I promise (maybe) not to post about this next year but today completes one revolution around the sun for me at
@npr
@MorningEdition
I'm just happy about it and decided to be all nerdy over it. That's it.
Just arrived for my 1st reporting trip for
@npr
@MorningEdition
! I’m not going to disclose the exact location I’m going to be at because I don’t want paparazzi hounding me like they did recently to
@arishapiro
and that other person he was with.
I haven’t done a show with another living thing in the room since March 2020. I don’t mind the solitude because I’m friendly but not social. But for today introducing the 3rd host of
@npr
@MorningEdition
@UpFirst
who has more legs than
@LeilaFadel
& I combined.
The 6-year old boy who lives next door ran onto my front porch chasing his new puppy. When I opened the door and saw him getting ahold of the leash, he froze, looked up, scanned my house from left to right and said, "Wow, your house is way more haunted than mine."
Me, an uncle, an aunt and a cousin are in my 97-year old grandma’s living room while my eldest aunt (70) is changing my 2-year old cousin when she declared, “Yo he limpiado las nalgas de todos en este cuarto!”
#Latinos
#Latinas
#familia
This one is for all the
#publicradio
nerds: Yesterday I’m in a new hire orientation zoom meeting:
@npr
history 101. I’m listening & scrolling thru emails but when it got to the part about
@stamberg
I noticed HER email welcoming me! That was G-d awesome.
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@RyanShazier
"I talked to my father, mother, wife & I was like I'm a failure, sorry I let you down. (They) told me playing🏈is a bonus, being the man you are is what we love about you...overcoming this injury we look up to you more than we ever did."
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@npr
Intersectionality for radio geeks, grammar snobs and epiphany lovers: It just hit me that the 1st segment of yesterday's and today's
@MorningEdition
with me &
@NPRmelissablock
is literally an A BLOCK.
Slight field assignment detour. I’ve always wanted to visit Four Corners and throw up four fingers. This is in the same ballpark as the time i was in Ecuador and tightroped the equator before doing the splits on both the Northern & Southern Hemispheres.
he would never let me go with him. When I asked him why he said, "Jorito, you run from people who cough or sneeze and don't like touching food your hands...you'd never last." Long story just to say that's probably why I never turned to a life a crime...the germs.
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@allysonfelix
"In track and field, the culture around pregnancy was silence. Athletes would either hide pregnancies to secure new contracts, or their contracts were in place were put on hold almost like they had an injury."
Every once in a while on
@npr
@MorningEdition
we have segment where every part of it is self-contained. We call it a selfie. So here’s me taking a selfie DURING a selfie!
I’m hosting
@npr
@MorningEdition
from home today & when I opened the blinds to get some sunshine this fuzzy face was staring back at me. I choose to believe this kitty cat was irresistibly drawn to the sound of my voice. Ironically, I thought had more a dog person vibe. 🐱 🐈��⬛
It mean, it had to an easy decision considering how well it's worked out the other times
@MorningEdition
hired a host with the letters M-A-R-T-I-N in their last names.
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@NPRinskeep
wrote a great line today "Donald Trump, who's a famous germaphobe, likely gives his fingerprints today in New York." When I was teenager I wanted to hang out with my gangbanger uncle because he was a tough guy and I was tired of being so weak but...(short thread)
As the 5th most popular host
@MorningEdition
it was a pleasure to speak w/the 3rd most popular fictional host
@npr
& I'm sorry not sorry that I put a hit out on
@NPRinskeep
but
#LaurenCaspian
's voice seduced me into agreeing to it.
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@wtyppod
Justin Roczniak "...it staved off the strike but did not solve the problem, the tentative agreement...even though they have more time off under this agreement it's very easy for the railroads to deny then the time off they're owed."
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@ChokweALumumba
Mayor
@CityOfJxnMS
"Privatization is taking people from one state of misery to the next. We need to depart from the notion that privatization is the only way the system can be supported."
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@NPR
work desk update: Day 1
@NPRWest
is going good although I was handed a dry erase board to hold & not to ask any questions about it. Also got to move in a few toys from my
@KPCC
days, although another move is pending. I’m not worried because they know how to run around.
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@npr
thanks for letting me guest host
@MorningEdition
this week! Before I leave
@NPRWest
I had to play a game of
#Connect4
verses myself. While I could not defeat me, I did not lose either....so I’m calling it a win. Back on
@taketwo
@KPCC
Monday at 2.
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@Logic301
"very difficult to go on the internet & watch people call your baby ugly, or say your wife is a whore. That's the most difficult side of things-you put your heart & soul into something & because there's this bias, people tend to just hate it."
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@MsRebeccaBlack
"Millions of people having awareness that you exist as a teenager is really complicated & something I didn't really understand. Now I'm 25...feeling like I had been defined by something that I never really set out to be defined by..."
I bought these in a 2-pack a while back. This morning both ran out of ink within minutes of each other. RIP
@PilotPenUSA
G-2 0.38. I guess one couldn’t stand to live on & write after its partner dried up & died.
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@juliaioffe
"What they're seeing is a very sanitized version of what's happening in
#Ukraine
...according to Russian state media the war is limited to the east...& they don't know that the Russians are bombing Kyiv."
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@npr
office sports report: Walking past a trash can
@NPRWest
I attempted a mid range jump shot (yes I called backboard before I let it go). I can’t touch it now because that’s goal tending but can I take credit for the bucket?
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@angie_rasmussen
"So far the hypothesis about the market origin has stood up. It's frustrating to have people assume that we make a decision & stick w/that no matter what. We're always willing to change our hypothesis should new information come up."
This is only the 4th
#SuperBowl
where both teams are animals-Rams vs Bengals-& the 1st one of the 4 where the helmets are purely features of each animal's body-tiger stripes vs ram horns...so there you go.
