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🗓️ 2 November 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Christopher Leiden, and this is open source in the long weekend of solemn suspense before our presidential election in 2024. |
0:10.6 | Our guest is Amber. I met Amber on a call-in radio show almost 30 years ago, and we've been talking ever since. |
0:19.9 | I call you my Oracle from Underground, Amber, the voice've been talking ever since. I call you my oracle from underground, Amber, |
0:23.6 | the voice of the unknown America, undocumented, since you arrived in the United States as a child |
0:31.0 | and an orphan, and you've been without papers, as you say, ever since, despite our best efforts. |
0:38.5 | When Donald Trump talks about sweeping deportations, if he gets reelected, |
0:43.4 | the face I see is yours. |
0:46.7 | He's talking at a scale of millions. |
0:49.4 | I'd just love you to speak for the target of those threats. |
0:56.9 | From your head, your heart, what you're going through fair is an interesting thing i guess it's you feel it you taste it you live with it it's there every |
1:07.6 | moment it's in the supermarket when you're buying the loaf of bread the last month or so as this selection moves closer. |
1:16.9 | You know, it's your hand on the bread and your eyes at the door. Do I need the bread? Is the bread that significant? |
1:25.1 | Will I have time to eat the bread? Do I need to run more than I need the bread? |
1:30.9 | The bread's going to cost money. |
1:32.3 | I need that money if I need to get out of here. |
1:35.0 | And then you feel that wave of there's no place to go. |
1:38.7 | Where am I going to go? |
1:40.1 | You think Canada, we may get to that. |
1:41.6 | Do you see ICE officers coming up the stairs? |
1:44.6 | I imagine so. I can't imagine there's a whirl in which there won't be. |
1:49.2 | I mean, you start to reshape everything in your mind, doctor's appointments at BMC. |
1:55.8 | I took a nasty fall in Matapan a few months ago. |
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