El Capitán
The ¡Ay, Jorge! podcast returns for another season of Jorge interviews with Rita, his 90 year-old Cuban mom. This season takes a deeper dive into their family's exile and subsequent life in the United...
31 Joulu 202136min
Season 1 Finale - An (Un)Holy Communion
The ¡Ay, Jorge! Cuban Cowboys' podcast wraps up its first season with the long-awaited 'Who Would You Make a Baby With?' championship round, pitting the #MeToo addled Plácido Domingo against former U....
4 Heinä 202132min
Baby-Making Playoff Semifinal: Pope-A-Dope
"The Who Would You Make a Baby With?" segment has officially run amok. It's bad enough that my 89-year-old mom, in the previous episode's quarterfinal, AGAIN chose Ronald Reagan -- with his pet chimp ...
6 Kesä 202128min
Baby-Making Playoff Quarterfinal: Presidents, Chimps & NCIS
What do Che Guevara, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy and Mark Harmon have in common? I'll tell you! At one point during this podcast's first season, my 89-year-old mom chose each of these men as sexual...
24 Touko 202128min
¡Comunismo! ¡Socialismo! Oh my!
At long last: The "Communism" episode! Rita goes off on her progressive, possibly socialist son (um, that's me, your host), providing an in-depth origin story of communism in Cuba. While there's no Ma...
24 Huhti 202137min
How Soon Is Now? The Future May Kill Us
Try as he might (and he does!), Jorge is unable to engage Rita in anything regarding homosexuality (as listeners' requests for a so-called "Gay Episode" have doubled in recent weeks ... re: LGBTQ+ equ...
10 Huhti 202133min
What Happens When You Die?
Mortality can be weird, as an actuality, topic and otherwise. My mom took a spill on the first night of her visit, here in San Francisco. We recorded this episode in my kitchen, mere steps away from w...
24 Maalis 202131min
Immigrant Song
This episode features Rita recounting her own Cuban exile experience against the larger backdrop of the United States' twisted, contradictory, arbitrary and oft-cruel immigration policy. Led Zeppelin'...
14 Maalis 202133min
