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"mojica" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"That can not be ignored Hok says the array of new programs she's proposing in her budget could draw some New Yorkers back including money to combat gun violence and reduce homelessness subsidies for child care and a $2 billion property tax rebate We're going to jump start our economic recovery by being the most business friendly and worker friendly state in the nation But there's been debate over whether the state can be business friendly when it has some of the highest income property and corporate taxes in the country Last April the state driven by progressive Democrats in the legislature created new higher income tax brackets on multi millionaires and raised corporate taxes Hogel's predecessor former governor Andrew Cuomo who resigned in August often expressed doubts about whether the higher taxes caused wealthy individuals to leave the state State budget director Robert mujica When he served under Cuomo echoed the former governor's reservations But when mojica who now works under hoku was asked about it after the budget address murica said he does not think the higher taxes have led any wealthy people to leave New York We haven't seen any evidence of that Well he says the changes to the national tax code known as salt bear more of the blame The change prevents high income earners from deducting their state and local taxes from their federal taxes above a certain threshold Michael king with the progressive groups strong economy for all which pushed hard for the tax increases says he finally feels vindicated There's been this continual insistence on repeating the myth of the moving millionaire King says higher taxes actually increase the state's attractiveness because more money can be spent on things like adequate public school funding and aid to college students among other things The budget shows that last year's tax increases on the rich and big corporations were really successful Republicans in the legislature disagree Senator Tom omera led a news conference where GOP lawmakers laid out plans for drawing more people back to the state He says salt would not be adversely affecting so many New Yorkers if their property taxes weren't so high to begin with If New York State taxes weren't so damn high salt wouldn't have that impact that it's having Omari says the 350,000 people who left the state are not all wealthy enough to be impacted by salt which allows property tax deductions up to $10,000 Senator Dan stack who represents portions of the north country says it's not just about the wealthy potentially leaving the state He says the state's gas and home heating oil taxes are high compared to other locales And he says the increased costs can be as much as $500 per household in his district There will be choosing between heating their homes driving to work and feeding their kids putting food on the table Others say the state's migration is temporary and directly related to the nearly two years of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic lockdowns Mojica the state's budget director says the shutdown of entertainment and restaurants in New York City may have led some to leave for a time As COVID goes away or we figure out how to live with it All of the reasons that people live in New York City comes back and then people will still want to live there He says the region's real estate market is strengthening and rentals and the sale of condominium homes are higher than pre-pandemic levels In Albany I'm Karen de wet Later on morning edition of Republican senator from North Dakota says working to stop catastrophic climate change could be a top priority for both sides of the aisle The vast majority of people that we work for that would be our constituents believe there is climate change and they want us to do something about it And unlike some in his party he says a way to combat the problem is by reducing carbon emissions That story coming up at about 15 minutes We'll reach the mid 20s today under sunshine wind chills will keep it colder than that though sunny tomorrow and we stay below freezing at 31 for a high Right now sunny.
Democracy Now! Audio
"mojica" Discussed on Democracy Now! Audio
"What nobody wanted by geoffrey. Lewis voltage this is democracy. Now i mean good with one gonzales. We end today's show in chicago. Where workers at on the law growth tortilla plant station temporary walkout to protest low pay staff shortages and abusive working conditions including intimidation and sexual harassment. When they return to work discovered management had locked them out in retaliation. This is el milagro worker. Ama- gonzales they didn't let go back to work. We had our personal belongings inside the plan. In my case i'm pregnant. My medicine was still inside and they denied us entry. This is not fair. we're simply fighting for our rights. We're not trying to harm the company. El milagro claims and ongoing tortilla shortages due to supply chain issues but organizers say the company's lost staff due to their poor treatment of workers including their mishandling of the pandemic last year. Dozens of workers got sick during a covert outbreak. Five died this is another magog or worker. My team solace in cool changed up occupy peck tortilla packages. Per minute. i load a case. Put it on a pallet and come right back. Because if i don't keep up this pace tortillas will fall off the machine and they'll blame me. Workers have given el milagro management until end of day wednesday to respond to their demands. The company was founded in chicago in one thousand nine hundred fifty by raul lopez mexican immigrant cells tortillas around the country for more. We go to chicago to speak with horrid mojica strategic campaigns organizer at arise chicago. Or you've been working closely with the workers for several years. Can you talk about what the demands are. And what will happen on wednesday. Yes thank you very much. Good morning On wednesday nothing yet because we gave or the workers gave the company a deadline to the end of the day but on thursdays surely workers are going to come back and demand answers from the company. Their main demands are a fair wages kale because the company's paying only forty cents above minimum wage on at the same time advertising new jobs for sixteen dollars so cents a bowl people who have been working there for ten fifteen twenty and twenty years. That's the most important that man they say. The allegra needs to track me workers and that is going to happen if they increase wages and the other one is definitely to reduce the speed of the machines where workers are telling us. Is that the company instead of offering better wages. I'm hiring more. People is just cranking up the machines so they have to pack eighty packages per minute. I mean less than one second to pac twelve thirteen years. Gluing paper envelope on in the in the boxes. So that's insane. They say okay. They increase the speed of the machines. But they can't increase hours meet. We are not machines so they want to put a stop on that it. Could you talk for people who are not familiar with milagro the importance of this this facility and the plants that it has in the in the mexican american community of milagro tortillas are famous throughout chicago in the mid west and the fact that it's largely a mexican ownership as well. Yes they are the most famous and largest maker in the mid west. They've you go by one of the plans. They they have five plants and three restaurants. If you go to one of the plans are four o'clock in the morning you would see. Trucks lining up from ohio from iowa from wisconsin wisconsin michigan. I mean this is Amazing millions of tortillas every day. They're incredibly famous. They are good and they are good. Because it workers really you know Put their best there for two to produce this thirty s and this is family owned just one family controls. The whole consortium and they are steal the with with practices belonging the nineteen seventies under the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. They they only by call new machines every year but conditions are really awful. This is a sweatshop and last year over eighty of the employees. Came down with colbert and five die. What kind of health and safety a protocols were they using their non at all and We have all pretty much criminal behaviors. There where they forbade workers to wear face masks. They told them that. No the know. The workforce was going to feel unstable if they saw anybody wearing face masks. So they'd they'd be metal. Al anyone to do it for a while. On -til of course off diseases spread and people started dying and then they shut down one of the five plants to clean it out but as we're told the workers last year the machines sneeze. This is people to people. Person to person contagion solo. The workers got up together and impose you know some basic precautions and then down the line. The company decided to to respect social these units era. But this is crowded. Space designed for production is not designed as any other productions space is not designed to take care of people's health is designed to produce merchandise and getting money can you what about the sexual harassment allegations as well. Sorry yes. there are several sexual harassment. Accusations workers complained that they have denounced the to management and what management does is to move the supervisor from one plan to the next one instead of solving the problems that have training their supervisor instead of raising really would've standards and where he can you talk about what happened to the workers after they Had their rally last week. We just played air to gonzalez Chuck being pregnant and being locked out of punch couldn't get her medication. What the plans are for tomorrow for wednesday. Yeah well we had called the police and the police came an open of the planning to allow workers to to get their personal belongings and the next day we went with it. Workers through report to a human resources and human resources simply gave off saying we will pay you for the hours. You're lost yesterday. The lockout saw it was a round victory for workers. The workers are demanding. Now is the plant. The management to sit down with the management just hired a union boston to go and talk to them about how bad unions are workers. Say he's talking about unions. We're talking about decency. We are talking about wages. We are talking. About the heat. In the workplace they work at ninety five degrees including their mealtime knowing the launch room. Ninety five degrees. That's what we want to talk about.
