Immigrant Song
¡Ay, Jorge!14 Maalis 2021

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's Immigrant Song never rang so true. Neither has Cypress Hill's Insane in the Membrane for that matter! The picture you see here is of my namesake's press conference, upon docking in Newport News after sailing a Cuban freighter from Havana and requesting political asylum. He was granted asylum by then-Attorney General Bobby Kennedy, on the condition that the ship and its sugar cargo be returned to Castro's Cuba. Aside 1: My namesake is the thin guy in the light colored suit, hair slicked back, hands between his legs. Aside 2: there's an inordinate, disturbing number of weird looking ears in that pic! What's up with that? In any case, Miami has been something of an immigration epicenter; from at least 3 waves of Cuban exiles through several waves of natural disaster- and political turmoil-related exiles, one can start to see patterns of preference, power and privilege. Listen and learn why!

This week's "Who Would You Make a Baby With?" is all about right-wing, murderous strongmen! Rita is forced to choose between notorious Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet or Spain's ultra-Nationalist, possibly fascist Generalissimo Francisco Franco. Listen as she wrestles with history and her conscience in making her choice!

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El Capitán

El Capitán

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Baby-Making Playoff Semifinal: Pope-A-Dope

Baby-Making Playoff Semifinal: Pope-A-Dope

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Baby-Making Playoff Quarterfinal: Presidents, Chimps & NCIS

Baby-Making Playoff Quarterfinal: Presidents, Chimps & NCIS

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¡Comunismo! ¡Socialismo! Oh my!

¡Comunismo! ¡Socialismo! Oh my!

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How Soon Is Now? The Future May Kill Us

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What Happens When You Die?

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