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We take you behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a year later. The secret recordings of the conversation among four of the city’s most powerful Latino leaders making racist, derogatory insults – exposed thorny, unresolved issues of race and politics. Host Antonia Cereijido explores those issues and speaks with the people who were most affected by the tapes, including former councilman Mike Bonin. And for the first time since resigning, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez breaks her silence.

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Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 1

We take you behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a year later. The secret recordings of the conversation among four of the city's most powerful Latino leaders making racist, derogatory insults - exposed thorny, unresolved issues of race and politics. Host Antonia Cereijido explores those issues and speaks with the people who were most affected by the tapes, includingformer councilman Mike Bonin. And for the first time since resigning, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez breaks her silence.

Imperfect Paradise: Nury & The Secret Tapes: Part 1
Antonia Cereijido 00:00

[music in] You're listening to Imperfect Paradise from LAist Studios. I'm Antonia Cereijido, your host. It's been a year since secret recordings of four powerful Latino leaders were leaked to the public, leading to a massive outcry and a demand for their resignation.

Protester 2 00:15

[audio clip] [protest chanting in background] Racism is racism, whether it's coming from a guy in a red MAGA hat or from the president of the L.A. City Council. It is unacceptable.

Antonia Cereijido 00:25

Since then, the woman at the center of the scandal, former L.A. City Council President Nury Martinez, has not done an interview. [music out] Until now.

Antonia Cereijido 00:34

[music in] Have you thought about why you said what you said?

Nury Martinez 00:37

I've thought about that particular day, God, a thousand times, if not more.

Antonia Cereijido 00:42

We're gonna talk candidly to the people who were most affected by the secret tapes in a way that no one has really heard before.

Mike Bonin 00:50

I got a call from a friend of mine who said, 'Hey, I need to talk to you. There's a secret recording of, of Nury and Gil and Kevin.'

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 01:01

You can't figure out what's happening. Like, did someone in the room make this recording?

Odilia Romero 01:06

And then our board member sends me the text. 'Did you see this?' And I'm like, 'Oh, this is what people are talking about.'

Tanya Hernandez 01:14

Mono, monito, monkey, little monkey. These are deeply racialized terms that are not at all innocuous. [music out]

Antonia Cereijido 01:24

So what I hear you saying is that you feel like this is something that happened to you, not something you did.

Nury Martinez 01:30

No, that's not what I'm saying.

Antonia Cereijido 01:33

That's coming up on Imperfect Paradise from LAist Studios. [break]

Antonia Cereijido 01:40

On a warm October morning in 2021, three men and one woman met in a squat unassuming building in a working class neighborhood in the middle of Los Angeles.

Kevin De León 01:50

[audio clip] [laughter] What's up, homie?

Antonia Cereijido 01:56

They sat around a huge wooden table, sipping coffee with cream and sugar. They started the meeting the normal way most meetings start: with some small talk. One of the men shows off a picture of his granddaughter for the others to see.

Nury Martinez 02:09

[audio clip] She's so cute. I can't believe you're in this stage of your life by the way.

Gil Cedillo 02:15

I know. I'm a grandfather. And I have a 47-year-old son and a two and a half year old little girl.

Antonia Cereijido 02:22

But it wouldn't turn out to be a normal meeting. These were four of the most powerful people in the city of Los Angeles, the head of a prominent union group and three L.A. city councilmembers. They didn't know it at the time, but everything they were saying was being secretly recorded. Thinking no one would ever hear them, for the next 90 minutes, the four Latino leaders, Union Leader Ron Herrera, Councilmembers Gil Cedillo, Kevin De León, and Council President Nury Martinez, would speak candidly using demeaning and racist terms about colleagues on the council, Black political power, Indigenous people, and even a child. All within the context of a meeting held to strategize how to advance Latino power in the city.

Kevin De León 03:07

[audio clip] It's for Latino strength for the foreseeable future.

Antonia Cereijido 03:11

And then nearly a whole year would pass.

Antonia Cereijido 03:13

[music in] That meeting would become indistinguishable from any other meeting in the memory of the participants. That is until the audio was posted online. Reporters discovered the tapes and in October of 2022, their comments would be heard around the world.

Various Newscasters 03:31

[audio clips] "What a story this is. It's a bombshell. It's stunning." "Martinez was heard making racist and vile comments against Blacks, Indigenous Mexicans..." "Nury Martinez called a fellow councilman's Black child quote, a little monkey." "Suggesting the child needed a beat down." "They insulted Oaxacans as well." "She referred to them as little short, dark people." "To say that this has rocked the City Hall here in L.A. from its foundation probably is an understatement." "Nury Martinez, as she now finds herself the lightning rod in this expanding firestorm..."

Antonia Cereijido 04:04

The city council tape leak was one of the largest political scandals in Los Angeles history. When people heard that private conversation, the city erupted into a frenzy of protests. [music out]

Protesters 04:24

[audio clip] "Bye-bye, Nury! Bye-bye, Nury!" "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Nury Martinez has got to go!" [fade out]

Antonia Cereijido 04:24

Nury Martinez, whose comments caused the most controversy, went from being one of the most promising Latina politicians in the whole country, to being the prime example of anti-Blackness and colorism in the Latino/Latinx community seemingly overnight.

Antonia Cereijido 04:38

[music in] Scandals are like tornadoes. They hit with sudden force and turn everything upside down. But in order for there to be a tornado, there needs to be key atmospheric conditions like the right combination of warm and cool air and wind speed. And so, like a tornado, the city council tape scandal didn't come out of nowhere. There were simmering tensions both political and personal, a contentious mayoral election and a national reckoning on race. [music out]

Antonia Cereijido 05:09

[music in] The scandal has blown over, the tornado has passed, but the uncomfortable painful and thorny issues at the heart of this story remain: anti-Black racism and colorism within the Latino/Latinx community, a growing fault line in the Democratic party between progressives and moderates, and the ongoing and difficult struggle to define Latino political power. [music out]

Antonia Cereijido 05:36

It's been two years since the tapes were recorded, a year since they were released to the public. And in the time since, Nury Martinez has not spoken about what she said on the tapes.

Nury Martinez 05:50

My name is Nury Martinez, and it's spelled N U R Y.

Antonia Cereijido 05:55

And how do you introduce yourself?

Nury Martinez 05:58

As the former Council President of the Los Angeles City Council.

Antonia Cereijido 06:02

In this first episode, we're gonna start with the scandal itself as a way of understanding what Nury actually said, and why people were so hurt.

Martha Dina Argüello 06:10

The words she spoke were so full of cruelty and anger and pain, and caused anger and pain.

Antonia Cereijido 06:19

Then we'll explore the tension between what Nury was known for before the scandal - being a champion of working class immigrant families, and after.

Eunisses Hernandez 06:27

We've seen reflections of leaders who look like us, who are supposed to represent us, making decisions that totally throw our communities under the bus.

Antonia Cereijido 06:36

And we'll press Nury to answer for what she said.

Antonia Cereijido 06:40

Do you think there's an anti-Blackness problem in the Latino community?

Nury Martinez 06:43

[long pause] I don't know.

Antonia Cereijido 06:49

I'm Antonia Cereijido. This is Imperfect Paradise: Nury and the Secret Tapes. Part one, The Scandal. [break]

Antonia Cereijido 07:01

We're back. You're listening to Imperfect Paradise.

Antonia Cereijido 07:05

Let's start with just, if you would introduce yourself and say your name and what your position was at the time that the tapes leaked.

Mike Bonin 07:13

My name is Mike Bonin, and I am now a retired member of the Los Angeles City Council and sometimes podcaster. And at the time the tapes came out, I was in the last few months of my nine and a half years representing the West Side on the LA City Council.

Antonia Cereijido 07:30

Mike Bonin is white, in his 50s with closely shaved white hair and wire rim glasses. And he is the person whose name most came up during the secretly recorded meeting. The whole recorded meeting was more than 90 minutes long, and we're not going to go through every single thing that was said on the tapes. Instead, we're going to start by focusing on the parts of the tape that got the most attention. And I think of it as three distinct types of tape. First, direct racist and prejudiced insults. If you've heard anything about the tapes, you've probably heard about how Mike Bonin and his son Jacob, who is Black, were described by the people in the meeting.

Antonia Cereijido 08:11

Where were you when you first heard about the tapes?

Mike Bonin 08:15

Hmm, yeah. So I was in Massachusetts when I first heard about the tapes. My family's from Massachusetts and it's where I grew up, and I was there for the funeral memorial service of a friend of mine. I stayed a few days after to hang with my family. And on that Saturday, I was at my parents' house getting ready to go into Boston to go see a concert, and I got a call from a friend of mine, an activist in L.A. who texted me saying, 'Hey, I need to talk to you. There's a secret recording of of Nury and Gil and Kevin.'

Antonia Cereijido 08:54

Gil Cedillo and Kevin De León were the other city council members on the tape.

Mike Bonin 08:58

And I'm like, 'Oh, you got my interest.' And so he said, 'No, this is really bad and it's about you and it's about Jacob. So I need you to sit down.'

Antonia Cereijido 09:08

Mike's son Jacob was 8 at the time. Mike decided not to listen to the tapes just yet because he was on his way to see British folk singer Billy Bragg. While Mike was at the concert, the L.A. Times was putting together their breaking story about the tapes. Mike's name first comes up about a half an hour into them. A warning - the upcoming clips use derogatory and explicit language. It's difficult to make out the whole conversation clearly, so I'll be repeating some lines from the tape. The first voice you hear is Council President Nury Martinez. She's talking about Mike and she calls him "that little bitch."

Nury Martinez 09:42

[audio clip] That little bitch, Bonin. What's with Bonin? Bonin thinks he's fucking Black.

Antonia Cereijido 09:46

"What's with Bonin?" she says, "Bonin thinks he's fucking Black."

Antonia Cereijido 09:52

Everyone on the L.A. City Council is a Democrat, but there's a spectrum of how progressive they are. Mike Bonin was one of the more progressive city council members. And at the time of the recordings he was frequently fighting with the more moderate members of the council, including Nury. This next voice is Kevin, who of the three was the newest to the City Council. He says, "You know there's four Blacks on the City Council."

Kevin De León 10:15

[audio clip] You know there's four Blacks on the City Council.

Antonia Cereijido 10:18

At the time of the recording, there were only three Black city councilmembers in L.A. Nury responds, "Four Blacks? Yeah, Bonin."

Nury Martinez 10:26

[audio clip] Four Blacks? Yeah, Bonin.

Antonia Cereijido 10:28

A couple of minutes later, they bring up Mike Bonin's son Jacob. Mike and his husband Sean adopted Jacob in 2016. In the tapes, the city councilmembers accuse Mike of tokenizing Jacob, saying Mike uses his son as a political prop. It starts with Kevin saying, "His kid he adopted," and Nury responds, "He's Black, yeah."

Kevin De León 10:48

[audio clip] His kid he adopted.

Nury Martinez 10:48

He's Black, yeah. ...lo trae asi during Black History Month, lo lo lleva council, y lo pone aca,

Ron Herrera 10:50

A prop...
Nury Martinez
...It's an, it's an accessory.

Antonia Cereijido 10:57

Nury says that Mike brings his son around during Black History Month "y lo pone aca," that he places him like this... as an accessory.

Kevin De León 11:04

[audio clip] Just like when...

Ron Herrera 11:05

They used to have those statues in the plantations...

Kevin De León 11:08

Nury brings her Goyard bag or the, the Louis Vuitton bag...

Antonia Cereijido 11:14

Those last two voices were union leader Ron Herrera and Councilmember Kevin de León. Ron says, "They used to have those statues in the plantations." And Kevin compares Mike Bonin bringing his son to events to Nury displaying her designer bags during city council meetings.

Mike Bonin 11:30

And I was at the concert and in between the opening act and the actual show, my phone rang and I could see it was Ben Oreskes from the L.A. Times. And I said 'I'm not picking this up.' And my heart sunk because I'm like, 'shit is this about these tapes?' And then I got a text from Ben saying 'It's urgent, need you to call me'. And I called him back, and I said, 'Listen, I'm in, I'm in Boston. I haven't listened to the tapes. I don't know how to react to this.' I said, 'Do I need to talk tonight? Are you doing this?' He goes, 'We might publish the story tonight, and so I need you to respond.' And so I was at the concert and Ben is texting me excerpts from the tapes over the course of an hour and I'm trying at the same time to come up with a reaction statement. I was really imploring them to stay off the stuff about my son, say they attacked me, say something vague. They made racially disparaging comments.

Antonia Cereijido 12:38

This next part of the recording includes the specific line that gets quoted the most in the coverage of the tapes. Nury tells a story about being on a float during an MLK Day Parade. She was invited by former City Council President Herb Wesson, who is Black. She was on the float with Mike and his son Jacob, who was just under 3 years old.

Nury Martinez 12:58

[audio clip] Ahi trae su negrito, like on the side. Lo trae, verdad?

Antonia Cereijido 13:02

Nury says, "Ahi trae su negrito," which literally translated means... There he brings his little black one.

Nury Martinez 13:09

[audio clip] For MLK, for the parade, that Herb used to organize and all the council who wanted to join Herb on the float 'cause he used to do a whole float to be nice. Bonin would be like, Hey, Nury, are you going to the MLK?" "Well, Herb invited me, yeah, I'll go." "Okay, I'm bringing whatever the kid's name is." I'm like, it's like the oddest thing, it's like Black and brown on this float. And then there's this white guy with this little Black kid who's misbehaved.

Mike Bonin 13:37

And then a little while later, Ben called me back and he said, 'I'm sorry to do this to you. Our Spanish language reporters have been listening to the tapes more carefully and there's more. She called your son a monkey.'

Antonia Cereijido 13:51

Nury used the phrase "parece changuito," which translates to "he seems like a little monkey."

Nury Martinez 13:57

[audio clip] Nothing you can do to control him. Parece changuito. And I'm just like, Oh my God. I'm over here trying to parent this kid. I'm like, You can't do that. I said, No! It's me and Karen Bass on the float trying to fucking check this little kid.

Antonia Cereijido 14:12

Karen Bass today is the mayor of Los Angeles. She's Black, and at the time she was on the float, she was a congresswoman representing South LA.

Nury Martinez 14:21

[audio clip] We're all looking at each other because we're the three women on the float, like who's the fucking... This kid's gonna tip us over. Because he's literally hanging on the rails.

Ron Herrera 14:29

We can't let him, let him off because the spectators will beat his ass.

Gil Cedillo 14:35

Yeah.

Nury Martinez 14:37

They're raising him like a little white kid, which I was like, this kid needs a beatdown. Like, let me let me take him around the corner and then I'll bring him back.

Gil Cedillo 14:44

Yeah.

Mike Bonin 14:46

That's kind of when I lost it. [pause] I was livid that she talked about beating him down. And I was beside myself when I heard, you know, the specific comments about monkey and Louis Vuitton and all that shit. I was with my buddy in Boston and I was talking to him on the way home from the concert and he's like, 'You shouldn't even say anything.' [music in] He said, "It's so disgusting." He said, "You don't need to say anything. Anyone who reads this is gonna think this this person is incredibly vile."

Antonia Cereijido 15:15

The other specific insult on the tapes is directed towards Indigenous Oaxacans. It comes later in the conversation when the four are looking at a map of the city of Los Angeles. Nury asks, "Esos es Koreatown?" and Gil responds, "Yeah, that's called K-town." [music out]

Nury Martinez 15:36

[audio clip] Eso es Koreatown?

Gil Cedillo 15:37

Yeah, that's called K-town.

Nury Martinez 15:40

I see a lot of little short dark people.

Gil Cedillo 15:42

Yeah, puro Oaxacans. Puro Oaxacan Koreans. [Nury laughs]

Antonia Cereijido 15:46

Gil's basically saying the whole neighborhood is full of Oaxacans. He jokes 'Oaxacan Korean.'

Gil Cedillo 15:55

[audio clip] [Nury laughing] Not even like Kevin, little ones.

Antonia Cereijido 16:02

Gil's referring here to Kevin's mixed Guatemalan and Chinese ancestry. Nury says, "I don't know what village they came out of..."

Nury Martinez 16:05

[audio clip] I don't know what village they came out of, how they got here, but- Tan feos!

Antonia Cereijido 16:08

Tan feos. They're ugly. [music in] So those were the two specific and hurtful, prejudiced insults. The second type of tape that caused outrage has to do with resentment towards organized Black political power, and Black city councilmembers. They bring up L.A. District Attorney George Gascón. He's a progressive prosecutor who was elected in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and has been trying to end mass incarceration in the city. Nury says, [music out] "Fuck that guy. He's with the Blacks."

Nury Martinez 16:08

[audio clip] Fuck that guy. He's with the Blacks.

Antonia Cereijido 16:43

Later in the tapes, they talk about Councilmember Mark Ridley-Thomas, one of the three Black city councilmembers. At the time of the recording, Ridley-Thomas had just been indicted on corruption charges. On the tape, Nury wonders whether or not he's going to resign, which would open up the seat in his district for a Latino candidate. His district in South L.A. used to be majority African American, but over time, it became majority Latino.

Nury Martinez 17:08

[audio clip] If he resigns, and the African Americans look at this as a hostile takeover because he's gone, we'll have to figure that shit out because politically, they're going to come after us.

Antonia Cereijido 17:18

Nury says, "If he resigns and the African Americans look at this as a hostile takeover because he's gone, we'll have to figure that shit out because politically, they're gonna come after us." This next voice is Kevin De León. He says, "Can I say something right now?"

Kevin De León 17:32

[audio clip] Can I say something right now? This is what I call the the ests como se llama this guy este the movie The Wizard of Oz effect.

Antonia Cereijido 17:41

The Wizard of Oz effect.

Kevin De León 17:42

When you're at the side of the curtain it's like this big voice. It sounds like there's thousands. And then when you actually pull the curtain is that you see the little Wizard of Oz.

Antonia Cereijido 17:55

Kevin is saying that the voice of African Americans sounds louder and more powerful than it actually is. It's unclear if he means politicians or constituents or both. Then, Ron Herrera, the union leader, brings up a hypothetical population of 100 people who are roughly half Latino, saying he thinks Latino politicians in L.A. are in a strong place.

Ron Herrera 18:16

[audio clip] You have a hundred people, right. 52 of whom are Mexicanos. I feel pretty good about it. I feel pretty good about my chances of beating your ass.

Antonia Cereijido 18:25

But Kevin and Gil suggest that Black voters still have an outsized influence.

Gil Cedillo 18:30

[audio clip] 25 are for Black and the 25 Blacks are shouting.

Kevin De León 18:34

They, they shout like they're 250.

Antonia Cereijido 18:36

That's Kevin saying, 'If there's 25 Black people, they shout like they're 250.' They're also frustrated by what they perceive to be a double standard in how Black and Latino politicians are treated when they get into trouble. They bring up Mark Ridley-Thomas's corruption scandal again. They think he's getting better treatment than Jose Huizar, a former councilmember who was indicted a year earlier, also on corruption charges. Jose is Mexican American. Nury says to the room, "They didn't think twice before judging Jose." It's unclear who "they" are.

Nury Martinez 19:10

[audio clip] They didn't think twice before um, judging Jose.

Kevin De León 19:14

I know. They went after him right away.

Antonia Cereijido 19:18

Kevin says, "They went after him right away." Jose Huizar and Mark Ridley-Thomas would both later be convicted on corruption charges. Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson was one of the three Black city councilmembers at the time of the recordings. In the tape, Marqueece and his alliance with Mike Bonin are discussed extensively.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 19:39

When I first heard the actual tapes I was in, I was at my house. I have a little man cave. It was about three in the morning.

Antonia Cereijido 19:47

The L.A. Times was working on their story about the tapes, and that's when Marqueece heard from Mike.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 19:52

Mike Bonin who was working furiously and asking for my help to try to shape the story in a way that didn't impact his son. And that's when I got a hold of a copy of the, the recordings, digital.

Antonia Cereijido 20:06

Do you remember your thoughts as you were listening?

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 20:09

It was shock. You can't figure out what's happening. Like, did someone in the room make this recording? Why is it being released now? A year has passed. Like it was just, there were more questions than, than feelings. You know, all these people are people that I hear talk when, you know, no one's listening or in safe company. [Antonia: Mm hmm.] So none of it was particularly surprising at the outset.

Antonia Cereijido 20:32

When I heard the tapes, I heard so much resentment, just like real. And I'm curious, had you heard them describe the dynamic on the council that way? What did you think about their characterization?

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 20:44

I, I hadn't heard the jealousy and resentment of Black people. I just, I had never heard that. [Antonia: Interesting.] You know, you know, it's just 25 Black people screaming. And um, that was um, surprising, and you know, over time, it was disheartening to me. And obviously, maybe that's something that they wouldn't talk about in front of me.

Antonia Cereijido 21:02

[music in] This brings me to what I think of as the third type of comments on the tape. These aren't offensive in the same way the other types are, but they're still salacious. And that's because listening to these parts of the tape, you hear a private conversation you never hear between public figures. A theme comes up again and again: A kind of candid griping about how they feel Latino politicians, and the people in the room in particular, are held to a different standard than white politicians. [music out] In one part of the conversation, they're talking about an event that Kevin held at the Walt Disney Concert Hall after he was sworn in as a state senator in 2015. It's a fancy place to host a party, a public building that was designed by the renowned architect Frank Gehry. The event cost $50,000 to put on.

Nury Martinez 21:54

[audio clip] It was your anniversary this weekend. Facebook reminded me that I was at the, at the Walt Disney Hall.

Kevin De León 22:00

Oh! October 15th, yeah.

Nury Martinez 22:03

When you were doing your little swearing-in...

Kevin De León 22:05

Swearing-in. Yeah. Which by the way, that swearing-in ceremony-

Nury Martinez 22:08

You got shit for.

Kevin De León 22:09

I got shit all over for it. And a month after my thing in November, Zev Yaroslavsky had a black tie, red carpet event at the Walt Disney Concert Hall. What did the press say? What did the press say? Shhh... Zilch.

Antonia Cereijido 22:25

Kevin is talking about how a white politician had a retirement party at the same venue shortly after him and the press didn't write about it.

Nury Martinez 22:32

[audio clip] That's why I don't have parties, because of you. No, I'm serious! Because I'm like, we can't celebrate our own, our own accomplishments.

Kevin De León 22:39

No, you can, you can have a party. But you know what? No, you can have it. You can have it, but you gotta have it at Olvera Street.

Gil Cedillo 22:47

El Pueblo.

Kevin De León 22:48

Olvera Street.

Antonia Cereijido 22:49

Olvera Street is a landmark in Downtown LA that's been preserved to reflect what the city looked like when Los Angeles was still a part of Mexico in the early 1800s. It's the kind of place tourists put on a wide brimmed sombrero and pay to take a picture on a donkey statue.

Kevin De León 23:04

[audio clip] You have to have it at Roosevelt High School. Or Pacoima. That's what, because that's where they expect us to be at.

Antonia Cereijido 23:11

Pacoima is a mostly Latino working class neighborhood where Nury grew up.

Nury Martinez 23:15

[audio clip] 'Que no have it in Pacoima! Right there by the swap meet. Just meet at the swap meet! Everybody's seen it.

Antonia Cereijido 23:21

They're complaining that the media expects Latino politicians to have their parties in working-class Latino spaces, not in fancy buildings designed by famous architects. Which, Marqueece Harris-Dawson told me, is a legitimate complaint.

Antonia Cereijido 23:35

What do you think about when they talk about how they're not allowed to have events at the Walt Disney Music Hall?

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 23:40

Uh, I mean, I understand where they're coming from. They, they, you know, they do get critiqued. This happens to elected officials of color. And certainly that was done to Antonio Villaraigosa when he was mayor. Um, you know, "Oh, he eats at these restaurants," and literally, that would be in the newspaper. So you know, I think that's kind of been there, and I could, uh, empathize with them on that.

Antonia Cereijido 23:59

[music in] In the week before the L.A. Times started working on their first story about the tapes, rumors had already been circulating about the tapes existence.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 24:12

The week before the tapes were out, there was a member of council that said, 'Hey, I need to talk to you. There's something that is about to break. I think it's gonna be a big deal.' Then another activist came and said, 'There are these tapes. These people are gonna have to resign.'

Antonia Cereijido 24:24

Someone had posted the tapes onto Reddit weeks before, but they didn't get much attention until someone on Twitter posted the Reddit link and tagged journalists from multiple outlets including the L.A. Times and Knock L.A.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 24:36

And I was like, you know, really like, you know, activists get a little worked up sometimes. I just thought it would be like a lot of other stories.

Antonia Cereijido 24:46

But then the L.A. Times published their story.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 24:50

I thought, I was like the doors are blown off now. It's, it's this story, like no one's controlling this story at this point.

Antonia Cereijido 24:57

That's coming up after a quick break. [music out]

Antonia Cereijido 25:05

Welcome back to Imperfect Paradise. I'm Antonia Cereijido. You're listening to "Nury and the Secret Tapes, Part One. [music in] The L.A. Times published their first story about the tapes on a Sunday, October 9th, 2022. Almost immediately, people gathered outside of Nury Martinez's home. People were protesting. They were chanting and they even blasted parts of the tape over a speaker.

Protesters 25:29

[audio clip] Bye bye, Nury! Bye bye, Nury! Resign! Resign! Your racist comments are out of line! Resign! Resign! Your racist comments are out of line!

Antonia Cereijido 25:41

Headlines and snippets of tape started to travel across group chats and social media timelines. [music out]

Odilia Romero 25:48

Oh my God, that uh, it's not funny, but suddenly I started getting a text. 'I embrace you. I support you. I hope you're feeling okay. Sending you a hug.'

Antonia Cereijido 25:59

This is Odilia Romero. She's the co-founder and Executive Director at CIELO, which is an Indigenous woman-founded and led organization that advocates for Indigenous people's human rights. Odilia started getting texts about the tapes before she actually knew what they were.

Odilia Romero 26:15

And then our board member sends me the text. Did you see this? And I'm like, Oh, this is what people are talking about. I'm getting all these like hugs and love. And the board member said, 'Are you okay?' And I said, 'Oh, yeah, I'm okay.' And she was very shocked to my response, like, I'm okay, like, I'm not gonna go under the covers and cry. It shows what we've always known as Indigenous people, that the other Mexicans have always discriminated against us.

