The Codeswitchin Podcast

We were joined on 5/12 by Kerry Anne Burke, who recently founded the African Diaspora Birthright Organization, which seeks to provide educational and empowering trips to the African continent for Americans of African descent (starts 6:50 and again at 49:00). She has also worked for the NY State Assembly and drops some gems about the legalization of MMA in NY State (10:30), hoods outside of NYC (15:30)...

Porn Journalist is a Compliment: The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 30

We’re here with Nelson Torres and Caroleen Stewart from WTF TV on MNN, who recorded this between their coverage of the AVN Porn Awards in Las Vegas and Exxxotica in Denver.

We get into the AVN awards right from the jump, Ron Jeremy stories (8:45), social medi...

Your Body Is Not A Flesh Prison :The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 32                 We’re joined today by Josmar Tejeda, motivational speaker, Lambda Sigma Upsilon Director of Development, and overall smart guy. After recapping both the last episode and our awesome comedy show from April 28th (and promoting the perks of becoming a Codeswitchin Patron at patreon.com/Codeswitch...

Miss Reported : The Codeswitchin Podcast #30

Tonight 4/26 is our free Comedy Show at Mr. McGoos at 5602 Broadway in the Bronx! 8 PM! Purchase the Codeswitchin Live Experience package at patreon.com/Codeswitchin before 8 pm and we’ll buy you a free drink and shout you out from the stage.

We were joined for this episode by Jennifer Pineiro, a f...

Concussion Grenades and Felony Charges: The Codeswitchin Podcast #30

Big News! We have a Patreon page at patreon.com/Codeswitchin and a comedy show at Mr. McGoos (5602 Broadway in the Bronx) on Wed. 4/26 @ 8 pm. Also thecodeswitchinpodcast.com should be live this week. More on that below.

We’re kickstarting a solid mo...

Tonight! Thursday 2/16 Radhames, Geoffrey Krawzyck and the rest of the gang do stand up comedy @ Mr. McGoo’s Pub  5602 Broadway, The Bronx. 231st and Broadway Train Station on the 1 Train! 8 PM sharp!

We’re joined today by four young masked men (Drown, NinjaBoy, Dr. Kidd, and Dphoto) from Scout Legion, an urban exploring troop here in NYC...

We’re back! Just in time for a Thursday Night craptacular at Mr. McGoos Pub in the Bronx on 2/16, which will feature stand up from Rada and Geoffrey Krawczyk from episode 15.

 We’re joined by Fernando, a Mr. McGoos regular and teacher in the NYC school system, and he’s got some harrowing stories at (01:01:45). But before that, we get into how badass uptown Bronx s...

Sister, Sister or, How to Curse in Spanish: The Codeswitchin Podcast Ep. 27

We closed out the year that shall not be spoken of by sitting down with both our sisters (Deborah Uzurin and Cinthia Teharris) and covering every curse word and culturally problematic phrase we know in English, Spanish, Castellano, Dominican, Tagalog, New York Nigga, and Southern Slang. The fuckery begins at (23:52)

But first we talk Star Wars (01:10), Radh...

Codeswitching at Exxxotica Part. 2: Renegade Whore - The Codeswitchin Podcast Ep. 26

Part 2 of an epic review of our interviews from the Exxxotica porn convention as we sit with Janet, a sex worker and activist from the NJ Red Umbrella Alliance, and beleaguered journalist Amanda Ocasio. In which we discuss safety buddies and other aspects of the hoe stroll (05:00), organizing sex workers, Backpage gate and dismantling the whorearch...

In which actor and budding stand up comic Georgie De Lahoz hits us over the head (and ass) about ass eating (1:00), Sergio declares respectability politics to be dead (3:21), we discuss being white and Latino and and dealing with privilege (and conspiracy theories) both ways (5:15), Georgie pontificates about how Latinos must succeed (even if you’re from Jersey) (9:40), Georgie rants about how ladies should date motivated guys (and...

The next THREE episodes are all about sex and relationships so brace yourself. 

So back in November Codeswitchin’ marooned Sergio as a correspondent in the Porn Dimension, aka Exxxotica, the East Coast’s annual porn and sex and BDSM convention. He made it back alive with a few interviews and here we begin listening to them with Amanda Ocasio (from Ep 4: Enter A Boss Ass Bitch) and Janet, an escort and member of the New Jersey Red U...

Episode 23: How to Survive the Trump Era: Rules of Resistance - The Codeswitchin Podcast Ep. 23

We told you The Codeswitchin Podcast was preparing a safe space for problematic people in anticipation of the Trump Presidency, and here we are! In this episode we go over Sergio’s Rules of Resistance and Survival For The Trump Era after our initial reactions to the Election Night from Hell, as well as our open call to all you listeners:...

Episode 22: Christ Didn’t Die For Bug Eyed Dickless Men From Outer Space

Our reaction episode to the season premiere of The Walking Dead was meant to be ready a week ago, but Rada had to go to take care of an actual dead body that night. Story within! (04:10). We also shit on Dr. Strange for whitewashing, Van Helsing for bad CGI, Underworld and Mystery Men for good production design but bad stories, and Men in Black (starting at 17...

Feeling like life has fucked you over? There’s some deep shit in this episode for you. Part 2 of a super-informative double session all about freedom of the mind and knowledge of self with Dennis Febo, Founder of Guazabara Insights, and Nadia Swanson, MsW, coordinator of the Radical Social Work Group. 

We talk about traditional versus non-traditional forms of social work (8:00),  trauma (11:45), how social workers can make someone ...

…in which we sit down for a double session with Nadia Swanson, MsW; coordinator of The Radical Social Work Group, and Dennis Febo, Founder of Guazabara Insights. We talk about the power and the pitfalls of social work (3:43), how radical social work can affect what happens on the ground during protests (7:51), how to do self care (12:18), hating on the people in the subway (14:52), growing up transracial (21:53), Sammy Sosa and oth...

…To Be Nuyorican, Goth, and Childless. …Also known as four drunk assholes go to a bar. After recording Episode 18 with Justy the paleontologist and Stephan the MC we hit up a pub and shit got raw. Raw, and highly lubricated. We discuss the joys of not having children (3:36), Radhames almost took a job at a gay bar (15:30), porn conventions and dressing goth (19:30), dating crazy chicks (23:19), we roast the poor waitress (and each ...

The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 18: A Paleontologist and a Rapper Walk Into a Bar…

Part 1 of a Saturday double session full of cheap beer and bad decisions. We’re joined by  dinosaur expert, artist and 3-D printing specialist Justy Alicea and MC (Proverb, da Genius) Stephan Grant. 

We discuss: 3-D printing (7:48), Paleontology (12:53), Cryptozoology (18:01), Megalodon (22:58), Cave spiders (25.48), being eaten by monitor lizards...

The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 17: Codeswitching at the Independent Film Project Afterparty

So Sergio’s pitch video for his script, TURNOUT, won him semifinalist status at Ghetto Films Schools Pitch, Please contest, which is part of IFP Film Week. So we went to the afterparty on the final night and ran into some amazing artists. 

Shannon Burke, the stand up comic/writer at 01:45 can be found at 

https://www.facebook.com/shhhhhann...

If you’re not energized by this episode, you’re dead. We manage to get super activist Carlene Pinto to sit down with us despite her busy schedule fighting for immigrant rights and racial justice. Fresh off a victory for one of her people, she comes to us with undocumented student activist Flor Reyes, one of the DREAMERS (she shares her incredible story at 30:00). We share stories about struggling to pass the DREAM act (6:00), being...