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What's good with you? This is Gene, obviously. And today we have something real special we want to share with you.

Okay, so our friends, I mean, I guess our play cousins at Futuro Studios, have launched season three of their podcast, La Brega.

And this season is so good.

It's so dope.

And we think that if you rock with us at Code Switch, you're probably going to love this too.

So for those of y'all who are new to La Brega, it's a show that focuses on the stories of the Puerto Rican experience,

or many Puerto Rican experiences. In this season, they're wading into the cultural battlefields

to talk about people who champion Puerto Rico. Like, they want to know what we can learn about Puerto Ricanness by talking to these folks.

And so we are going to play for you, episode eight.

This episode is called I have Puerto Rico in my heart.

And in it, the folks at LaBrega take us back to the late 1960s.

That's when the young lords were coming into being as this political force made up mainly of Puerto

Ricans in the diaspora. Some of these people did not speak Spanish. Some of people had never been to

Puerto Rico, but nonetheless, they rolled for and went up for and claimed Puerto Rico. And many of

these young barricos were hungry for stories about their history, and they would

try to learn about it in any way they could.

One of those people was Iris Morales, and she led the young lord's education mission in New York.

LaBrega sits down with Iris to talk about the long tale of the young lords and what it means that a group of young Boricruis in the diaspora championed the island and why that resonates so deeply with this moment we find ourselves in right now.

The series is out now and you can find new episodes every Tuesday in the La

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