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Speaker 1: Hey, Latino USA listener, here's a show from our archives.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy. Okay, fella, Look.

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Speaker 1: There's a line of paparazzis. They are all waiting there

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Speaker 1: behind the little gate. Pit nine from Futro Media and PRX.

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Speaker 1: It's Latino USA. I'm Maria Josa Today a day in

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Speaker 1: the life of Armando Christian Ferrees, better known as pit Bull.

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Speaker 2: All right, Madia is coming in her valure jumpsuit. This

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Speaker 2: is what she picked to interview Pitbull.

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Speaker 1: My producer Antonia s Rihido, and I spent the day

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Speaker 1: with the Cuban American rapper. We were running around Manhattan.

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Speaker 1: One block away. We need to stop so I can

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Speaker 1: put on my heels. Okay, trailing Pitbull to get a

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Speaker 1: glit into the world of mister worldwide.

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Speaker 2: Listen, I'm going where he tells me to go.

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Speaker 1: Later, I got the chance to sit down with him

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Speaker 1: face to face USA. In the interview, we spoke about

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Speaker 1: immigration and country music, and I also learned that he

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Speaker 1: never misses an opportunity to throw out a saying, which

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Speaker 1: in Spanish is.

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Speaker 2: Undico and my slogan is always from a negative to

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Speaker 2: a positive. Money is a passport and allows you to

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Speaker 2: come and go. But it does not make you no

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Speaker 2: problems solutions because when you do what you love, you

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Speaker 2: know't work. It's there in your life. Live life, don't

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Speaker 2: let life live you.

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Speaker 1: That's what I check his own at night, we caught

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Speaker 1: him in concert and we had to turn up turn.

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Speaker 1: But first we started our day with Pitbull at an

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Speaker 1: event for Advertising Week. It's an international marketing conference and

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Speaker 1: Pitbull was going to speak on a panel about multicultural marketing,

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Speaker 1: and the audience here was very aware of the very

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Speaker 1: real demographic changes happening in our country. And let's all

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Speaker 1: remember America very shortly will be fifty percent non white.

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Speaker 2: That's where the money is and that's where the future is.

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Speaker 1: And that's good news for Pitbull because he recently launched

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Speaker 1: an agency called three oh five Worldwide. He says it's

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Speaker 1: going to help major brands tap into the Latino market.

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Speaker 1: We were backstage with him just before he was going

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Speaker 1: to go on stage. Okay, good hewing time media, mister

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Speaker 1: three fat second for the remix. Pitbull is an entertainer,

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Speaker 1: but he's also an entrepreneur, a motivational speaker, an educator,

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Speaker 1: and investor, and there's a whole other host of epithets

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Speaker 1: that follow him. But even as Pitbull's career has diversified,

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Speaker 1: his image and his brand has become even more solidified.

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Speaker 1: He's recognizable through his signature sunglasses, which he even imprinted

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Speaker 1: along with his hands in cement in front of the

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Speaker 1: Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Also a part of his

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Speaker 1: signature style is impeccably tailored suits.

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Speaker 2: You always had your looks on point from back there

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Speaker 2: to now, always the man in the sharp.

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Speaker 1: And of course a signal catchphrase. Pitbull first gained popularity

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Speaker 1: in the early aughts with bilingual dancehall hits like Kulo

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Speaker 1: and Tooma, but during the nearly two decades that he's

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Speaker 1: been making hits, he's also become a sought after brand

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Speaker 1: ambassador and marketing expert. His net worth is estimated to

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Speaker 1: be around eighty million dollars now. In previous interviews, he's

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Speaker 1: always said that the key to his success has been

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Speaker 1: the buying power of the Latino consumer market.

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Speaker 2: Were very powerful culture, were very loyal culture. That's why

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Speaker 2: products wants us so bad, because we're loyal consolers.

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Speaker 1: Pitbull is a man who is deeply connected to his

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Speaker 1: immigrant roots and was propelled to his success by the

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Speaker 1: Latino market, So it made sense that we were starting

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Speaker 1: our day at Adweek. We wanted to know how Pitbull

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Speaker 1: views his role today at a time when his Latino

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Speaker 1: audience is facing greater open discrimination than at any other

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Speaker 1: point during his career. From the backstage green room, we

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Speaker 1: were led to the auditorium where he would present to

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Speaker 1: an audience of about two hundred people. But we inadvertently

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Speaker 1: caused a scene by sitting too close to the fancy cameras.

