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  • Messi’s Drone Ad Drama, Is Writing Overrated? & Digger

    What happens when a sponsor crashes Lionel Messi’s farewell? Today, Alejo breaks down the drone show that opened with a sponsor’s logo at Messi’s last game with Argentina, the team takes on a New York Times op-ed arguing that writing isn’t as important as we think, and we make the case that Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger may be the most interesting box office flop of the year. Plus, the headlines you need before you start your day.

    • 0:00 Headlines: Hurricane Isaias heads for the Gulf Coast, ICE agents shoot a person in the Bronx, new torture charges against Nicolás Maduro, and the Pentagon’s plan to livestream a firing squad execution

    • 1:45 Alejo on the sponsor drone show that sparked backlash at Messi’s last game with Argentina

    • 3:25 Is writing overrated? A professor’s New York Times op-ed, and why reading may matter even more

    • 5:25 The case for Iñárritu’s Digger as the year’s most fascinating flop

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      7 min
    • A Mariachi Proposal, NY Measles & Messi's Last Tango

      What happens when a racist rant crashes a mariachi marriage proposal? Today, the team brings you a love story that refused to be ruined, a measles emergency spreading across New York, and the night Lionel Messi said goodbye to Argentina's national team before more than 85,000 fans. Plus, the headlines you need before you start your day.

      • 0:00 Today's sponsor: UNEDO

      • 1:20 Headlines: the Justice Department moves to strip 40 Americans of their citizenship, ICE's shock gloves, Cornell's independent review, France's student protests and more

      • 2:57 A woman's racist rant couldn't stop a Latino couple's mariachi proposal in a California park

      • 4:26 New York declares a measles disaster emergency: what to know and why you should check your vaccination card

      • 5:23 Gustavo on Messi's last game with Argentina, a farewell for the history books

        • This episode is brought to you by UNEDO. Learn Spanish through the culture behind it, from Bad Bunny to Chavela Vargas, football to food. Download Unedo on the App Store and use code MITU25 for 25% off your yearly subscription.

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        8 min
      • Sad Perreo, a Failed Execution & "I Don't Do Politics"

        Why does heartbreak always sound better over a reggaeton beat? Today, Lau breaks down the sad perreo trend taking over Latina pop, Joel walks us through Tennessee's failed execution of Christa Pike, and Yamily makes the case that if you don't do politics, politics will eventually do you. Plus, the headlines you need before you start your day.

        • 0:09 Headlines: Brazil's high-stakes presidential election, Trump's warning to Ohio voters, Democrats' Election Day contingency plans, threats against the woman at the center of the Cornell case, and L.A.'s new speed cameras

        • 1:25 Lau: sad perreo, from Karol G to Becky G and Tokischa, and why our music has always made heartbreak sound good

        • 2:35 Joel: what went wrong in Christa Pike's execution, and what happens next

        • 4:02 Yamily: "I don't do politics," and why that's a privilege fewer of us can afford

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          6 min
        • No Safe Majors, Pop-Tart Cocktails & Ungovernable Degrees

          Is there still such a thing as a safe college major? Today, Miranda unpacks a Washington Post op-ed arguing there isn't, and Yamily takes on the Trump administration's new rule cutting off student loans for degrees that don't pay enough, and what it says about the careers that "make us ungovernable." Plus, the Pop-Tarts cocktail collab that's officially over.

          • 0:09 Headlines: the Supreme Court takes up bond hearings for detained immigrants, migrant children facing immigration judges without lawyers, Renee Good's family sues the Trump administration, Tennessee halts executions after Christa Pike survives a lethal injection, the Cornell case heads to a grand jury, Democrats gain in red-state Senate races, and record diesel prices

          • 1:34 Miranda: why "there is no such thing as a safe college major," and why that might be liberating

          • 2:52 Alejandro: Mars pulls the Pop-Tarts × BuzzBallz cocktails over concerns they could appeal to underage drinkers

          • 4:21 Yamily: the new student loan rule for "low-earning" degrees, and why the humanities are in the crosshairs

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            7 min
          • Digital Passports, Fake Shopping Carts & Mariachi at MNF

            What if renewing your passport worked like ordering a pizza, and "shopping" never cost you a cent? Today we dig into the State Department's plan to take passports online, the fake-checkout websites built around the thrill of buying, and a mariachi band that took over Monday Night Football. Plus, the Supreme Court's latest immigration ruling and what really came out of Trump's lunch with tech's biggest names.

