Halal Cartels

We discuss the ephemeral nature of empire.  Gabe is still on a Silence of the Lambs kick. Mexico City gets an endorsement as the most Blade Runner City in North America. Sameer auditions with the board of tourism and cultural affairs in India, giving the country a glowing 5 star review and many travel tips. We visit Gorakhpur and Kushinagar, the birthplace of the Buddha. For some reason Marri...

We talk about Covid scares in public schools, parents should be the vanguard, the Heist on Netflix, growing up in a city versus a suburb, unsustainable sprawl, Not Just Bikes youtube channel, Amsterdam, affairs are actually good for the marriage and families, and the Olympics is still happening, contaminating and militarizing a community near you!  The butterfly effect of the 911 attack on th...

Teaching unvaccinated elementary school kids, apologizing on Twitter, unbreakable Comanche and Mapuche Nations, antibiotic resistant Russian pneumonia, Dunning Kruger Effect, Monkey Pox, Toxic Positivity, American Destructive Optimism, Mike Davis' Set the Night on Fire: LA in the Sixties, Gusanos vs the New Left, Alpha 66, Pastel Activism, Libya, Pink Washing, Covid Variants Gabe Pacheco IG: ...

Yoga with Adriene, MMA training, Brazilian Thongs, Black Summer, I Think You Should Leave, David Choe, Planet of the Humans, Greenwashing, Cruise Ships are Ecoterrorism, Haitian Assassins Halal Cartels is hosted by Gabe Pacheco, a Chicano comedian with a background in education Sameer Naseem, an Indian American comedian and marketing maven Two products of the Global South talking trash and centeri...

Episode Description: We talk about the impact of colorism in The Heights (HBO) and how Sameer hates musicals, the book "Blitzed" Nazi pharmaceutical endeavors, Ritalin, why the Olympics are trash, favelas, and poverty tourism. We also dig into the current housing crisis and the filthy scams that are endemic to the real estate market, the concept of redlining and where Central Park came from. Do yo...

This week we touch on Climate Change, Power Black Outs, Bikram Yoga, Weighted Blankets, Targeted Advertising, Surveillance Capitalism,Donald Rumsfeld, Blackwater, Private Mercenary Armies, Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia, Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud, DB Cooper, The Guest (2014), Gulf War Syndrome, Hijacking Airplanes, The Skies Belong to US, the Cold War, PLO vs Hamas, Carlos The Jackal Halal Cartel...

Today we talk about the End of California and Miami, Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom, the Puerto Rico Statehood pickle, and Jamon Ibérico. Eat your landlords my friends. Halal Cartels is hosted by  Gabe Pacheco, a Chicano comedian with a background in education and Sameer Naseem, an Indian American comedian and marketing maven Two products of the Global South talking trash and centering ours...

Today we talk about affluent people waiting in lines, Exterminate All the Brutes, Andrew Jackson, Vaccine Public Relations, and the Irish Halal Cartels is hosted by  Gabe Pacheco, a Chicano comedian with a background in education and Sameer Naseem, an Indian American comedian and marketing maven Two products of the Global South talking trash and centering ourselves at the heart of culture and...