that in the County of Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: over six hundred thousand people, so more than half a million, right,
Speaker 1: spend over ninety percent of their income on rent. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, that's it. It's this crazy statistic. And and
Speaker 1: right now we have an eviction more term that is,
Speaker 1: it has helped it's not a full moratorium, but previous
Speaker 1: to the moratorium going into place, because the COVID between
Speaker 1: and and and The numbers are are hard to pin
Speaker 1: down because not everybody who's evicted. So anybody who's evicted
Speaker 1: is someone who becomes homeless, right they don't have a home.
Speaker 1: And so every month between ten and twenty thousand people
Speaker 1: were becoming homeless per per month. That is an astronomical number.
Speaker 1: Now a lot of folks figure it out, Like when
Speaker 1: my parents were evicted when I was young, They've stayed
Speaker 1: with my uncle for a month, right or two months
Speaker 1: until they got things. But ten to people per month,
Speaker 1: that is an issue of of unaffordable housing, deep poverty,
Speaker 1: not having good jobs or the services for folks. And
Speaker 1: that is a tsunami, right that that is out there,
Speaker 1: and and so that's we got to speak to the truth.
Speaker 1: And that's the real reason people become home. Are the
Speaker 1: main reason why people come home with well, especially because
Speaker 1: I mean I don't live in the city of Las Angeles.
Speaker 1: I live in Brooklyn. But obviously we also have a
Speaker 1: housing crisis here in New York City, Like these folks
Speaker 1: are getting evicted and those rentals aren't being filled as quickly, right,
Speaker 1: So there's just like this deep like disparity of housing
Speaker 1: where there is like lots of housing lots of people
Speaker 1: who are unhoused, and because of the differences in rent prices,
Speaker 1: despite those people needing a home, they can't live in
Speaker 1: their homes, right, absolutely. And then we have you know,
Speaker 1: apartments who they're they're vacants, right, Yes, that's yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what I mean. There's like vacancy and some of these
Speaker 1: like luxury buildings and things because like the income is
Speaker 1: just like not they're not reasonable for the people that
Speaker 1: live in the city, that's right, that's right. They're they're
Speaker 1: waiting for the speculation or the type of renter to come,
Speaker 1: you know and take the spot. And yeah. I meanwhile,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, people are for stock in the street. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel like it goes back to that sort of
Speaker 1: everything tilting in the direction of profitability, right, and you know,
Speaker 1: landlords having big organizations because they're making the money so
Speaker 1: they can fund these big organizations. But it sounds like
Speaker 1: you're saying that there's going to be a citywide organization
Speaker 1: to you know, push back on that and represent the
Speaker 1: rights of you know, renters, right, is that kind of
Speaker 1: the idea? Yeah, I think that they just to create
Speaker 1: an agency that you know, can really address a county
Speaker 1: wide regional issue. Right, it's it's you know, it's like
Speaker 1: I live. The closest city to me is is Glenda.
Speaker 1: It's about a mile and a half away to the
Speaker 1: north and is weird. And it's a huge area, but
Speaker 1: it's eighty eight individual cities, and so those cities do
Speaker 1: not coordinate or talk to each other or build the
Speaker 1: housing that it needed. So it's to try to give
Speaker 1: people who rent right a little bit more power over
Speaker 1: this mega metropolis, right we call Los Angeles. Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break. We'll come back. We'll keep
Speaker 1: having this conversation and talk about maybe some of the
Speaker 1: mainstream media narratives and how you see, you know, your
Speaker 1: ability and just our ability to kind of fight against that.
Speaker 1: So we'll be right back and we're back, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to you know, your your background is,
Speaker 1: you know, working in unions, and that does feel like
Speaker 1: a mainstream media narrative where there is some progress being made, right,
Speaker 1: Like we're we're starting to see public opinion shift towards
Speaker 1: you know, the people are understanding the value of having
Speaker 1: strong unions. But I just wanted to kind of when
Speaker 1: I heard you talk about your story like union unions
Speaker 1: played a big part and just keep speak to that
Speaker 1: a little bit of how you've seen the value of unions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I would say that it feels are we have a
Speaker 1: moment of arrival with the union, which is great. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what it what's changed, But
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's so interesting because it's if you
Speaker 1: look at unions, the only place where they've grown really
Speaker 1: is is California and New York, Oregon, in Washington at
Speaker 1: least That's always been the narrative for for me growing up.