Latina to Latina
"mojica" Discussed on Latina to Latina
"Phone calls on my age will be like you did so great. I'm like am. I going to go to therapy about like how i've never felt supported my whole life. I get so uncomfortable with all the encouragement. All the kindness. I'm just i just sit there. Like i think you're great. I'm writing. i have two other bucks. That are in the works. Also but there wednesday children's book some so working within the illustrator in them. I'm gonna keep writing. I like it guy. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you and congratulations. The book is is what you wanted it to be. Thank you thank you for having me. I want you to engage with the ideas. Police lays out in the book itself. So i'm going to sign off with a reflection on how much work and thought based has put into creating the space so that more of us can see ourselves as authors as people who have stories that are worthy of being if you to believe that that is necessary if you are into ideas that push and pull you the me short at checkout for brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts in.
Latina to Latina
"mojica" Discussed on Latina to Latina
"Fell very vanilla in some ways limited. Looks like for me to do it. Because i i love sleeping around and talking about it like taking the shame of that. I'm smart and i can talk about that. I'm feminine and smart. What a concept. I was just like i want to bring all those things. They're not just hem it in. Its smarter the girl who wears a red tight short dress to church. Like you cross the chasm but i was like there has to be something that holds all our complexities where we're not just trying to be like. Oh weaken do left-leaning reporting just like y'all can do your kind of reporting i was like i don't even want y'all's like all your prescriptions of how this is done throw it out the door. Let's just like put means up and put gifts up which also gets to your your bigger ethos about saying goodbye to respectability politics. Yeah i think part of your critique there is that it is being built still with the wake as in mind exactly. Yeah and there weren't pages. Like this like me doolittle dockers. They don't know what the internet was linked zone. No i saw. Latino rebels was celebrating anniversary and i was like am i do who lethal is like a mentor of mine in some ways and still i was like i could do it better and take their name. Say let the not rebels like. Because i'm not letting know. And i don't like that latino includes me because that's the that's what we've decided is the neutral term for all of us or the plural term for all of us so i was like no latina rebels now remember lethal even sent me a facebook message was like we can't wait to see what you come up with. It was super encouraging Not a cease-and-desist. Yeah on their anniversary to me being like emboldened by that because yeah it was mostly men on these media places I also felt really embraced. I think because maybe i wasn't a threat to them like they're like this is so wild that might work but am i not and also speaks to the fact that we're huge. We're huge audience. Yeah that's the thing it's like. No one's like well. We already have two white. Non lefty nike sites. So i guess we're not gonna have any more. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah you write about learning to run from people from situations from things i think i as i understood it in large part in reaction to watching so many of the women you love. Stay stay when it wasn't the right man. Stay when it wasn't the right opportunity. Stay because there was the sense of responsibility that they needed to stay. I think most of us deeply identify with that and deeply identify with the desire to run. And i married to babies pushing forty often think about the space space between learning to run and learning to stay for the things that are right and for us and i wonder if you have learned the same. I had to figure that out by learning to run first because we're told to stay despite at all. I was taught to stay despite at all like you stay because you made a pact in front of god in. That is the only reason to stay in the best reason to stay so for me. I had to learn a run to learn to truly stay in something healthy leaving your first marriage which was a young marriage. What did that though teach you about knowing who you are knowing what you want and and what freedom looks like on the other side the game changer for me is that it was so taboo because everybody in my family stays that it was like the most disappointing thing it was like. I killed my grandmother in front of my mom. It was like that kind of betrayal like the way that they sobbed about it the way they mourn that like. They were living in my shoes the way that the shame that i brought them the way they reacted to the shame that i brought the way that they i even went back briefly because there was so much pressure that i went back because i was like this is scary was about to ask. Nobody is supporting me. And i called my parents when i told them i doubt he like. He screamed at the top of his lungs. He was so happy for my return to my ex husband which was brief. Because i shouldn't have done that and it made everything messier in harder to detach. From the second time i find left all the shame was dumped on me so quickly to that one site was like fuck it. All my great friends were like fuck it with me. Which you know was like a key. Little army. Burn my wedding dress that they even suggested. Let's burn your wedding just because they saw me struggling in there like we need to transition you and so we did this bernie of my dress. I was able to relinquish a lot of the expectations. That i thought were the most important thing to me. I realized it was never important to me was important to everyone around me so i could like move forward. I could learn run. I can learn to speak up for myself. I but the divorce was like the catalyst for everything because of what it meant. It might context. Why did you want to disappear from the internet. It's really hard to be online. The way that i was and i've been indeed so long. It's exhausting to be in day. You're posting like about your life and people are like. Why are you wearing nike. Those children make those shoes and like everything becomes public discourse everything that you do how you speak who you associate with especially when you have a politically charged brand. Yeah because then everything you do is also is not just personal political. I think it's very misogynistic to it's how do we find ways to invalidate. This person is still feels so dehumanizing violent and i don't know how people don't understand like you're just using a play bug like you're just reinforcing the patriarchy. You are contributing to my downfall. When there is a million and one mediocre. Whiteman out here. That you will not that you will not tell them how you want them to be dead in that you wanna rape them like. That isn't a thing that experiencing. So i just got tired. Would you wanna do next Somewhere about to sell my second bog. I really really liked this one. There's more ease in the second book. Always i feel more confident. It took me two years to write my first proposal. This one took me like maybe two months. And were with the final edits soon. And we're gonna start submitting. I have never felt so supported in my life. Until i got the book deal. There's like a team of people financially invested in my success and you feel like we end.