            • 0:00 Sponsor: UNEDO

            • 1:15 Headlines: the Supreme Court lets third-country deportations resume, charges against the Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Austin, the alleged plot at RAF Fairford, Lindsay Clancy's post-mistrial hearing, and Trump's AI lunch with tech leaders

            • 2:50 Gustavo: Marco Rubio's plan to modernize U.S. passports, from selfie photos to delivery tracking, starting in 2027

            • 4:55 Dopamine sites: the fake shopping websites born in South Korea, and whether they curb spending or feed it

            • 6:25 Jean: Chicago's Herencia de México plays the national anthem at Soldier Field for "Vamos Bears"

              • This episode is brought to you by UNEDO. Learn Spanish through the culture behind it, from Bad Bunny to Chavela Vargas, football to food. Download Unedo on the App Store and use code MITU25 for 25% off your yearly subscription.

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              8 min
            • Athletes vs. Sweeney, a Taco Stand Feud & La Llorona's PPD

              Sydney Sweeney is back in the middle of an ad controversy, and this time female athletes are the ones calling her out. Plus, a Santa Clarita taco vendor is threatened with a call to ICE, and the internet serves the business owner behind it a side of consequences. And author Karla Montalván explains why the story of La Llorona is really about postpartum depression, and why Latina moms still aren't talking about it.

              • 0:00 News you need to know before you start your day

              • 01:30 Lau on Sydney Sweeney's new ad and the female athletes pushing back

              • 03:15 Joel on the taco stand confrontation in Santa Clarita

              • 04:47 Karla Montalván on La Llorona and postpartum depression

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                  7 min
                • Press Ban Blocked, Paramount on Pause & Iced Coffee Wars

                  Show notes

                  A federal judge just let CNN, MS NOW and Politico back into the White House, but Yamily asks the bigger question: what happens when the public can't see what its government is doing? Plus, mortgage rates cross 7%, a rare nor'easter heads for the East Coast, and a $110 billion media merger hits pause in a Latina judge's courtroom. And Miranda weighs in on the iced coffee debate taking over your feed, with one question: why make getting a job any harder?

                  In this episode:

                  • [00:00] Your Morning Drop: the White House press ban blocked, Xi's terms at the Trump summit, the Senate's Iran war vote, mortgage rates top 7%, the nor'easter warning, a nationwide meat recall and Macklemore's new tour

                  • [01:30] Miranda on the iced coffee job interview debate

                  • [02:33] Gustavo on Paramount's $110 billion merger and the judge who hit pause

                  • [04:50] Yamily on Trump's press ban and the playbook Latin America knows all too well

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                    8 min
                  • Trump's Iran Threat, Lease Fraud Felony & Royce vs. Grammys

                    Trump heads to the UN and threatens to "annihilate" Iran while signing off on a new Greenland military deal, all as his own party starts distancing itself ahead of the midterms. Back home, a Venezuelan DoorDash driver shot by ICE is fighting for his health, and Florida just made lying on a rental application a felony. Then the team gets into Prince Royce's beef with the Latin Grammys over bachata's snub, and why Alejandro González Iñárritu's reunion with Tom Cruise has us counting down to opening night.

