As Vatos Smiley and Chuy search for the true meaning of Valentine’s Day — and the place of amor in this troubled world — Smiley’s sister Angie sets them straight on how VDay REALLY works. [NSFW F-bomb.]
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Can Method Acting Turn A Minivan into ‘The Ranfla’? (video)
When the pinche Impala isn’t available to drive to the car show, actors Daniel Villarreal and Danny De La Paz, aka Big Puppet and Lil Puppet of American Me, use their elite Method Acting skills to turn a minivan into The Ranfla.
Mas…Can Method Acting Turn A Minivan into ‘The Ranfla’? (video)
Hey Vato! What do Smiley and Chuy really want for Christmas (video)
Vatos Chuy and Smiley made up a Christmas wish list, but they’re checking it twice!
‘Hey Vato!’: One does not simply ENJOY a Doyers game! (2014 video)
The Hey Vato! show’s Chuy and Smiley wonder if it’s possible to put away those childish things, and enjoy beisbol with Los Doyers.
Hey Vato! Smiley is really sick. Can Vicks® VapoRub™ help? (NSFW video)
In this new episode of the Hey Vato! show, Smiley is sick as hell and friends Chuy and sister Angie don’t know how to help. Vicks® VapoRub™? Aloe vera? Yerba buena? [NSFW language.]
Hey Vato! What do you really, really want for Christmas? (video)
Vatos Chuy and Smiley made up a Christmas wish list, but they’re checking it twice!
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Mas…Hey Vato! What do you really, really want for Christmas? (video)
Hey Vato! What will it be like for ‘Homies in the Future’? (NSFW video)
Special guest star SIRI gets name-checked as Chuy and Smiley consider what the future will bring in this latest episode of Hey Vato! [NSFW F-bomb.]
And don’t forget to check out Smiley and Chuy’s website where you can buy Hey Vato! t-shirts.
Hey Vato! Chuy and Angie discuss modern gender roles (NSFW video)
Hey Vato’s Chuy is hungry so asks his sister Angie to make some food, because that’s what women do, right? Angie is not in complete agreement. [NSFW adult language.]
Hey Vato! It’s ‘A Cholo Valentine’ (NSFW video)
As Vatos Smiley and Chuy search for the true meaning of Valentine’s Day — and the place of amor in this troubled world — Smiley’s sister Angie sets them straight on how VDay REALLY works. [F-bomb.]
Hey Vato! How to read emojis (video)
In the latest episode of Hey Vato!, Chuy gets a mysterious text message full of emojis from a potential ruca, and asks Smiley and his sister Angie explain what the symbols mean.
Hey Vato! Chuy wins the lottery, but what to do with the $$? (video)
When Chuy wins some money in the California SCRATCHER lottery, he consults with compa Smiley to discuss the most cost-effective use of the winning funds. Can sage advice from Dr. Sigmund Freud (making his first appearance in a Hey Vato! epsiode) clarify Chuy’s thinking?
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Hey Vato! It’s time for ‘Taco Talk’ with the Taco Lady (video)
When a Hey Vato! fan asks the Taco Lady how to make hard shell tacos like the ones in the box at the store, she has an answer, but probably not the one the viewer wanted.
Mas…Hey Vato! It’s time for ‘Taco Talk’ with the Taco Lady (video)
Hey Vato! Chuy needs to go but Angie is all ‘Chola Selfie’ (video)
It’s time for old girlfriends, secret tears and family dynamics in the latest episode of Hey Vato!
When Chuy’s sister Angie hogs the bathroom taking selfies, Smiley interrupts the subsequent sibling discussion with insight from author, artist and poet e.e. cummings.
Mas…Hey Vato! Chuy needs to go but Angie is all ‘Chola Selfie’ (video)
Hey Vato! Let me show you ‘how to talk to a hyna’ (video)
Sure that fine chica gave you her number, but what are you going to do to seal the deal? Hey Vato’s Chuy gives Smiley a lesson in how to talk to the hynas.
Hey Vato! If loving tacos is wrong, I don’t wanna be right (video)
The Hey Vato! homies have a change of heart about the tacos they get from the Taco Lady. Or is that heartburn?
Mas…Hey Vato! If loving tacos is wrong, I don’t wanna be right (video)
Hey Vato! The homies are ‘Dreaming of Selena’ (video)
East Los vatos Smiley and Chuy still have a soft spot for Selena, who died on March 31, 1995. Or is it Salinas?
Hey Vato! Are you staring at me? (NSFW video)
Hey Vato! Smiley and Chuy discuss the meaning of respect with a little help from existentialist soap tycoon Albert Camay. For a while, anyhow. [NSFW F-bomb.]
Hey Vato! This one is dedicated to Art Laboe (video)
Smiley and Chuy of Hey Vato! hop on the webcam to share their many feels about the apparent end of LA radio DJ Art Laboe’s famed oldies but goodies show – and the romantic dedications that helped “seal with deal” with many a hyna.
Hey Vato! What we really, really want for Christmas (video)
Vatos Chuy and Smiley made up a Christmas wish list, but they’re checking it twice!
PREVIOUSLY ON NIKE CORTEZ:
Mas…Hey Vato! What we really, really want for Christmas (video)
Hey Vato: What’s that smell? Is it the smell of Raiders football? (video)
Hey Vato’s Chuy, Smiley and the poet John Keats return to discuss the meaning of football, the love of Raider Nation and this pinche life in Bless Us Al Davis.
‘Hey Vato!’ returns with all-new episode: The Gun Show (NSFW video)
Working out is hard to do, as Hey Vato! homie Chuy pumps iron and homie Smiley ponders irony in a backyard in the barrio. (NSFW language.)