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Speaker 3: Oh sorry, some ruckists going on here.

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Speaker 1: You guys are okay, We'll just.

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Speaker 2: Wait for you.

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Speaker 1: Once we were finally seated and calm, Pitbull was introduced

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Speaker 1: with a glossy black and white video featuring highlights of

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Speaker 1: his career.

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Speaker 3: Artando Prestons the worldwide with a real body on stage.

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Speaker 1: He was less hardcore business strategist and more of a

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Speaker 1: And then he told this one story about how he

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Speaker 2: I was so nursed to go on that stage. I

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Speaker 2: drank a little bit of Bacardi. I chased it with

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Speaker 2: I was putting words together like I was like, I'm

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Speaker 2: But what really was coming out of my mouth was right.

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Speaker 2: And then I would get louder because I thought I

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Speaker 2: literally verbatim that's what was happening on stage. So they

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Speaker 2: get me on stage, I go back there. I'm going

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Speaker 2: for another Heineken because I'm thinking I killed it on

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Speaker 2: stage right now, like more celebration for me. And when

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Speaker 2: I go get that, it's like they turned off the

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Speaker 2: button on me, boot off button. I fell in the

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Speaker 2: cooler and if ordered for this guy named Purple Big

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Speaker 2: Boy came and picked me up, threw me in the

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Speaker 2: vand I probably would have drowned in that cooler. So

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Speaker 2: either order, that was my first major opportunity, and boy

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Speaker 2: talk about, well what did I do with that failure?

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Speaker 2: I admitted it. I took it on you know, but

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Speaker 2: I've never been sloppy again on stage, and that was

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Speaker 2: a failure that turned into an immense opportunity. And look

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Speaker 1: After the panel, he was quickly whisked away to his

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Speaker 1: hotel Motel Holiday and no, no, no, just kidd me.

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Speaker 1: Actually he was staying at the Four Seasons, so we

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Speaker 1: went down to meet him there and that's where I

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Speaker 1: sat down to have a conversation. And while we spent

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Speaker 1: the morning seeing the glitzy, glamorous side of Pitbull's life,

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Speaker 1: I wanted to know more about where he came from.

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Speaker 1: And in order to do that, we had to go

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Speaker 1: back to the early nineteen sixties, before Armando was even born.

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Speaker 1: That's when his mother, Alicia Acosta, was heading from Cuba

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Speaker 1: I did not know that your mom came as part

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Speaker 1: of Peter Pan, which was basically unaccompanied miners who were

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Speaker 1: being sent to the United States for safety because the

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Speaker 1: revolution had occurred. I mean your Yeah, So your mom

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Speaker 1: was like, in some ways historically tied to this moment

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Speaker 2: Look and oppressed mind is a creative mind. What do

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Speaker 2: I mean by it is this? Yes, there was a

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Speaker 2: lot of trials, tribulations, and struggles and sacrifices that my

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Speaker 2: you know, to send off your daughter, as it was,

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Speaker 2: the family where they're going. All they know is that

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Speaker 2: immigrant story is it's a fighter's story. It's a story

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Speaker 2: that really appreciates opportunity and loves freedom and will do

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Speaker 2: anything for it. As we see happening right now. My

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Speaker 2: mother didn't see her mother. They didn't see Auela, my

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Speaker 2: grandmother for five years. So imagine five years without your

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Speaker 2: don't know, a language that you don't know, and having

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Speaker 2: to adapt to that. Well, that creates a survivor. That's

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Speaker 2: something that my mom passed on to me. The mother's

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Speaker 2: going to love their son, and mother's going to love

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Speaker 2: how to survive, that's a whole other kind of love.

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Speaker 2: And that's why my life and my slogan is always

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Speaker 1: So to Papa is part of Mariel, right.

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Speaker 2: And logreina Sindoua, which comes out to be like the

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Speaker 2: lottery of Cuba. He when he got to Miami is

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Speaker 2: when he was involved in extracurricular activities okay in Miami. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and with that he got three boats and he went

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Speaker 1: Your mom is basically what we know now is quote

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Speaker 1: an unaccompanied minor a child who is seeking refuge and

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Speaker 2: A refugee on the money.

