The Gadiel Del Orbe Show

In this episode:

• Going off-grid for seven days
• No phone, laptop or social media
• Why Gadiel actually wants to be bored
• Fear of being alone in a cabin
• Disconnecting from constant stimulation
• Finding community through stand-up comedy
• The stranger on the train who changed Gadiel’s mood
• Living with ADHD and wanting to do everything at once
• Why Gadiel is doing his own Think Week
• Wanting to tour and perform in English and Spanish
• Sometimes thinking about quitting stand-up
• Chasing fame vs. becoming great at the craft
• Answering a listener voicemail
• Who should pay on the first date?
• Dating at 40
• Anxious attachment and past relationships
• The people who helped Gadiel through heartbreak
• Growing up without openly expressed affection
• Not always feeling deserving of love
• Fear of falling in love and getting hurt again

00:00 I’m Going Completely Off the Grid
05:08 Why I Actually Want to Be Bored
07:30 A Stranger Changed My Entire Mood
14:17 Sometimes I Think About Quitting Comedy
22:34 Why Relationships Scare Me

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In this episode:

• The ICE case involving Mario Alberto Morales
• Immigration and the politics of scapegoating
• Religion, hypocrisy and forgiveness
• Political tribalism and voting against your own interests
• Why Gadiel once leaned more Republican after leaving the military
• Socialism, capitalism and political labels
• How social media algorithms reinforce what we already believe
• Haley Stevens, Abdul El-Sayed and the Michigan Senate race
• Islamophobia and political fear campaigns
• Gadiel’s pit bull story and realizing he was searching for evidence to confirm his own bias
• Money in politics
• Whether everybody has a price
• Why power may matter more than money

00:00 Why Do People Betray Their Own?
09:13 Religion, Hypocrisy & Forgiveness
28:53 Are Social Media Algorithms Programming Us?
32:49 Haley Stevens & Political Betrayal
50:27 Does Everybody Have a Price?

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In this episode:

• Trying—and failing—to quit social media
• Why Screen Time doesn't work when you know the password
• Leaving the house without a phone
• Meditation, anxiety and learning to sit with yourself
• Seeing family differently when you're not constantly scrolling
• Gadiel's father's 30-year marriage
• The first listener voicemail
• Why home becomes your safe space
• Dating as you approach 40
• Dating someone who already has children
• Relationship red flags
• Why time matters more as you get older
• Finding someone whose flaws you can actually love
• Taking your time back from social media
• Gadiel's next no-scrolling challenge

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00:00 I Tried Quitting Social Media… and Failed
04:21 Screen Time Is Basically a Crack Vault 😂
06:48 What Happened When I Put My Phone Down
09:25 My Dad’s 30-Year Marriage Made Me Think
13:09 Our First Listener Voicemail
19:43 Do I Need to Find Love in the Dominican Countryside? 😂
21:11 Dating at 40 Is Getting Weird
24:05 Time Is Too Valuable to Waste
26:49 Am I Being Too Picky?
27:20 Finding Someone Whose Flaws You Actually Like
28:22 I Want My Time Back
30:22 The No-Scrolling Challenge
31:02 Final Thoughts

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In this episode:

• Why relaxing can feel like being unproductive
• Growing up with immigrant parents and a scarcity mindset
• Wanting to eventually retire your parents
• Why Gadiel is obsessed with the Irish goodbye
• Why Latino goodbyes can take forever
• Have phones changed the way we socialize?
• Why people don’t dance together anymore
• Approaching 40 without a wife or children
• Dating and relationships as you get older
• Growing up in a family that didn’t openly say “I love you”
• The childhood moment that showed Gadiel his mother loved him
• The responsibility of starting a family
• Dating and raising children in today’s economy
• Millennials, Gen Z and life before social media
• Why your smartphone is like carrying an addiction in your pocket
• Gadiel’s one-week social media experiment
• How listeners can join future solo episodes by leaving a voicemail

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In this episode:

