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051 - ICEy bridges in immigration w/ Sarah Balderas pt. 2 · Here's to You

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  It is. Oh OK.
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  Oh thank God. Me popping my neck so I can get
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  ready to say my shit. So real estate people who always
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  who will be like hey I will buy your home as is at current state
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  full cash and I'm just like fuck you dude.
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  Does my house look like shit? Does my house look like it's for
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  sale? And does it look like it's
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  shitty? Yeah.
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  And then when it says as is, you're kind of, you're kind of
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  like, shut the fuck up. Yeah, yeah.
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  What do you? Mean as?
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  What do you mean by as is? Yeah, it's kind of like, I know
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  it's tiny. I know that I couldn't work on
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  my siding. I know, I know that I could.
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  I could use a paint job, new Windows, but fuck you don't be
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  telling me that. Oh my God, that's hilarious.
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  Yeah, yeah. Welcome back to segment #2,
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  where we've got the music connection going, we've got the
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  drinks flowing, and we are saying FU to the United States
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  Postal Service. And Realtors.
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  And Realtors. Which we do have some real
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  estate investors on the next episode.
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  Our houses are not for sale. That's why there's no affordable
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  housing. Yeah, users leave.
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  Ask them why they do that. Why do they do that?
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  Why do you say you want to buy my house as is like what's the
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  like? I don't get it.
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  I'm. A say that I'm bring that up and
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  oh, just you wait. I can't wait, I'm going to fuck
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  them on the edge of my seat. I have a meeting with them
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  tomorrow. So, fantasy, what was the name
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  of this drink? It is called the Advocate's
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  phase. It's kind of like a highball
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  that you could not order at the bartender place because I've I
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  added some interesting things in here.
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  I so Sarah was like, hey, I really like a vodka soda and I'm
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  like, that sounds basic as hell, but that tells me that you like
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  savory and you like fizzy and you like vodka.
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  So let's figure this out. I feel like I've just been
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  exposed. That's basic as hell.
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  So are you? Like we do, we won't make basic
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  drinks, but sometimes like we've already had some of them that
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  I'm just like, we should probably do something else.
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  So I cannot go to the bar and say hi.
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  I'd like an advocates fizz. They'd be like, what the fuck
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  are you talking about? Get the fuck out of here.
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  OK? Got it.
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  No, you can't, advocates. You should have just said.
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  You should have told me. Yeah, I ordered this at Emerson
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  Biggins last week. Make sure you tell them that.
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  And then and then I would have and then I would have done it
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  and that would have been really funny.
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  I should have just to embarrass you.
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  Yeah, yeah, I'm not that fucked up talking.
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  About it would have been hilarious, actually.
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  I would have been like, man, so it's not a real thing, Yeah.
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  Damn it, right? No, actually, I think I am.
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  So we have, of course, you know, this is made with high post
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  vodka from one life spirits. And like, we have Tati who's
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  been making a lot of like, really cool drinks and she's
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  been posting them on Instagram, TikTok.
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  And it's called a drink with Tati that I'm starting to think,
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  like, I think I'm just going to go make the drinks that she's
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  making. And then I'll just like, be able
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  to easily, like, go back and forth.
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  So shout out to Tati, this is not what you did, but this is
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  what I'm going to start doing later on to make my life a year.
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  I saw her last week and I told her thank you.
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  Yeah, yeah. I'm like, I think I'm a yeah, no
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  shout out to Tati, man. She's she's a real MVP.
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  She's the one that's she's in behind the scenes that made a
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  lot of things happen that she doesn't even know she did.
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  There you go. But yeah, no, there's some
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  lychee puree in here. There's some fresh celery juice,
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  there's some lime juice. There was supposed to be olive
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  brine but I forgot it. And club soda.
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  So yeah, it there's still like some savoriness, but there's
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  also a little bit of like behind the scenes sweet stuff.
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  I give it, I give it an A+ and I would order this at a
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  restaurant. Yeah, if, if, if you didn't
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  forget the olives, because the olives would would make it
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  really. Well, I, I ordered real olives.
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  I say give me a give me olives and a lime and I'll put both
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  olives and a lime in my vodka sodas.
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  Yeah. That's why I knew I fucked up
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  because I I, I have started to like level up these drinks by
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  going. I don't know what the fuck I'm
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  going doing guys. Just I want to remind everybody
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  that I am an amateur. I don't know what I'm doing.
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  This is just for fun. I just like cheersing to people
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  and I like a good cocktail that's.
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  Certainly looks like you knew what you were doing.
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  I mean, at this point I've just shaken a lot of things.
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  What I was trying to get that was olives would actually taking
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  it to the next level would make it seem like Also, when is the
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  shrimp cocktail gonna get here? Yeah.
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  Yeah, nice cold shrimp cocktail. This is the vibe.
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  If we were like a Newport, this is a Newport type of we should
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  go to Newport again and fuck shit up.
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  Like we did that at one time, that was.
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  Friday Friday afternoon evenings, happy hour.
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  That that's when we did it. No, we did it.
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  We didn't even go for fucking happy hour.
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  They had the late night happy hour.
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  Oh, they did. That's why we.
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  Went I don't know if they still do it.
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  But I do Friday, I go to on Fridays happy hour.
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  They still do late. Nights and I don't know, I I go
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  to bed very early guys. I don't do any late night
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  things. Yeah, we will.
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  We'll do. The late night is like their
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  last hour that they're open. Oh yeah, no thank you.
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  I go at 5530 and then I leave at 7:30 and I'm already ready for
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  bed. Oh, I love that.
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  Yeah, I mean, like, we don't like really go out, out.
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  I have a bad habit of getting drunk at places that I shouldn't
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  be getting drunk at. Like.
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  Newport. If you were drunk at Newport,
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  there was a lady that was, Oh my God, there was a lady that was
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  drunk at Newport the last time I was there probably.
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  Me. No kidding.
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  What did she do? She was an older lady and she
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  did something that was so fucking hilarious.
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  She ran into the door she was going to leave and then instead
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  of grabbing the handle to pull or push, she just walked right
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  into it. And I literally, I thought it
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  was a joke and then I then I realized she was legit drunk and
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  I was like, Oh my God. And it was 6536 o'clock on a
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  Friday, people. Like that?
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  Good for her, yeah. So yeah, I mean.
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  She probably well rested come Saturday morning.
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  Yeah, hey, I have my 8:00 AM Saturday morning workout so I
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  yes, I am well rested when I get home.
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  I work out at the Y every Saturday at 8:00 in the morning
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  and I'm not sweating out my toxins from the night before.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like to sweat out the bad
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  decisions and then do them again.
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  Exactly. It's a cycle.
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  It's a mental cycle to where like, I know I had to work out
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  this morning if I wanted to drink today and then tonight.
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  That's fair. So that's fair.
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  I purposefully like had to push myself to do that.
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  Yeah, I think like we got to stop limiting ourself.
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  It's that 8020 rule, honestly. That's the 8020 rule.
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  Well, that's how like, cuz I think like when people go really
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  deep on a like diet and they go 100% in, that's how they burn
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  out. Oh yeah.
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  Or, or even working out, you're gonna burn out if you go 100%
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  in. Yeah.
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  Like, and by that I mean, if you do 8020 of like you're eating
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  80% of the time, healthy, 20% of the time you are enjoying
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  yourself as in like whatever that means, whatever thing you
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  like to eat that is technically not within your macros or your
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  diet or whatever, you're not restricting yourself.
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  So you're not hating your life. And so I mean, that's how you're
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  able to keep up with things. So like, yeah, Monday through
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  Friday, I'm 100% macros on. I have, I have everything
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  measured out. I know exactly what I'm doing.
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  I know exactly what I'm eating. I know what time I'm eating at
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  all that stuff. And I'm working out and I'm
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  going hard. And then weekend hits and I'm
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  not fucking it all up. I'm still 8020.
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  So like, I'll still have like my breakfast, my lunch, maybe a
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  snack, but then I'll have a dinner that I want to do.
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  Yeah. That I'm not thinking about.
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  That's awesome. And I'll have a couple of drinks
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  that I don't need to think about.
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  I'm like a 20/20/2020 twenty person like I'm just I'm all
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  over the fucking place. That's fair.
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  That's fair. Yeah.
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  But Speaking of, well, it's not being all over the place.
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  OK, Right before we left, there were some really good things
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  that you were saying and I was going to ask you and yes, I'm
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  going to be that one. I already forgot for our non
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  Spanish speakers. How do you say I already forgot
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  in Laos? Like Liam Lau.
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  There you go. Beautiful.
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  Yeah, say. It say it again.
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  Koi Lim Lao. Koi Lim Lao.
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  I've had one client in my history from Laos.
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  Did I say it? Oh, really?
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  She was on a fiance? Who?
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  She was here on a fiance visa, Yeah.
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  How do you get a fiance visa? You meet.
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  USCIS. You meet AUS citizen first.
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  Oh yeah, you say let me see your US password, let me see your US
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  birth certificate, and then you form a love relationship and
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  then you come to the US and then you got to get married within 90
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  days, which is 90 Day Fiance. Have you ever seen that show?
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  I've only heard, I've never actually watched it.
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  The drama is real and we see it everyday.
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  I started, I, I never have watched it, but you know how
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  like in 2020, Big Ed and that one girl, Oh yeah, it went
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  viral. Big Ed is the one that has like
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  his. Hair sickness, yeah.
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  The thickness, yeah, I was going to say the one that has no neck.
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  Yes, OK. Being kind, I know, right?
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  And I was like, I've already almost done with my first drink
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  so sorry I. Don't want to?
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  Be kind. No more kindness here.
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  No, I decided, so you know, there was a lot of really funny
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  memes and I, and at first like the memes and plus surreals
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  seemed like her name is Rose, seemed like Rose was an issue
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  and then like she was really rude to him.
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  You know, at least that's the perception I got with watching
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  them. And so then recently, it was
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  sometime this year, I decided to go watch it.
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  And so I went to watch it and honestly, Ed was kind of a Dick
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  to her. Like for real, a lot of her
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  reactions make sense. I never watched that season.
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  I watched the OG seasons, like first 2345 seasons I watched and
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  the first season is the best. But that's just my opinion.
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  But we're always asking our clients.
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  You ever thought about, I don't know, maybe applying for 90 Day
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  Fiance and they're like, we actually some of our clients are
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  like we actually did apply but we didn't get it.
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  And I'm like, damn it. That's funny, yeah, because then
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  you guys could be on it. Yeah, we would be their
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  attorneys. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  You'd be good on camera, obviously.
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  Obviously. Tell me.
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  What you want to look at? I love it.
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  I love when the girl loves herself I.
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  Actually have been been seeing you everywhere on my timeline.
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  Did I not say my big head is everywhere?
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  It is. It is.
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  It is because immigration is so important.
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  I can't wait because she's about to be in our cameras.
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  I am excited. I'm excited for this to come
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  out. I'm excited to hear it.
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  Yes, me too. Yeah, but I wanted to talk about
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  ICE because you're a non partisan.
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  So like, we haven't really talked about that.
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  And you guys know that I'm actually really big on this.
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  I've been wanting to talk about politics for fucking ever on the
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  pod. I just haven't.
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  Fucking go. Yeah, I just haven't had a guess
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  who's willing to. Let's do it.
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  Wait. Wait, wait, before we say fuck
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  ice. He already did.
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  Well, before we say it again, I had something to ask you because
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  we're on the we're talking about fiance visa.
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  Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna potential.
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  I'm gonna do a spousal visa because I got married last year.
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  Oh, congratulations. Shut the ring.
