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  • Bend Mourns, El Pueblo Unido & La Bola Negra

    Content note: This episode includes a story about a school shooting. If you need support, call or text 988.

    Joel takes us to Bend, Oregon, where a 16-year-old killed three children and a teacher at Silver Rail Elementary on Thursday before two adults stepped in to stop him. We trace how “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” a song written in Chile months before the 1973 coup, is being sung again from Paris to Minneapolis. And La Bola Negra, the Los Javis film that won Best Director at Cannes, is now in theaters, where Netflix plans to keep it for 47 days before it starts streaming.

    In this episode

    • 0:00 Headlines: France’s weekend of unrest, Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia, settler attacks in the West Bank and a new NBC News poll

    • 1:50 Bend, Oregon, mourns after the Silver Rail Elementary shooting

    • 3:30 “El pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” from Santiago in 1973 to the streets in 2026

    • 5:55 La Bola Negra: Lorca, Los Javis and 47 days in theaters before Netflix

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      8 min
    • Tinder Swindler’s App, Head Trip Heals & Tigres del Norte

      Simon Leviev, the con man behind Netflix’s Tinder Swindler, says his years of lying to matches make him the right person to build an app that protects people from dating scams. Miranda takes us to Head Trip in Indio, California, where lightning shut down the first night, and Calvin Harris’ rescheduled set gave her generation a weekend she calls healing. Los Tigres del Norte bring their songs about immigrant life to NPR’s El Tiny, and lead singer Jorge Hernández has a message for the younger fans filling their shows.

      In this episode

      • 0:00 Headlines: El Niño’s winter forecast, the Fort Hood execution and the midterm races

      • 1:40 The Tinder Swindler wants to build a dating-safety app called Safe Love

      • 3:25 Head Trip: a canceled first night and Calvin Harris’ second-day set

      • 5:30 Los Tigres del Norte on El Tiny and their message to younger fans

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        7 min
      • Spooky Picks, Mexico’s Passport Rule & Filipino Farmworkers

        October is horror season, and Joel has your cheat sheet for October’s scariest premieres, at home or in theaters, including our own ghost-hunting series, Tengo Miedo. In Mexico, a reform defended as a shield against foreign interference would require dual citizens to renounce their other nationality before running for president, governor, or mayor of Mexico City, and Jenny explains why critics say it could unfairly target Mexicans who built lives abroad. Then, this Filipino American History Month, we tell the story of the Filipino grape pickers who walked out of Delano’s vineyards in 1965 and started a strike that changed American labor history.

        In this episode:

        • [00:00] Sponsor: UNEDO

        • [01:21] Today’s headlines: Pope Leo XIV’s diagnosis, Trump’s Russian diesel deal, the search of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home, Cornell’s fraternity party suspension, Selma Blair’s assault charges and the Six Flags closures

        • [02:41] Joel’s October horror watch guide

        • [04:09] Jenny on Mexico’s dual-citizenship reform

        • [05:25] The Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano grape strike

          • 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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          9 min
        • 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

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                        The Morning Drop is three episodes a week: the mitú team in a group chat, sharing the stories they're reading, watching, and can't stop talking about. Pop culture, history, and local news. The story…