Introducing – La Brega: Season Three
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
The hit podcast returns from Futuro Studios for its third season. La Brega tells stories of the Puerto Rican experience.
In Season 3 of La Brega, we’re bringing you stories of Puerto Rico’s champions. We’re going to go to the ballfields and cultural battlegrounds where carrying the flag takes on even more meaning. We’ll meet fighters who have represented us in courtrooms and in boxing rings, and icons who have worn Puerto Rico on their sashes and their jerseys. We’re going to ask: what do we learn about Puerto Ricanness by spending time with our champions?
La Brega: Season 3 is out everywhere on 2/3. New episodes every Tuesday on the La Brega: Campeones feed.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, in the thick listener, how you doing? So I'm coming to your feed to bring you something special. |
| 0:06.5 | Futuro Studios, our podcast division, has been working on season three of our hit podcast, La Brega. |
| 0:13.0 | It's a new season that I totally love, and I think you, in the thick listener, you're going to love it too. |
| 0:19.6 | Now, for those of you out there that are new to the show, La Brega tells stories about the |
| 0:24.8 | Puerto Rican experience, and these are stories that have resonated with listeners around |
| 0:29.5 | the world. |
| 0:30.7 | This season, we're going to go into the cultural battlefields to talk about Campiones |
| 0:36.2 | of Puerto Rico. |
| 0:38.2 | So what do we learn about Puerto Rican this by spending time with these particular champions? |
| 0:45.8 | We're going to play episode one, who represents us? |
| 0:50.3 | And in it, La Brega takes us back four years ago when Puerto Ricans woke up one morning |
| 0:55.8 | to a toppled statue of a colonizer in Vuejo San Juan. |
| 1:00.3 | Essentially, it forced the question of who deserves to be up on a pedestal on the island. |
| 1:07.5 | And by the way, you can binge all episodes, add free when you join Futuro Plus. So easy to do it, so much fun. |
| 1:16.5 | Sign up to support us as a FuturoPlus member at Futuromediagroup.org slash join Plus. |
| 1:24.0 | Alana Casanova Burgess, the host of La Brega, is going to take it from here. |
| 1:29.4 | And yes, there are some swear words, so you've been warned. |
| 1:37.9 | It wasn't just any Monday morning in Puerto Rico. |
| 1:49.3 | It was January 24th, 2022, and there was a lot of anticipation. |
| 1:50.0 | For one thing, kids in Puerto Rico were going back to in-person classes, even though the pandemic was still in full swing. |
| 2:06.4 | Some students hadn't been in a classroom for two years because of the earthquakes in the South. |
| 2:11.9 | And also, on this Monday, the king was coming. |
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