Latina to Latina
"mojica" Discussed on Latina to Latina
"In ways that academia doesn't necessarily reward professors like it but professors aren't your peers. I think for my peers was very silly. That was doing that and they didn't get it. It was a joke. It was a running joke in my pure cohort. They were like at preschool. Have you started your final paper yet. It's like the first week of school. And i would laugh but i was like embarrassed because i was like. I just want them to know that i belong to. It is funny to me to be talking with you and to see your thunderheart and to see you laughing and smiling about it. In the way you communicated about because there's no laughter and there's no smiling in the way you communicate about it. Yeah in the book it was deeply hurtful. End is one of the many ways in which you illustrate that institutions can send strong messages about who belongs and who doesn't belong and how even fo- consider themselves woke can in many ways send signals subtle and extremely overt and that a person does not understand the cultural nuance of an institutional culture. Yeah and god forbid you say that my graduate program was known. It's still known enlisted as like the people graduate are known as like activists and change makers and like. That's the reputation of the program. But they experience that i had there was just like a lot of silencing a lot of policing a lot of signaling like you're you're not good enough and when things are happening to you we're gonna watch and we're gonna be uncomfortable. We're not gonna say anything. Have you learned how to not do that. The and not show up that way. Yeah have great. I have not. Can you please teach. I think you have to be willing to risk it. All you have to be willing to like not get the book deal and like see what happened. Is you know. Like even with my when i was doing the interviews because my book went to action so i was doing i was interviewing all these editors and talking to them and i was kind of like what would it look like to not try to impress them but for someone who's first gen to create a path for them to understand that english is my second language. I struggle with syntax. I need an editor who understands. That won't like ridicule me for it. In a lot of these editors kind of avoided the question and the only editor that was like. Oh my gosh. Of course my grandma is a japanese immigrant. And like i understand what you're talking about. I get it you just need a ride it in. I will fix it. I will rearrange it if i have to. I don't mind doing that and welcomed almost my perspective with all the things that were gonna come as the esl person as a person who english as a second language for me. i. I still struggle on my frigging. Instagram captions with syntax. Like i'm just like. I know that's not supposed to sound like that. One of the things. I love most about for brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts is the your experience and understanding of color ism unfolds over time so i had it change as you moved from somewhere. Like miami to somewhere like nashville when you went to school. There's a lot of policing there's like this overvaluing of whiteness especially in non black likely nike's communities all that is happening and i definitely got teased by the that for looking more indigenous than not looking like some of the wider cubans in my school or whatever but for some reason still was like. But i'm cool. I still like. How like a soft belief. That when i moved to a white city like nashville it felt really dangerous. A white non hispanic city like nashville. If felt really personal it wasn't people just trying to assimilate and become why it was just it was why people 'gate-keeping and changed everything like i developed an eating disorder. I didn't know how to show up in spaces. I i like buckled. I started failing. Might graduate program like spiraled. I was confused for a while. What was happening until there was a big incident. Unlike like a fourth of july. And i was with a group of my white friends a couple that was visibly letting the nike sat near us with their family. was like a few kids in them and behind us. Some of the vanderbilt undergrad. She started seeing like oh back to your country and i was just sitting there like mortified in. I just looked at my white friends. And i was like all your yard gonna do shit. We're all in his progressive program. Were all trying to like quote unquote change the world. But it's happening now in. Y'all aren't doing anything. okay. So i like got up. It was like a little hill called love here. I just got up and ran down the hill. I just like panicked like all the little experiences like that. Just like hang to this place. Where i just like panicked. And the next day. I went up to The only other letting the program who had avoided. Because i didn't have this thirst to be around the nikes. Because that's had always been my normal in miami. So i didn't leave miami being like i gotta find all that nike's i was like fascinated with whiteness. I was like oh my goodness look at these. People say you are nothing if not an anthropologist. Yeah i was just observing like listening in like fascinated like your is paying for your part right across various. Like what is this lie. And i had avoided this lead dina who was like thirty five non monogamous. Like had a baby that they were raising gender-neutral and i was just like this senior that wants to be my friend than i do not want it. I really like now. That we're in our mid thirties. Hits hard though yeah but like i went and fouled after the experience told her what have been she like held me. She's like that. It's really messed up. That shouldn't have happened. Let's talk to everyone and gave me all the language. Then i was like okay. I've been attempting to find a space in place that they didn't want me here. They don't want me to be happy. They don't want to defend. They're not friends there. I'm like their token brown friend. If anything i add to their experience they're not adding anything to mind. So i had to shift my friendships set the way i moved in that circle in the way that i i learned to defend myself. 'cause i didn't i didn't before i just like let it slide and was like i was one of those people that if somebody was like. That was racist. I was like not what you're thinking too much about it. Not everything's race. Part of building community for yourself is the one on one relationships they are building with other latina's part of it also then is the community that you begin to build online twenty thirteen in that makes you look an. Og builds a community for a latina's online twenty thirteen. I think we all understand the impetus for these things. What was the first thing that you did to build latina rebels. I remember i came home. I was starting to find a lot of the pages that i spoke to me. Because i had already figured out. Okay when he on his doing me any good that i'm on though is not doing me any good but also abc's not doing me. Any good nbc. Isn't doing me any good. Cnn is so like who is providing counter narratives to all this because it's not popular media. I remember found new stock goal. I found that the no rebels. And i was just like unliked led the no rebels. I liked all these pages. But they were mostly ran by men they were a little more radical but.
Latina to Latina
"mojica" Discussed on Latina to Latina
"Colonialism. So many 'isms that impact our lives and are often written about in ways that are meant to keep us out rather than to bring us in. That is part of what. Bruce scholar cosmo. He covered. Rigas is reckoning with in her new book for brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts a love letter to women of color and by reckon i mean breaking down in the most relatable ways how these forces have shaped her life who she is and her pursuit of freedom. Please i want to start by asking you to tell me about your sharp edges your tender heart and how you arrived at the title of this book so i have a buck where the quote comes from. So let me pull it. Because i don't want a butcher So this is gloria naylor and they. It's women on burster street. And before she starts the bug to describe the women she's about to talk about. She says they were hard. Edged soft-centred brutally demanding an easily pleased. These women of brewster street. And i read this in two thousand twelve and i was obsessed because because the rest of you cannot see that page has more highlighting and scribbling on it than it does. Yeah i just like have always connected with that. When i write about even myself like usually when. I'm not still hiding from kobe. My nails are long. And i wear acrylics. I were heels. I'm not a casual seekers girl. I am very high feminine. I show up high feminine places. And so i have physical sharp edges that i talk about like my knuckling. This thicken up to destroy you like there's a lot of poetry in mice sharp that i've always leaned on because i connected with that sentence. The hard edged than south center like nobody acknowledges how a lot of us who are a little bit bitch ear and the little bit sharper. It comes from protecting all the saas stuff that we have inside that we haven't been encouraged to nurture not allowed to make me cry this early in the interview but he you you dedicate your book too difficult daughters in which ways where you yourself a difficult daughter i was called look at ethan model like all my life by my mother so i was like the black sheep of why i asked too many questions i think for my parents i wanted to know why like because the bible says because god said wasn't enough for me like i was like but why and i think like i've just that's always been identity in my mom would always say like we have to be more strict with you. 'cause you're smarter and i hated that. I hated that i felt like she is. She saw that. I was viva in the response to that was to reign it in more than she would rain in the other children. And there's an inherent contradiction that you write about. That really took my breath away. You write your parents brag about your brilliance. All while exhorting you to be more like their friends daughter the good obedient daughters. Who did what they were told. I just the paradox there. It's like my whole life. I think that they're very proud of what i've been able to do. But i don't think they ever could have imagined it. It's easier for me to just have gotten married at nineteen pregnant. A mom stay at home have more babies. They knew what that looks like. That was my mom story. That was my grandma's story. That's my mom's sister stories. It was like we know what that looks like. We don't know what the heck you're doing. And i think that there's like fear in them pride to and i've had to accept that they both exist. How much of that was also echoed by growing up in miami. Miami's an intense place. I think Because it is a bubble of a lot of caribbean folk. So there's a lot of puerto rican. There's a lot of cuban that there's a lot of colombians nicaraguans. At the time that i was there and he got one was the second largest that the yankees population in miami so i mean. Thank as are everywhere. Our culture is everywhere like it was very easy to chest do traditional roles to be put in traditional boxes as girls in as women and i think a lot of us did a lot of us who stayed especially just absorb. That were like this is it. This is like what success looks like in the us. Like in latin america. But with a twist with like ac or something you like here dropping by to let you know that. Latino latina is sponsored by first republic bank first republic has made it their mission to understand their clients needs and provide them an unparalleled level of service. I can confirm at open that account earlier this year with their relationship based approach to banking first republic provides tailored solutions individuals and businesses at any stage of life. 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How are you showing up in rooms. I did the most still doing. I would go up to the professor the Like even before school started. I would email my professors than introduce myself and i will go up to them after the first class. Be like hi email to you. Like i was like i want you to know who i am and look at the syllabus before class. Starting in like start talking about our final paper. I was like so. I was thinking about this now is thinking about the and i just wanted like. I wanted them to know that existed in. I wanted to feel like i fit in and i did. The most and i showed up.
