5. Wearing Puerto Rico On Your Sash

La Brega: Campeones

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Puerto Rico has a reputation as a beauty queen mecca, the pageant scene is treated as seriously as any competitive sport in the archipelago. And in 2024, the scope of Puerto Rican dominance in the world of beauty pageants expanded even further: for the first time, Mister Puerto Rico became Mister World. Danny Mejía, who had never competed in any pageant before, went to Vietnam all by himself to represent Puerto Rico. In this episode, we learn what it means that Mister World is Boricua, and explore the history of these nation-building contests that are deeper than they seem at first glance.

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0:00.0	This is the English version in Spanish,
0:03.3	regressa al-Feed.
0:05.0	This is the English version of the episode.
0:07.7	And heads up, you can listen to the entire season of La Brega right now,
0:12.2	ad-free, plus exclusive episodes, by joining Futuro Plus.
0:16.8	Now on to the show.
0:20.5	Futuro. Now on to the show.
0:31.6	By the way, is that a pole for pole dancing?
0:32.1	It is.
0:33.3	Is that yours?
0:34.0	Yeah.
0:35.0	You pole dance?
0:35.9	Yeah, I'm a dancer.
0:36.7	Wow.
0:37.6	Cool. Yeah. It spins? Yeah. You can try it. Yeah. Yeah. You pole dance? Yeah, I'm a dancer. Wow. Cool.
0:37.9	Yeah.
0:38.6	It spins?
0:39.1	Yeah.
0:40.0	You can try it.
0:46.1	There's something about Danny Mejia.
0:49.2	He's athletic, for one thing, and confident.
0:53.7	He speaks at least three languages, though he's always game for learning more.
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