Antonia Cereijido 26:51

Many Indigenous and Afro-Latine folks were not actually surprised by what they heard on the tapes. But rather, they saw the tapes as proof, evidence of an issue they felt was often sidelined.

Odilia Romero 27:02

We've always knew this is how they talk about us. This is how Mexico talks about us. This is how Latinos talk about us.

Antonia Cereijido 27:10

Professor Tanya Hernandez was also getting pinged by her colleagues.

Tanya Hernandez 27:14

My inbox was flooded with everyone wanting to let me know what had been disclosed. I think because by that point, many people knew that this was a topic that I've done, you know, deep research on.

Antonia Cereijido 27:27

Tanya had just published a book about anti-Black bias in Latine communities. And suddenly, she had a perfect current example of the problem to point to.

Tanya Hernandez 27:35

What the audio tapes opened up now was just how systemic and much of a pattern across the communities that this actually is. That is the message that Latinos, Latine, Latinx can also harbor anti-Black bias and sentiment.

Antonia Cereijido 27:55

Meanwhile, politicians at all levels started to call for the resignation of everyone heard on the tapes.

Various Newscasters 28:01

[audio clips] "Both individuals running for mayor here in the city of Los Angeles are asking all three councilmembers to simply resign." "Congresswoman Karen Bass says what's on the audio tape is appalling anti-Black racism." "Councilman Harris-Dawson, along with LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and US Senator Alex Padilla, just a few of the growing list of those now demanding the resignation of all of those involved in that leaked audio.

Antonia Cereijido 28:25

[music in] Ron Herrera, the union leader, was the first to resign. Then Nury stepped down from her role as city council president, but she didn't step down from the council itself. In a statement she wrote, "I hope you will give me the opportunity to make amends." That week President Biden was scheduled to come to L.A. to show support for mayoral candidate Karen Bass. And during a briefing, Karine Jean- Pierre, the White House Press Secretary, [music out] was asked if the President had a reaction to the tapes.

Karine Jean-Pierre 28:55

[audio clip] Look, the President is glad to see that one of the participants in that conversation has resigned. Uh, but they all should. He believes that they all should resign. The language that was used and tolerated during that conversation was unacceptable, and it was appalling. Uh, they should all step down.

Antonia Cereijido 29:17

Two days after the story broke, L.A. City Council was set to meet in person. Nury was not going to be there. She took a leave of absence from the council after the L.A. Times published its story about the tapes. But Kevin De León and Gil Cedillo, the other councilmembers on the tape, were going to be there.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 29:33

The morning, the first council meeting after the story broke, I decided to take the public entrance into City Hall instead of the executive entrance.

Antonia Cereijido 29:43

This is Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson again. [protest ambi] He rolled up to the City Hall, which is this tall white Art Deco tower in Downtown LA, and hundreds of people had gathered on the steps.

Protesters 29:53

[audio clip] Let's not get sidetracked on why we're here. Let's remain focused. Okay? We're here to get them out! Get them out! Get them out!

Antonia Cereijido 29:54

LAist reporter Miguel Flores was there talking to people outside City Hall.

Miguel Flores 30:12

[audio clip] And why are you out here today?

Protester 1 30:14

I'm out here to join with the numerous working class, Black, brown, Indigenous people, who are against the abhorrent and bigoted comments made by city councilmembers.

Protester 2 30:27

Racism is racism, whether it's coming from a guy in a red MAGA hat or from the President of the LA City Council. It is unacceptable.

Protester 3 30:34

I feel like it's the sort of people who chuckle along to racist jokes in bars. They are complicit and they're actually encouraging it in some ways. Uh, she spoke it out loud, but they all laughed and agreed.

Antonia Cereijido 30:45

[fade in banda music] Marqueece had never been greeted at the doors of City Hall the way he was that day with a 12 piece banda.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 30:52

All Latino. Made a line. They like made a pathway for me to walk through them as they're playing. And people are shouting, "Fuera! Fuera!"

Antonia Cereijido 31:02

"Fuera" means "get out," and "fuera" became a rallying chant calling for the councilmembers on the tape to resign. It seemed intentional that the chant was in Spanish. It signals that what was on the tapes did not reflect the views of all Latinos.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 31:17

And so the, the crowd was predominantly Latino. And so for me, I was like, Oh, this is the city I thought it was. [banda music fades out]

Antonia Cereijido 31:29

The LA City Council chambers are intimate and church-like. There is gold and turquoise tile on the walls, tall marble pillars, and 15 leather chairs where the council members sit, arranged like a horseshoe. In front of them are rows of benches where the public can sit. But on the morning of October 11th, no one was sitting. [protest ambi] The benches were full of people standing, screaming, and booing. Some people were wearing T shirts that said, "I'm with the Blacks," a reference to Nury Martinez's comments about District Attorney George Gascón.

Protesters 32:03

[audio clip] What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now!

Antonia Cereijido 32:06

Nithya Raman was one of the first councilmembers to take her seat.

Nithya Raman 32:10

I was sitting there listening to people chanting and protesting in the audience. And I got a text from a friend of mine.

Antonia Cereijido 32:19

Her friend was in Ethiopia for work.

Nithya Raman 32:21

And she was like, [laughing] 'Hi! I'm watching you on the New York Times homepage where the LA City Council meeting is being live streamed.'

Antonia Cereijido 32:31

Watching the live feed, you see Nithya seated at the start of the meeting. Mike Bonin, who had returned from Massachusetts, is already seated too. He's holding his head in his hands. Kevin and Gil are nowhere to be seen.

Mike Bonin 32:45

I needed my staff to keep Kevin and Gil away from me. I did not want them to have a photo op moment of coming over to apologize in front of cameras.

Antonia Cereijido 32:55

Then you see Councilmember Mitch O'Farrell try and fail to begin the council meeting.

Mitch O'Farrell 33:00

[audio clip] Good morning. There are a, there are a lot of people here that need to be heard today. We are going to have a meeting today. It will happen. Now, it can happen with everyone in the room. It can happen with everyone in the room or, or we can have a meeting without any of you in the room.

Antonia Cereijido 33:22

As he's speaking Kevin walks in and sits down. He looks out at the crowd as people begin pointing at him and screaming.

Protesters 33:29

[audio clip] Get out! Fuera!!! Fuera!!! Fuera!

Antonia Cereijido 33:36

Two minutes later, Gil walks in and takes his seat next to Kevin. The men are expressionless as they fiddle with their microphones, leaf through some paper on their desks, and sip water. They don't look at the crowd.

Protesters 33:49

[audio clip] De León, you gotta go! Cedillo, you gotta go!

Antonia Cereijido 33:49

Six minutes in, after huddling with a handful of city councilmembers, notably not Mike Bonin, Gil walks out, but Kevin stays in his seat. He scratches his head and turns his back to the crowd. A Black woman begins to scream, "Get out like you wanted us out."

Protesters 33:52

[audio clip] Get out like you wanted us out! Get out like you wanted us out!

Antonia Cereijido 34:12

Finally, Kevin stands and walks out. The crowd begins to clap. [protesters cheer] Mitch O'Farrell tries again to start the meeting. Eventually, 18 minutes in, the crowd quiets down.

Mike Bonin 34:26

[audio clip] Good morning, everybody.

Antonia Cereijido 34:29

And allows Mike Bonin to speak.

Mike Bonin 34:32

Thank you. Uh, [cheering and clapping] I, I want to say a few words. My husband and I are both uh, raw and angry and heartbroken and sick for our family and for Los Angeles. I am reeling from the revelations of what these people said. I can never really know or comprehend or feel the weight of the daily relentless racism, anti-Black racism that my son is gonna face. But man, [lets out a breath] I know the fire that you feel when someone tries to destroy Black boy joy. Man, uh, it's a rage. And you know, my husband and I were both raised at a time when, as gay men, we didn't think that we would be married, or that we would be allowed to have kids, or that we'd be allowed to have a family because our relationships and our families were considered illegitimate. [duck under]

Antonia Cereijido 35:44

Mike ends his speech talking about what he sees for LA's future.

Mike Bonin 35:49

I see the incredible promise of that coming in Los Angeles, a, a, a, a powerful heart-led multiracial crop of young progressives who are determined to build coalitions. The power is there and the heart is there and the fortitude is there. [protesters clap] And I have more than hope. I have, I have faith that that can happen. Thank you. [clapping]

Antonia Cereijido 36:19

[music in] Within hours of this speech, Nury would resign completely from the City Council. She started her resignation letter saying, "It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home." She ended it with, "While I take the time to look inwards and reflect, I ask that you give me space and privacy." [music out] After that, no one heard from her. She didn't speak to the media. And there were even rumors swirling around that she had moved to Arizona, even Switzerland.

Antonia Cereijido 36:57

[music in] Many in the city don't want to hear from Nury. Her words on the tape tell them everything they need to know. But some of the people Nury talks about and insults on the tapes don't think the scandal should be the only thing that defines her. This is Marqueece Harris-Dawson.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 37:18

It's hard for me to take an hour and a half of a recording against everything else I've known about them.

Antonia Cereijido 37:26

Even Mike Bonin said something similar.

Mike Bonin 37:29

Nury was like my partner on so many things. She was an incredible voice on so many issues, economic justice and low wage workers. I want Nury to be remembered for more than this moment.

Antonia Cereijido 37:41

Nury's story tells us a lot about the history of political power in Los Angeles. And to really understand the scandal and the painful issues it raised, we need to understand that part of the story too. How she grew up, how she rose to power, and what life experiences informed her policies and leadership style.

Mike Trujillo 37:59

She spoke like she was raised in Pacoima, and anyone that was raised in Pacoima, they all sound like they're raised in Pacoima.

Antonia Cereijido 38:07

How did she rise to the top of the City Council in the second largest city in the country?

Stuart Waldman 38:12

She was very blunt, and, you know, held people's feet to the fire. And, you know, I mean, she's very brash.

Antonia Cereijido 38:20

And what were the divisions in the council in the months leading up to the secretly recorded conversation?

Marqueece Harris-Dawson 38:26

Then our relationship at different points deteriorated and it got pretty low.

Antonia Cereijido 38:31

And now that she's had a year to think about it, does she understand why people are so upset about what she said on those tapes? [music out]

Antonia Cereijido 38:40

What did you mean by when you called them "tan feos?"

Nury Martinez 38:43

Oh my goodness.

Antonia Cereijido 38:46

Nury may be out of office, but her constituents, the people who supported her, are still a vital part of our city. What should Latino political power look like?

Antonia Cereijido 38:57

Is it really about preserving Latino power or is about preserving the power of the people who are in the room?

Nury Martinez 39:02

It was about preserving Latino seats in general.

Antonia Cereijido 39:04

That's next week on Imperfect Paradise. Listen to new episodes of the podcast every Wednesday, or tune in on Sunday nights at 7pm on LAist 89.3 or LAist.com.

Antonia Cereijido 39:17

[music in] This episode of Imperfect Paradise was written and reported by me, Antonia Cereijido. Catherine Mailhouse is the Executive Producer of the show, and Shana Naomi Krochmal is our Vice President of Podcasts. Emily Guerin is the Senior Producer. Our story editor is Meg Cramer. Minju Park is our producer. She also scored our series. Ali Biano and Rebecca Katz are our interns. Our editorial team also includes Tony Marcano, Frank Stoltze, Megan Garvey and Kristen Muller. Fact checking by Caitlin Antonios. Mixing and theme music by E. Scott Kelly. Music by J. Valle, Ex Mañana and Joseph Quiñones at Second Hand Sounds. This podcast is powered by listeners like you. Support the show by donating now at LAist.com/join. This podcast is supported by Gordon and Dona Crawford, who believe quality journalism makes Los Angeles a better place to live. [music out]

Imperfect Paradise: Nury & Las Grabaciones Secretas: Parte 1
Está escuchando Imperfect Paradise de LAist Studios. Soy Antonia Cereijido, su presentadora.

Ha pasado un año desde el mayor escándalo político de la historia de Los Ángeles. Se filtraron al público grabaciones secretas de cuatro poderosos líderes latinos, lo que provocó una protesta masiva y la exigencia de su dimisión.

PROTESTA 1: El racismo es racismo. Ya venga de un tipo con un sombrero rojo MAGA o del presidente del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles, es inaceptable.

Desde entonces, la mujer en el centro del escándalo, la ex presidenta del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles, Nury Martínez, no ha concedido ninguna entrevista. Hasta ahora.

ANTONIA:  ¿Ha pensado por qué dijo lo que dijo?

NURY: He pensado en ese día en particular, Dios mil veces, si no más.

Vamos a hablar con franqueza con las personas más afectadas por las cintas secretas de una forma que nadie ha oído antes.

MIKE BONIN: Recibí una llamada de un amigo mío // que me dijo, // oye, necesito hablar contigo. Hay una grabación secreta de Nury, Gil y Kevin.

MARQUEECE HARRIS DAWSON: No puedes entender lo que está pasando. ¿Alguien en la habitación hizo esta grabación?

ODILIA ROMERO: Y entonces nuestro miembro de la junta me envía el texto. ¿Ha visto esto? Y pienso: "Oh, esto es de lo que habla la gente.

TANYA HERNANDEZ: Mono, monito, mono, monito, son términos profundamente racializados que no son en absoluto inocuos.

ANTONIA: Suena como si estuviera diciendo que esto es algo que le ocurrió a usted, no algo que usted hizo.

NURY: No es eso lo que estoy diciendo.

Eso viene en Imperfect Paradise de LAist Studios.

Antonia: En una cálida mañana de octubre de 2021, 3 hombres y una mujer se reunieron en un modesto edificio okupado de un barrio obrero en pleno centro de Los Ángeles.[1]

Kevin De León: ¿Qué pasa, compa?

Se sentaron alrededor de una enorme mesa de madera, sorbiendo café con nata y azúcar. Empezaron la reunión de la forma normal en que empiezan la mayoría de las reuniones: con alguna charla trivial.

Uno de los hombres muestra una foto de su nieta para que la vean los demás.

Nury Martinez: Ella es tan linda. Por cierto, no puedo creer que estés en esta etapa de tu vida.

Gil Cedillo: Lo sé.

Gil Cedillo: Soy abuelo. Y tengo un hijo de 47 años y una niña de dos años y medio.

Pero no resultaría ser una reunión normal.

Se trataba de cuatro de las personas más poderosas de la ciudad de Los Ángeles: el jefe de un destacado grupo sindical y tres concejales de Los Ángeles.

En ese momento no lo sabían, pero todo lo que decían estaba siendo grabado en secreto.

Pensando que nadie los oiría, durante los siguientes 90 minutos, los cuatro líderes latinos -el líder sindical Ron Herrera, los concejales Gil Cedillo, Kevin De León y la presidenta del Consejo Nury Martínez- hablaban con franqueza utilizando términos denigrantes y racistas sobre sus colegas del consejo, el poder político negro, los indígenas e incluso un niño.

Todo ello en el contexto de una reunión celebrada para elaborar estrategias sobre cómo hacer avanzar el poder latino en la ciudad.

Kevin De León: Es para la fuerza latina en el futuro inmediato.

Y entonces... pasaría casi un año entero.

Esa reunión se volvería indistinguible de cualquier otra reunión en la memoria de los participantes --

Eso fue hasta que el audio se colgó en Internet, los periodistas descubrieron las cintas y, en octubre de 2022, sus comentarios darían la vuelta al mundo.

Menuda historia. Es una bomba. Es impresionante.

A Martínez se le oyó hacer comentarios racistas y viles contra los negros y los indígenas mexicanos,

Nuri Martínez llamó "monito" al hijo negro de un concejal,

sugiriendo que el niño necesitaba una paliza

También insultaron a los oaxaqueños.

Se refería a ellos como gente bajita y morena.

Decir que esto ha sacudido al Consejo de la Ciudad aquí en Los Ángeles desde sus cimientos probablemente sea quedarse corto.

Nury Martinez, al encontrarse ahora como pararrayos en esta tormenta de fuego en expansión...

La filtración de la cinta del Consejo de la Ciudad fue uno de los mayores escándalos políticos de la historia de Los Ángeles.

Cuando la gente oyó esa conversación privada, la ciudad estalló en un frenesí de protestas.

¡Adiós Nury! ¡Adiós Nury!

Hey hey, ho ho, ¡Nury Martinez tiene que irse!

Nury Martínez -cuyos comentarios causaron la mayor controversia- pasó de ser una de las políticas latinas más prometedoras del país, a ser el principal ejemplo de anti-negritud y colorismo en la comunidad latina/latinx aparentemente de la noche a la mañana.

Los escándalos son como los tornados, golpean con fuerza repentina y lo ponen todo patas arriba. Pero para que se produzca un tornado, tienen que darse unas condiciones atmosféricas clave como la combinación adecuada de aire cálido y frío, y la velocidad del viento.

Y así, como un tornado, el escándalo de las cintas del Consejo de la Ciudad no surgió de la nada. Había tensiones a fuego lento tanto políticas como personales, unas elecciones a la alcaldía polémicas y un ajuste de cuentas nacional sobre la raza.

El escándalo se ha disipado, el tornado ha pasado, pero las cuestiones incómodas y espinosas en el corazón de esta historia permanecen:

- racismo anti-negro y colorismo dentro de la comunidad latina/latinx,

- una creciente línea de fractura en el partido demócrata entre progresistas y moderados

- y una continua y la difícil lucha por definir el poder político latino.

Han pasado dos años desde que se grabaron las cintas, un año desde que se hicieron públicas, y en el tiempo transcurrido desde entonces Nury Martinez no ha hablado de lo que dijo en las cintas.

Nury Martinez: Mi nombre es Nury Martinez y se deletrea n u r y.

Antonia: ¿Y cómo se presenta usted?

Nury Martínez: como ex presidenta del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles.

En este primer episodio, vamos a empezar con el escándalo en sí, como una forma de entender lo que Nury dijo realmente, y por qué la gente se sintió tan herida.

MARTHA DINA ARGUELLO: Las palabras que pronunció estaban tan llenas de crueldad, ira y dolor que causaron ira y dolor.

A continuación, exploraremos la tensión entre aquello por lo que Nury era conocida antes del escándalo -ser defensora de las familias inmigrantes de clase trabajadora- y después.

EUNISSES HERNANDEZ: Hemos visto reflejados a líderes que se parecen a nosotros, que se supone que nos representan, tomando decisiones que desprecian por completo a nuestras comunidades.

Y presionaremos a Nury para que responda por lo que dijo.

Antonia: ¿Cree que existe un problema de anti-negritud en la comunidad latina?

Nury Martinez: pausa muy larga no lo sé.

Soy Antonia Cereijido. Esto es Imperfect Paradise - Nury y las cintas secretas

Parte 1 - El escándalo.

Estamos de vuelta. Está escuchando Imperfect Paradise

Antonia: empecemos con sólo, si pudiera presentarse y decir su nombre y cuál era su cargo en el momento en que se filtraron las cintas.

MIKE BONIN: Uh, mi nombre es Mike Bonn y, ahora soy un miembro retirado del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles y a veces podcaster. Y, en el momento en que las cintas salieron a la luz, yo estaba en los últimos meses de mis nueve años y medio representando al West Side en el Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles.

Mike Bonin es blanco, de unos 50 años, con el pelo blanco muy rapado y gafas de montura de alambre. Y es la persona cuyo nombre más surgió durante la reunión grabada en secreto.

Toda la reunión grabada duró más de 90 minutos. Y no vamos a repasar cada cosa que se dijo en las cintas. En su lugar, vamos a empezar centrándonos en las partes de la cinta que más llamaron la atención. Y pienso en ello como tres tipos distintos de cinta. Primero, insultos directos racistas y prejuiciosos.

Si han oído algo sobre las cintas, probablemente habrán oído hablar de cómo Mike Bonin y su hijo, Jacob, que es negro, fueron descritos por la gente de la reunión.

Antonia: ¿dónde estabas cuando oíste hablar por primera vez de las cintas?

MIKE BONIN: Hmm. Sí, estaba en Massachusetts cuando oí hablar por primera vez de las cintas. Mi familia es de Massachusetts y es donde crecí, y estuve allí para, el servicio fúnebre conmemorativo de un, un amigo mío.

Me quedé unos días después para estar con mi familia. Y ese, sábado, estaba en casa de mis padres preparándome para ir a Boston a ver un concierto y recibí una llamada de, , un amigo mío, un activista de Los Ángeles que me dijo, eh, o me mandó un mensaje diciendo, eh, oye, necesito hablar contigo.

Hay una grabación secreta de Nury, Gil y Kevin.

Gil Cedillo y Kevin de León eran los otros concejales que aparecían en la cinta.

MIKE BONIN: Y le dije, sí te oigo. Y entonces dijo, no, esto es realmente malo y se trata de ti y se trata de Jacob, así que necesito que te sientes.

Jacob, el hijo de Mike, tenía entonces 8 años.

Mike decidió no escuchar las cintas todavía. Porque iba de camino a ver al cantante folk británico Billy Bragg.

Mientras Mike estaba en el concierto, el LA Times estaba montando su historia de última hora sobre las cintas. El nombre de Mike aparece por primera vez a la media hora de empezar.

Y una advertencia: los próximos clips utilizan un lenguaje despectivo y explícito. Es difícil distinguir claramente toda la conversación, así que repetiré algunas líneas de la cinta.

La primera voz que se oye es la de la presidenta del consejo, Nury Martínez. Está hablando de Mike y le llama "esa pequeña zorra".

Nury Martinez: esa pequeña zorra, Bonin. "¿Qué pasa con Bonin? "Bonin cree que es un puto negro".

"Qué le pasa a Bonin" dice ella "Bonin se cree que es un puto negro"

Todos en el Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles son demócratas, pero hay un espectro de lo progresistas que son. Mike Bonin fue uno de los concejales más progresistas. Y en la época de las grabaciones se peleaba frecuentemente con los miembros más moderados del consejo, incluido Nury.

La siguiente voz es Kevin - que de los tres era el más nuevo en el Consejo de la Ciudad. Dice "sabes que hay cuatro negros en el Consejo de la Ciudad"

Kevin De León: Sabes que hay cuatro negros en el Consejo Municipal.

En el momento de la grabación sólo había tres concejales negros en el Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles...

Nury responde "¿cuatro negros? sí. Bonin"

Nury Martinez: ¿Cuatro negros? Sí. Bonin.

Un par de minutos después, traen al hijo de Mike Bonin, Jacob. Mike y su marido Sean adoptaron a Jacob en 2016.

En las cintas, los concejales acusan a Mike de simbolizar a Jacob, diciendo que Mike utiliza a su hijo como un accesorio político.

Empieza con Kevin diciendo "su hijo lo adoptó" y Nury responde, "es negro, sí"

Kevin De León: Su hijo lo adoptó.

Nury Martinez: Es negro. Sí.

Nury Martinez: lo trae así durante el Mes de la Historia Negra, lo lleva al consejo y lo pone acá,

Ron Herrera: Como un accesorio...

Nury Martinez: ...es un, es un accesorio

Nury dice que Mike trae a su hijo durante el Mes de la Historia Negra y lo pone acá, que lo coloca así... como un accesorio.

Kevin De León: Igual que cuando -

Ron Herrera: Solían tener esas estatuas en las plantaciones -

Kevin De León: Nury lleva su bolso Goyard o el, el bolso Louis Vuitton.

Esas dos últimas voces fueron el líder sindical Ron Herrera y el concejal Kevin De León. Ron dice que "solían tener esas estatuas en las plantaciones".

Y Kevin compara a Mike Bonin llevando a su hijo a los actos con Nury exhibiendo sus bolsos de diseño durante las reuniones del Consejo de la Ciudad.

MIKE BONIN: Y yo estaba en el concierto, y entre el acto de apertura y el espectáculo propiamente dicho, sonó mi teléfono y pude ver que era Ben Oreskes, del LA Times. Y dije, no voy a responder. Y se me hundió el corazón porque me dije, mierda, ¿se trata de estas cintas? Y entonces recibí un mensaje de Ben diciendo, es urgente, necesito que me llames. Y le volví a llamar y, le dije, escucha, estoy, estoy en Boston. No he escuchado las cintas. No sé cómo reaccionar ante esto. Le dije, ¿tengo que hablar esta noche? ¿Estás haciendo esto? Dice, puede que publiquemos la historia esta noche y por eso necesito que responda. Así que yo estaba en el concierto y Ben está, enviándome mensajes de texto con extractos de las cintas en el transcurso de una hora. Y estoy tratando al mismo tiempo de llegar a una declaración de reacción que realmente les estaba implorando que se mantuvieran alejados de las cosas. Mi hijo dice que me atacaron. Di algo vago. Hicieron comentarios racialmente despectivos.

ANTONIA: esta siguiente parte de la grabación incluye la línea específica que más se cita en la cobertura de las cintas.

Nury cuenta una historia sobre estar en una carroza durante un desfile del Día de MLK . Fue invitada por el ex presidente del Consejo de la Ciudad Herb Wesson, que es de raza negra.

Estaba en la carroza con Mike y su hijo Jacob, que tenía poco menos de 3 años.

Nury Martinez: Ahí trae su negrito, a su lado. Lo trae, ¿verdad?

Nury dice "ahí trae su negrito" que traducido literalmente significa... ahí trae su negrito.

Nury Martinez: Para MLK, para el desfile, que Herb solía organizar y todo el consejo que quería unirse a Herb en la carroza, porque solía hacer una carroza entera, solía ser bonito. Bonin diría: "Oye Nury, ¿vas a ir al MLK?". "Bueno, Herb me invitó, sí, iré. "OK, voy a traer a como se llame el niño." Es como lo más extraño, es como Negro y Marrón en esta carroza. Y luego hay un blanco con un niño negro que se porta mal.

MIKE BONIN: Y entonces, un rato después, Ben me volvió a llamar y me dijo: "Siento hacerte esto. Nuestros reporteros en español han estado escuchando las cintas con más atención y hay más, eh, llamó mono a su hijo

Nury utilizó la frase "parece changuito", que se traduce como "parece un monito"

Nury Martinez: nada que puedas hacer para controlarlo parece changuito. Y me quedé como: "Dios mío". Estoy aquí tratando de criar a este niño. Yo digo, no puedes hacer eso. Dije que no. // Somos Karen Bass y yo en la carroza tratando de controlar a este niñito.