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"For having me listeners. Stay riot listeners. That was my conversation with but he's scout. What do you think. What are your thoughts. I would love to hear what you thought about this interview. Are you getting her buck. I really hope that you do. Because it's it's one of those dead. Every latino needs to have in her book shelves seriously. It's one of those that if you listen to my interview with bobby a while back he talked about. You're like i'm paraphrasing. But it was this concept of your close bookshelf. This is one of those books that you literally have with an arm's length and anytime you need a pick me up or motivation inspiration. Some fuel to your fire. It's one of those books. So i highly recommend getting it of course support latina author. There's not that many and so one were out there especially getting book deals. Support it so you can tell with your purchasing power. You're telling the book publishing companies that we care about this content that we want more of it so definitely support now. This is the time where i will ask you to leave a review. And you know already deal. The reason why we asked for reviews is because the more reviews the show has the more visibility. the show gets the more publishers and editors of different publications. They see that people care about combined and so it's also a way to support. The show is by leaving overview. If you feel called to share some words you can leave a rating which is dropped some stars or you can leave a review. I give you four questions that can help you. Think about what you want to leave. Or what words you want to write. What you love about the show will. Were you expecting before you listen listened. What happened after he listened. And how would you describe the show to your best friend. And i so wanna think every single one of you that have taken the time to write some words for the show. It's so moving seriously. As because i keep saying this and i sound like brooklyn record but it really right now. I'm talking to a microphone and so reading reviews makes me realize that. There's actually folks listening if you are new here. Welcome to govern them bam. I hope you feel like home. I hope you come back. Check out other episodes check out the titles and see if they resonate with you. Feel free to skip and jump around. We have plenty to go. And one thing i would say. Don't listen to the very very beginning ones just because of current so much. I'm no longer that pam and there's people that have grown together with me so that's my only request but hey you do what you want to. You do what you want. And i hope you come back. If you're a new here. I would love to connect with you..
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"I do a lot of like i bring a lot of masculine energy to my interactions. I'm like it's like finally okay to do that for some reason but it's nuances complicated and i'm just like there's more of a need to keep doing this for a to create a new possibility for us to exist and be successful and like b. o. K. inside of ourselves to yes so much yes. One thing. Important that i see is safety. So if you feel safe within yourself then you're able to stand up and do that chest bumping and do the disruption and the checking and the not compromising and not. Everyone is there and i think going back to like giving yourself permission that sometimes we have to build safety within ourselves to enter those spaces. Because i mean it's happened to me. Where sometimes i don't feel safe so i'm like i'm just gonna step away or either clam up be quiet. Don's anything or leave. And sometimes like i feel safe today within myself because the safety nobody will provide it and sometimes you could have allies. Sometimes you don't yeah and so really sending up in your own safety. It's important in once you do. I think when he said now. I'm able to the chest bumping and they can take it. It's because you've done it for so long. So your your safety within yourself as solid now. And there's a lot of power to that and going back to the compromise. I totally relate. Because i got a big brand reach out to me who wanted to sponsor the podcast and it's a fast food place and they wanted to do all of these things about coffee and it's a problematic brand to me because it's the company it's a fast food place that existed food deserts that may communities diabetics and not eat healthy foods and they really wanted to gone by and i had to take a deep breath and i was like look. I'm going to say no to this. Because i stand for my people and the principals and the operation that you have to not aligned with what i believe in and say no to the money but sometimes gotta do what you do. It's like you say not to the white house. Yeah yeah which is again you. We risk everything. We risk legitimacy risk money. We stability we risk a lot. But i think we have to. Yeah because ultimately. I wouldn't be able to sleep knowing that i'm getting kind of money from those people. Okay of course you ever wanna ready knows. He can find you where we can. We get the book. Are you recording your audiobook now. I just finished this past week. We yeah yeah on. Sunday was blessed. By how is it. It was hard nobody tells you. That's the for seven hours on your throat is like the only taxing. Yeah a unita speak from your diaphragm. Let let you need to like drink a lot of teas and nobody tells you any of that so it was really hard. But i'm really glad. I did it because now you're gonna hear all these words said in all with all the intonations that i meant with all the inflections i wanted. I wrote the book. Like i speak in salvage relaying like a pastor. Read their sermon. Like i was just reading my own words. That are meant to be set out loud and i hope it comes out beautifully it will. I'm sure i can't wait. I mean i read. The hard copy can't wait to hear the one. Where can we find you and by the book and other things you can buy the book anywhere just google for brown girls with sharp edges tender hearts..
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"And what do i do next. And don't know like what is my responsibility. What are non-negotiable is that i won't do. What are things that i value. What are and then just having these stories. Because i'm very organic writer i outline. I don't necessarily sit in-draughts draft or i do a quick outline in the have an idea of what the story wants to do in chapter and then i like sit with it. I go like outline. And then i just sit for like five hours. I go some marlton. Sit and like with someone. And then i'll be sleeping at three am be woken up. And it'll be like okay. The studies were story. But you're see nando for like fifteen hours a chapter and then you write it all down in like. I'll have the toxic masculinity chapter. I wrote like three times fully entirely just scrapped at every time well. It was really hard to write that chapter or me. Ria m my Editor kept saying like what's the takeaway what is your takeaway from this. What do you want your readers to learn what you you need to end this in a positive light those like this isn't a self help though and this is like messy and so like yeah. I kept getting woken up by this chapter and just like zombie like walking to my office closing the door and just like in a haze typing in crying with like my outline in the back of my head but it all gets written. I have these frenzy moments of like writing a chapter in like three hours or i like when i'm done i'm just like it feels like that. So yeah it's very lonely. I think it's one of the hardest. Things is to be married to a writer. I think because my husband would be like if i like the peanuts characters even more world But i was like cozy see nando this chapter so i was like not listening not present not looking like burning food like like just not a person and let's talk about him because he also talk about your husband and what i find. Ironic is that you ended up with the white man like am with a man. And so i've had people literally tell me like. Oh i'm surprised is white. I'm like why have you face that. Yeah but i'm very misogyny is a real thing and i think that the ways that women like like us like people who are more outspoken. Who are more willing to lose it. All people will try to find any little thing to invalidate us. And if you've chosen to give this white man all that power to invalidate me than you have made that decision. I have not too late. He has to live with me being the person i am with the politics that i have in the ways that interact with his family because of those politics. He's the one that has had to adjust a lot and you have decided to give him the power to take away all of that work. And so that's on you. I don't carry that. People have tried to pass. Shame onto the. There's like a whole about my husband in the news. That i wrote about him and i'm just like misogyny israel. Y'all wanna invalidating at every turn. Let's go Unfazed me at this point. Because i'm also a person who's this is my second marriage. I often say like by the time. I oh have like five ex-husband's like this if y'all wanna give that much power to these men that i might be linked to Again that's you. That's not me. I mean in a reflects. What value right. Yeah yeah where do you pull your strength from. I don't know because i hate it. I i'll be really honest. Being strong is a hoax. like jews. don't do y'all like it's awful. I talked about this more in a recent podcasts. To my strength what has done most for me is created in a slew of auto.