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  Shut the ring. Badass.
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  Yeah, that's awesome. Congrats.
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  I don't have a ring. It's dusty.
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  Yeah. Don't marry me.
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  I bought. I bought my own ring.
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  And my husband, I bought, I bought me and my husband's
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  rings. Hey.
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  See like this is something I would do like.
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  Because my, my love life is not clear.
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  It has never been clear. And it's very cloudy.
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  And so that's why. This is something if you ever
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  care about me, there you go. #Stag head designs.
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  That's. Cute.
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  Yeah, it's I bought this one for myself and then I got a cool.
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  It's like black and a wood mixture ring for my husband.
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  Yeah. We didn't do the traditional
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  route. Did you have a wedding?
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  Yeah, we, we had our, we, we got married in our kitchen on a work
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  day, on a Wednesday during lunch.
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  OK there. I know there was a reason I was
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  going to. Like it?
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  Did you take the rest of the day off?
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  Nope, went to. I had a a hearing with the judge
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  right afterwards. Boss ass bitch.
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  I love her. Yeah.
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  So anyways, OK, Family based petition.
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  Spousal petition. Yeah.
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  So is that like how much of a difference is that from your
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  fiance visa? It we, the way we preface it
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  with our potential clients is it's a personal decision because
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  a lot of people have visions in their head of a beautiful
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  American wedding. And then some other clients have
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  a, a vision of a beautiful Mexican wedding.
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  And so it's where, where do you want to get married?
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  Because if you want to get married before the visa, you got
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  to get married in their home country or if they're here
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  unlawfully, then you can get married here.
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  But it just depends. It's your personal decision.
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  Prices really don't change. Processing times are a little
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  different, but not, not too different.
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  So it's like, what do you envision?
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  And then we'll make it happen. OK.
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  Yeah. Cool.
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  Yeah. What are you he's having?
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  He's having a wedding here because he told me that I can be
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  one of the groomsmen. I didn't say best man groomsmen
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  because I would look fucking cool in a fucking tuxedo.
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  So to my guy friends, don't cut me off when you get married
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  because I'd look fucking cool in a tuxedo.
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  I'm sorry I was picturing you as the person doing the ceremony
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  but. Oh, thank you.
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  But in a tuxedo. Yeah, I.
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  Mean, I don't doubt that you would look cool in a suit.
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  I was like, fucking what? Can really fucking kill it.
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  And yeah, music, every girl. We had a wedding ceremony over
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  there. OK, good.
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  Now you got to bring. Her a second one here.
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  Yeah, he told me, he promised. Yeah, that's typically what
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  people do. They they have a celebration
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  here. Yeah, normal.
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  It's for Dusty. He's yeah, processing times
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  right now. So is she in Laos or where he
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  OK. So processing times probably
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  aren't that big because you don't have a lot of people
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  coming to the US from Laos. So I won 30 family petition
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  taking about maybe a year, year and a half to be approved
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  depends. And then counselor processing,
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  bring that girl over here with that green card.
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  That's The thing is when you come as a bring that, bring that
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  ass from here with the grand. You come in with a green card.
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  If you do, if you get married first, but when you come in with
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  a fiance visa, you get married and then you have to apply for
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  the green card. So she'll be entering with a
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  green card. Yeah, and from my readings, it's
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  if you've been married for longer than two years, then it's
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  a 10 year. Correct 10 year green card.
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  Yes, A2 year. Correct.
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  Yep, exactly. And then if she's married to you
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  three years down the road from when she enters, she can go
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  ahead and apply for citizenship, so long as she speaks English
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  and is able to pass the civics test and the English reading and
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  writing test. Awesome.
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  I haven't gone that far down the road yet, just because you know,
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  I'm still over here on this part of.
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  The road if you need help, my friend, me and my cousin, that's
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  our bread and butter. We do them every day.
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  So if you need help, let us know and we'll give you a little
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  discount. Sweet.
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  Look at that. Yeah.
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  Yeah, yeah, connections are made on the pod.
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  Yeah, we. There's more, there's more I.
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  Just was going to ask if I could get refill.
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  Of course. And how do I do it?
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  You poured it so pretty that. Yeah, yeah, I got it.
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  I got it. Thank you.
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  I'd be like shaking. I could not be a doctor.
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  I'm very shaky. I'm a doctor of law.
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  A doctor. Is that what you?
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  I'm a doctor of law. You're a doctor of.
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  Law. But I'm not.
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  I could never be a surgeon because I'm my hands are super
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  shaky. Yeah.
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  I see what you're saying. Yes, because you do have your
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  doctorate. Yeah, and that crazy doctor of
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  law. It's like, it's like those
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  moments when like you're your parents are never proud enough
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  of you because you didn't do something.
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  And then they're like, OK, do you see that somebody needs a
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  fucking doctor to help them save their lives?
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  And then it's like, did did you hear them say they need a doctor
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  of law, a doctor of dentist? No, they didn't.
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  They said they need a fucking doctor and you went and fucked
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  it up with that. Damn.
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  You know what I mean? Yeah, Yeah.
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  The one here needed a podcaster today, did they?
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  That's hilarious. No, but definitely I'll.
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  I'll probably reach out when I'm ready.
• 18:44
  Yeah, maybe have you like review my packet?
• 18:47
  For sure, I would definitely do that.
• 18:50
  Because I'm interested to see how good of a packet I can put
• 18:53
  together. A packet.
• 18:55
  You have to put together a packet.
• 18:56
  So the thing about immigration is, yes, the instructions are
• 19:01
  online essentially you can do your own case, right?
• 19:05
  But The thing is, is that sometimes when you're not an
• 19:09
  attorney, shit can go South very quickly.
• 19:13
  And so a lot of people, another myth is that like, anybody can
• 19:16
  do my job, Notarios can do my job better than me.
• 19:20
  Bullshit. Because we know the law, we know
• 19:22
  the process, but you still can do it yourself.
• 19:26
  People have done it themselves so many times, but it's when you
• 19:30
  it's when you maybe do something wrong or you, you missed a step
• 19:33
  or something. Then we come in and and we, you
• 19:36
  know, obviously help you clean it up.
• 19:37
  But I would rather you show me what you've done so far and then
• 19:41
  I'll say, yeah, that looks good. Go ahead and send it.
• 19:43
  You know what I mean? So you have better chances.
• 19:46
  Yeah, just because we see it every day, we know what we're
• 19:48
  doing, we know the process, we know the consequences of saying
• 19:51
  this and not saying this and all those things.
• 19:53
  So like for a spousal visa, because like some, some of these
• 19:57
  visas are just even something, you know, to be able to become a
• 20:00
  citizen. Is there times even if like
• 20:03
  quote, UN quote, you did it all right, that you'd still get
• 20:06
  denied? The one time 2 times that's
• 20:09
  happened is when someone accidentally admits to something
• 20:13
  at an interview that they shouldn't have admitted to or
• 20:18
  they smoked weed before they went to their damn interview and
• 20:21
  they get flagged for being, you know, druggie or.
• 20:26
  That was stupid. Yeah, I had a client literally
• 20:29
  at the border at El Paso. He was about to go across to go
• 20:33
  to his interview and he calls me and he says, Sarah, I smoked
• 20:37
  weed. And I'm like, get your ass back
• 20:39
  to Wichita. Do not cross that border because
• 20:42
  if you test positive for anything in your system, you're
• 20:44
  screwed. So there's been times and then
• 20:48
  there's been times where we did everything right.
• 20:51
  Immigration is wrong. They're wrong.
• 20:54
  And a lot of people are like, well, immigration's saying this
• 20:56
  and I'm like, that doesn't mean they're right.
• 20:58
  We're right. And there was a time where I
• 21:00
  know for a fact I was right. My client was in Ciudad Juarez
• 21:04
  for his interview and he was there for two years while I was
• 21:08
  fighting, saying I'm right, immigration's wrong, give him
• 21:13
  his visa and let him come back to the US two years.
• 21:15
  I fought with them for two years and he trusted me.
• 21:19
  And I said trust me, I'm right. Do not come back unlawfully
• 21:22
  because you ruin everything. And he trusted me.
• 21:26
  I was right, got that visa, came right back.
• 21:29
  But you don't know what The thing is, is that when he came
• 21:31
  back, his family had moved on, his wife had moved on.
• 21:35
  Fuck dude, do you hear that? Though no loyalty, Yeah, I was
• 21:41
  going with the no loyalty year 2 years OK.
• 21:43
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's another piece.
• 21:46
  But like, that's what I'm saying though.
• 21:48
  Like, yeah, that's how slow this process is.
• 21:52
  Like can we stop pretending that it's not?
• 21:54
  And can you stop being a fucking Dick about it?
• 21:56
  Because God damn like it that that's what pisses me off.
• 22:00
  If I was fighting with immigration for two years,
• 22:02
  saying I'm right, you're wrong, give him his visa and I knew I
• 22:06
  was right and and. He and there was nothing that
• 22:09
  you could have done to speed that up.
• 22:10
  I mean, obviously you would have done it.
• 22:12
  Nope, it's the US consulate. They run at their own pace and
• 22:15
  Mexico's. The US consulate in Mexico is
• 22:17
  the busiest U.S. consulate in the entire world.
• 22:21
  Could he have gone to maybe a different one?
• 22:24
  No, no. So.
• 22:26
  That's what is the only one that we can used for this process,
• 22:29
  yeah. Wow.
• 22:30
  Yeah, it's the busiest one in the whole world.
• 22:32
  I always think of that like I'm always like, sometimes I think
• 22:35
  like to my parents, I'm like, what if you had gone to Canada?
• 22:38
  Is it easier to go to Canada? Unless the only way you can do
• 22:42
  that is if you are a resident or a citizen of Canada, yeah.
• 22:47
  Is the US the hardest country to get a citizenship from or get a
• 22:52
  visa from? That's a good question.
• 22:55
  I know Canada's rules are actually really strict.
• 22:58
  So if you have a DUI, one DUI on your record, I don't believe
• 23:02
  you're getting status in Canada. But that's another myth is that
• 23:06
  immigration attorneys here in the US know the rules around the
• 23:09
  country. No, we only know US immigration
• 23:11
  laws. Of course.
• 23:12
  I mean, it's fucking crazy here. Well, anywhere, any country,
• 23:15
  it's we're talking years of something that was established.
• 23:18
  Like, yeah, you think that you're going to learn all that
• 23:20
  in three years of law? School.
• 23:21
  Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
• 23:23
  The funny thing is that I took the whole bar exam.
• 23:25
  Immigration wasn't even on the bar exam.
• 23:27
  No. So I studied everything except
• 23:31
  for what I'm doing. It's never like constitutional
• 23:34
  law and admin law and stuff like that, but yeah.
• 23:36
  Anyway. So while Google says the hardest
• 23:39
  country to get citizenship in, the very first thing which I
• 23:43
  find funny is Vatican City. Well, that's.
• 23:46
  Not, you know. Interesting.
• 23:48
  Stereotypically right makes sense in a way we're talking.
• 23:52
  About I'm going there in April, March.
• 23:55
  Yeah, that sounds beautiful. And excited.
• 23:57
  Yeah, Yeah. Interesting.
• 23:58
  And then after that, it's like Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
• 24:02
  Interesting. Where is remember that Ashley
• 24:06
  was telling us that it would be really hard for her to get a
• 24:09
  visa. What?
• 24:10
  Which one was it? I don't remember, it was an
• 24:15
  Asian country. Thailand.
• 24:17
  Yeah, Thailand, because of her medical condition, they were
• 24:21
  like, they don't want anybody who's not healthy.
