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Stuff You Should Know

Mariachi: The Rodney Dangerfield of Music

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Mariachi bands have a bad rap as nothing more than "restaurant music." But there is a rich and long cultural tradition many people are missing and the music deserves our respect. Listen in today!

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.5

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.3

Aye, aye, aye, aye, and welcome to The Podcast.

0:43.8

I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's hanging out here wearing a giant sombrero and that makes this stuff you should know.

0:51.4

I was actually going to sing that. It's funny that you thought of the same dang thing.

0:55.4

That's the one. That's the one that I grew up on.

1:00.3

Yeah, I think I told the story once before about when it's funny how these things you remember from your childhood.

1:07.1

When I was in kindergarten, they taught us the Mexican hat dance and we danced around not hats,

1:16.9

but spray can lids like like spray pant lids.

1:23.2

Why? Because you know, we didn't have little sombreros.

1:27.1

Okay.

1:28.1

And it's one of those things we're looking back like God bless them.

1:30.5

They were teaching us about another culture, which is great for a five year old,

1:35.3

but like looking back all these white suburban Atlanta and kids dancing around this spray pant.

1:41.1

With spray paint, can lids, little cringe. It's a weird like, I had to detail, but I'll bet it was still adorable to see, you know.

1:49.5

It's an odd substitute like we didn't decorate them. I would get that.

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