#35: Barz over your Head feat. Macclaim and Brian Waller Scott We were joined by Macclaim and Brian Waller Scott from the Barz Over Your Head label. Macclaim’s new album is Money Mac. In this episode we discuss the labels founding in Philly (09:12), thot buildings (13:45), even more online dating horror stories (15:40), suspect lines from Hip Hop (21:00), we get rudely interrupted at (34:10), and then rip into corrupt non-profits at (52:45). We talk about Philly a lot in this episode too. Maccla...
Jun 12, 2017•1 hr 13 min
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), on “selling out” (20:38) and more. Also, a hungover and 30 year old Radhames tells fight stori...
May 24, 2017•59 min
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 media whoring (13:30), Radhames smokes out of a bong like an adult (15:10), and is the only Dominican who doesn’t smoke hookah (16:15), we talk gentrified bodegas (18:05), winn...
May 09, 2017•1 hr
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/Codeswitchin ) we get into ICE and aliens (of the undocumented and interstellar kind) (08:30), psychological kinesiology (13:45), epigenetics and p...
May 03, 2017•1 hr 24 min
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 former Assignment Editor at NBC Connecticut and News 12 in the Bronx. She won a Peabody award for her coverage of the Sandy Hook shooting (01:11:45, and she ...
Apr 26, 2017•1 hr 48 min
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 month of Codeswitchin by interviewing Matt Hopard, aka StopMotionSolo; described by some as the “most prolific live streamer ever”. He began streaming live video at Occupy Wall Street...
Apr 24, 2017•1 hr 17 min
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. They use parkour to trespass and climb forbidden structures and take dope images. We talk of Sergio’s story of climbing the Buffalo Grain Silos (3:00) (and can...
Feb 16, 2017•50 min
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 standup shows can be, Rada and Fernando have stories about being profiled by ICE agents (03:36 and 24:50), there are Crips in Denmark ya...
Feb 14, 2017•1 hr 53 min
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), Radhames deals with overdoses at his day job (03:50), Cinthia talks a...
Jan 03, 2017•1 hr 15 min
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 whorearchy (08:11), taking questions from the live feed audience about ope...
Dec 12, 2016•1 hr
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 how to become a motivated guy) (11:50), we decry games Dominican...
Dec 07, 2016•57 min
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 Umbrella Alliance, which fights for the rights of sex workers. She ...
Dec 05, 2016•1 hr 4 min
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: In light of the increase in intimidation, hate speech and hate c...
Nov 15, 2016•59 min
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 17:10) Which segues us into Unsolved Mysteries, Sightings and Ancie...
Nov 01, 2016•54 min
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 independent or dependent (14:15), mental diagnosis and how people i...
Oct 16, 2016•57 min
…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 other “white men like su” Dominicans (28:58), we vent about activist...
Oct 10, 2016•52 min
…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 other) (31:00), talk about our ethnic and (multi) racial backgrou...
Oct 03, 2016•1 hr 19 min
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 (28:03), we roast #alllivesmatter (33:23), we wonder what we would d...
Sep 26, 2016•1 hr 1 min
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/shhhhhannon https://www.instagram.com/shenanigansb/ Leah Shaw, Actress and D...
Sep 22, 2016•33 min
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 disenfranchised due to possible voter fraud in the Bernie/Hillar...
Sep 16, 2016•1 hr 14 min
In this part 2 of a double session we’re joined by comedian and designer Geoffrey Krawczyk (the guy who designed Sergio’s Malcolm X shirt!) and have an in-depth discussion about how to do comedy, so all you aspiring stand up comics and comedians take note. We cover keeping it personal (9:00), whether political correctness is really a problem for comics (14:00), the dynamics of open mics and knowing your crowd. (23:00) Radhames is performing Tuesday 9/21, at Karma Lounge (51 1st Ave) at 6 PM and ...
Sep 15, 2016•41 min
The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 14: Crippin Against The Terrorists In this part 1 of a double session we’re joined by Erik Eggleston. We open with bald people solidarity, go on to black and latino republicans (5:55), and go down the 9/11 wormhole (17:10). Somewhere along the line we get Radas’ review of Interstellar and the new Blair Witch (15:00) , and talk about Narcos. We’re joined in the end by Geoffrey Krawczyk who joins us for Episode 15.