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"Let's go back to show up okay so i do want to say 'cause i mean we're at a time what just happened. Can we talk again. No no down part too because we didn't even get to like we just like two chapters. Seriously let's talk about the process of writing this book. I do wanna read one paragraph of the impostor syndrome that that one cheered me up which is so powerful and i hope i don't cry with reading. I quote imposter syndrome is daily presence in my life in two thousand seventeen when my now agent. David paterson. I message me on twitter. Telling me how he loved my writing that he wanted to represent me. I did not believe it in two thousand nineteen when he sent my book proposal to various publishers and six editors from top. Publishers said they wanted to publish my book. I did not believe it even cried one night because i was so certain that everyone was lying to me. And this was all just one long con- and i finally accepted my book deal and signed a contract cried again because they kept thinking that someone would discover that was a fraud and that i was not good enough. Maybe me cry because it's so it was so real like going through the process like i was panicking a lot. My husband had to shake me and be like you don't have any money for them to con- you for like this is the dumbest con it's a con. But like i had to have that kind of reality check. Because i was in the deep end of like this isn't real. This isn't happening and in publishing their so much handshaking and back door conversations until you see contracts and until you see like when you accept a book deal. It's a handshake for like two months. Until you get a contract in front of you and then you don't get paid for another two months later so it feels fake if you're not in.
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"I am not going to perform for y'all today for free today. You get a picture of flowers. So i started have better coping skills to to exist as more complex person online. It's taken a lot of bad experiences in a lot of me being naive a main meaning anyone in thinking like we're gonna vibe because like we're on the same page right like we found each other online. We're gonna like a lot of that stuff. I'm very friendly online. But i don't interact with people don't know anymore and i used to do that. Like catnip Let's unpack that. Because there's a lot of power in that and i can relate one hundred percent and i'm not nearly as popular as you are but i had a i mean it's because it's happened so the reason why i ask. Have you become more hard. It's because komo gets it guy your you know from experience that that you get and then you're like okay. Learned my lesson and so one time friend of mine now. She reached out to have coffee and she's very firmly and we met for coffee and i was like okay so i literally have thirty minute. What's up because for me. The increase of received is like. I want to start podcast. How do i do that. Yeah or like helped me run my business. You know whatever. And so it. Because of what i do and so now. She jokes that she's like no. I generally wanted to be your friend. You were like so like drawing the line. And i'm like because had to draw them. Yeah yeah ways like you said like. I'm not going to perform for free. And i think people project onto us parts of themselves and then when you end up not being what they have projected on you not what you have done whatsoever. Day are quick to show disappointment. And then you're just feeling like but i. I'm the same person you are the one that had these expectations. I see a online that. I'm a mess expressed like why..
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"At fourteen. I remember asking more questions but it took me a while because in our tradition. You don't question that stuff and only men are really allowed to know the wisdom though. There was a lot that i just didn't think about. Because i wasn't encouraged to and then when i started to like i remember asking my mom like you don't believe in evolution like you don't believe in like i really. We came from a rib of a man. Like you really believe that. That's like what happened. And my mom was like this gay you know like is you like laughing kept driving. So they were very dismissive. Even of like any inquisitions any curiosities. And if you had too much curiosity you would be viewed poorly like if you were outwardly. Very curious you would get shunned. Really mcclay would reflect poorly on my parents who are pastors like. I had to be very careful of why. Talk to who ask questions to. Who what what i thought back like makeup was a sign of sunni. Curiosity was a sinus singing. Rebellion was a sign of demonic possession. Or you were playing with the devil. There was a lot of like i remember. I got a ticket once and my mom was like two crossover is not with god like things like you gotta take it because that was the logic like in the church that i lived in an like was in community in anything that happened. Poorly was a reflection of your badge soul. Whoa and you talk about this in your toxic masculinity chapter whether relationship with your dad your brother now may i read a little bit of at the. I wanna read a lot of it. Let's see how it feels to get someone. Read a book so this part when you're talking to bow andrey's which is a friend. Yeah when you went on this trip with your dad to nicaragua and in your mind you embarked on this trip to heal their relationship of you and your bubby hoping that he would be the man that you knew when you were a little girl now but will happen..
Cafe con Pam Podcast
"mojica" Discussed on Cafe con Pam Podcast
"Hello everyone this is pam the gover- gun bam the riling. What podcast features latina's latinos next latina and people of the global majority who break barriers change lives and make this world a better place. Welcome to episode one hundred twenty three of kumbum. Today we have a conversation with the one and only scott. Dora's mohegan he is author of four brown girls with sharp edges and tender hearts a love letter to women of color. but he's got a orcas. Mojica rodriguez is a writer and activist working to ship the national conversation on race. She's the founder of letting our rebels and her work has been featured by npr teen vogue. Huffington post letting voices on the end univision. But he was born in managua nagata. Well because nashville tennessee home. She got her masters of divinity. From vanderbilt university in the spring of two thousand and fifteen the bulk of her work is around making accessible through storytelling and creating content. The theories and heavy material that is often times only taught in the racist classes institutions of academia date. She's published over two hundred articles online and participated in the young adult anthology. Nevertheless we persisted recently but he's got also participated in an analogy edited by linda. Lopez titled the fearless rice and powerful resonance of alexandra. ocasio gorgeous. Priest guy is unapologetic angry and uncompromising about protecting and upholding the stories of lat next communities give you a hindi listeners. Omg i have been waiting patiently to release this episode and to also have a conversation with brisker because we talked back in. I believe it was two thousand seventeen. Maybe we mentioned in episode and we had a never released interview on governor bum her interview. I actually interviewed her and that episode was released in a different podcast. And i don't think that podcast is. I mean it's not around anymore. But i don't know if even the episode is out there so maybe we'll do on an edited released one day and back then but he's gone i like she's awesome and so i was waiting to have an opportunity to talk to her again and this conversation was so delicious it was great. It was great hebrew meadow. Let's listen to the sponsor of this episode combined. Amigos.