Karen Bass es hoy la alcaldesa de Los Ángeles. Es negra, y en el momento en que estaba en la carroza era congresista en representación del sur de Los Ángeles.

Nury Martinez: Todas nos miramos porque somos las tres mujeres en la carroza, como quién es la puta, este niño nos va a volcar. Porque está literalmente colgado de los raíles. Cielos.

Ron Herrera: No podemos dejarle salir porque los espectadores le darían una paliza.

Gil Cedillo: Sí.

Nury Martinez: Le están educando como a un niño blanco, lo que me hizo pensar: este niño necesita una paliza. Como, déjeme llevarlo a la vuelta de la esquina y luego lo traeré de vuelta.

Gil Cedillo: Sí.

MIKE BONIN: Fue entonces cuando perdí el control.

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MIKE BONIN: Estaba furioso de que ella hablara de golpearlo. Y me puse fuera de mí cuando oí, ya sabe, los, los comentarios específicos sobre, uh, el mono y Louis Vuitton y toda esa mierda.

Estaba con mi amigo en Boston y hablaba con él,

uh, en el camino a casa desde el concierto, y él es como, usted ni siquiera debe decir nada.

Dijo, es tan repugnante. Me dijo que no hacía falta que dijera nada. Cualquiera que lea esto va a pensar que esta persona es increíblemente vil.

El otro insulto específico que aparece en las cintas está dirigido a los indígenas oaxaqueños. Aparece más adelante en la conversación, cuando los cuatro están mirando un mapa de la ciudad de Los Ángeles. Nury pregunta "¿eso es Koreatown?" y Gil responde, "Si eso se llama K-town"

Nury Martinez: ¿Eso es Koreatown?

Gil Cedillo: Sí, eso se llama K-town.

Nury Martinez:  Veo mucha gente bajita y morena.

Gil Cedillo: Sí, puro oaxaqueños. Puros coreanos oaxaqueños.

Gil está diciendo básicamente que todo el barrio está lleno de oaxaqueños.

Bromea con los coreanos oaxaqueños.

Gil Cedillo:  Ni siquiera como Kevin, pequeños.

Gil se refiere aquí a la ascendencia mixta guatemalteca y china de Kevin. Nury dice "No sé de qué pueblo salieron..."

Nury Martinez: Como si no supiera de qué pueblo salieron, cómo llegaron aquí. Pero -

Nury Martinez: '¡Tan feos!

"'Tan feos" - son feos

Así que esos fueron los dos insultos prejuiciosos específicos e hirientes.

El segundo tipo de cinta que causó indignación tiene que ver con el resentimiento hacia el poder político negro organizado y los concejales negros.

Mencionan al fiscal de distrito de Los Ángeles, George Gascón. Es un fiscal progresista que fue elegido tras el asesinato de George Floyd y que intenta acabar con el encarcelamiento masivo en la ciudad. Nury dice...

"A la mierda ese tipo que está con los negros".

Nury Martinez: A la mierda ese tipo, está con los negros

Más adelante en las cintas, hablan del concejal Mark Ridley Thomas, uno de los tres concejales negros de la ciudad.

En el momento de la grabación, Ridley Thomas acababa de ser acusado de corrupción.

En la cinta, Nury se pregunta si iba a dimitir o no, lo que abriría el escaño de su distrito a un candidato latino. Su distrito en el sur de Los Ángeles solía ser mayoritariamente afroamericano, pero con el tiempo se convirtió en mayoritariamente latino.

Nury Martinez: Si dimite y los afroamericanos lo ven como una adquisición hostil porque se ha ido. Tendremos que resolver esa mierda porque políticamente van a venir a por nosotros

Nury dice, cita voz "si dimite y los afroamericanos ven esto como una toma de poder hostil porque se ha ido, tendremos que resolver esa mierda porque políticamente van a venir a por nosotros"

La siguiente voz es Kevin De León. Dice "¿Puedo decir algo ahora mismo?"

Kevin De León: ¿Puedo decir algo ahora mismo? Esto es lo que yo llamo el efecto este como se llama este tipo la película El Mago de Oz

El efecto Mago de Oz

Kevin De León: cuando estás al lado del telón es como una gran voz

Kevin De León: Suena como si hubiera miles Y luego, cuando realmente se tira de la cortina es que se ve el pequeño Mago de Oz

Kevin está diciendo que la voz de los afroamericanos suena más alta y poderosa de lo que realmente es; no está claro si se refiere a los políticos, a los electores o a ambos.

Entonces, Ron Herrera -el líder sindical- menciona una hipotética población de 100 personas que son aproximadamente la mitad latinas, diciendo que cree que los políticos latinos de Los Ángeles están en un lugar fuerte.

Ron Herrera: tienes cien personas a la derecha 52 de los cuales son mexicanos me siento bastante bien al respecto me siento bastante bien acerca de mis posibilidades de golpear tu trasero

Pero Gil y Kevin sugieren que los votantes negros siguen teniendo una influencia desmesurada.

Gil Cedillo: 25 son para los negros y los 25 negros gritan

Kevin De León: Ellos, ellos gritan como si fueran 250.

Es Kevin diciendo "si hay 25 negros, gritan como si fueran 250"

También están frustrados por lo que perciben como un doble estándar en la forma en que se trata a los políticos negros y latinos cuando se meten en problemas. Vuelven a sacar a relucir el escándalo de corrupción de Mark Ridley Thomas.

Creen que está recibiendo mejor trato que José Huizar, un exconcejal que fue procesado un año antes, también por cargos de corrupción. José es mexicanoamericano. Nury dice a la sala que no se lo pensaron dos veces antes de juzgar a José. No está claro quiénes son "ellos".

Nury Martinez: no se lo pensaron dos veces antes de juzgar a José.

Kevin De León: Lo sé. Fueron a por él enseguida.

Kevin dice "fueron a por él enseguida"

José Huizar y Mark Ridley Thomas serían condenados posteriormente por cargos de corrupción.

El concejal Marqueece Harris Dawson era uno de los tres concejales negros de la ciudad en el momento de las grabaciones. En la cinta se habla mucho de Marqueece y de su alianza con Mike Bonin.

Marqueece Harris Dawson: cuando escuché por primera vez las cintas actuales estaba en mi casa, tengo una pequeña cueva. Eran cerca de las tres de la mañana.

El LA Times estaba trabajando en su historia sobre las cintas y fue entonces cuando Marqueece tuvo noticias de Mike.

Marqueece Harris Dawson: Mike Bonin que trabajaba furiosamente y me pedía ayuda, para intentar dar forma a la historia de manera que no afectara a su hijo. Um, y fue entonces cuando me hice con una copia del, Las grabaciones digitales.

Antonia: ¿Recuerda qué pensó mientras escuchaba?

Marqueece Harris Dawson: Me quedé aterrado. No puedes entender lo que está pasando. ¿Alguien en la habitación hizo esta grabación? ¿Por qué se publica ahora? Ha pasado un año. Como si sólo, hubiera más preguntas que, que sentimientos.

Ya sabe, usted, yo, todas estas personas son gente a la que oigo hablar cuando, ya sabe, nadie está escuchando o en compañía segura. Ajá. Así que nada de esto fue particularmente sorprendente ... ¿Al principio?

Antonia: cuando oí las cintas, oí mucho resentimiento, real, y tengo curiosidad, ¿los había oído describir así la dinámica en el consejo? ¿Qué le pareció su caracterización?

Marqueece Harris Dawson: Yo, yo no había, yo, yo no había oído los celos y el resentimiento de los negros. Simplemente, nunca había escuchado eso.

Antonia: Interesante.
Marqueece Harris Dawson: Sí. Como, ya sabes, son sólo 25 personas negras gritando y, um, Eso fue, um, sorprendente y, y ya sabes, con el tiempo fue descorazonador para mí. Y obviamente eso es algo de lo que no había, de lo que no hablarían delante de mí.

Esto me lleva a lo que considero el tercer tipo de comentarios sobre la cinta. Estos no son tan ofensivos como los otros. Pero siguen siendo salaces, y eso es porque al escucharlo se oye una conversación privada que nunca se oye entre personajes públicos.

Un tema surge una y otra vez: Una especie de queja sincera sobre cómo sienten que a los políticos latinos, y a las personas de la sala en particular, se les exige un nivel diferente que a los políticos blancos.

En una parte de la conversación, hablan de un acto que Kevin celebró en el Walt Disney Concert Hall después de jurar su cargo como senador estatal en 2015.

Es un lugar elegante para celebrar una fiesta, un edificio público que fue diseñado por el renombrado arquitecto Frank Gehry. La organización del evento costó 50.000 dólares.

Nury Martinez: Ese fin de semana era su aniversario. Facebook me recordó que estaba en el Walt Disney Hall...

Kevin De León: ¡Oh! 15 de octubre, sí.

Nury Martinez: Cuando estabas haciendo tu pequeño juramento -

Kevin De León: Juramento. Que, por cierto, esa ceremonia de juramento -

Nury Martinez: Tienes mierda para...

Kevin De León: Me echaron toda la mierda encima por ello y un mes después de lo mío, en noviembre, Zev Yaroslavsky organizó un acto de etiqueta con alfombra roja en el Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Kevin De León: ¿Qué dijo la prensa? ¿Qué dijo la prensa? Se quedó muda.

Kevin está hablando de cómo un político blanco celebró una fiesta de jubilación en el mismo lugar poco después que él y la prensa no escribió sobre ello.

Nury Martinez: Por eso no hago fiestas, por tu culpa. ¡No, hablo en serio! Porque no podemos celebrar nuestros propios, nuestros propios logros.

Kevin De León: No, puedes. Puedes hacer una fiesta. ¿Pero sabe qué? No, puedes. Puedes, pero tienes que tenerla en Olvera Street.

Gil Cedillo: El Pueblo.

Kevin De León: Olvera Street.

Olvera Street. Es un lugar emblemático del centro de Los Ángeles que se ha conservado para reflejar el aspecto que tenía la ciudad cuando Los Ángeles aún formaba parte de México a principios del siglo XIX. Es el tipo de lugar en el que los turistas se ponen un sombrero de ala ancha y pagan por hacerse una foto en la estatua de un burro.

Kevin De León: Hay que tenerla en la preparatoria Roosevelt. O Pacoima. Eso es, porque ahí es donde esperan que estemos.

Pacoima es un barrio de clase trabajadora mayoritariamente latina donde creció Nury.

Nury Martinez: '¡Que no tienen en Pacoima! Justo ahí, junto al mercado. ¡Reúnanse en el mercado! Todo el mundo lo ha visto.

Se quejan de que los medios de comunicación esperan que los políticos latinos celebren sus fiestas en espacios latinos de clase trabajadora, no en lujosos edificios diseñados por arquitectos famosos.

Lo cual, según me dijo Marqueece Harris Dawson, es una queja legítima.

Antonia: ¿Qué piensa cuando hablan de que no se les permite celebrar eventos en el Walt Disney Music Hall?

Marqueece Harris Dawson: Es decir, entiendo de dónde vienen. Ellos, ellos, ya sabe, reciben críticas. // Esto les ocurre a los funcionarios electos de color. // Y ciertamente eso le hicieron a Antonio Villaraigosa cuando era alcalde. Um, ya sabe, "oh, él come en estos restaurantes" y, y literalmente eso saldría en el periódico. Así que, ya sabe, creo que eso es todo lo que ha habido y podría, empatizar con ellos en eso.

En la semana anterior a que el LA Times empezara a trabajar en su primera historia sobre las cintas, ya circulaban rumores sobre su existencia.

Marqueece Harris Dawson la semana antes de que salieran las cintas, hubo un miembro del consejo que dijo: "Oye, necesito hablar contigo. Hay algo que está a punto de salir. Creo que va a ser algo grande. Luego vino otro activista y dijo, son estas cintas, esta gente va a tener que dimitir.[00:21:00]

Alguien las había colgado en Reddit semanas antes, pero no recibieron mucha atención hasta que alguien en Twitter publicó el enlace de Reddit y etiquetó a periodistas de varios medios, entre ellos el LA Times y Knock LA.

Marqueece Harris Dawson Y yo estaba como, ya sabes, realmente, como, ya sabes, los activistas se ponen un poco nerviosos a veces. //Sólo pensé que sería como muchas otras historias.

Pero entonces, el LA Times publicó su historia.

Marqueece Harris Dawson Pensé, era como las puertas están volando ahora. Es, es esta historia... como si nadie controlara esta historia en este momento.

Eso viene después de una rápida pausa.

Bienvenidos de nuevo a Imperfect Paradise, soy Antonia Cereijido. Está escuchando, "Nury y las cintas secretas" - Parte 1.

El LA Times publicó su primera historia sobre las cintas un domingo: el 9 de octubre de 2022.

Casi de inmediato, la gente se congregó frente a la casa de Nury Martínez. La gente protestaba, coreaba e incluso hicieron sonar partes de la cinta por un altavoz.

Manifestantes: Adiós Nury, adiós Nury. // Dimita. Dimita. Sus comentarios racistas están fuera de lugar.

Los titulares y fragmentos de cinta comenzaron a viajar a través de chats grupales y las líneas de tiempo de las redes sociales.

Odilia Romero: Dios mío, eso... no tiene gracia, pero de repente empecé a recibir un mensaje de texto. Te abrazo, te apoyo, espero que te sientas bien. Te envío un abrazo.

Esta es Odilia Romero. Es cofundadora y directora ejecutiva de CIELO, que es una organización fundada y dirigida por mujeres indígenas que aboga por los derechos humanos de los pueblos indígenas. Odilia empezó a recibir mensajes sobre las cintas antes de saber realmente lo que eran.

Odilia Romero: Y entonces nuestro miembro de la junta me envía el texto. ¿Ha visto esto? Y pienso: "Oh, esto es de lo que habla la gente. Estoy recibiendo todos estos como abrazos y amor. Y el miembro de la junta dijo, ¿estás bien? Y yo dije, sí, estoy bien. Y también estaba muy conmocionada. Mi respuesta, como que estoy bien, como que no voy a meterme bajo las sábanas a llorar. Demuestra por qué siempre hemos sabido como indígenas que los demás mexicanos siempre nos han discriminado.

Muchos indígenas y afrolatinos no se sorprendieron por lo que escucharon en las cintas, sino que las consideraron una prueba, la evidencia de un asunto que sentían que a menudo se dejaba de lado

Odilia Romero: Siempre hemos sabido que así es como hablan de nosotros. Así habla México de nosotros. Así hablan de nosotros los latinos

La catedrática Tanya Hernández también recibía avisos de sus colegas

Tanya Hernandez: Mi bandeja de entrada se inundó de gente que quería informarme de lo que se había divulgado. Creo que porque en ese momento, mucha gente sabía que este era un tema sobre el que había hecho, ya sabe, una investigación profunda.

Tanya acababa de publicar un libro sobre los prejuicios contra los negros en las comunidades latinas. De repente, tenía un ejemplo actual perfecto del problema al que señalar.

Tanya Hernandez: lo que las cintas de audio abrieron ahora fue qué sistémico y cuánto de patrón tiene, a través de las comunidades, lo que esto realmente es. Ese es el mensaje de que los latinos, latinex, latinx también pueden albergar prejuicios y sentimientos contra los negros.

Mientras tanto, los políticos de todos los niveles empezaron a pedir la dimisión de todos los que se oían en las cintas.

Las dos personas que se presentan a la alcaldía aquí en la ciudad de Los Ángeles piden a los tres miembros del consejo que simplemente dimitan.

La congresista Karen Bass dice que lo que aparece en la cinta de audio es un espantoso racismo contra los negros.

El concejal Harris Dawson, junto con el alcalde de Los Ángeles, Eric Garcetti, y el senador estadounidense Alex Padilla. Sólo algunos de la creciente lista de los que ahora exigen la dimisión de todos los implicados en ese audio filtrado.

Ron Herrera, el líder sindical, fue el primero en dimitir.

Entonces, Nury dimitió de su cargo de presidenta del Consejo de la Ciudad, pero no dimitió del propio Consejo.

En un comunicado, escribió "Espero que me den la oportunidad de enmendarme".

Esa semana, el presidente Biden venía a Los Ángeles para apoyar a la candidata a la alcaldía Karen Bass. Durante una sesión informativa, se preguntó a Karine Jean-Pierre, secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca, si el presidente había reaccionado a las cintas.

Karine Jean-Pierre: mire, el presidente se alegra de ver que una persona que participó en esa conversación ha dimitido. Pero todos deberían. Cree que todos ellos deberían dimitir.

El lenguaje que se utilizó y toleró durante esa conversación era inaceptable y resultaba espantoso. Deberían dimitir todos.

Dos días después de que la historia saliera a la luz, el Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles tenía previsto reunirse en persona. Nury no iba a estar presente: pidió una excedencia en el consejo después de que el LA Times publicara su historia sobre las cintas. Pero Kevin de León y Gil Cedillo, los otros concejales de la cinta, iban a estar allí,

Marqueece Harris Dawson La mañana, la primera reunión del consejo, después de que estallara la historia, decidí llevar el interés público al Consejo de la Ciudad en lugar de a la entrada ejecutiva

Soy el concejal Marqueece Harris Dawson de nuevo. Llegó hasta el Consejo de la Ciudad -que es esta torre alta, blanca, Art Decó, en el centro de Los Ángeles- y cientos de personas se habían congregado en la escalinata.

Manifestantes: no nos desviemos del motivo por el que estamos aquí, centrémonos. Estamos aquí para sacarlos, sacarlos, sacarlos.

El reportero de LAist Miguel Flores estuvo allí hablando con la gente fuera del Consejo de la Ciudad

Miguel Flores: ¿Y por qué está hoy aquí?

Manifestante 1: Estoy aquí para unirme a la numerosa clase trabajadora. Negros, morenos, indígenas, personas que están en contra de los comentarios aborrecibles e intolerantes de los miembros del Consejo de la Ciudad

MANIFESTANTE 2: El racismo es racismo. Ya venga de un tipo con un sombrero rojo MAGA o del presidente del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles, es inaceptable.

MANIFESTANTE 3: Me parece que es el tipo de gente que se ríe de los chistes racistas en los bares. Son cómplices y de hecho lo están fomentando de alguna manera. Lo dijo en voz alta, pero todos se rieron y estuvieron de acuerdo.

Marqueece nunca había sido recibido a las puertas del Consejo de la Ciudad como lo fue aquel día: con una banda de 12 músicos.

Marquesina Harris Dawson Todos los latinos hicieron una línea. Hicieron como un camino para que yo caminara a través de ellos mientras tocaban y la gente gritaba fuera,

Fuera significa fuera. Y fuera se convirtió en un cántico reivindicativo que pedía la dimisión de los concejales que aparecían en la cinta. Parecía intencionado que el cántico fuera en español... señalaba que lo que había en las cintas no reflejaba las opiniones de todos los latinos.

Marqueece Harris Dawson Y así la, la multitud era, predominantemente latina. Y entonces para mí fue como, oh, esta es la ciudad que yo pensaba que era.

Las cámaras del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles son íntimas y parecen una iglesia. Hay azulejos dorados y turquesas en las paredes, altos pilares de mármol y 15 sillas de cuero donde se sientan los miembros del consejo, dispuestas como una herradura. Delante de ellos hay filas de bancos donde puede sentarse el público.

Pero la mañana del 11 de octubre, nadie estaba sentado.

Los bancos estaban llenos de gente de pie, gritando y abucheando.[2] Algunas personas llevaban camisetas que decían: "Estoy con los negros", una referencia a los comentarios de Nury Martínez sobre el fiscal George Gascón.

Manifestantes: ¿Qué queremos? ¡Justicia! ¿Cuándo la queremos? ¡Ahora!

Nithya Raman fue una de las primeras miembros del consejo en ocupar su asiento.

Nithya Raman: Estaba sentado escuchando a la gente que coreaba y protestaba entre el público, y recibí un mensaje de texto de una amiga mía.

Su amiga estaba en Etiopía por trabajo.

Nithya Raman: y ella estaba diciendo, hola, te estoy viendo en la página principal del New York Times, donde se está transmitiendo en vivo la reunión del Consejo de la Ciudad de Los Ángeles.

Viendo la transmisión en vivo, se ve a Nithya sentada al comienzo de la reunión. Mike Bonin, que había regresado de Massachusetts, ya está sentado también. Se está sujetando la cabeza con las manos. Kevin y Gil no aparecen por ninguna parte.

Mike Bonin: Necesitaba que mi personal mantuviera a Kevin y a GiI alejados de mí. No quería que tuvieran un momento fotográfico de venir a disculparse delante de las cámaras.

Entonces se ve al concejal Mitch O'Farrell intentar, y fracasar, comenzar la reunión del consejo.

Mitch O'Farrell: Buenos días. Hay, hay mucha gente aquí que necesita ser escuchada hoy. Hoy vamos a celebrar una reunión. Ocurrirá. Ahora puede ocurrir con todos los presentes. Puede ocurrir con todos en la sala o, o podemos tener una reunión sin ninguno de ustedes en la sala.

Mientras habla Kevin entra y se sienta. Mira a la multitud, mientras la gente empieza a señalarle y a gritar.

Manifestantes: ¡Fuera! ¡¡¡Fuera!!!

Dos minutos después, Gil entra y toma asiento junto a Kevin. Los hombres están inexpresivos mientras juguetean con sus micrófonos, hojean algunos papeles en sus escritorios y beben un poco de agua. No miran a la multitud.

Manifestantes: ¡De León te tienes que ir, Cedillo te tienes que ir!

A los seis minutos, tras codearse con un puñado de concejales -entre los que destaca Mike Bonin- Gil se marcha.

Pero Kevin, permanece en su asiento, se rasca la cabeza y da la espalda a la multitud. Una mujer negra empieza a gritar: "Fuera como querías que nos fuéramos"

Manifestantes: ¡Salgan como querían que saliéramos! ¡Salgan como querían que saliéramos!

Finalmente, Kevin se levanta y sale. La multitud comienza a aplaudir.

Manifestantes: Aplauden

Mitch O'Farrell intenta, de nuevo, iniciar la reunión. Finalmente, a los 18 minutos, la multitud se calma -

Mike Bonin: Buenos días a todos.

Y permitan hablar a Mike Bonin.

Mike Bonin: Gracias. Quiero decir unas palabras. Mi marido y yo estamos... muy enojados, y con el corazón roto y enfermos por nuestra familia y por Los Ángeles. Estoy desconcertado por las revelaciones de lo que dijeron estas personas, nunca podré saber o comprender o sentir realmente el peso del implacable racismo diario, el racismo anti-negro al que se va a enfrentar mi hijo. Pero conozco el fuego que sientes cuando alguien intenta destruir la alegría de los chicos negros, se siente mucha rabia. Y, ya sabe, tanto mi marido como yo fuimos criados en una época en la que, como hombres homosexuales, no pensábamos que nos casaríamos o que se nos permitiría tener hijos, o que se nos permitiría tener una familia, eh, porque nuestras relaciones y nuestras familias se consideraban ilegítimas

Mike termina su discurso hablando de lo que ve para el futuro de Los Ángeles

Mike Bonin: Veo la increíble promesa de que eso ocurra en Los Ángeles, una, una, una, una poderosa cosecha multirracial dirigida por el corazón de jóvenes progresistas que están decididos a crear coaliciones. El poder está ahí y el corazón está ahí y la fortaleza está ahí, y. Tengo más que esperanza, tengo fe en que eso puede ocurrir. Gracias. (Aplausos)

A las pocas horas de este discurso, Nury dimitiría completamente del Consejo de la Ciudad.

Comenzó su carta de dimisión diciendo: "Con el corazón roto renuncio a mi escaño por el Distrito 6 del Consejo, la comunidad en la que crecí y mi hogar".

Lo terminó diciendo: "Mientras me tomo un tiempo para mirar hacia dentro y reflexionar, le pido que me dé espacio y privacidad".

Después de eso, nadie supo nada de ella.... Ella no habló con los medios de comunicación. Corrían rumores de que se había mudado a Arizona, o incluso a Suiza.

Muchos en la ciudad no quieren saber nada de Nury. Sus palabras en esa cinta les dicen todo lo que necesitan saber.

Pero algunas de las personas de las que Nury habla e insulta en las cintas... no creen que el escándalo deba ser lo único que la defina. Soy Marqueece Harris Dawson.

Marqueece: Me resulta difícil aceptar una hora y media de, de una grabación en contra de todo lo que he sabido de ellos.

Incluso Mike Bonin dijo algo parecido.

Mike: Nury era como mi compañera en muchas cosas. Fue una voz increíble en, en tantos temas, la justicia económica y los trabajadores con salarios bajos. Quiero que Nury sea recordada por más que este momento.

La historia de Nury nos dice mucho sobre la historia del poder político en Los Ángeles.

Y para entender realmente este escándalo y las dolorosas cuestiones que suscitó, necesitamos entender también esa parte de la historia. Cómo creció, cómo ascendió al poder y qué experiencias vitales informaron sus políticas y su estilo de liderazgo.

MIKE TRUJILLO: Hablaba como si se hubiera criado en Pacoima y cualquiera que se haya criado en Pacoima, todos suenan como si se hubieran criado en Pacoima.

HILLEL ARON: Es una instantánea y, como cualquier fotografía, puede engañarle haciéndole creer que es toda la historia, pero no lo es.

¿Cómo llegó a lo más alto del Consejo de la Ciudad de la segunda ciudad más grande del país?

STUART WALDMAN: Fue muy franca y, ya sabe, le dijo las cosas claras a la gente y, ya sabe, quiero decir, es muy descarada.

¿Y cuáles eran las divisiones en el consejo en los meses previos a la conversación grabada en secreto?

Marqueece Harris Dawson: luego nuestra relación se deterioró y cayó bastante bajo.

Y ahora que ha tenido un año para pensar en ello, ¿comprende por qué la gente está tan molesta por lo que dijo en esas cintas?

ANTONIA: ¿Qué quiso decir cuando los llamó "tan feos"?