• 24:26
  Interesting. She was automatically.
• 24:28
  Wow. No you cannot.
• 24:30
  That's crazy. Live here.
• 24:31
  We don't want you. One of those Asian countries.
• 24:33
  I can't. Yeah, I think it was Thailand,
• 24:35
  yeah. That's insane.
• 24:39
  Could go back to the notes and figure out, but anyways, you're
• 24:41
  non partisan and OK, so like I want to understand, let's start
• 24:49
  with what is ice? OK, right, Because I think that
• 24:54
  we got a, we got a level. Yep, first.
• 24:56
  What's your job? Yeah.
• 24:57
  And then and then let's go into what are the pros of ice?
• 25:04
  OK, so. I want to go backwards.
• 25:07
  ICE is one of the branches of the Department of Homeland
• 25:10
  Security. So the Department of Homeland
• 25:12
  Security was established after 911 and the IT used to be where
• 25:18
  the immigration judges and the prosecutors and immigration
• 25:21
  court were a part of the same the DOJ, the Department of
• 25:24
  Justice. But then when DHS was created,
• 25:28
  more immigration agencies followed.
• 25:31
  So ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border
• 25:36
  Patrol, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, which we
• 25:40
  actually have ICE and USCIS here in Wichita.
• 25:45
  I always tell people USCIS is across from milk float on
• 25:48
  Douglas. OK, say USCIS again.
• 25:51
  US Citizenship and Immigration Services.
• 25:53
  OK, So that's the benefits portion of the show.
• 25:55
  That's where you go to get your green card.
• 25:58
  That's where you go to get your citizenship, your
• 26:00
  naturalization. You're talking about, Yeah, I've
• 26:01
  been there a lot of times. Yeah, and they do.
• 26:03
  They actually do. It is next to milk flow.
• 26:05
  It is across. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 26:07
  yeah, Yeah, It is. It is.
• 26:08
  It's out. Yeah.
• 26:08
  Yeah, and they do. So there's people every
• 26:11
  Wednesday, I think that will go and protest ICE outside of
• 26:16
  USCIS. And the security guards are
• 26:19
  like, you do know we're not ICE, right?
• 26:21
  And they're like, yeah, yeah, you're still the government.
• 26:23
  So we're going to protest here. And I'm like, OK, so I'm
• 26:26
  literally waiting for my client outside of USCIS.
• 26:29
  Hi. Are you excited for today?
• 26:31
  And people down the street are like, fuck guys.
• 26:35
  They're like, you know, like you're, you know, and I'm like,
• 26:37
  this is the wrong area to be doing that.
• 26:40
  But whatever, go away. You're ruining my pictures
• 26:44
  anyways. Yeah, because that's where
• 26:46
  they're going to go when they take the test, when people go
• 26:50
  and take a picture of like I finally became AUS citizen
• 26:52
  because also guys to study for that is a it's hard.
• 26:56
  It's questions that I mean, nobody.
• 26:59
  Fucking remembers anything. Yeah, you should.
• 27:01
  Oh, do it at the end. OK, I'll quiz you guys.
• 27:03
  Today you'll quiz us. Yeah, yeah, let's do that.
• 27:05
  That'll be our lightning round for.
• 27:07
  Us. I'm born here.
• 27:10
  That's even better Born. Here, and I bet you you don't.
• 27:12
  Know oh, that's even better. That's even better.
• 27:15
  Yep, I know. It's hard.
• 27:17
  I'm scared. That's hilarious.
• 27:18
  OK, we're going to do that. Yeah.
• 27:20
  Anyway, so the ICE office is actually on Woodlawn and you'll
• 27:24
  never know it's an ICE office because of course, you know,
• 27:26
  security reasons. We don't want to just say this
• 27:28
  is ICE, but they do have holding facilities for people who they
• 27:32
  do pick up and then they transfer them to Kay County in
• 27:36
  Oklahoma or Chase County in Cottonwood Falls here in Kansas.
• 27:40
  So ICE are the enforcers. They're the ones who are able to
• 27:43
  enforce immigration laws. So, for example, literally the
• 27:49
  day after President Trump was inaugurated, my client was
• 27:53
  picked up on the way to work because he had a previous
• 27:56
  removal order on his record. So he was removed and came back.
• 28:00
  And then he had an aggravated firearms charge on his record as
• 28:05
  well, where he was prosecuted in federal court for it.
• 28:08
  So during the Biden administration, they, they
• 28:11
  weren't doing anything. They were just letting people
• 28:14
  live in the US and they they were not the priority.
• 28:18
  But immediately when Trump was inaugurated, they are now
• 28:21
  priorities. And I've been trying to warn
• 28:23
  everybody and this was going to happen.
• 28:25
  But he didn't, you know, he didn't know.
• 28:27
  And so he drove. He was driving to work.
• 28:29
  That's why you guys should vote, because it fucking matters.
• 28:32
  Sorry. Thank you.
• 28:33
  No, you're right. You're not wrong.
• 28:35
  That's why I fucking say what I say.
• 28:36
  You're absolutely right. Just.
• 28:38
  About everything that I say. I fucking mean it, go ahead.
• 28:42
  But I'm also sarcastic as well. Yeah.
• 28:45
  So anyway, so ICE picked him up on the way to work because they
• 28:47
  knew where he lived, they knew he was here, they just weren't
• 28:50
  told to go get him until now. So ICE picked him up, put him in
• 28:55
  the holding facility here in Wichita, and then sent him to
• 28:58
  another detention facility. I told his wife there's nothing
• 29:01
  I can do for him because he is automatically removable because
• 29:05
  he has previously been removed before.
• 29:08
  So he was deported and he's been in his home country ever since.
• 29:12
  And that's where loyalty does break.
• 29:15
  It's very true. Let's see how how how these
• 29:18
  marriages are tested during this administration.
• 29:21
  But yeah, so that's just an idea of what ICE does.
• 29:24
  Now there's the other agencies as well.
• 29:27
  There's HSI, that's the investigation division where
• 29:32
  they are. You'll see, you see them a lot
• 29:34
  in the news now because the director of DHS is very vocal
• 29:37
  and very she's Christy Noem. This is the one that you said
• 29:40
  was hot. Yes, it is.
• 29:42
  Have a look. She's very good looking.
• 29:45
  Noem, Noem. NOEM.
• 29:48
  Yeah. Oh shit yeah y'all should look
• 29:50
  her up. She's.
• 29:52
  Very good looking, he made a very good pick.
• 29:53
  RISTI and then Noem NOEM guys again, that is KRISTI, last name
• 30:05
  Noem NOEM. Do we hate her?
• 30:08
  I don't know but home girl there's a picture in.
• 30:10
  Her, she's fine. She's fine.
• 30:11
  She's not holding her gun, but like the first picture that came
• 30:13
  up like. She's she's pretty fine.
• 30:17
  Just colored eyes. So, so she, they've been, they,
• 30:21
  they're the ones who crack down on narcotics, gangs, drugs,
• 30:26
  firearms, like they're the ones going out and getting the bad
• 30:29
  guys. Now ICE is getting a lot of bad
• 30:33
  rat because they're essentially detaining people who they say
• 30:37
  are bad guys. But a lot of people are like,
• 30:39
  no, they're they're they haven't done anything wrong.
• 30:42
  The only thing that they may have done wrong was enter the
• 30:45
  country illegally, right? Which is a crime, as I said.
• 30:48
  But it's, again, it's the only option.
• 30:52
  Yeah. So ICE.
• 30:53
  Some laws are laws, but they're not just.
• 30:59
  I mean, OK, you ready? ICE is important.
• 31:02
  ICE is important because they are enforcing immigration laws.
• 31:07
  It's very unfortunate that people are getting picked up for
• 31:11
  simply entering unlawfully, but that's the reality of
• 31:15
  immigration. So there are a lot of people who
• 31:17
  are saying abolish ICE. If we abolish ICE, there is no
• 31:22
  one who has the ability to to enforce the immigration laws on
• 31:28
  the level that they do. Because let's say someone,
• 31:32
  someone gets arrested for domestic violence and they get
• 31:38
  booked in jail at the Sedgwick County Jail.
• 31:43
  The ICE can see everyone in the public record as to who is being
• 31:48
  detained. And if they see that someone
• 31:51
  does not have lawful status or they see their country of
• 31:53
  origin, that they're not U.S. citizens, they can look that
• 31:57
  person up very easily. It's public record and they can
• 32:00
  come, they can put an ICE hold on them and they can pick them
• 32:04
  up once they're released from Sedgwick County Jail.
• 32:07
  So essentially, they are keeping our country safe.
• 32:11
  But again, like I was saying earlier, there's always some bad
• 32:14
  officers right there. There are ICE officers who may
• 32:18
  not be doing what they're supposed to be doing.
• 32:20
  They may be bending the rules, and that is unfortunate.
• 32:24
  But if we get rid of ICE, there could be serious consequences
• 32:28
  for that. So what do you think about that?
• 32:30
  Yeah, yeah. No, I mean like what?
• 32:33
  What do I think about? What do you think about?
• 32:34
  Yeah, abolish ICE. Like, what's that?
• 32:36
  I want to know what that perspective is actually.
• 32:38
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think like, they're OK, right?
• 32:43
  When we're talking about like stances, there's a lot of like,
• 32:47
  what the fuck is ICE doing, right?
• 32:49
  There's a lot of like things that are already made with
• 32:52
  abolish ICE, right? And I do think that when it
• 32:57
  comes to policy, we do have to look at both ends.
• 33:00
  We have to look about like what it's really doing and what it's
• 33:02
  not doing and who are these bad apples?
• 33:05
  But also what are other things that are allowing them to really
• 33:09
  exercise these in a exercise their power in ways that feels
• 33:18
  non humanitarian so. Inhumane.
• 33:22
  Yeah, so like what? So, like I had read a lot of
• 33:27
  things about like Congress recently saying that based on
• 33:30
  the way that somebody looks, ICE can go and detain you, ICE can
• 33:35
  go and do something about that. That's my issue.
• 33:38
  Absolutely ridiculous. And I agree with you on that.
• 33:40
  That is absolutely ridiculous. And we have the Constitution for
• 33:44
  a reason. You know what I mean?
• 33:45
  And we have these things in place.
• 33:47
  You should not arrest someone based on the way they look.
• 33:50
  I totally agree with that. And that is where I also
• 33:53
  disagree with the way that the ICE is able to exercise their
• 33:56
  power there. There should be restraints on
• 33:58
  how much power that they have. And I think like, that's the
• 34:01
  issue, right? So I think like when you hear
• 34:03
  things like abolish ICE, defund the, the like defund the police,
• 34:08
  like all these things, that's what that means.
• 34:11
  It's like, let yeah, we do need to have places that enforce
• 34:15
  things because without it, it could be crazy.
• 34:19
  We'd go into like chaos. What's it?
• 34:23
  There's a word for it. Like it's it's like called this.
• 34:25
  Like it's not opportunity chaos, but it's like, I can't even
• 34:30
  remember. But like, I'm not saying that
• 34:33
  shit's going to go South, but like without any type of
• 34:36
  restriction naturally, because of how we humans are
• 34:43
  psychologically, we are so susceptible to taking on these
• 34:48
  other beliefs and absorbing them.
• 34:50
  And if we are struggling with our own self identity and we're
• 34:53
  struggling with who our own beliefs are, it's so easy for us
• 34:58
  to mirror something else. So whoever is like exercising
• 35:01
  these powers in a really bad degree, I think they're just
• 35:06
  susceptible to a lot of they're in areas that are causing that
• 35:12
  not causing they're they're putting themselves in positions
• 35:16
  where nobody is challenging them, right?
