Latest Hispanic american Podcast Episodes
Hollywood‘s cultural erasure problem | Radar 2021
Radar 2022 - July 23, 2021 21:00 - 19 minutesAwards season is yet another reminder that diversity in U.S. media is seriously lagging. In 2019, only 5% of the speaking roles in the top 100 movies went to Latinx actors even though we represent 18% of the US population. This episode explores how we can do better and identifies artist...
Immigration Nation | Radar 2021
Radar 2022 - July 16, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we discuss the uptick in anti-immigrant sentiment—and how it’s impacted communities here in the U.S.—as well as potential reforms that could provide a pathway to citizenship for many. We also explore the contributions of U.S. immigrants, their impact on our economic gro...
Student Loan Pileup | Radar 2021
Radar 2022 - July 09, 2021 21:00 - 18 minutesTurns out, it’s not just the price of avocado toast driving up the nearly $2 trillion student debt crisis affecting more than 45 million borrowers in the U.S. today. In this episode, we look at how legislative changes could affect student borrowers in the short-term and what best option...
Juneteenth – Celebrating Freedom and Equality | Radar 2021
Radar 2022 - July 02, 2021 22:16 - 20 minutesJuneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, Emancipation Day or Black Independence Day is celebrated annually every June 19th, marking the federal troop’s 1865 arrival into Galveston, Texas with a message of freedom for all enslaved people. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed two and a ...
Reimagining Criminal Justice | Radar 2021
Radar 2022 - June 25, 2021 21:00 - 17 minutesAs we celebrate Black History month, we acknowledge that the racial justice movement in the US is still very much alive. In this episode, we explore a broken criminal justice system and the citizens and legislators who are working to address systemic racism by reforming our laws and ins...
The end of social media as we know it | Radar 2021
Radar 2022 - June 18, 2021 21:00 - 20 minutesIn this episode we talk about how legislative changes could change social media as we know it. The conversation over mis and disinformation, censorship and big tech violating anti-trust laws is growing and there is bi-partisan support to repeal Section 230 that protects social media gia...
Latinos: Under Attack and Underrepresented
Robles & Rosado - July 18, 2018 05:29 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEmmy® winner Mike Robles and Pedro Rafael Rosado, most recently of The New York Times, join LatinX influencers and newsmakers for frank and lively conversation. Of course, they take time out on each episode to solve the world's problems.
A Rough Few Weeks for Us Beaners and Animals
Robles & Rosado - May 24, 2018 12:21 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt seems Latinos are under attack from all sides these days. The White House thinks we're animals, Starbucks calls us beaners and some pendejo racist lawyer in New York City just can't bear to hear the loveliness that is Castellano — unless, of course, it's in his law practice. There yo...
Amara La Negra Brings Us All Some Sunshine
Robles & Rosado - May 07, 2018 06:02 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAmara La Negra has spent her entire life in show business and she is singularly focused on becoming the LatinX equivalent of Beyoncé. The breakout star of VH1's 'Love and Hip Hop Miami' spoke to us just before the debut of the new reality series and she was candid about her struggles an...
MINI-EPISODE: Don't Let Us Be Misunderstood
Robles & Rosado - May 01, 2018 16:15 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMike and Pedro have returned from the wilderness and are prepared to drop all-new episodes of the show. We are fully aware that we angered a lot of people in previous installments, and we'd like to say we won't do that anymore, but the truth is even in this brief conversation we probabl...
Stay Strong Cristela Alonzo - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - May 20, 2015 03:59 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsHer show was unceremoniously canceled by the ABC Broadcasting Network and Cristela Alonzo was understandably upset. It didn’t help matters that she was forced to deal with trolls hurling insults at her on Twitter. In a long and emotional blog post, the comedian laid bare how she felt abo...
Boxers, Politicians, and ‘Thugs’. Oh My! - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - May 07, 2015 03:51 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt was a dramatic scene. Marilyn Mosby stood at a podium festooned with microphones that also sported a large emblem emblazoned with the scales of justice and the words “Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City”. She was there to announce charges of manslaughter and assault agai...
Will ‘The Get Down’ on Netflix Be a Huge Letdown For Latinos? - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - April 18, 2015 04:45 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsI never gave the devastation surrounding me as a kid a second thought. It seemed perfectly natural to have abandoned buildings and rubble strewn lots as playgrounds. The idea that I was living in a blighted and dangerous ghetto that could easily pass for any number of ruined European cit...
Don’t Blame Mexico For Ted Cruz, Blame Canada - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - March 30, 2015 03:21 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsMexico really does get blamed for everything. Ebola? It’s flooding into the U.S. from our southern border. Terrorism? Apparently ISIS, Al Qaeda and even the Houthi militants are streaming over from down Mexico way by the hundreds as I type this. Illegal drugs, guns, and undocumented alie...
Next On ‘The Real’: Brownface Minstrelsy - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - March 15, 2015 17:09 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratings‘The Real’ is a bland, vacuous syndicated talk show broadcast primarily on Fox affiliates and is hosted by five women of color. (Sad that a decade and a half into the 21st century this is still something so unique we see it as a triumph but we’ll take it). Finally a show that refuses to ...
