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Inside the Dark: Investigative Podcasts and the Toll of Truth · D-constructing Topics

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  And yes indeed welcome and welcome to
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  the legendary podcast my name
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  is david and i'm your legendary host of this legendary podcast the deconstruct
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  the topic podcast and we got another beautiful good one once again as always
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  we always got good ones oh let's go but anyways this one's going to be a little
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  bit short on the short side of things and so on.
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  And I just want to keep, I can say up to date on what's going on and so on.
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  But I always also want to kind of reach out there to those people who are doing
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  podcasts and content and investigative journalists and whatever it is that you're doing.
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  You know, sometimes, you know, those things take a toe and those things,
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  for those people that are thinking about doing like investigative journalism,
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  I've been talking to someone who's doing the journalism thing and,
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  you know, sometimes it takes a toll because sometimes what we do is and our
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  job is, let's say, podcast content creating.
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  Anytime that we have an information, we want to inform people.
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  We want to educate people.
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  Sometimes, you know, our information is based on, we're supposed to trust the
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  source that we get the information from, basically. So it's one of those deals.
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  And when we do our source, you know, again, we tend to say that,
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  listen, we're going to trust our source.
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  But sometimes there's those individuals out there that do the journalism and
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  do the dirty work. And sometimes doing that dirty work, it takes a toll.
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  It sucks you up. You know what I mean? And one of those things,
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  hey, listen, and once again, feel free to share.
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  Let's talk, comment, reach out to me, whatever the case might be.
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  Let's talk about a little bit of it all. Because it's one of those things in my podcast.
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  As this podcast, what we do, we deconstruct topics.
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  But there are things out there and, you know, in the scope of things.
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  And for those people that are familiar with the Epstein files or something to that effect.
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  There's journalists out there, you know, such as the Whitney Webbs of the world,
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  people out there that want to,
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  let's say, do the dirty work and just point, you know, I'm not going to say
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  point, but sometimes we kind of tie two loose ends.
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  And one of the things that I've
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  thought about is doing investigative journalism, going a little bit deep.
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  And, you know, for the last couple of years and even the last year or so,
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  I've dabbled a little bit of science, but it takes a soul on me.
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  And one of the things and one of the reasons and inspiration to that effect,
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  so the reason I'm doing this episode, just to give people a heads up that,
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  you know, I'm going to be probably dropping some episodes that are a little
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  bit on the darker side, if you will.
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  And it needs to be touched. You know, it needs to be talked about because in
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  the context of information, we just got to be out there and we just got to be wary,
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  of who we can get close to, what organizations we belong to,
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  you know, whether it's in the religious side and the, you know,
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  I've come across these organizations,
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  especially in our areas, these, these, what they call vitamin or supplement groups and so on.
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  And those also are a little, a little bit deep out there.
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  They kind of take advantage of many of the migrants that come to the United
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  States, selling them something and taking them to somewhere or somehow, you know what I mean?
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  And it's, you know, it's, it's always my thing. And again, I'm going to go back
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  to one of my inspiration.
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  A couple of years ago, I'm watching, uh, and I said a couple of years ago.
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  I'm trying to think it was years ago. I don't know if it was like pre-COVID
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  or during the time of COVID.
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  It was a Netflix documentary, right? And I'm trying to search it.
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  It's called Killer Ratings, right? And there's a show on, let's say,
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  so supposedly the understanding is this, and this is interesting.
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  So there's a show on Brazil where in this, it's a reality show.
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  It has a little bit of it all, but it also reports news. and for
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  some reason they the first one is called killer
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  ratings it's a serious series yeah 2019 so
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  i and i definitely saw this when they came out so basically
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  you know they had cop chases you know they had oh you know breaking news somebody
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  deleted or killed this uh drug dealers and so on and for some reason they were
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  the first one uh to report it now i'm gonna you know spoil it because i don't
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  know if the show still exists and there's a lot of things going on but the the
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  understanding is that something crazy was happening.
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  And to find out that the show, this show, and I believe the Wallace Sousa was
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  kind of the head of the whole show.
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  So this show, the show that was reporting these news, killing,
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  deleting, drug rates and so on, were the one that were creating the crime. You understand?
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  So for the purpose of that, for the purpose of ratings.
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  So it's crazy how the place that's reporting the news is the place that's reporting the news.
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  And allegedly, you know, the mastermind behind it, you know,
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  there was people that went behind bars and this mastermind.
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  So I always, for some reason, remember this.
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  And one of the things that I, you know, because I don't want to kind of like
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  discuss in these different avenues, where can I go? Where can I investigate? game.
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  But I always remember years ago, again, pre-COVID, there was a football coach,
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  Mike Tomlin, who at that time, back in 2018, they were doing a documentary on human trafficking.
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  And Mike Tomlin took, and I believe there was a documentary that came out a
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  couple of years ago in regards to that.
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  And Mike Tomlin, as a matter of fact, at that time, Mike Tomlin came out and,
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  you know, kind of basically said, you know, I can't believe how this is happening
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  here in the United States and so on and so forth.
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  I can't believe how really it's not no one that talks about it.
