All right. Hello, everybody. I'm back at it with another bonus interview episode out this week for you.

Right now, I'm joined by a reporter with L.A. Taco, Memo Torres. Memo. How's it going?

Going well, man, as well as it could be with all those ice siege and ice activity all over Los Angeles. How you doing, man?

I'm all right. I mean, it seems like the whole

country is under siege right now. And L.A. has always been at the forefront of it. And that's why we

wanted to get you on to talk about this. But before we get into that, because you just tell me a little

bit about L.A. Taco and how you guys sort of went from covering food culture in LA to be doing some really indispensable reporting

on the ongoing like siege of your city by federal agencies. Yeah. If you're not familiar with LA

Taco out there, crash course. We started off as a blog in 2006 that covered graffiti,

cannabis and food, specifically tacos. In 2018, we relaunched as a publication and, cannabis, and food, specifically tacos.

In 2018, we relaunched as a publication

and started doing more news coverage,

culture, arts of Los Angeles as basicative journalism.

But yeah, we've always been 50% food,

50% news, culture arts.

And then when, you know, on June 6th, when Trump sent his troops here and they did the

first raid at an apparel company in downtown, Los Angeles, we immediately knew what was

happening.

And we just jumped to, we took all our resources, all our community connections and just

felt this kind of instinctual

reaction to cover ice from now on. Well, from your perspective in Los Angeles, like, I know this

is a broad question, but like, how bad is it? Like, what have you been seeing and, like,

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