Hey everyone! feels good to be back.

We have a great episode for yall. We invited Pablo Rodriguez back as a guest. We spoke on the upcoming election and some of the propositions we willl be voting on soon.

Pablo is the founding Executive Director of Communities For a New California Ed Fund. He is an organizer, as well as a political consultant. Pablo does a great job of explaining things in a way less complicated manner. Tune in and hear some insight on our upcoming election.

Hey Folks,

It feels good to be back. New Year and new episode for yall.

My guests for the episode are Brandon Guzman and Miguel Velasquez. These two guys put together a book titled Along The Tuolumne River. The book shows the history of the River and how it helped shape our present day Central Valley.

This a interesting History lesson about The Central Valley that covers way more than I had ever known about the place I call home. Brandon and Miguel dropped gems here and blew me away with all knowledge they have of our region

Tune in to learn about The Yokut Indians that lived here way before any of us, how the end of the Gold Rush helped shape present day Modesto, and how some early settlers became became extremely wealthy.

All this and so much more!

Jump on Itunes to rate, review, and subscribe to the show. Tell a friend, to tell a friend, to tell a friend. It is going to be good year yall....

What up My people? Hope you are all doing well.

My guest this week Is Melanie Berru. Not only is Melanie professor of Sociology, she's also a Mother, a Chicana(Xicana), a Feminist, and a student of her lands indigenous culture.

Tune in to hear Melanie's stories of feeling out of place as a youth, discovering comfort in her Chicana(Xicana) heritage, being stalked by her Sureno boyfriend in High School, and her passion of Sociology. All this and a bunch more. Melanie is such a fascinating person and this episode is not to be missed.

Please stop by Itunes and review, rate, and subscribe to the show. So tell a friend to tell a friend to tell a friend. You know the deal!!

see yall soon.

what up everyone!??

This week my guest is Tina Curiel-Allen. I've known Tina for a long time now. She is one the first few people I became friends with when I was the new kid in town. Tina has an awesome story to share and I'm honored to she took some time to chill with us.

Tune in to hear Tina talk about growing up A Jehovah's Witness, getting into drugs in Jr High, being super smooth with her theft game, going to Jail, getting clean, and the fact that if you've ever been strung out on Heroin you've soiled yourself at least once.

All this and much more!

Please take a minute out of your day to write a review, rate, and subscribe to the show on ITunes. Thanks for all the continued support! I see yall!

See you soonish...

What up everyone!??

hope everyone is doing okay and I apologize for our absence.

My guest this week is Pablo Rodriguez. Pablo is the founding Executive Director of Communities for a New California Education Fund(501c3 Charity). He is an organizer and moonlights as a political consultant and he just happens to my cousin as well.

Tune in and hear Pablo speak on growing up Hilmar CA, dropping out of college his Junior year to join The United Farm Workers(UFW), why people don't respect the Central Valley, and his focus to help low income, socio-economically disadvantaged and minority families.

This an AWESOME episode! Pablo did a great job of covering all this and a ton more! Seriously, this description does not do this episode justice.

As always we would love for everyone to listen to this, but we feel that it is especially important to listen to this if you are a minority, if you're from The Central Valley, if you're a young person, or if you just care about supporting this super dope podcast that is free to you all!

Thanks for checking in with us everybody. Please hop on iTunes to rate, review,and subscribe to the show. We can not stress enough how much that would help.

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Hey everybody, we back! As usual we have a dope episode for you all. My Guest this week is Augy.

I met Augy years ago at this lame beverage company that I worked for in my youth. Augy was my supervisor for about 7 years. Throughout all that time he would always have these crazy stories to share with me. Once I started this podcast thing of ours I knew he would be the perfect guest.

Tune in to hear Augy talk about growing up in gang infested Van Nuys CA,

serving time in LA County, getting addicted to drugs at an early age, and straightening up his act as an adult only find himself almost getting kicked out of the country. yeah, shit got real. All this and so much more!!!

If you like what your hearing please go to Itunes to rate and subscribe to the show. A few reviews never hurt anyone either. Jus' saying. See you next week!!

What's good everybody? We got an ill episode for you all this week. My guest this week is Aukwin.

Aukwin is a first generation Filipino MC and a San Francisco native. He has been part of SF Hip-Hop scene since the 80's. Tune in and hear his story of coming up with KNT Crew, having his parents fall victim to the crack epidemic, bubbling in the SF rap scene in the 90's, hanging out with MF Doom and getting popped by the Feds only to serve a 14 year bid.

All this and so much more. Keep your eyes peeled for his new album titled "The Aukthentic" which drops soon.

See y'all next week!

Hey everyone, Glad to be dropping this new episode for yall. So a few episodes back I was fortunate enough to have Rapper Equipto as my guest. We dropped a dropped an ill episode and felt it was only right to bless everyone with a part two(if you haven't heard part 1 strongly suggest you go back to listen). Tune in to hear Equipto speak about the current gentrification of his city(San Francisco), how he began his 4 album run with Andre Nickatina, being a Preschool teacher in The Mission District, and a random day of hanging out with Dave Chappelle.

All this and a ton more. Please go to podomatic or itunes to rate, review, and subscribe to the show.

we have have a some more great episodes coming your way, thanks for your support. see yall net week.

PEACE!

Hey everyone, hope everyone had a great Mother's Day. I'm really geeked to drop this episode this week. My guest this week is Sam Pierstorff. Sam is an English Professor at Modesto Junior College and is also responsible for The Ill List Poetry Slam that goes down annually in December at The State Theater in Modesto CA. Tune in and listen to Sam talk about accepting a job in Modesto, how he found out he should be a writer, how he got into poetry, and being a contestant on American Ninja Warrior. All this and so much more. If you're a local to the Modesto area it's especially important to peep this episode. listen in to hear about all the rad things happening in your area that you might not be familiar with.

Please head to Itunes or Podomatic to rate, comment, and subscribe to the show. Thanks for the support yall, see you next week.

Hey everyone, got a new episode for y'all. Dapper Dan is my guest this week. Dan has awesome story to share about his battle with addiction and him finding God after 25 years of battling drugs and alcohol.

Tune in to hear Dan speak on getting into drugs and drinking at early age, going to prison, having God trying to intervene in his life countless times, and how his life is present day as a Christian man in sobriety. Big shout out to the homie Dapper for sharing his tale.

Thanks for tuning in folks. Please hop on iTunes to rate, review, and subscribe to the show. stay tuned, we got a bunch more great content down the road. ENJOY!