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Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito are joined by Gabriela González, host of the Spanish Sin Pena Cafecitos, a conversation group where Latinos learn Spanish in community. Suzy, Fidel and Gabriela sit down for a conversation about what it means to be Latino in the U.S. when your Spanish isn’t “perfect.”Gabriela traces how she lost the language, switching from Spanish to English at age four after a babysitter called her stupid for not understanding her, and what it took to get it back. Suzy shares her own story, from wanting to sound like a cool California teen raised on Daria to a Cuban grandmother whose nuns smacked the Spanish out of her. Fidel wonders if shame is the most reliable marker of Latinidad, and the three get into who’s allowed to shame whom.Then they zoom out. Fidel breaks down how many Spanish speakers live in the U.S. (spoiler: it’s a lot), and they talk about how English and Spanish were both imposed through shame and violence. They also ask why so many of us treat Spanish as private and English as paperwork, and why today’s teenage música mexicana stars write poetry in Spanish but give interviews in English.Plus: is Spanglish a Miami dialect or just how we live? Fidel defends “troca” with a K, Suzy brings “el tiki-tiki” (the remote, the key fob, the garage clicker) and Gabriela explains why she’s now saying “buen provecho” to strangers.And because this is De Los Podcast, they end with a new name for the cafecitos: Spanish Con Joy.Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito kick off spooky season with a simple question: why do Latinos show up for horror like it's a religious obligation?They start with the data. According to UCLA's 2026 Hollywood Diversity Report, Latinos made up 29.1% of theatrical horror audiences. Fidel and Suzy get into what's behind the numbers, from Fidel's South Texas childhood and an out-of-print bilingual folklore collection called Stories That Must Not Die, to the Latino families (toddlers included) filling the Academy Museum's horror exhibit.Then they follow the stories. La Llorona has crossed borders and decades, and Fidel and Suzy discuss what the legend might say about motherhood and shame. They also debate what the Chupacabra actually looks like, how a millennial cryptid became a sensation after Primer Impacto, and why "Chupacabra versus everybody" was a playground game in Miami.They also take on Obsession, the breakout horror hit of the year, and ask who gets to tell these stories and why it matters. Suzy explains why slashers aren't for her (vampires are another story). And they ask whether Catholicism, with all its demons, fear and salvation, was our first horror education.And because this is De Los Podcast, they end with one request: let Latino filmmakers cook.Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Cheech Marin —comedian, actor, filmmaker, and one of the foremost champions of Chicano art in the world— for a conversation that spans Vietnam draft resistance, topless improv theaters in Vancouver, the birth of an era-defining comedy act, a film that was made in the 80s and could be filmed this afternoon, and a museum founded on a sign from the universe: 66,420 square feet.Cheech traces the full arc. Growing up in South Central LA with a father who spent 30 years in the LAPD. Turning in his draft card at Cal State Northridge. Getting tipped off that the government was coming for him and boarding a Greyhound to Canada. The broken leg skiing that got him a 4-F. It was in Vancouver that he met Tommy Chong, recruited into an improv group performing at a topless bar owned by Tommy's family, where they honed their act every night in front of bikers, loggers, and people who genuinely wanted to beat them up. He also talks about Born in East LA — a movie that started with a story he read in the Los Angeles Times about a kid who got swept up in an immigration raid and couldn't prove he was American — and why that film, made in 1987, describes exactly what is happening today. About buying his first three pieces of Chicano art and the journey that turned a personal collection into a traveling exhibition that set attendance records at 14 major museums in 7 years, including the Smithsonian. About landing the Cheech Museum in Riverside after walking through the building and asking how many square feet it had.Plus: his first record, made at age 5. His Dodgers prediction. And why weed always finds him, even in Russia.Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Alice Bag, founding member and frontwoman of The Bags, one of the pioneering bands of the LA punk scene for a wide-ranging conversation about five decades of fighting for space, staying loud, and refusing to ask anyone's permission to belong.Alice traces the arc from attending the Chicano Moratorium at age 10 with her father, being laughed off by a MEChA recruitment table for looking "too weird," and eventually deciding she didn't need anyone's permission to call herself a Chicana, a resolution that became the foundation for everything that followed. She talks about what it felt like to grow up in East LA and walk into the punk scene knowing she belonged there; about the Hillside Stranglers creating a climate of fear in the late 70s that forced the punk community –particularly its women– to protect each other in ways that showed what the scene was really made of; and about how seeing Patti Smith perform taught her that a woman could seduce an audience entirely with her mind.Chicana rock star Alice Bag addresses the revisionist narrative that punk was a white male invention and that others joined in — because, as she tells in her memoir “Violence Girl,” she was there from the beginning. She also talks about her recent inclusion in the Great Wall of LA, her band’s last show with Bikini Kill and her work with the youth summer camp Chicas RockerasPlus: how a TV gig for a Peacock show filmed in Puerto Rico led to Juanita and Juan, her musical collaboration with Kid Congo; why she applied for Mexican citizenship after a phone call from her aunt in Mexico City; and what she saw at her final LA show opening for Bikini Kill that made her believe the next generation of punk is in very good hands.Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation.  From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito dig into family planning: what it means for Latinos in 2026, why it's still taboo in our communities, and how much has changed in one generation.The conversation starts with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez openly sharing her process of freezing her eggs on Instagram, including the financial reality of paying out of pocket even as a member of Congress. Fidel and Suzy use that as a jumping-off point to break down the numbers: in 1950, the average woman in Latin America had 5.8 children. Today that number is 1.8. As the fertility rate declines in Latin America, Latinos in the U.S. are holding up the birth rate, accounting for 32% of all infants born.They also get personal. Suzy talks about growing up in a Catholic family where women got the sex ed talk, but not her brothers, and navigating family planning as a queer woman. Meanwhile, Fidel dives into having his first child at 40, and how his perspectives on becoming a father shifted after experiencing grief. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Lorely Rodriguez –aka Empress Of– indie pop singer, songwriter, and producer, for a conversation about identity, resilience, and her new album Dream House, made while simultaneously rebuilding an actual house in Altadena alongside her mom. Lorely traces her path from growing up Honduran-American in Altadena, absorbing her mom's music and community at home while privately obsessing over jazz as a teenager, to catching Lady Gaga at the Avalon before anyone knew who she was, to moving to New York and falling into the indie music scene that would define her early career. She also talks about the afternoon she met Blood Orange walking down the street and how they made Best to You, a song that now apparently plays at quinceañeras and first communions. She talks about the emotional weight behind Dream House. How she wrote a song for her mom about building her a home without ever telling her, and what happened the day her mom stood in the house and said she had finally built her dream house. She also opens up about what led her to start listening to hardcore music, going to her first Sound and Fury festival alone in LA and why Knocked Loose became an unlikely form of catharsis. Plus: Why she thinks LA is a hard place to date. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance, for a wide-ranging conversation about what Bad Bunny's ascent really means — for Puerto Rico, for Latinos in the U.S., and for the future of Latin music. They trace the through line from 2019 — when Bad Bunny abandoned his European tour to join mass protests against Puerto Rico's Governor Rosselló — to his Super Bowl halftime show, where he took the stage holding the light blue Puerto Rican independence flag, the same flag the U.S. government made illegal to own under the Gag Law of 1948. The conversation covers why the 2023 Grammys captioned Bad Bunny's performance as "singing in non-English," how that same erasure played out again during Super Bowl backlash, and why calling him a diversity hire — when he is the most-streamed artist in the world — says everything about how Latinos continue to be othered regardless of their cultural dominance. They also talk about Ricky Martin's appearance at the halftime show, why Vanessa and Suzy call that segment "Lo Que Le Pasó Ricky Martin," and what it means that he got to sing entirely in Spanish about refusing to assimilate. Plus: why Latin music generated $1.4 billion in revenue in 2024 and why the concept of a Latin crossover is not just obsolete — it never made sense. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Pedro Tovar, songwriter and frontman of Eslabón Armado, fresh off the release of Nocturno — their latest album, which debuted at number six on the Billboard 200. Pedro traces everything back to a car ride to elementary school when Ariel Camacho came on the radio, a guitar his dad found in a garage, and YouTube tutorials that turned into quinceañera gigs and later turned into a band. He talks about the moment The Notebook unlocked a new lane for him as a songwriter, and how Con Tus Besos — a song he thought was too corny to release, uploaded from his school library's Wi-Fi — went viral on TikTok a month after COVID sent everyone home. He tells the full origin story of Ella Baila Sola. He also addresses the alleged beef with Peso Pluma that followed the song's success, and shares what really happened the night they reunited to record Amigos Con Derechos for Nocturno — including Peso playing the track 20 times in a row before saying yes. Plus: why Pedro chose to go independent after a difficult 2024 with his label, what his mom — who is also his manager — taught him about investing, why he bought a Golden Corral instead of a watch, and what happened in the delivery room when his 10.5-pound son was born. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Puerto Rican rapper and composer Álvaro Díaz, fresh off the release of OMAKASE — his third album, a genre-defying concept record that debuted at number one globally on Spotify and is charting in 16 Latin American countries.   Álvaro traces it all back to being a 12-year-old kid who fell in love with Blink-182, lied to a school band about owning a bass, got fired once they found out, and eventually stumbled onto reggaetonforums.com — where the artist he'd been following turned out to be his own cousin and became his mentor to this day.   He breaks down the concept behind OMAKASE and how he built the album in four parts modeled after the stages of a kitchen: lo crudo, the seasoning, the fire, and the final plate. He also talks about his long creative partnership with Tainy, how he recorded with Latin Mafia in a restaurant in Mexico City instead of a studio, and why no one can agree on what genre he actually makes.   Then the conversation turns to loss. Álvaro opens up about "PNC," a song built around a beat his close friend and collaborator MC Milkman — who passed away in February — sent him from Japan with a simple message: do whatever you want with it. A few months after they finished the song together, Milkman was gone. OMAKASE debuted at number one on Spotify with a photo of the two of them.   Plus: his love for Studio Ghibli (introduced to him by Tainy), why he names songs after movie characters like Mia Wallace or Ramona Flowers and his upcoming tour.   Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.   🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito run the Latino vibe check — inspired by a newsletter from their colleague Carlos De Loera asking a simple but loaded question: Is there any advantage to being Latino in the United States?   They start with the data. A Pew Research Center study found that one third of Latinos surveyed say their ethnicity has been a detriment to their lives — while nearly half say they remain deeply proud of who they are despite the obstacles. Fidel and Suzy break down what those numbers actually mean against the backdrop of ICE raids, the recent killings of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston and Juan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine at traffic stops, and a political climate that seems determined to remind Latinos that belonging here is never guaranteed.   Then the conversation shifts — because culture tells a different story. Bad Bunny won a Grammy. Karol G headlined Coachella. And people have been trying to swaggerjack Latino culture for decades. Enter: Gwenda Lupe Stefani, Drake's bachata era, Lana Del Rey's cubano aspirations, and Kacey Musgraves doing it right.   They also react to a congressional hearing in which a Texas representative called a Smithsonian gift shop's "Latina Power" merch "paraphernalia" — and Suzy explains, with great clarity and one reference to Michael Flatley Lord of the Dance, exactly why that comparison doesn't land. Plus: if the US Latino economy were its own country, it would be the fourth largest economy in the world.   And then, because this is De Los Podcast, they end on something that can't be legislated away.   Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.   🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Daniel Hernández, food editor at the Los Angeles Times and author of Down and Delirious in Mexico City, for a wide-ranging conversation about LA's culinary identity — who's cooking it, who's fighting for it, and what it says about the city's soul. Daniel traces his path from street culture journalism to food writing, starting with the story that set everything in motion: an investigation into the bacon-wrapped hot dog vendors surviving LAPD crackdowns on the streets of downtown LA. He also talks about what it means to be the first food editor at a major American paper who looks like him — and why he refuses to entertain imposter syndrome. They dig into the taco, including the heated internal debate over how to even define one for the LA Times' definitive taco list. He also breaks down who is actually cooking all the food in Los Angeles, what the ongoing ICE raids mean for the city's restaurant industry. And finally: the 2008 street battle between punks and emos in Mexico City, an event that has since become legend on the Latin internet, and the wildly unexpected way it ended. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito go head-to-head on the state of Latino representation in Hollywood — what's winning, what's failing, and who's been getting away with both for too long.   They start with the biggest media story of the summer: Telemundo's historic World Cup win, how half of all Americans chose to watch in Spanish over Fox's English-language broadcast, and what that says about who actually understands Latino audiences — and who doesn't.   Then they get into the numbers: only three Latino actors received Primetime Emmy nominations this year, and at the Oscars, out of 120 nominees, only two were Latino — and neither won. Fidel and Suzy break down why those numbers won't improve, why Hollywood keeps throwing Latinos one bone at a time, and why they think the studios know exactly what they're doing — pointing to the moment every Fast and the Furious movie drops.   