LA Dream

LA Dream


Latest Episodes

#118 - Gustavo Arellano - Pepe Aguilar, Mezcal and more
September 16, 2019

Gustavo Arellano is back! This time our friend has a front page feature on Pepe Aguilar. That's right FRONT PAGE! We get into how the story happened, the background of doing a long feature and more. Story: In a city that loves rags-to-riches stories,...

#117 - Solo Talk
September 09, 2019

Quick solo Monday talk. It really is about "Living YOUR Dream!"  

#116 - Statistically Speaking
September 03, 2019

In 2002 I meet play-by-play announcer Jose Mota, and things take a big turn. Come 2003, I'm keeping stats at a Dodgers game, but did I know what I was doing? Yeah right. Still made it happen, and got my first credential. Never say no. 

#115 - Tito Rodriguez - The Hood Santa
August 26, 2019

Sitting down with Tito Rodriguez this time, learning about his rough beginnings in the LBC, his non-profit organization, “Local Hearts Foundation,” producing platinum hip-hop tracks, the formation of his band, “The Pricks,” and how he came to...

#114 - Nick Valencia
August 21, 2019

Nick Valencia is back! This time he talks about his ongoing coverage on the crisis at the border, lets us in on the contents of his "bad day bag." We also discuss the hashtag #MoreLatinosInNews, what it's like being inside of an immigration detention...

#113 - Calling the Shots
August 05, 2019

December 2013.  I get offered a job by Golden Boy Promotions to call a fight. Had no experience in the boxing world, but why not? By March, I was calling fights on National TV. Here’s the story of my leap into boxing.

#112 - Where The Dream Started
July 31, 2019

From needing a surgery, to unexpectedly figuring out what the dream was. Here's the story of my first internship, which sparked the interest of a young Humberto, and molded the path from then, all the way to the present day.

#111 - Still Living The Dream
July 27, 2019

A quick solo episode just catching up on life, and talking what the  next steps are in this journey of Living The Dream, and this podcast, as well.

#110 - Phillip Palmer - ABC Anchor
April 12, 2019

From an attempted music major to ABC News, LA’s Phillip Palmer talks finding his way to journalism at Northeast Louisiana University, starting his career as a radio sportscaster, being in Iraq a month after Saddam Hussein’s capture, and donating a...

#109 - Gustavo Arellano
March 26, 2019

Gustavo Arellano is back. He talks about going back to being a reporter, working at the LA Times, Getting into "The New Yorker" with tamales and pozole, Leaving OC Weekly, and just Living the Dream all of 2018!