NURY: Oh Dios mío.

Puede que Nury esté fuera del cargo, pero sus electores -las personas que la apoyaron- siguen siendo una parte vital de nuestra ciudad. ¿Cómo debería ser el poder político latino?

Antonia: ¿Se trata realmente de preservar el poder latino o de preservar el poder de las personas que están en la sala?

Nury Martinez: Se trataba de preservar los asientos latinos

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We take you behind the scenes of the L.A. City Council tape scandal, a year later. The secret recordings of the conversation among four of the city's most powerful Latino leaders making racist, derogatory insults - exposed thorny, unresolved issues of race and politics.

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Futuro Studios is the new creative division of Media. The team at Futuro Studios is led by Peabody Award-winning journalist Marlon Bishop on the editorial end and Julio Ricardo Varela on the business end.

So far, Futuro Studios projects include the following:

Suave

The U.S is the only country in the world that allows minors to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Approximately 2,500 juveniles have been effectively sentenced to die in prison-considered "irredeemable" by the state for crimes committed when they were just teenagers. One of them was David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez, who entered prison at 17 expecting to leave in a coffin. Suave tells the story of what happens when your whole world is a prison cell, and you suddenly get a second chance at life. It's the story of one man's incarceration and redemption and an unusual relationship between a journalist and a source.

Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez

Sonoro and Futuro Studios "Ídolo: The Ballad of Chalino Sánchez," an 8-episode podcast that examines the extraordinary life of the Mexican singer-songwriter and attempts to unravel the mystery of his unsolved murder. Hosted by Erick Galindo in English and Alejandro Mendoza in Spanish.

Imagine if Frank Sinatra went on stage every night with a gun in his waistband. Or if Tupac got into a shootout on stage at a rodeo. Well, Chalino Sánchez did just that. In this podcast, we examine the extraordinary life of the "King of Corridos," and attempt to unravel the mystery of his death. Chalino's story, his own narcocorrido, is the ultimate ride through the drug cartel world, the underbelly of the Mexican-American music industry, and a murder mystery for the ages.

La Brega

WNYC Studios and Futuro Studios present "La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience": a seven-part podcast series that uses narrative storytelling and investigative journalism to reflect and reveal how la brega has defined so many aspects of life in Puerto Rico. Available in English and Spanish.

Anything For Selena

Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Twenty-five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. From WBUR and Futuro Studios.

Norco 80

Hosted by Antonia Cereijido, the podcast uses eyewitness testimony and never before heard police tapes, taking listeners on a wild ride and serving as a cautionary tale in the context of America being immersed in the middle of an economic crisis, revamped end of the world paranoia and a complex conversation about policing. A podcast in collaboration with LAist Studios.

Con Todo: Brown Love

Drawn out from the fictional world of the series Gentefied and brought into the Netflix universe, Brown Love is a weekly show that celebrates the multi-faceted US Latinx experience. Each week, host Dascha Polanco talks to Latinxs in Hollywood who are making space for Latinx communities to see themselves, and gets real on topics like machismo, Afro-Latinidad, self-care, comedy, and the first-generation experience.

The Battle for 187

In 1994 an anti-immigrant ballot initiative rocked the state of California. It turned the state into the progressive beacon it is today, but also paved the way for Donald Trump to be elected president. The Battle of 187 is hosted by award-winning reporter Gustavo Arellano and is a collaboration between the Los Angeles Times and Futuro Studios. This is California features thought-provoking, sound-rich stories about California and the West.

Radical Imagination

Racism, toxic inequality, persistent poverty, climate change: these are big serious problems, and if you believe they require big audacious solutions, then this is the podcast for you. Hosted by Angela Glover Blackwell, Founder-in-Residence at PolicyLink, Radical Imagination focuses on radical solutions to our society's most pressing problems. It features conversations with thinkers and changemakers from multiple fields working to deliver equity wins at scale.Tune in to Radical Imagination, for stories and solutions that are fueling change.

TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones

With anti-trans violence and political backlash at all-time highs, award-winning journalist Imara Jones hosts the TransLash podcast, where trans people and allies talk back about what matters most and discuss how to create a fairer world for all.
To connect with the team at Futuro Studios, feel free to email Marlon here and Julio here.

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Futuro Studios is the new creative division of Media. The team at Futuro Studios is led by Peabody Award-winning journalist Marlon Bishop on the editorial end and Julio Ricardo Varela on the business end. So far, Futuro Studios projects include the following: The U.S is the only country in the world that allows minors to be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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The Atlantic's Recommendation for the best 2023 podcasts

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The shows that kept listeners refreshing their apps this year

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There is only one GOAT of children's music and his name is Raffi. Since 1980, parents and children around the world have been singing along to the brilliant and beautiful music of Raffi Cavoukian. And now, the whole story of his journey is the subject of a stunning new podcast from iHeartRadio and Fatherly.

Debuting on January 18, 2022, Finding Raffi will reveal Raffi's entire story and philosophy, including his views on environmentalism, and his revolutionary concept of "child honoring." To Raffi, children are never people to be talked down to, they're just smaller people, a concept which comes across beautifully in his enduring music. We all love Raffi not just because our kids love him, but because his music is actually great. And in the podcast, as Raffi's roots as a protest singer are revealed, along with his amazing music connections (his very first album was produced by the same man who went on to do U2's Joshua Tree!) the reasons why he's so darn good will be made clear. Raffi's songs are sung constantly, but the man himself is something of an unsung hero. Until now.

Finding Raffi is Fatherly's follow-up to the Peabody-nominatedFinding Fred podcast, produced with iHeartRadio and Rococo Punch. The host is Chris Garcia, a comedian, and podcaster (of Scattered, an incredible podcast about Chris facing his dad, a Cuban emigrant, as he suffers through dementia), and the story includes music with notable musicians, environmentalists such as Philippe Cousteau and Chris Hayes, and Meena Harris.

Here's an audio trailer of what to expect.
Finding Raffi debuts on January 18, 2022, on multiple podcast platforms including

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The GOAT of Children's Music Finally Has His Own Podcast

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There is only one GOAT of children's music and his name is Raffi. Since 1980, parents and children around the world have been singing along to the brilliant and beautiful music of Raffi Cavoukian. And now, the whole story of his journey is the subject of a stunning new podcast from iHeartRadio and Fatherly.

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Credits

Reporter / Host Beth Schwartzapfel

Managing Editor Geraldine Sealey

Executive Producer Ben Brock Johnson

Producer Quincy Walters

Editor Amy Gorel

Production Manager Paul Vaitkus

Sound designers Emily Jankowski, Matt Reed

Fact Checker Kate Gallagher

Illustrator Diego Mallo

FOR THE MARSHALL PROJECT

Editorial Director Ruth Baldwin

Senior Director of Strategic Communications Dacrie Brooks

Editor-in-Chief Susan Chira

Production Coordinator Mara Corbett

Audience Director Ashley Dye

Senior Multimedia Editor Celina Fang

Communications Associate Nicole Funaro

Copy Chief Ghazala Irshad

Director of Technology Gabe Isman

Director of Product Elan Kiderman Ullendorff

Newsletter Manager Rachel Kincaid

Senior Development Manager AJ Pflanzer

Chief Strategy Officer Ebony Reed

Chief Financial Officer Eli Stern

Multimedia Editor Marci Suela

Partnership Manager Terri Troncale

Counsel Celin Carlo-Gonzalez and Jason Criss, Covington & Burling LLP
Louise Carron, Ed Klaris and Akshay Nelakurti, Klaris Law
Jennifer Borg, Pashman Stein

FOR WBUR

Chief Content Officer Victor Hernandez

Director of Cross-Platform Collaboration Laura Hertzfeld

Director of Marketing and Promotions Kristen Holgerson

Senior Audience Development Manager Samata Joshi

CEO Margaret Low

Senior Producer Amory Sivertson

Marketing Specialist Brilee Weaver

Producers Nora Saks and Grace Tatter

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'Violation' Podcast: An Unthinkable Crime, Second Chances and Parole

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Reporter / Host Beth Schwartzapfel Managing Editor Geraldine Sealey Executive Producer Ben Brock Johnson Producer Quincy Walters Editor Amy Gorel Production Manager Paul Vaitkus Sound designers Emily Jankowski, Matt Reed Fact Checker Kate Gallagher Illustrator Diego Mallo Editorial Director Ruth Baldwin Senior Director of Strategic Communications Dacrie Brooks Editor-in-Chief Susan

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Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power. When extremist elected officials get caught plotting against America with the violent ultra right, this is the story of the lengths they will go to… to cover their tracks.

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Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast

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Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors under crushing political pressure. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is the all-but-forgotten true story of good, old-fashioned American extremism getting supercharged by proximity to power.

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Introducing Season 4: Imperfect Paradise - Yoga's "Queen of Conspiracy Theories"

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Listen to this episode from Imperfect Paradise on Spotify. Before her sudden death in 2021, Guru Jagat had become a famous Kundalini yoga teacher based in Los Angeles. But as the global pandemic grew, she started talking like a far-right coronavirus conspiracy theorist.

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Amidst an unprecedented federal investigation into hundreds of Native Boarding Schools and the 100,000+ children these institutions forcibly removed, one school has become the epicenter of controversy in America's attempt to reckon with its dark history: Red Cloud Indian School. While today some see the school as a positive presence in the Pine Ridge Reservation, home to the Oglala Lakota Tribe, others cite it as a perpetrator of generational trauma. While the U.S. government is starting to admit its culpability in a church-facilitated campaign of genocide, the quest for justice is exposing tension throughout the Native community. In this new podcast from IllumiNative, series hosts Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee) and Lashay Wesley (Choctaw) hit the ground in Pine Ridge, South Dakota to chronicle the actively-developing situation for themselves, covering every twist and turn in this true crime story about the compounding intergenerational pain of Native American boarding schools and whether it's possible for a community, Native peoples, and the United States to achieve truth, healing, and reconciliation.

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American Genocide Podcast - Illuminative -

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American Genocide podcast about the crimes of Native American boarding schools, a story that is personal to many in our community.

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RedHanded the podcast jumps head first into all manner of macabre madness. We cover everything from big time serial killers (and those you may never have heard of), to hauntings, possessions, disturbing mysteries, bizarre whodunits and basically anything that tickles our creepy fancy. So, join us, plug in, sit back and prepare for scares.

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INFAMOUS: The Preppy Murder | Crime Junkie Podcast

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Before there was the OJ Simpson trial, there was the Preppy Murder. A case that catalyzed debates about privilege, legal ethics, victim's rights and more.

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For over a century, Puerto Rican musicians have been influential across the hemisphere. From the Harlem Hellfighters of WWI who helped develop jazz to the reggaetoneros who dominate today's charts, Puerto Rican music is everywhere. We start the season with the island's most celebrated composer Rafael Hernandez, who wrote beloved songs like "Lamento Borincano," "Ahora Seremos Felices," and "Perfume de Gardenias" - and one of the island's unofficial anthems, "Preciosa." It's a love song written for Puerto Rico that praises the island's beauty and, remarkably, also calls out the forces that oppress it.

When Bad Bunny exploded onto the scene and became the most-streamed artist in the history of the world, it became undeniable that Puerto Rican lyrics - the poetry of what people sing about, the bregas in every chorus - resonate all over the hemisphere. In September, he put out a music video for his hit "El Apagón," ("The Blackout,") which then turned into a mini-documentary about gentrification - the way people from the states are taking advantage of tax benefits and displacing Boricuas. It's called "Aqui Vive Gente" ("People Live Here").

"El Apagón," has become somewhat of an anthem - an installment in the long tradition of Puerto Ricans singing about home, longing and belonging, popularized by Rafael Hernandez. But Bad Bunny isn't singing about yearning for Puerto Rico - his music is often about never even leaving in the first place. It's about staying, and creating a future for Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico. If the video's Youtube comments - declarations of solidarity - are any indication, his music has touched on something deeply relatable across Latin America.

Learn more about the voices in this episode:

* Myzo, the singer from the plane

* Bobby Sanabria, Grammy-nominated bandleader and educator

* Elena Martínez, folklorist at City Lore and the Bronx Music Heritage Center

* Watch Marc Anthony's performance of "Preciosa"

* Watch Bianca Graulau's documentary "Aquí Vive Gente" ("People Live Here")

Our cover of "Preciosa" is by the artist Xenia Rubinos (out in April).

Listen to our Spotify playlist, featuring music from this episode - and this season. We'll keep adding to it each week as new episodes come out.

Special thanks to Yarimar Bonilla, Tracie Hunte, Lidia Hernandez, Diego Lanao, Marissé Masís Solano, Pedro Andrade, María Luz Nóchez and Ana Reyes. Fact checking this season is by Istra Pacheco and María Soledad Dávila Calero.

This season of La Brega is made possible by the Mellon Foundation.

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For over a century, Puerto Rican musicians have been influential across the hemisphere. From the Harlem Hellfighters of WWI who helped develop jazz to the reggaetoneros who dominate today's charts, Puerto Rican music is everywhere. We start the season with the island's most celebrated composer Rafae...

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(English, Español) Imagine if Frank Sinatra went on stage every night with a gun in his waistband. Or if Tupac got into a shootout on stage at a rodeo. Well, Chalino Sánchez did just that. In this podcast, we examine the extraordinary life of the "King of Corridos," and attempt to unravel the mystery of his death. Chalino's story, his own narcocorrido, is the ultimate ride through the drug cartel world, the underbelly of the Mexican-American music industry and a murder mystery for the ages.

Imagínate que Juan Gabriel se subiera al escenario cada noche con una pistola en la cintura. O que Babo, el del Cartel de Santa, se agarrara a plomazos sobre el escenario con alguien del público. Ese era Chalino Sánchez. En este podcast examinamos la extraordinaria vida del "Rey de los Corridos", e intentamos resolver el misterio de su muerte. La historia de Chalino, su propio narcocorrido, es un viaje a través del mundo de los cárteles de droga, el mundo de la industria musical Mexicano-Americana y un asesinato sin resolver para la posteridad.

Hosted by Erick Galindo in English. Conducido por Alejandro Mendoza en español.

(English, Español) Imagine if Frank Sinatra went on stage every night with a gun in his waistband. Or if Tupac got into a shootout on stage at a rodeo. Well, Chalino Sánchez did just that. In this podcast, we examine the extraordinary life of the "King of Corridos," and attempt to unravel the mystery of his death. Chalino's story, his own narcocorrido, is the ultimate ride through the drug cartel world, the underbelly of the Mexican-American music industry and a murder mystery for the ages.

Imagínate que Juan Gabriel se subiera al escenario cada noche con una pistola en la cintura. O que Babo, el del Cartel de Santa, se agarrara a plomazos sobre el escenario con alguien del público. Ese era Chalino Sánchez. En este podcast examinamos la extraordinaria vida del "Rey de los Corridos", e intentamos resolver el misterio de su muerte. La historia de Chalino, su propio narcocorrido, es un viaje a través del mundo de los cárteles de droga, el mundo de la industria musical Mexicano-Americana y un asesinato sin resolver para la posteridad.

Hosted by Erick Galindo in English. Conducido por Alejandro Mendoza en español.

Excellent

Grew up listening to Chalino but didn't ever go in depth into his life story. Very entertaining listen. Mr. Galindo narrated this beautifully. I highly recommend and look forward to hearing more from you.

Beautifully written

I will be honest. I'd only heard of chalino and never thought much of him but some dude my parents listened to and who's songs I'd hear an sweet 15s. But this podcast was an eye opener to the success and struggle that this man was. His fearlessness was unmet. The narrator does a great job at not sugar coating what chalino was involved in and I appreciated it that too because clearly he was no angel. Nonetheless whatever means he chose as his path to stardom he made it and it really does sound like his murder was uncalled for. I don't condone any illegal behavior or narco glorification but for what it's worth chalino really knew what was up and the narrator does a great job at explaining that.

Good, till not good.

I think it may be worth a 5 star, but unfortunately woke views were added. Can't praise a legend of the genre and then have a guest be upset over "toxic masculinity." It's narco corridos!

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(English, Español) Imagine if Frank Sinatra went on stage every night with a gun in his waistband. Or if Tupac got into a shootout on stage at a rodeo. Well, Chalino Sánchez did just that. In this podcast, we examine the extraordinary life of the "King of Corridos," and attempt to unravel the myster...

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THE 35 BEST PODCASTS OF 2022 according to someone at The Atlantic

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Widespread remote work may have changed where people listened to podcasts, but many are back to their prior routines and hitting "Play" like it's 2019. Fittingly, certain trends from yesteryear have stuck around for this resurgence: The audio space is still packed with true crime, which is often entertaining yet rarely remarkable. Shows about right-wing extremists and conspiracy theories are still popular. (Now, though, we're finally hearing about the left's fringe, too.) But a lot of what's emerging in 2022 seems to be a rebuttal to two years of vegetation.

Dating shows have guests who are meeting in person again, and the latest podcasts are heavy on the fieldwork. Makers went back out into the world; some revisited their hometowns, some headed abroad, and others journeyed through ungoverned waters. We also observed the inverse of travel-burrowing deeper into one's own headspace. Podcast hosts read poetry or, like so many people, came to terms with sorrow and grief, both private and shared. One thing remained constant: The best material we heard subverted popular tendencies or flat out surprised us.

This list contains 35 podcasts, not our usual 50 from years past. The audio space has become so creative and crowded that the bar for a standout entry has necessarily gotten higher. We've chosen only the podcasts that managed to cut through the noise, slide into our heads, and stay there. (As in prior years, we're recusing ourselves from ranking any Atlantic content.) These shows don't gawk at tragedies so the audience can rubberneck along. They don't merely recap movies or shows or current events. Instead, they provide as much inspiration as they do provocation. We offer them as a balm for loneliness, a call to adventure, and a blueprint for the future of the art form.

Where book lovers' and arm-chair psychologists' interests intersect, you'll find My Unlived Life. According to the host Miriam Robinson, life is made up of small choices-you could've gone left but you went right, and so on. She invites guests to pinpoint one such decision and imagine, step by step, what life would've been like if they'd gone down the other path. They consider big choices such as having children or moving to New York, but also more seemingly mundane ones, such as attending a pool party or auditioning for a play. Hearing these guests, many of them writers, reimagine their own story in real time will inevitably inspire listeners to reflect on their own what-ifs and forks in the road. But instead of the worry that can often accompany such rumination, Robinson and her guests arrive somewhere closer to catharsis. Yes, life could be different, but you're always on a road that leads to yourself.

Gateway Episode: " Irenosen Okojie "

Part golden memory, part real-time conversation, My Mother Made Me is Jason Reynolds's collage-style ode to his alive-and-well mother, Isabell. (He jokes that she forced him to make the podcast-hence, the title.) Sifting through their shared past, he contemplates his relationship to not only his mom but also life in general. The topics can get heavy: He ruminates on his mother's scare with cancer, his brother's alcoholism, and his grandfather's gambling. Yet this audio diary relies on lyricism and the joy of wordplay, which makes listening a unique pleasure. My Mother Made Me may approach even its most serious themes with a gentle beauty, but underneath its velvet touch is hard-earned wisdom.

Gateway Episode: " I Can Do Anything "

Not long after Facebook arrived in Northwich, England, Matthew Hardy started stirring up conflict. He assumed fake but plausible identities on the platform, then messaged people that their boyfriend or parents were cheaters. He commented on what people were doing or wearing in real time and escalated his behavior to sexual harassment. His schemes made for one of the most extreme cases of cyberstalking that a Google search will retrieve. One could argue that the most compelling part of Can I Tell You a Secret? is its horrifically juicy fare. But in the hands of the host and Guardian reporter Sirin Kale, the show also provides a clear-eyed analysis of modern-day stalking, the damage that can be caused without any laws being broken, and the ways in which a nonviolent person can still cause physical harm. Can I Tell You a Secret? leans slightly into salaciousness, but only enough to pose important questions about how far the legal consequences of a virtual crime should go.

Gateway Episode: " The Beginning "

For his playful conversations with prominent artists, thinkers, and comedians, Radio Rahim adopts a format inspired by his career as a boxing journalist. Rather than spanning a single episode, each interview is broken up into three chapters. That structure riffs off three-round bouts but also mirrors the gradual way we tend to get to know people in real life. Auto-Tuned voices, music, and sound effects dramatize key moments. Rosie Perez's voice is made to echo as she recalls the intensity of working 12-hour days while choreographing In Living Color, and heavy-metal music and crowd noise kick in while Jon Stewart explains the terror of a mosh pit. Rahim also had a tête-à-tête with Bob Saget: The interview, recorded in 2021, was published shortly after the comedian died, and it serves as the perfect homage to a beloved American figure. Rahim is an agile and clever host, always ready with a follow-up question that hits the mark.

Gateway Episode: " Michael Che: Ch 1 "

This show takes listeners to Réunion, an island in the Indian Ocean that saw an alarming rise in violent shark encounters in 2011. The resulting beach shutdowns affected tourists, surfers, and business owners, not to mention local politics. The host, Daniel Duane, mostly interviews the island's residents and discusses patterns in shark encounters-the surface-level stuff listeners might expect for a shark-attack show. But the podcast ventures deeper too: One surfer legally hunted and killed a shark, which sparked outrage from other surfers. Another gives a play by play of how a bull shark bit his leg off and of the unexpected relief that came when it finally did. Duane shows how the increased presence of sharks is a symptom of bigger issues and a problem in its own right while also depicting how many surfers have to play mind games with themselves in order to keep doing what they love.

Gateway Episode: " Bienvenue au Paradis "

Some call the borough of Queens the most diverse place in the world, and yet its schools aren't integrated. This podcast's second season tracks the implementation of a "diversity plan" for District 28, only no one will tell the parents what the plan actually is. Recorded in 2019 during a packed school-board meeting, the first scene will disabuse listeners of idealized notions about modern integration in the classroom. To understand the racial dynamics, the hosts Mark Winston Griffith and Max Freedman offer a history of the community going back more than 100 years. Additionally, comments by former Mayor Ed Koch and ex-Governor Mario Cuomo (made prior to their election to those positions) reveal how high-level politicians bowed to pressure from white constituents. Very little has changed since then, except that maybe the language of discrimination has gotten gentler. In a time when conspiracy theories about what powerful people do behind closed doors run rampant, here is an account of colossal American dysfunction hiding in plain sight.

Gateway Episode: " There Is No Plan "

Case 63 (played by Oscar Isaac) is a psychiatric patient who claims he's from the year 2062 and has come back to save the world from the latest lethal virus. He tells his psychiatrist, Eliza Knight (Julianne Moore), that after 2020, the world will go through many rounds of lockdowns and vaccinations, that people will grow more distrustful of one another and institutions, and eventually, a new disease will kill anyone who doesn't take extreme caution. Case 63 is the perfect binge at under two hours total, which is about the right amount of time to sit with this brand of existential fear. Each plot twist bends the mind just enough to remind listeners that the show is science fiction, not prophecy (or is it?). Julio Rojas's exquisite writing, adapted for English by Mara Vélez Meléndez, transforms fuzzy pandemic anxieties into crystalline conclusions.

Gateway Episode: " The Story I Grew Up With "

Anna Maria Tremonti is a broadcast journalist who's covered conflict zones so dangerous that she had to write her blood type above her heart just in case. She posits that she was drawn to reporting on violence toward women because of the physically abusive marriage she survived and kept mostly secret for decades. Now, with the help of her therapist, she's telling her story publicly. She sets the stage for Welcome to Paradise with: "Maybe we all travel towards hell and are fooled, lulled by pockets of paradise along the way." Tremonti grapples, episode by episode, with how she became part of a statistic-one-third of women worldwide experience physical violence, many from a partner-and with her feelings of shame. Considering how rarely women discuss their own experiences of intimate-partner violence in public, Welcome to Paradise is an urgent roadmap, as moving as it is brave.

Gateway Episode: " One of Those People You Hear About "

Before the pandemic, the radio host Brendan Francis Newnam decided he needed new "creative meaning" and a dramatic change of scene. The result is the freewheeling travel podcast Not Lost, a series about communing with others-and living in your own skin-when you're away from home. In each episode, Newnam is joined by a friend; his most frequent guest is the TV writer Danielle Henderson. They plan typical tourist activities, such as dance lessons in Mexico City, but the subsequent conversations take unexpected, introspective turns. (For example, Henderson says she's too tall to dance, prompting both of them to chat about their bodies and abilities.) At every location, Newnam attempts to get invited to a dinner party by someone he has just met. That conceit pays off wonderfully, forcing him to win over strangers, at the risk of rejection. During a Valentine's Day trip to Las Vegas in 2020, just before COVID shut down production, the dialogue frequently turned to not just love but also the meaning of being alone-an omen of things to come. Not Lost vividly captures the highs of travel as well as the longing and self-examination that come with exploring foreign territory.

Gateway Episode: " New Orleans: Anybody's Gumbo "

Borderline Salty packs a lifetime of cooking into tidy 30-minute episodes. The hosts Carla Lalli Music and Rick Martinez field questions from listeners, usually regarding anxieties about foods and intimidating techniques (one listener asks about cleaning mussels, another about how to choose the best spicy-sweet dessert). At-home chefs will feel encouraged to take risks and create, because Music and Martinez are utterly committed to the inquiries. The hosts have a supernatural ability to bring meals to life with their words, a skill they probably perfected while working for Bon Appétit. Martinez describes a decadent refried-beans-with-chicharrónes dish as "pork on top of pork, on top of more pork, on top of lard." Music describes cooking over medium heat and "listening to the fat sizzle on the coals, and the smoke in my hair." Listening to them is a sumptuous experience; Borderline Salty is a feast of superior kitchen wisdom.

Gateway Episode: " Like a Kiss From a Chile "

The reporter Ashley Ahearn takes listeners out West, introducing a roundup of ranching innovators, all of whom are women. Ahearn visits six states and covers the many sides of this business-the ecological, the financial-but her exploration of the land's inherently contentious history makes the show a standout. Each episode begins with someone acknowledging the tribes that represent the ancestral land on which the show was produced. In one, someone rightly points out that many techniques described today as revolutionary have been used by Native Americans for millennia. And though a major conclusion of the show has to do with the current lack of creativity in the food system, Women's Work delves so deep into its subject that nothing is left to the imagination.

