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Jose Antonio Vargas

lines on the record: 112
first: 2018-11-24
most recent: 2018-11-24
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“So, what's good to find out My mom, one morning, I woke up in the Philippines and my bag was packed and she sent me to the airport and she said I was going to live with her parents, my grandparents. Are naturalized U.S. citizens”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This was happening Know, I was, I lied to the Washington Post about getting the job. So there was only one person in the newsroom who knew that I was undocumented, Peter Pearl Part of the senior management. I got hired four months after I got hired, I think by October 2004. Started freaking out. So I thought I had to tell somebody. So I picked this guy. He taught me the word of the meaning mensch. I didn't know what that was. And I told him, and I expected him to say, okay, we got to go tell Len Downey. We got to go to each other. Instead, and I write this in the book, instead he says you make so much more sense now. Imagine how I must have seemed. And then he goes, Don't tell anybody else So, whenever I was like, you know, when I was For the first time driving. I didn't really know how to drive. I just got in my license”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, they were still using blackberries. They were still I mean, they actually really thought these people were not real. And I thought it was so interesting in terms of thinking of the internet as like Walmart, right? And you had all the Latin people and the black people and the gay people. Like the fact that all those quote unquote niches were really gathering around Obama. And I'll never forget being in a meeting, in a political meeting early morning and saying to the people that I actually thought Barack Obama had a chance to win the primary. And everybody but David Broder thought I was nuts.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All these kids I think it was the first time actually Facebook was on the front page of a newspaper about politics. Of course, at that time, Don Graham was on the board of. And so I would get like a little note saying, hey, that was an interesting article So I was just really interested in, like, you know, especially back then in 2007 and 08, like, I thought.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was at the Washington Post. I was at the After Barack Obama announced he was running for president and he went to Iowa and I went, it was the first trip right after he announced. I went because of all these kids using this thing called Facebook”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was a lot of tech stuff. But really more, I always considered technology's anthropology. I was always from that perspective of how it's changing culture and what it says about demographic changes. And what does it say?”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That you get every Friday. And then at the San Francisco Chronicle all throughout college. And then the Washington Posts. And then after that, I went to the Hoppington Posts, pre-AOL. So I launched the technology section in the college section.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Keep quiet, keep quiet. But I was in a profession that was not quiet, but as a journalist, it wasn't me, right? I was writing other people's stories. So that was kind of my And that's what I did for 16 till I was 30.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I could say that I'm really here And it was, I mean, when I think about it now, how ironic that is that I'm supposed to hide because, you know, undocumented people like me are supposed to just kind of.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But there's no writers in my family. But then I found out that when you become a journalist, you get a thing called a byline. So your name would be on the paper. So my naive self-thought, if I can't be here because I don't have the right papers, well, what if my name was on the paper? Was literally the only reason why I became a journalist, just so my name could exist somewhere.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, like when I, so I found that I was here illegally when I was 16. And then my English teacher, this was 1997. My English teacher, Mrs. Dewar, said I asked too many annoying questions. Should do this thing called journalism. I had no idea what that was. Where did you grow up? Mountain View.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm Kara Swisher, editor at large of Recode. You may know me as someone who thinks we should send Jeff Sessions back home to the North Pole, but in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Reco Decode from the Box Media Podcast Network. Today in the red chair is Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist documentary filmmaker and now New book is called Dear America, Notes from an Undocumented Citizen Jose, welcome to Rico Decode.”
2018-11-24 · Decoder with Nilay Patel · Recode Decode: Undocumented immigrants are people, not political props · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT