I'm I'm Good morning and welcome back to another episode of Biman.

I hope you all are doing well.

It's a chilly Monday morning here off the high of the Benito Super Bowl.

I think a lot of people, me included, really needed that spark and infusion of joy.

I'll definitely talk about that in the episode for sure.

I hope everybody is doing really well. I hope that you're taking care of yourselves and

that you're making sure to stay informed, but remember to take care of your mental health along the way.

With that being said, I quickly wanted to acknowledge something.

I have been thinking about this, and there are a lot of things that don't bother me that people say publicly, but one of them

that really bothers me is that I'm aggressive or too political.

And I know I'm really opinionated and I know I'm really passionate in those opinions.

But I didn't make my mere existence political.

Society did.

Racists did.

I didn't make my existence. society did, racists did.

I didn't make my existence as a fat woman of color, a Latina, in a time that Hispanic people,

Latinx people are being persecuted. I didn't do that.

But the fact of the matter is, it is.

My existence is political.

So as much as I struggle with the desire and the need to have certain conversations, right? I, it's hard for me to people are coming from when they say things like that, because I,

especially with like the new releases of the Epstein files and everything that's just been going on

in the last three months, I don't know genuinely from the bottom of my heart how that is not on the forefront

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