Welcome to Democracy-ish. I'm Danielle Moody.

And I'm with Jahat Ali.

And Waj, we have special guests that I want you to do the honor of introducing to Democracy-ish for the first time.

It's like we're on a double date, guys, and I'm so excited about it.

This is like the POC All-Star team, and we're starting on time.

We have the legendary.

We have the legendary OGs joining us, Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela,

the co-hosts of the Awesome in the Thick podcast. Thank you both for joining us, an exciting day

for us. So they'll cut that out. Thank you so much for joining us. We're so excited to have you on.

It's great to be here with you, fam.

We're so excited to be invited.

You know, even though I gave Julio a six out of ten on, on, on, on this room reader,

I want to say publicly that this is his 25th wedding anniversary.

So well done, sir, 25 years, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, confetti. I love it. You know what? I'm, I appreciate it. But I'm your roommateer. Like, I, why did

you do go there already? What is this? Because you cannot compete with Hedman Pettis art over here.

Yeah. Exactly. I'm always going to lose. And her plants.

You know, the only reason why I do that is because whenever, whenever his room is

juxtaposed to Maria's, which is like an amazing 10 out of 10 right now, I just feel

compelled to make a comment.

It's like, I think it's a fat house.

You know, Maria, Maria is in an art gallery and I'm like a frat boy living at the

right.

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