Meet Jasmine! And her new pod, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints”

This Is Uncomfortable

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4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you listen carefully to our credits every week? Then you might’ve heard of our “silent contributor,” Jasmine Romero, who has been editing “This Is Uncomfortable” for the past year and a half. And all along, she’s also been working on another podcast of her own, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints.” It’s a show with a lot of Uncomfortable themes — immigration, family secrets and how money messes with politics.

We’re sharing the first episode of Jasmine’s pod, but before we jump in, she tells Reema how she reported this deeply personal story about the Salvadoran Civil War, the assassination of a beloved archbishop, and an unsolved murder in her own family. Reema and Jasmine bond over the challenges of reporting personal stories and reflect on how the show’s themes connect to current news events.

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0:00.0	Hello Jasmine, how's it going?
0:02.0	Hi Rima, how are you?
0:04.0	I'm good, I'm good.
0:06.0	So the reason we're talking right now is because you have a new podcast out
0:10.0	that we're sharing with our listeners today
0:11.0	called Sacred Scandal,
0:13.1	Nation of Saints. But before we get into that,
0:15.6	can you just introduce yourself to folks?
0:17.3	Because they've heard your name in the credits,
0:18.7	but this might be the first time they've heard your voice.
0:21.3	Yeah, I'm like the secret contributor to the show.
0:24.8	I'm like always lurking in the credits.
0:26.9	I'm Jasmine Romero.
0:28.4	I am a freelance writer, editor, podcaster,
0:32.4	and I also get to edit, this is uncomfortable, which is amazing.
0:35.8	It's my favorite thing.
0:37.4	Yeah, you've been our editor now for about a year and a half and I love that we're turning the
0:41.6	mic now and we get to hear from you and your show that you've been working on for the last couple of years called Nation of Saints.
0:47.2	Can you just, yeah, talk a little bit about it. Tell us what it's about.
0:50.9	Yeah. So Sacred scandal, Nation of Saints came out of being the child of immigrants.
0:57.7	I'm the first person in my family to be born in the U.S. and I grew up in South Central LA.
1:06.0	I knew that we were from El Salvador,
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