Speaker 1: But I do think that they sort of the ink
Speaker 1: come inequality that young folks are facing. I mean younger
Speaker 1: I'm thirty nine, but younger folks, you know, coming out
Speaker 1: of college to find jobs that you know, paying minimum wage,
Speaker 1: student debt. I think all those things have really shaped,
Speaker 1: you know, the corporate greed, you know, Jeff Bezos being
Speaker 1: so wealthy and people having so little. I think people
Speaker 1: see the union as like one of the main vehicles
Speaker 1: to try to change that. I think it's very inspiring.
Speaker 1: But yeah, and of course, you know Chris mass and
Speaker 1: that victory was really phenomenal for the New Yorkans out there,
Speaker 1: and it was amazing. It really captivated people's imagination. I think, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I I feel like there's just a flagging of
Speaker 1: enthusiasm for the mainstream narrative that has been sort of
Speaker 1: ascendant for most of my adult life, like through I
Speaker 1: guess my teenage through adult life, but like that, I
Speaker 1: feel like it really kicked off with the Clinton administration
Speaker 1: and just being like we just left them market do
Speaker 1: its thing and it's going to take care of everything.
Speaker 1: And I feel like starting in two thousand eight, we're
Speaker 1: starting to see kind of a flagging of that and
Speaker 1: now just hearing more and more stories of people like
Speaker 1: I think you talked about your first experience where where
Speaker 1: you were thinking about going to college and you were
Speaker 1: instead kind of asked to play a part with a
Speaker 1: hotel workers union, and just like the night and day
Speaker 1: difference you saw between you know, how the bosses and
Speaker 1: the powers that be in that instance treated you right
Speaker 1: like once there was the possibility of of organization. Can
Speaker 1: you talk about that story a little bit, Yeah, absolutely, so.
Speaker 1: I was. It was my my last year at college.
Speaker 1: I was a working student, so I worked this hotel,
Speaker 1: this non union hotel job from high all the way
Speaker 1: through high school and college and my senior year and
Speaker 1: like getting ready to go to law school and I
Speaker 1: was literally doing my use at prep course and I
Speaker 1: had it books. I was going to take it in
Speaker 1: June or so July and the union came to my workplace.
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I want to want to organize.
Speaker 1: I met with the organizer, you know, just to give
Speaker 1: this story very quickly, you know, we we were doing
Speaker 1: on this under secret, and finally came the day where
Speaker 1: we were revealed ourselves right that we were organizing the union.
Speaker 1: And we came in with like thirty five forty workers
Speaker 1: demanding respect. And I was off that day, and so
Speaker 1: I came and I did that and I left. And
Speaker 1: then a few days later I came back to work
Speaker 1: and I thought I was gonna get fired. And I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, they're gonna fire me. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen. And it was quite the opposite, right.
Speaker 1: The managers were like, what did we do wrong? You know,
Speaker 1: how can we make it better? What can we do
Speaker 1: for you? And for me, it was very clear because
Speaker 1: I was always very outspoken as a worker, and my
Speaker 1: managers would try to say things and I would be like, actually,
Speaker 1: you know, the law says this, you know, because they
Speaker 1: knew I was I was going to go to I
Speaker 1: was going to law school. But it never changed the
Speaker 1: way they treated because they understood, we have the power.
Speaker 1: We have all right, we can write you up, we
Speaker 1: can discipline you. You you know who cares, right, But
Speaker 1: it wasn't until we did this collective action that they
Speaker 1: were freaked out. You know, they just they did they
Speaker 1: just completely started respecting us. And so eventually we won
Speaker 1: our first contract and you know, people didn't have health insurance.
Speaker 1: Now they had health insurance. We had low wages, you know,
Speaker 1: used to beg to get a cent raise, you know,
Speaker 1: fifty cent raise. We're getting like we got dollar raises
Speaker 1: for the first time, you know, and all these amazing things.
Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, like collective power works, and
Speaker 1: it was just so life changing for me. And I
Speaker 1: think people that go through that experience it's sort of
Speaker 1: like it's an awakening. It's like wow, like I you
Speaker 1: can actually change the conditions that were that you know,
Speaker 1: that are around his every single day. And so so yeah,
Speaker 1: it became my lest calling. That's really cool. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I feel like that really does tie into like the
Speaker 1: you know, trying. We on this show, we try and
Speaker 1: you know, pay attention to the zeitgeist, and it does
Speaker 1: feel like there is a just general waking up to
Speaker 1: the reality of the situation that when corporate power has
Speaker 1: nothing to oppose them, they are going to do things
Speaker 1: that are bad for people, you know, and just good
Speaker 1: for the bottom line if unchecked. So yeah, it is
Speaker 1: definitely good to see that and hopefully you know, you
Speaker 1: and everybody can kind of keep up, keep up that fight.
Speaker 1: So I wanna, I wanna take a quick look, quick
Speaker 1: trip into the past to look at something that I
Speaker 1: had never thought about, but that was sort of a
Speaker 1: local battle in the nineteen twenties that has really shaped
Speaker 1: the world we live in, and that is jaywalking laws.
Speaker 1: So this is in the news because California will soon
Speaker 1: decriminalize jaywalking, the traffic violation, not the j Leno Tonight
Speaker 1: Show segment, which should should be made illegal. I think
Speaker 1: they should do it just a trade of that jaywalking
Speaker 1: is illegal. This jaywalking is no longer, but the Freedom
Speaker 1: to Walk Act will go into effect on January one,
Speaker 1: and it's a good thing because jaywalking laws are I
Speaker 1: think the legal term is fucking stupid. They disproportionately. They
Speaker 1: also just give the police the ability to, you know, stop,
Speaker 1: It's an opportunity for them to just stop people whoever
Speaker 1: they want. It's more opportunity for the police to go
Speaker 1: after marginalized and low income residents. Yes. So my question
Speaker 1: with jaywalking laws specifically when because I feel like it
Speaker 1: has been a colloquial like funny ha ha as like
Speaker 1: a young adult growing up of being like, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: you can get arrested for jaywalking, but you cross the street,
Speaker 1: no one's ever bothered you, Like, are the reason they're
Speaker 1: decriminalizing it now is because they are still actively picking
Speaker 1: up people on the sides of the road, Like is
Speaker 1: it that you can get arrested for being on the
Speaker 1: side the road? Is it that you can be arrested
Speaker 1: for just because I always think of it as like
Speaker 1: you're crossing the sidewalk when it says red light, you know.
Speaker 1: But now that I've been you know, kind of perusing
Speaker 1: the dock, it seems to me that they can and
Speaker 1: will target on house people often of jay walking, so
Speaker 1: to speak. But really it's just because they don't want
Speaker 1: them around, right, Yeah, I mean, so I think this
Speaker 1: is in in California as an example of actual progress
Speaker 1: and people recognizing that this has just been uh. In
Speaker 1: twenty nine of illegal walking tickets issued by New York
Speaker 1: police were two black and Hispanic people. So that makes
Speaker 1: sense to me. And it's fucked up as a walking
Speaker 1: city where or I mean, most people don't have cars
Speaker 1: and most people can't you know, like they have to
Speaker 1: get wherever they need to go. And that's crazy to
Speaker 1: me to think that I could ever be ticketed in
Speaker 1: a city like New York where everybody is fragrantly on
Speaker 1: the street at all times, and and the laws actually
Speaker 1: don't do anything to protect people like in the UK,
Speaker 1: for example, jaywalking isn't illegal, but in eleven they had
Speaker 1: half as many pedestrian deaths per one thousand people as
Speaker 1: in the US. So I think it's like the question
Speaker 1: that this raised to me is not like why are
Speaker 1: they making this legal now? And more why why was
Speaker 1: this ever a thing? Like how did this ever become
Speaker 1: a thing that you that they can police and arrestue
Speaker 1: based on like where you are walking and how you
Speaker 1: are walking. It does begging the question of I don't
Speaker 1: know if it was just offline conversations I've been having
Speaker 1: over the week or also I feel like we were
Speaker 1: talking about it when it comes to like the white
Speaker 1: flight and the suburbs, and how suburbs are so designed
Speaker 1: for you not to be like walkable. They're like walkable
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, so to speak, but like if you
Speaker 1: were to walk to the other neighborhood, you can't really
Speaker 1: do that, like you need a vehicle. Like is it
Speaker 1: also to police people in the suburbs so that there
