Best Luis Alberto Podcasts (2024)

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12. Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe with Aitch Alberto 44:12

23d ago44:12

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“These boys were mine and now I give them to you.” For the season finale of More Than a Movie, we sat down with friend of the pod Aitch Alberto to dive deep on her feature filmmaking debut. We discussed everything from adapting a beloved YA novel and convincing the author to give her the rights, to taking over directing duties from Miguel Arteta, a…

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

10d ago1:20:13

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The wonderful civil rights elder Vincent Harding liked to look around the world for what he called "live human signposts" — human beings who embody ways of seeing and becoming and who point the way forward to the world we want to inhabit. And adrienne maree brown, who has inspired worlds of social creativity with her notions of "pleasure activism" …

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

15d ago1:43

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An impassioned plea, a yearning for connection — the poem U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón wrote when she says all language failed her. Take in Ada's reading of her piece, “The End of Poetry” — and hear her read more of her work in the On Being episode, “To Be Made Whole.” Ada Limón is the 24th Poet Laureate of the United States. She’s written six book…

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

16d ago1:02:48

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We are strange creatures. It is hard for us to speak about, or let in, the reality of frailty and death — the elemental fact of mortality itself. In this century, western medicine has gradually moved away from its understanding of death as a failure — where care stops with a terminal diagnosis. Hospice has moved, from something rare to something ex…

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11. In the Summers with Residente and Alessandra Lacorazza 44:18

1M ago44:18

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“We won Sundance! What the fuck?” If you’re an outsider, the film industry can be seemingly impossible to penetrate. It’s even more difficult to tell your story - and have it seen - when it’s a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale about a queer Latina and her alcoholic father set in a small town in New Mexico. That story became the indie filmma…

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

22d ago1:17

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Today, a poem with a poignant question to live: “...and are we not of interest to each other?” Carry Elizabeth Alexander’s reading of her poem “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” with you — and hear Elizabeth read more of her poetry in the On Being episode, “Words That Shimmer.” Elizabeth Alexander is a poet, author, and educator. Since 2018, she has ser…

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

23d ago59:10

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We humans have this drive to erect barriers between ourselves and others, Luis Alberto Urrea says, and yet this makes us a little crazy. He is an exuberant, wise, and refreshing companion into the deep meaning and the problem of borders — what they are really about, what we do with them, and what they do to us. The Mexican-American border was as cl…

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10. El Mariachi with Carlos Gallardo and Elizabeth Avellan 45:26

1M ago45:26

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“He did it for $7,000.” Before Machete, before Spy Kids, before From Dusk till Dawn, there was El Mariachi. Eager to make a name for himself in the world of film, but with no industry connections whatsoever, Robert Rodriguez went and directed a movie on his own - guerilla style - in Mexico, with a production budget of only $7,000. Producer Elizabet…

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

30d ago59:05

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In our world of so much suffering, it can feel hard or wrong to invoke the word "joy." Yet joy has been one of the most insistent, recurrent rallying cries in almost every life-giving conversation that Krista has had across recent months and years, even and especially with people on the front lines of humanity's struggles. Ross Gay helps illuminate…

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9. Zoot Suit with Luis Valdez 41:58

1M ago41:58

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“Let’s just shoot the play.” If you’ve listened to the first season of More Than a Movie, you may remember the one property that kept getting mentioned over and over - Zoot Suit - the play, and later film, that linked a generation of Latino actors and became a foundational text for the Chicano arts movement. Even many of our guests this season - fr…

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

1M ago1:16:20

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In this all-new episode, Krista engages biomimicry pioneer Janine Benyus in a second, urgent conversation, alongside creative biomimicry practitioner Azita Ardakani Walton. Together they trace precise guidance and applied wisdom from the natural world for the civilizational callings before us now. What does nature have to teach us about healing fro…

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8. Language Lessons and Plan B with Natalie Morales 47:59

2M ago47:59

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“I was filming Plan B in the fall and editing Language Lessons on the weekend.” Everybody in Hollywood will tell you, it’s incredibly difficult to get a film made. Making a movie during a global pandemic? Even more difficult. Directing two movies during lockdown, in your first-ever attempt at feature filmmaking? Seemingly impossible. But not for Na…

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

1M ago11:16

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In a time of stress, uncertainty, and isolation, Christine Runyan turns our attention to what often evades our awareness — the response of our nervous systems. As part of On Being’s 2021 Midwinter Gathering, she offered this brief, practical, gently guided practice as an invitation to befriend your beleaguered body, to “blanket it with a little bit…

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

1M ago1:01:11

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The years of pandemic and lockdown are still working powerfully on us from the inside. But we have trouble acknowledging this, much less metabolizing it. This conversation with Christine Runyan, which took place in the dark middle of those years, helps make sense of our present of still-unfolding epidemic distress — as individuals, as communities, …

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7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with Phil Lord 49:14

2M ago49:14

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“What if it’s Miles Morales?” We’ve seen Spider-Man on screen before. In fact, we’ve seen him in three different live-action iterations over the last 22 years. And yet somehow, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse feels startlingly fresh, a major shock to the system. We had never experienced anything like it in the world of superhero films, live-actio…

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

2M ago14:26

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We are overjoyed to share this heart-stirring performance with you, which transpired when we invited the ornithologist/poet/former On Being guest J. Drew Lanham to offer some poetry at a live On Being event in January 2024. We could not have imagined the lightning in a bottle that unfolded — a live adaptation of the title poem that appears in Drew'…