Remember Folks, Puerto Rico Is America - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - March 09, 2015 02:01 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDespite the long relationship the U.S. has enjoyed with the “Enchantress of the Caribbean”, Puerto Rico and its residents on the island and on the mainland remain a mystery to other Americans. As a public service, Robles & Rosado will help clear up any confusion for you and save you the ...
RR 24: Apologies Are Not Nearly Enough - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - February 22, 2015 05:15 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLongtime listeners know we catch a lot of heat for some of the things we say on the show and post on the blog. In an effort to be proactive, and in the interest of saving our time and yours, we offer this generic blanket statement to all Latin@s who feel an apology is more … Continue rea...
RR 23: A Year of Controversy and Laughs - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - December 30, 2014 08:50 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsFor this episode Mike and I revisit some of our favorite moments—and yours—from the first season of Robles & Rosado. We hope you join us again in 2015 for more of our unique mix of humor and commentary. Wishing you all good health, happiness, and success!
RR 22: Cuba (Not Quite) Libre and Perfect Puerto Ricans - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - December 22, 2014 08:06 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsScience has finally caught up to the fact that Robles and Rosado are almost perfect specimens of humanity. Don’t believe me? Just ask Lior Pachter, a UC Berkeley biologist. Mr. Pachter published a DNA study recently suggesting that “perfect humans” are most likely to be Puerto Rican. He ...
RR 21: The Circus Comes to Ferguson, Missouri - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - November 26, 2014 07:44 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAfter an almost 10 hour delay, prosecuting attorney Robert McCulloch from St. Louis, Missouri announced that the grand jury investigating the shooting death of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, decided not indict police officer Darren Wilson. The ruling set off a wave of protests an...
RR 20: Social Media Powerhouse, Elianne Ramos - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - November 05, 2014 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAll this time we were aiming to be your garden variety troublemakers. During our interview with social entrepreneur and Latino community leader Elianne Ramos, Mike and I were confronted with the shocking revelation that we are both social media influencers. When a nationally recognized e...
RR Bonus: Tejano Music Superstar Stefani Montiel - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - October 24, 2014 04:16 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we present a special edition of the Robles & Rosado experience. Our own Mike Robles interviews Tejano music superstar, the incomparable Stefani Montiel. Stefani Montiel recorded her full-length album debut at age nine and has gone on to earn six Grammy nominations over an illus...
RR 19: Ebola Makes Americans Panic and Blame Hispanics - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - October 21, 2014 03:40 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsAccording to an article at BostInno.com I have a better chance at landing on the moon or starring in the role of Batman at your local multiplex than contracting the Ebola virus. There is a much greater chance that one of you reading this will (heaven forbid) suffer and die from influenza...
RR 18: Steven Michael Quezada Never Broke Bad - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - September 30, 2014 17:24 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the best shows in television history ended one year ago this week when AMC aired the final episode of ‘Breaking Bad’, the critically acclaimed operatic crime drama set in New Mexico. In honor of that anniversary actor, comic, and Albuquerque native Steven Michael Quezada, who pl...
RR 17: The Unforced Confessions of Rick Najera - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - September 14, 2014 02:19 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRick Najera is not an activist. That’s not a shot at the actor-writer-director-producer and he’ll be the first to tell you. Rick is a man who is unafraid to speak his mind and is an artist who is pointing out the reality and vagaries of the Latino experience in America. Also a playwrigh...
RR 16: ‘The View’ Joins Team Rosie - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - September 07, 2014 19:44 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsRosie Perez is from old-school Brooklyn. Not this new hipsterville nonsense they got going on there these days but the real-deal Brooklyn. She’s from the Brooklyn where you speak your mind and were always ready to defend your point of view. Ms. Perez will bring that old school Brooklyn ...
RR 15: Carlos Mencia Will Blow Your Mind - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - August 19, 2014 07:25 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThis week we present a special episode of our show and feature a very special guest. Mike and I had the very distinct honor and pleasure of a visit from comedian and actor Carlos Mencia. For the few of you reading this who don’t know who he is, Carlos Mencia is one of today’s most … Cont...
RR 14: MSNBC Keeps Getting It Wrong - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - August 12, 2014 03:47 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWe’d like to give Phil Griffin the benefit of the doubt and we desperately want to believe he wasn’t as insulting in person as he came across in pixels. In reports from the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists about his apology for this year’s Cinco de Ma...
RR 13: Immigrant Archives and Hateful Tweets - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - July 29, 2014 02:23 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsLet’s play a game of “Fantasy Or Reality”. I’ll offer up a scenario and you, dear reader, will decide if it really happened or whether I’m just spinning a fanciful tale. Here we go. The United States once accepted thousands of unaccompanied minors from Latin America and provided shelter...
RR 12: Yearning To Be Free? Not So Fast… - Robles & Rosado
Robles & Rosado - July 21, 2014 02:52 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt was always a source of pride for many of us growing up, especially in the rough and tumble immigrant-heavy Bronx neighborhoods where I spent my formative years. I’ll bet almost everyone reading this can recite the last few lines of Emma Lazarus’ poem “The New Colossus”. You know, the ...
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