Speaker 1: aren't fragrant you know, people in those neighborhoods. You think,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, I'm sure there that is. It's used in
Speaker 1: that way, like the police use any law as a
Speaker 1: tool to you know, go after whoever they want to
Speaker 1: go after. But it actually so before the nineteen twenties,
Speaker 1: everybody could use the streets, which crazy concept. It doesn't
Speaker 1: seem crazy to me, like it seems I really like
Speaker 1: as somebody who is coming to the point, and you know,
Speaker 1: my kids lives where I'm trying to you know, I
Speaker 1: I lived in the suburbs and you know, not not
Speaker 1: a big city like a suburb of Daton, Ohio, And
Speaker 1: I my life was spent just like getting on a
Speaker 1: bike and riding around in the streets, and like my
Speaker 1: parents were just like, al right'd be back when when
Speaker 1: it's dark, and like the the idea of my kids
Speaker 1: just going out and being able to ride around on bikes,
Speaker 1: Like I feel like I have to like go to
Speaker 1: an abandoned parking a lot to like teach them how
Speaker 1: to ride a bike. And there's just so like it.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even and and even walking around our neighborhood,
Speaker 1: you know, there's just so like the cars really own
Speaker 1: the streets in most major cities. And this is all
Speaker 1: the result of the nine twenties. So the thing that
Speaker 1: happened was, you know, in the cars were basically seen
Speaker 1: as a rich person's like hobby. They were like yachts
Speaker 1: because they're so expensive, and they started running over mostly
Speaker 1: children and elderly people in cities and the so the
Speaker 1: cities at a local level like fought back. Cincinnati had
Speaker 1: a big, you know referendum where they tried to make
Speaker 1: it so that cars could not go over twenty five
Speaker 1: miles per hour just at the like manufacturing level. They
Speaker 1: were like, please, this is you're you're killing people. And
Speaker 1: that resulted in the automakers kind of coming together, you know,
Speaker 1: taking their own collective action and creating you know, affecting
Speaker 1: these laws. And because there wasn't like collective action on
Speaker 1: behalf of children and elderly people who just want to
Speaker 1: be able to walk down like in their neighborhood, they
Speaker 1: were able to slowly, over the course of a hundred years,
Speaker 1: just like create the world that we have now where
Speaker 1: it's very strict pedestrian controls. They invented jay walking. They
Speaker 1: did like a marketing campaign. So jay used to be
Speaker 1: a term for like hick like and so they everything
Speaker 1: stems from a derogatory at some point. Yeah, so they
Speaker 1: like created this marketing campaign and like they were there
Speaker 1: were they like hired a Santa Clause at one point
Speaker 1: to like heckle people for not walking legally. And in
Speaker 1: the city like there they hired clowns to cross the
Speaker 1: road and in some cases like ram them with cars
Speaker 1: to make jaywalking seem foolish. Like there was this large
Speaker 1: scale mass like culture brainwashing marketing thing that happened, and
Speaker 1: it just slowly, over the course of a hundred years,
Speaker 1: took hold to the point that I like never really
Speaker 1: even considered the possibility of a world where you know,
Speaker 1: my kids could just like go out and roam the
Speaker 1: streets of l A on a bike and like be
Speaker 1: safe from getting run over by a car like that.
Speaker 1: That is, that is the status quo that we were
Speaker 1: starting from. But because of the way that things operate
Speaker 1: in in the US, because there was money to be
Speaker 1: made by carmakers, there was a massive cultural or you know,
Speaker 1: both cultural and political move by them over the course
Speaker 1: of years to create the world that we have now
Speaker 1: where you you feel like you're in danger of both
Speaker 1: being arrested or getting hit by a car and it
Speaker 1: would be your fault if you just want to cross
Speaker 1: your street. Wow, this is incredible, incredible history you're you're
Speaker 1: talking about because I think, I mean, it's it's funny
Speaker 1: like when I grew just being raised and living in
Speaker 1: the city, you just assumed the streets for the cars, right,
Speaker 1: that's it, especially in a city like l A. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like LA is such a big car place. I grew
Speaker 1: up in the suburbs of Texas, but my family grew
Speaker 1: up in l A and New York, and I felt
Speaker 1: very similar where It's like, in my very specific I
Speaker 1: lived on a cul de sac by my parents purposely
Speaker 1: picked a could stack house so that we could be
Speaker 1: in the coldest sack safe and because they were worried
Speaker 1: if we lived on like a house that was more
Speaker 1: on the street part of you know, the neighborhood, that
Speaker 1: we could get hit or whatever by just like biking out.