Locatora Radio
"mojica" Discussed on Locatora Radio
"This doesn't sound conspiracy theorist at all you legitimate. You're getting this. Sounds like i don't know the stream validates. I wanted to share to that so we. I think we've discussed this on the podcast but the roman catholic church. I think that this is super horrendous. And i feel like it hasn't been talked about enough when the pandemic happen dry. The catholic church scott taxpayer backed covert relief. One point four billion dollars in taxpayer backed krona virus aid this. Ap news dot com article says many millions of at one point four billion going to dioscese that have pain huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover ups so they got all this money and then they used it for their abuse. Yup yup and we just. I think people get defensive when they hear be specifically talk about. Because i do. I i like i love it. I'm like let's go. Let's go toe to toe baby. I ready because it is something that i'm really passionate about it. It could have taken my life away. Like i could've just that generational curse just repeated and repeated repeated. You said a mouthful there girl. Because yeah i feel that and i feel like i and i do this like i did this on our last episode. I was like you know. I feel like i can say this shit about catholicism because i studied i was in a catholic school k through twelve like i. I've been in this. And so i feel like if there's anybody that can like stay something about christianity and critique it's gonna be you and it's going to be folks that have lived their whole lives in it and have left ray and are now pushing back against it. Yeah and i feel like one of the things that so insidious is like. At least i feel that i have still not truly laugh because i live with my family. And they're still in an early in the pandemic and this is like it's not necessarily a bad thing. Because i like to keep abreast a you know of situations and so like you know the twenty four seven basically mesa. That's just like running on tv. It's part of my atmospheres. Heard my environment. So i can be all like. Oh yeah like mima non believer or whatever but i've completed all of my sacraments except for death. Marriage in holy orders. Unity mean and like dead in that order in that order in that exact order really aircraft death in marriage. I'll get married after i die. Get married who is the actress of big mouth. The one who the block do you guys watch big. Yeah on with jay. In the moma. I'll get married and have would lean into that lord and have been lured in heaven. You see their phony. I love i love the it is it. Is people like my friends like. We've all kind of been rejected from the church in one way or another for like a group of all pastors kids from the same denomination. And we like i. I get your your by krish music now. But that's just me at the stage that made in my healing journey but they'd like lead into that worship music when they're anxious and like their spiritual practices are still like within that even when the lyrics are toxic. Because i mean we do that with like sometimes our own toxic acids age that we healy fog. So i don't know. I think there is room for that. Yeah i mean that's just how embedded it is in our culture like either in like little christian culture being in the us or like being aladdin eggs and like in some sect of christianity ray and so so embedded in everything that we do. Yeah there's like so an ethics. There's like you do either christian ethics regular ethics for why people for black people in the us for black people in africa than like everybody gets separate except that the nikes ethics because our ethics are so informed by the culture that we don't separate them in the field and that's wild that that doesn't happen in other fields to me because it is. It is what we breathed what. We've normalized what we've yeah i think too. It's so like insidious because not only is it etched into the culture. But it's like etched into the literal folds of our brains like here how we're so young and super repetitive. Like prayers and the songs all the fucking music than the hours of live ganda yet that should is like embedded like i had a draw out of the drop of a hat. I could like fucking recite the fucking hymnals and shit. You know what. I mean an prayers and it's will never leave my mind and that should trips me out because i'm like i don't want to be bis. Well verse say. I'm so wilburs that happened to me. Where like my man like said some thing like he was like kind of joking like say like scriptures and completed the sentence. I finish it and i was like. It took me back and i was like. Oh my god. What did i just do. Somebody said oppose that was like Went to saw of you. What's asahi could sing all the lyrics to and if you did so correctly you'd win a million dollars and like i was like domain pandera beach like i go to goodi like no other way even though secular music by much i call it secular music. That's how much of a.
NewsRadio KFBK
"mojica" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Alliance President Tom Manzo. Placed the ad. California's labor laws are not that great. They're not business friendly whatsoever. That's why so many people are leaving the state. That's why so many Businesses air going under If they start to pass some of the laws that are in California. Federally, I mean it could be problematic for us as a nation. The ad says Sue over some massive failure of California's unemployment insurance system insights and estimated 30 billion and unemployment fraud on her watch, including checks sent to death row inmates. We also just received a response from her office, so we'll have more on that response and the full story coming up at 6 17 your top national story. Lawmakers are working across party lines at the White House in order to get a covert relief bill passed. CBS News SKYLAR Henry has the latest group of Republican senators is meeting with the president and vice president at the White House to discuss their $600 billion covert relief counterproposal. It's an exchange of of ideas and opportunity to do that. What this meeting is not is a form for the president to make or accept an offer. Senate Republicans have balked at the $1.9 trillion price tag of President Biden's proposal. Both plans call for $160 billion for covert vaccine distribution, testing and PPE supplies. Key differences in the GOP proposal includes smaller direct stimulus payments with a lower income cut off and lower weekly unemployment insurance payments on Lee lasting through June. More news Now with KFBK is Joe Michael's getting more than 40,000. Californians have now died from covert 19. That's one in every 1000. Even so, kfbk is Greg Fishman tells us. You see, Davis research finds up to 38% of residents or hesitant are unlikely to get vaccinated. The hesitancy about the vaccine seems to say. Them from how quickly they were developed. Doctor Dean Blumberg, a UC Davis epidemiologist, says. There's a reason that happened so fast. The whole world dropped everything to get these vaccines out there, and basically an unlimited amount of money was put Towards developing these vaccine. Anthony right from Health Access, California says the vaccines were fully tested and they work and they're safe. He also says there's still not enough vaccine for everybody who wants it to get it right now. I hope that we can get past this moment of scarcity in a few weeks or months rather than have that last into the summer. Or into the fault, right says for right now you have to be over 65 or meet some other criteria to be eligible for the covert vaccine. Greg Fishman News 93.1 KFBK. Many school district officials in California say they won't be applying for a share of $2 billion in grants to help reopen their schools. Governor Gavin Newsom's deadline for grant applications is this week. Some educators say the program won't cover the costs associated with re opening their campuses. The amount of testing PPE and other safety measures needed far exceeds what the grants will pay for it. There's also concerned that the new variants of the Corona virus will increase infection rates that far surpassed the state's reopening requirements. Unions are becoming more aggressive in their stance on vaccines for teachers after Governor Newsome outline plans to reopen schools Plaster County School Superintendent Gail Garba Lino Mojica says it was disheartening when Governor Newsome announced everyone 65 over it become eligible because it bumped teachers down the list. Same time we have then all the sudden are outside of the approved plan and providing the vaccine to a group of individuals who are undoubtedly very necessary that they receive the vaccine as well. But we got bumped out. Even Fisher of the Sacramento City Teachers Association says While he doesn't know it to be a fact, he thinks the requirement for teacher vaccinations may end up being worked.
