It's the Brian Laira Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

With us now, the veteran Democratic Party organizer, based here in New York, Luis Miranda,

who has written a memoir called Relentless. As a behind-the-scenes guy who hasn't run for office himself, he's not a

household name, but his son is Lynn Manuel Miranda, who also wrote the foreword to the book.

We'll talk about that a little bit, and Luis writes about him. Luisander's New York story starts with a decision to study psychology at NYU rather than law in Puerto Rico we grew up, and we'll take it from there with him.

The full title of the book is Relentless, My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America. Luis, thanks for coming on. Welcome

back to WNYC. It is a pleasure to be here with you, Brian. It has been a long time. Indeed.

Let's just get some of your biography on the table here, and then we'll talk about some of the

issues as we go, including up to the minute the so-called Latino vote in the 2024 election and why there seems

to be a decent amount of support for Trump in various Latino communities, even though he would

just as soon deport everybody. So where were you born and where did you grow up? I was born in a

small town in Puerto Rico, Vega-Alta.

I then went to the University of Puerto Rico, where I finished my BA,

and was recruited by the Clinical Psych PhD program at NYU

and came to New York having just turned 20.

We'll get to you in New York having just turned 20 in NYU.

But what was it like in the place you grow up?

Is there a short version of what kind of childhood you feel like you had or a picture

you could paint for our listeners who've never been there?

Absolutely.

Imagine a small town of six streets.

We continue to have six streets.

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