Everyone’s got a podcast. Your accountant, your neighbor, your mom. As a full time creative type person, I also wanted one.
BUT, I wanted to make something different. I wanted a podcast you can put on in the background while you’re cooking or driving or putting together IKEA furniture and actually LEARN something. I’m tired of all the “comedians interviewing other comedians” podcasts. Sure, I listen to them too. But, sometimes I want to use my brain, or at the very least, I’d like people to stop screaming at me. (I guess I’ve listened to way too many comedy podcasts.)
That’s how MY GAY SPANISH was born.
It uses the nearly 500 hours of Spanish classes I have taken (ok, 468) and it shares everything I’ve learned with YOU.
Now, I’m not the only media mogul 🤦♀️ who got fluent in another language during the pandemic. There’s also the Duplass Brothers, for example. They created an entire “FRIENDMANCE with your Spanish teacher” movie.
But, they have a far bigger budget! Also, I ask you…did they actually produce the thing in Spanish? Was Mark Duplass talking to every single grip and sound tech and PA in Español? I think not.
BUT, I DID.
Scripts were written in Spanish, notes and ideas were exchanged in Spanish and cuts were edited in Spanish. Hell, this is the most English I’ve written in months! I’m like the Nell of Spanish language learning and I’ve emerged from the woods with a story to tell! If only someone can understand it! (No, really, if you speak a little Spanish, you can.)
Back to the PODCAST.
Everyone knows, when you produce something you need to be understood. Clarity is paramount. Yet, every comedian also knows that misunderstandings can be hilarious. So, how to combine the two? How about I build something entirely in Spanish (that even includes jokes), even though I’m only about 70% of the way to fluent?
So, I did just that. And I’m proud of it. I’ve done a lot of projects in my life, but this might be the most unique.
The tone is Spanish language learning like it’s last call at the gay bar. No, you don’t need to be gay to join us (Aren’t we past all that by now?), but you do need to enjoy listening to shade being thrown in between grammar lessons. You do need to enjoy totally left of center topics like “bitch slaps” and “Sweet 16s” and “brujas”. You do need to enjoy the beautifully spoken Spanish of my co-host, Fredy, a native Colombian speaker, while at the same time enjoying my backwoods attempts at stringing a sentence together. (Relax, I can hold a conversation.) You do need to have a sense of humor. You do need to want to learn.
New episodes are released weekly geared towards the intermediate and advanced speaker.
If that’s you, please take a minute to subscribe, listen and “5 star” rate my latest endeavor. As always, thank you for being you.
You can get MY GAY SPANISH anywhere you listen to podcasts…