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Speaker 1: These are two things that are the centerpiece of what's

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Speaker 2: Right now. And look, to me, what's crazy is that

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Speaker 2: the United States of America is built on immigrants. Okay,

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Speaker 2: if we're looking at history and we're breaking this down, technically,

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Speaker 2: is their land. Technically, if you're talking about a border

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Speaker 2: And when you really break this down. People need to

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Speaker 2: before being stereotypical. You know, understand that everybody in this

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Speaker 2: country at this point throughout generations had the same dream,

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Speaker 2: had the same struggle, same sacrifice, same fight, same story.

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Speaker 2: But now it's easier to pin people against each other

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Speaker 2: because that's how you what you do, You divide and conco.

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Speaker 1: To my mind, you've you've told this, how do your

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Speaker 2: My father was involved in extracurricular activities. When I say that,

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Speaker 2: you know he was in the streets and making ends meet.

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Speaker 2: When cocaine was the commodity that the product, okay, which,

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Speaker 2: to be honest with you, is no different from what

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Speaker 2: being on the block and someone's coming to cop cocaine

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Speaker 2: and you go, hey, look you're gonna get high. Oh

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get addicted. But the side effects are you

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Speaker 2: might start robbing people, might killing people. You might be

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Speaker 2: robbing your family, and you know you're giving them all

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Speaker 2: the side effects and they said, Okay, now that's perfectly legal.

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Speaker 2: You understand me, because that's up your content. You.

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Speaker 1: I think that you were deconstructing this as you were

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Speaker 1: watching this because of your Cuban American experience. Cubans have

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Speaker 1: these highly analytical minds that are deconstructing because of its

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Speaker 2: Ironically, if you break down at Mandokritian pettis, technically I'm

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Speaker 2: Cuban Americans. So I'm already politically incorrect. Okay, because being.

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Speaker 1: The United States, we eternally hate each other. You know,

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Speaker 1: Cuba is the country that stood up to the United States,

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Speaker 1: and so being Cuban American, you're like, this doesn't Yeah.

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Speaker 2: They had the embargo that you couldn't fly over Cuba,

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Speaker 2: down with Cuba. At a certain time, they did help

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Speaker 2: each other. Out'm talking about in the early nineteen hundreds. But

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Speaker 2: so me being politically incorrect, my father surviving hustling, trying

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Speaker 2: surviving hustling. She happened to be working at what they

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Speaker 2: call us a topless bar. You know, basically like a

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Speaker 2: strip club at that time. That's where they met. But

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Speaker 2: And from then on that never.

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Speaker 1: Happened like that Hollywood story. Basically, Come on, I mean

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Speaker 2: So we flipped it from Black Betty to old get Ready?

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Speaker 2: Who get writed? Bamalam, who get witted? I'm getting ready.

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Speaker 1: blessed to have been to Kuba many times and when

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Speaker 1: you're there, there is something that is like I'll go

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Speaker 1: and I feel like in a lot of ways that

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Speaker 1: you have that this kind of like un there's a sensuality.

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Speaker 1: There's a whole kind of undertone that is a rhythm,

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Speaker 1: a lot of double meaning, a lot of a lot

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Speaker 1: of a lot of double meanings. I was walking along

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Speaker 1: Columbia University campus listening to Taxi.

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Speaker 2: That's a great double meaning to.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I was like blushing. I was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: I was like screaming and blushing.

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Speaker 2: That was a real story a friend of mine that

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Speaker 2: happened to him in Cuba.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I believe it. There's a lot of double entendre.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, man ay Man and Doxy. The city I grew

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Speaker 2: up in a very sexual city. The culture that I'm

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Speaker 2: from is very like you were saying Central. You know,

447
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Speaker 2: we were booty shaking in the cafeteria. We were dancing

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Speaker 2: in ways that the whole world just got onto maybe

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Speaker 2: ten years ago. You know, like when they say many

450
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Speaker 2: Cyrus was twerking, I said, twerking, God bless her. But

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Speaker 2: they've been doing that since I was in third grade,

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Speaker 2: you know. But that's the city that I grew up in.

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Speaker 2: Cuba was very sexual. Also street that was sexy better

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Speaker 2: all down, sexy music has been an escape for me,

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Speaker 2: an amazing or therapeutic way of being able to look

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Speaker 2: at life.

