Hand Me Down Podcast

Happy 2024! We are thrilled to be starting the new year with all of you! For the first episode of the year Natalia and Alan take a little stroll down memory lane and revisit their Spotify (and Apple Music) wrapped and replays. They also discuss some of the movies that they watched in 2023 (Bottoms, Oppenheimer, Barbie, Elvis, and Speed Racer), weird list we know, please leave us alone. Finally the...

Hohoho! Join us today as we celebrate the holidays with the last episode of the year! We build gingerbread houses while talking about everything Christmas. During the second half we shift gears to finally review "Blue Beatle" (2023). Natalia and Alan then mention how 2023 has been a great year for Latino movies and then rank the ones that they have seen! You are not going to want to miss...

Have you seen the movie "Radical" (2023) starring Eugenio Derbez? Whether that answer is yes or no, join us as we review (spoiler free) and analyze this wonderful piece of film that will go down as one of the best movies of the year! Before all that goodness Natalia and Alan discuss job rejections and their thanksgiving weekends! Thank you for listening and enjoy the episode! Follow us o...

Come one come and all to another studious episode of the podcast! We have notes, we have scholarly articles, but before we talk about how the media affects the way we perceive latinos, we are gonna talk about some bs! Join us for the very unserious first part of the episode where we talk about mormons, noogies, double P, Drakes cartoon shenanigans, the uncanny valley trend, and the famous AI Bad B...

Join us as we properly introduce you to our associate producer, Milena Ortega! Listen as she takes us through the journey of her Latinidad growing up as a Chilean/Venezuelan American in California where a large portion of the Latino population is of Mexican decent. She also talks about moving away from home for the first time and the mental health challenges that came with that. Before all that se...

After a week long hiatus we are back! Listen as we give a little review of the cinematic master piece Five Nights at Freddie's, and the move into talking about a real masterpiece 'Real Women Have Curves.' Listen as we analyze and talk about how such a great film went under the radar and compare the similarities to Lady Bird. While both films are great and do so much in terms on women r...

BOO! Did we scare you? Well maybe by listening to our Halloween special you might get a little frightened. In this special edition of the podcast we make up a spooky story while implementing certain halloween props that we pick at random from a spooky basket. Then as any good latinos, we spend the second half of the episode comparing and contrasting two Dia de los Muertos movies(Coco and the Book...

Welcome one and all to another episode! Not just any episode but today is special because we have our first guest ! Selene Alvarez is a Mexican American Latina filmmaker from Los Angeles, join us as we discuss the pressing issues, like Bad Bunny’s new album, she presents us her hand me down object, and then we discuss her past and previous work including her new short film ‘Ravine’ which tackles t...

Nothing is scarier to a first and second generation latino than pushing art as as a career. In this episode Natalia and Alan dive deep into their experience as they chose to pursue filmmaking. Before all that terror, they discuss Bad Bunny and the back lash he's been receiving as well as their favorite halloween specials growing up. As they talk about Goosebumps they realize a new show is comi...

On this ghoulish episode of the podcast, Natalia and Alan discuss everything ghosts, duendes, and brujas. Listen as they react to Mexican duende and bruja videos. After all the spooky fun is over they transition to talk about the music they listened to growing up as latinos and how that affected what they listen to today. Give to todays episode a listen before we tell the duendes ! Follow us on In...

What do Hot Cheetos and Chocolate Abuelita have in common? According to Alan they are both going to be banned in the US, listen as Natalia and Alan discuss these obvious attacks against the Latino community in todays episode. After a crying sesh over the loss of Hot Cheetos they move on to discuss Latino representation that they saw in the media as kids growing up in the 2000s, these works extend...

While looking glamorous in the new lighting set up, besties Alan and Natalia explore the viral videos that have come across their social media; one being fun, while the other... a little questionable. After singing about bilingual dogs and proposing the #raiseyourkidsrightchallenge, they take a deep dive into the new Amazon Prime film, A Million Miles Away (2023, Dir. Alejandra Marquez) starring M...

Best friends Natalia and Alan kick off their first podcast episode with a bang! After a quick introduction, they hop into talking about something that was handed down to both of them through the course of their life and explore the lore behind it. After that they discuss their own Latino stereotypes or archetypes that they currently inhabit or have taken apart of. Alan talks about being a "Me...

We are Hand Me Down Podcast! Join us as we have studious yet comical conversations about the Latino world around us! We talk about multigenerational latine issues, latino representation in film and tv, and also stupid trends on Tik Tok and pop culture! Come laugh and think with us! Hand Me Down Podcast is hosted by Natalia Delgado and Alan Gallardo, two UCLA alumni who studied film and communicati...