Introducing Scattered with Chris Garcia

2 Dope Queens

WNYC Studios

Dope, Queens, Robinson, Up, Race, Society & Culture, Storytelling, Comedy Interviews, Stand, Williams, Phoebe, Jessica, Comedy, Brooklyn

4.8 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Chris Garcia returns to WNYC Studios with his new podcast Scattered, which was inspired by his first appearance on 2 Dope Queens. Chris’s dad, Andres, was the centerpiece of his comedy act, and when he died two years ago, he had one dying wish: That his family scatter his ashes off the coast of Cuba -- the country he was born in, and the country that would break him. Chris Garcia’s mom? She doesn’t give a crap about dying wishes. She’s vowed to never go back to Cuba again.

So for now, the ashes are sitting on a shelf in Chris’s closet, between a Paul McCartney record and a Gizmo Halloween mask. As Chris tries to do right by his dad, he sets out to uncover the truth about a man he barely knew, who survived Castro’s labor camps only to lose his way all over again in search of the American dream.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's me, Chris Garcia, sneaking into the 2-Dope Queen's feed.
0:05.0	Phoebe and Jessica gave me the password. It's Bono 69.
0:09.0	I think they trust me because I was on this podcast twice.
0:13.0	The first time was right after Trump was inaugurated, me and John Hamm were both on that episode.
0:18.0	I was the handsomer of the two.
0:21.0	Anyway, horrible week, amazing show.
0:24.0	Most of that set was about my dad, and it ended up kind of blowing up to the point where I was given the chance to make a podcast.
0:29.0	It's called Scattered. It's a story of a man making his way from the labor camps of Cuba to Inglwood, California, and about all of the secrets that my family kept along the way.
0:41.0	Thank you so much to Phoebe and Jessica for giving me this amazing platform and to all of you that reached out after my set.
0:49.0	And now I'm really, really excited to share the first episode here.
0:53.0	If you like it, you can look up Scattered wherever you get your podcast and hear episode 2.
0:59.0	And then 3 and 4 and 5 and 6.
1:02.0	Thank you so much for listening.
1:14.0	Please give it up for Chris Garcia!
1:24.0	Hello everybody!
1:29.0	Hi!
1:32.0	My parents are refugees or immigrants from Cuba.
1:37.0	Thank you.
1:39.0	And you know what?
1:41.0	I think a lot of comics get on stage and they make fun of the immigrant parents, and I think those days are done.
1:47.0	I think we have a better responsibility now.
1:50.0	It's very disrespectful, it's very rude, it's also very unfair.
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