NewsRadio KFBK
"mojica" Discussed on NewsRadio KFBK
"Outlined plans to reopen schools. Plaster County School Superintendent Gail Garbarino. Mojica says it was disheartening when Governor Newsome announced everyone 65 over had become eligible because it bumped teachers down the list. Same time, then all the sudden are outside of the approved plant in providing the vaccine to a group of individuals who are undoubtedly very necessary that they receive the vaccine as well, but we got bombed out, David Fisher of the Sacramento City Teachers Association says while he doesn't know it to be fact He thinks the requirement for teacher vaccinations may end up being worked out at the legislative level, and a Sacramento man is charged with a double homicide in Vacaville over the weekend, Police say Raymond Michael Webber is accused of killing two women inside an apartment on Rocky Hill Road. The suspect was arrested Saturday morning after he had barricaded himself inside the apartment for about eight hours. Police say the woman called a police say a woman called to report Weber was live streaming himself from inside the apartment. Police said the video showed Webber with a gun and also showed the two victims lying on the floor not moving. Weber remains in the Solano County jail on two counts of murder and domestic assault, traffic and weather together. Here's Dana Hess and Roger My Church's chicken man on our roadways. Right now we have somebody walking in lanes of traffic. That's gonna be westbound Camp City. On and it looks like they may have got this guy out of the roadway. It's um, slowing as you approach the American River East bound by the way, very heavy as you approach the river and the slow down and begins actually, just as you come through midtown, and by the time you get to the river, it should be done. Otherwise, freeways had the limit at this time in this season's hottest collection is dropping to a dinner table near you, featuring the new, crisp and golden Standard Church's New Texas tenders Authorized with butterfly shrimp. Snag your Texas tenders and shrimp meal today just five bucks. Church is bringing it down. Home flavor traffic on the tens, every 10 minutes mornings and afternoons. Dana has news 93.1 kfbk increasing funding this this afternoon highs 63 to 67 periods of rain tonight from lead evening on 50 to 54 clouds and showers tomorrow. I'm 57 to.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"mojica" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"In his budget address today. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state's fiscal future is dependent on how much aid it receives from Washington. Under the new administration of President elect Joe Biden and the Democratic led Congress. Cuomo was looking for $15 billion to plug two years of state budget gaps, and he's threatening to sue if he doesn't get it. Karen DeWitt reports, Cuomo presented two starkly different scenarios, depending on how much aid New York ultimately gets from an anticipated new federal relief package that would provide a total of $350 billion to state and local governments Hard hit by the cove in 19 pandemic. One if the state gets $6 billion in eight, Cuomo says that would result in a $9 billion gap. He proposes filling it with new, higher income tax brackets for the state's wealthiest residents, delaying the next phase of a middle class tax cut and a 5% across the board cut to all state funding for state agencies as well a schools, healthcare providers and local governments. Worst case scenario, I would consider that the 2021 version of the federal government's saying drop dead. To New York. The governor says if the state receives the full $15 billion in federal aid he's seeking than none of those things would happen and the state would add programs, including the $130 million stimulus package for restaurants and small businesses devastated by the pandemic related economic shutdowns. It could also begin a $300 billion infrastructure program. Paid for through state borrowing and federal and private funds, Cuomo says If Biden and the Democratic led Congress don't come through with the full amount he's seeking, he will commence litigation. Lawsuit would focus on the governor's grievances from what would then be the previous administration of President Donald Trump and Republicans who led the Senate during most of the pandemic. So far covert assault in New York was caused by federal negligence, right? And second New York was used as a political pin yada for this federal government. In a briefing with reporters, Cuomo's budget director Robert Mujica says While the state's finances are grim, there happened some signs of improvement in recent months, he says Revenues from tax collections are higher than initially expected, and his office took many steps to haul down spending, including freezing hiring and planned wage increases, imposing a moratorium on all new state contracts and temporarily withholding 12. Percent in aid payments from schools and local governments. He says 15 per cent of that money withheld can now be restored. But Mojica says nearly half of the two million jobs lost in March and April in 2020 have not come back and employment in New York may not fully recover until late in 2023, or even 2024, so the current situation is one of uncertainty. Mujica did not provide a specific action plan if the federal aid package fall somewhere between six billion and $15 billion, saying his office would discuss options with the Legislature. Democrats who lead the state Senate, in a statement say they favor raising taxes on the wealthy if those choices have to be made. Democrats in the assembly have previously said they also favor the tax hikes. Republicans who are in the minority in the legislature criticized the governor for blaming Washington for the state's fiscal problems. And for not giving enough credit for previous federal relief packages. Senator Tom O'Meara is the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee have to be able and ready. In New York to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps and that just continue to wait on handouts from the federal government to appease our overspending weighs in New York state, he says. New York already had a $6 billion structural deficit before the Corona virus hit. Regardless of the amount of federal aid that New York ultimately gets. Cuomo is proposing to new programs that would raise an estimated $800 million in state revenues legalizing the sale of marijuana to adults for recreational purposes and expanding mobile sports betting in Albany. I'm carrying too wet It's w when y seem just ahead. It is marketplace tonight. While the national unemployment rate of 6.7% things do look very different in some states in Hawaii, more than 10% of people are unemployed. When you've got a town that is entirely dependent on con terrorism, one way or another, you're looking at a very difficult time..
Jonny Gould's Jewish State
Interview With Stephen Lamonby
"As an engineer Steven Lamb designed navy torpedoes satellite carrying Rookus oil rigs special effects for Hollywood blockbusters films like saving. Private Ryan. Ryan's just to name. Finding him. So even though homes that earns me the right to get back to my wife and. That's my mission. To. Remove your helmet and tell me Your name. Name is gladiator. I will have my venues. Generous with his time he proved that so many times when he was working at solar giving up his time for free. After the lectures were over. With students who needed that extra tuition, he joined university as a part time lecturer in special effects and mechanical engineering. And he really does turn dry boring lectures because I've definitely sat through some lectures which are quite boring into exciting practical demonstrations. And is it true that you constructed a fake Russian tank and it was used on the streets of Saint Petersburg James Bond movie. Goldeneye? Yes, we did. Yeah. We did that. How did that come about? Because the Russians didn't WanNA. Wheel tank driving over the cobblestones. Smashing cobblestones up around the Mojica Palace. So we built a tank like a kid's toy which rubber tracks and underneath had wheels. So we'll take but not break anything and how did you get into the James Bond movie. To supply. Thanks. Okay, the power of tanks they you got the PUTT supplied. All, the military vehicles for Saving Private Ryan. Was Elvis choice for the James Bond Films. Thank you a sexist misogynist dinosaur relative to. James. WAISTBAND. Like boys with toys. I wouldn't single. Chatting, sophisticated secret agent shaken but not to stir, we're actually by the river. In Winchester as the people won't buy on a sunny August stay. And a lot of people didn't about you. Thank you very much for joining us software pleasure because of that private lunch last year. So perhaps you could set the record straight firstly in what context did you say the words Jewish people are among? The cleverest in the world. It came up in conversation. About Physics I've always an interest since I was a boy in astrophysics. because. I couldn't believe that one hundred years ago almost. Albert Einstein we're talking about such abstract subjects as light being affected by gravity. And he works out the speed of light, which was a phenomenal thing to do in the nineteen twenties. How did this man come to realizations about what actually control the will then what does control the world? And the whole universe that we live in? So. My interest was based on this philosophy. On physics. And when the lady Mico sleater told me that she was a qualified physicist and she was American. It was almost involuntary question for me to Oscar. She was Jewish and again, this was a private lunch at a private lynch over Cup of coffee. Now, it was also reported to say that you said that black men on the privileged needle help that they can get. Yes. I did say that. Because I've worked all over the world of work in Africa I worked in South Africa Mozambique worked in North Africa. And I realized that a lot of people in Africa are culturally disadvantaged. Cheaper to anybody else. But. The coach or they grow up in doesn't give them the advantages that we have in the West. And therefore, I was always prepared to give them extra help. In addition to this, it was reported in the Times by Phillips that you told Dr Burner. Most Nigerians did not have it in their DNA to be engineers. Is this true? Absolutely not true. This was one of the spiteful comments made by my course. Lita. In a fifth of of temper to get me set knowing. It would certainly get me ten. She also alleged other city things. Like that I was a totalitarian. Does, one become a totalitarian over coffee break. Did you say anything about DNA and African students I said nothing about ten not not an area of expertise of mine. I know nothing about it I only know that gets us by the police. In various reports, you read in the papers on I know nothing about DNA.