Speaker 1: But like in the coldest sac at least people have
Speaker 1: to like come all the way down there and see
Speaker 1: people and slow down before they make the spin. But
Speaker 1: I also have a Harvercraft mom, love you. You know,
Speaker 1: she didn't let me out anywhere. She was hot eyed
Speaker 1: at all times, yelling at people for driving too fast
Speaker 1: at all times. And but yeah, I definitely grew up
Speaker 1: in a place where I'm like I will until I
Speaker 1: moved to a real city, or not even a real city.
Speaker 1: I moved to Portland when I graduated college, and that
Speaker 1: was the first time I was like, whoa, you can
Speaker 1: like walk around in a city. You can like you
Speaker 1: can like get from pointing to point b by your feet,
Speaker 1: Like never knew what that was. Like. I always thought
Speaker 1: I had to get a car to drive ten minutes
Speaker 1: somewhere because it's just like simply was not safe to
Speaker 1: like walk anywhere in Texas. Yeah, and it's it is
Speaker 1: you know, the the stuff that when when we talk
Speaker 1: about like acting locally, but like a lot of times,
Speaker 1: the foe that you're operating against is power powerful and
Speaker 1: either you know, national or international, you know, And so
Speaker 1: that's just the the organizing on behalf of people and
Speaker 1: you know, the communication having media that isn't just straight
Speaker 1: up controlled by these same you know, by the same
Speaker 1: profit motive, like the the auto industry group that took
Speaker 1: control of a series of meetings that were like meant
Speaker 1: to discuss this problem was headed by Herbert Hoover, who
Speaker 1: was then the Secretary of Commerce, to create a model
Speaker 1: traffic law that could be used by cities across the country.
Speaker 1: But due to their influence, the product of those meetings
Speaker 1: was largely based off traffic laws in l a, which
Speaker 1: had already kind of enacted the strict pedestrian controls. These
Speaker 1: powerful people are acting on behalf of the most powerful
Speaker 1: thing and in the country, which is the whatever is
Speaker 1: going to make the most money, well the government, and
Speaker 1: the government acts on behalf of whoever is going to
Speaker 1: make the most money. You know, Herbert Hoover wasn't acting
Speaker 1: on behalf of like the children who had lost a
Speaker 1: sibling too because you know, somebody was racing around on
Speaker 1: their horseless carriage. He was acting on behalf of the
Speaker 1: you know, he was the Secretary of Commerce, so his
Speaker 1: job was to act on behalf of commerce and and
Speaker 1: that became you know, he became president so well, and
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. I mean, it's a tale
Speaker 1: as old as time in American history of like, well,
Speaker 1: it's not gonna affect me because I have money. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like those people in power and those very high
Speaker 1: seats that pockets are lined by all these different you know,
Speaker 1: head honchos and investors and things like that. At the
Speaker 1: end of the day, they're like, whatever I do to
Speaker 1: make a decision that is benefiting my pockets. I know,
Speaker 1: even though it's abhorrent and it's going to hurt children
Speaker 1: or whatever, they're not gonna hurt my children because I
Speaker 1: have the money to fix this problem in my home,
Speaker 1: which is so buck up. Yeah. Well, I find it
Speaker 1: very interesting that people are starting to like deconstruct the
Speaker 1: laws that were created over time and the facts like this.
Speaker 1: I thank the Internet for this because you imagine, growing up,
Speaker 1: all we had was Britannica in the library. So the
Speaker 1: fact we have so much information. Now we can actually
Speaker 1: dissect it and look at it. But I think the
Speaker 1: very interesting thing is how, you know, sort of the
Speaker 1: how sort of how white supremacy and like these laws
Speaker 1: show up in the the sort of the policing. And
Speaker 1: so I'm very proud that we did this in California.
Speaker 1: You know, hopefully it would be a model for folks,
Speaker 1: because you know it is they do target you know,
Speaker 1: black and brown folks or working class folks. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean even super Producer put in the chat tupas
Speaker 1: to the Oakland Police Department for ten million for stopping
Speaker 1: him while jaywalking and choking him out for resisting arrest
Speaker 1: like black and brown, no matter the pockets eyes. That
Speaker 1: is absolutely insane. Yeah, and I think you're right that
Speaker 1: we're starting a movement in the opposite direction. We're starting
Speaker 1: to see movement in the opposite direction of people having
Speaker 1: access to more information than they would have in the past.
