Chino Y Chicano
The Chino Y Chicano podcast began on December 22, 2022 with co-hosts Matt Chan (The Chino) and Enrique Cerna (The Chicano).
Chan and Cerna spent their careers making television. Chan was the creator of the cable television series Hoarders. Cerna was a Seattle broadcast journalist who somehow was never fired during his 43 year career. Their podcast mission was to dish on the good, bad and ugly that people of color face in America. They took up the complexities of race, and sought out people far more interesting than they could ever be.
On March 30, 2024, Matt Chan passed away after battling kidney cancer. Enrique Cerna made a commitment to continue the podcast in his honor.
The Chino Y Chicano podcast partners with Converge Media to present UNFILTERED, a no holds barred conversation featuring Cerna, former Seattle City Council member Deborah Juarez and Converge Media founder Omari Salisbury. Take a listen to all the episodes presented. The content might piss you off, but you might also learn something.
Episodes
144 episodes
Ep 143 Former U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke
Gary Locke is a former two term Governor of Washington state and the former U.S. Ambassador to China in the Obama Administration. He weighs in on the Trump Administration tariffs that sparked the current trade war between the U.S. and China. Lo...
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Ep 142 Si Se Puede United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero
UFW President Teresa Romero speaks out on the need to support farm workers in a time of mass deportations and political upheaval. Romero has been the United Farm Workers President since 2018. She is the first woman to hold the UFW's t...
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Ep 141 The Federal Budget Cuts: A widow and single mother speaks out.
Laura Longinotti is worried and angry about the Trump Administration’s chainsaw approach to cutting federal funding and the federal government workforce. As a widow and single mother with a young child with special needs, she is fearful the cut...
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Chino Y Chicano Ep 140 The L.A.Wildfires: Life after Loss
Elaine and Chaz McEwan are two of the thousands to lose their home to the Los Angeles wildfires in January. They had some 20 minutes to gather belongings as the fire surrounded their Pacific Palisades home. On this episode, the McEwans share th...
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Ep 139 Malou Chavez, Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Malou Chavez is the Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. She talks with Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna about the Trump Administration's crackdown on undocumented immigrants and the importance of knowing your rights ...
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Ep 138 Dave Sims, New York Yankees Radio Voice
At the age of 72, Major League Baseball broadcaster Dave Sims is starting a new job as the New York Yankees radio play-by-play voice. He replaces the legendary John Sterling who retired at the end of the 2024 season after 36 years calling Yanke...
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Ep 137 Author Tim Heaphy on Rising Threats to Democracy
On the morning of Donald Trump’s second Inauguration Day, Tim Heaphy learned President Joe Biden issued a preemptive pardon for his role as the Chief Investigative Counsel of the House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate the Janu...
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Ep 136 Jaime Mendez, Se Habla Media on Fear gripping Spanish Speaking Immigrants
Jaime Mendez says fear of mass deportations promised by the Trump Administration has the Spanish speaking immigrant community on edge in Washington state. Mendez hosts a nightly online Spanish language newscast where talk of ICE (Immigration an...
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Ep 135 Dr. Karen Thomas Brown on the Demonization of DEI.
Dr. Karen Thomas Brown is the Dean of Washington State University's College of Education. In an insightful conversation with Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna, Dr. Thomas Brown says DEI is not dead, but under political attack. She says the dem...
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Ep 134 Former WSU Football Great Jack Thompson on Jake Dickert's Departure.
Former WSU football great Jack Thompson talks about his phone conversation with now former WSU Head Football Coach Jake Dickert about his decision to leave for a new head coaching job at Wake Forrest University. Dickert's departure stunned Coug...
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Ep 133 Psychologist Karla Blanco on Uncertainty and Anxiety as Trump returns.
Uncertainty and Anxiety. That is what many are feeling as Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House. Add to that unpredictability, a hallmark of the first Trump administration. We are seeing that now with the people nominated for top g...
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Ep 132 Writer, Director, Producer Phillip Bobo on Football, Hollywood, Attitude and Humility
Phillip Bobo works in Hollywood as a writer, director and producer. His journey to working in the entertainment field is compelling and definitely worth a listen. As he tells Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna, it's a journey that began a...
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Ep 131 Remembering Fernando Valenzuela
On October 22nd, Los Angeles Dodger great Fernando Valenzuela passed away at the age of 63. Known as El Toro, the hefty left handed pitcher created Fernando Mania in the early 80s when he joined the Dodgers, becoming a fan favorite and a hero i...
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Ep 130 Election Hangover
As we recover from the 2024 Election, Enrique Cerna shares some thoughts about what has happened and what is to come.
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Ep 129 UNFILTERED A Seattle Anti-Violence Advocate, Fentanyl, and a Federal Indictment
The UNFILTERED trio of Debora Juarez, Omari Salisbury and Enrique Cerna discuss the shocking indictment earlier this month of a Seattle anti-violence advocate and her family members for allegedly being a part of a multi-state fentanyl drug traf...
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Ep 128 UNFILTERED Seattle Channel Cuts
The UNFILTERED trio is back. Segment 1 00:50 to 15:08Former Seattle City Council member Debora Juarez, Converge Media's Omari Salisbury and Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna talk about the eighth anniversary of Converge Media, t...
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Ep 127 Political Scientist Maria Chavez on the Latino Vote and its shift to the right.
Dr. Maria Chavez is the chair of the political science department at Pacific Lutheran University where she specializes in American government, public policy, Latino as well as racial and ethnic policies. She has published four books about Latin...
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Ep 126 Chief Judge Veronica Galvan, King County Juvenile Court
King County is experiencing a surge in juvenile crime and in particular serious violent crimes involving guns. More young people have been shot and killed so far this year in King County than all of 2023. Judge Veronica Galvan of King Co...
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Ep 125 Historian/Author Rick Shenkman on Project 2025
Historian and author Rick Shenkman breaks down Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for taking over the federal government if Donald Trump is elected again to the presidency.
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Ep 124 Unfiltered: The Donald vs Kamala, Duty to Vote, Curbing Gun Violence
Another UNFILTERED conversation with former Seattle City Council member Debora Juarez, Converge Media founder Omari Salisbury and Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna. The trio takes up the Harris/Trump race; young people and why they shou...
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Ep 123 Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven González
Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna talks with Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice Steven González about the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on Presidential immunity, ethical questions involving justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, d...
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Ep 122 UNFILTERED with Debora Juarez, Omari Salisbury and Enrique Cerna
This episode was recorded the day after former Seattle Police Chief Adrian Diaz appeared on the Jason Rantz radio show where he denied accusations of misconduct from female staff members. In the interview, Diaz also came out as gay. We br...
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Ep 121 Author/Activist Luis Miranda, Jr.
On this episode, Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna talks with author/ activist Luis Miranda, Jr. about his new memoir, RELENTLESS: My Story of the Latino Spirit That Is Transforming America. He may be...
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Ep 120 UNFILTERED Protests and Business Backtrack on DEI
Chino Y Chicano/ Converge Media present another episode of UNFILTERED with former Seattle City Council member Debora Juarez and Converge Media founder Omari Salisbury. They joined Chino Y Chicano host Enrique Cerna to examine the impact of the ...
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