BSP: Believer Skeptic Podcast
Summoning La Segua
"Comes from a reddit. Post from five years ago by a user named Marciano. Eight six three nine okay. So is this supposedly true or is this a fictional story supposedly true okay? So they say When I was a kid living Masaya Nicaragua. The story of Saleh was a folk tale. That went around my school around the neighborhood. The story basically goes that Loselle was half Spanish. Indigenous was like what are these words who had an affair with the Spanish man? During the time of conquest to cover up the affair he revealed her witchcraft activities to the inquisition. That was hunting which is at the time. Our God's going down the criminal. She escaped into the forest and she still walks the roads at night. Luring men to her and then ripping them apart. Oh God out. Have you ever heard of this because this is kind of an from Nicholas are south South Bill above below Mexico? Such A. You're such an American. I recently reconnected. With an old neighbor friend of Mine Louis Philippine and we started talking about the legends. We heard growing up. He mentioned Lhasa and a summoning ritual that some of the kids at his high school used to do. After I had moved away from Nicaragua according to Lewisville Ebay his elder sister had passed the story onto him Some of her friends had done the same thing when she was a teenager. And the story of Lhasa was popular at her high school. The summoning ritual draws an all on old magic traditions but was simple enough. That kids started using it to scare each other. I don't know how many people actually perform the ritual. Since a lot of Nick Nicaraguan kids will respect and leave alone magic but there are always people who want to scare and if need if you need a special magic assist. This is a way to get it. Our boy here are the instructions. He gave me copy and pasted from his email cleaned up a little bit and translated into English the way. Oh that's what he said. Not You ever saw that. That was your personal wait. You translated no not okay. This is a spot on the. His older sister told me to do to summon Lhasa into the House. It makes her come from wherever she is even issues very far away. You need a big bowl of water. At least four palm fronds some black or Brown Dark Brown hairs a candle and a handful of mustard seed container. That you cannot see or into so. That'd be dark hairs. I saw a blind like pull them from something. Could you do died hairs count? I don't think they'll have to be natural of okay. Well get it from somebody else. You could pull out there Wooden boxes the lids are cloths. Cloth bags are best but I think anything can work as long as you cannot see through it even even an envelope. It should be something you can open easily. You'll need four big squares of black cloth to as an offering you'll need a small beautiful object like necklace a seashell some laser. Johnstone picture of cody. But you will not be getting it back. Oh it needs to be nighttime. When you do the ritual I you make a box or circle on the floor with a palm fronds. They do not need to touch by need enough to have at least one on each side of you and in front and behind you. This tells Loselle out that you are in her forest. You should make sure all the windows and doors of the room. You are in our open because La la needs to wait to get inside the air out. Her forest put the bowl full of water in the enclosure of Palm. Fronds right in front of you so you have enough room to sit but the candle and the offering in the enclosure. It's a good idea to have a friend with you. But they have to be outside the enclosure. Now turn off all the lights. Light The candle and go into the enclosure. Now you can't leave until the ritual is over place the box full of mustard seeds beside your right hand and the hair beside you left hand on either side of the ball this random assortment of crap. You need to take three. Blocks grows a fabric and line them up in front of the ball inside the enclosure. Blow out the candle. When you're ready to begin. Began the ritual. This symbolizes nightfall. You have to be totally silent from now until US arrives. Look down into the water and the ball. You should start to see not the ceiling of the room or in but the jungle. Oh Shit in the reflection. Yeah Oh that's crazy. Yeah then you'll see a woman at a distance reflection fuck that God's you see getting closer and closer and closer but you can't stop the ritual. Oh Shit if she has dressed address of Guatemala trees leaves. I've seen that's a tree down. South held together with strips of black fabric and her hair is long black in covering her face. This is less ella. So you could. It could be someone else like her mom. I mean there is like dividing ritual that you could your badge walking into view the reflection. She's like Oh sorry when she gets close to the bowl of water. You'll see that. She was wearing a mask of leaves wrapped around her mouth and John as Miranda told me that this is to cover up her jealous smashed in and teeth were knocked out by Spanish authorities who are beating her after she ran from them when they were arresting her for witchcraft. Oh my God summoning this Yup. Okay after Lhasa nears she will start to come out of the bowl. Sounds so you'll see a hand like come like climbing out of a bull how. How big is his bowl? Because it's a little tiny like a shot glass his hand coming out of it. Allow her to do it but did not let her take off her mask. Oh Shit if she starts take off her mask. You have to stop the ritual. If she takes it off she can speak and it will drive men insane. She will try to make eye contact but do not look into her eyes and do not tell her your name. Wow when her shoulders are out of the bowl make the simple requests. Get us of Hitler's Mojica's which means I want three magic objects. Okay so this is okay I was like why would you summon this? But this is why okay so you get almost. Yeah Yeah then when our shoulders are out of the bowl? Yeah it's so creepy Then dropped the offering in the ball if she begins to sink back down in the bowl you did the ritual right if she starts to rise out of the ball farther angry and you have to stop the ritual immediate. Do not try to ask her for anything. Other than what? The ritual allowed clean what she has disappeared into the bowl. You have to pour the mustard seed into the water. This is also how you stop the richland point if you need to. The legend says that mustard seeds are spilled near her. She has to stop to count them. Pouring the mustard seed into the portal will distract her until you have the to dispose of the water issues. Like she's like Rain Rain woman. At this point you can leave the enclosure and make sure to take the ball with you you can flush the water down the toilet or sprinkle it in your yard. Make sure not to leave. Any puddles were Lhasa. While might be able to come through again. Damn if you flush the water down the toilet make sure to get all the mustard seeds out of the ball or she might come back to count the seeds. She missed out of the toilet. Yeah Oh God that'd be able then take the ball outside and smash and make sure it doesn't go back in the house thrown away or leave it outside. Now go back into the ritual room but did not look. Under the CL- cloths are going to the enclosure. Sleep in the room where you perform the ritual but makes you to close the windows and doors. Anyone who was in the room with you during the ritual must also sleep there. Do not get up even to go to the bathroom until after sunrise. When you wake up go to the enclosure you should find that Matt that the magic objects have been left under the three black CL- clots. Wow you can use these to perform curses and other