• 35:18
  And they're just in these circles that are not challenging
• 35:21
  them. So they're like this is this is
• 35:23
  regularly, this is OK. Impunity.
• 35:25
  Immunity or impunity where you're getting away with things
• 35:28
  without repercussions. Yeah, that's exactly right.
• 35:30
  And, and that's what like I, I personally think is like what?
• 35:35
  Defund the police? Abolish ICE.
• 35:38
  I think they're just really these strong words to get you to
• 35:42
  stop and listen. Because when it comes to
• 35:44
  protesting, when it comes to activism, when it comes to
• 35:47
  advocacy, even to some degree, like, you got to use these
• 35:50
  really tough words to get someone to be like, whoa, what
• 35:54
  the fuck is that? Yeah, I need to go listen to
• 35:56
  this. Some people are going to be
• 35:57
  turned off quick, right? And I do think that is that
• 35:59
  power of like words, schematics matter a lot.
• 36:06
  But we do also have to think about the marketing and the
• 36:08
  branding and all that other shit.
• 36:11
  And personally, that's what I think with Abolish ICE is like,
• 36:15
  I think that there are things that we do need to not
• 36:19
  necessarily almost like enforce on them.
• 36:23
  So I'm trying to say like, yeah, does it make sense that we have
• 36:26
  some government entity that enforces something that others
• 36:33
  do not have that opportunity to do or shouldn't have, but they
• 36:37
  exercise anyways? Because, I mean, we have those
• 36:40
  people. That's why we go down the path
• 36:44
  of defund the police because you're seeing a lot of that in
• 36:47
  certain cities. Abuse of power?
• 36:48
  Yeah, totally get it. And think, I mean, we see a lot
• 36:51
  of cronyism. That's the issue is like we're
• 36:53
  when it comes down to all this Trump, when it like we're
• 36:56
  talking about cronyism, like that's the issue is that we're
• 36:59
  putting people in power who, who abuse it and with Congress
• 37:05
  giving them the pass to do that. That's crazy.
• 37:10
  It's crazy because it's like we're 2025 and this shit is
• 37:14
  happening and it's and like, I'm going down a tangent, but I'm
• 37:18
  going to say this tangent because I think it's relevant.
• 37:23
  I was traveling to Egypt earlier this year.
• 37:26
  I got to meet a lot of people from multiple countries.
• 37:29
  I met somebody from like, fuck, it was like one of the old
• 37:33
  Europe countries. I can't even fucking remember
• 37:35
  which one. But we were talking about this
• 37:38
  because he's telling me about like, I'm like, what's life
• 37:41
  there? Like, I mean, as a tourist, you
• 37:43
  see it as this beautiful thing, so green, it's whatever.
• 37:46
  And I'm like, but like, what is life in the sense of like
• 37:50
  policy, in the sense of things moving?
• 37:52
  Like, is this a conservative place?
• 37:54
  Is this a liberal place? Are the things that are
• 37:56
  happening over here being pressured onto your country?
• 37:59
  Like, I'm curious. Very good question.
• 38:01
  What are the questions that I have with people?
• 38:03
  Like people are like, what? This girl's weird.
• 38:08
  Those are the because I'm curious.
• 38:10
  I'm really, I'm genuinely curious.
• 38:12
  But he was telling me about how like, you know, it's a really
• 38:15
  old country. Like he's like, my high school
• 38:18
  was built in 1400 or, or yeah. And he's like, so my high school
• 38:23
  alone was just like a lot of history in there.
• 38:26
  And he's like, so with that, our government is basically set in
• 38:31
  stone. I mean, we have really important
• 38:33
  powers that money, people, people with money that they're
• 38:40
  always going to dictate the way that the country goes.
• 38:43
  He was like, the thing with the US, it's such a new country
• 38:46
  comparably to other countries. The US is very, now we don't
• 38:50
  have places that I mean, we do like if we go back to Native
• 38:53
  American, but we're barely as this as a country, we're barely
• 38:57
  finally giving them the place there, right?
• 39:00
  Like we're finally, I mean, we're finally taking down a lot
• 39:02
  of Confederate soldier stuff, right?
• 39:04
  That's another thing that we'll get to maybe not, but like we're
• 39:08
  finally giving the Native Americans like their place of
• 39:10
  like that. They started this country,
• 39:12
  right? But other countries, right?
• 39:14
  They're old. And in that sense, the US is so
• 39:18
  young and he's like, so for things to change over there,
• 39:23
  it's slow. And he's like, for things to
• 39:26
  change over with you guys, it could happen.
• 39:30
  Yeah. And, and I thought that was such
• 39:32
  a freeing thing that he said, 'cause like, and, and this was
• 39:35
  in February. This was when the Supreme Court
• 39:39
  had just overruled that abortion was illegal.
• 39:41
  Yeah. And I know I'm just like, what
• 39:44
  the fuck? You know what I mean?
• 39:45
  Yeah. I think as a woman, like, I'm
• 39:48
  not saying that abortion is right.
• 39:49
  I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm not saying it's right, but
• 39:52
  'cause like I think as a woman to be forced to do something
• 39:57
  right and there's so much psychological stuff and they're
• 40:01
  like, I just agreed. Would hate to know that I that's
• 40:06
  not an easy decision to make. I don't think at any point
• 40:09
  nobody's thinking that's an easy decision.
• 40:11
  Yeah, and there's a lot of shit that goes with it and it's not
• 40:13
  getting talked about enough. But I think that is a perfect
• 40:16
  example of what he's saying. Yeah, things can change so fast.
• 40:20
  Yeah, it's 2020 Supreme Court decision.
• 40:22
  Yeah, that's a really good perspective.
• 40:24
  It was, dude. Homie was young.
• 40:25
  Yeah, homie was young. Guy too.
• 40:27
  Yeah, yeah. Here, No, homie was smart, but
• 40:29
  it was that's what I'm saying. It was so cool about like y'all
• 40:32
  get your ass out of the US, honestly.
• 40:34
  But you know, and if you can, if you have the funds, if you or I
• 40:37
  don't know, do it cheaply, there's a lot of websites that
• 40:40
  you can find where things are cheaper.
• 40:43
  But honestly, it's going to expand your perspective.
• 40:48
  Yeah, because he said that to me and like I thought, what a cool
• 40:53
  thing to some degree, right? Like it's like, I'm sure that
• 40:57
  people who were on a very strong stance that this is bad, we're
• 41:02
  celebrating it because they're like, it's 2025 and this was
• 41:05
  done. Like what a fucking cool thing.
• 41:07
  Like, and I get that perspective, right?
• 41:10
  And then maybe people who are fighting that, it's like, that's
• 41:12
  not a good thing. Yeah, that's America.
• 41:15
  That's America, but also it's 2025.
• 41:18
  Like there's so much shit that could happen.
• 41:20
  And that's what I'm trying to say like with abolish eyes, with
• 41:23
  defund the Police, with like all these really tough stances on
• 41:26
  things, on both perspectives, I think like we do need to dive
• 41:30
  deeper into them to understand them.
• 41:32
  So my issue is with how ICE is really exercising their power in
• 41:41
  an Inhuman. Way dehumanizing totally.
• 41:44
  And there's, there's, you know, reports of thing, things
• 41:48
  happening in detention facilities, people sleeping on
• 41:50
  the ground, you know, and I, I'm not there.
• 41:54
  So I can't confirm or deny that that's happening.
• 41:56
  But our clients are telling us things and we have to, we can
• 42:00
  only do so much as attorneys. But it, it's sometimes
• 42:03
  immigration really makes me feel helpless sometimes because of
• 42:07
  how large of a scale that I'm working on and my clients are
• 42:11
  hours away from me in detention facilities.
• 42:14
  And I'm like, I don't, I don't really know what I can do.
• 42:16
  But that's why we have organizations like ACLU and all
• 42:21
  those you know. And they were defunded, too.
• 42:23
  Yeah, yeah. They, I mean, there, there's
• 42:25
  attorneys, I guess to go off of what you're saying on the abuse
• 42:31
  of power. There are attorneys fighting
• 42:35
  every move that the government makes.
• 42:37
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:38
  So that's something that's not talked about a lot.
• 42:40
  And not even the ACLU, even just private firms like mine or other
• 42:44
  firms are filing. There's a very amazing law firm
• 42:50
  in Kansas City and it's called the Sharma Crawford Attorneys,
• 42:54
  Reika Sharma Crawford and Michael.
• 42:55
  They're married. They Reika is very well known
• 42:59
  for the federal work that she does and she is constantly
• 43:03
  fighting unlawful detentions at the federal level.
• 43:07
  So even though it does feel shitty on the ground level,
• 43:10
  there are people fighting it in federal courts, which eventually
• 43:15
  will go to the circuit courts, which will eventually go to the
• 43:17
  Supreme Court. It just takes time.
• 43:19
  Yeah. So I guess that's something that
• 43:21
  I usually say when people do talk about ISIS actions is that
• 43:24
  they're not going unnoticed and we are fighting what they're
• 43:28
  doing. Yeah, every day.
• 43:30
  How do you, as someone who is not a lawyer, who doesn't have
• 43:33
  power like that, like what do you do?
• 43:35
  Like, how do you support? Do you support?
• 43:37
  Like, you know, how do you, how do you help?
• 43:39
  Yeah. I think what I've been telling
• 43:43
  people is educating yourselves is the best way that you can
• 43:46
  help because you don't want to push a false narrative.
• 43:51
  So if you're educated and you have knowledge about
• 43:53
  immigration, you, you are actually helping and then
• 43:59
  donating. I mean, there's organizations
• 44:03
  around Wichita who are doing know your rights events, so
• 44:09
  maybe hosting a know your rights event for a vulnerable group of
• 44:14
  people is helpful. Donating money to organizations
• 44:21
  who represent unaccompanied minors.
• 44:24
  There's, there's a lot of ways that you can get involved even
• 44:27
  if you're not an attorney. Yep.
• 44:30
  Yeah, so I get involved and educate yourself.
• 44:32
  Yeah, Yeah. What was I going to ask you?
• 44:38
  I was going to ask you something about this and I already forgot.
• 44:41
  I would add to what we're talking about a lot of the
• 44:44
  immigration conversations surrounded around President
• 44:46
  Trump, right? And I would like what I do when
• 44:51
  I go do my talks is I'm moving the conversation away from him
• 44:55
  and I'm moving it towards Congress because today,
• 44:59
  Congress, Congress is the one, is the only one it who is going
• 45:04
  to change the immigration laws. Trump can do as much as he wants
• 45:07
  to do on the enforcement side and he can talk all the talk
• 45:10
  that he wants to do. But at the end of the day, it's
• 45:12
  Congress's fault. Yeah, for why we are where we
• 45:16
  are where we are today. I mean with the shit that they
• 45:18
  just released, but to some degree.
• 45:20
  OK, so this is actually, this is perfect.
• 45:22
  I did have that in here. Yay.
• 45:25
  I don't know what time stamp we're at y'all this.
• 45:27
  I told you we could be here all day.
• 45:29
  This might be a 2 parter episode.
• 45:31
  Dusty, this is a 2 parter episode.
• 45:35
  As long as I leave in time for my event tonight, we are good.
• 45:38
  OK. And we don't have to go through
• 45:40
  every topic, but I I think like that that was a really, really
• 45:46
  good point that you just made because no president really has
• 45:50
  been pushing the needle for immigration.
• 45:52
  They say it because it's a fancy word and they know that the US
• 45:56
  is made-up of a lot of immigrants.
• 45:59
  So I think you as an immigrant, as an immigrant voter, you're
• 46:03
  hopeful and you want to vote maybe based on that.
• 46:07
  And sometimes, right, going back to the quote that I said
• 46:09
  earlier, I'd partner with anyone to do good, but I'm partnering
• 46:13
  with no one to do evil. Yep.
• 46:15
  And so based on what I know that I'm, I'm passionate about, what
• 46:19
  I care about, what I know that is important for humans, I'm
• 46:24
  looking at that when I'm voting. And to some degree, yeah, that
• 46:30
  executive branch does hold a lot of power because they can
• 46:35
  appoint people in Congress and they can on the, yeah, on the
• 46:39
  courts. So when we're talking about some
• 46:43
  of the new things that Congress has made and push that has
• 46:45
  allowed ICE and a lot of these new, not new, but like harsher.
• 46:51
  Yeah. Stances, right?
• 46:54
  To some degree he does have a play in that.
• 46:56
  He does, but when any any. President, and I should say that
• 46:59
  like clarify, any president has that.
• 47:02
  How I see it is like presidents can only really put a Band-Aid
• 47:06
  on immigration. They can only really do
• 47:09
  temporary fixes and. They only come in four year.
• 47:12
  Terms and Congress is the only one who can make lasting change
• 47:17
  because if they pass a laws bettering the immigration
• 47:23
  system, the only way that that can be fought is in the Supreme
• 47:28
  Court. So that's why I'm so pushy about
• 47:31
  Congress is because they have the power to better our country
• 47:36
  and they've haven't done it. It's politics.
• 47:39
  They're just playing politics and they don't give a shit about
• 47:44
  our country. That's just what it feels like
• 47:46
  from an immigration attorney standpoint because they.
• 47:50
  Money talks exactly. That's that's what it feels like
• 47:53
  we're getting to and exactly. And by that I mean not we in
• 47:57
  this conversation, but we in this country, that's the play
• 48:04
  that things start to feel that things are getting into is that
• 48:07
  the money talks. Yeah, yeah.
• 48:09
  I mean, it's just who's going to vote for me and how can I keep
• 48:12
  my job, How can I keep my seat? And I just wish that they would
• 48:17
  actually reach out to actual immigration hearings.
• 48:19
  And maybe they do. But what I'm trying to get at
• 48:22
  when I do my talks is that if Congress passes better
• 48:26
  immigration laws, our country is going to be safer.
• 48:30
  Our economy is going to be booming.
• 48:32
  We'll have more people able to apply for jobs and not get taken
• 48:35
  advantage of. We're going to have more people
• 48:37
  driving with driver's licenses. Why don't we want that?
• 48:42
  Because of politics. Because if I give this group of
• 48:46
  people this, they will they vote for me, will they not?
• 48:51
  And I'm like, why wouldn't you better the laws?
• 48:54
  Because if you're the, if you are the party who is responsible
• 48:58
  for that Republican or Democrat, they're going to vote for you in
• 49:02
  the future. So why are we but, but, but
• 49:05
  there's more to it than that. My cousin, my cousin says I'm
• 49:08
  very naive and I know I'm naive, but it's because I think about
• 49:11
  it from a very simple perspective.
• 49:14
  And Angie, my cousin, she thinks about it from a little more
• 49:18
  complex perspective. She goes, Sarah, the world
• 49:20
  doesn't work like that. And I'm like, but I'm trying to
• 49:23
  show people that it could. Yeah.
• 49:25
  You know, And so we, my cousin and I actually disagree on a lot
• 49:29
  of things, on politics. Yeah, but.
• 49:31
  But I think that's what is good. Like, you have to almost
• 49:33
  surround yourself. Well, people who are willing to
• 49:35
  both hear you out, right? I think like, you could easily
• 49:38
  get in a conversation with someone who has a differing
• 49:40
  opinion from you. And it's not going to go well,
• 49:42
  Yeah. But like, if you're willing to
• 49:46
  hear each other out, that's where the conversation is Good.
• 49:49
  Yeah, me and my cousin and I get in fights all the time.
• 49:51
  It's so funny. Like sister, we're like sisters
• 49:53
  fighting. And I'll be in my office and I
• 49:55
  go, God damn it, Angie, listen to what I'm saying.
• 49:57
  She goes, you're not listening to me.
• 49:59
  And then we'll finish the conversation.
• 50:00
  I'll say okay, I love you, cousin.
• 50:02
  Bye. Yeah.
• 50:03
  Yeah, it is definitely a yeah. It's those family relationships
• 50:06
  where it's like, you don't really ever apologize.
• 50:08
  Like my sister tells me this. My older sister tells me this
• 50:11
  all the time. She's like, remember in Mexico
• 50:13
  when you made me so mad and you were so mad at me, and then you
• 50:16
  only gave me a little piece of your coffee?
• 50:20
  And then you're like friends the next.
• 50:22
  Yeah, I don't like it's so. Funny, yeah.
• 50:24
  Anyway, I got off topic, sorry but.
• 50:26
  No, no, I think when we go back to Congress, because really that
• 50:30
  is who can make these lasting changes.
• 50:32
  Our, our presidents are only serving four year terms.
• 50:34
  Congress is serving a lot of fucking years.
• 50:36
  Exactly. Just I think like maybe we'll
• 50:41
  talk a little bit about this and then go into lightning because
• 50:44
  Dusty hasn't messaged me anything yet.
• 50:49
  But I wanted to just touch on this like, you know, the last
• 50:53
  time that there we saw an immigration change really that
• 50:56
  was substantial was in the 80s or 90s.
• 51:02
  OK, 90s. There's a thing called I Iraq,
• 51:06
  Iraq. It's like a shit ton of acronyms
• 51:09
  and it's really annoying and I don't like talking about it.
• 51:11
  But the 90s and then the most recent recent one was was
• 51:16
  September 11th was 2001 when they created DHS.
• 51:20
  But yeah, Congress, the last action that they took was 90s.
• 51:24
  Now recently and what I said at one of my I went to an event and
• 51:29
  it was all Democrats and I went home and my husband is a
• 51:33
  libertarian. Yeah.
• 51:34
  So I went home and I said I'm exhausted.
• 51:37
  And he goes why? And I was like, I just spoke to
• 51:40
  a room full of angry Democrats. How the fuck do you think I'm
• 51:42
  feeling? Because I was exhausting.
• 51:45
  They're angry, and I get it, you know?
• 51:46
  And so I was explaining immigration to them, and they
• 51:48
  were just even more angry afterwards.
• 51:50
  And I was like, I know it's a hot topic.
• 51:51
  I know it's a hot topic. But I was, I don't even know
• 51:56
  where I was. Oh, I was explaining to them
• 51:57
  that Republicans made it look so easy when they passed the Lake
• 52:02
  and Riley Act recently. Do you remember that Lake and
• 52:04
  Riley case? The the young she's a she was a
• 52:07
  young runner and she was running on a path and someone from
• 52:11
  another country who was here unlawfully, who had AI believe
• 52:15
  he had a criminal history. I'm not can't remember too much.
• 52:17
  I don't remember. And he he murdered her and, and
• 52:21
  it was fucking terrible at like you said, as a woman listening
• 52:26
  to her 911 call, it was sickening.
• 52:30
  And they passed the lake and Riley act like that.
• 52:36
  And my thing to Republicans is if you really want to make
• 52:40
  America great again, this is your opportunity to cater to
• 52:46
  immigrants, cater to people who want to live in the United
• 52:49
  States the rest of your life, who want to become U.S.
• 52:52
  citizens. And they want to do it the right
• 52:55
  way. I don't know.
• 52:57
  Congress made it really easy to pass laws recently.
• 53:00
  So why don't you just do it again and maybe quit playing
• 53:04
  politics and maybe actually make our country great again?
• 53:08
  Yeah. You know.
• 53:10
  I watched one of the because I was, man, my, my algorithm has
• 53:14
  been inundated with a lot of the shit that's happening lately.
• 53:18
  I had to like, start going liking a lot of like, really
• 53:21
  funny things because it was getting draining because you
• 53:25
  want to be informed. But at some point, man, is it
• 53:27
  draining? Yeah, but there I watched one of
• 53:31
  President Trump's addresses to the House.
• 53:34
  Oh, OK. Because like, I hadn't because
• 53:37
  I'm like, I can't wait. Trump's on your algorithm.
• 53:42
  I mean, I try to like, keep it. I I try to keep, I try to keep
• 53:46
  it. I want to hear both.
• 53:48
  Yeah. No, that's great.
• 53:48
  I try to. Keep both.
• 53:49
  I try to keep both because then I don't know what the fuck.
• 53:53
  Right. You don't want to be blind to
• 53:55
  the whole nother part of the world and a whole nother part of
• 53:57
  people's beliefs. Yeah.
• 53:59
  So what was he saying? So no, what was pissing me off,
• 54:02
  what was pissing me off is like like he's he's addressing the
• 54:06
  house and he's being tromped like as in like talking shit,
• 54:10
  yes. And then also yeah, and he's
• 54:12
  also like give me my flowers type of thing.
• 54:15
  You know, he's pretty ego boosting.
• 54:17
  But man, it was pissing me off how the Democrats were just like
• 54:23
  trying to ignore him or like there were several of them who
• 54:26
  were like putting up the newspaper and it was like, y'all
• 54:30
  are in power. You have more rights, you have a
• 54:34
  bigger voice, you have stance. Leave that for people who cannot
• 54:39
  do anything. Yeah, it's pretty embarrassing.
• 54:42
  That was what really pissed me off because it was just like
• 54:45
  y'all are playing the same ego game.
• 54:47
  Yep, like we know homie does that.
• 54:50
  Yeah. Why are you playing this ego
• 54:52
  game? It's obvious that no one's gonna
• 54:54
  agree with each other. That's just basically that's
• 54:56
  what's happening, yeah. And oh man, it was funny.
• 54:59
  I got to go to DC not too long ago.
• 55:01
  No, I was. Like I loved DC three years ago.
• 55:03
  It's beautiful. It's interesting to be there
• 55:05
  too, like because you really feel everything.
• 55:08
  But I got to go to DC and I got to like be I don't remember
• 55:12
  where the fuck I was at, but like I remember I was with I was
• 55:16
  with Jocelyn. Jocelyn went with me and we were
• 55:21
  we were there. And I was like, do you think
• 55:23
  that these people like get on Facebook and like SpongeBob
• 55:27
  memes or do you think that they're like humans and like
• 55:30
  memes? Like do you think that they do
• 55:33
  that those are the stuff that goes to go?
• 55:36
  From the thought that you had in Europe to the thought that you
• 55:40
  had in DC, that is a very wide spectrum, my dear.
• 55:45
  Because listen, my my first thing is like, I think we need
• 55:48
  to humanize our people. We're not.
• 55:50
  We're trying to dehumanize ourselves so much.
• 55:53
  In every aspect. In every aspect, we're trying to
• 55:57
  cancel each other, we're trying to belittle each other, we're
• 55:59
  trying to hurt each other. And it's like, yeah, shit's not
• 56:03
  that deep. Yeah, like it's not.
• 56:06
  Shit's not that personal. We're all mirrors.
• 56:11
  We're all just living life. Yeah.
• 56:14
  Trying our best. And so, and, you know, those are
• 56:18
  always my thoughts. I'm like, do you think that
• 56:20
  Trump also like SpongeBob memes? Absolutely God.
