Julián Castro: In 2021, How Do We Prosper?

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We're back! To help unpack this political moment, we sit with former Mayor of San Antonio and 2020 Presidential candidate, Julián Castro. We discuss Trump’s impeachment (4:30), the filibuster as an obstacle to action (14:10), the fundamental difference between Democrats and Republicans (17:57), what it means to do the right thing in politics (20:35), the complexity of Latinx identity (23:02), connecting to Latino voters (26:10), and the how we keep the American Dream alive (31:52). Finally, Julián closes our conversation with an excerpt from the poem “I Am Joaquin” (34:31) and shares his hopes for how we can prosper (36:40).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. This is talk easy. I'm San Francisco, so welcome to the show. Oh, Hey everyone. Welcome back to the show. It has been a minute since we last spoke.
0:46.4	I think it's actually only been a month, but my God, what a month it has been. How are we doing? Are we hanging in there? I am, I suspect, like many of you, working
1:01.4	over time each day to find reasons to keep going to keep this ship afloat and I must say
1:10.4	before we get back into the show I want to thank everyone who has enthusiastically
1:16.6	supported us in the last four or five weeks.
1:20.3	Many of you have purchased our record with Fran Leibowitz.
1:23.7	Some of you bought one of the two mugs we had made in cream or navy.
1:28.9	Some of you just wrote me an email, drafted a tweet, an Instagram comment, all of it, and I do mean all of it, is how we keep
1:38.0	on keeping on here.
1:40.6	The truth is you don't make a labor of love for four and a half years without love from you.
1:47.0	Each of you that listens, that reaches out, tells us that the kind of conversations we foster on this show, they matter.
1:56.0	That even in this digitized, corporatized, madening moment, there is room yet to connect, to hear and to be heard. A space where we can
2:07.3	all sound as perfectly imperfect as you and I are. That has been my goal since I started this podcast in 2016.
2:17.0	And it continues to be my goal as we approach five years this April. So whether you're new to talk easy or
2:27.7	you've been here a year or two or three or four, welcome. It's good to be with you. We have so much in store for
2:36.2	2021, but today I wanted to sit with someone who could speak to what's
2:41.8	happening in American politics right now. That's why this
2:45.5	week we're sitting with Julian Castro. He was formerly the mayor of San Antonio
2:51.3	before taking a job in the Obama administration as the United States
2:56.2	Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
2:59.8	Most recently, he was a Democratic candidate for president where he ran on the Green New Deal and immigration reform with an emphasis on family reunification.
3:12.0	In a crowded diverse field Castro was the only Latino candidate in the race.
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