Go Down to Miami
¡Ay, Jorge!23 Jan 2021

Go Down to Miami

My mom moved to Miami in 1962. She had landed at NYC's LaGuardia Airport 3 years prior and lived in NYC and then Naples, FL, before settling and living in Miami for the next 34 years. Who knew how much would or could change in that time; how many waves of immigrants -- Cuban, Nicaraguan, Colombian, Haitian, et al - how much cocaine and power and blood would flow through the streets of a city now poised to become a haven for Wall Streeters and fintech start-ups (joining the Trumps and their ilk).

Listen as Rita recounts her journey, my father- and godfather's start as merchant marines, and some CIA black ops alongside Miami's transformation from sleepy snow bird town to full-blown tropical metropolis. AND, of course, as she makes a difficult choice between young John F. Kennedy (who may or may not have an STD) or a young, beardless Fidel Castro (insistent upon wearing a baseball uniform while engaging in, um, 'the act') in this week's "Who would you make a baby with?" segment. Enjoy!

Featured Cuban Cowboys' Song: Rococo People "Miami came of age along with me. City of my birth shaken from its sleep by my loud-ass Cuban family; by waves of exiliados and refugees whose flotillas bloodied the vanilla of a place so close to my mami's island home that Havana got itself a front row seat to a wannabe version of The Fall of Rome, OUR wannabe version of The Fall of Rome."

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Season 1 Finale - An (Un)Holy Communion

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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

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24 Mai 202128min

¡Comunismo! ¡Socialismo! Oh my!

¡Comunismo! ¡Socialismo! Oh my!

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24 Apr 202137min

How Soon Is Now? The Future May Kill Us

How Soon Is Now? The Future May Kill Us

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10 Apr 202133min

What Happens When You Die?

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24 Mar 202131min

Immigrant Song

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 Mar 202133min

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