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Anything else they could call us, and my. One of the ways that my family, my parents, thought of coming back against this was when these telemarketers called and asked us, you know, to spell our name. Someone gave us the idea of spelling each letter using a disease, so wed say, g for gastroenteritis, i for intestinal disorder, and people stopped calling. So thats one of the advantages of a very. Of a very difficult name. Hinojosa well, its interesting, because your name is one way to enter into this conversation only because, you know, it is an interesting name. But in fact, right now in the U...

Pew Hispanic Center . What is it that you do . Were a nonpartisan, nonadvocacy Research Organization based through washington, d. C. Were funded by the Pew Charitable trust out of philadelphia. And the pew Hispanic Center is actually part of a broader Larger Center called the Pew Research Center. We do Public Opinion surveys, but we also do a lot of look at the demographics of the hispanic community. And one of our signature products actually is, how many unauthorized immigrants are there in the country. But our point is to provide facts. What do we know about the latino population in the us a...

Extraordinary life. Its as if Marian Wright edelman has this forrest gump life. She was in these places, in extraordinary places, and every page you turn of your life story is like, she was there, too . I guess im not even sure where to start. South carolina, your parents are very hardworking, your mom is an organizer, but even when you were a kid in school in south carolina, you end up crossing paths with langston hughes. Well, ive always felt so lucky to have been born who i was, where i was, with the parents i had. And at the time, i was born in the convergence of great people and great his...

This is overheard. [evan] mary lynn, welcome. [mary lynn] hi. [both] nice to see you. Very nice to meet you. So, im catching you now as youre out on tour doing standup, which you do a fair amount of these days. Yes. Thank you for catching me. [evan] well, happy to catch you. Everybody coming here at the last minute. [evan] thank you for being caught. [mary lynn] its exciting. [evan] good to have you. Many of us know you through the front door as an actress. We know you from 24 or some of the other stuff youve done. Youve been a comedian for a long time. Do you selfdefine these days as a comedi...

I mean, no, seriously, its like, when do you get to meet somebody whos actually orbited, whos been in space . Its an extraordinary thing. Do you feel kind of extraordinary most of the time . Well, you know, its something that i was really not prepared for, you know . That sort of attention that we get as people who have flown in space, less now than it used to be, but still significant, was something that i was not quite prepared for. Hinojosa you mean because of the fact that, like, for you, you are the first latino astronaut from the United States, but you actually are from costa rica. Your ...