• 56:26
  Do you think, you know, he probably hates all the South
• 56:28
  Park stuff because he gets on people's podcasts.
• 56:30
  That's and what a funny world we're living in 2025 and we can
• 56:34
  have the president on a podcast like that's funny.
• 56:36
  It's pretty fucking awesome. Yeah, like that, that that's
• 56:39
  pretty cool. Yeah.
• 56:40
  Like like, let's not overlook that part, you know, like cuz.
• 56:44
  I think Obama tried to do the same thing.
• 56:46
  He tried to be very relatable with the public.
• 56:49
  He tried to be out there as much as possible.
• 56:51
  I don't think he had the resources that President Trump
• 56:54
  has now, but President Obama was, I feel like, tried.
• 56:58
  And he tried to do that with like, Sting, Barack Obama and
• 57:06
  Sting. What the hell is Sting?
• 57:07
  Yeah, what sting? The Rock'n'roll secret guy.
• 57:11
  Oh yes. Yes, yes.
• 57:14
  Did you see a look on my face? And what the hell is sting?
• 57:17
  Is that an operation? A sting operation?
• 57:20
  Like what? It's very ADHD here, precious.
• 57:23
  I don't got it, it's hilarious. I've been testing.
• 57:24
  Let me let me look that up. Hold on, man.
• 57:27
  No, I think I Sting is a band. It's a rock'n'roll band.
• 57:29
  I've heard it. Yeah.
• 57:31
  Now that you said band, yeah. I don't know.
• 57:33
  It's 1. Guy, I don't know shit.
• 57:35
  Sting OK, Yeah, this is the generation that you're talking
• 57:40
  to right now. I'm a millennial.
• 57:42
  What are you? You're a millennial, right?
• 57:44
  I'm barely at the cut off. I'm 30.
• 57:46
  OK, I'm 30. I'm barely.
• 57:47
  I'm barely at the cut off. Yeah, 'cause I'm 95.
• 57:49
  You're talking to millennials. We don't know, Sting.
• 57:52
  He's a millennial, too. How old are you?
• 57:55
  3839. You're 39?
• 57:57
  I thought you were 37. 19 Damn, that's like that Kevin Hart,
• 58:02
  that Kevin Hart gift. Damn, sorry.
• 58:06
  Wait, you are. You're still a millennial
• 58:07
  though, aren't you? Yeah, yeah.
• 58:10
  Elder Millennial. You're more at the.
• 58:11
  Top and we're at the bottom. I think you're still in the
• 58:15
  middle. You're I think you're still, I
• 58:16
  mean, even the two year difference does make a
• 58:18
  difference. 93, Yeah, yeah. OK, I got it wrong.
• 58:21
  He did it with Bruce Springsteen.
• 58:23
  It was an S OK and a thing. But I I guess to your point,
• 58:28
  though, that's and there, yeah, I, I, I I think, I think to your
• 58:34
  point, though, you're right. Like he, I don't know what
• 58:39
  fucking time we're at. I don't know if to keep going
• 58:40
  because Dusty's not sending me shit y'all.
• 58:42
  Dude, we can keep talking. I'm totally.
• 58:44
  Fine. Oh, we're at 50.
• 58:46
  We're definitely hold on the. Human, I can't wait to ask you
• 58:48
  guys questions. I know I want you to.
• 58:51
  I want you to. That's.
• 58:51
  Why? I'm trying to think if there was
• 58:52
  anything else that I wanted to make sure like I said.
• 58:55
  Me too, that's why I'm over here looking at my notes like what do
• 58:57
  I want her to make sure that like I didn't skip their.
• 59:00
  Stuff. I think.
• 59:00
  I made my point on how I think things should be, I think.
• 59:04
  Oh, actually, yeah, this is perfect.
• 59:08
  No, hold on. I'm going to save that for like,
• 59:10
  what do you think that? This for everyone's information.
• 59:14
  They do not do that podcast anymore because it sucked.
• 59:17
  Really. What podcast was it?
• 59:19
  I don't even know what podcast it was.
• 59:22
  It says here it's called Renegades.
• 59:27
  Isn't that a born in the USA? Oh man, sounds boring.
• 59:33
  With Bruce Springsteen. Here's to you and and LA Island
• 59:38
  are much more interesting. We are.
• 59:41
  We are. You're right.
• 59:42
  You don't even have to keep this in the podcast, but what do you
• 59:44
  think about my podcast name, La Island?
• 59:46
  LA Island. I liked it like it's a play on
• 59:48
  words. Do we not?
• 59:49
  Do we get it? Love Island, LA?
• 59:51
  Island. OK, Yeah, I liked it.
• 59:52
  It's very schematic. My, that's what I'm saying.
• 59:54
  My staff was like, no what? And I was like, I think it's
• 59:59
  cool. I like it.
• 1:00:01
  I mean, I think I think you need a if you want to continue to
• 1:00:04
  play on this theme, though, I think that you should be mixing
• 1:00:08
  in some of the sounds from Law, from Love Island or some of the
• 1:00:12
  commentary so that people are like, oh, you know, I want.
• 1:00:16
  To see OK. Well.
• 1:00:19
  So like the whole mamacita thing maybe OK.
• 1:00:22
  Maybe. But what I'm trying to say by
• 1:00:23
  that is like, I'm not saying copy them, but I am saying like
• 1:00:27
  you're you're playing on that word play into it because it is
• 1:00:31
  really out there and you're talking about something that
• 1:00:33
  people don't want to talk about, OK.
• 1:00:35
  I got it. You know what I mean, you guys.
• 1:00:38
  You guys do make it very relatable though.
• 1:00:40
  OK, good. Yeah, No, I, I want all the
• 1:00:42
  advice because I, I tell people I'm very tunnel vision and I
• 1:00:48
  even tell my staff, I say see something, say something like
• 1:00:52
  like if something's bothering you, tell me because I probably
• 1:00:54
  have no idea that it's bothering you.
• 1:00:57
  I told my husband that I tell everybody that like you have to
• 1:00:59
  assume that I am not seeing what you're seeing.
• 1:01:03
  That's. You know.
• 1:01:05
  Why is that such a hard thing to believe?
• 1:01:06
  Because I've been saying that to so many people, like especially
• 1:01:09
  even in dating, I'm like, sorry y'all?
• 1:01:10
  Like I get tunnel vision. I focus on an issue, I focus on
• 1:01:14
  a thing, I focus on a goal, and I'm going there.
• 1:01:17
  For me, I'm like, I'm in la, la land.
• 1:01:19
  Like I'm having a great time, happiest I've ever been.
• 1:01:22
  And like there's something bothering my husband and and he
• 1:01:25
  won't tell me. And he let it.
• 1:01:26
  He lets it simmer. Yeah, simmer.
• 1:01:29
  And he's like, Sarah, this has really been bothering me.
• 1:01:32
  I'm like, really? I didn't even.
• 1:01:33
  I didn't even know that it was a thing.
• 1:01:35
  You know what I mean? Like, you have got to tell me
• 1:01:37
  because I'm just in my own little world, just enjoying life
• 1:01:40
  and just doing things. And I don't know that an issue
• 1:01:42
  is an issue until you tell me, you know?
• 1:01:45
  Yeah. So.
• 1:01:45
  But I mean, I think, I think that goes back to people use
• 1:01:49
  your words. God communicate Jesus Christ.
• 1:01:52
  Yeah, we're way too fucking old to teach you that.
• 1:01:54
  Way too fucking old. What else?
• 1:01:56
  What else? Before I test you guys, Yeah, I
• 1:01:58
  do. Want, I do want you to test us.
• 1:01:59
  I would say that, and I guess we could go into lightning round
• 1:02:04
  for this test because I'm going to ask this in a lightning round
• 1:02:07
  type of way. So let's switch over to
• 1:02:10
  lightning round because instead of her quiz asking, So lightning
• 1:02:15
  round is where we're going to just like tell you a bunch of
• 1:02:18
  questions and we just want you to be able to like ask them off
• 1:02:21
  the cuff. And I'm making up all these
• 1:02:23
  questions in my head. By the way, I didn't put them in
• 1:02:25
  the the script just for your knowledge because some because
• 1:02:30
  sometimes they go back and forth on it.
• 1:02:31
  I like you and I like we're like burping.
• 1:02:33
  Like do you have you been burping?
• 1:02:35
  Because I'm and I'm like. Why are you saying that to
• 1:02:39
  people? I don't know, it's just.
• 1:02:40
  We're relatable. Fair.
• 1:02:42
  OK. Are you going to play the sound?
• 1:02:46
  You can't find it. Having connection issues.
• 1:02:48
  God damn it'll happen in the middle of the lightning round.
• 1:02:50
  It is. It's going to happen in the
• 1:02:52
  middle. Just pretend you heard Thunder
• 1:02:55
  because lightning doesn't make a sound.
• 1:02:56
  Did you know that? It cracks.
• 1:02:59
  It doesn't. It doesn't make a sound that's
• 1:03:01
  Thunder. It's Thunder 1st and then you
• 1:03:03
  see the lightning. Lightning is just the visual.
• 1:03:06
  Wow, interesting. Yeah, I didn't know that, Dusty
• 1:03:08
  told me. Lightning makes a sound when it
• 1:03:10
  hits something. There it.
• 1:03:12
  Is I got connection back? OK.
• 1:03:17
  So for us to make some, what would you from your perspective,
• 1:03:22
  what would it be for us to make some significant change in
• 1:03:27
  immigration reform? Like what is something that we
• 1:03:29
  we should do? Simply doing the episode today,
• 1:03:33
  educating, educating, educating, educating and following the
• 1:03:38
  Kansas Immigration Coalition on social media, visiting our
• 1:03:41
  website. We are, we are nonpartisan, but
• 1:03:47
  we are pretty vocal on our opinions.
• 1:03:49
  So the Kansas Immigration Coalition was was created
• 1:03:55
  literally the week it was like maybe days after President Trump
• 1:04:00
  was actually elected. And we all gathered in like a
• 1:04:04
  war room. It was really cool.
• 1:04:07
  That sounds exciting. It was really.
• 1:04:08
  How do I get in on that? Can I?
• 1:04:10
  Can I get in? Yeah.
• 1:04:10
  A local it was. It was a local representative.
• 1:04:13
  She called the meeting. She called the meeting and I was
• 1:04:15
  invited and like a bunch of that sounds.
• 1:04:18
  Like a really exciting thing. Did you guys drink each other's
• 1:04:20
  blood? No, I wish we would have though.
• 1:04:23
  But we we all gathered it was an evening and we were like we all
• 1:04:27
  just looked at each other and we were like what are we going to
• 1:04:29
  do? And my thing, again, being
• 1:04:33
  nonpartisan, has always been resources, education, resources.
• 1:04:38
  Sometimes what happens in the immigration world is inevitable.
• 1:04:42
  Sometimes we can't do anything about it.
• 1:04:43
  But it's how you're prepared, and it's how you deal with what
• 1:04:46
  happens that makes the biggest difference.
• 1:04:48
  So the Kansas Immigration Coalition was created that night
• 1:04:53
  with all of us in the room, and we created the website.
• 1:04:56
  We created, I mean, everything. And oh, that's cool.
• 1:04:59
  So we. Yeah.
• 1:05:02
  It was badass. It was actually really cool.
• 1:05:03
  Really. Badass.
• 1:05:04
  Just like, let's do it. I'm right here.
• 1:05:06
  Yeah, it was really cool. And it's a bunch of prominent
• 1:05:08
  people in Wichita, all Latina, Latino leaders, and we all got
• 1:05:13
  together and we created it. And we provide resources to
• 1:05:15
  families who are struggling and we provide preparation and know
• 1:05:19
  your rights resources. What's that at again?