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

2M ago1:15:26

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Here is a stunning sentence for you, written by Lyndsey Stonebridge, our guest this hour, channeling the 20th-century political thinker and journalist Hannah Arendt: "Loneliness is the bully that coerces us into giving up on democracy." This conversation is a kind of guide to generative shared deliberations we might be having with each other and ou…

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6. Spy Kids with Alexa PenaVega and Elizabeth Avellan 36:53

2M ago36:53

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“The idea of Spy Kids, just like boom, hit him.” Coming off a string of successful Hard-R genre movies, Robert Rodriguez decided to make a surprising pivot into the world of family films. Enter the Spy Kids: a wildly popular franchise that now spans five films and has grossed over $550 million at the box office. We sat down with Robert’s wife and p…

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

2M ago11:09

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A taste of a special mini-season of Poetry Unbound — bringing contemplative curiosity and the life-nurturing tether of poetry to the very present matter of conflict in our world. In this first offering, Pádraig introduces the intriguing idea of poems as teachers and ponders Wisława Szymborska’s “A Word on Statistics," translated by Joanna Trzeciak.…

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To 1:02:38

2M ago1:02:38

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There is an ecological transformation unfolding in the places we love and come from. On a front edge of this reality, which will affect us all, Colette Pichon Battle is a singular model of brilliance and graciousness of mind and spirit and action. And to be with her is to open to the way the stories we tell have blunted us to the courage we’re call…

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5. Blood In, Blood Out with Jesse Borrego and Enrique Castillo 49:54

2M ago49:54

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“You need to help me cast the Vatos Locos.” Season one of More Than a Movie offered a deep dive on American Me - Edward James Olmos’ notorious directorial debut about the formation of a real-life Mexican prison gang. In this episode, we take a look at the film that came just one year later - allegedly delayed in part because of the release of and r…

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts 54:16

3M ago54:16

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In her writing, it is Kate DiCamillo's gift to make bearable the fact that joy and sorrow live so close, side by side, in life as it is (if not as we wish it to be). In this conversation, along with good measures of raucous laughter and a few tears, Kate summons us to hearts "capacious enough to contain the complexities and mysteries of ourselves a…

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4. Real Women Have Curves with Patricia Cardoso 39:23

3M ago39:23

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“I walked out of the play.” Fresh off winning a Student Academy Award, Colombian filmmaker Patricia Cardoso was looking for her next film project. After some initial hesitation, she decided to adapt the much-beloved (but somewhat problematic) stage play Real Women Have Curves into what would become a major Sundance sensation. We sat down with Patri…

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"The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury 43:13

3M ago43:13

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Wisdom, Solace, and Courage for 2024 2:58

3M ago2:58

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A special two-month season of On Being starts May 9. Freshly curated conversations from across the On Being archive. Big new conversations and extra offerings. To be present to the suffering and sorrow of this world from a place of love. To accompany each other in this — and accompany the young. To honor the fragility of being human. To keep our ca…

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3. La Bamba (Pt. 2) with Taylor Hackford 47:16

3M ago47:16

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"There’s a whole audience you’re missing.” On this episode of More Than a Movie, we met with the producer of La Bamba, Academy Award winning filmmaker Taylor Hackford, and explored how a white kid from Santa Barbara ended up becoming the driving force behind a film about a Mexican-American rock star. We talked everything from obtaining life rights …

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"The November Story" by Rebecca Makkai 49:59

3M ago49:59

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A reality TV show producer tries to make love happen, on- and off-screen. “The November Story” is from MUSIC FOR WARTIME by Rebecca Makkai, published by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Find LeVar on Instagram Live on Monday, May 6th from 6:30-8pm Pacific, celebrating 13 seasons of LeVar Burton…

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12. Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe with Aitch Alberto 44:12

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adrienne maree brown — On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life 1:20:13

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“The End of Poetry” by Ada Limón 1:43

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Atul Gawande — On Mortality and Meaning 1:02:48

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11. In the Summers with Residente and Alessandra Lacorazza 44:18

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“Ars Poetica #100: I Believe” by Elizabeth Alexander 1:17

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Luis Alberto Urrea — On Our Belonging to Each Other 59:10

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10. El Mariachi with Carlos Gallardo and Elizabeth Avellan 45:26

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Ross Gay — On the Insistence of Joy 59:05

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9. Zoot Suit with Luis Valdez 41:58

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Janine Benyus and Azita Ardakani Walton — On Nature's Wisdom for Humanity 1:16:20

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8. Language Lessons and Plan B with Natalie Morales 47:59

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Befriend Your Body: A Compassionate Body Scan 11:16

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Christine Runyan — On Healing Our Distressed Nervous Systems 1:01:11

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7. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse with Phil Lord 49:14

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“Joy is the Justice (We Give Ourselves)” by J. Drew Lanham 14:26

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Lyndsey Stonebridge and Lucas Johnson — On Love, Politics, and Violence (Channeling Hannah Arendt) 1:15:26

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6. Spy Kids with Alexa PenaVega and Elizabeth Avellan 36:53

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New From Poetry Unbound: A Series on Conflict and the Human Condition 11:09

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Colette Pichon Battle — On Knowing What We're Called To 1:02:38

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5. Blood In, Blood Out with Jesse Borrego and Enrique Castillo 49:54

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Kate DiCamillo — On Nurturing Capacious Hearts 54:16

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4. Real Women Have Curves with Patricia Cardoso 39:23

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"The Toynbee Convector" by Ray Bradbury 43:13

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Wisdom, Solace, and Courage for 2024 2:58

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3. La Bamba (Pt. 2) with Taylor Hackford 47:16

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"The November Story" by Rebecca Makkai 49:59

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