• Freddy explains why he stopped cheating and chose ethical non-monogamy
• How he manages having two girlfriends
• What happens when your girlfriend dates other men
• Why jealousy still exists in an open relationship
• Rashad opens up about divorce and infidelity
• Therapy, honesty and generational trauma
• Why difficult conversations get easier with practice
• The wild Montreal sex-theater story
• Why emotional intimacy can trigger more jealousy than sex
• Sebastian Maniscalco and the SiriusXM Raw Comedy controversy
• Why working comedians need platforms and royalties
• Godfrey’s approach to stand-up and constantly creating material
• Performing for Black and Latino comedy crowds
• What Chris Rock learned from preachers
• Why authenticity matters more than trying to fit an audience

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In this episode:

• Haiti’s 4–1 victory over the Dominican Republic
• Wilson Isidor’s controversial celebration
• Was the comment disrespectful to Dominican sovereignty?
• Why sports and politics collided after the game
• Santiago Matías and the rhetoric surrounding Haiti
• Patriotism vs. nationalism
• Why extremist voices can appear louder than the majority
• Dominican identity and Haitian-Dominican relations
• Gadiel’s experience serving in Iraq and Afghanistan
• How war changed his perspective on nationalism
• Why humanity should come before politics

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What happens when a coffee shop becomes something much bigger?

Chef and entrepreneur Manolo López joins Gadiel Del Orbe from Café Colmado in New York City's Lower East Side for a conversation about Puerto Rican culture, entrepreneurship, community and building businesses with purpose.

Manolo explains how Café Colmado became more than a place to grab coffee—it became a gathering place where New York's Latino community could see itself represented.

The conversation explores:

• How Café Colmado became a Latino cultural hub in NYC
• Growing up in Puerto Rico and finding Puerto Rican pride in New York
• Building Mofongo through Smorgasburg
• Starting a food business without massive capital
• Why understanding the numbers matters in entrepreneurship
• Discipline versus talent
• The reality behind running multiple businesses
• Building a life between New York and Puerto Rico
• Why Manolo eventually wants Puerto Rico to become his home base
• Puerto Rican, Dominican, Mexican and Peruvian food
• Hidden places to visit and eat in Puerto Rico
• Why Latinos need to financially support Latino-owned businesses
• Building businesses that strengthen the community
• Café Colmado's future beyond the coffee shop

This episode is about more than entrepreneurship. It's about creating spaces that preserve culture, build community and give the next generation something of their own.

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Gadiel finally sits down with Dr. Margarita Rosa, the Afro-Latina historian everybody kept telling him he had to talk to. She opens up about getting her PhD at Princeton, the summer in Morocco that changed her life, and why she never felt like an impostor until she became a professor.

Then she takes us all the way back to 1492 and walks through the island's history step by step.

What we get into:

Reading recommendation from Dr. Rosa: the work of Lorgia García-Peña.

Follow Dr. Margarita Rosa's podcast, Invisible History, on YouTube.

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On September 11, 2001, Gadiel Del Orbe was a high-school student in Lower Manhattan.

Twenty-five years later, he sits down to tell the story of what he remembers from that morning.

In this episode:

• Hearing and feeling the first impact from school
• Initially believing the crash was an accident
• Watching the World Trade Center burn
• Seeing the second plane hit the second tower
• Leaving school amid the confusion
• Phone service and NYC transportation shutting down
• Walking uptown through Manhattan
• Seeing the smoke and ash after the tower collapsed
• Finally making it home to his mother
• Returning to Lower Manhattan after 9/11
• The smell and dust that remained in the area
• Remembering New York City's skyline before September 11
• How New Yorkers came together after the attacks
• Why 9/11 influenced Gadiel to join the U.S. Navy
• Patriotism, religious freedom and Islamophobia
• Why Gadiel believes the victims should be remembered through unity rather than hate

A personal reflection on one of the most consequential days in New York City and American history—from someone who experienced it as a teenager.

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