Mi Valle, Mi Vida

In this episode, we present a brief history of the Japanese in the Rio Grande Valley.

In this episode, Ariana and Juan take a brief tour of food truck parks in the Mid-Valley.

In this episode we explore the history of the San Juan Hotel in San Juan, Texas as well as the history of Tom Mayfield who has a historical marker to him on the hotel property. 

In this episode, we look at the Underground Railroad going south to Mexico. This topic hits close to home for Ariana and Juan, due to the fact that it ran through their hometown of Donna, Texas. We interview Roseann Bacha-Garza of UTRGV's CHAPS program about her work uncovering this history. 

This is part 2 of Wrestling in the RGV where we go back to our interview and Ariana shares a personal story. 

In this first of a 2 part episode, we look into the professional wrestling scene in the Rio Grande Valley through our interview with the owner of New Breed Wrestling. 

In this episode, we interview Ronnie Garza and Gabriel Sanchez about their documentary project "Pansy Pachanga" which is about the history of LGBTQ in the RGV. 

In this episode, Juan Ariana has a conversation about the use of CRT to attack education and learning in the classroom. They approach this podcast as both classroom teachers with a passion for Ethnic Studies, mainly Mexican American Studies. 

In this episode we look at famous authors of the Rio Grande Valley, spotlighting the works of Americo Paredes and Gloria Anzaldua. We interview Dr. Cristopher Carmona of UTRGV about these authors and others and the impact they had on literature, education, and history. 

In this episode, with the help of Ms. Taylor Seaver, we explore folk medicine, Brujeria, curanderos, and folk saints like Nino Fidencio and Don Pedro Jaramillo.