ITT Sound Off: The Shades of Gray
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Julio and guest co-host Fernanda Santos, editorial director of Futuro Media, discuss the recent mass shootings in California, two of nearly 40 that have happened this year so far. They also unpack the anti-government protests in Peru that have resulted in a nationwide state of emergency, and they get into Meta’s decision to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts after two years of being banned.
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Photo credit: AP Photo/Martin Mejia
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| 0:00.0 | From Futuro Media, MPRX, it's in the thick, I'm Julio Ricardo Varela, and I'm Fernando Santos. |
| 0:16.5 | I am the editorial director of Futuro Media and I am so happy to be here with you today, |
| 0:21.5 | Julio. |
| 0:22.5 | Right, and you're filling in because Maria's out reporting doing the amazing things |
| 0:26.2 | that she does. So I'm stepping in to bring to our listeners the news of the week. |
| 0:31.8 | ITT Sound Up. This is our little Friday ITT Sound Up. Yes, Maria, just follow her on Twitter. |
| 0:37.0 | She's sharing some things about her reporting that I'm going to let you all, you know, |
| 0:40.6 | read for yourself. But listen, super happy to have you guest co-hosting Fernando. |
| 0:45.2 | So excited when the producers told me this, I mean, I miss Maria, but I'm like, |
| 0:48.6 | oh my god, Fernando's with us just so you all know, we are in the studio in Harlem. |
| 0:53.3 | First time in the recording booth with you. This is okay. This is a moment. |
| 0:57.8 | All right. So let's get to it with our first topic, which is the ongoing gun violence in this |
| 1:03.1 | country. You know, there were two separate mass shootings less than 48 hours apart in the state |
| 1:09.5 | of California. The first one happened at a Lunar New Year celebration in Monterey Park, |
| 1:15.2 | where 11 people were killed, all of whom were of Asian descent for people that know Southern |
| 1:21.0 | California. Monterey Park is a city there in California that is 65% Asian. And it's an ethnic |
| 1:27.7 | enclave that is known as the first suburban Chinatown. So less than 48 hours after that in half |
| 1:34.8 | Moon Bay, which is up north in California, there was another shooting at two different farms |
| 1:40.9 | where seven people died. Reports say the victims were Asian and Latino farm workers. So these two |
| 1:46.9 | tragic incidents show how much gun violence continues to be an issue just over three weeks into |
| 1:54.0 | 2023. And there have already been at least 39 mass shootings that we know of 39. There's 31 days |
| 2:02.6 | in January, just giving you guys, you know, there's more mass shootings in days in January. |
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