Episode 121: El Santuario de Lester Rey
Latinos Who Lunch
Latinos Who Lunch
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
Este episodio is for all our Boricuas out there! On this occasion, Babelito sits with Lester Rey, an amazing Chicago musician, to talk about his new projects and the ways his mother's feminism has influenced all his musical adventures. Lester also talks about the reality of being a musician with a day job, his religious upbringing and his principal musical influences, which range from bugaloo to rock. Stay tuned to hear some amazing Chicago band recommendations and a little PSA from Babelito's nephews. And as always make sure to send your questions to AskLWLPod@gmail.com and we might read them on a future episode. #podsincolor #supportbrownpodcasts #supportlatinxpodcasts #lwlpod #supportlatinxmusicians #supportbrownmusicians #supportlocalmusic
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| 0:00.0 | Kisho, oh, Kishol, hi. |
| 0:04.0 | Hishol, hi. So here I am. |
| 0:15.0 | I am. |
| 0:17.0 | Babelito reporting from Chicago's land as always, I am here to introduce an amazing interview, but first I just want to tell you about my weekend because you know why not because it's our podcast and we can do whatever the fuck we want. So anyway, so this weekend has been crazy. I don't know if you follow my Instagram stories, but my nephews and my niece and my nephew are here with my sister also my husband's family just got here |
| 0:45.8 | last night girl what is it with us Mexicans we just piled on top of each other so |
| 0:51.5 | there's people in the living room there's people in the living room, there's people in the dining room, there's people in the guest room, there's people in our room. It's crazy, but I'm so, so happy and reminded of how lucky I am. |
| 1:03.0 | So this weekend a couple of things happened. |
| 1:06.0 | We went to the Museum of Science and Technology |
| 1:09.0 | in the campus, right outside the campus of the University of Chicago. |
| 1:15.0 | That space is one of the most amazing museums, but also one of the scariest museums here in Chicago. |
| 1:22.0 | Amazing because there's so many amazing activities for kids, |
| 1:25.0 | but also because you get, |
| 1:28.0 | it's almost like a science museum |
| 1:31.0 | for everybody, but augment augmented like they they put some drugs into it or something it's |
| 1:37.6 | amazing but there's a whole section dedicated to a submarine and a submarine that I guess I don't even know the story all I know is that they got it from the Nazis |
| 1:48.0 | It is an interactive exhibition. It's gigantic you walk from one part of the museum to a whole entire |
| 1:55.8 | part that was constructed just to house this submarine. It is a narrative of the |
| 2:01.0 | nation. Going in there was about patriotism, more specifically, |
| 2:07.0 | why supremacist patriotism, and it was scary. |
| 2:12.0 | I wanted to run from that space. |
| 2:15.0 | But it was also a reminder that as institutions, museums have a lot of work to do. |
| 2:23.7 | It's, I, there's like parts, like in the hallways, for example, there were parts where they were |
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