Best Hialeah Podcasts (2024)

On this special day of 4/20, the boys are joined by one of their longtime good friends from high school, LYF3! As blunts are in rotation, the boys catch up & discuss: Apes LSD trip that LYF3 was apart of, funny highschool moments, the guy who burned himself outside the courthouse of Trumps trial, Chris Browns diss toward Quavo, Free Will, Adolf Hit…

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At Your Service: Faithful Servant 1:13:13

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (April 21, 2024)By Nest Church

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At Your Service: You Were Doing It To Me 47:01

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (April 14, 2024)By Nest Church

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EPISODE 74 | "Midnight Mike & ModernGenitalia" (Feat. 1leob) 2:10:42

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On this episode of V N APE, Leo is back! The boys discuss: J. Cole's new tape "Might Delete Later" where he replies to Kendrick's shots on a song called "7 Minute Drill" which leads the boys to compare both artists (**BTW THIS WAS RECORDED BEFORE J. COLE APOLOGIZED TO KENDRICK AT DREAMVILLE FESTIVAL**). We then discuss: Milo Yiannopoulos, Boosie ge…

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At Your Service: You Want To Be Great? 48:31

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Pastor Rigo Figuredo (April 7, 2024)By Nest Church

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Nell Freudenberger, "The Limits" (Knopf, 2024) 54:39

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The most thrilling work yet from the best-selling, prize-winning author of The Newlyweds and Lost and Wanted, a stunning new novel set in French Polynesia and New York City about three characters who undergo massive transformations over the course of a single year. From Mo'orea, a tiny volcanic island off the coast of Tahiti, a French biologist obs…

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EPISODE 73 | "TRAINS" (Feat. OfficialHeir) 2:25:05

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On this episode of V N APE, the boys are joined by Heir! A Cuban-American rapper + podcaster who's from the Hialeah area as well! They end up discussing: Illegal immigration, China, why Heir believes in God, the moon landing being fake, whether Michael Jackson was a pedophile or not, the best rap album ever produced, moral dilemmas + so much more! …

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Under The Sun: Remember Your Creator 57:12

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (Author) (March 24, 2024)By Nest Church

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Marie Mutsuki Mockett, "The Tree Doctor" (Graywolf Press, 2024) 53:47

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When the unnamed narrator of Marie Mutsuki Mockett's stirring second novel returns to Carmel, California, to care for her mother, she finds herself stranded at the outset of the disease. With her husband and children back in Hong Kong, and her Japanese mother steadily declining in a care facility two hours away, she becomes preoccupied with her mot…

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Under The Su: It Shall Not Sink 56:06

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (March 17, 2024)By Nest Church

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Scott Alexander Howard, "The Other Valley" (Atria Books, 2024) 41:22

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Sixteen-year-old Odile is an awkward, quiet girl vying for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position, she'll decide who may cross her town's heavily guarded borders. On the other side, it's the same valley, the same town. Except to the east, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west, it's twenty years behind. The towns repe…

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EPISODE 72 | "The Afterlife Tier List" 1:43:30

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Another week, another episode of V N APE YOU DUMMY!!!!! We begin the podcast with a valid question...what’s the best drug to beat off on? After that we discuss: Ryan Garcia's tweets about Bohemian Grove & aliens, Jake Paul Vs Mike Tyson, the Kellog CEO telling people to eat cereal for dinner, the suicide pod, and a tier list where we ranked the pos…

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Under The Sun: Dead Flies Can Mess It All Up 1:07:37

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (March 10, 2014)By Nest Church

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EPISODE 71 | "Lil Rod" (Feat. 1leob) 1:18:06

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BACK from regular life & working...them V N APE boys are back to POD & give you that REAL S#!T! All jokes aside, welcome to EPISODE 71. We end up discussing: Joe Rogans most recent episode with Katt Williams, Allegations/lawsuits against Diddy arise again but this time from his producer who's ironically named "Lil Rod", the tragic suicide of Aaron …

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Under The Sun: Do Well 1:01:51

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (March 03, 2023)By Nest Church