Sep 14, 2016•44 min
The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 12: Cheesedickin’ The title was Radhames’ idea, obviously. We don’t actually talk about dickcheese, so don’t worry. And if you’re disappointed that we don’t…you’re a sick fuck. Welcome to the iTunes era! We talk about Facebook pet peeves, Alex Jones and John Stossel conspiracy theories (6:20), what it’s like to fire people, get fired, and organize against being fired (16:26) and the pathetic spectacle of property owning white people convincing landless people of ...
Sep 11, 2016•51 min
"Diddlers of Note" The Codeswitchin Podcast Episode 11 ...in which we revisit that greatest of uptown rivalries, Cardinal Hayes HS versus Mount St. Michael versus Rice (12:30). Rada and our guest Eddie Napoleoni share their account of the Catholic Church sex scandal (19:30), plus horror stories from their jobs (3:20 and 37:00), voting for the candidate that will get you laid (33:00), the Ryan Lochte incident (48:40) and more. Eddie Napoleoni's rants can be found at https://twitter.com/EddieBaseb...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 5 min
The Codeswitchin' Ass Podcast Episode 09: "Rada's Ghost Penis Wants Daenerys Stormborn in Tims" ...In our hottest mess yet, we are joined by media expert and transcendent being Sean "Caniba" Aaron and proto-journalist Chris Cameron. We talk about League of Legends (5:55), whether men can and/or should cry or not (15:28), Karate and Highlander (19:50), how to call people out on their racism/misogyny (31:30), what racism even means (49:00), Game of Thrones and how much Terminator sucks (54:45), wh...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 28 min
The Codeswitchin' Ass Podcast Episode 08: "Bad Boy Lawyer's Club" ....in which we are joined by Guido Moreira, Esq. a prime example that you can be a troubled youth and grow up to become someone important. We cover the continuing crisis of over policing in the United States, and if you plan on going to the Olympics in Rio this summer, you wanna hear his story about being arrested in Brazil. Guido's instagram https://www.instagram.com/layzathlete/ and he if you need a lawyer he can be reached at ...
Sep 07, 2016•40 min
In this special episode of Codeswitchin we are joined by a roster of brothers and sisters from Lambda Sigma Upsilon Latino Fraternity Inc. and Mu Sigma Upsilon Multicultural Sorority Inc., as they hold a banquet at the Resorts Casino in Atlantic City, NJ. Sound like a mouthful? You should listen to the episode... links below in chronological order: As usual you can follow Radhames on IG, Twitter and Snapchat https://twitter.com/BigDaddyRada https://www.instagram.com/badmanrad/ And Sergio is Peop...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 33 min
The Codeswitchin' Ass Podcast Episode 06: "..And U Couldn't Turn That Into A Threesome?!" Harambe! Tonight we were joined by the Harlem Herald himself, Jasun "Jay Wednesday" Ebanks, to discuss how many lanes of traffic it's acceptable to cross over in order to run over your ex (3, plus the median). And yes, of course we talk about that fucking gorilla. We're also jointed by Guido Moreira, Esq., who is the guest for our next episode, coming the week of 6/6/16, fittingly. Jasun's instagram https:/...
Sep 07, 2016•42 min
...in which Anthony B joins Rada and Sergio (and Amanda from Ep. 04) and gives Rada even more reasons to believe he is now on some kind of government watchlist. Anthony B is a jack of all trades who works in both mainstream and adult entertainment, and is also a leader of the Copwatch Patrol Unit of Brooklyn, one of the most active branches of the #blacklivesmatter movement. Anthony B's social media on Twitter, IG and Facebook are: https://twitter.com/sosincereent https://www.facebook.com/SOSINC...
Sep 07, 2016•1 hr 6 min
...in which we interview Bronx-born Amanda Ocasio, journalist and scholar of all things that piss off her suburban hellhole classmates. Her most recent article is on the women who've joined ISIS, and that and her research on abortion rights in Ireland and sex workers in Europe can be found through her social media: http://www.twitter.com/realrakhmetov http://www.instagram.com/realrakhmetov/ The sex worker march in Atlantic City she mentions is Fri, June 3rd from 12-4 at Center City Park. Check o...
Sep 07, 2016•56 min