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  And I always say, look, it's the powers that be that are the ones who are doing
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  that thing that you are going against.
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  That's why nobody really talks about it when it comes to the human trafficking.
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  But one thing I've noticed is that even when it comes to human trafficking,
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  even the people that's going after it could probably have a hand in being part of it.
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  Whether directly or indirectly.
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  And I've seen a couple of shows that have, hey, listen, it's always something.
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  And for the purpose of what, again? Again, when this money's involved,
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  like in the example with the killer ratings, sadly, there's a lot of victims
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  in the middle and then a lot of things that happen. You know what I mean?
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  So it's one of those deals that, hey, listen, if it happens,
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  it happens, whatever the case might be, then who's part?
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  So when you dabble in, you know, with this individual, the journalist who is
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  trying to get, you know, their feet wet in regards to that situation as well,
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  is that sadly, you one got to be careful with where you fall into.
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  And I think that at this point in the United States and even across the world,
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  but even if you dabble around there, look, listen, there's a lot of great journalists.
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  And even in Mexico, there's these Lauren Sanchez, I believe her name, if I'm not mistaken.
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  She's a great journalist. She appeared in a lot of documentaries, countries
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  but sadly she was calling out
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  how you know the cartels the mexican cartels with
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  the mexican government and she feared for her life that
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  she had to move now she's living in europe still talking the same thing
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  i give her props but in mexico even journalists who want to expose things sadly
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  when you go somewhere deep you're gonna be finding like somewhere body bag or
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  you'll be fine floating somewhere in some river or lake sometimes even in a
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  toilet sadly you know what i I mean,
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  so I just want to bring that up because sometimes if I do something in my podcast,
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  again, it's content creating, but also want to inform people, want to educate people.
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  If I find out, like example, one of the things that I want to do,
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  is that, again, I come from a community of poverty. And if one thing,
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  if I see there's a lot of scams in our community because people are vulnerable.
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  And when you're vulnerable and looking for an easy way out, because sadly,
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  there's a lot of people in our community,
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  whether you're migrant or even born in the United States, where you might not
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  have finished school, so you're reading comprehension and so on, but it's not up there.
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  So there comes somebody who got those, what they call,
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  you know con artists right confidence person is
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  what they call them and comes up with idea listen i
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  got this water and this water if you
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  buy 10 of these you could sell it and this water
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  is going to give you a superpower beyond superpower and this
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  water is the clearest clear water
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  that you could see that it's so clear that you don't
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  even know that there's water inside that bottle you know something like that
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  and people would sadly fall for it and
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  especially like communities and then you know sell it
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  and there's people that's gonna sell it and then you built what they call like a multi-level
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  marketing pyramid scheme so i'm also
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  going to be doing some some of that because i want my podcast to
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  expand its palates but again going to
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  these things you know being kind of you know and i hate to say this but me you
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  know trying to act like hey listen i'm a buyer i'm just gonna buy this and whatever
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  just to get you know to get like they will say my feet wet then hey more or
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  lest I'll be doing some contacts like that.
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  You know, it's not easy. And I can actually say that one of my brothers in arms,
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  you know, he does the podcasting too.
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  And, you know, he was going to the social, feeling a little bit out of it.
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  And don't want to say his name yet, you know, but I got love for my little brother
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  there, my brother in arms.
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  And, you know, he made a comment on, he made a post on.
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  Where he said that, I love politics. And I talk about politics a lot because
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  we got exposed to these evil things that are happening, which I agree.
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  But he said that it does take a toll because there's not really much that one can do.
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  You know what I mean? And, you know, we here in the United States of America, we know what happens.
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  And sometimes we don't know that, hey, listen, a lot of times the United States
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  is involved in things that happened outside, you know, let's say,
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  whether it's what's happened in Palestine, Gaza.
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  You know, I always tend to question it. Listen, it was 1964,
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  65, United States, invaded Dominican Republic.
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  If not just invaded Dominican Republic, the Marines, you know,
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  shot up a couple of Dominicans, men, women, kids.
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  You know, if TV was a thing like back then, you would have been seeing the image
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  and you were like, oh my God.
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  But you see, you wouldn't know the story behind it. because we're going to fall into a narrative.
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  So one of the things there is that, listen, in order to do content creator,
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  you have to kind of push and educate people.
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  But sometimes it's up to people to be like, okay.
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  Because sadly, a lot of times, especially living in the United States,
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  is that we tend to think that we are picking the right people.
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  We are voting for the right party or anything to that effect.
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  But then we see something happening here, right?
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  Let's say there's an invasion. and under, let's say, this administration,
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  Republicans, we start saying, oh my God, look, the United States,
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  you know, Republican Party, they're invading this group and they're killing
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  kids and all this, you know, doing this stuff.
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  But then you don't know that the backstory that could have also started under
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  the Democratic administration before.
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  You know, I always say that it's one thing that one person started and the other
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  finished it or the other one continued. That's always a given.
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  That's why you got to deal properly.
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  But these are the little things that we kind of try and, you know,
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  the reason why we do these podcasts. We want to inform, we want to educate people.
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  We try sometimes not to just like our point of view, but we kind of want to,
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  you know, spread the word based on some of the independent sources that we have.
