Gustavo
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252 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Mar
Gustavo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why it's so important, like Astrid, I'm sure Ale feels this way, I'm sure you feel this way, is the Venezuelans are a displaced people. They're a displaced people, and they have been a displaced people. The indigenous have lived there, but the Spanish came over. They were a displaced people. And now many Venezuelans, most of them, it's kind of in a brain drain, is a displaced people also.
It is so important to keep that connection through socialization, family members or not family members, because that is the connection to home. Home is a thought right now for a lot of Venezuelans. It's not a place.
It's a real challenge.
one and again I get it I have a real longing for that in my own family because that is not how we operate our family I've said this on the show I've told Astrid this I've probably told my therapist this a million times in my culture and by culture I mean the family that I grew up in and the people and the extended family members we have gatherings are not a thing you linger it's not a place where you linger it's a place where you get together for a minute and
And then you go, right? And then you're out. You don't linger. No one spends the night. You know how many times I spent the night at my grandma's house on my mom's side? Twice. Really? Maybe. Maybe twice. That's weird. We would literally go to a hotel before we would spend the night. That's weird. It's very strange.
Now that I've been embedded in this culture for so long, I see just how strange that really was.
I think it's the biggest, I think it's one of the biggest blessings you can give a child. It's one of the biggest blessings you can impart on someone like me who doesn't have it is the longing for connection with family in that way.
Now it still takes some getting used to, and it doesn't mean that you're always, you're ever like a hundred, like as someone as an outsider, I might always be just a little bit outside the actual, like the actual culture then that way.
But I long for, and I love, that Astrid gets to stay up till three in the morning, hanging out with her family. I think it's beautiful, I really do.
First of all, can you guys stop fucking talking over each other just for one second? I mean, honestly, you walk into a room of Venezuelans and everybody is having six different conversations at the same time. How do you even operate in that manner?
Oh, I get it. I hear my name all the time. But when three of you are saying it at the same time, I can't understand that one of you.
You're playing a game with me. We love to see your face. I think it's very difficult to understand Venezuelans if you're trying to learn Spanish. And I've said this many times. You're all talking over each other. That's impossible. It's hard. I need one person saying it relatively slowly to me, and then I can understand.
Yeah, but can we be fair to me, is that your mom's English Needs a little work. Just like my Spanish needs a little work.
It is.
It is. It is. It's really hard to understand. Your mom complained to me a couple, like last year, she complained to me. She goes, you know, in Spanish, you know, you don't look the mean.
I used to try, but I don't understand. Now, I think me and your mom have this understanding where we try to slow down for each other a little bit more because I really do sometimes have a hard time understanding your mother. But, you know, listen, Again, I think probably one of the greatest gifts that's been imparted to me is the gift of the Venezuelan family.
Because without that, I'd just be stuck in my miserable Irish Catholic family. And they're not miserable people. We just don't operate on the same level.
Yeah. We would never think to sit up till three in the morning playing board games. I think we'd get way too irritated with each other for that. We'd just all be irritated.
Yeah. I think, too, is that you're right about this, is that Americans, by and large, grow up with the television as the center of attention. So when they grow older and they have families of their own, the television is the center of attention.
I don't know what you guys have down there. I haven't been, and I'm probably not going to get to go now. I'm probably out. You won't. No, I'd love to. I can't wait to go.
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