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Speaker 2: Hi, my name Van Henica Sanchez. The episode that really

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Speaker 2: shoot me and touched me the most was Suave season two,

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Speaker 2: episode five, where Swave is crashing out about his car

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Speaker 2: and just the helplessness I felt listening to that episode,

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Speaker 2: both from Swabi and Maria really really touched me. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: I think about it all the time. Thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for the show and everything that you do.

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Speaker 3: Ah, this is my eighties one moon. My favorite episode

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Speaker 3: of this full year was Coming to Colombia, Columbian America

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Speaker 3: and returns to the Motherland. I thought it was great.

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Speaker 3: I actually I am Colomian too and had a similar

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Speaker 3: story than Tasha. It was very special to hear someone

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Speaker 3: her story. Uh Andasha for an amazing story, and thank

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Speaker 3: you for everything you guys do.

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Speaker 4: By dear listener.

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Speaker 5: Always at the end of the year, I'm like, wait,

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Speaker 5: But we have finished the year. We are coming up

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Speaker 5: on the end of twenty twenty five, and what a

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Speaker 5: year it has been. It has been a challenging year

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Speaker 5: for our democracy at large, for journalism, but it's specifically

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Speaker 5: been a very challenging year if you are Latino, Latina,

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Speaker 5: LATINX or Latine in the United States of America in

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Speaker 5: terms of public media, very specifically, like the attacks have

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Speaker 5: come to fruition right, the loss of funding for public

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Speaker 4: It's real.

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Speaker 5: Futro media was born years ago. In the year twenty ten.

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Speaker 5: There were also a lot of economic challenges, political challenges,

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Speaker 5: business challenges, and that's when we launched. We have learned

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Speaker 5: that it is a bit of a roller coaster to

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Speaker 5: Mexican immigrant. But the thing is, we understand challenges and

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Speaker 5: we face them.

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Speaker 4: We don't give up.

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Speaker 5: You know, in a moment like this, we go back,

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Speaker 5: It has been a lot. So we want to share

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Speaker 4: Every week, every week we're turning a show. These are

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Speaker 5: something extraordinary in twenty twenty five, and we want to

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Speaker 5: bring you along for the ride. We obviously were documenting

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Speaker 5: the first year of a second Trump presidency, one that

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Speaker 6: While majority of Latinos voted for Kamala Harris, Trump was

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Speaker 6: even gaining support in Democratic strongholds like New York City.

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Speaker 5: And of course, at Dudo Studios, I had this dream

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Speaker 5: of doing a podcast about Suave and I never gave

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Speaker 5: up that dream, and we formed a team and they

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Speaker 5: delivered a story that, of course won us a Pulitzer Prize.

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Speaker 4: For our audience, it's important for them to know that

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Speaker 7: To win a Pulitzer and you did it out of

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Speaker 5: And in twenty twenty five we released season two of Swave.

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Speaker 8: It's been seven years since David Luis Suave Gonzalez was

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Speaker 5: A profound feat of journalism, but oh my god, really

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Speaker 5: telenovela based on fact, so important to follow the life

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Speaker 5: of somebody who spent thirty one years behind bars. We

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Speaker 5: pride ourselves in what we have done, but always looking

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Speaker 4: We're going to do an interview that is going.

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Speaker 5: To rock people's boats because we talk about things differently

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Speaker 5: at Futuro Media. And to meet the moment we made

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Speaker 5: a big splash, we decided to launch our own subscription service,

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Speaker 5: subscribing to us on a monthly basis with Futuro Plus

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Speaker 5: and all of that. To say that we're celebrating fifteen

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Speaker 5: you celebrate turning fifteen years old, it's like a sweet sixteen,

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Speaker 5: What's important to us is not every single amount, but

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Speaker 5: know what, I think, this is a year. So come

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Speaker 5: to Food Doudo Media.

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Speaker 5: So there are a lot of things that I love

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Speaker 5: So joining me to talk about things that have happened

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Speaker 4: So nice to be here with you, So happy to have.

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Speaker 9: Hi? Maria, so excited to be in conversation with you all.

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Speaker 5: So one of the things that happened this year is

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Speaker 5: This is where Fernande started her career at Futuro Media

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Speaker 5: this sounds huge, Fernanda, excellent reporting. Tell us a little

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Speaker 10: Well, first, thank you for such wonderful words, Maria. And

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Speaker 10: So after all these years, this twenty twenty five felt

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Speaker 3: This is us.

