Building The Future: A Message From Maria
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
We’re doing something different! Today, Maria Hinojosa joins listeners for a special message announcing something new from Futuro. Been dreaming of immediate full season access, and behind the scenes chisme from your favorite shows at Futuro? We have too! Listen to hear more about what’s next for Futuro. To help us grow the future of journalism go to: futuromediagroup.org/joinplus
The Futuro Plus team includes producer Sam J Leeds, production managers Francis Poon and Jessica Ellis, marketing manager Luis Luna, development manager Danetsy Len, and engineers Gabriela Baez and Stephanie Lebow.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Zing Singh and I'm Simon Jack |
| 0:02.6 | And together we host Good Bad Billionaire |
| 0:04.8 | The podcast exploring the lives of some of the world's richest people |
| 0:07.9 | In the new season we're setting our sights on some big names |
| 0:10.9 | Yep, LeBron James and Martha Stewart to name just a few |
| 0:14.2 | And as always Simon and I are trying to decide |
| 0:16.7 | Whether we think they're good, bad or just another billionaire |
| 0:19.5 | That's Good Bad Billion billionaire from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:22.8 | Listen now, wherever you get your BBC podcasts. |
| 0:29.9 | So when I was a little girl, I used to watch the evening news. |
| 0:34.8 | Every single night with my family. |
| 0:37.2 | They called it the March on Washington for jobs and freedom. |
| 0:41.1 | We would all be getting ready to have dinner. |
| 0:43.1 | It was six of us on the south side of Chicago. |
| 0:45.4 | Mom was always making a meal for us. |
| 0:48.6 | And I loved watching the news, the television news. |
| 0:53.6 | The message to the country is, free yourself by freeing us. |
| 0:57.5 | So much was happening. |
| 0:59.1 | Man finally has visited the moon after all the ages of wishing and waiting. |
| 1:04.2 | And we watched all the time. |
| 1:07.9 | But the thing is, is that I never saw anyone who looked like me or my family. I never saw people like us in all of the television news that I was consuming. |
| 1:20.5 | And of course, that made me think like, how many other people are out there whose stories aren't being told, right? |
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