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  This is the gray zone, you know, would be one.
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  And it's not easy. I guess there's something out there that is sinister.
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  And again, you know, I'm trying to bring this to the forefront because I am
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  going to be uploading in some content.
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  That's going to be interesting.
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  Again, one of the things that I was working on a couple of months ago,
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  I was just trying to get my feet wet.
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  There was this area. There was a store. Again, a storefront.
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  And then I've seen it and they have these products, these supplements in my
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  area. And again, mostly migrants.
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  Mostly migrants. And I kept on passing, passing. And you know, one day.
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  A gentleman, migrant, you know, kind of suit up a little bit,
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  but, you know, gave me a pamphlet.
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  Okay, you know, I sat down and it's like, wow, like, you know,
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  there's people, these migrants that work, they got $100.
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  So you're going to give this $100 to this person that they're going to flip
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  it. They're going to help you flip it and so on. So what did I find out?
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  So they closed the shop. Apparently it was a little scheme going on there.
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  So thankfully, so I did not have part of the closing the shop or whatnot.
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  But, you know, it kind of gave me that little kind of adrenaline,
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  in a sense, and kind of remember, like, hey,
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  listen, when it comes to the migrants, because I've lived, you know,
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  in these areas where there's poverty, you know, the black community,
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  the migrant community that includes, you know, many from Africa,
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  Bangladesh, Dominican, Puerto Ricans, Mexican.
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  I'll throw Puerto Ricans because, hey, we migrated here. Regardless of our status
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  legally here because we are citizens of the United States, we migrated here.
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  And you got to keep in mind, us as Puerto Ricans, we are U.S.
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  Citizens and we're fully U.S.
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  Citizens once we come to the United States. But guess where we are?
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  We are still in the same areas that there's the black community and the migrant
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  community. You know what I mean?
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  Just because we have that certain, I don't like to say privilege,
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  but just because we have that little thing going on, don't mean that we got
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  like 30,000 Puerto Ricans living in Cascales in these certain areas in New York.
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  Beverly Hills, you know what I mean? I'm just saying.
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  We're migrating with the likes of the others here in the United States.
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  And for me to see that, like, sadly, these people, you know.
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  They give their savings, sometimes more than 100, to these charlatans,
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  other migrants, who have, you know, have that little, you know,
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  con savviness, because either it's here or they'll do it in their country.
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  But here, I guess it's a little bit different because, hey, now you have maybe more research.
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  But for one to con these people to say, oh, I got this supplement and you buy
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  a hundred dollars worth of these supplements.
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  And sadly, these people buy like two hundred dollars worth of these supplements
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  and nobody buys them because they don't they're not effective.
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  You know, and I'm not going to mention no names. I know the names of these supplements
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  of the company. I'm not a, you know, rough or any feathers at the moment,
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  but it's one of those things.
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  I remember sitting down, there was a little discourse.
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  You know what I said? You know, when the gentleman was asking me,
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  oh, how much can you buy? You know, here's a box.
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  And you know, that's what they do. They give you a box. They put it in your
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  hand so you can feel it a certain way. No, no, I'm like, ugh.
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  No, no, I'm just, you know, because I might be moving. But if I don't move,
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  you know, I give him like whatever.
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  Force, you know, persona. Yeah, yeah.
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  But it's sad because these are the things that happen. And again,
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  I want to bring stuff like this because I, again, I don't want to just be informative
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  and educate and talk about different topics, history, motivation, and so on.
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  But if people out there, you know something of what's going on,
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  because sadly, again, I want our communities to be independent and have to,
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  and do that thing with small business.
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  But sadly, if you're someone from a migraine or African or anything to that
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  effect, you're sometimes more vulnerable than anything.
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  So just be careful out there. You know what I mean? A lot of times,
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  and I, look, with all due respect, I love my African peoples across the continent.
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  But a lot of times, you know, there's certain groups that use them to sell counterfeit
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  product. You know what I mean?
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  Canal Street, hello. You know. But I'm just saying, they bring this to our community.
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  And then sometimes we think that it's real. You know, our community might be,
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  some people might not have that little education and so on. and you're like,
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  okay, let me buy this purse here that is like $20, but in Manhattan it's like $100, $200.
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  You'd think that you'd buy that purse, $20 with the same name brand,
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  whatever, but then you go back home, it disappears, evaporates, and that happens.
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  And we, again, taking advantage of.
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  So that's what's going on, my people. So I'm bringing that, some of the darker,
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  more raw kind of content, you know what I mean?
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  Sometimes if you don't hear me do content every
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  week well I'm gonna do my weekly thing but sometimes hey
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  I might have sit down and try to investigate
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  something but you know for the most part I got a
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  little bit help help or getting some help there's some
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  people that have approached me and in terms of helping me
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  trying to expand not only my content but
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  expand my whole thing my
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  whole network because again down the line
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  who knows if i run for mayor or something
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  to that effect listen i at least have an idea of what's i think fully through
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  and through but let's make it happen anyways i'm out of here much love take
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  care of my peoples once again welcome to the deconstructing topic podcast hit
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  the like comment share much love out there peace.