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Speaker 1: Tell me, then, Armando, how are you processing what we're

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Speaker 1: living through in this moment as an artist, as a

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Speaker 1: human being.

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Speaker 2: Look, my mother told me all the time. She says, son,

461
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Speaker 2: the world's always been coming to an end. I mean,

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Speaker 2: just live life, live life, don't let life live you.

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Speaker 2: So as I'm processing everything that's going on, what I like.

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Speaker 2: I like real solutions. I like to know what the

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Speaker 2: problem is, whereas the nucleus and how are we going

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Speaker 2: to solve this. So if you notice when it comes

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Speaker 2: to a lot of things that go on in the world,

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Speaker 2: and people like to go, oh because I donated this

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Speaker 2: and all because I did that. God blessed them die.

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Speaker 2: But to do it for real, don't do it for

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Speaker 2: the media. Don't do it to act like you're doing

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Speaker 2: something that you wouldn't do when nobody was looking. So

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Speaker 2: with immigration and what's going on with these kids, I

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Speaker 2: have to take a bird's eye view because I relate

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Speaker 2: through what's happened in my family to find what the

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Speaker 2: real solution is. Who's going to make a real change

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Speaker 2: here at the end of the day and it's coming together.

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Speaker 2: Do I have the solution right now?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: I don't. I don't because it's become such a it's

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Speaker 2: become such a touchy subject in the United States of

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Speaker 2: America when you speak about immigrants especially, and you know,

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Speaker 2: it's crazy to me. They did a raid and whether

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Speaker 2: it was Mississississippi, and when they did this rate they

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Speaker 2: took people out of their jobs. They were working. They

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Speaker 2: weren't on a block hustle. They weren't out here flipping kilos,

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Speaker 2: learning out here, you know, raping and drug dealing. Now

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Speaker 2: they were working, working probably under another name, still paying

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Speaker 2: taxes one where or trying to figure this out. As

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Speaker 2: they become citizens in the United States of America, I

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Speaker 2: go back working. That bothered me. That's not America. That's

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Speaker 2: not the America. That's not the Constitution, that's not the

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Speaker 2: Declaration of Independence, that's not the preamble. That's no, it's not.

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Speaker 2: But you know, it's crazy. When they started taking those

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Speaker 2: the majority with Mexicans in Alabama, they started fleeing to

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Speaker 2: like Texas, to other places that they could find work.

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Speaker 2: You know what was the hit economically that Alabama took

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Speaker 2: when those Mexicans left because no one else wanted to

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Speaker 2: take the job that they were doing. And mind you,

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Speaker 2: the jobs that feed us, the jobs that you guys

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Speaker 2: wouldn't there wouldn't be no lettuce, no strawberries, no, no tomatoes,

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Speaker 2: no nothing if it wasn't for people doing jobs and

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Speaker 2: no one else to take on. And we're turning them

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Speaker 2: back and we're treating them like dogs like it's crazy

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Speaker 2: to me. So as obviously you see that, I get

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Speaker 2: passionate about it.

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Speaker 1: I was just thinking, I don't think I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: Armando pissed off.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to be honest with you, I know, I.

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Speaker 1: Animal you're getting this is like you are angry about this.

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Speaker 2: I mean, yes I am. And you know What really

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Speaker 2: bothers me is that the solution is a hop skipping

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Speaker 2: a jump on the way, and I'm just trying to

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Speaker 2: figure out strategically how to get there because it's chest

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Speaker 2: not checkers, and this has all become a political game.

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Speaker 2: Politics have become the WWF. Now, you know, it's like

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Speaker 2: wrestlers going at each other talking, which is the wrestlers,

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00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 2: that's their business, that's what they're supposed to do. But

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Speaker 2: politicians are supposed to be the ultimate example of society.

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Speaker 2: And now you got everybody going at each other like

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Speaker 2: if they're on the corner talking, like if they're at

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Speaker 2: a barbershop going at each other. You know, when you

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Speaker 2: have a heart, when you look at things and go, man,

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Speaker 2: what if that was my child? What if that was

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Speaker 2: my kid? You don't even want to know the kind

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Speaker 2: of things I do if that was my kid, to

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Speaker 2: be honest with you. And that's why I get so

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Speaker 2: reaped up about it because it's so hot, like we

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Speaker 2: say in Miami thirty eight hot. You know, it's because, man,

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Speaker 2: there's a solution to this, and you guys are using

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Speaker 2: this as a pond in this chess match of politics

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Speaker 2: that you guys got going on and that's why politics.