Gateway Episode: " Waiting for Babette "

The repeal of Roe v. Wade demolished nearly 50 years of constitutional protections for a woman's right to choose. This season of Slow Burn explores the judicial battles that culminated in the 1973 precedent. Revisiting this material today, when restrictive laws are back on the books, may seem like agony. However, this history-of the people who fought in court and won-demands attention. The podcast begins in the early 1970s, when the state of Florida prosecuted a woman named Shirley Wheeler for manslaughter for having an abortion. From there, the story expands out, to President Richard Nixon's cynical propagandizing of the fetus for the sake of votes, and to the Connecticut activists whose case, Abele v. Markle, was studied by Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun before his majority opinion for Roe. Women are still treated as pawns in political games; Slow Burn gives us hope that we'll restore federal protections.

Gateway Episode: " Get Married or Go Home "

A former reporter for MTV News, the host SuChin Pak is now a mother of two and podcaster. In Uncared For, she analyzes health care for pregnant people in the United States, where carrying to term, especially for Black people, has greater risks than it does in any other wealthy country. Pak kicks off the series by discussing with her postpartum doula the ways in which the American medical system disempowers pregnant people and how a lack of confidence, support, and trust can lead to dire consequences. In light of these realities, the show mindfully argues-via anecdotes, expert interviews, and plenty of statistics-that when pregnant people are centered, instead of the fetus, everyone benefits. We learn about how, in Germany, every pregnant person has the legal right to a midwife and how Dutch providers treat pregnant people as experts in their own body. Uncared For takes this last idea seriously, showing again and again that nobody knows your body better than you.

Gateway Episode: " America the Outlier "

Buffy may be the most famous folk singer you've never heard of. This show argues that her relative obscurity, despite her many cultural contributions, may be a result of blacklisting by radio stations and industry executives. Alongside the Mohawk and Tuscarora host Falen Johnson, Buffy tells much of her own story-how she grew up in a mostly white neighborhood in Massachusetts, reconnected with her Cree heritage, and came up in the 1960s alongside Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen. She was the first Indigenous person to win an Oscar. She brought Indigenous programming to Sesame Street. Elvis Presley, Barbara Striesand, and Cher covered one of her songs. But the show's main draw is telling the story of how Buffy, an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, maneuvered for future generations. Her extraordinary legacy as a consummate protester offers a guide for Native Americans seeking to reclaim power.

Gateway Episode: " Javex, USA "

Pushing "Play" on Normal Gossip is like entering another world. In each episode, the host Kelsey McKinney shares a story that's been submitted to her for discussion. Real names are scrubbed. Facts are unchecked. Though normal is in the title, many of the tales are scintillating. McKinney begins by chatting with a guest about their relationship to gossip, and why it matters to both of them. As the journalist Sam Sanders memorably quips, "It is a way for the powerless to have power." The show perfectly re-creates how people gossip; McKinney dispenses plot points for dramatic effect but also adds some flourishes, such as choose-your-own-adventure-style questions. This series seeks to formalize the art of gossip, giving it the respect it deserves, tantalizing events notwithstanding.

Gateway Episode: " Spot the Scammer With Claire Fallon and Emma Gray "

Soon after the writer Rachel McKibbens, her husband, and children-all vaccinated-came down with COVID, she lost her father and brother-both unvaccinated-to the disease. At the time, she was estranged from the two of them because of their staunchly different views on medical treatments. Still, McKibbens struggled with the fact that COVID had destroyed her family. The veteran podcaster Nancy Updike and McKibbens explore this fraught divide, and the deaths of otherwise healthy people. By looking at a fascinating archive of text messages from the phone of McKibbens's brother, We Were Three offers a taxonomy of the polarizing, sometimes fatal misinformation surrounding COVID. But the podcast is primarily a family portrait, one that illustrates, by turns, fierce loyalty, violence, love, survival, and something like closure too.

Gateway Episode: " Black Box "

The host Hanna Rosin takes listeners to Whitefish, Montana, a stunning town at the base of Glacier National Park, where a Silicon Valley venture capitalist named Mike Goguen started a company with his best friend, Matt Marshall, to conduct CIA-style missions. On the surface, Seed Money shows what someone with a superhero complex might do if given the opportunity, and in this way paints a somewhat embarrassing portrait of how billions of dollars can impact the male ego. When it's revealed that Goguen has been depositing millions into women's bank accounts around the country, what looks like nefarious power dynamics leads to a case study in what the show describes as "macho drama." The podcast also uncovers a spectacular crime that, through a wildly entertaining investigation, lands someone in prison. In Seed Money, wealth is a red herring.

Gateway Episode: " Mind Your Own Business "

As a girl, the reporter Luisa Beck was riveted by Dr. Erich Kastner's Lyrical Apothecary, a book that sorted poems by ailment. Dear Poetry takes its cues from that work: Luisa and a guest writer prescribe poetry to ease callers' problems. Cheryl Strayed responds to a question about accepting the evil in the world with "Good Bones," by Maggie Smith. Someone wondering how to stay connected to an ailing father who has alcoholism and Alzheimer's is encouraged by Jane Flett to read "Bottom of the Ocean," by Bob Hicok. Reproductive anxiety, romantic woes, and racial inequity are all treated with poems. Beck kicks off each episode with a lyrical interlude from her own life, and her guest writer reads the literary treatment. Then, they tie the verses to what the caller shared, reminding listeners that poetry has the power to heal. The show is as dreamy and transcendent as it sounds.

Gateway Episode: " Always Near Ends "

The soccer megastar Lionel Messi is the focal point of The Last Cup, but the host Jasmine Garsd's fandom and personal history also underpin much of this saga, which starts with the economic collapse that forced her family out of Argentina. For many, Messi is a peerless goal-scoring machine, but back home, some fans think he is too privileged, too timid, and too European. (He moved to Spain when he was 13.) The series is a brilliant dissection of class, race, culture, and what it means to be an immigrant who idolizes the place where they were born. The Last Cup finds parallels between Garsd and Messi-they were both teenagers who left Argentina in the early 2000s, for instance-and connects both to the political turmoil in which they were raised. This podcast makes a global celebrity seem like the boy next door.

Gateway Episode: " The Goal "

The creator of Articles of Interest, Avery Trufelman, devotes an entire season to a type of preppy clothing called "Ivy," and what its history tells us about class, race, and possibly everything we put on our body. Styles are supposed to ebb and flow, yet Ivy doesn't go away. Though the subject of fashion may be opaque, Trufelman argues that navy blazers and chinos are essential to our understanding of ourselves. She tells two stories: one about the garments themselves-the uniform worn on campuses in the mid-century Ivy League-and another about a Japanese man named Kensuke Ishizu who may have single-handedly made the clothing a fashion staple. Interviews with industry experts, which can sometimes drag down a podcast, are spellbinding here. The stylist and author Jason Jules gives one. When asked by Trufelman about the meaning of cool, he tells her, "Sometimes I wonder if cool isn't the perception of the outsider who aspires to this thing but can never actually reach it." The genius of this season of Articles of Interest is that listeners will never look at a pink polo the same way again.

Gateway Episode: " American Ivy: Chapter 1 "

In the early 1970s, Bernardine Dohrn was on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list because of her actions as part of the Weather Underground, a radical group that used violent measures to protest the Vietnam War and the country's treatment of Black people, among other social issues. She and the other "Weathermen," as they called themselves, believed that as white people, it was their job to stop these injustices, even if it meant resorting to illegal, dangerous tactics and hiding to avoid prison. But Bernardine was a mother too-and her son, Zayd Dohrn, is the host of this show. Mother Country Radicals takes you to the far left, then past it. The series grapples with the impact of bold choices on children and what it means to feel entitled to reproduce-to live freely-despite the consequences.

Gateway Episode: " Chapter 1: The Most Dangerous Woman in America "

This seven-year epic podcast begins with a riddle about a stash of gold, sapphires, and rubies hidden in the Rockies and one man, Darrell Seyler, who ruined (and redeemed) himself looking for it. The host and journalist Peter Frick-Wright accompanies Seyler to Yellowstone multiple times. On one trip in 2015, you can actually hear Seyler's delusion, which is partly why, it seems, Frick-Wright decided to stop going into the field with Seyler, at least for a while. But the story doesn't end until 2022. In Missed Fortune, listeners accompany Seyler and Frick-Wright on their search and as they interpret the nine clues in the riddle, which was designed by a man named Forrest Fenn to get people into nature. The show is full of magic, not to mention pathos when you consider the toll of devoting one's life to an elusive treasure.

Gateway Episode: "$1 Million "

The host of The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee, who also wrote a book with the same name, visits a cross section of America, searching for grassroots movements, whether those supporting voting rights for felons in Florida or protesting an oil pipeline under a Black neighborhood in Memphis. Because the show zeroes in on hyperlocal issues, it doubles as an audio travelogue capturing regional values and personalities. The common thread of each episode is people coming together across racial lines to solve problems. These partnerships often require soul-searching and radical self-examination, which make for some gripping, if difficult, conversations. A white woman with a job in fast food admits that she used to believe she was better than her Black and Latino co-workers. A Black activist has to tell his white colleagues to stop interrupting him in meetings. The Sum of Us is a treatise on how to engage with people whom you want to persuade, making the age-old argument that all politics are local.

Gateway Episode: " Minden, NV: The Last Sundown Siren "

This Is Dating offers the pleasure of eavesdropping on professional matchmaking. The show's creators, including the behavioral scientist Logan Ury, determine matches based on personality, after coaching daters on their attachment styles and on avoiding pitfalls such as love bombing. In each episode, the audience listens to a potential couple's online date, starting with their sometimes sweet, sometimes stilted first hello. The meetups are spliced with the producers' commentary on subtle moments, such as when a man looks down after being asked out on an in-person date (a pretty good sign that he's not interested). This Is Dating invites you to join in on the fun of deciphering whether two people are getting along-before you hear what they actually thought of the encounter. Romantic success frequently hinges on how honest the participants are with each other about their needs. The hosts politely nudge the guests-and, indirectly, the listeners at home-toward sharing their authentic selves.

Gateway Episode: " Love Bombing: Khan Date 1 "

For more than a century, the U.S. and Canada stole Native American children from their families and placed them in residential or boarding schools under the guise of assimilation and support. But what happened was actually cultural genocide that often included unthinkable abuse-one school used a homemade electric chair for punishment. Surviving St. Michael's zeroes in on one survivor, the father of the host and investigative journalist Connie Walker, and the intergenerational trauma that resulted from his experiences. Justice is rare, so Walker sets out to find the priest who allegedly abused him, her remit expanding with each episode as she uncovers the scale of atrocities committed at the school. But the care that Walker takes with survivors makes this show exceptional, setting a powerful example for how trauma reporting should be done. Under her watch, victims speak for themselves and perpetrators are named. In the end, it's her and her father's Cree culture-which the government tried to erase-that saves them.

Gateway Episode: " The Police Officer and the Priest "

The Loudest Girl in the World begins by diagramming how the host Lauren Ober's penchant for talking has manifested throughout her life. She almost constantly asks and answers questions, compulsively shares witticisms and critiques, can't tolerate silence, and, you guessed it, is extremely loud. At 42, she decided to explore how these tendencies have caused friction in her life. She recorded her journey, starting at about the time she received an autism diagnosis. Ober gets to know herself all over again through the lens of this revelation while opening up to her family and finding support despite the various systems that fail autistic people. She includes a brief history of autism and several expert interviews alongside her still-unfolding personal narrative and infuses everything with an unparalleled level of charm and delight. The show is a hit because Ober also happens to be one of the loveliest people in the world.

Gateway Episode: " Talking: A Love Story "

The King of Kowloon is a story of dispossession, that of both the titular artist, born Tsang Tsou-choi, and of the show's host, the journalist Louisa Lim. Tsang started tagging Hong Kong in the 1950s, using calligraphy-style graffiti to mark land that he claimed Britain had stolen from his family. Lim grew up seeing those markings everywhere and wanted to uncover how the King of Kowloon had gone from being labeled a mentally unwell vandal to becoming a street-art icon. Eight years of reporting led Lim not just to the details of Tsang's life but to Hong Kong's complex history as a British colony and then a city with its own system of government. This six-part series explores the cultural impact of that liminal political space, as well as its uniquely high stakes, which are still felt today, not least of all for Lim. Because she criticizes the Chinese government throughout the show, she can likely never return home.

Gateway Episode: " Disappearance "

In 1990, Montreal police sped through an intersection outside a local high school, striking and killing 14-year-old Paul McKinnon. On Sorry About the Kid, his younger brother, Alex McKinnon, grapples with that tragedy by reporting on it and sharing personal narratives as well as on-air sessions with his therapist. Although Alex was 10 at the time of Paul's death, he has almost no recollection of his brother before the day of the accident. Alex commits to recovering his lost memories and doesn't shy away from interrogating the details of the killing, including researching the man who drove the cruiser that hit Paul. Yet even that investigation is in service of introspection, not retribution. Featuring forthright interviews with the rest of the McKinnon family and a teary, tender breakthrough, Sorry About the Kid builds a monument to Paul while guiding the host and the audience through a confrontation with buried grief.

Gateway Episode: " Where's Paul? "

At face value, you'd think it'd be easy to prove that the United States government has failed Native American people. But In Trust shows that even when this broader history is undisputed, veils of secrecy can still remain. The show delves into the mismanagement of a trust that led to the Osage people losing possession of their mineral rights and Osage County land. The host and reporter Rachel Adams-Heard follows the paper trail left by generations of Drummonds, white settlers whose family today owns the largest square mileage of the land in question. In Trust argues that white guardians and executors who were assigned to look out for Native Americans used price gouging and financial manipulation to take Osage people's wealth after they died. The tug of war between Drummonds and the Osage people traces all the way to present time: Gentner Drummond is the current attorney general-elect for Oklahoma while Osage Nation is moving for self-determination.

Gateway Episode: " The List "

Wild Boys depicts an encounter between a small town and two mysterious trespassers. In 2003, the brothers Tom and Will Green arrived in picturesque Vernon, British Columbia, looking shaggy and eating lots of fruit. The host Sam Mullins zeroes in on two of the locals who first got to know the odd but polite young men: a woman who cared for them and a cop who didn't buy their story about growing up in the woods. Listeners will immediately get caught up in the intrigue of multiple plot twists. However, once the timeline flashes forward to the present day, and the point of view changes to the brothers', the story evolves into something profound as the motivations behind the pair's duplicitous acts are revealed. The brilliance of Wild Boys is that it shows the manipulative power of perspective.

Gateway Episode: " Arrival "

With Bone Valley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and host Gilbert King endeavors to free an incarcerated man named Leo Schofield, who was convicted of murdering his wife in 1989, by proving that someone else committed the crime. More than three years in the making, the show is a true-crime marvel, standing alongside " The Innocent Man," by Pamela Colloff, in the pantheon of reportage about wrongful convictions. Bone Valley has important things to say about redemption, forgiveness, mental health, child abuse, the failure of criminal justice, prosecutorial misconduct, and the obsession that has consumed Schofield's defenders (including a sitting judge, who appears in this podcast). But the mystery of who killed Michelle Schofield is the primary fixation. King knows how to paint a picture in your head: of the seedy lovers'-lane crime scene, the dirt roads and trailer parks of Central Florida, the courtroom showdowns-each will enter your mind's eye with the power and vividness of a great novel.

Gateway Episode: " God Help Us "

So many podcasts offer people a platform to tell their stories that it may not seem like much of a departure that BEING claims to be "reality TV for your ears"-but it is. Each season follows four people with main-character energy in their everyday lives. There's no host or narrator, just the protagonists and their communities. We listen as they navigate life while being trans in Season 1 and while being "golden" (a.k.a. older than 60 and chasing their dreams) in Season 2. Listeners tag along for moments that could be considered mundane, and yet the experience is quite extraordinary. Women in both seasons set up dating profiles. A comedian goes to the doctor's office because he's been procrastinating for years on getting the right testosterone dosage. A man's adult son worries about how his father will earn a living, because his acting career doesn't pay the bills. This is prestige reality, where the plot doesn't stem from drama but, instead, from the simple passage of time.

Gateway Episode: " Let's Get This Out of the Way" & " Why Can't Dreams Happen at 70?," respectively

The avant-garde artist Ana Mendieta confronted death in her work- by coating herself in blood, digging graves, lighting things on fire. She died young and under suspicious circumstances, just as her career was taking off. Death of an Artist serves as a retrospective, a reexamination of her untimely demise, and a scathing repudiation of the idea that we can separate the art from the artist. When Mendieta's body was found in 1985, she had fallen 34 stories from the New York City apartment she shared with her husband, the sculptor Carl Andre. He was acquitted of her murder at trial, but the host Helen Molesworth explores his culpability. She's a curator who once admired his work, but after Mendieta's death, the rise of the #MeToo movement, and years of seeing galleries honoring "genius" white men, Molesworth is facing the industry's shortcomings. Death of an Artist argues that, so often, what the art world is actually promoting is silence.

Gateway Episode: " The Haunting "

Each episode of The Outlaw Ocean could be its own movie, such is the nature of the high seas and this cinematic show. It kicks off with the host and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ian Urbina telling the story of receiving a 10-minute video of unarmed men being killed at sea while their captors laughed. But the lens opens up in even more dramatic fashion from there-the show isn't about one bad actor or a single agenda. In "The Dark Fleet," listeners accompany Urbina aboard a Sea Shepherd vessel with a group of vigilante environmentalists; at one point, you hear them take control of the crew on an illegal fishing ship. The focus shifts each episode, from a boat that takes people out to sea to administer legal abortions to the horrific scale of slavery and human trafficking. The Outlaw Ocean demands that people contemplate the lawlessness of the world's waters through vivid on-scene reporting, without ever leaving listeners feeling stranded.

Gateway Episode: " The Murder Video "

In All There Is, Anderson Cooper is sorting through his deceased mother's home. When he was 10, his father died from a heart attack, and when he was 21, his brother died by suicide, so the task at hand actually involves his entire family's accumulated belongings. Along the way, he speaks with people who have also experienced extraordinary loss, such as Stephen Colbert and the author Elizabeth Alexander, to help him make sense of it. The interviews are unexpectedly hopeful. They're also raw. Cooper openly struggles with letting go of a lifetime of mementos that include posthumous notes from his mother and telegrams that Frank Sinatra sent her. The expository writing that weaves the podcast together rivals the best we've ever heard. But the real draw is seeing what grief has driven Cooper to question and contemplate. "I need to learn something from all of this ... This can't be all that there is," he says. We know that Cooper succeeds, because his inquisitive, vulnerable show is proof.

Gateway Episode: " Facing What's Left Behind "

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Widespread remote work may have changed where people listened to podcasts, but many are back to their prior routines and hitting "Play" like it's 2019. Fittingly, certain trends from yesteryear have stuck around for this resurgence: The audio space is still packed with true crime, which is often entertaining yet rarely remarkable.

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Identified as one of the best pods from 2022 and it's local (if you live in NYC). There's also a Brooklyn one: https://www.schoolcolorspodcast.com/brooklyn

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Until recently, District 28 was characterized by a white Northside and a Black Southside. For more than a hundred years, we've seen how conflicts around housing, schools, and resources have played out mostly along this racial divide. So how did District 28 go from being defined by this racial binary, to a place where people brag about its diversity?

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NPR y Futuro Studios presentan La última copa, una historia que va más allá del fútbol y que explora el sueño de algún día volver a casa. El primer capítulo de la miniserie estará disponible el próximo 10 de noviembre.

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Lionel Messi es uno de los futbolistas más talentosos de la historia, pero tiene una deuda pendiente con su país. ¿Podrá ganar la Copa Mundial y regresar victorioso a Argentina, el lugar que dejó a sus trece años? En cinco episodios, la periodista Jasmine Garsd presenta un relato que trasciende lo deportivo.

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Here's a description: Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder.

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Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder.

Kim Barker, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times, revisits an unsolved murder that took place while she was in high school in Laramie, Wyoming, nearly 40 years ago. She confronts the conflicting stories people have told themselves about the crime because of an unexpected development: the arrest of a former Laramie police officer accused in the murder.

It's good but unsatisfying

I listened to this whole podcast in an afternoon. I found it enjoyable and it kept my attention. I still get disappointed when the case isn't solved at the end though. But hopefully it will in the future!

Goes where the facts lead

Some may not find this story as"satisfying" as some others because the results of all the incredible investigative reporting leads to an inconclusive result about who the murderer was. But, I think it is really important to show how memories can be clouded with time, how even the most well-meaning people with the utmost integrity can be unreliable narrators, and how we sometimes can not find the answers when the original crime scene follow-up was not done well. Because of the failure to acknowledge these problems, many individuals have been wrongfully convicted, with police driven to produce an answer to the question of who did it, no matter the cost. Outstanding reporting on a story full of so many twists and turns. Makes me think of the Murdaugh murders in some respects!

Interesting and quick listen

This case was so interesting and I was instantly hooked! I wanna know more about the alternate suspect. Season 2- deep dive into him!!

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‎The Coldest Case In Laramie on Apple Podcasts

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I Was Never There launches with the range of theories swirling around the disappearance of Marsha "Mudd" Ferber. We meet our hosts, Jamie and Karen Zelermyer and learn who they are in relation to Marsha's story, and why they've decided to try to find out what really happened to her now.

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‎I Was Never There: Episode 1: What the Hell Happened to Marsha "Mudd" Ferber? on Apple Podcasts

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I Was Never There launches with the range of theories swirling around the disappearance of Marsha "Mudd" Ferber. We meet our hosts, Jamie and Karen Zelermyer and learn who they are in relation to Marsha's story, and why they've decided to try to find out what really happened to her now.

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New Yorker lists 2022's best podcasts. And we haven't listened to any of them!!

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This year was a landmark one in podcast history. Adnan Syed, whose case was the basis of " Serial" 's explosive first season and of further reporting in " Undisclosed," was freed from prison after twenty-three years. And as the media landscape continued to shift, with resulting shakeups roiling the podsphere-excellent shows ending, reins passing, audio talent adapting-great work continued to be made at all levels, from corporate behemoths to public radio to independents. Investigative reporting continued to thrive, but some of the most nourishing series lightened the mood, threading the form with humor, surprise, and joy-as when Tom Hanks appeared on " Dead Eyes." Here are ten of the best podcasts I heard this year.

10. "Let's Make a Sci-Fi"

The Vancouver-based production studio Kelly & Kelly, which made the very funny satirical true-crime series " This Sounds Serious," has a knack for making tricky genres (fiction-style scripted dramedy, riffing-based documentary) enjoyably listenable. In "Let's Make a Sci-Fi," three comedy writers-Ryan Beil, Maddy Kelly, and Mark Chavez-set out to write a science-fiction show, but as they pitch ideas about German-shepherd-size crabs, three-mile-long intergalactic ships, and "space horses," they have a hard time not making each other laugh. Each episode sees them enlist the counsel of an expert and discuss a new aspect of sci-fi world-building, but mostly the show is a refreshing exercise in understanding what the creative process is all about: imagination, risk, logic, amusement, and space horses.

9. "Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery"

This series, from WNYC's Nancy Solomon, centers on a 2014 murder that sounds like the plot of a lurid mystery novel. A prominent and politically connected couple, John and Joyce Sheridan, happily married for forty-seven years, are stabbed to death in their suburban New Jersey home; the crime scene involves a toppled armoire, a fireplace poker, a missing murder weapon, and bedroom arson started by gasoline. This all leads to a bigger mystery: What the hell is going on in New Jersey? The handling of the case is suspect from the start. It's ruled a murder-suicide, committed by John Sheridan-a "mild-mannered grandfather" and health-care C.E.O. with connections to three New Jersey governors-and then dropped; evidence is ignored and mishandled; likely interviewees go uninterviewed. Solomon, who covers New Jersey and its political corruption for WNYC, takes listeners on a revealing journey through the state's tangled political, legal, and economic dealings via the people and projects connected to the Sheridans and their four sons-including Mark, a lawyer then working for Governor Chris Christie's election campaign, who goes from being an "establishment guy" to a disheartened realist. It's one of the best podcasts I've heard about how things happen, and often shouldn't, in state government. Just before the series concluded, New Jersey reopened the case.

Jonathan Goldstein's venerable human-connections podcast, now in its seventh season, is reliably great, and this year's series is no exception; like " Normal Gossip," a new and deservedly beloved podcast, it explores startling interpersonal stories with zeal and curiosity. But " Heavyweight " incorporates the subjects themselves, and endeavors to resolve a haunting issue from a person's past-an important painting found in the trash on a Brooklyn street corner; long-ago miscommunications between middle-school best friends who were secretly in love; a mystery involving grief and beatboxing; a nineties VHS mishap, in which a teen girl tapes a Billy Ray Cyrus concert over her veteran dad's TV interview. That Goldstein manages to navigate these delicate personal situations at all, let alone on a microphone, is consistently amazing; the show achieves a combination of warmth, humor, and depth that still feels rare, and is the very best of what the podcast form can do.

7. "Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's"

The Cree journalist Connie Walker, who grew up in the Okanese First Nation in Saskatchewan, has brought several stories of crimes against Indigenous girls and women to international audiences through her podcasts, including "Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo" and "Stolen: The Search for Jermain." In "Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's," Walker investigates a more personal case, after her brother tells her a story: that their late father, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer, once pulled a man over for reckless driving, realized that he was a priest who had abused him as a boy, and beat "the shit out of him." Walker remembers her father as tormented and violent, but her younger siblings knew him as a better man; the story, she feels, could be "a clue" to understanding him. Her father had known the priest at St. Michael's Indian Residential School, where he lived as a boy, and Walker's investigation leads her to the story of the Canadian residential-school system, which separated Indigenous children from their families, forcibly assimilated them into Anglo-Christian language and culture, and resulted in generations of trauma and abuse, much of it perpetrated by priests and nuns. As the episodes unfold, we hear from community elders who had been students at St. Michael's, and even from a priest described as an abuser by Walker's uncles. (The priest, now elderly and infirm, remembers the school fondly and tells Walker that child molestation is "not my style.") "Surviving St. Michael's" is an affecting family history within a dismaying sociopolitical one, and Walker's sensitive production details not just the system's painful legacy but the traditions-gathering in sweat lodges, picking sweetgrass for medicines-that have helped survivors heal.

