This is an I-Heart podcast.

Happy Latino Heritage Month, Mala.

Happy Latino Heritage Month, and thank God, I'm, I've hatched.

I exist now.

You're reborn.

All year, Latinos are just, just like, gestating in our little eggs, just waiting for Latin

X heritage month to come around so you can poke our little eggs, just waiting for Latin eggs heritage month to come around

so you can poke our little heads out and exist as full human beings.

And what a time to be a Latino in this country.

Oh, what a time indeed to be a Latin.

To be a person of Latin American heritage. It's quite a doozy these days.

It's quite a doozy because I feel like we see some real good news here and there, you know,

friends, community members having big wins in their own lives. I think that we have our own individual

excitement going on, but then we open the curtains

and look out the window, and it's like fire and brimstone. Yeah. It's pretty wild. It's a good time

to also consider how we preserve our culture and resist. And I think as much as we want to poke fun

of like Latino

Heritage Month, because yes, we're Latino 365 days, it's a good, it's a good reason to

remember commemorate like our history in this country. And I think that that's, that's part of the point, right?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Even though brands try to pretend we don't exist the other 11 months of the year.

Until it's time for our dollars. Yes. And then give me, gimme, our $1.6 trillion.

Hand it over. Come spend. And we do. And we do every time. Take it.

...