• 1:05:22
  It's just at Kansas Immigration Coalition.
• 1:05:24
  OK, Yeah. And what are your thoughts on
• 1:05:29
  like people like being able to spot ice in an.
• 1:05:33
  Area we have people who are trained on how to spot ICE, so
• 1:05:39
  people in the Kansas Immigration Coalition, if they see
• 1:05:42
  something, they know the etiquette that you have to have
• 1:05:46
  and when you're recording. And we never want to have people
• 1:05:50
  put in a dangerous situation. So if ICE or police say put the
• 1:05:53
  phone down, you put the phone down.
• 1:05:56
  There's a there's an element to cooperation and civil
• 1:05:59
  disobedience that we are constantly pushing against.
• 1:06:04
  So we just, we, we first thing is safety and then second thing
• 1:06:10
  is getting what's happening on camera.
• 1:06:13
  Yeah. OK, do you want to quiz us?
• 1:06:17
  I'm ready. I'm ready to quiz us.
• 1:06:18
  Quiz. OK, so this is actually really
• 1:06:20
  important. So the civics exam is a
• 1:06:23
  requirement for certain people who are applying for
• 1:06:26
  citizenship, and the process is called naturalization.
• 1:06:30
  And the test recently changed harder questions.
• 1:06:35
  Yes, the first, the first Trump administration tried to change
• 1:06:39
  the test and then it fell through.
• 1:06:42
  So the second time around, he was able to get it pushed
• 1:06:45
  through. And so now instead of 100
• 1:06:49
  questions, it's 128 civics questions.
• 1:06:52
  We're not going to do them all today, obviously, but it, they,
• 1:06:55
  it does make the test harder. And so the goal, I don't know
• 1:06:59
  what the goal was of adding more questions.
• 1:07:02
  Was it to deter people from applying?
• 1:07:04
  Was it to, you know, weed out certain people?
• 1:07:07
  I don't know. And I, you know, it's just I, I
• 1:07:10
  think my clients do a great job of studying.
• 1:07:13
  That's the, my favorite part of my job is preparing people for
• 1:07:16
  their naturalization interviews. And I do all the questions with
• 1:07:18
  them. Make sure that you follow Sarah
• 1:07:20
  on TikTok because she also is posting a lot of this stuff.
• 1:07:24
  Follow her. We'll get into that.
• 1:07:25
  Sorry, go ahead. That's my last question.
• 1:07:27
  OK. So are we going to do like like
• 1:07:29
  you have to like Buzz? In oh, do you want to?
• 1:07:32
  Do you have a buzz? Do you got a buzz sound?
• 1:07:35
  Kinda. Or is it going to be a
• 1:07:37
  competition between you 2? Or am I going to ask each of you
• 1:07:39
  a question because I'm more about competition?
• 1:07:42
  Yeah, we can switch off and then keep track, OK of who's.
• 1:07:46
  Let's do it as a competition. Yeah, whoever's.
• 1:07:48
  Because we did that at the office.
• 1:07:50
  We did that at the office. And I was like and I was like,
• 1:07:53
  this is the answer. OK, OK.
• 1:07:55
  OK. OK.
• 1:07:55
  OK. OK.
• 1:07:56
  I'm ready. I'm ready.
• 1:07:56
  I'm ready. I'm ready.
• 1:07:57
  Are you cheating? Are you cheating and?
• 1:07:59
  No, no, I'm getting a sound ready.
• 1:08:03
  OK, so you have to push your sound.
• 1:08:05
  Who won a sound? I have to push my sound.
• 1:08:06
  Or like, well, yeah, if you know the answer, you have to go.
• 1:08:08
  How to push my no hold on buzz sound?
• 1:08:12
  Do you need the login for the sound board?
• 1:08:14
  Yeah, maybe Buzz sound effect. Hold on, hold on.
• 1:08:18
  Hold on. So if you know, if you know the
• 1:08:19
  answer, you have to go. You have to buzz in.
• 1:08:22
  OK, OK. If not, I'll.
• 1:08:23
  Because it's a competition, I'll just.
• 1:08:24
  I'll just say it out loud. I'll say it out.
• 1:08:26
  Loud. OK, say it out loud.
• 1:08:27
  Oh, I think I found one. This is so fun.
• 1:08:30
  OK, OK, Is already ready. Yeah, OK.
• 1:08:35
  Are you ready? Yeah.
• 1:08:37
  OK. All right.
• 1:08:38
  Here's your first question. What is the purpose of the 10th
• 1:08:44
  Amendment? This is one of the new questions
• 1:08:49
  on the test. 10th Amendment. Not even the second one, the one
• 1:08:54
  that I ever was talking. About why would they?
• 1:08:57
  Choose the fire. I don't know.
• 1:08:58
  OK, hold on. Nobody knows this question, OK.
• 1:09:01
  Is the 10th about? Is it there?
• 1:09:03
  No. That's the 10 commandments, no?
• 1:09:11
  I was about to say I was. I was about to.
• 1:09:13
  I was about to say, I was about to say you cannot fucking
• 1:09:16
  another person's wife because that's one of the 10
• 1:09:20
  commandments. It is.
• 1:09:22
  Did you know that? It is?
• 1:09:23
  Oh. My God, that.
• 1:09:24
  Was fucking hilarious, yeah. It is.
• 1:09:27
  It makes sense. Wait, So wait, what?
• 1:09:30
  Is the purpose of the 10th Amendment.
• 1:09:32
  Yeah, so neither one of. Us.
• 1:09:34
  OK, the answer is it states that the powers not given to the
• 1:09:38
  federal government belong to the states or the people.
• 1:09:41
  What's the 10th commandment? The power is not.
• 1:09:43
  I don't know what the 10th commandment is, it's been a
• 1:09:46
  while. OK, so we've got damn what it?
• 1:09:49
  Is the power is not given. Power is not given to the
• 1:09:52
  federal government. Belong to.
• 1:09:54
  The states Belong to. The state You shall not convert
• 1:09:56
  your neighbor's house. You shall not convert your
• 1:09:58
  neighbor's wife. I fucking told you guys you
• 1:10:00
  can't, man, man, I told you guys you cannot go and fuck somebody
• 1:10:04
  else's wife. I told you that you shall not
• 1:10:06
  convert your neighbour's wife. You still would have got it
• 1:10:08
  wrong on the civics exam. I was still.
• 1:10:10
  Wrong on the civics exam, but I knew it.
• 1:10:12
  I knew it had to do with not fucking the other person's wife.
• 1:10:15
  And that's how you know that males made the Constitution,
• 1:10:18
  because they just care about that.
• 1:10:22
  Go ahead. OK, OK, OK, here's an easy one.
• 1:10:32
  An easy one. You're going to get it.
• 1:10:35
  OK, what is the supreme law of the land?
• 1:10:43
  That like wait you. Have to go OK.
• 1:10:46
  I got it. I got it for you.
• 1:10:50
  Cuddle back. Your butts out.
• 1:10:51
  OK, what is the supreme law of the land?
• 1:10:55
  That, like everybody has, can be free, and without impending on
• 1:11:01
  impinging on anyone else's freedom.
• 1:11:04
  Wrong. It's a document.
• 1:11:07
  What is the supreme law of the land?
• 1:11:09
  What document? What document is the supreme law
• 1:11:11
  of the land? Is it?
• 1:11:14
  Is it? Is it the Bill of Rights?
• 1:11:17
  Wrong. See, I can do my own buzzing.
• 1:11:19
  I like, I like. I don't have a sound board like
• 1:11:21
  you guys do. The Constitution, yeah.
• 1:11:26
  Good job. OK, OK, good.
• 1:11:28
  OK. You both have still have 0
• 1:11:30
  points. Yeah, OK.
• 1:11:32
  This is hard. OK, next, how many US senators
• 1:11:35
  are there? OK, OK.
• 1:11:39
  I think you did it first. Who has the farting one?
• 1:11:42
  Me, Dusty. Oh OK, yeah, farting was first.
• 1:11:45
  How many US senators are there? 50 wrong. 52.
• 1:11:50
  Wrong. The hell is my other Yes.
• 1:11:51
  Senators is more it's not it's because they can have like up to
• 1:11:55
  2 or 4, right? How many US senators are there
• 1:11:58
  total? 46 I'm gonna.
• 1:12:01
  Look it up. I could just tell you.
• 1:12:04
  OK, Yeah. What is?
• 1:12:05
  It 100. What?
• 1:12:07
  What I I thought, oh, OK. OK, that.
• 1:12:11
  Would've been my fifth guess. That was it.
• 1:12:15
  It would have been your fifth guess.
• 1:12:16
  It's this multiple choice. You would have OK.
• 1:12:18
  Pick C whenever you want. It's vocal, right?
• 1:12:21
  Is it vocal or how is it's a? It's verbally.
• 1:12:23
  It's a. It's a.
• 1:12:24
  Yeah, I remember I. Remember reading about that.
• 1:12:27
  That's hilarious. OK, OK, OK, OK.
• 1:12:31
  I learned none of this in college.
• 1:12:33
  I know, right? And even if you did learn it,
• 1:12:35
  even if you did learn, it's not in college.
• 1:12:36
  It'd be like 6th grade because we're talking about American
• 1:12:39
  history. OK, here's an easy one.
• 1:12:41
  OK, who lived? None of.
• 1:12:43
  These were easy. Who lived in America before the
• 1:12:46
  Europeans arrived? You clicked it first.
• 1:12:51
  Go ahead. The Native American.
• 1:12:52
  Correct. Good job.
• 1:12:54
  Good job. OK.
• 1:13:01
  The Federalist Papers supported the passage of the US
• 1:13:04
  Constitution. Name one of the writers.
• 1:13:08
  The Federalist soldiers. The.
• 1:13:11
  Papers top fellas. The Federalist Papers papers
• 1:13:16
  supported the passage of the US Constitution.
• 1:13:19
  Named one of the writers. Wait, you said you said, you
• 1:13:32
  said writers. Name one of the writers.
• 1:13:35
  And I was thinking. I was thinking, I was thinking
• 1:13:42
  you're riders. You're thinking like riders like
• 1:13:46
  Ride or die. We're writers as in an author.
• 1:13:51
  Yeah, at first I was thinking riders like who rode in on the
• 1:13:54
  horse. You're stupid.
• 1:13:57
  Fuck you guys would be fucked on this test and.
• 1:14:02
  Then I realized you said riders like, wrote it down.
• 1:14:04
  Like who wrote? This John Smith.
• 1:14:06
  No. Wow.
• 1:14:07
  Because I was about to say Paul Revere, that's why he was
• 1:14:12
  writing No. He's the one writing, not
• 1:14:14
  writing. Guys, this is a famous play.
• 1:14:20
  Is it Shakespeare? Meal The Odyssey No a famous a
• 1:14:28
  famous play A famous recent play about a a revolutionary
• 1:14:34
  character in American history brought to Washington.
• 1:14:38
  I The old meal, Adam Smith. The Wizard.
• 1:14:43
  Hamilton. Were you going to say the Wizard
• 1:14:45
  of Oz? Yeah.
• 1:14:46
  Oh my. Goodness, the the the one with
• 1:14:49
  the girl, the the one with like it's Ariana Grande and.
• 1:14:56
  Glenda AA Bone Glenda. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:14:58
  That's gonna be it's yeah, it's good.
• 1:15:01
  It's a play. Wow, it's a famous play.