6. "Articles of Interest: American Ivy"

The independently produced third season of Avery Trufelman's clothing-design podcast, about so-called preppy clothing, asks big questions-What is democracy? What is cool?-that resonate far beyond the realm of the popped collar. "American Ivy" explores how collegiate style ultimately became mainstream style, via imaginative journeys not just to Brooks Brothers, Princeton, and J. Press but also to mid-century Japan, where the photographer Teruyoshi Hayashida's 1965 preppy bible " Take Ivy," shot on U.S. college campuses, codified an international sartorial language; the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, where polo shirts and khakis became part of an effort to normalize white supremacy; and the flourishing Lo-heads scene of Dinkins-era New York, where Ralph Lauren attire got "remixed." Trufelman has a gift for turning complex narratives into surprising, amusing fare. Further enhancing the aesthetic are the series' theme songs, performed a cappella by the Tufts University Beelzebubs.

In the tradition of investigative podcasts like " In the Dark" and " Suspect," Gilbert King's series, which he hosts and reports with the researcher Kelsey Decker, uses the story of a murder and its aftermath to shed light on institutional failings in the criminal-justice system. King, who won a Pulitzer for his book " Devil in the Grove," from 2013, draws us in with an intriguing hook: a sitting Florida-circuit-court judge, Scott Cupp, enlists his help in correcting a miscarriage of justice. "Technically, I'm not supposed to be doing this," Cupp tells him: he could lose his seat or even be disbarred. "But it's, like, if I don't do it, who the fuck's going to do it?" He begs King to read the court transcripts in the case of his former client Leo Schofield, who's been in prison for decades after being convicted of the 1987 murder of his wife, Michelle Schofield, who was found stabbed to death in a phosphate pit in Florida, when she was eighteen and Leo was twenty-one. King reads the transcripts, then devotes the next three and a half years to reporting. The state's case was flimsy, and forensic evidence strongly points to a different suspect, Jeremy Scott. King and Decker unspool the story, set in a working-class community in Florida, in intricate detail-including in the final episode, in which they visit Scott in prison, with unforgettable results.

4. "Fiasco: The AIDS Crisis"

Leon Neyfakh's previous podcasts have explored, with exquisite care, stories such as the Clinton-impeachment saga, Watergate, and Boston's struggle with school desegregation. Their focus is the experience of living through history, often in eras now threatening to fade from memory. Neyfakh's extraordinary new series, about the dawn of the AIDS epidemic and the forces that rallied to fight it, brings sweeping political and public-health narratives to life through unforgettable character details: a doctor haunted by memories of a man dying, in a Manhattan brownstone, surrounded by birds in his home aviary; a San Francisco neighborhood in which people, like the muscular mailman who always wore shorts, keep disappearing; an elegiac song about the closing of bathhouses. As ever, these stories resonate in the present, though Neyfakh avoids making the connections explicit; here, the presence of a young Anthony Fauci helps do it for him.

This series from the crackerjack team of Ilya Marritz and Andrea Bernstein, who made the outstanding " Trump, Inc." for WNYC, explores, in gripping vivacity and detail, the January 6th insurrection and its context. We hear from a Texas teen who tipped off the F.B.I. about his Three Percenter dad; from a federal intelligence official who gets an urgent warning while at the drive-through at Panera Bread; from a Capitol police officer. Marritz and Bernstein's ability to zoom in on interesting characters and create vivid scenes is uncanny, and as in their previous series, about Trump's shady business dealings, the result illuminates a subject that can otherwise retain a stubborn shroud of incomprehensibility.

The Economist's masterly eight-part biography of Xi Jinping, released around the beginning of Xi's third term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, also functions as a cultural and political history of modern China, and is astonishing not just in its novelistic storytelling but in its sheer reportorial gumption. The series' Australian host, the Economist writer Sue-Lin Wong, enlists a whole host of experts, locals, fellow-reporters, and archival interviews to construct her narrative. She interviews Xi's American hosts from a 1985 visit to Iowa, a persecuted Uyghur language teacher now living in Norway, a former Weibo censor living in Los Angeles. She begins with Xi's childhood as the son of a Party official, then carefully illustrates how this "milquetoast" became an autocrat who believes that stability and control justify repression. Wong makes for an appealing guide, and her boundless curiosity serves as a refreshing counterpoint to an occasionally crushing narrative. In a bonus episode, she explains that the series title refers not just to Xi's upbringing but to Machiavelli, who wrote that it was better to be feared than loved-and to the even more sobering idea that Xi is not yet at the peak of his power.

For more than a decade, Erica Heilman has been making an endlessly inventive, independently produced podcast about her Vermont community, revealing, through an almost miraculous level of attention, what life anywhere is all about. Heilman talks to people near her-road workers, barbers, interesting kids, hunters in a deer stand, the proprietor of an eccentric museum in an unheated barn-and learns about what they do and how they live. Some episodes have titles like "Forrest Foster, Independent Dairyman" and "Helena Becomes an American"; some are funny little satires; some are chapters of ambitious multipart series. Heilman has a keen eye and a good sense of humor, but her narrative tone is quietly serious, always focussed on her subject; the episodes create a feeling of deep, barely interrupted listening. Without sentimentalizing Vermont or her fellow-citizens, Heilman captures both who we are and the best of what we try to be. As she says about Forrest Foster, "He's always practical and he's always generous, and these things are always the same thing." ♦

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This year was a landmark one in podcast history. Adnan Syed, whose case was the basis of " Serial" 's explosive first season and of further reporting in " Undisclosed," was freed from prison after twenty-three years.

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You're more likely to die as a pregnant person in the United States than any other wealthy nation in the world. Why? This six-part series, hosted by award-winning journalist SuChin Pak (Add to Cart, MTV News), takes a deeply personal and wide-ranging look at maternal health care around the globe to find the answer. We start in the United States then travel to Germany, the Netherlands, and Costa Rica to see what works and what desperately needs to change.

Uncared For is presented by the Commonwealth Fund, whose mission is to promote a high-performing, equitable health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency, particularly for society's most vulnerable, including people of color, people with low income, and those who are uninsured. Learn more at CommonwealthFund.org

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The comedian Jamie Loftus returns with another limited-run podcast, this time exploring white boomer women through the lens of a much-maligned comic strip.

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Jamie Loftus has branched out into podcasting partly out of fear that her comedy shows were pigeonholing her as "Gross Woman." Credit... Matt Cosby for The New York Times

For some stand-up comedians, podcasts resemble an open-mic night with no red light telling them to wrap it up. The medium presents an opportunity to chat with friends and riff on whatever strikes their fancy, for hours and hours. Not so with Jamie Loftus.

With limited-run podcasts like " My Year In Mensa," a descent into the sad and strange world of Mensa membership, and "Lolita Podcast," a deep dive into how American culture has perverted the meaning of the Vladimir Nabokov novel, Loftus, 28, has branched out into a new medium with unexpectedly gripping explorations of niche subjects, infused with her biting comedic delivery. This approach grew directly out of her fear that her comedy shows were pigeonholing her as "Gross Woman."

"My standup routine involved eating dog food onstage for years." Loftus said. "I have a very strong digestive system. It was built by Alpo. But I was afraid I backed myself into a corner: Do I need to eat dog food forever? I can't do that. I'll die!"

Her most recent podcast, " Aack Cast," about the much-maligned "Cathy" comic strip that ran from 1976 to 2010, should quash any lingering concerns about typecasting. "Aack Cast" - named by the strip's creator, Cathy Guisewite, herself - is a frustrated millennial's journey to understanding, though not necessarily forgiving, the working white women of the "rightfully despised" Boomer generation and their second-wave feminist struggles. "Cathy is a symbol of how women's anxieties and concerns can be considered embarrassing, and not worthy of discussion, if the character in question isn't a perfect role model," said Loftus.

Over pizza and Aperol spritzes in late August in Bushwick, just before the 11-episode series aired its final episode, the typically Los Angeles-based Loftus talked about how she found grace for the generation she still struggles to understand, the surprising lessons for her own feminism she took from her boomer subject matter, and where the generations may never see eye to eye. These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

The podcast about the "Cathy" comic strip follows ones about Mensa and "Lolita."

How do you decide to dive so deeply into what might seem like random or perhaps un-zeitgeisty subject matters like Mensa, "Lolita" or "Cathy" comics?
I automatically gravitate toward topics that people have strong opinions about, but never really think about why they have them. It's really the only thing that connects all three of the shows. I like that space in people's heads, where they don't feel so strongly about it that they're going to pick a fight with me before hearing me out, but there is some ground-level emotion to meet them on.
In "Aack Cast," Cathy's workplace and body-image episodes made me actually have sympathy for boomer women, which for a bitter millennial, is a real feat.

I know. I don't want to go too far in that direction either because, well, they're deeply unsympathetic for a reason. Part of what's so amazing about the "Cathy" strip is that it was a way of watching their story unfold in real time, and I wanted to talk to as many women as possible to track their version of that journey, from how second-wave feminism influenced or excluded them, to how it was replaced by consumption and apathy.
Was your mom's love of the comic strip the impetus for this series?
After "Lolita," I wanted something that's fun and light and not the darkest place to possibly go. And then just talking to my mom, because she's a freak for "Cathy." She was the target audience.

And I wanted to make a show that had some sort of recurring cast [the strips are acted out during the series], so it becomes a sort of familiar mini TV show.
When it's not pandemic-prohibited, you're a stand-up comedian and TV writer. What makes podcasting different?
The community-building aspect is so cool - and terrifying. Those intense parasocial connections. I get it; I listen to podcasts and have that personal connection to people who have no idea who I am, too. I think where I struggled with it was "Lolita Podcast." I imagined when people listened to the show I might hear very personal things from them. But I felt I was ill-equipped to deal with it. People who had survived childhood sexual assault, people in support groups to prevent themselves from offending - it was incredibly intense. I'm very grateful people were so open with me, but that's when I found it very overwhelming. Contrasting that with the "Bechdel Cast" community, which is mostly college students and sometimes moms of college students, it's a very wholesome, enthusiastic movie community. [" The Bechdel Cast," which Loftus co-hosts, is an unscripted-conversation podcast about the portrayal of women in a different movie each week]. For "Cathy," this is my first boomer crowd and that's been wild.
You somehow walk the line of condemnation and compassion for that generation.
I felt myself being so unsympathetic to boomer women to the point that I was being deeply unsympathetic to my mom. And I always want to make sure I understand something fully before I decide it's garbage. The valid criticism of the boomers stems from the amount of power and entitlement they have, but there were some experiences they had that I just can't imagine having. I wanted to honor that as well, so it was tricky.

I wanted to see, can I meet my mom where she is, who has a good heart and wants to do right by people, but doesn't always quite get it. And it's been so nice to talk to Cathy herself. I hate to endorse a boomer, but I hope to be like her someday. She's so sweet and so genuinely curious.
You made a special minisode called "Take the 'Show Your Mom What a Podcast Is' Challenge." Did it work? Have you heard any critique from them?
I had thought that the biggest obstacle to "Aack Cast" would be the fact that it's about a visual medium, but it was actually that much of my target audience has no idea about the medium I'm working in at all. But once you tell moms it's the radio - my mom was like, "Oh, so it's on demand?"

The few critical messages from boomer women I've gotten can be best described as "gentle mothering." They were very like, "Sweetheart, I love what you're doing, but ..."

There are some things I've been encouraged to see the boomers in my life have made progress on - like talking to Cathy about the lack of diversity in her strip. But then there's other stuff that I don't know that this is going to change in their lifetimes, like women downplaying the workplace harassment they dealt with or even defending it.

Like that whole "pride in suffering" badge - if I had to endure this huge problem in my life, then everyone just has to too, and if they can't, they're weaker than me. That boomer mentality - it sucks because I feel it in my own head.

[But] understanding them better has made me more thoughtful as a feminist, because I do think there's a tendency to throw the baby out with the bath water when it comes to past movements of feminism. I felt a connection to the women I spoke to, even when we disagreed. I cannot endorse their actions, but they have knowledge to impart.

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Listen to this episode from Missing Pages on Spotify. At the start of 2006, 19-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan seemed to have it all. From a high profile six-figure book deal to good standing at Harvard University, the world was at her feet. But by the end of the year, her name was only brought up in conversations about "cautionary tales."

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According to the official story, on April 4th, 1968, a lone gunman assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. That man, James Earl Ray, pled guilty and for most people the case was closed. The MLK Tapes, a new true crime podcast from the creators of Atlanta Monster and Monster: DC Sniper, explores rare recordings of eye-witness testimony and new interviews with people who were there to reveal the true story of the plot to kill Dr. King.

According to the official story, on April 4th, 1968, a lone gunman assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. That man, James Earl Ray, pled guilty and for most people the case was closed. The MLK Tapes, a new true crime podcast from the creators of Atlanta Monster and Monster: DC Sniper, explores rare recordings of eye-witness testimony and new interviews with people who were there to reveal the true story of the plot to kill Dr. King.

Amazing.

This was absolutely mind blowing to me. I never knew in depth about MLK's murder. Before this podcast, I probably wouldn't have been able to give the name of the man "accused" of his murder. But now, with the impeccable investigation done by all who put these pieces together, and the bravery of those who came forward.... there's a bigger, and more sickening picture of the truth. I don't typically share podcasts with others, but this one was beyond worthy of sharing.

One of the best podcasts on all time

Very interesting, measured template for how to run an investigative podcast. So well done!

Sound quality

The recordings are too difficult to understand. The hollowness, the in & out, ( people turning their head?). The reverberation.

But a solid job investigating. I just wish I could have understood some of the recordings without players it over and over

It was great when host had a voice actor. If people couldn't/wouldn't believe a voice actor they wouldn't believe any of it

Thank you for your time

Keep up the good work

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Listen to this episode from Aack Cast by Jamie Loftus on Spotify. Allow me to be the first to advise you: Cathy comics are good as hell - but it's complicated. Today, Jamie takes a look at what exactly happens in the 34 years of Cathy lore, and it's way more than you think.

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A new podcast about the system that sentences juveniles to life in prison, a story of incarceration, redemption, and the unusual relationship between a journalist and a source.

Episode 1: The Sentence
"The very last word she said was 'You can become a voice for the voiceless.' And I was just like, 'Damn, why am I letting this lady mess up my high?'"
In the series premiere we meet Suave, a man who has been serving a life sentence at a Pennsylvania prison since he was just a teenager. Suave had a rough start-as a teenager walking into a maximum-security prison he says he was a target, and much like in the neighborhood where he grew up, Suave decided he had to be tougher than everyone else.

And that's the life he's leading, in and out of solitary confinement, when he meets Maria Hinojosa in 1993. What starts as a brief conversation leads to decades of communication between the two, walking the boundary between a journalist-source relationship and true friendship. Now nearly 50, Suave has come to terms with the fact that he will never leave the confines of SCI Graterford. He's become a man and built a life behind bars. And he imagines this is what his life will be like until he dies. That is until a Supreme Court ruling changes everything-and Suave suddenly gets a second chance to fight for his freedom.

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Episode 2: The Hustle
"I was fascinated with the lifestyle. I was fascinated with prison flicks. That's how you get the street credibility. You know, I'm gonna be the baddest dude on the block."
Maria learns more about Suave's childhood in the south Bronx and the sudden move that led him to the Badlands of north Philadelphia as a teenager. We explore the tactics of ruthless prosecutors in the 80's, and how Pennsylvania become the state that sentenced the most juveniles in the country to life in prison without parole.

On his way to court, Suave is surprised by the smell of fresh air as he boards a bus and leaves the prison grounds for the first time in decades. Meanwhile, Maria travels to Philadelphia and Suave anxiously awaits the decision from a judge that could finally grant him the opportunity to experience life on the outside as an adult for the first time.

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Episode 3: The Old Head
"We had a secret, unspoken bond. We're all dying in here. And I felt like I was breaking that bond. I feel like I'm leaving my brothers behind."
Suave moves to a transitional housing unit at SCI Graterford where he will spend the next few months as he waits for his parole hearing. The new unit reintroduces Suave to a lot of freedoms-he's no longer in a small cell, he can eat and shower whenever he wants and can even walk the perimeter of the prison.

But as Suave readies for life on the outside, his excitement gives way to a "never ending list of fears" about what life outside of prison might be like. Suave also reckons with complicated emotions, wavering between the unparalleled joy of his upcoming release and the guilt of leaving behind the men he's considered his brothers for nearly three decades.

Maria ponders how her relationship with Suave might change now that he'll be free and they'll have a chance to explore their connection beyond a journalist-source relationship. And on the day of Suave's release, Maria travels to Pennsylvania to bring him home.

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Episode 4: The Release
"I never dreamed that it would be this good. Even the worst day that I have is good. I'm going up... and I know everything that goes up must come down."
Suave leaves Graterford and kicks off his first day of freedom by checking things off his bucket list-including a long overdue conversation with his brother and an apology to students at a school in his neighborhood in the Badlands.

In this episode, we follow Suave in his first year of freedom as he experiences countless firsts: leaving the halfway house for his first solo apartment, adopting a pet, finding a job and the start of a promising relationship with someone from his past.

As Suave adjusts to his new life on the outside, the challenges that come with his newfound freedom and the expectations from everyone around him-he ponders if things are too good to be true.

And then, an unexpected revelation puts Suave's future into doubt.

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Episode 5: The Doubts
"Doesn't matter if you doing good, if you got a job, it doesn't matter-it could be snatched up in a heartbeat and there's nothing you could do about it."
Suave returns to prison. As she anxiously awaits a phone call from Suave, Maria sets out to try and figure out what happened and eventually finds herself torn between her faith in Suave's innocence and her responsibility to believe his accuser.

Suave is moved to a new prison and meets someone in his block who is getting a lot of attention. Back behind bars, Suave suffers flashbacks and struggles deeply to adjust, and Maria questions the entire parole system.

When Suave is finally released from prison, he is placed on house arrest and tries to adjust to his new reality while he awaits his chance to plead his case in front of a judge.

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Episode 6: The Corner
"That little place right here changed my whole life. December 6, 1986. Fifteen seconds. Fifteen seconds changed my whole life."
After Suave is cleared from all accusations, he returns to his home in Philadelphia and tries to move on with his life. But the return to prison has him questioning a lot of things, including what led him there in the first place.

Suave returns with Maria to the corner of 8th and Somerset in the Badlands-the place where his victim's young life ended and the place that changed the course of Suave's life.

In the corner of 8th and Somerset, Maria encourages Suave to talk about that night, which they've never discussed in nearly three decades of friendship. And Suave reveals to Maria a shocking story she's never heard before about the night of the murder in 1986. Everything she thought she knew about his case turns upside down. The story leads us back to North Philadelphia in search of someone else who was present the night of the murder.

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Episode 7: The Reckoning
Please note that this episode contains a brief description of violence and sexual abuse. You can avoid it by skipping between minute 4:45-6:45. "There's no winners in this. You're a victim, so you victimize other people because you're hurt. It's a circle and it goes on and on."
Suave reckons with the last three decades of his life. As he looks inward -and determines to break intergenerational cycles- he begins therapy to deal with the trauma of his childhood and incarceration. And he finds that there are still a few things he needs to do, so he asks Maria to join him.

Maria and Maggie discuss how the Supreme Court's decision in Montgomery v. Louisiana has played out differently across the country, leaving some juvenile lifers still behind bars. Maria worries about the lasting effects of lifetime parole on Suave and comforts him through some tough disappointments. Suave ponders what it truly means to be free.

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About

In 1988, David Luis "Suave" Gonzalez was found guilty of first-degree homicide. A Philadelphia judge sentenced him to life without parole for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old. At Graterford State Correctional Institution in Pennsylvania, Suave joined the largest population of juvenile lifers in the country-men considered by the justice system to be "irredeemable" for acts committed when they were just teenagers.

Suave tells the story of what happens when your whole world is a prison cell, and you suddenly get a second chance at life. It's the account of one man's incarceration and redemption and an unusual relationship between a journalist and a man convicted of murder.

Acclaimed journalist Maria Hinojosa met Suave 27 years ago when she was invited to speak at a graduation ceremony at Graterford. They kept in touch over the decades by phone, letter, and occasional visits. Originally, she maintained contact in order to have a source inside the prison system. But over the years, they became close.

As the decades pass, Suave becomes a mentor for younger men and a model citizen inside the prison. Once on the outside, he tries to continue this way of life. But he soon realizes there are limits to how much freedom he can ever truly have, and Maria realizes there are limits to how much she can help him. And the more she learns about Suave's crime, the more she comes to question the events that put Suave in prison-and the system that puts away children to life in the first place.

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Meet the Team

Executive Producer

Maria Hinojosa is the Anchor and Executive Producer of the Peabody Award-winning show Latino USA, distributed by PRX, as well as Co-Host of In The Thick, the Futuro Media's award-winning political podcast, Hinojosa has informed millions about the changing cultural and political landscape in America and abroad. She is also a contributor to the long-running, award-winning news program CBS Sunday Morning and a frequent guest on MSNBC.

Hinojosa's nearly 30-year career as an award-winning journalist includes reporting for PBS, CBS, WNBC, CNN, NPR, and anchoring the Emmy Award winning talk show from WGBH Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One. She is the author of two books and has won dozens of awards, including: four Emmys, the John Chancellor Award, the Studs Terkel Community Media Award, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Overseas Press Club, and the Ruben Salazar Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAHJ. She has been honored with her own day in October by New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and has been recognized by People En Español as one of the 25 most powerful Latina women. Additionally, Hinojosa was the first Latina to anchor a PBS FRONTLINE report: "Lost in Detention" which aired in October 2011 and was the first to explore abuse at immigrant detention facilities, garnering attention from Capitol Hill as well as both the mainstream and Spanish-language media.

As a reporter for NPR, Hinojosa was among the first to report on youth violence in urban communities on a national scale. During her eight years as CNN's urban affairs correspondent, Hinojosa often took viewers into communities rarely shown on television and continued that work longform on Now on PBS. At Futuro Media, Hinojosa continues to bring attention to experiences and points of view that are often overlooked or underreported in mainstream media, all while mentoring the next generation of diverse journalists to delve into authentic and nuanced stories. In 2018 she was a Fellow at Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a frequent speaker across the country. In 2019, she was named the inaugural Distinguished Journalist in Residence at her Alma Mater, Barnard College.

Host and Producer

Maggie Freleng is an investigative journalist, producer and the host/producer of Unjust & Unsolved, a podcast about wrongful convictions and the crimes that are consequently left unsolved.

Maggie is an Adjunct Professor at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and formerly the Producer-at-Large for Latino USA. She was an NPR Next Generation Radio fellow and 2019 Ford Foundation "50 Women Can Change the World in Journalism" fellow. Maggie was also a TV documentary host for VICE and Oxygen's The Disappearance of Maura Murray.

Producer

Julieta Martinelli is an award-winning investigative reporter and currently a producer at Latino USA. As a Soros Justice Media Fellow, she spent 2019 documenting the human repercussions of changing legal policies along the U.S.-Mexico border. She previously covered the criminal justice system, policing and immigration for Nashville Public Radio.

Her stories about immigrant youth, life in prison -and what happens after- have aired nationally on NPR programs, including Here and Now, Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition. She's been invited to discuss her reporting on WBEZ's Morning Shift, WAMU's 1A and NPR's Up First podcast. Martinelli previously wrote for CBS-46 in Atlanta, the Gwinnett Daily Post, and the Atlanta Latino Newspaper.

Editors

Marlon Bishop is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer and editor with a focus on Latin America, immigration, identity and society, music and the arts. After a decade reporting on music for various outlets, he served as Senior Editor on the public radio program Latino USA. Today, he heads up the editorial podcast team at Futuro Studios, the original programming division of the Futuro Media Group. His stories have appeared in The FADER, This American Life, Planet Money, NPR News, Studio 360 and many other outlets.

Audrey Quinn is a documentary audio reporter and editor. She teaches audio reporting at the NYU School of Journalism. Her narrative podcast Aftereffect from WNYC Studios won a Newswomen's Club of New York Award, a National Center on Disability Journalism Award, and was a Scripps Howard and Third Coast finalist. Audrey's reporting with Reveal on deadly for-profit disability care led to the unraveling of one of the country's largest group home companies and earned a Garden State Award for podcasting. And her exposure of undocumented deaths in New Jersey jails for WNYC led to new initiatives from the state's Department of Corrections, as well as awards from the Deadline Club, SPJ NJ, and Public Radio News Directors Incorporated.

Engineer

Stephanie Lebow is the Senior Audio Engineer across Futuro Media's properties. She is a Peabody award-winning audio engineer for her work on Afropop Worldwide. She found her passion for radio at Indie 103.1 FM in Los Angeles, as an engineer, producer, and on-air personality.

She has mixed and produced music in a multitude of genres (from jazz to pop) and received an independent music award for her work. She has also mixed and done sound sweetening for indie films and documentary series, such as America By The Numbers and Miss Sharon Jones!

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Support for this podcast provided by the Art for Justice Fund, a special project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and The Heising-Simons Foundation: Unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and possibilities. More at hsfoundation.org.

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SUBSCRIBE HERE A new podcast about the system that sentences juveniles to life in prison, a story of incarceration, redemption, and the unusual relationship between a journalist and a source. Episode 1: The Sentence "The very last word she said was 'You can become a voice for the voiceless.'

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Our first guest to BH Podcast Club, I was never there.

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What the hell happened to Marsha "Mudd" Ferber?

Named a 2022 audio selection at the Tribeca Festival, I Was Never There takes listeners on a trip into the countercultural movements swirling through West Virginia in the 1970s and 80s. Jamie Zelermyer and her mother Karen investigate the shocking disappearance of their friend Marsha "Mudd" Ferber and explore her evolution from suburban housewife to back-to-the-land hippie to drug-dealing bar owner. As mother and daughter venture deeper into the mystery of Marsha's disappearance, the two process their own history: Jamie reflects on her nontraditional upbringing and Karen reckons with the joyful and complicated consequences of her decisions.

