Pocha Podcast

Bonus Content - wiri wiri La Gordiloca

If you haven't heard about La Gordiloca, you'll fall in love with her. We dish on La Gordiloca plus another Kat fashion faux pas to laugh about. 

Black Friday Bonus - 2019

It's Black Friday, Pochxs!! As gente hit the road, we share with you some bonus content of road trippin from Cruces to Burque including personal stories about Border Patrol stops. Bendiciones on your travels! 

Episodio 8 - Thanksgiving, the assimilation holiday

First gen or tenth gen the turkey and stuffing inevitably made it onto the table and into our lives. But, the food had touches of cultura with salsita and queso. Plus we "dish" about brown vs white parenting and the passing of Walter Mercado. 

Bonus Content - wiri wiri appropriating dia de los muertos

Calaveras, aka sugar skulls, in popular culture: appropriation vs appropriate. And we talk altars for dia de los muertos. Did you have one growing up? Do you have one now? 

Episodio 7 - You better listen or El Cucuy will get you.

October means fall is here (at least somewhat for the desert borderland). It also means scary stories our parents told us... or that have happened to us. Plus what's in the tub: Cool Whip, frijoles, or arroz? How Latinx familias have been caring for the environment before it was hipster cool. 

Bonus Content - wiri wiri Latinx Heritage Month contributions

Las Pochas bring their top Latinx contributions for Heritage Month, meaning Charlene drops knowledge and Kat raises eyebrows. We also learn which Pocha was called Panza de Masa by her abuela. 

Episodio 6 - Dichotomies and craft cerveza

Las Pochas tackle two cultural heavyweights: the virgin/whore complex and gorda/flaca battle of the images. We also talk craft cervezas and if microbrews are assimilated suds... plus we take taste tests!! Y mira un sorpresa at the end for Latinx Heritage Month. Um.... don't have your audio cranked the last minute. 

Bonus Content - wiri wiri processing El Paso and the 'X' in a language

Let's be honest: we recorded on August 3rd and we had quite a bit to process. And there's nothing Las Pochas are better at then processing. Also, what is wiri wiri anyway? And we talk shop on using 'x' in a gendered language. 

Episodio 5 - Que Pasa USA and One Day at a Time plus the great chile war of 2019

What did you grow up watching? Las Pochas reminisce on childhood tv (pinsas on the tele and all) and compare that to the Latinx reboot of One Day at a Time. And authentic or pandering? The first presidential debate included Spanish from a few candidates so we chew on that. Plus Colorado vs New Mexico in the great chile war of 2019 is our Que Hay De Nuevo subject. 

Bonus Content - wiri wiri mangueras, chanclas, and candidates

Summer is here and so are the smells and sounds of summer and also debates because, and maybe you've heard, a presidential election is coming up. And that means candidates start speaking Spanish, but Julian Castro (like many of us) has a complex relationship with the language. Put on your headphones and let's talk summer and speaking Spanish.