This is Alonzo Bowden. I want to welcome you to episode 341 of my podcast, Who's Paying

Attention. Now, my guest today is a woman I have been pursuing for at least the past year. We

tried to get her on the podcast, then we tried to get her on the radio show,

and now we finally have her here in studio.

She has the most brilliant,

button-pushing, hot HBO special right now,

along with everything else she does.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ida Rodriguez is here.

Thank you.

I'm glad to be here.

I used the word button pushing because I'm not sure how to describe it.

I mean, it's obviously funny.

But what you did in the special that I loved is you didn't just hit on topical stuff.

You hit on topical stuff as it relates to you personally because you have kind of a unique background.

Kind of a like.

So can we talk about that?

How did you intersect the two, your personal life and the bigger

topical things going on? So I think it's because I've been observing people and we all operate

from our own perception and our perception is usually built by our own experiences, that I was like, what is going on in the world?

Everybody's having these fights. We're having these culture wars.

And then I just said, let me dig into why I feel the way that I feel about certain things.

And so I wanted to show people the process. Like that special was really hard for me to do

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