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And now welcome to the award winning best of the left podcast with clips today from the bigger

picture project the David Pakman show the Marion Institute the real food media project

radio dispatch and redacted tonight. My grandpa flashes a gold tooth when he smiles

like I dare you to take something from between my lips. His tooth shines from the light of the

TV screen when my family watches Tel Avundo during dinner time. While I practice my Spanish,

grandpa unhinges the English from his mouth at least for a little while. This is how we both learn

to be penimanian American through television and food. He tells us of our ancestors how they raised

maze and yuka from the earth hand steeped in indigenous soil. How his warriors we drink a cow

and water bitter from the gourd a medicine sacred to the gods between growing up and

cologne parama in a tour in the US army grandpa is a proud old soldier marching through a never

ending war at 66 we are scared that another stroke could do it no war ever could and cut him to

the ground. He drinks like Aunt Maneta didn't lose both of her legs to diabetes last year like half

of our neighborhood doesn't look like the emergency ward of a hospital like he hasn't seen the

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