His Mom Got Deported. Then He Went Viral.
Slate Technology
Slate
4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Today’s TikTok influencers share every aspect of their lives: from their morning routines, to getting ready to go out, to their parents being detained and eventually deported by ICE.
Guest: Tony Vara, TikTok creator @itonyvara
Want more What Next? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and across all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen.
Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme, and Rob Gunther.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | This episode is brought to you by Vanta. |
| 0:03.0 | Security and compliance done wrong is a headache. |
| 0:06.0 | Done right, you build trust and grow faster. |
| 0:08.0 | That's Vanta. |
| 0:09.0 | For startups, Vanta acts as your first security hire, |
| 0:13.0 | using AI to get you compliant fast. |
| 0:15.0 | For enterprises, it's your AI-powered hub for compliance, |
| 0:18.0 | risk and automating workflows. |
| 0:20.0 | From startups like Cursor to |
| 0:21.8 | enterprises like Snowflake, top companies choose Vantor. Do security and compliance right. Get started |
| 0:27.5 | today at Vantor.com. |
| 0:32.9 | Hey, it's Mary. Yesterday, I told you that I'm on a mission to get 100 people to join Slate |
| 0:40.3 | Plus before the new year. We are even offering a 50% off deal to folks who join us right now. |
| 0:47.7 | So for the next few days, I figured I'd pop in here and give you a few reasons to join us. |
| 0:54.0 | Other than this show, of course, which you love. |
| 0:56.9 | Today I'm going to call out Slate's coverage of the Supreme Court, |
| 1:00.3 | which offers analysis that conservatives love to hate, |
| 1:04.2 | and the rest of us just love. |
| 1:07.0 | You know, a couple years back, there was actually a meeting of GOP lawyers in D.C. |
| 1:11.9 | A federal judge got up and name-checked journalists one by one, encouraging everyone there to laugh at these folks. |
| 1:20.3 | Those journalists included Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern from our team here. |
| 1:25.2 | Some reporters would hear about this and get freaked out. But Mark actually |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Slate, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Slate and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.