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Marie-Helene Bertino, "Beautyland" (FSG, 2024) 46:56

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At the moment when Voyager 1 is launched into space carrying its famous golden record, a baby of unusual perception is born to a single mother in Philadelphia. Adina Giorno is tiny and jaundiced, but she reaches for warmth and light. As a child, she recognizes that she is different: She possesses knowledge of a faraway planet. The arrival of a fax …

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Under The Sun: Obey The King 1:26:08

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Pastor Max Percy (February 25, 2024)By Nest Church

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Cameron McWhirter and Zusha Elinson, "American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15" (FSG, 2023) 1:08:32

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In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century. In American Gun: …

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Under The Sun: Teach Us To Number Our Days So That We Can Grow In Wisdom 1:04:02

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (Author) (February 18, 2024)By Nest Church

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Under The Sun: The Good Life 38:10

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (Author) (February 11, 2024)By Nest Church

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Under The Sun: Guard Your Worship 53:22

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (February 04, 2024)By Nest Church

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EPISODE 70 | "Absurdism is Absurd" (Feat. 1leob) 1:42:21

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Back again with another episode for ya headtop! The V N APE boys end up discussing: The Civil War that's going on at the Border between Biden & Texas, Trump losing in court to E. Jean Carroll, The Ben Shapiro Vs. Destiny Debate, The max amount of times they've masturbated in a day, Absurdism, Schopenhauer + so much more! Enjoy! Follow us on X (Twit…

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Under The Sun: Don't Be Alone 1:02:53

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Pasto Rigo Figueredo (January 28, 2023)By Nest Church

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Samantha Harvey, "Orbital" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) 56:31

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A slender novel of epic power, Orbital (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2023) deftly snapshots one day in the lives of six women and men hurtling through space--not towards the moon or the vast unknown, but around our planet. Selected for one of the last space station missions of its kind before the program is dismantled, these astronauts and cosmonauts--f…

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Under The Sun: The Work That God Does 55:16

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Pastor Javier Acosta (January 21, 2024)By Nest Church

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Julius Taranto, "How I Won a Nobel Prize" (Little, Brown, 2023) 48:40

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Helen is one of the brightest minds of her generation: a young physicist on a path to solve high-temperature superconductivity (which could save the planet). When she discovers that her brilliant adviser is involved in a sex scandal, Helen is torn: should she give up on her work with him? Or should she accompany him to a controversial university, f…

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Raul Palma, "A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens" (Dutton, 2023) 35:33

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A genre-bending debut with a fiercely political heart, A Haunting in Hialeah Gardens (Dutton, 2023) explores the weight of the devil's bargain, following the lengths one man will go to for the promise of freedom. Hugo Contreras's world in Miami has shrunk. Since his wife died, Hugo's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. He shuffle…

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EPISODE 69 | "The Wheel Of Ass" (Feat. Abel) 2:01:09

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Them V N APE boys are BACK this week with another episode for ya! Joined by Abel, a talented painter, the boys get straight into it & discuss: the Jews who got arrested over a secret tunnel in a Brooklyn synagogue, glory holes, the feeling of being high on Heroin, having sex with a 300+ pound woman, the Bible, the recent bombing on Yemen, + so much…

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Under The Sun: How Do I Find Happiness 55:28

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (Author) (January 14, 2024)By Nest Church

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Courtney Denelle, "It's Not Nothing" (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2022) 47:52

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Rosemary Candwell's past has exploded into her present. Down-and-out and deteriorating, she drifts from anonymous beds and bars in Providence, to a homeless shelter hidden among the hedge-rowed avenues of Newport, and through the revolving door of service jobs and quick-fix psychiatric care, always grasping for hope, for a solution. She's desperate…

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Mark Ernest Pothier, "Outer Sunset" (U Iowa Press, 2023) 40:56

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Jim Finley--a recently retired English teacher living alone on the shifting edge of San Francisco--has been set, unwittingly, on the back porch of life. Trying to harmonize the voices in his head, he sits most days by his stack of "to-do" books until, one day, his daughter comes home with the worst news of her life. Everything changes. As his broke…