                    Timestamps

                    0:00 — A message from our sponsor
                    1:15 — News to start your day
                    3:00 — Prince Royce calls out the Latin Grammys over the bachata category
                    4:20 — Florida's new lease fraud felony law
                    5:04 — Alejandro González Iñárritu's "Digger" premieres with Tom Cruise

                    This episode is brought to you by UNEDO. Learn Spanish through the culture behind it, from Bad Bunny to Chavela Vargas, football to food. Download Unedo on the App Store and use code MITU25 for 25% off your yearly subscription.

                    If you liked today's episode, subscribe to The Morning Drop and leave us a review, it helps more people find the show.

                    8 min
                  • TPS in Limbo, Dunham's Backlash & Howie D Goes Spanish

                    Today's Morning Drop starts with what Salvadorans with Temporary Protected Status need to know right now, plus new data on how millions of migrants have quietly reshaped American cities over the past eight years. Then the team takes over: Miranda weighs in on the backlash to Lena Dunham's surrogacy announcement, Gustavo previews a new father-and-son storytelling show landing in Highland Park this weekend, and we sit down with Howie D to talk about the Spanish he spent three decades learning to speak and the song that finally let him say it.

                    • 0:00 — Morning Drop: DHS keeps TPS protections for Salvadorans "for now," per NBC News, with advocate José Palma urging the roughly 170,000 people covered to ignore rumors. Plus, AP's "After the Border" data project, the withdrawn ICE nominee, a 404 Media investigation into Border Patrol feeding financial records to local police, deadly flash floods on the Navajo Nation, and new data on the world's driest rivers in three decades.

                    • 1:30 — Gustavo talks to Christopher Moncayo Torres about "Before It's Too Late," his new live storytelling and cooking show with his parents, opening this weekend at Outside In in Highland Park.

                    • 3:30 — Miranda unpacks Lena Dunham's Vogue op-ed on becoming a mother through surrogacy with her husband Luis, and the comment-section judgment that followed.

                    • 5:30 — Howie D on growing up in a Puerto Rican household without speaking Spanish, losing a shot at Menudo because of it, and "Coquí," the first song he's ever released entirely in Spanish.

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                      10 min
                    • A Stormy HYROX, He Called ICE & Got Uno'd & NY Latino Film Fest

                      An Australian HYROX athlete won her race in the middle of an accident nobody saw coming, and she is not the only one making headlines for refusing to back down today. A Latino work crew got the last word on the man who called ICE on them instead of paying for the fence they built. Plus, Hispanic Heritage Month opens in New York with a stacked Latino film lineup, alongside everything else from Washington and beyond you need before you start your day.

                      Timestamps

                      • 0:00 — Sponsor: UNEDO on learning Spanish through culture, not just apps

                      • 2:39 — Headlines: Rubio’s State Department redirects $52M in military aid from NATO members Slovakia and North Macedonia (plus Tunisia and Iraq) to Panama, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia; Trump calls his own Supreme Court picks Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett a “shell of their original selves”; the Kennedy Center board votes to shut down immediately for renovations, minutes after a federal judge again blocked Trump’s push to add his name to the building; the Air Force confirms active U.S. space weapons for the first time

                      • 3:46 — The stories you won’t see in the headlines: CBS News finds Latin American deportees stranded in Liberia despite legal protections, plus Mamdani and a coalition of states sue over a new Trump rule letting immigration officers deny green cards over potential public benefits use

                      • 4:19 — Team stories: Gene on Australian HYROX athlete Joanna Wietrzyk, who kept racing, and won, through bowel incontinence mid-competition

                      • 4:46 — Jenny on the man who allegedly called ICE on the Latino crew who built his fence to avoid paying them, and how that went

                      • 5:34 — Gustavo on the New York Latino Film Festival’s 26th edition, including Otra, The Long Con (dir. Aitch Alberto), Without Blood, and Milly: Queen of Merengue

                        • This episode is brought to you by UNEDO. Learn Spanish through the culture behind it, from Bad Bunny to Chavela Vargas, football to food. Download Unedo on the App Store and use code MITU25 for 25% off your yearly subscription.

                        7 min

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