Week 10 Post 3

Gus Lanz's interview was definitely the hardest to transcribe because that boy has a dirty mouth and uses sooooo many filler words. I ended up editing out like a third of the interview because of expletives or unnecessary words. That being said, it was totally worth it because Gus has a way different point of view than most of the people I interviewed. He has a lot of personal experience with barriers to public speaking and overcoming those barriers especially as someone who has lived under both authoritarian and democratic regimes. I don't know that I agree with his analysis that people don't really care about how fluent a person is in English because there are many parts of the US that are far more xenophobic than Miami where he would not be able to get away with speaking broken English on a public bus, let alone in a debate round without being bothered about it. 
My question for Gus would be "How much did your parents' decision to speak out about the wrongs being done to the Venezuelan people by the Maduro regime change your outlook on breaking barriers with public speaking." I'd be interested in asking this because on one hand, they couldn't break the barriers imposed on them by the regime which is why they moved to the US. On the other hand moving to the US allowed him access to all of the public speaking coaches, platforms, and education that he has benefited from, allowing him to be the speaker he is today.

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