Welcome to Fang Thai The podcast for all those complex and complicated conversations about the gray areas in our lives.

I am politics and pop culture journalist Jared Hill.

And I am a bad bitch travel Anderson.

Wow so exhausting right out the gate.

If you guys knew what we went through just to get here for you today.

It's Jarrett's phone.

Coming up on the show today, we're getting into part two of our series.

An American?

Where we're looking into the unique ways that minorities and marginalized groups engage pride, patriotism,

and simply existent as American, okay?

Last week we zeroed in on the Asian American experience.

This go around, we're talking about our Latin ex-familia.

We're gonna be joined shortly.

But one of my good, Judy's Brian de la Santo's,

who's in charge of all things digital at the desert Sun and the West Coast Social League for the USA Today Network

But before we get into that we're remixing the structure once more and starting with our dishonorable mentions from the top.

These are the stories or people that caught our attention this week that deserve a call out

or a call in either for their good or their stupid. Trevel, I'm gonna let you start.

All righty, well first and foremost I'm to give an honorable mention to the one the only empire.

Lee Daniels television series that we all loved when it debuted in 2015.

Please don't play with my emotions right now.

I'm not going there.

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