Speaker 1: When you know, in the nine twenties, like it's there,
Speaker 1: there aren't like a bunch of like radical zines or
Speaker 1: you know, the radio shows were like brought to you
Speaker 1: by Jared All and they were just like you know,
Speaker 1: cowboys shows or some ship so yeah, hopefully, hopefully this
Speaker 1: can kind of we can kind of continue this this
Speaker 1: movement in this direction, and you know, small victories at
Speaker 1: a local level today, Like could you know, if you
Speaker 1: if you look at how different things went from the
Speaker 1: nineteen twenties to the twenties where used to be people
Speaker 1: could walk around and feel safe walking around, and when
Speaker 1: you know, the ultra wealthy, we're running children, you know,
Speaker 1: the the children of poor, underrepresentative people down in their
Speaker 1: yachts like that, there was a backlash and and now
Speaker 1: we live in a world where that that seems completely
Speaker 1: out of out of bounds. Like maybe with this new
Speaker 1: access to information and new movements at the local level,
Speaker 1: like small victories now can create a future that is
Speaker 1: unrecognizable to us a hundred years from now, in in
Speaker 1: a good way. Yeah, absolutely, knock on wood. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a quick break and then we'll come back
Speaker 1: and talk about the thing that I think everybody's really
Speaker 1: wanting to hear. The away in on Mario's Dumper. And
Speaker 1: we're back and yeah, so so there is a controversy
Speaker 1: happening in the world of Mario. The first controversy around
Speaker 1: this movie was that Chris Pratt Is is cast as
Speaker 1: the voice of Mario. I'm still having a hard time
Speaker 1: like imagining it, picturing it. I'm gonna go see it,
Speaker 1: but I'm still uncomfortable. I need that it's to me
Speaker 1: and he's should have been Chris Pine, right, Is that
Speaker 1: what we're all saying. No, it's very strange, Like it's
Speaker 1: funny to see the direction Hollywood has gone talking about
Speaker 1: like changes over time that the original Mario movie was,
Speaker 1: Bob Hoskins. I love the original Mario movie, like something
Speaker 1: I watched a lot as a kid. But so this
Speaker 1: is less in that traditional more in the tradition of
Speaker 1: the Sonic thing, which Ugo. I don't know if you were,
Speaker 1: you know, paying attention back when Sonic released a early
Speaker 1: trailer for the first Sonic movie and they gave him
Speaker 1: like real, like two separate kind of smallish eyes, like
Speaker 1: it was it was genuinely like frightening. Well yeah, and
Speaker 1: they literally got so much backlash that they had to
Speaker 1: like stop the release of the movie and push the
Speaker 1: date back and reanimate and like re launch the movie.
Speaker 1: That's how bad it goes. And I can see the
Speaker 1: meeting where this happened, where they're like real animals don't
Speaker 1: have one goggle eye like connected in the middle of
Speaker 1: their head. And we're trying to bring Sonic into the
Speaker 1: real world, and so you know, they created something that
Speaker 1: looked more like an actual creature that might exist. It
Speaker 1: just happened to look terrifying, and I think that might
Speaker 1: be what's happening with Mario. But because there's this whole
Speaker 1: new controversy where in the recently released poster Mario's but
Speaker 1: is people are saying far less pronounced, it's just it.
Speaker 1: It really looks like a what what an actual plumber's
Speaker 1: body looks like. He's kind of like thick in the middle,
Speaker 1: and then there's just not not nothing there. It's just
Speaker 1: a kind of straight line down in the back. But
Speaker 1: to me, this is not I mean, granted we have
Speaker 1: not seen what Mario looks like from the front, this
Speaker 1: isn't an egregious look to me as the Sonic one
Speaker 1: that was. I dropped an image in the chat for
Speaker 1: y'all to see the side by side of what the
Speaker 1: original and it was in the trailer and then what
Speaker 1: they animated it too, because it was like they got
Speaker 1: so much yeah, terrified, but yeah, it's but I'm like,
Speaker 1: he still looks cute. He still looks like cute little
Speaker 1: I mean, it's definitely like animated Mario versus like when
Speaker 1: the live action Mario movie came out, Like, I'm glad
Speaker 1: this isn't live action. I guess what I'm saying, because
Speaker 1: like I do expect live action Mario to look like
Speaker 1: the fixed image on the right of the stock, and
Speaker 1: I would be upset if it was more of the
Speaker 1: left right. Yeah, if he's just like got you know,
Speaker 1: like gin blossoms on that point, I look more like Mario. Yeah,
Speaker 1: which I have been Luigi for Halloween, so great. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I am of two minds of this, of this issue.