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If you have any information about Marsha Ferber, thoughts about the podcast, or you want to contact I Was Never There, send us an email.

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Named a Tribeca Film Festival 2022 selection, I Was Never There tells the story of Jamie Zelermyer and her mother Karen as they go back to the land to answer a 34-year old question: What the hell happened to Marsha "Mudd" Ferber?

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The women who fought for legal abortion, the activists who pushed back, and the justices who thought they could solve the issue for good.

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In the ’70s and ’80s the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders were as much a pop-culture phenomenon as Saturday Night Fever or The Love Boat. Texas Monthly journalist Sarah Hepola presents a revealing audio documentary explaining the squad’s origins, how the cheerleaders evolved and why people seem to have different takes on them. From the strict rules to the iconic uniform, some feel it is an honor to be a part of this elite team, while others are more focused on equal pay, rules and respect. Which side will you cheer for?

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I grew up watching women's bodies. I think it started on movie screens, but it moved to television and locker rooms and swimming pools. There was this poster I was obsessed with at the age of five. I stared at that image on bedroom walls and 7-Elevens-all these women in blue and white uniforms. There was this one redhead with the mane of a lioness, a look of fire-and I saw in her something like the woman I wanted to be.

This was 1979 in Dallas, a year after an NFL highlight reel dubbed the Cowboys America's Team. In other towns, at other times, I might have grown up staring at royalty or beauty-pageant queens. But in the blackland prairie of North Texas, in the late seventies, I grew up watching the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.

I spent much of my early adulthood living outside Dallas. But about ten years ago, I moved back, and things I'd never noticed before began to fluoresce. I was standing in a parking lot off the roaring highway when I looked up and saw her on a billboard: that same blue and white uniform, hair like Venus on the half shell, one arm casually draped atop her head.

Thirty years had passed since I had first fallen in love with the cheerleaders. Empires had crumbled; industries had dissolved. A bustling online feminism had brought conversations about sexuality and fair pay into my everyday conversation. How was it possible so much had changed-and the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders were still here?

What struck me in that moment was that I knew next to nothing about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. How they started. Who those women were, what their names or inner dramas might be.I'd grown up worshipping their images, but I had no clue what their stories or their experiences in those early days had been.

That was the beginning of the project we're releasing here next week: an eight-part podcast series all about the Cowboys cheerleaders. Because what I discovered over the next years was that the story of the cheerleaders is one of the best tales to come out of Dallas-an experiment that began at Texas Stadium in 1972 and not only survived, but extended its reach, with a reality TV show whose fans might never even watch a football game. The show illustrates the cheerleaders' uncanny ability to ride the latest wave of pop culture, even as they cement their place as an American institution. (Their uniform is even in the Smithsonian.)

This was a journey that would take me across the past fifty years of history-across changes in women's lives, in media, in the city of Dallas and the country itself. It would take me to the rubble of Texas Stadium and the consumer coliseum of AT&T Stadium, a.k.a. Jerry World, where the American flag is displayed above the logos for Pepsi and Miller Lite.

The journey would take me into cheerleaders' homes, where memorabilia often fanned across a dining-room table like a grand buffet. It would take me through lore about strippers and scandals and personal sacrifice. It would take me into YouTube rabbit holes and the deep oceans of eBay, from which my purchases include: a 1981 deck of playing cards, a 1982 vinyl album of workout routines, a 2005 swimsuit-calendar making-of DVD, and a 1978 Playboy.

Over the past year, I've spoken to about thirty cheerleaders from the past half century. About a dozen of them appear in the podcast, alongside historians and cultural critics, but the cheerleaders carry this story. They talk about things many of us face-a search to discover their own talent and feel special, a struggle with their bodies, a hope that they could balance the inevitable frustrations and criticisms of an experience with the enormous gains they got, a frustration when their contributions were not valued (sometimes monetarily, sometimes in the public perception), a craving for the spotlight and the challenge of that scrutiny, and a desire to be sexy but not just sexy.

There was often this moment at the start of an interview with a former cheerleader.

"So is this a video?" they'd ask, watching me assemble my metal cranes of sound equipment.

"No, this is audio only."

"Oh good." I could feel them relax, and they'd sit however they wanted in the chair, and not worry about whether they were wearing lipstick or their hair was a little messy.

"This," I'd say, taking a seat across from them, "is about your voice."

You can hear their voices on Tuesday, December 7, when we release the first two episodes. Look for America's Girls on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. And throughout the series, dive deeper into the stories we tell through our Pocket collection at getpocket.com/texas.

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I grew up watching women's bodies. I think it started on movie screens, but it moved to television and locker rooms and swimming pools. There was this poster I was obsessed with at the age of five.

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What made you decide to do a podcast about Marsha? Why a podcast?

I really love Marsha’s voice! How did you have so much audio of her?? Especially the psychic!!!

Great music selection. Did you choose that song?

How big is the podcast team who made this?

Why West Virginia and not somewhere else?

How did you get Jello Biafra on the show??

What is Morgantown like now compared to when you and Marsha lived there?

Since the podcast aired have you gotten more info or tips about Marsha our life in WV at that time?

Sarah and Jamie, when did you realize that your life was different from other people’s?

You were exposed to drug culture as children: how aware were you of that at as kids?

What do YOU think happened to Marsha?

What can we expect from season 2? What else do want to explore outside of Marsha’s story?

Did doing the podcast affect your relationship?

What things did you learn that you didn't know before doing the podcast?

I know Marsha's kids didn't want to be included in the actual podcast, but did you speak to them off the record ?

Did you homeschool the girls or did they attend public school?

What was the biggest surprise you experienced during the podcast?

Are you leaning toward one theory about Marsha's disappearance after all the interviews you've done?

Would you consider doing a podcast just about your experiences as a family during that time? What prompted you to give up your traditional life? Why West Virginia? Were there other places opening up to communal living? Was everything planned out in advance? How did building your own house go? What did Milton do during your time there?

I'd also like know wat the transition was like for the daughters going from a more traditional life style in NJ to communal life in West Virginia.

“We needed to live our values and we couldn’t do that in mainstream culture” how do you reconcile that now? Have your values changed?

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Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy talks to David Tennant about creating the hit Netflix show with his father Eugene Levy, growing up with a famous parent and finding creative freedom away from Hollywood.
Follow us on Instagram and Twitter @davidtennantpod. New episodes from season 2 coming weekly. You can check out previous episodes with Olivia Colman, Ian McKellen and Whoopi Goldberg now.
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Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of-and to regular people you haven't-about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, The Experiment, The New Yorker Radio Hour and many others. Show more

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Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of-and to regular people you haven't-about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're

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We've got a New Year's resolution suggestion for 2022-try as many new podcasts as you can! I've done all the heavy listening so you can get your year started off right. These selections cover wild animals, Las Vegas glitz and internet catfishing. There's also true crime, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Playboy's Hugh Hefner and politics. Explore the history of cancel culture, reality shows, opioids, bank robbers and more. The world of podcasts has something for everyone. Happy listening!

There's already so much that is fascinating about Las Vegas magician duo Siegfried and Roy. What's behind the glitz, glamour and big cats? This new podcast series starts out by recalling the 2003 horrific tiger attack on Roy Horn and delivers more of the story. Why did this happen? Could someone in the audience be responsible? How were the animals treated? What do people in Vegas really think of them and this entertainment disaster. You'll be hooked from the minute you start listening with all the details that were supposed to stay in Vegas. Thankfully journalist Steven Leckart is letting them out with a roar.

Journalist Alexi Mostrous was researching the consequences of online porn when he stumbled across a bizarre catfishing story. Kirat Assi was terrorized in an online web of deceit for 10 years as she thought she had found her true destiny in Bobby. The conversations became intimate and, of course, his story is not what it seemed. The reveal is absolutely unexpected and wild. You'll want to binge the whole thing for answers. Most importantly Sweet Bobby looks into why there are few consequences for people who commit this kind of online psychological warfare.

Tony Hathaway was a Boeing engineer who seemed to have it all. A great family and job living in the Seattle suburbs. After being injured playing hockey in a company league, he was prescribed OxyContin. This led Hathaway to the depths of the American epidemic of opioid addiction. To feed his destructive habit he turned to crime, becoming one of the most successful serial bank robbers in history. Host Josh Dean ( Chameleon) interviews him at length, along with family and law enforcement to discuss what, why and how everything went down. Addiction drives people to do crazy and terrible things. You'll have empathy and outrage with all sides of this story.

This is a January 6th story that hits close to home, literally. MSNBC host and journalist Ayman Mohyeldin got a call from his old high-school buddy asking to cover his sister in law's death. She was one of the victims at the capitol riot. American Radical takes you through how Rosanne Boyland got entrenched in conspiracy theories that led her to that fateful day. The family, led by sister Lana, is seeking the truth as to what happened to her. But also to find closure on why she headed down that path in the first place.

What are the origins of cancel culture? How did we become such a divisive society? Jon Ronson does a brilliant job of rewinding topics like abortion, sex education, gay liberation and school curriculums. This series finds the strange and sometimes heartwarming examples of how things came to be. People who were on the front lines tell their stories. Whether you agree or disagree, Things Fell Apart takes you through what we can learn from these monumental moments that have shaped our culture. It's a beautiful learning experience.

This series takes you through the ups and downs of the Playboy enterprise. On the one hand, Hefner was an innovator and champion for free speech. On the other hand, he was controlling, stubborn, manipulative and frankly, a little weird. Journalist Amy Rose Spiegel chronicles the early days of Playboy with interviews from former playmates, employees and family members. You find out all kinds of behind the scenes dirt from the infamous Mansion. Power examines Playboy 's role in society and popular culture.

In May 2018, Carrie Low reported to police that she had been drugged, taken from a bar and sexually assaulted at another location. After a year of police inactivity since she reported her rape, Low filed complaints against them. The CBC investigates how law enforcement horribly botched her case. Low, even through her trauma, took meticulous notes through the whole ordeal. The trials and tribulations of her story are heartbreaking. Especially with the true-life unexpected twist at the end. Low's mission is to shine a light on corrupt police work pointing to why so many rape victims don't report.

In the '70s and '80s the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders were as much a pop-culture phenomenon as Saturday Night Fever or The Love Boat. Texas Monthly journalist Sarah Hepola presents a revealing audio documentary explaining the squad's origins, how the cheerleaders evolved and why people seem to have different takes on them. From the strict rules to the iconic uniform, some feel it is an honor to be a part of this elite team, while others are more focused on equal pay, rules and respect. Which side will you cheer for?

In 1981, a horrific drowning incident rocked this exclusive town of Malibu, Calif. Before this sleepy town became the premiere destination for A-list celebrities it was a close knit community engaging in health food, hot tubs and self help. Verna and Doug Roehler died just off the coast of Malibu under mysterious circumstances. The Roelers seemed like the family who had it all, and Fred was left to pick up the pieces of this devastating loss. But everything is not what it seems, as Fred's checkered past is revealed. Journalist Dana Goodyear seeks to find out the truth all these years later. What she uncovers is truly shocking.

In the early 2000s, reality shows dominated TV, and some tried to outdo each other for shock value. Enter the British show There's Something About Miriam. As the star, Rivera was stunning and appeared to have a huge future in modeling and music. When everything unfolds, the producers reveal that Miriam is trans. Then things get weird and go horribly wrong. Host Trace Lysette dissects the complicated life of Rivera and the attitudes towards trans people in general. Harsh Reality digs into societal misconceptions of being transgender through Miriam's story.

An unsolved death is revisited after 25 years by prominent New York City attorney Anne Champion. Her best friend Laura Van Wyhe was mysteriously killed and found on the side of the road in Bonaparte, Iowa. Strangely, no one was charged with her death. Champion, along with journalist Jason Stavers, travel to Iowa to talk to the family and all those involved in Laura's life. They try to see if they can put the pieces together. Interesting angles are uncovered, but even after all these years, people still don't want to talk. It's still an active, open case.

Mara Davis is a media personality based in Atlanta, Ga. In addition to hosting the VoteHer podcast with Senator Jen Jordan, she also is a senior talent booker for various television networks and podcasts.

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We've got a New Year's resolution suggestion for 2022-try as many new podcasts as you can! I've done all the heavy listening so you can get your year started off right. These selections cover wild animals, Las Vegas glitz and internet catfishing. There's also true crime, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Playboy's Hugh Hefner and politics.

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In 2018, a young Indigenous mother named Jermain Charlo left a bar in Missoula, Montana, and was never seen again. After two years and thousands of hours of investigative work, police believe they are close to solving the mystery of what happened to her. We go inside the investigation, tracking down leads and joining search parties through the dense mountains of the Flathead Reservation. As we unravel this mystery, the show examines what it means to be an Indigenous woman in America.

Stolen is hosted by Connie Walker.

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Reality TV is dismissed as guilty pleasure, low brow... even trash. But whether you want to admit it or not, you probably have heard of Snooki, Lisa Vanderpump or Kim Kardashian. Over the past 30 years, reality TV has become a place to see the social and political moment play out in real time -- from racial tensions on The Real World New York to gender dynamics on The Bachelor.

On this season, join host Mariah Smith as she dissects the history of the genre one show at a time, revealing how it's shaped our culture and how our culture shaped it.

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Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV

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Listen to Spectacle: An Unscripted History of Reality TV on Spotify. Reality TV is dismissed as guilty pleasure, low brow... even trash. But whether you want to admit it or not, you probably have heard of Snooki, Lisa Vanderpump or Kim Kardashian.

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Since the podcasting dawn (in the early aughts), the medium has come to occupy a unique area of real estate within the media landscape. For some, it's a daily commute lifesaver; for others, a primary resource for news gathering. Covering just about every topic, from sex to true crime, the podcasting world is seemingly neverending.

Amongst the outliers of self-indulgent podcasters are loads of incredibly smart, funny, friendly, and talented voices that deserve to be heard. Whether you're looking for a way to brush up on some history while on the go, want to open your perspective on the world around you, or just want a little extra company throughout your day, there's absolutely a podcast out there that's right for you. Probably more than one. Probably a ton of series to binge.

The beauty of podcasts is that there are infinite ways to listen. And we've been mapping the best of the best, across a myriad of niches, for our 2021 roundup, with some brand-new gems and tried and true staples for good measure. So plug in those earbuds and get listening.

These are the best podcasts of 2021.

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This year, as podcasts continued to proliferate and corporations continued to incorporate, the art of podcasting also continued to evolve-including into the realm of audiobook production, which has begun to break free of creative constraints. Many of my steadfast favorites, such as " Ear Hustle," " In Our Time," " Heavyweight," " Death, Sex & Money," and Avery Trufelman's " Nice Try!" (this season, cleverly focussed on domestic appliances), remained transporting; quality investigative podcasts, such as Reveal's " Mississippi Goddam: The Ballad of Billey Joe" and Gimlet's " Stolen: The Search for Jermain," abounded. An extraordinary " Song Exploder" episode, in which John Lennon, via archival audio offered by his estate, elucidates the creation of "God," pairs wonderfully with the ongoing Paul- fest and Beatle-fest that this season has granted us. Here are a few of the year's other gifts, which brought beauty and wonder to our headphones.

Some of my favorite podcasts use the medium to explore the history of audio recording, reflecting on our current aural-cultural moment in light of what's come before. "Radiolab: Mixtape," a five-episode miniseries, does this with the humble cassette, presenting stories about the ways in which that format, now underappreciated, changed the world. The series, hosted and produced by Simon Adler, takes us to surprising places-a Tokyo park in 1979, Bing Crosby's studio in 1946, nineties South Sudan-to show how providing people with the ability to record, edit, and transport sound has altered our relationship with culture, politics, history, our loved ones, and reality itself. It also captures dozens of stunning little moments in the process. In the first episode, a group of journalists gathers in that Tokyo park, where Sony executives astound them with what the world would soon know as the Walkman. Later, we jump to late-nineties China, and the story of how Western pop music from junked American cassette tapes- dakou -"sparked a musical explosion and totally reimagined what rock and roll was."

There's a reason that "The Paris Review Podcast" is an industry favorite, beloved by makers of other great podcasts: in its cocktail of poetry, fiction, archival interviews, music, and field recordings, it's an art work in itself, a glorious sound bath to luxuriate in as we absorb the magazine's literature and ideas. The podcast's last full season was in 2019, and its return, this fall, had been eagerly anticipated ever since. Its format lets you float from one element to another, largely unchaperoned but gently oriented-this season by the magazine's new editor, Emily Stokes (formerly of The New Yorker). On a recent relisten, paying attention to the sound design (by Helena de Groot, John DeLore, and Hannis Brown, with mastering by Justin Shturtz), I realized the source of some of its magic: by flecking in hints of sound from daily life-wind chimes, piano, background conversation-the production locates the work more firmly in the real world, avoiding the preciousness that some literary readings can fall prey to while elevating the beauty even further.

There's a mystery at the center of Eric Mennel's series "Stay Away from Matthew MaGill" (which Mennel produced with Elliott Adler, for Pineapple Street), about a handsome stranger who moved to a small town on the Georgia-Florida border, opened an exotic-plants nursery, spent decades alienating everyone in town, and died friendless and alone. The mystery is: Who was this guy, and what happened to him? MaGill left behind details from a credulity-straining personal backstory-a childhood of privilege, a marriage to a Broadway actress, a government investigation, a plane hijacking, stolen cars-and also a box of his effects, which Mennel opens and investigates. In the course of seven episodes, researched over five years, Mennel uncovers MaGill's truths, and begins to weave in a story of his own, about alienation, secrets, and tentative reconnection within Mennel's family. Like "S-Town," it strikes an elegiac mood of rumination on a tragic, extraordinary life.

The producer, musician, and sound designer Ian Coss ("Ways of Hearing," "Over the Road") describes this series as being about divorce; it's equally about love, family, and understanding. As it begins, Coss, who has been married for several years, explains that every living relative of his who has been married also got divorced, and, in an effort to understand it all, he sets out to interview them. In an early episode, a simple trick of editing-layering together his long-divorced parents' account of how they met-is stunning in its gentle beauty and power. Later, a particularly thoughtful uncle, who has worked as a firefighter, compares the failure of a marriage to a medical emergency. "It's usually five or six things that are going wrong," he says-abnormal lab work, which nobody looked at, then the patient got dehydrated, and so on. "You have to keep an eye on the things that are stacking up." As the episodes proceed, they accumulate meaning, the interviewees becoming more fascinating in relation to one another, like characters in a multigenerational novel. Coss ends each episode by performing an original song inspired by its interviews. ("Maybe in another life," he sings.)

One of the most devastating podcasts that I listened to this year, "Southlake," about turmoil in an affluent and formerly collegial suburb of Dallas, zeroes in on an all too familiar situation. The NBC News reporters Mike Hixenbaugh and Antonia Hylton reveal the story of how a struggle for racial justice, spurred by a high school's inadequate handling of a 2018 video of white students chanting the N-word, was reframed as being racist itself, eventually inflaming the passions of parents and voters (not to mention Fox News) and ultimately affecting local elections, school boards, employment, and curricula. The series-produced by Frannie Kelley, with expert sound design by Seth Samuel and original music by Ali Shaheed Muhammad-treats an overheated scenario with patience and care. It incorporates audio of school administrators, community meetings, parents, teachers, and students, and its quiet moments-such as a conversation between a queer, nonbinary teen and their school principal about a bullying incident, which he keeps calling "a debate"-are as powerful as its loud ones.

Dan Taberski, the maker of reliably great documentary podcasts such as " Surviving Y2K" and " Running from COPS"-whose narration, by him, often sets my teeth on edge-did it again this year (and again, with "The Line," about the Eddie Gallagher case). It's a testament to his skill that he can write stuff like "how we turned 9/11 the day into 9/11 the idea," deliver it with so-podcast-it-hurts conversational patness, and still be utterly terrific. "9/12"-produced by Courtney Harrell, for Pineapple Street (with Amazon Music and Wondery)-tells several evocative stories slightly apart from the tragedy itself: cast and crew members on a replica eighteenth-century explorer ship, filming a BBC series, who learn of the event while at sea; Onion staffers who try to contend with comedy; a Pakistani American businessman, in Brooklyn, who turns his fabric store into an investigation office after his neighbors start disappearing; Hollywood screenwriters who are secretly called upon by the government to help brainstorm other possible terrorist threats. The resulting mosaic evokes details of post-9/11 life that we might have forgotten-for example, that a Red Sox fan could get kicked out of Yankee Stadium, in 2008, for trying to get to the men's room during "God Bless America"-and prompts insights about the world we lost and the world we adapted to.

The greatness of "Suspect"-a crime podcast, distributed by Wondery, involving a murder on Halloween-might startle listeners familiar with Wondery's work, which tends toward a certain level of pulp. But its sensitivity and seriousness are evident from the beginning, and its power builds with each episode. Matthew Shaer and Eric Benson, who wrote the series and produced it with Natalia Winkelman for Campside Media, had access to all of the major figures-suspects, witnesses, cops, jurors, the accused-in a 2008 murder investigation in Redmond, Washington, near Seattle, that resulted in dubious charges. The victim was Arpana Jinaga, a brilliant, beloved, and motorcycle-riding twenty-four-year-old software engineer, who helped throw a giant Halloween party in her apartment complex, called the Valley View, and was murdered later that night. Shaer, who hosts, has studied the misuse of touch DNA in forensic analysis, and he painstakingly analyzes the details, re-creating the party scene, the investigation, and the trial through the voices of the people involved. The series raises essential questions about police procedure, DNA analysis, and confirmation bias, and does so organically, in a gripping, character-driven story that always foregrounds the humanity of its subjects, most of whom we empathize with and respect. It's also a master class in tone, focussing on justice forthrightly without patting itself on the back.

Tyler Mahan Coe's passion project and one-man show, this exhaustively researched, feverishly delivered history-of-country-music podcast was an instant cult hit among music obsessives when its first season came out, in 2017. Coe spent the next few years creating the second season, a wildly ambitious, and wildly long, epic about George Jones. In telling the great singer's story, Coe zooms in and out to include the development of the Nashville sound, the history of pinball, the invention of ice cream, the Medicis, the production of moonshine, Martin Luther's opposition to the Roman Catholic Church, Jones's alcoholism, Tammy Wynette's affair with Burt Reynolds, the history of drag and masquerade balls-and, quite deftly, cocaine and rhinestones. Coe, an autodidact and the son of the outlaw-country musician David Allan Coe, relishes his role as scholar-enthusiast-gadfly, and his zeal is the show's animating force. It's at its most sublime when he delves into the songs themselves: "The song 'White Lightning' isn't exactly about outrunning the law with a trunkful of moonshine, but you wouldn't know it from the music," he says, playing a bit of the track. "Buddy Killen's standup bass turns over like an engine, and all of a sudden you're chugging down a mountain, Pig Robbins's piano tinkling around somewhere in the back with all the glass jars, and Floyd Robinson's guitar lines whipping by the windows faster than passing tree trunks."

This seven-episode series about la brega (the struggle, or the hustle) of life in Puerto Rico, created by a team of Puerto Rican journalists and hosted and produced by Alana Casanova-Burgess, feels like a step forward in the podcast medium-and not just because it's produced in both Spanish and English versions, available in the same feed. Elegantly written, grounded in sensate detail, and surprising at every turn, "La Brega," co-produced by Futuro Studios and WNYC, begins with an unforgettable image: a photo that Casanova-Burgess sees of a water truck being subsumed by a huge pothole in Caguas, Puerto Rico. "It looked as if the asphalt had opened a gaping mouth and was trying to swallow the truck," Casanova-Burgess says. Potholes are a rampant problem in Puerto Rico; this one was caused by a broken water pipe; the truck was bringing potable water to a community that needed it. "And lastly, as if adding insult to injury, the water in the truck was lost to the pothole," Casanova-Burgess says. "It was a bit on the nose." She talks to a man who has started an Adopt a Pothole program- la brega in action-and proceeds, in subsequent episodes, to explore the history of Levittown, Puerto Rico; a decades-long citizen-surveillance program; an impassioned basketball rivalry with the U.S.; and the legacy of Hurricane Maria. A through line is a more geopolitical struggle: the commonwealth's relationship with the United States.

Saidu Tejan-Thomas, Jr., co-created and hosts this Gimlet series, about "refusing to accept things as they are"; it started in October, 2020, with a vivid multi-episode portrait of the Black Lives Matter collective Warriors in the Garden. This year, the show has continued to produce beautiful work about acts of resistance large and small, with a focus on Black American life. In "My Somebody," a love story turns into a fighting-for-justice love story; in "Jesus Was an Enemy of the State," a couple explores liberation theology; in "Bushwick and the Beast," Modesto Flako Jimenez leads a "full-on black-box theatre on wheels" about gentrification; and, in "F Your Water Fountain," a fifties photograph of the civil-rights pioneer Cecil Williams drinking from a water fountain marked "White Only" inspires a series about people with similar "fuck-your-water-fountain energy." The show's writing is muscular, wise, and funny; Tejan-Thomas, a twenty-nine-year-old poet and writer who worked on the podcasts " Mogul" and " Conviction," has a keen ear for language, as do the show's producers, including Salifu Sesay Mack, Bethel Habte, and Aaron Randle. In the Bushwick episode, Tejan-Thomas appreciates a point of Flako's about graffiti, respect, and gentrification, and observes, "Even though there are hundreds of tags crowding each other on this wall, and there's new tags being thrown up all the time, being able to see the tags underneath other ones-blues under greens, reds on whites, browns over oranges-these artists have figured something out: you can claim your spot without having to erase someone else's."

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This year, as podcasts continued to proliferate and corporations continued to incorporate, the art of podcasting also continued to evolve-including into the realm of audiobook production, which has begun to break free of creative constraints. Many of my steadfast favorites, such as " Ear Hustle," " In Our Time," " Heavyweight," " Death, Sex & Money," and Avery Trufelman's " Nice Try!"

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In the first nine episodes of our season, Louder has tackled the unwritten rules of rap. For the finale, we dig into the root of all those rules: the scarcity mindset. It's the belief that access and resources are so limited for those marginalized in hip-hop that you need to fight tooth and nail for them, and that only one can make it to the top at a time. And the Louder team says goodbye, as scarcity comes for our own podcast.

