00:00You know, you look amazing tonight.
00:01Thank you, so do you. You look very glamorous.
00:03Thank you. We're trying to give glamour, and now the Emmys...
00:06You're giving it all the way.
00:07Thank you. I mean, second time around this year for the Emmys, which is rare.
00:10You know, Hollywood is bouncing back in a new way.
00:13What are you excited to see, especially with this year in Hollywood,
00:17that maybe we hadn't seen before?
00:19I think it is the most diverse Emmys list of nominees in its history.
00:25After 76 years, you know, We Latin and Black People have been here forever,
00:29and not gotten our due.
00:31So, you know, I think we're starting getting closer to parody.
00:34So I'm happy about that, really happy.
00:36I like a little progress.
00:38We all like a little progress.
00:40And speaking of progress, I mean, so many shows are making history.
00:43So many people are literally first-time nominees, which we also love to see.
00:48Yeah, the newbies. We love the newbies.
00:50Yes, what shows are you rooting for the most tonight?
00:54Shogun, Baby Reindeer.
00:57Shogun, Baby Reindeer, The Bear.
01:00I mean, there's so much stuff, man.
01:02I can't even.
01:03Can't keep up.
01:04Can't keep up. It's impossible.
01:06Well, tonight, obviously, you are here with, there's so, oh my goodness,
01:10there's so many people that are coming right now that I love this.
01:12But what are you most looking forward to with this Emmys,
01:16other than the history that's being made with the first-time nominees?
01:19What are you most looking forward to tonight?
01:21Well, Chris Obrego is a friend of mine, and he's the new chair,
01:24the first Latin chair of the Emmys Awards, and I'm presenting him tonight.
01:29So I'm really looking forward to that moment.
01:31They gave me a really beautiful spotlight moment, so I'm going to seize it.
01:35Do you think you'll make your friend cry?
01:37I'm going to make a lot of people cry.
01:39Carpe diem.
01:40Uh-oh.
01:40Here we go. I'm ready to see it.
01:42So I hear you have a new project coming that you've got to tell us about.
01:46Yes, it's called, it's on PBS, it's called American Historia, the Untold History of Latinos.
01:51It took me five years to get this on air, and I'm so, it's the thing I'm most proud.
01:56I think this is the cultural corrective my people have been waiting for their whole lives.
02:00Because John Hopkins University did a study, and 87% of Latin contributions to making of the U.S.
02:05are not in history textbooks, and this is the antidote to that.
02:09Wow.
02:10That is amazing.
02:11What is the biggest thing that you learned during that time on the show that you were just shocked by?
02:18Even you, as a person who's a part of the community, a leader and a representative in the community,
02:22what were you like, oh, I didn't even know that?
02:24Well, I didn't realize how much oppression we had experienced.
02:30I was not aware.
02:30After black people were the second most lynched people in America, we were burnt alive, shot, experimented on, sterilized, segregated.
02:41The first young boy lynched in America was a Latin boy, 1911, before Edgar Mevers, who was the second.
02:50And he was 14 years old because he dispected a white man in 1911, Antonio Gomez.
02:56So that fact was, like, chilling.
02:58Wow.
02:59History textbooks crossed out, deleted, erased.
03:01And now we're putting it back into the world.
03:04And when does this project come out?
03:05September 27th on PBS at 9 p.m.
03:07October 27th on PBS at 9 p.m.
03:10October 28th on PBS at 14 p.m.
03:14Sorry.
03:35So that podcast of any otherск relaxing presents won't be.
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