Puro Pinche Podcast

Recorded on Juneteenth, and joined by Central Texas allergies, Senior Mexican Correspondent JR Estrada, and Senior Broadway Correspondent Katelyn Kahn, Chibbi and Roost get the hot takes on the Tonys, dive into Orca Nation, wrap up the NBA finals, recap the US Open, and thumbs down Drag Race All Stars, slam the No Snowflake Summer Kid Rock tour, query the Bud Light of it all, and we all go Searching for Mexico with Eva, and we’re not sure if it’s lukewarm or Flaming Hot, but its a pod by Mexican Americans, so we’re talking about it (at length).

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It’s Chibbi’s birthday so the tequila (and the grill) are on fire as they and Rooster get into the Trump indictment, discuss endorsements and show running, reminisce on the Southern Fried Poetry Slam Competition, talk about the evolution of spoken word as consumable media, catch up on the NBA finals, get an update on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 8 and review Joan the Rusical, touch on the impending doom of climate change, talk about how “Cracker Barrell has fallen,” celebrate this country’s first openly trans judge, query the muck of American elitism, criticize the policing of high school graduations and joy, and question Florida’s hypocrisy over immigrants and migrant workers.

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In a really gay episode, Rooster is officially on summer break, Chibbi was busy at work, and we’re visited by special guest Truly Vayne, as we get into the terrible bastardization of tequila that is Whisquila, we get a quick overview of the Ken Paxton’s fuck ass, Donald Trump’s tapes and criminalities, queerie the future of the Republican party (or political parties in general), we get into Pride month and Pride events, criticize Texas SB12 and the possibility of a police state, highlight homegrown resistance to unjust and unlawful laws, shout Alok for doing the work to educate the masses, get a quick history lesson, question Pride performative capitalism as it compares to actually supporting marginalized communities, get a rundown of what is happening in the NBA finals (Nuggets v Heat), dive deep into Heidi In Closet’s departure, talk about the National Spelling Bee champ, get into the archaic San Antonio strip club nudity laws that are currently being challenged and the sex work industry, and bathhouses.

Link to the survey we talked about: https://letstrippersstrip.carrd.co/#section03

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In this week’s episode Chibbi and Rooster remember and honor Tina Turner, marvel at Twiter’s technical difficulties during DeSantis’s failed presidential bid announcement, question the motives and purpose of Twitter, comment on the book bans, celebrate the suit against Florida, query the notion that parents have complete control over what their children get exposed to, contemplate the culture of complacency, get into the opinion that men don’t matter in the 21st century and wonder where have all the healthy masculinity role models gone, discuss the ethics of IVG and wonder if we’re headed towards Gattica, find beauty in the imperfections, get our weekly NBA playoffs update, with a quick tangent to a story about Boston accents, spurred by the release of Fast and Furious X, fascinate the longevity of movie franchises, look at the attack on Pride paraphernalia and (correctly) conclude that HEB is better than Target, talk about our Spanish names in an anglo-centric culture, and debate copyright infringement laws and the notion of original thought, question if the Supreme Court is acting as art critics, harken back to the mixtape era, wonder where credit is really due, and land on rasquache. 

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And in this wildly diverse discussion we start with a look back at the Coheed and Cambria experience, dish out our judgment on Casamigo tequila, introduce a new segment where One of Us Doesn’t Know What We’re Talking About, but one of us is a San Antonio Spurs/NBA expert and we celebrate a number 1 draft pick and a young Frenchman, discuss what is going on with Disney v Florida and talk about TikTok v Montana, examine tax havens like Texas (and Florida), get at government overreach, queerie the conquest of the GOP, investigate the identity crisis of America(ns), lash out at late stage capitalism, discuss the debacle that is the debate over the debt ceiling, call out the culinary exceptionalism that is Mexican food, entangle ourselves in Eva Longoria’s new cuisine exploration and what it means to discover your heritage in the diaspora, discuss the representation of Mexican Americans in pop culture, and we get 30 AF, go back to mall time and movie rental stores, and land on how a culture of productivity is really to blame. 

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In episode lucky number 13 we shoutout all the graduates this season and the BIPOC authors of Houston, talk trash about our tequila, get into all things Guardians (spoiler alert), glide over the CNN Trump town hall, analyze trumpism, call out power grabbing politicians, shift gears to more important things like the Marvel Studios, debate about DC movies, condone kid-free zones, and oh the olive garden of it all, praise the youth of today and Tucson, get critical about curriculum, and go on a brief Coheed and Cambria tangent on our way out.  

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Rooster and Chibbi are back to chat about 16 One Act Plays, the irrelevance of Cinco de Mayo, the importance of May the 4th, potentially get canceled by the BBC, examine the monarchy in the 21st century, the hypocrisy of this country’s immigration status, deconstruct the Met Gala and Karl, debate art vs the artist, shoutout Pedro Pascal, support the Writers’ Guild of America, get into the weeds about the effects of AI on the creative community and the creative process, let it all hang out on the topic of PornHub vs Utah and the sexual repression of this country, theorize parents not wanting to parent, double down on the saying make love not war, and wish life was a little more NORML.

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Back to basics on episode 11 with just Rooster and Chibbi as we get into power outages, the benefits of binging, go back and forth on 3 generations, celebrate (and then analyze) Tucker Carlson’s layoff, get into the ins and outs of San Antonio’s Proposition A, turn a critical eye on Mayor Ron and Joe Rogan, comment on the demise of trusted sources, the frolickings of an overly ambitions sperm donor, smash or pass on the top 25 restaurants in San Antonio (with a couple of tangents like tragic Chinese food, northerners don’t know how real BBQ joins operate, and the rise of the hidden bar), and give you our own recommendations on where you should be eating in the Countdown City (complete with grunts), recap the NBA Playoffs drama-lama, revel in our successful River City Rumble, recommend Evil Dead Rise, and look forward to the summer.

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In our 10th episode, the homie Chris hops into the studio with Rooster and Chibbi to chat about celebrity sponsored liquors, get into the nitty-gritty of Fiesta, get critical of Coachella and discuss the impact of music festivals, swap stories, take a tangent into the Laredo punk rock hardcore scene of the early 2000s, touch on Fox News’ settlement and Tucker Carlson’s constant questions, call out Elon Musk’s bullshit, and Dwayne The Rock Johnson’s tequila hit harder than we thought.

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Roost and Chibbi come to the conversation fashionably dressed (but less researched) as they dive into their disagreements over this week’s tequila, Chibbi’s travels and food critic double-life, celebrate hipsters opening restaurants, discuss some serious mis-steps, recap poetry’s Battle at the Border and Rooster’s love of Laredo, dive into Taylor Swift lore (while simultaneously fearing for our lives), fight about Pink, acknowledge the pervasiveness of white supremacy and male fragility, school Rooster on RuPaul’s Drag Race, debate if social contracts are irrelevant, and wonder why we’re still debating the decriminalization of marijuana, and ask if you’d bootleg a hamburger.