A jail stint can really disrupt someone's life.

You can lose a job, a relationship, or thousands of dollars on fees, fines and bail.

Have I ever gone to jail?

Yeah, I just got out, actually.

If he doesn't show up the court, we've got to pay the $50,000.

No degree exchange, no kiss the bride.

There's no glamour in a jailhouse wedding.

Off the block, all six episodes tracing the path from city block to jail block and back

are now available on KCRW's iTunes page.

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

The moment you say, I love you, you get your benefits.

The moment you say, te quiro much, you don't get your benefit.

So that's the weird part, and that's the part that needs to change.

Actor Pablo Azar is a star in the world of Spanish-language soap operas.

He's been in ten of them.

His telenovela characters live in a world of luxury, but Azar says working non-union jobs on

Telemundo has left him without benefits, residuals, or even the same pay he would get on an English

language production. That's why he, like many other telenovela actors, has had to work outside jobs.

This very recognizable star tells us about the reactions he's gotten from fans while driving for Uber. Then, before Hanas

Kourone worked with his father Alfonso on the award-winning gravity, he wrote a script for a thriller

set on the U.S.-Mexico border. Now he's brought that story to life with Desirto, Mexico's submission for the best foreign language Oscar.

Quaron tells us how he set out to make a genre movie that turned out to be unexpectedly political.

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