Hey, I'm Gregory Warner.

You're listening to Rough Translation to show about how the conversations we're having

here in the United States might be playing out in some other corner of the world.

Today we are going to Buenos Aires, Argentina.

It's where our reporter, Jasmine Garist, comes from.

And if you're listening with small kids, there are some instances of offensive language,

maybe some taboo topics.

This story is a collaboration with this American life, and a version will appear there this

weekend.

Okay, here's Jasmine.

I watched a lot of television when I was a kid.

My grandmother, Yaya, would pick me up at school and bring me back to her place.

Her apartment was dark and humid.

It smelled like French bread and the exhaust from the buses on the avenue down below.

My grandfather was never around.

Yaya would make tea, and then we would go to her bedroom and turn the TV on, and suddenly

color sound and sex would fall into the world.

It was the early afternoon.

It was time for the talk shows.

Truzos en el espectáculo, un grupo de entrometidos profesionales.

Argentine talk shows are extreme, even for Latin American television.

The women are pumped up with silicone and Botox and sometimes show up wearing almost

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