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🗓️ 9 July 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Recycling can feel like a lost cause, but one college student started a grassroots efforts to turn beer bottles into sand for eroding beaches. |
0:08.5 | We have some music bump in and like some people are sorting. There's one person crushing and the rest of us are like hand sifting the material. |
0:16.2 | Now you can come up with creative ideas by taking a second look. Double takes. |
0:21.3 | That's on the TED Radio Hour podcast from NPR. |
0:24.4 | Okay, Anna, before we start the show, |
0:26.6 | there's a video we have to talk about. |
0:28.4 | Oh, that video. |
0:30.9 | So Bad Bunny released the video on July 4th |
0:33.9 | for his song, Nueval Yol. |
0:40.0 | And he specifically decided to make it, is it fair to say Felix, like pretty blatantly, |
0:45.4 | very political? |
0:46.7 | Yes, it is. |
0:47.4 | I mean, obviously we've talked about this album already a ton on the show. |
0:51.3 | It's something that we come back to again and again and again because it is |
0:54.8 | brought up again and again and again. For one, the man is a marketing genius. He comes in at the |
0:59.4 | exact right moment, releases at these exact perfect points. And this is no exception. He did this |
1:06.0 | whole music video that was centered around the Puerto Rican experience in New York. And specifically, |
1:10.8 | he did things like showed Puerto Rican experience in New York. And specifically, he did things |
1:12.1 | like showed Puerto Rican occupation of the Statue of Liberty, did like an AI version of President |
1:18.2 | Trump apologizing to immigrants. Honestly, Felix, it really took me back to watching him in our |
1:25.7 | office, actually, because it's this brand of satire. |
1:30.0 | And we talk all the time, Felix, about, like, the two truths and the two places to really |
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