# Requiring English

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Podcast: [What Happens Next in 6 Minutes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-happens-next-in-6-minutes-3365845)
Published: 2026-02-28T13:26:08+00:00
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## Resource

Our speaker is Nick Griffin who is the author of The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in 1980, and he spoke about that book on a previous podcast . Today, Nick is going to speak about his new play English Only which had its opening run at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach. In 1980 125,000 Cubans arrived in Miami in two months and many of these new Spanish speakers were not fluent in English and that frustrated many native Miamians. I want to discuss with Nick the importance of English being the lingua franca in the US and whether the government should encourage its use by recent immigrants. Get full access to What Happens Next in 6 Minutes with Larry Bernstein at www.whathappensnextin6minutes.com/subscribe

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