The Trish Regan Show examines the Los Angeles Dodgers' backlash for replacing the English national anthem with a Spanish version performed by social media personality Neza, who claimed she defied team instructions to honor her immigrant parents. While noting the 1945 State Department commissioning of a Spanish anthem under FDR's Good Neighbor Policy, the host questions whether this decision inflames debates over English as the official language and suggests such incidents might fuel arguments for a constitutional amendment, ultimately highlighting tensions between cultural inclusivity and national identity in Los Angeles. [Automatically generated summary]
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Unknown Singer at Dodgers Game00:02:46
Did you see this story out of LA?
I mean, like, it just keeps coming out of California, if you would.
The national anthem getting sung in Spanish.
Espanol.
Yeah.
Okay.
So there's this singer.
Her name is Neza, and she was at the Dodgers game.
And I actually have never heard of her.
Full disclosure.
Never.
Do you guys know her?
Because, like, I'm sure some people know her.
She's supposed to be, like, some kind of social media TikTok star or singer or whatever.
I have no idea who she is, but that's neither here nor there because, you know, I could tell you all the Fed governors.
I could tell you, you know, a lot of stuff, a lot of stuff, a lot of minutiae that a lot of people don't know, but I have no idea who this woman is.
But now I do.
Maybe that was her goal, right?
So she went out there to perform the national anthem at the Dodgers game, and she decided to sing it in Spanish because apparently somebody was telling her not to.
And so that was like all the more reason to do so.
Here she is speaking about that.
All right, bear with me because I'm still very shooken up and emotional, and I just anyways, I just got home from singing the national anthem in Spanish at the Dodgers game, and it is the official Star Spangled Banner in Spanish.
You can google it, so I'll just read it to you really quick.
But it was officially commissioned in 1945 by the U.S. State Department as a part of President Franklin Roosevelt's good neighbor policy to foster a better relationship with Latin America.
Because of this, I didn't think I would be met with any sort of like no, especially because we're in LA.
With everything happening and i've sang the national anthem many times in my life, but there was today, out of all days.
I could not, i'm sorry yeah, I just could not believe when she walked in and told me, no um, but I just felt like I needed to do it para mi gente.
For anyone who's been following me for a while, you know everything I do is out of love, like out of love, good energy out of love, and I'm proud of myself for doing that today.
Okay.
Really, really proud.
My parents are immigrants.
Okay.
She's going on and on and on and on and on, right?
Because this is her moment, right?
As I said, I had never heard of this woman.
It could just be me.
Okay.
If you know her, let me know.
It could just be me or it could just be that nobody really knows who she is.
And this was a moment to kind of get some attention.
She is a social media.
Person, so you know they're always looking for their moment in the sun.
Singing National Anthem in Spanish00:02:37
Apparently they really did.
They told her.
The Dodgers said, no, we're going to do it in English.
I mean, given everything that's happening, especially this weekend in Los Angeles, maybe not a good idea to fan the flames.
This is that moment.
Let's see if we have it.
So there she is.
She did it.
I mean, it is a beautiful song.
A lot of people kind of mess it up.
So we wanted to fix that.
A little special thing for you today here on the Trish Regan Show.
You know, you guys keep joking around will you sing?
Will you sing?
And I do sing, and I have a background in singing.
And so it seemed an opportune time to drag this one out, right?
Look, it's a beautiful song.
It's a hard song to sing.
It's fun.
Whether you sing it in English, whether you sing it in Spanish, I would just say look, have some pride for your country and respect for your country.
And, you know, we've talked about do we need English to be a constitutional amendment?
Do you have to actually declare that as the official language of the land?
And as this kind of stuff happens, it gives rise increasingly to that.
Because you should be able to hear your own national anthem in your own language.
Am I right?
Yeah, I'm right.
Okay, we got a big high note coming up.
Anyway, Neza, whoever she is, singing it in Spanish, causing quite a commotion, trying to get her 60 minutes of fame or 60 seconds of fame out there on the internet.
And we just wanted to share how it should be done, right?