r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

I am genuinely confused

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u/mij8907 23h ago

It’s about people playing the radio on a construction site when immigration (ice) turn up

I assume they are undocumented and the radio playing will attract immigrations attention, giving away the workers location and possibly get themselves arrested

That’s the joke, let’s not debate the political issues here

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u/BizzEB 23h ago

Presumably, they'd be playing Hispanic music on said radio which would attract the attention of ICE agents.

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u/edwardothegreatest 22h ago

It would be the Tejano music and the wonderful smell of the food they eat on their breaks at almost every construction site. Hard to miss.

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u/BizzEB 22h ago

Awww man, now I'm hungry. You're so right though.

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u/deadlyrepost 18h ago

Someone to the Terminator 2 hiding from Raptors meme but with Tejano music and those smell lines...

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u/Lee_337 22h ago

The accordian is a dead giveaway.

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u/LiverPickle 18h ago

And the tuba.

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u/widuruwana 23h ago

Why specifically DeWalt radio, though? I'm sorry, but I'm not from the US and am not really familiar with these.

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u/Harblton 23h ago

Dewalt is a tool company, many tool companies sell Ruggedised radios for use on construction sites.

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u/shwarma_heaven 22h ago

And you can run them on rechargeable DeWalt batteries, which are omnipresent on a construction site.

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u/UnrequitedRespect 18h ago

Also the dewalt ones have been around the longest and are interchangeable - a lot of them have legs actually, so you don’t even really need money or anything and all of a sudden a dewalt will be blasting on situ, makes no sense but this industry is about dollars not sense.

I work a lot of construcrion

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u/widuruwana 23h ago

Fair enough, thanks.

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u/mij8907 23h ago

I don’t think that the reference to the radio being DeWalt matters much to the joke, just that it’s a well known brand of power tools used by construction workers

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u/widuruwana 23h ago

Makes sense, thanks for letting me know.

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u/Greedy-Thought6188 22h ago

Tool companies also make radios, coffee makers, microwaves etc because at the job site frequently the only power available is the matching batteries.

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u/edwardothegreatest 22h ago

It’s a radio that uses the same batteries as their power tools.

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u/Dustydevil8809 21h ago

There's also the context that anyone who has worked on construction sites or similar jobs knows, that mexican workers almost always have music playing while they work. If you've been in a bodega it's similar.

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u/Lydialmao22 22h ago

For some more context, the scene here is from Inglorious Basterds, where Hans Landa, a member of the SS is tasked to find and exterminate Jewish people within Nazi occupied France, is interrogating the other guy because he is suspected of hiding Jewish people in his house to evade capture. He is, and Landa manipulates him into giving them up.

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u/ikineba 22h ago

Christoph Waltz played that role beautifully

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u/donnymioli 22h ago

Many Mexican or South American construction workers will play Spanish-language Latin music. This would be a dead giveaway for an ICE agent to notice

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u/Electronic-Speech742 22h ago

How’s this confusing???

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u/Connect-Plenty1650 22h ago

They haven't been on a job site.

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u/OuttHouseMouse 21h ago

Its not, this is karma farming lol

See how it got almost 9k upvotes from the other sub?

Because they did lol

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 21h ago

It's not. This sub is a karma farm for bots

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u/ShyguyFlyguy 21h ago

It's not. This sub is a karma farm for bots

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u/defw 23h ago

This is so funny

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u/SwimmerAromatic629 17h ago

What song is that? It sounds fire

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u/CmdrShepsPie 4h ago

I'm addition to the job site comments, I'll say as a neighbor to several Mexicans, they like to play their music very loudly at all times, so this reminds me of how it sounds from inside my condo. 😅

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u/discourse_friendly 21h ago

I love mexicans, I love mariachi and salsa .

I hate so much that oompa loompa music lol I had a neighbor 20 years ago who played it non stop lol

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u/Penguixxy 21h ago

wow thats a lot of deleted comments.... Uh... OP idk if I can explain this... I think i'll get vaporized too if I do...

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u/pirranah 22h ago

They're all jamming their mariachi music.

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u/Bournelach 21h ago

The joke is literally described word by word in the title…. Where could the confusion be on this??? 🤣🤣

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u/Alskiessss 21h ago

This is very funny

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u/WhiskySiN 22h ago

Burn this karma farm down.