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A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

The New American Dream

A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

Education, News Commentary, Self-improvement, History, Personal Journals, News, Society & Culture

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2016

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Stephanie Beatriz grew up as an immigrant kid in Texas, and now she's on top of the world. She shares her surreal and inspiring story with Gaby, as America prepares to reckon with itself as a nation of immigrants following the presidential election. Plus: Why Oh Why host Andrea Silenzi on the depressing economics of breakups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

What up, Deadbeat Army, it is I, your general.

0:25.5

Gabby done.

0:26.7

I just had a doubt where I wasn't sure that general was the highest rank you could have.

0:30.5

I am your commander in chief.

0:32.6

Topical.

0:33.6

I've spent a lot of my adulthood feeling like an outsider.

0:38.6

As a queer feminist woman working in media, life, not to mention my Twitter feed, is pretty

0:43.0

much a constant stream of reminders that I'm different from everyone else, and that my

0:46.5

very existence makes a lot of dumbasses feel threatened.

0:49.9

But as we've discussed here on Bad With Money, I was familiar with that sense of otherness

0:53.6

long before I arrived in Los Angeles, and started stealing hearts and blowing minds.

0:59.6

According to my producer, that is a direct quote.

1:01.8

I've always felt out of place in Hollywood, but also starting from my childhood in Hollywood,

1:07.3

Florida, which is a real place that I'm actually from.

1:09.9

I went from one Hollywood to another Hollywood.

1:11.9

It's almost too on the nose.

1:13.2

And a lot of it has to do with the fact that I've always known that I had less money

1:16.8

than everyone else.

1:18.6

You've heard me talk about getting to LA and having no idea how so many people seem to

1:22.1

have enough money to just shoot their independent films, or not have jobs, which no one in

1:26.4

LA has a job.

1:27.7

Not to mention driving two and from sets of said films in a brand new Prius, or drinking

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