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Speaker 2: I call it politics. That's exactly what it is. And

534
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 2: at the end of the day, the people that can

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00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 2: pass these laws are really puppets to major companies. And

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Speaker 2: the reason they don't pass these laws because then they

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Speaker 2: feel they may not get their money for their next campaign,

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Speaker 2: or they might not you know, get voted back into

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Speaker 2: their district or their states, or into Congress, into their sea.

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Speaker 2: So you know, it's it's disgusting and they'll be honest,

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Speaker 2: which we are treating people that are only coming here,

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Speaker 2: that generations in your family we're looking for a matter

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Speaker 2: of fact, when you look at the president's family, they

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Speaker 2: were immigrants. You're talking about Trump, Okay, there were immigrants. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Trump's family.

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Speaker 1: You don't like him.

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Speaker 2: It's not about whether I like him or not. I

548
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Speaker 2: don't respect them, you know what I mean. That's it.

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Speaker 2: When you could treat people like that, then I can

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Speaker 2: just imagine and mine I met him, well, I mean

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Speaker 2: I met him before, and.

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Speaker 1: I mean you're like as famous as somebody who understands

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Speaker 1: kind of branding, owning your and you're you're like looking

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Speaker 1: at him, It's like I feel like you can almost understand.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't respect what he's become. You know.

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Speaker 2: And before he became president, he had an interesting story, okay,

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Speaker 2: but I guess that being president really shed light on

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Speaker 2: who this person really is at the end of the day,

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Speaker 2: you know, and when you have that kind of power

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Speaker 2: to be able to help people and you're not. Because

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Speaker 2: the whole point of Trump being in office is because

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Speaker 2: he's really not a politician. He's more like supposedly a businessman.

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Speaker 2: Mind you, the guy who went bankrupt and only got

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Speaker 2: a minor loan from his father. I mean, I didn't

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Speaker 2: even get a panty from my family. I got bills

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Speaker 2: from cable companies, electric companies, all them, you know, bills

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Speaker 2: under my name because you know they had already burned

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Speaker 2: their account. So but either or this is a country

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Speaker 2: that was built by immigrants. And look who we're doing

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Speaker 2: the immigrants. You have a presser. His wife is an immigrant, which,

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Speaker 2: by the way, has amazing style. O. I love to

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Speaker 2: watch her and go, wow, I like the way you

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Speaker 2: put yourself together. I don't know if she's too happy

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Speaker 2: next to him. But oh, that's a that's a whole nother.

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Speaker 2: But and and and comes from a family of immigrants

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Speaker 2: who lived the American dream and put him in the

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Speaker 2: position for him to be able to do what he's

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Speaker 2: doing now. Now, if you ever ever think that the

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Speaker 2: United States of America is not a place that you

580
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 2: could become anything you possibly want to, and anybody can

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Speaker 2: become anything, let me flip Trump on you. Donald Trump

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Speaker 2: became the president of the United States of America. Okay,

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Speaker 2: that's the double edged sword here, folks. Question is are

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Speaker 2: you going to do it for the good or are

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Speaker 2: you going to do it for personal interest? Big difference.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you so much. I appreciate the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: La it's mister three oh five, but it said mister worldwide,

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Speaker 2: checking in, checking out the other side.

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Speaker 1: We parted ways with Pitbull. There were about twenty five

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Speaker 1: executives waiting to speak with him as soon as we finished.

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Speaker 1: Later we met up with him when we saw him

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Speaker 1: on stage at Webster Hall. He emerged wearing an all

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Speaker 1: black suit to a screaming crowd, and of course he

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Speaker 1: was surrounded by beautiful, sexy, scantily clad dancers. He kept

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Speaker 1: on dropping wisdom.

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Speaker 5: First of all, you sort of thank.

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Speaker 2: You very much after the shaate you because we all

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Speaker 2: need haters in our life. That means you're doing something right.

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Speaker 3: And of course he brought the party.

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