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Under The Sun: Where Does God Fit In Your Life 1:16:06

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Pastor Rigo Figuredo (January 07, 2023)By Nest Church

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EPISODE 68 | "The Epstein List & Rituals" 2:14:52

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Welcome to our first recorded episode of the new year! The boys get straight into the releasing of some names on The Epstein List & give their reactions to it. They then discuss: Rituals, Trump getting taken off state ballots, the viral video of a guy attacking a judge in court + much more! V N APE then end it off by revisiting old songs they've ma…

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Rebecca Turkewitz, "Here in the Night" (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) 35:56

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The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press, 2023), are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy. Preoccupied with all manner o…

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Kyle Dillon Hertz, "The Lookback Window" (Simon and Schuster, 2023) 39:07

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Growing up in suburban New York, Dylan lived through the unfathomable: three years as a victim of sex trafficking at the hands of Vincent, a troubled young man who promised to marry Dylan when he turned eighteen. Years later--long after a police investigation that went nowhere, and after the statute of limitations for the crimes perpetrated against…

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What A Blessing 52:06

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (December 31, 2023)By Nest Church

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Lexi Freiman, "The Book of Ayn" (Catapult, 2023) 37:39

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An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn (Catapult, 2023) follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and spiritual fulfillment in radical selfishness, altruism, and ego-death. After writing a satirical novel that The New York Times calls c…

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Happy Birthday Jesus 53:36

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (Author) (December 24, 2023)By Nest Church

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Eliza Minot. "In the Orchard" (Knopf, 2023) 40:44

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A novel about womanhood, modern family, and the interior landscape of maternal life, as seen through the life of a young wife and mother on a single day. At night, Maisie Moore dreams that her life is perfect: the looming mortgages and credit card debt have magically vanished, and she can raise her four children, including newborn Esme, on an undul…

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EPISODE 67 | "Michael Jackson Vs. Karl Marx" (Feat. 1leob) 1:45:21

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On this episode of V N APE, the boys discuss: what the meaning of life is while V tries to defend absurdity, who had the bigger impact; Michael Jackson or Karl Marx?, Kanye back with another rant during his album party, is getting your ass licked/ate by a female considered gay?, is paying for pussy in a third world country considered abuse + much m…

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Meet Christmas 49:15

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (December 18, 2023)By Nest Church

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Booksellers' Best Books of 2023 50:17

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Every year one of my absolute favorite episodes is the Booksellers Best-Of episode for which I get to interview independent bookstore managers, owners, and booksellers about the books that meant the most to them over the course of a year. This year I welcome an exciting new bookseller to the program: Christine Bollow is the Co-Owner and Director of…

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Bryan Washington, "Family Meal" (Riverhead Books, 2023) 46:43

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From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss. Cam is living in Los Angeles and falling apart after the love of his life has died. Kai's ghost won't leave Cam alone; his spectral visits wild, tender, and unexpected. When …

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Christmas: We Wish To See Jesus 2:44:14

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Doug Kostowski (December 10, 2023)By Nest Church

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Julie Schumacher, "The English Experience" (Doubleday, 2023) 32:21

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Today I talked to Jule Schumacher about her new novel The English Experience (Doubleday, 2023). Jason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between…

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EPISODE 66 | "I'd Smash Sara Jay" (Feat. 1leob) 2:08:43

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Slow news week but the boys are still here to bring you that NEW V N APE each week! Joined by Leo, the boys discuss: Terrance Howards' "Terryology" & his whole theory on how 1 x 1 = 2, whether not we'd fuck Sara Jay since a lot of people on twitter claim she's not attractive, Derek Chauvin getting stabbed, our friend Yoshi's suggestions/critique on…

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Pastor Rigo Figueredo (December 03, 2023)By Nest Church

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Alexandra Chang, "Tomb Sweeping: Stories" (Ecco Press, 2023) 46:00

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Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping (Ecco Press, 2023) probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants. A woman known only to her neighbors a…

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