Speaker 1: You know. I believe we should be body positive, yeah,
Speaker 1: and to encourage all kinds of bodies. But then again,
Speaker 1: I have a nostalgic connection with Mario, and I just
Speaker 1: picture Mario with a with a butt. Yeah. And also
Speaker 1: it's you know, there's plenty of fictional characters, like cartoon
Speaker 1: and comic characters that don't have a butt, you know,
Speaker 1: like that. It's they've had representation the sort of just
Speaker 1: you know, v shaped to a cartoonist degree superhero body
Speaker 1: where there's like nothing going on in in the butt region,
Speaker 1: and I have written many notes to the editor about this.
Speaker 1: But Superman needs cakes too. But people are also pointing
Speaker 1: out that one of his superpowers, like starting in Mario
Speaker 1: sixty four, is a move called the butt stomp a
Speaker 1: k the ground pound, which both terms sound way dirtier
Speaker 1: than they should, but it involves him spinning in the
Speaker 1: air and landing on his ass, and without the cushioning,
Speaker 1: obviously he would shatter his hip bones. But logistically, logistically speaking, yeah,
Speaker 1: like we we need he needs some padding back there.
Speaker 1: But also just I I feel like in terms of
Speaker 1: overall body positivity, we don't have that many characters that
Speaker 1: are stacked back there in the cartoon world, so the
Speaker 1: like I want him to bring bring the cakes backs
Speaker 1: representation is important, and also I would like to I
Speaker 1: now have been in Google Images looking at old images
Speaker 1: of Mario, but I'm like, Mario is a thick king, okay,
Speaker 1: and we're like, like, I want to see an image
Speaker 1: of him from the front for this new movie, because like,
Speaker 1: if they've slimmed him down, that's not the body of
Speaker 1: positivity movement I'm looking for. I want my thick king back.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that we're representing all types
Speaker 1: of desirable cartoons, right, Like if they give Mario a
Speaker 1: six pack like he needs a gun, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: cannot have a six pack. That's not the Mario I know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this isn't even the first time this year that
Speaker 1: a Nintendo character's asset has come under scrutiny, and March
Speaker 1: fans worried then update for Mario Kart Diminished Warriors, but
Speaker 1: and I mean it definitely did if you if you
Speaker 1: look at the side by side images. So I don't
Speaker 1: I don't know what they think they're doing over there, Nintendo,
Speaker 1: but they're they're making a mistake. The only skinny character
Speaker 1: allowed is Walluigi, right because he's literally a pencil that's
Speaker 1: kind of his whole deal and acts now nourished. Yeah, alright, well,
Speaker 1: I think we've solved this. Bring the cakes back, and
Speaker 1: you know, if we have to start organizing locally about this,
Speaker 1: then we will. Yeah, you've you've heard it, Nintendo, who
Speaker 1: go such a pleasure having you? Is there is there
Speaker 1: anything that you you'd like to kind of shout out
Speaker 1: about about the campaign, about what you know that that
Speaker 1: we missed While talking about Mario's butt, and other stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: please uh speak, speak to what what you're fighting for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean hoping to give working people a voice, you know, organized, organized, organized.
Speaker 1: Every issue we talked about, whether it was starting at
Speaker 1: the local level or taking back our streets, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, streets for a group here in Los Angeles
Speaker 1: is doing that fight as well, or if you have
Speaker 1: strong issues about you know, someone's rear end. It's always
Speaker 1: about organizing, organized, organized, organized, That's right, right, and and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, you know folks have reached out. It's been incredible.
Speaker 1: A few days ago, someone from from Massachusetts reached out
Speaker 1: about how do I organize the union in my workplace?
Speaker 1: And so, you know, always making myself available to put
Speaker 1: more oxygen into the fire and so anything. Folks can
Speaker 1: reach out to our instagram or website. Yeah, where can
Speaker 1: people go to kind of find you and get involved?