Louder was planning to drop a new episode this morning about a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment and workplace discrimination at The Source magazine in the early 2000s. But, because of circumstances beyond our control, we need to delay it. Our next episode drops on April 27. Listen for our full statement on the status of Rule No. 5.

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Hip-hop emerged from the voices of the unheard. But freedom doesn't ring the same for everyone. Inside all corners of the culture, Black women and queer folk have dealt with the same oppression the music was built to escape.

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One of Ana's 2021 resolutions: Listen to a podcast......

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In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began. No aspect of the country that would be formed here has been untouched by the 250 years of slavery that followed. On the 400th an…

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How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift the focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. 9/12 is a poignant, surprising, and surprisingly funny seven episode series about people who wake up on 9/12 having to navigate a new, radically altered world. A teenager gets caught up in an out-of-control conspiracy theory that he helped start. A Pakistani business owner finds hundreds of his Brooklyn neighbors are disappearing. Joke-writers at The Onion must figure out just how soon is "too soon"? 9/12 asks what it all means. We know what happened on 9/11. But what happened on 9/12 to alter our memory and our perspective forever?
All seven episodes of 9/12 are available to stream now on Amazon Music or Wondery+. Episodes will release weekly everywhere starting September 8th.

How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift the focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. 9/12 is a poignant, surprising, and surprisingly funny seven episode series about people who wake up on 9/12 having to navigate a new, radically altered world. A teenager gets caught up in an out-of-control conspiracy theory that he helped start. A Pakistani business owner finds hundreds of his Brooklyn neighbors are disappearing. Joke-writers at The Onion must figure out just how soon is "too soon"? 9/12 asks what it all means. We know what happened on 9/11. But what happened on 9/12 to alter our memory and our perspective forever?
All seven episodes of 9/12 are available to stream now on Amazon Music or Wondery+. Episodes will release weekly everywhere starting September 8th.

Open minded

It's not easy to approach 9/11 with an open mind. This podcast does. It molds together a variety of interesting perspectives and personal experiences and represents multiple generations, though maybe mine (over 65 )less than others. Lets interviewees speak at length without biased editing. Great sound track.

Awesome!

Kept me very entertained and loved hearing the new perspectives!

Political Correctness Started to take Away from the Entertainment Value

Made it through a few, then unfollowed. Episode 1 and the remarks about a ship, imperialism, and irony was stretching to show political correctness, virtue signaling. And the few following episodes were the same. I listen to podcasts for entertainment and do not want to be pulled into a line of thought assuming certain groups of people are inherently bad. Objectively almost all of us listening had nothing to do with events that occurred hundreds of years ago or decisions being made today by career politicians.

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How did 9/11 the day become 9/11 the idea? That question drives Pineapple Street Studios and award-winning host Dan Taberski (Missing Richard Simmons, Running From COPS, The Line) to shift the focus to what happened on 9/12, and every day after that. 9/12 is a poignant, surprising, and surprisingly...

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Thanksgiving is a time for people to come together with their families and give thanks for the blessings in their lives. But the American holiday is rooted in historical fallacy and upholds settler colonial belief systems. Instead, let's begin to understand the real story of Thanksgiving and the complex history undergirding this event in relation to Indigenous people. Join us for conversation with auntie scholars Paula Peters and Linda Coombs, for the holistic perspective of the Wampanoag, the first peoples of Turtle Island to have contact with European colonizers.

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‎All My Relations Podcast: ThanksTaking or ThanksGiving? on Apple Podcasts

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‎Thanksgiving is a time for people to come together with their families and give thanks for the blessings in their lives. But the American holiday is rooted in historical fallacy and upholds settler colonial belief systems. Instead, let's begin to understand the real story of Thanksgiving and the com...

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Heavy Medals

A seven-part story about the influential coaching duo of Bela and Martha Karolyi, how they transformed women's gymnastics in the United States, and the steep price of all that gold. Reported by Alyssa Roenigk and Bonnie Ford.

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Heavy Medals A seven-part story about the influential coaching duo of Bela and Martha Karolyi, how they transformed women's gymnastics in the United States, and the steep price of all that gold. Reported by Alyssa Roenigk and Bonnie Ford. Episodes More

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In 1991, Anita Hill told the world that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Thirty years later, we're still feeling the ripple effects of that testimony-in our politics and our lives. This four-part podcast explores the enduring impact of that moment, with new insights and on-the-ground stories from guests like Tarana Burke, Kerry Washington and Professor Hill herself, in her first-ever public conversation with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified 27 years after her.

In 1991, Anita Hill told the world that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Thirty years later, we're still feeling the ripple effects of that testimony-in our politics and our lives. This four-part podcast explores the enduring impact of that moment, with new insights and on-the-ground stories from guests like Tarana Burke, Kerry Washington and Professor Hill herself, in her first-ever public conversation with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified 27 years after her.

Finished this excellent series

I just finished this excellent series. 5/5⭐️ I'm looking forward to what you two will be doing next!

Where did you go?

Maybe I missed something. Is it over?

A must listen

So thoughtful and smart - the women in this podcast help you articulate the sadness and anger that is almost always right at the surface when it comes to the narrative of women in this country.

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‎In 1991, Anita Hill told the world that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Thirty years later, we're still feeling the ripple effects of that testimony-in our politics and our lives. This four-part podcast explores the enduring impact of that moment, with new insights a...

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Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.

Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice.

Genius way of opening up the conversation around weight

I adore both Aubrey and Michael and every single thing about this show. I have never struggled with weight myself, but I wanted to work on dismantling some of the bias that creeps in when you're a thin woman (by chance, not by hard work or virtue!) who also works in healthcare. Wow, does this podcast deliver. I never realized how unsubstantiated many of my assumptions about diet & weight were. This podcast has been the most delightful, humbling, and humorous way to be proved wrong.

Simply the best

This podcast is a jewel. Hilarious, warm, informative, and healing. The episode on the Presidential Fitness Test alone is better than 3 years of therapy. Thank you so so so much for doing this important work!

Life Altering Podcast

This podcast has changed my entire life and taught me soooo much. The insight, the expertise, the thorough investigation and research, Aubrey's laugh, Michael's jokes...ALL OF IT.

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Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice. Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice. I adore both Aubrey and Michael and every single thing about this show.

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On February 15, 2014, fitness guru Richard Simmons disappeared. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public eye after decades as one of the most accessible celebrities in the world. Nobody has heard from him - and no one knows why he left. Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richard's. Missing Richard Simmons is Dan's search for Richard - and the deeper he digs, the stranger it gets. Listen to the podcast The New York Times calls "a cultural phenomenon."
Headlong is Dan Taberski's documentary podcast that explores the lives of overlooked people, moments and events in our culture. Season 2 is Surviving Y2K. Season 3 is Running From COPS.

On February 15, 2014, fitness guru Richard Simmons disappeared. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public eye after decades as one of the most accessible celebrities in the world. Nobody has heard from him - and no one knows why he left. Filmmaker Dan Taberski was a Slimmons regular and a friend of Richard's. Missing Richard Simmons is Dan's search for Richard - and the deeper he digs, the stranger it gets. Listen to the podcast The New York Times calls "a cultural phenomenon."
Headlong is Dan Taberski's documentary podcast that explores the lives of overlooked people, moments and events in our culture. Season 2 is Surviving Y2K. Season 3 is Running From COPS.

Totally recommend

I have been looking for binge worthy pod casts lately with all of this extra time on my hands and this one was totally it.
As any child of the 80s/90s, Richard Simmons was something of an icon. This story has nostalgia, writing that sometimes verges on prose and raw vulnerability.
I would totally recommend it for anyone looking for a new podcast, and anyone wondering "where the hell did Richard Simmons run off to?!?"

FREE RICHARD!!!

GREAT!! The maid is a toxic malignant manipulator. FREE RICHARD!!!

Fabulous!

Absolutely loved! Well written and delivered

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‎Headlong: Missing Richard Simmons on Apple Podcasts

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‎On February 15, 2014, fitness guru Richard Simmons disappeared. He stopped teaching his regular exercise class at Slimmons, cut off his closest friends, and removed himself from the public eye after decades as one of the most accessible celebrities in the world. Nobody has heard from him - and no on...

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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was not a simple show. And Fred Rogers was not a simple man. He was radical. Spiritual. Revolutionary. Maybe even subversive. Bestselling author and cultural critic Carvell Wallace hosts this 10-part series about the life, thinking and work of Fred Rogers, and asks what the cardigan wearing host of a decades-old children's show can tell us about how to get by in today's chaotic world. Produced in partnership with Transmitter Media.

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was not a simple show. And Fred Rogers was not a simple man. He was radical. Spiritual. Revolutionary. Maybe even subversive. Bestselling author and cultural critic Carvell Wallace hosts this 10-part series about the life, thinking and work of Fred Rogers, and asks what the cardigan wearing host of a decades-old children's show can tell us about how to get by in today's chaotic world. Produced in partnership with Transmitter Media.

💗My heart is so full...

Just finished this series and the messaging is absolutely needed for every single person alive right now. Do your heart a favor and give it some love with this incredible story of unconditional love and empathy.

I'm gonna have to get a Mr.Rogers tattoo now.

Daily reminder

Finding Fred is such a blessing during these difficult times. He reminds us that everyone is worthy of love and being listened to with respect. To be able to emulate his attitude of acceptance is my daily goal.

A Saint among us for sure

Beautiful podcast, thoughtful and relevant. Exactly what you need to listen to to restore even the tiniest amount of faith in humanity in times like these.

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‎Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was not a simple show. And Fred Rogers was not a simple man. He was radical. Spiritual. Revolutionary. Maybe even subversive. Bestselling author and cultural critic Carvell Wallace hosts this 10-part series about the life, thinking and work of Fred Rogers, and asks what t...

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The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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La Brega: Season 2 | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

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The Puerto Rican experience in eight songs.

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And then we were 5. And really there's never been anything better than Anything for Selena

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Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. Editors' Notes: Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before her untimely passing in 1995. Journalist María García initially took notice of her talent when she was only seven years old. "I couldn't articulate this when I was younger, but I felt it-a profound sense that she mattered, not just because of her music but because of her expansive cultural impact," García tells Apple Podcasts. On her podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts' Show of the Year of 2021, García, who most recently served as Managing Editor for Boston public radio station WBUR, combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor her legacy. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it's fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. Though she sees the show as a personal journey "to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy," García felt it was important to make sense of how she profoundly touched the hearts and minds of many. "It's not a biography podcast. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy," she says. "So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen."

Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America. Editors' Notes: Mexican-American recording artist Selena Quintanilla not only popularized Tejano music to mainstream American audiences, but also helped put Latinos on the map and broke barriers of all kinds before her untimely passing in 1995. Journalist María García initially took notice of her talent when she was only seven years old. "I couldn't articulate this when I was younger, but I felt it-a profound sense that she mattered, not just because of her music but because of her expansive cultural impact," García tells Apple Podcasts. On her podcast Anything for Selena, Apple Podcasts' Show of the Year of 2021, García, who most recently served as Managing Editor for Boston public radio station WBUR, combines rigorous reporting with impassioned storytelling to honor her legacy. She also explores the indelible mark she left on Latino identity and belonging, whether it's fatherhood, big-butt politics, and the fraught relationship with whiteness and language. Though she sees the show as a personal journey "to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy," García felt it was important to make sense of how she profoundly touched the hearts and minds of many. "It's not a biography podcast. Instead, we tried to make meaning of Selena's life and legacy," she says. "So many people wrote to me telling me the storytelling in the podcast made them feel seen."

The real Selena.

The Selena and Chris episode struck a different chord for me. This podcast is truly a work of art. Her story is told in the most unfiltered and beautiful way.

I see some reviews about the speaker not talking enough about Selena and just relating everything to her personal life. However, I think it's beautiful to see sides of Selena no one has seen and how we as adults can relate. Selena was human. This podcast gives us the opportunity to view Selena beyond the amazing singer and performer she was, it lets us see her as a human being who had struggles despite her success, who broke down due to her troubles, who made mistakes, and did a great job with not letting that negative energy be brought to others.

10/10 would recommend this podcast ♥️

Not another history of Selena

This podcast is amazing because it isn't another in-depth look at Selena's life. It is how Selena's legacy and her achievements affected her fans. The narrator does an amazing job at interjecting her POV during the time and her experiences as well

A great listen

I knew little to nothing about Selena before listening, and this podcast is kicking off my education! Super well made and interesting.

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‎Maria Garcia was 9 years old and living on the U.S.-Mexico border when Selena was murdered. Twenty five years later, Maria is on a quest to understand what it means to love, mourn and remember Selena. In this intimate journey, Maria explores what Selena's legacy shows us about belonging in America....

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This special three part series is a story about land, culture, and connections to place-it's the story to protect Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii. Kanaka Maoli people have been fighting to stop the construction of the thirty meter telescope (TMT) since it's inception in 2009, and in the summer of 2019 a resistance camp at Pu'u huluhulu was established on the Mauna.
Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth from the sea floor to its summit. For Native Hawaiians, it is considered the most sacred, deeply honored in their creation story and time honored traditions. The destruction and ongoing desecration from tourism and the existing 13 telescopes on the Mauna has been devastating to the mountain's fragile and unique ecosystem, and is a blatant disrespect to Kanaka cultural beliefs.

In this series we'll listen to leaders in the movement to stop TMT and protect Mauna Kea, hear the history of the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom, about the sacredness of the land, the personal power of being in the movement, and bring us up to speed on what is happening now.
Central in the series are kapuna and scholar Dr. Auntie Noe Noe Wong-Wilson, scholar, poet, and activist; Jamaica Osorio, activist, educator, and cultural practitioner; and Lanakila Mangauil who discuss the health of the natural environment and its connection to fundamental rights as Indigenous peoples.
This first episode gives us the background and story of the beginning of the TMT fight and the cultural foundations of Mauna Kea.

"We take care of the land because without the land we have no culture. Our culture cannot exist without these places." - Lanakila Mangauil

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‎All My Relations Podcast: For The Love of The Mauna, Part 1 on Apple Podcasts

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‎This special three part series is a story about land, culture, and connections to place-it's the story to protect Mauna Kea on the Island of Hawaii. Kanaka Maoli people have been fighting to stop the construction of the thirty meter telescope (TMT) since it's inception in 2009, and in the summer o...

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We can't change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. Buried Truths investigates still-relevant stories of injustice, resilience and racism in the American South. Season 2: The story of A.C. Hall, a black teenager mistakenly identified as stealing a gun in Macon, Georgia in 1962, unfolds an exploration of police privilege, racial conditioning and community activism.

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In 2014, a second grader named Relisha Rudd disappeared from a homeless shelter in Washington, D.C. where she had been living with her family. By the time the city formally declared Relisha “missing,” 18 days had passed since the last time she’d been seen at school or in the shelter. Relisha has nev…

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Ana and Lisa's 2nd series

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Jon Ronson, the creator of Audible Original The Butterfly Effect, delves into the pornography industry again as he unravels the never-before-told story of what caused a beloved 23-year-old actress's untimely death.

Jon Ronson, the creator of Audible Original The Butterfly Effect, delves into the pornography industry again as he unravels the never-before-told story of what caused a beloved 23-year-old actress's untimely death.

Great podcast

Great story telling

Not as unfair or targeted as many are saying

Leaving this review to counteract the middling ones that paint the emphasis on Kevin Moore as too targeted or severe. Ronson does this with good reason!

Frankly, if you have ever spent time with someone who is emotionally abusive or studied abusive behavior, this guy sets off alarm bells with his own words, far beyond just how the story is presented or anything in control of Ronson's presentation/narrative.

Calling the veracity of everyone who is even remotely critical into question, saying things about August's motives and relationships that are proven objectively false, the *immediate* reaching out to the journalist to correct the narrative after any development. All of it.

However, this does not make him SOLELY responsible, as many are making out Ronson to be presenting. This is more of a story about how the needs of men in these womens' lives come first in so many ways-despite being their primary moneymakers-not just from Moore but from many other areas of the industry.

Jon Ronson is amazing

I love all of his work. He's brilliant.

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‎The Last Days of August on Apple Podcasts

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Jon Ronson, the creator of Audible Original The Butterfly Effect, delves into the pornography industry again as he unravels the never-before-told story of what caused a beloved 23-year-old actress's untimely death. Jon Ronson, the creator of Audible Original The Butterfly Effect, delves into the pornography industry again as he unravels the never-before-told story of what caused a beloved 23-year-old actress's untimely death.

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Ana and Lisa's 1st podcast listen

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What is the internet doing to us? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online.

What is the internet doing to us? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online.

My thoughts

It sparked something new in me, not anger exactly more like the desire to step up and make life the most it can be while being aware of the control of the system.

Excellent

Sad, scary, and all true.

Horrifying but important

This was seriously terrible to listen to (the subject not the pod which was very well done. It was suggested to me by a few people when I expressed disbelief that good people could be turned into nazis. It didn't convince me but it certainly made me think and reconsider.

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What is the internet doing to us? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online. What is the internet doing to us? The Times tech columnist Kevin Roose discovers what happens when our lives move online.

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so many of the ones listed here we listened to!!

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The year has brought a mix of insightful conversations, stunning personal work, and a comedic sperm-bank heist.

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we learn the stories of the women who made the ultimate sacrifice to join Mother Teresa’s religious congregation, The Missionaries of Charity. Hosted by Erika Lantz, the 10-episode iHeartRadio Original podcast series takes listeners behind the walls of the fiercely private order where sisters took vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and ‘wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor.’  This is where friendships were forbidden and sisters were asked to separate themselves from their families, their past, and the outside world. We hear from one sister who spent significant time alongside “Mother,” and we have a front row seat to her painful decision to break her lifelong vows, ‘disappointing the most admired woman in the world.’ If you make a lifelong vow, what does it mean to break it? Can you truly give yourself to God or will your humanity get to you first? What is the line between devotion and cult?

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Episodes of The Turning: The Sisters Who Left Uncover Never-Before-Told Stories of Forbidden Love and Deep Sacrifice, Beginning May 18

BOSTON, MA - May 11, 202 1 - Thousands of women gave up everything to follow Mother Teresa, joining her storied Catholic order, the Missionaries of Charity. But some found that life inside was not what they'd imagined. Former sisters who worked closely with Mother Teresa describe her bold vision and devotion to charity and prayer. But many - for the first time - also share stories of suffering, forbidden love, abuse, and betrayal.

Now in a new podcast from Rococo Punch and iHeartMedia, THE TURNING: The Sisters Who Left, we learn the stories of the women who made the ultimate sacrifice to join Mother Teresa's religious congregation, The Missionaries of Charity. Hosted by Erika Lantz, the 10-episode iHeartRadio Original podcast series takes listeners behind the walls of the fiercely private order where sisters took vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and 'wholehearted and free service to the poorest of the poor.' This is where friendships were forbidden and sisters were asked to separate themselves from their families, their past, and the outside world. We hear from one sister who spent significant time alongside "Mother," and we have a front row seat to her painful decision to break her lifelong vows, 'disappointing the most admired woman in the world.' If you make a lifelong vow, what does it mean to break it? Can you truly give yourself to God or will your humanity get to you first? What is the line between devotion and cult?

Produced by Rococo Punch and iHeartMedia, THE TURNING: The Sisters Who Left will launch on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 with new episodes available weekly on iHeartRadio and all major podcast listening platforms.

THE TURNING: The Sisters Who Left is distributed by the iHeartPodcast Network.
About the Host
Erika Lantz is the host and senior producer of The Turning. Previously, she worked at PRX, WBUR, APM, and Snap Judgment. She co-produced We Share the Same Sky, a narrative series about the Holocaust that HuffPost called one of the top 9 podcasts of 2019. Her work has aired on All Things Considered, Here & Now, and the CBC, among others. Erika taught audio production at the Transom Story Workshop and once led a podcast workshop in Armenia. She aims for musicality and emotional depth in her work, and her reporting has won national awards, including a National Edward R. Murrow Award and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for feature reporting.
About Rococo Punch
Rococo Punch is an independent podcast production company specializing in exquisite sound design and thoughtful content. Current projects range from investigative journalism to children's programming to interview shows. The team developed some of the most listened-to podcasts, reaching millions of people around the world. Among the shows they helped create include the Modern Love: The Podcast, Last Seen and Servant of Pod. Follow @RococoPunch on Twitter and visit w ww.rococopunch.com for more information.

About iHeartMedia, Inc.
iHeartMedia (NASDAQ: IHRT) is the number one audio company in the United States, reaching nine out of 10 Americans every month. It consists of three business groups.

With its quarter of a billion monthly listeners, the iHeartMedia Multiplatform Group has a greater reach than any other media company in the U.S. Its leadership position in audio extends across multiple platforms, including more than 860 live broadcast stations in over 160 markets nationwide; its National Sales organization; and the company's live and virtual events business. It also includes Premiere Networks, the industry's largest Networks business, with its Total Traffic and Weather Network (TTWN); and BIN: Black Information Network, the first and only 24/7 national and local all news audio service for the Black community. iHeartMedia also leads the audio industry in analytics, targeting and attribution for its marketing partners with its SmartAudio suite of data targeting and attribution products using data from its massive consumer base.

The iHeartMedia Digital Audio Group includes the company's fast-growing podcasting business -- iHeartMedia is the number one podcast publisher in downloads, unique listeners, revenue and earnings -- as well as its industry-leading iHeartRadio digital service, available across more than 250 platforms and 2,000 devices; the company's digital sites, newsletters, digital services and programs; its digital advertising technology companies; and its audio industry-leading social media footprint.

The company's Audio & Media Services reportable segment includes Katz Media Group, the nation's largest media representation company, and RCS, the world's leading provider of broadcast and webcast software.

Visit iHeartMedia.com for more company information.

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A New Podcast Explores Life Behind The Walls Of Mother Teresa's World-Famous Order

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iHeartMedia is a leading global media and entertainment company specializing in radio, digital, mobile, social, live events and on-demand entertainment.

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According to Vulture: Justice Clarence Thomas, currently the longest-serving justice on the bench, is perhaps the most pressing modern example of this, a stature amplified by the juxtaposition of his impactful conservatism and the bubbling controversies surrounding him. His opacity is the principal target in Slow Burn’s spectacular eighth season, which features the return of Joel Anderson as host and lead reporter. Anderson cuts straight through the many scandals and narratives surrounding the justice to develop a deeper understanding of the man himself, playing into what has always been Slow Burn’s signature enterprise: elucidating the present by examining the past in its full context.

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Where Clarence Thomas came from, how he rose to power, and how he's brought the rest of us along with him, whether we like it or not.

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Where Clarence Thomas came from, how he rose to power, and how he's brought the rest of us along with him, whether we like it or not.

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From the org that did Serial....
“The Trojan Horse Affair,” an eight-episode series produced by Reed, Syed, and Rebecca Laks, is in many ways a study in perspectives. Just as Alam and many of his peers would see his credentials as assets, and officials suspicious of his fomenting an Islamist conspiracy might see them as evidence, people’s preconceptions about British Pakistani Muslims, and about Islam in general, have shaped their reactions to the Trojan Horse incident. The hosts come at the story from different and often complementary points of view: Reed (“S-Town”) is white, American, non-Muslim, and an established journalist, and Syed is Pakistani British and, as the series begins, a doctor turned journalism student in Birmingham. Their different backgrounds, motivations, and personalities animate the narrative, and help ground it in gently amiable scenes.

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Listen to this episode from The Trojan Horse Affair on Spotify. A mysterious letter detailing a supposed Islamist plot to take over schools shocked Britain in 2014. But who wrote it? From Serial Productions and The New York Times, "The Trojan Horse Affair," an investigation that became bigger than we ever imagined.

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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sisters-of-the-underground/id1635408128

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Sisters of the Underground is an 8-episode scripted series by Executive Producers Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez. It follows the true story of three courageous women, known as the Mirabal sisters, who changed the world. Their lifelong activism in the Dominican Republic and state-orchestrated assassination ignited outrage that led to the downfall of one of the most brutal and enduring dictators of the 20th Century, Rafael Trujillo (aka El Jefe). This series takes us back to a period when the Mirabal Sisters inspired an entire nation to emancipate themselves from a tyrannical regime that lasted for more than 30 years. While the martyrdom of the Mirabal Sisters is the stuff of legend in the DR, Sisters of the Underground brings these hidden figures to life for a global audience in a vivid, immersive, audio drama.

Sisters of the Underground is an 8-episode scripted series by Executive Producers Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez. It follows the true story of three courageous women, known as the Mirabal sisters, who changed the world. Their lifelong activism in the Dominican Republic and state-orchestrated assassination ignited outrage that led to the downfall of one of the most brutal and enduring dictators of the 20th Century, Rafael Trujillo (aka El Jefe). This series takes us back to a period when the Mirabal Sisters inspired an entire nation to emancipate themselves from a tyrannical regime that lasted for more than 30 years. While the martyrdom of the Mirabal Sisters is the stuff of legend in the DR, Sisters of the Underground brings these hidden figures to life for a global audience in a vivid, immersive, audio drama.

Wow

Great podcast. 1st time I ever heard of this part of history!! Has me wanting to learn a lot more about it.
Thank you!!!!

Fascinating and Inspiring

The podcast is a great way to learn about the Mirabal Sisters, their love of country, their loyalty and fierceness. They were true freedom fighters.

Latino History Told and Celebrated

Fuerza latina at its finest. This story is a great way to have us Latinos learn about our countries. I'm Mexican American but it doesn't matter because out plights are all the same. I love learning about our Latino countries history, about the brave women and men that sacrificed themselves and their families for the betterment of their country. Examples to show how one person with courage can take the power and make true change.

I hope you continue to give us these types of stories from our different brothers and sisters so we can truly learn where it is that we come from. Somos de madera dura y nada nos va a aplastar!!

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‎Sisters of the Underground on Apple Podcasts

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Sisters of the Underground is an 8-episode scripted series by Executive Producers Eva Longoria and Dania Ramirez. It follows the true story of three courageous women, known as the Mirabal sisters, who changed the world. Their lifelong activism in the Dominican Republic and state-orchestrated assassi...

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Podcast about Vietnam's portrayal in the movies. I love that kind of thing!!!

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Do We Get to Win This Time? on The Ringer