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Speaker 5: But based on the journalism, which is what we love.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for those words, somebody at It's so fun to

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Speaker 12: was born. Frinan Mente, I was at that place that

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Speaker 12: I know, I blow all alone for comso Cara that

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Speaker 12: made me Laine and made me a household name.

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Speaker 9: And so we love to have iv Queen's voice back

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Speaker 9: on Spotify with Loud and the show we're working on.

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Speaker 9: One of the shows working on for twenty twenty six

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Speaker 9: is very much similar Vibe. It's not about Reaton, but

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Speaker 9: it's very similar to the history of a very specific

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Speaker 9: Latino music genre told by somebody who also has an

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Speaker 9: unforgettable voice. So that's going to be exciting.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, start guessing it's gonna be big. There's

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Speaker 5: a lot to celebrate in terms of what's coming up

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Speaker 5: as well for twenty twenty six. Another reason why people

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Speaker 5: might be like, got to support Fortudo. We love what

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Speaker 5: they do, we love what studios does.

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Speaker 9: We are gonna have an extraordinary year next year. La

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Speaker 9: Brega season three is returning. This is our show all

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Speaker 9: about Puerto Rican identity, Puerto Rican storytelling. Talk about a

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Speaker 9: kind of show that like you're not gonna get anywhere else.

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Speaker 9: We're so excited. This season three is going to be

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Speaker 9: all about gampionis e gampionas people championing Puerto Rico in

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Speaker 9: different ways, not just in sports. So we're very excited.

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Speaker 9: It's beautiful it's beautiful, it's inspiring, it's artful.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I cannot wait.

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Speaker 10: When when does it come out?

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Speaker 1: Maria?

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Speaker 9: We'll allowance a launch date very soon. We're also going

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Speaker 9: to launch another big show that's all about big cultural

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Speaker 9: moments of the past and of the present, the kind

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Speaker 9: of like prestige, beautiful, high quality storytelling that you love

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Speaker 9: from Fududo Studios. And it's going to be a weekly show,

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Speaker 9: a weekly storytelling show. So we just have a lot

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Speaker 9: going on, and it's all thanks to the working at

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Speaker 9: such a unique place as Fududo and the listeners who

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Speaker 9: really support us and keeping us, keeping us here.

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Speaker 5: You've both talked about the uniqueness of the kind of

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Speaker 5: newsroom that we have created for those people who are like,

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Speaker 5: why exactly is Futuro so special? Why is it so

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Speaker 5: special for you?

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Speaker 10: Fernanda, if you've been listening up until this point, you

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Speaker 10: already have heard us talk about why it's so special. Right,

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Speaker 10: It's so special because we can start the year interviewing

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Speaker 10: AOC and ended with Oscar Isaac, because we can have

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Speaker 10: a story that we have a producer, Renald Loans Junior,

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Speaker 10: go to Central America and then take time working on

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Speaker 10: this narrative, investigative, deeply reported story. And then we can

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Speaker 10: also at the same time do a story in three days.

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Speaker 10: And I mean we talked about really at the center

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Speaker 10: of it is it's journalism with heart and it's rather transparency.

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Speaker 10: I think those are really two of our guiding principles here.

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Speaker 10: One of the things that I feel very grateful for

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Speaker 10: is that here there is no oh, is this a

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Speaker 10: news piece or is this a culture piece? Is this

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Speaker 10: a news show or a culture show?

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Speaker 11: Like, we don't have.

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Speaker 10: Those definitions that would limit you, and that would frankly

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Speaker 10: diminish the work that goes into everything that we put

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Speaker 10: out and the value in talking about things that are

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Speaker 10: not just news. So I think that there is balance here,

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Speaker 10: there is a shared sense of purpose.

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Speaker 5: I think at Futuro, Maria Garcia some thoughts about why

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Speaker 5: Futuro is so special.

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Speaker 9: Well, to me, Madia really comes down to this idea

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Speaker 9: of radical transparency. There is no such thing as coming

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Speaker 9: to a story as a journalist from a place of nowhere.

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Speaker 9: You come to the story with the place in the

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Speaker 9: world that you occupy and the lenses that brings you. So,

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Speaker 9: for example, with me, I come to every story as

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Speaker 9: a Mexican immigrant, first generation front risa daughter of Guarences.

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Speaker 9: That is my lens through which I see the world.

