The Punch-Up: Minisode #4 - Thulio Quits the Chat, Rubén Goes to the Movies
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
Release Date: 04/21/2026
189. CHRISTINA PIÑA
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
A DRIVEN LATINA WRITER shares growing up in a loud Cuban-American Miami household, secretly applying to USC against her dad’s wishes, cutting her teeth through years of assistant jobs before breaking in through the Paramount Writers Mentoring Program, rising from staff writer to supervising producer, breaking down strategies for how Latino writers can survive in a shifting industry, and writing on the new Miami-set NBC/Peacock series M.I.A.! Instagram - @lalistapodcast Music: Arriba Mami - Jingle Punks
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The Punch-Up: Minisode #5 - Rubén Gets Face-Mogged at Sephora, Thulio Is TJ Maxxing
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
This week: Thulio survives a UTI (Rat Beach will pay for its crimes), summer is coming (Lorde hive rise), The Devil Wears Prada 2 review, Beyoncé Act III conspiracy theories, and TV fellowship season is among us... let’s get in formation. Plus a Punch-Up on looksmaxxers... and immigrant stories that still treat us like set dressing. La Lista Podcast host and writer ditch the formal interviews and hop on the mic for quick, unfiltered conversations about their chaotic creative lives — covering new writing projects, hot takes on industry trends, dating disasters, and whatever discourse the...
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188. PHILIPPE BOWGEN
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
A CHAOTIC AND RELENTLESS FIRST-GEN LATINO WRITER shares growing up between Peruvian and British cultures in wealthy, white Connecticut, hiding his sexuality at an all-boys prep school while striving to excel at everything, abandoning a path to diplomacy for acting and writing, and how his obsession with messy families, identity, and belonging inspired The Set Up, a scripted podcast from Sonoro and iHeartRadio. Instagram - @lalistapodcast Music: Arriba Mami - Jingle Punks
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The Punch-Up: Minisode #4 - Thulio Quits the Chat, Rubén Goes to the Movies
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
This week: Closing night of Brown & Out, defining Club Tempo trade, Sizzler hot bar theology, Alex-on-Alix podcast beef, and Ruben walks back his “cinema is dead” thesis. Plus a Punch-Up on flaky gay guy group chats... and influencers getting paid to tell you how to vote. La Lista Podcast host and writer ditch the formal interviews and hop on the mic for quick, unfiltered conversations about their chaotic creative lives — covering new writing projects, hot takes on industry trends, dating disasters, and whatever discourse the algorithm served them that morning. Instagram -...
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187. GLENÍS HUNTER
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
A VOCAL MULTIETHNIC MULTI-HYPHENATE WRITER shares growing up between the Bronx and the Dominican Republic, leaving behind a path in psychology to pursue acting and storytelling, exploring themes of identity and grief in her short films, and breaking through with the Netflix-sponsored LALIFF Inclusion Fellowship and the Mitú x Walmart Filmmaker Mentorship Program. Instagram - @lalistapodcast Music: Arriba Mami - Jingle Punks
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The Punch-Up: Minisode #3 - Rubén Is Sick, Thulio Gets Bimbofied
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
This week: Opening night of Brown & Out (Thulio’s playwright era unlocked), theater audiences treating it like a group chat, bimbofication scandals, Sisters in Christ burritos, and the WGA staff strike exposing how unaffordable LA really is. Plus a Punch-Up on indie artists who won’t drop their music… and moderates who keep flopping. La Lista Podcast host and writer ditch the formal interviews and hop on the mic for quick, unfiltered conversations about their chaotic creative lives — covering new writing projects, hot takes on industry trends, dating disasters, and whatever...
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186. ALEJANDRO MONTOYA MARÍN
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
A "VIVA INDIE" LATINO WRITER & FILMMAKER shares growing up between Laredo and Merida, opening a video store in Monterrey before taking the leap to film school in Vancouver, grinding for years in New Mexico before landing on Robert Rodriguez’s Rebel Without a Crew: The Series, and how betting on himself led to his latest action comedy The Unexpecteds on Tubi, backed by indie film champion Kevin Smith. Instagram - @lalistapodcast Music: Arriba Mami - Jingle Punks
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The Punch-Up: Minisode #2 - Thulio Survives MomTok, Rubén Touches Grass
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
This week: Fellowship rejection season is upon us (and the girls are coping), Thulio goes full Heated Rivalry at an LA Kings game, the male loneliness epidemic (but make it queer), Mormon MomTok chaos, and Ruben’s take on why AI in Hollywood is a very expensive nothing burger. Plus a Punch-Up on Hollywood’s lack of emotionally resonant TV... and the gays being way too horny in IG Reels comments. La Lista Podcast host and writer ditch the formal interviews and hop on the mic for quick, unfiltered conversations about their chaotic creative lives — covering new writing projects, hot takes...
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185. MAOR
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
A QUIRKY LATINA WRITER shares her upbringing in Miami between Honduran and Moroccan Jewish cultures, discovering improv and comedy as a way to channel her outsider perspective, moving to Los Angeles after studying screenwriting at UCLA, surviving the pandemic and strikes while building a creative life in Hollywood, and how years of writing, collaboration, and persistence led to her first TV writing credit on Peacock’s emerging creator series The Kouncil, Telemundo’s first English-language series. Instagram - @lalistapodcast Music: Arriba Mami - Jingle Punks
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The Punch-Up: Minisode #1 - Rubén Is Vertical-Pilled, Thulio Wants Secret Friends
LA LISTA: A Latinx Writers Podcast
This week: Thulio’s Sniffies hookup story (including a brutal gym neg), writing plays at the LA LGBT Center, Selena Gomez foot-kissing discourse, a long-awaited job update (!!), and Rubén’s unhinged thesis that vertical micro-dramas are the next streaming revolution. La Lista Podcast host and writer ditch the formal interviews and hop on the mic for quick, unfiltered conversations about their chaotic creative lives — covering new writing projects, hot takes on industry trends, dating disasters, and whatever discourse the algorithm served them that morning. Instagram - @lalistapodcast...
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Closing night of Brown & Out, defining Club Tempo trade, Sizzler hot bar theology, Alex-on-Alix podcast beef, and Ruben walks back his “cinema is dead” thesis.
Plus a Punch-Up on flaky gay guy group chats... and influencers getting paid to tell you how to vote.
La Lista Podcast host Rubén Mendive and writer Thulio DaSilva ditch the formal interviews and hop on the mic for quick, unfiltered conversations about their chaotic creative lives — covering new writing projects, hot takes on industry trends, dating disasters, and whatever discourse the algorithm served them that morning.
Instagram - @lalistapodcast
Music: Sunny Side - Airstream