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The lines are tapped.
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Do you understand? Understood.
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Next to you there's a briefcase,
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and whatever you do,
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they'll blow your cover.o astronomicroxima lascajai.
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There's a lot of really interesting stuff in there.
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I feel like I know too much already.
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I'm Macias Julio Macias.
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Today we're stepping into Distrito des Pia,
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an untold Cold War drama set in Mexico City built around a
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Soviet exhibition in 1959 in a secret night that's never fully been
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explained. In today's episode we uncover intelligence operations,
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political secrecy, and a personal search that leads to a father's
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hidden past. He ended up muchisimas gracias puesarconosotros.
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But now that you're in the hot seat,
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summarize Distrito des Piaz in 15 seconds.
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Distrito des Piaz is a story about how Michael Scott finds out
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that his father was involved in one of the largest plots of
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the American government instrumentalizing a Mexican president in order to steal Russian
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technology and win the space race.
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Nice. This story starts with the most unbelievable idea that a
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Soviet satellite called Luni was stolen for one night in Mexico City
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in 1959. When you first heard how deep the investigation went
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what did you find that was unexpected?
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I think one of the things that got me the most excited
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was this idea that the Mexican flag should be on the moon
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next to the American flag without Mexicans.
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The world isn't TikToking,
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especially during the cold.
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War, it was like the working grounds of every agency of
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the world were in Mexico trying to win the Cold War.
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We were the battleground as we have been for many,
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many conflicts. How was your experience narrating parts of the audio
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documentary Distrito des PS,
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specifically when you led the listeners through all of the declassified files
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I am. Dying to know what is in all these
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declassified files in those files is hidden the true story and the
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true history of the world and of Latin America and it would
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give us a lot of clarity as to our own identity and
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our purpose in the world and how we have affected the reality
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of the political and social reality of the world.
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What role does Katia E Chasareta,
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the trailblazing Mexican born astronaut,
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do to inspire the next generation of Latino engineers,
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scientists, and space explorers?
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Big shout out to Katia.
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I think she's amazing and what she has been able to achieve
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is the materialization of the belief that we belong everywhere and she
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brings the space closer to us and helps us understand that without
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us there's no flavor and there's no power.
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I was born in Mexico City but I very much identify as
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Mexican American having worked and lived in both Mexico and the United
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States and seen both cultures firsthand what are some of the biggest
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differences and surprising similarities that you've seen?
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I think the individualistic culture in the United States in comparison to
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the very communal culture in Mexico.
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Interesting cool yeah and Indira,
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do you, do you like games?
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I love games. Do you like spy games?
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Spy Games coming up.
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Bueno. So here's how the game works.
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You can't get a set of clues,
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but you can't say them directly.
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The lines are tapped.
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Do you understand? Understood.
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Next to you there's a briefcase,
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and whatever you do,
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don't blow your cover.
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Pretty much everyone in the world hates these they kind of start
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your day, but they also kind of ruin your night you
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wanna sleep a little more,
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but you can't help it.
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It tells you you have to go.
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It also tells you when a bomb is about to go off
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It's round. This is something that you can ingest.
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You cannot ingest it,
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but it does tell you when it's time to get up and
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ingest breakfast. I,
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clock. What you're saying it's time for clue number
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2. It goes back and forth.
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It's played on a court.
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Do people bounce to it?
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People make it bounce.
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Do people volley back and forth,
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and they have something in their hand.
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Tno tennis loquez. Let's go have a ball.
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Mission accomplished. We're getting good at this.
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We've reached the afterword.
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If listeners take away one concept or one idea of Mexico during
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the Cold War, what would it be?
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I think we should see Mexico as the true battleground of the
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Cold War and also understand that so much of our history and
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by our I mean shared history,
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Mexico and the United States is still classified.
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That we don't really know what happened in our past and when
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Mexicans or Americans don't know what happened in their history they're just
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doomed to repeat it so I think it's time for us to
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struggle and fight for declassifying our own history.
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Heredira, thank you very much for joining us on Audio Mio
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