Speaker 1: Absolutely so. Our instagram is on Twitter is my name
Speaker 1: h U g O for f O R C D thirteen.
Speaker 1: And our website is We'll Go for We'll Go, We'll
Speaker 1: go dot com. There you go. And is there a
Speaker 1: tweet or a work of social media you've been enjoying? Oh? Yes,
Speaker 1: every Tuesday we do uh out Tuesday, it's me. I'm
Speaker 1: a big foodie and so every Tuesday I go to
Speaker 1: a new restaurant, small business and highlight the amazing food
Speaker 1: that we have in district their team, and it's been
Speaker 1: very enjoyable trying new spots and and you know, trying
Speaker 1: to be a food connoisseur for the district as well.
Speaker 1: What's what's your favorite thing that you've had in the
Speaker 1: over the course of of that journey. Oh so every
Speaker 1: Monday and Tuesday on Sunset right by the Sunset and
Speaker 1: Ken Moore, I believe there's a pop up time market
Speaker 1: from five to ten and it's literally just street vendors
Speaker 1: take over the street and it's only two days a week,
Speaker 1: but it's incredible, such amazing food, you know, brings a
Speaker 1: lot of attention and foot traffic to the area, which
Speaker 1: is uh, you know, it's always good good side effect.
Speaker 1: It's it's my favorite spot so far right now. Nice
Speaker 1: that well, thank you so much for joining us. Becca.
Speaker 1: Where can people find you? Is there a tweet or
Speaker 1: some work of social media you've been enjoying. Everyone can
Speaker 1: find me at Beck's b e CCS, Ramos on all platforms.
Speaker 1: You can find me at Meal Mundo's in Bushwick here
Speaker 1: in Brooklyn every other Saturday. I'll be there this Saturday.
Speaker 1: And a couple of tweets. I have one bye at
Speaker 1: Piggy don't miss but I found it through the Instagram
Speaker 1: account drag his Ass. Love that account. It is a
Speaker 1: like live comedy show hating on then um, but the
Speaker 1: tweet is having a National Boyfriend's Day to the girls
Speaker 1: who don't know if they're allowed to call him that
Speaker 1: yesterday was National Boyfriend's Day. Shout out to mine. He
Speaker 1: was mad. I didn't say anything, but I find that
Speaker 1: tweet hilarious. It hit my core as a girl who's
Speaker 1: been in a few situation ships myself. You're like U
Speaker 1: hurt um. Then one from at Diva Lacey the scam Goddess.
Speaker 1: She tweeted, I will be selling high vibrational fish plates
Speaker 1: outside the ET Awards. It'll call back to what moms yesterday.
Speaker 1: So that it was funny. I don't know if we
Speaker 1: got that on Oh, it might have been. Yeah, off Mike,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the scammers out there on the internet.
Speaker 1: Life coaches. So yeah, there's a great video of one.
Speaker 1: There's a viral TikTok of this woman who is like
Speaker 1: this other woman's life coach, and she's like shipping on
Speaker 1: her plate that she was served and you're watching it
Speaker 1: and you're like, huh, like I don't understand, Like to me,
Speaker 1: it looks like yummi plate of food, and she's just like,
Speaker 1: I would not let anyone put that on my plate.
Speaker 1: And you're just like, I like huh. And she was like,
Speaker 1: it's not vibrational, Like my plate is high vibrational, and
Speaker 1: it's crazy, so amazing. A tweet I've been enjoying Puppy
Speaker 1: Love tweeted accidentally told Amelia Badelia to slay everyone stay inside,
Speaker 1: you know, as we're as we're doing the horror reboot
Speaker 1: of Winnie the Pooh, maybe maybe we take a take
Speaker 1: a look at Amelia Badelia also. But you can find
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Speaker 1: well as a song that we think you might enjoy.
Speaker 1: Super producer Justin. Do you have a song that you
Speaker 1: think people might enjoy? I do. This is a song
Speaker 1: by a amazing artist called Now. She's from East London.
Speaker 1: I recommended her music before. This song has a close
Speaker 1: tie to me. It gives me the vibes of like
Speaker 1: kiss from a Rose, but like a modern day version
Speaker 1: of that where there's more modern production going on in
Speaker 1: this but very very big song, huge emotions. Yeah. So
Speaker 1: if you want to check this out and have yourself
Speaker 1: a good day after listening to some good music, this
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