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Speaker 9: One of my lenses the first queer woman in my

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Speaker 9: family to come out. And I think there are many

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Speaker 9: journalistic institutions that would say take off those lenses because

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Speaker 9: they might make you biased and try to come at

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Speaker 9: the story as if you're just dropped into the world

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Speaker 9: with no prior experience, with no prior context, and just

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Speaker 9: look at it completely fresh, which is one impossible and

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Speaker 9: two intellectually and morally dishonest. But there's still this idea

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Speaker 9: in journalism that's somehow you're supposed to do that. And

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Speaker 9: what I love about Fuduo is that Fudua reframes that

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Speaker 9: and says, no, come with your context. Come with your lenses,

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Speaker 9: because that is expertise that we need, That is context

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Speaker 9: that we need. There can be some objectivity to your process.

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Speaker 9: There are standards to reporting, to interviewing, to fact checking,

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Speaker 9: to researching, to writing to editing that you can implement

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Speaker 9: in the process to make it sound journalistically. And so

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Speaker 9: that's what I'm proud of, is that we bring both

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Speaker 9: the radical transparency and the cultural expertise that we have

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Speaker 9: as human beings plus the super rigorous process to our

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Speaker 9: work and to me, it's like the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 5: So we are celebrating fifteen years of futuro media. When

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Speaker 5: I founded footdu Media, you know, I would like, Okay,

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Speaker 5: I'm just gonna do this. I was like, oh my god, please,

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Speaker 5: let's just make it to three years. Well we have

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Speaker 5: made it to fifteen. So we are celebrating our king Sangnetra. Yes,

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Speaker 5: there there will be celebrations.

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Speaker 9: Are we gonna Are we gonna dance the valves, the

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Speaker 9: Chaian bulls.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna dance the chat.

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Speaker 3: Dress, those dress, those.

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Speaker 5: Dress, Fidananda. Before we wrap, just tell me real briefly,

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Speaker 5: what was your king signete like?

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Speaker 4: I didn't have one? A he You were like, no, boy,

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Speaker 4: I don't want to wear the dress.

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Speaker 9: No, no, it's too long of a story.

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Speaker 5: But now we can because the listeners will be like,

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Speaker 5: we really want to hear the story. Marie Gotcia, did

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Speaker 5: you have a king Sennetra?

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Speaker 3: I did it.

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Speaker 9: My parents gave me a choice between a king Signetra

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Speaker 9: and a trip to Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: I was in LA.

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Speaker 5: And you know what, I also didn't have a king

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Speaker 5: Tagnetta because the only Kingtannetas that I had reference to

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Speaker 5: were my pumas in Mexico, and they had the quintaniras,

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Speaker 5: the coming down the stairs, you know, getting the country club,

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Speaker 5: the big dress, the chiam milan is the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: And I was like, that's just not me.

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Speaker 5: And all of my teenage American friends would be like,

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Speaker 5: are you crazy if I was to do that? But

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Speaker 5: never say never, because Futuro Media is celebrating our King Sennetra.

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Speaker 4: There will be dresses. That's all we're gonna say.

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Speaker 5: Nanda Echavari, Managing editor of Latino USA, Marie Gracia, Executive

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Speaker 5: editor of Futuro Studios, thank you so much for being

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Speaker 5: my colleagues, for delivering excellence work that you do with

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Speaker 5: joy and commitment and professionalism. I couldn't be more honored

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Speaker 5: that both of you are part of the senior leadership

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Speaker 5: of Full Duro Media, which I was gonna.

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Speaker 10: Ask, yes, thank you so much.

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Speaker 9: Thank you Media.

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Speaker 5: So a lot of celebrating, a lot of things to

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Speaker 5: look forward to, a lot of things to be thankful for.

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Speaker 5: So because today is Giving Tuesday, this is the time

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Speaker 5: to do it. It's a moment to actually unlock radical generosity.

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Speaker 5: And if you give between now and December thirty, first,

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Speaker 5: your gift is doubled by newsmatch.

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Speaker 4: I love this.

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Speaker 5: It's when I love to give because I know that

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Speaker 5: I'm going to be matched. So if it's five, it's

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Speaker 5: now ten. If you're giving twenty, it's now forty. If

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Speaker 5: you're giving one hundred, it's now two hundred. If you're

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Speaker 5: giving five hundred, it's one thousand dollars. So remember you

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Speaker 5: can give at fultudomediagroup dot org slash donate and you

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Speaker 5: know what we are going to be doing some merch,

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Speaker 5: So keep your eyes out and more than anything, enjoy

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Speaker 5: your families, Enjoy the love around you. Enjoy great journalism, storytelling,

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Speaker 5: reporting that you can have on the background while you're

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Speaker 5: celebrating and being with your family. Always have us on

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Speaker 5: the background.

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Speaker 4: We love that. And remember, as always and now more

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Speaker 4: than ever, not do I Yes

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