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@JReidESPN
"They felt Black men were inherently inferior, that Black quarterbacks could not lead white players in the NFL & they just weren't smart enough. It was understood that if you were a Black QB in college, you were moving to another position."
I never call my wife this close to showtime. But today I did just to say hi and love you. She answered in a panic and asked what's wrong? I said nothing, just calling to say hi and love you. She said oh good, I thought it was because you saw what I just bought.
@taketwo
@KPCC
2pm
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@RanaAyyub
"I feel like there is nothing like press freedom in the world's largest democracy of 1.3 billion people. I worry about every single person, especially independent journalists in India, who are putting everything at risk to fight that battle."
I hosted DodgerTalk for 10 seasons & one of the best parts of my day was saying hello to Vin in the press box everyday. An icon who never even had to look at me would always smile & say hello. I made this in 2016 as a 9 min tribute to sweet, kind legend:
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@propublica
@CODanSchwartz
"In the past a 1.4 mile train was considered huge, now trains are 2 or 3 miles long...since 2015 (rail) laid off a 1/5 of their workforce...a lot of the cuts in maintenance so there's fewer people to catch trains in disrepair."
If you do a 7 minute ab workout while listening to this, you can spend the extra 3 minutes of news listening time by eating ab workout recovery doughnuts.
@LeilaFadel
It's me, hi, I'm the problem, it's me. At show time, everybody agrees. I'll stare directly at the show clock but never in the mirror. It must be exhausting always co-hosting with the anti-hero.
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@JohnLeguizamo
"..white people get to fail upwards (in Hollywood)..They have a million things that don't work. We don't get that chance. We get one chance & everybody's expecting it to be the most brilliant thing. And if it ain't & it fails, we're done."
@NPRextra
My podcast would focus squarely and exclusively on how
@npr
would grind to a halt without the contributions, intellect, sense of humor and overall delightful personalities of the
@NPRinterns
If it appears that I look annoyed that
@NPRWest
burst into the room and disrupted my flow…I wasn’t…or maybe I was…who knows? A Martinez can sometimes be a mystery wrapped in a riddle.
I walked by
@AMartinezLA
's office this morning and thought ‘I’ve never seen him without a hat. Oh right! He’s hosting the super serious Nipper Awards at the all staff meeting today.'
A radio piece like this will make you feel good about why you support
@NPR
From the storytelling to the sounds in the background it feels like you're riding along with
@NPRinskeep
&
@ArezouRezvani
but at a safe distance
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@renato_mariotti
I think even if the affidavit was released & Merrick Garland answered every question they had, I think there are ultimately going to be critics that are going to criticize this & DOJ if it is searching a residence of Donald Trump.
Thanks for asking. We use the same great microphones in studio; they stay there. So good that when NPR built new studios they moved over the old microphones. But it would be fun if we each arrived with a case holding our own implement, like Wonder Boy or Ol' Blue.
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@LAistStudios
@AGuzmanLopez
"I've been holding this story for 30 years. 1 of Oscar's friends kept telling me why don't you look into this? Part of me resisted because to do that would be to go back into my own activism back then which I had put away."
Due to overwhelming demand, the A Martinez Sings On Morning Edition World Tour 2021 or AMSOMEWT2021 for short, is back!!! Enjoy as I will now spend the rest of the day sifting thru all the record deals waiting for me in my inbox.
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@thevirdas
"Had 7 criminal complaints filed against me...charged with sedition & defaming India on foreign soil, I was called a terrorist on 3 different news channels...that is a difficult conversation to have with your mother that evening."
Compared to NY/NJ, not many 🇪🇨 in LA. So as a ⚾️obsessed kid I always thought it was so cool that
@JaimeJarrin
was a
@Dodgers
broadcaster. Still can't believe I can call him my friend. He's retiring. This is my 7 min tribute to him. Plz listen if you can.
@arishapiro
@davidgreene
@MorningEdition
There really should be no confusion on this. I've displayed my voice talent on ME many times already so it's obvious that I sing better than Ari a fact I'm sure he'd agree with...but in every and any other way Ari and David clearly have me beat by a mile.
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@mahmoudar123
"...Muhammad Ali's (protest) was framed in the Black Power movement. Colin Kaepernick's during Black Lives Matter...myself...there was not a movement to frame it...you were like in an ocean by yourself."
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@npr
I'm co-hosting
@MorningEdition
today with
@NPRDebElliott
who is on the mic from a place which in my imagination looks lovely, colorful, relaxing and jammed packed with vitamin C and sand...Orange Beach, Alabama! (⬇️not the real Orange Beach, Alabama, or is it?)
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@jemelehill
"She never compromised her blackness-never changed for the sport, she wore her hair beautifully & naturally, starting from the time when she had beads & she had braids. She didn't apologize for having a curvaceous body..."
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@RepRiggleman
"9 seconds is a lifetime to a counter terrorism analyst, you could say: get out of there,we need not to talk anymore, we need to go encrypted, go dark. Anybody who says 9 seconds isn't a long time has never done counter terrorism analysis."
I have been in many bands going back to when I was a lower case “a” Martinez. Here where it all began: Koreatown 1979 pop & lock crew. I was still holding it down for disco!
It was difficult not to awkwardly grin while spending a morning with him. Especially after he was kind enough to see in my office why I got such a kick out of watching Agent Hanratty chase Barry Allen in Catch Me If You Can. I eventually calmed down enough to take a decnt pic.
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@carlissc
"Before the Civil War states had different definitions of when a Black person was a person...we fight a whole Civil War about it...14th Amendment passes...so in theory we shouldn't be able to allow states to define when personhood begins.."