• 1:15:02
  It is a famous play, but it has nothing to do with American
• 1:15:05
  history. It's because you said famous
• 1:15:06
  play. Don't be asking me questions
• 1:15:09
  like that, Papers Alexander. Hamilton.
• 1:15:11
  Hello, famous play. Yeah, famous.
• 1:15:14
  I guess I could have said famous musical.
• 1:15:16
  That's a. That's a famous play.
• 1:15:19
  You haven't seen Hamilton, I see.
• 1:15:21
  No, I have not. I thought that was a.
• 1:15:23
  Different. Beautiful, I thought that was.
• 1:15:24
  A different Hamilton. Oh my God, that's that's.
• 1:15:26
  What I that's what? I thought too.
• 1:15:27
  I thought, I thought like maybe Shakespeare or.
• 1:15:29
  Something I didn't think we were talking American people.
• 1:15:31
  Hamilton is a Great American musical.
• 1:15:34
  I didn't even know that was. American.
• 1:15:36
  Oh my God, I thought that all great plays are.
• 1:15:38
  Not American. I'm sorry.
• 1:15:40
  Oh my God. Sorry.
• 1:15:41
  I'm dying. I'm dying inside.
• 1:15:45
  I've never. Thought in my head, 'cause when
• 1:15:47
  I hear famous plays, when I hear.
• 1:15:48
  Hamilton. I'm thinking castles.
• 1:15:50
  Yes. Same same.
• 1:15:52
  I've never once in my head thought.
• 1:15:55
  A famous play that is great equals American.
• 1:15:58
  I've never thought that one time I'm dying inside so Wicked
• 1:16:01
  wasn't. I mean Wicked was cool but like.
• 1:16:03
  I mean, we're, we're talking about like great.
• 1:16:05
  Great musicals. Yeah, right.
• 1:16:07
  I mean like we're talking about like.
• 1:16:09
  I mean, I'm all about Shakespeare.
• 1:16:10
  I was an English. Major So I've performed
• 1:16:12
  Shakespeare. Before right.
• 1:16:15
  OK. Oh my God.
• 1:16:17
  When did? The Great Depression start.
• 1:16:20
  Oh where's my son going? No hold on 19/20/19. 20 Oh fuck
• 1:16:28
  what? Hold on. 1920 Great Gatsby It's
• 1:16:31
  really bad, I know it 25 Wrong 29.
• 1:16:36
  Yes. 1929. Very, very good.
• 1:16:38
  OK, I was trying to. Think of Great Gatsby.
• 1:16:40
  I was trying to remember when that was OK.
• 1:16:46
  I'm so glad I was a citizen because my dad.
• 1:16:49
  Worked for this. My dad did this, he did this
• 1:16:52
  and. Then you became a citizen
• 1:16:53
  because. He was said, oh that's awesome.
• 1:16:54
  So if my dad did not do this. Work.
• 1:16:56
  I would you know there's a. Lot of people walking around the
• 1:16:59
  US who are actually US. Citizens and they don't even
• 1:17:01
  know it. Wow.
• 1:17:02
  And they've been treated as if they are not.
• 1:17:05
  They've been treated as if they are here unlawfully.
• 1:17:08
  I know somebody who was who who was has been living her life as
• 1:17:11
  an unlawful person. I think she may have had DACA
• 1:17:13
  maybe at one point, but she was AUS citizen.
• 1:17:17
  She just didn't know it. I mean I've been treated like
• 1:17:20
  I'm not AUS citizen but I know I asked.
• 1:17:22
  US citizenship, but I've been treated that way.
• 1:17:25
  OK, OK. OK OK, OK trying.
• 1:17:33
  Oh this is a hard 1 and I didn't know this one either.
• 1:17:36
  The nation's first motto was was EI already know?
• 1:17:41
  Was E pluribus. Unum.
• 1:17:44
  What does that mean? We the people I don't know not
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  it's not we the people I know it's on the.
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  That used to be on money. I think it still is.
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  Maybe. E pluribus Unum.
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  What does it mean? It's.
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  Like on a coin or something. The public.
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  'S United close it's. It's we all become one so.
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  You know, we all become one or out of many one.
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  That's fucking stupid. I, I said when we did this with
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  our office, we. I said.
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  All for one and one for all. And I was like Oh no, that's
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  pretty. I said 3 Musketeers.
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  My bad. That's pretty spot on.
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  OK, how many more do you want to do?
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  One more, One more. OK, how many have we?
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  Done like 10, maybe already less than.
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  Maybe I don't know I. Don't know, this is all a blur.
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  At this point. I think it's less than 10.
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  OK, OK. Let's go to 10, OK?
• 1:18:36
  Well, how many have we done? OK, let's do. 4.
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  Four more. Yeah, Yeah.
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  OK. All right.
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  Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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  Yes. Mine's slow.
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  Yours is really slow. Benjamin Franklin.
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  John Smith. John Smith is in Pocahontas.
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  I wanted to let you know that earlier when you mentioned John
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  Smith, Theodore Roosevelt. Nope, that's way later in life.
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  Thomas Edison. Jefferson, Thomas.
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  Jefferson, Thomas. Jefferson, good job.
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  That's. Correct.
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  And it sent it to the light bulb.
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  OK. Are you ready?
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  Yeah, two more. That was 10.
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  That's three more. Three more.
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  There were 13 original states named 5.
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  Delaware, OK. New York.
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  Vermont, West Virginia Vermont is not one of them 13.
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  Original states name 5. So you said New York, Delaware,
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  Rhode Island, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, One
• 1:19:54
  more, Maine, all those. And Virginia?
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  Love it. Yes, all of those.
• 1:20:05
  What's? The last one, Virginia.
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  Virginia. Yeah, I knew it was Virginia.
• 1:20:09
  You said West, but West is. West was not soon as W came.
• 1:20:13
  Out of my mouth, Virginia. Doesn't matter.
• 1:20:15
  Yeah, well, just. Virginia.
• 1:20:16
  It should have just been Virginia.
• 1:20:17
  Yeah, yeah. I knew you fucked up.
• 1:20:19
  When you said? That and then you didn't repeat
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  it and. I was like, I'm gonna let him
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  move it. I'm gonna let him lose it, damn
• 1:20:23
  all those so, he said. Delaware, Rhode Island, New
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  York, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Correct.
• 1:20:31
  See, I knew him. I knew him.
• 1:20:32
  I knew him. Good job.
• 1:20:33
  OK, that two more now. OK, I really said all those OK,
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  I'm a cheater. What are two?
• 1:20:41
  Examples. Of civic participation in the
• 1:20:44
  United States poker uppercut. I'm sorry, what did you say?
• 1:20:55
  Protesting. Hell no, that's not going to.
• 1:20:57
  Be on there, you know for a fact that's probably.
• 1:20:59
  Not on this. One, let's see, does it gets to
• 1:21:04
  go protesting? Definitely is not.
• 1:21:06
  On this list voting. Voting and she said that safer
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  answer it's the. Second one, volunteering.
• 1:21:15
  Can you be more specific please? For a non profit organization.
• 1:21:25
  If that can be wrong. Feeding the Homeland I.
• 1:21:30
  Don't know I. Don't have anything what?
• 1:21:31
  Is it, I don't know what else can you do to to to participate
• 1:21:36
  in in? Civic participation, Your civic
• 1:21:39
  duty. OK, you guys voting?
• 1:21:40
  Going to jury duty. Jury duty?
• 1:21:43
  That's a good one. But that, but that.
• 1:21:46
  Is it is, But it's only for U.S. citizens so you can still
• 1:21:49
  participate. In civic engagement, that's
• 1:21:54
  true, no? Citizens can only citizens.
• 1:21:56
  Can vote on a jury. It can be on a jury.
• 1:22:00
  Oh wait, can who? Who can vote citizens?
• 1:22:05
  Only citizens can vote, and only citizens.
• 1:22:07
  Can be on a jury, so see. Then you're just you just.
• 1:22:10
  Said that doesn't make sense. What are two?
• 1:22:12
  Examples of civic participation in the US.
• 1:22:14
  Regardless if you're AUS citizen or not.
• 1:22:17
  So how can you vote if you're not a citizen?
• 1:22:19
  Yeah. Oh, you're right.
• 1:22:20
  OK, Yeah. But it's on.
• 1:22:22
  But it's on. What did you say?
• 1:22:23
  What did? You say, what did you say just
• 1:22:25
  now? Jury duty.
• 1:22:26
  Jury duty, Yeah, but you and then it's not on here.
• 1:22:29
  Yeah. But voting?
• 1:22:30
  Shouldn't be on there? Either, but voting shouldn't.
• 1:22:32
  Be on here either we found a flaw.
• 1:22:36
  Oh my God, send us a check. OK, we found a flaw, right?
• 1:22:41
  Now we're trying to. Pay for some more things.
• 1:22:43
  So. At least 2. 1000, Yeah.
• 1:22:47
  Oh my God, that's hilarious. Yeah, you just threw out the
• 1:22:49
  stimulus. The.
• 1:22:50
  Tariff stimulus, so I can let us get it that.
• 1:22:52
  Is so funny. Give us an extra one.
• 1:22:54
  Other ones are. Other ones are run for office.
• 1:22:58
  Join a. Political party help with the.
• 1:23:00
  Campaign, join a community group, give an elected official
• 1:23:04
  your opinion on it. Fucking stupid.
• 1:23:07
  But they didn't add it. That didn't serve on a jury.
• 1:23:09
  Which I guess you can't. Purposefully go serve on a jury
• 1:23:13
  on your own. You have to be asked to Yeah,
• 1:23:15
  OK, I think that Trump definitely added that fucking
• 1:23:18
  question cause did you hear those answers?
• 1:23:20
  That's fucking. Stupid, fucking stupid.
• 1:23:22
  OK, last but not least. Last one for every all the
• 1:23:26
  marbles. Whoever wins this wins the whole
• 1:23:28
  thing. OK?
• 1:23:30
  Make it easy, OK? I just want to make you say
• 1:23:37
  this. Who is the current president?
• 1:23:40
  Of the United States Trump, Donald Trump, Donald Trump.
• 1:23:46
  I won. Yes.
• 1:23:52
  That's hilarious. OK, that is.
• 1:23:54
  I guess I'm getting deported. He's.
• 1:23:58
  Coming for you bro, I thought. You wish you were abolish eyes?
• 1:24:03
  That's hilarious. Good thing I made connections in
• 1:24:06
  the country. That's true.
• 1:24:09
  That's true. OK.
• 1:24:10
  So, Sarah. We've now heard a little bit
• 1:24:12
  about. Both your stories, your
• 1:24:13
  passions, your interests tell us and our listeners.
• 1:24:17
  How can everyone find you and support you?
• 1:24:20
  Yes, so we are on TikTok, Facebook.
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  Instagram at balderas immigration B as in boy Ald as
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  in dog eras immigration. You can also type in Balderas
• 1:24:32
  legal group, We're on there. And yeah, that's pretty much it.
• 1:24:36
  I'm in charge of all the social media.
• 1:24:38
  So if that tells you anything. But yeah, no, we our office is
• 1:24:42
  on Douglas. We have a beautiful mural.
• 1:24:44
  So if you drive by, take a picture of the mural, it
• 1:24:46
  represents all of our clients and all of the countries that
• 1:24:49
  they've came from. So Yep, pretty cool.
• 1:24:52
  Yep. OK, Sarah Barima, let's go.
• 1:24:56
  Barbaco pal Centro Y palentro gracias.
• 1:25:04
  That was awesome. Good job, guys.
• 1:25:06
  Good job to you.