Welcome to The Rueality Podcast — where pop culture, politics, media headlines, and a little mess come together weekly with your host, Rue Zalez (@Rue.Zalez).

This week’s Weekly Recap features 🕷️ the Puta Spider saga in my room, a rant on customer service gone wild 😤, and why “social media humanitarians” nearly had me crashing out online.

Then in Tea in the Streets:
✈️ U.S. deploys F-35 fighter jets to Puerto Rico amid rising tensions with Venezuela’s Maduro regime and cartel violence — what it means for the island’s safety, sovereignty, and stability.
🚨 Supreme Court’s “Do Not Speak Spanish” ruling — ICE sweeps get a green light for race, language, and job-based stops, sparking outrage over racial profiling and civil rights.

In Heavy Rotation 🎧:

I’m binge-watching Sex and the City (and plotting a NYC move LOL), reviewing Lissi’s poetic new album Donde No Cae Lluvia, No Salen Flores, breaking down Cardi B’s genius rollout, sharing my love for Seed Symbiotics 🌱, vibing with Lizzo’s inspiring new record, and unpacking Bad Bunny in i-D Magazine.

💡 My Sticky Note: The long game is the only game worth playing.

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Episode Segments:
👋🏽 00:00 – Intro (with Kehlani TikTok audio)
🕷️ 03:19 – Weekly Recap: Puta Spider, customer service, social media humanitarians
🧋 22:04 – Tea in the Streets: Fighter jets in PR, ICE & language profiling, Keke Wyatt Drama
🎧 43:30 – Heavy Rotation: SATC binge, Lissi, Cardi, Seed, Lizzo, Bad Bunny
📝 58:24 – My Sticky Note

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