They also highlight what's actually working: Julio Torres' Fantasmas and Problemista, the Hulu comedy This Fool, Alexa Demie's performance on Euphoria, Indi Navarrete leading the charge in horror, and why indie film is becoming the real home for Latino storytelling. Suzy also shares what she learned firsthand in the writers' room of Netflix's Neon — and the fight it took to get Puerto Ricans represented at every level of a show about reggaeton.   Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro.   🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with actor and stand-up comedian Fabrizio Guido — currently starring in Netflix's Running Point — for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up all over Los Angeles, making his film debut alongside Brad Pitt in World War Z at age 12, and what it really took to build a career from child actor to leading man. Fabrizio traces his path from community theater in East LA, to being homeschooled so he could graduate early and compete for roles on equal footing with adult actors. He talks about the warmth of the Mr. Iglesias set with Gabriel Iglesias, how he created Jackie Moreno in Running Point as a portrait of Boyle Heights with a heart the whole world could recognize, and the deep research he brought to playing Rafael Gallardo in Perry Mason Season 2 — including reading a Los Angeles newspaper from 1932 on his way to the Warner Bros. Ranch. He also opens up about the night Gabriel Iglesias told him he had two weeks to put together five minutes of stand-up — and what happened when he got off stage at the Brea Improv as a different person. Plus: his take on the new generation of young Latino actors redefining what it means to be Latino in Hollywood, why he thinks LA is the only city that truly tests people's character, and why The Fast and the Furious is one of the most East Side movies ever made. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito ditch the guest chair and go head-to-head on the state of Latin music. They break down the year's biggest milestones: Bad Bunny's historic solo Super Bowl halftime show, Karol G becoming the first Latina to headline Coachella, and Fuerza Regida making history as the first Música Mexicana act to ever play Dodger Stadium. They dig into the numbers too — Latin music hit a billion dollars in U.S. sales for the first time in 2025, and Bad Bunny and Fuerza Regida became the first two Spanish-language albums to chart at number one and two simultaneously on the Billboard 200. Then come the hot takes: why Fidel and Suzy think the genre is too obsessed with nostalgia, why they're calling for fewer collaborations, and why they think the Latin Grammys still have a favoritism problem — Alejandro Sanz controversy included. Plus, their personal picks for the best albums of the year so far, including Julieta Venegas's Norteña, Tito Double P's Acomodo, and Alvaro Diaz's OMAKASE. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation. From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.

For this episode of the De Los Podcast, hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Xolo Maridueña — actor, podcaster, and the first Latino to headline a live-action DC superhero film — for a wide-ranging conversation about growing up on the east side of Los Angeles, building a career from the ground up, and what it really meant to make Blue Beetle. Born and raised in El Sereno, Xolo traces his path from community theater at Casa 101 and the Boyle Heights Arts Conservatory, to landing Cobra Kai at 16 — the role he describes as the North Star that shifted everything. He talks about the phone call from Ralph Macchio that almost didn't happen, what it was like to watch Miguel Diaz mirror his own coming-of-age in real time, and why he didn't fully believe acting was his career until well into his seventh year of doing it. He opens up about Blue Beetle — the first live-action superhero movie with a Latino lead, a predominantly Latino cast, and a crew that felt, in his words, "like the Avengers." He shares what it was like to sit in a theater in Montebello and watch kids who looked like him cry at the screen for the first time. He also talks about his upcoming projects: the Netflix live-action adaptation of One Piece, Dog Years alongside Xochitl Gomez, and Killing Castro — a film premiering at Tribeca about a story so wild he kept thinking it had to be dramatized. It wasn't. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. 🎙 De Los Podcast drops new episodes every week on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe so you never miss a conversation.   From the Los Angeles Times and Sonoro comes the De Los Podcast — a weekly conversation where music, pop culture and Latinidad collide. Hosted by De Los editors Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito, the show pulls back the curtain on the stories, people and cultural moments shaping the Latino experience in the U.S. and beyond. Every episode is a front-row seat to conversations with the artists, actors, filmmakers and thinkers who are moving the culture forward — not just talking about it. Guests include Leslie Grace, Sen Dog of Cypress Hill, Xolo Maridueña, Fabrizio Guido, producer and singer Empress Of, among others. Think of it as the cultural conversation that major American media rarely makes room for — a space where Latinos get to talk, unfiltered, about what they create and who they are. Produced by Los Angeles Times, L.A. Times Studios, and Sonoro. New episodes every week — available on YouTube and all major podcasts.