- Every Hey Vato! video here: Complete ‘Hey Vato!’ NSFW existential angst of Chuy y Smiley (videos)
Hey Vato! WTF are you typing on Feisbuk? ‘Friend me, ese!’ (video)
Our favorite existentially-troubled puppets Chuy and Smiley are back with the first new Hey Vato! episode of the fall season. It’s called Friend me, ese and it’s all about — you guessed it – beeches and Feisbuk. Guest star: Jane Austen.
Complete ‘Hey Vato!’ NSFW existential angst of Chuy y Smiley (videos)
When we heard one of our favorite Hey Vato! episodes (The Tattoo) would be screening at the San Francisco Frozen Film Festival we knew it was time for a special Sabado Ponchonte Saturday Night Video Festival featuring EVERY episode of our favorite web series, in order, so here they are. Hey Vatos! Orale!
Mas…Complete ‘Hey Vato!’ NSFW existential angst of Chuy y Smiley (videos)
Hey Vato! Zombies in the hood — and Winston Churchill (NSFW video)
Smiley and Chuy scramble to protect themselves from zombies in this episode of Hey Vato! Sir Winston Churchill provides some valuable context, but can a kid’s chemistry kit keep the vatos safe? (NSFW language.)
Ñewsweek: Epic movie, cafe con chile, chi-chis, tats, soy and Vagistan
“Reality, shmeality,” says Hollywood as it plans an epic film on Mexican-American history without any, you know, Chicanos: JLo stars as the Virgen de Guadalupe, Lou Diamond Phillips is Che Guevara and Elton John is cast as Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer.
And there’s trouble in Brand Land as Starbucks plans to test-market chile- and nopal-flavored drinks in East Los and agrichem conglomerate Monsanto‘s proposed soy chicharrones meet pushback from pro-pork protestors.
More minority babies where born in the U.S. last year than white babies and the invasion of little pishers from Vagistan has the usual suspects all riled up. Speaking of babies, columnist Maria Purisma‘s sad sex life sent her to Victoria’s Secret, and homeboy Chuy of the Hey Vato! crew wondered if new tats would make his new girlfriend more forthcoming.
The week’s big ñews links from POCHO are just a click away:
Mas…Ñewsweek: Epic movie, cafe con chile, chi-chis, tats, soy and Vagistan
Hey Vato! Tattoo or not tattoo, that is the question (NSFW video)
Chuy wants a new tattoo for his new lady love — in a special spot right over his heart. But, he wonders, is a new tat a symbol of undying devotion or merely another way to get the chicas to give it up? When Smiley pointedly asks about Chuy’s old girlfriend, an intense discussion ensues. (NSFW language.)
Ñewsweek: Chanclas, foreskins, gay political football, meaning of life
“If the chancla flies, your mom is wise,” noted defense attorney Juan E. Cocran told the court, and we’ve got video to prove it.
The epic flying chanclas video topped the list of big estories on POCHO this week, but only just squeezed out the Mexclusive guest editorial by GOP nominee wannabe Mexican Mitt Romney, the latest chapter in the existential quest of Chuy and Smiley in Hey Vato! and very intimate advice from Dear Abuelita.
Here are the links:
Mas…Ñewsweek: Chanclas, foreskins, gay political football, meaning of life
Hey Vato! Will new rims make my life better? (NSFW video)
Chuy’s car might look a whole lot better with new rims, but is that really the way to improve one’s life, or to score with the ladies? Smiley offers an alternative approach to the existential question. (NSFW language.)
Ñewsweek: MEChA makeover, French tribe in Puebla, MX, Hey Vato!
It’s so last century, the new generation of Chicano students say, and the hard-to-pronounce-and-explain name for venerable activist organization M.E.Ch.A has to change! POCHO covered the explosive debate and published your reader comments in this week’s biggest story.
And history came alive as anthropologists discovered a previously-lost tribe of Frenchman living in caves near the city of Puebla, MX. Are they a remnant of the troops sent by Napoleon III in 1862?
Keep on reading — we’ve got the latest ñews on Cinco de Mayo, the Hey Vato! homies discuss the Raider’s Nation, Romney’s campaigning parrot and more:
Mas…Ñewsweek: MEChA makeover, French tribe in Puebla, MX, Hey Vato!
Ñewsweek: Abuelita and the ticking baby clock, no cholo too loco
She needed help — a woman approaching 40 who wanted kids but had no realistic baby daddy in sight. Thankfully, she decided to write Dear Abuelita for advice, who gave her way more guidance than she was expecting.
And in a very special video about Cholo Rescue Services, the gentle strength of The Cholo Whisperer turns a misbehaving cholo loco into a warm companion everyone loves.
These were the stories breaking the ñews on POCHO this week:
Mas…Ñewsweek: Abuelita and the ticking baby clock, no cholo too loco
Ñewsweek: Karma 90210, Colombian high, Abuelita licks frog problem
Karma or koincidence?
- POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz spoke to a digital media industry panel at the Taberna Mexicana in Beverly Hills in February
- After the panel, a lady outside the restaurant profiled Lalo as the valet parking guy and wanted him to retrieve her vehicle
- Taberna Mexicana suddenly closed last week
We’ve got Lalo’s Big Beverly Hills Adventure and this week’s other big stories below. POCHO.com — breaking the ñews on and off since 1997.
Mas…Ñewsweek: Karma 90210, Colombian high, Abuelita licks frog problem
Chuy, Smiley, Bob Barker, Drew Cary star in ‘Hey Vato!’ (NSFW video)
The Price Is Right game show and a public service announcement inspire the Hey Vato! couch potatoes Smiley (left, in the bandanna) and Chuy to reconsider their personal policies on spaying and neutering their pets, and, in a broader, more holistic sense, their life priorities. (NSFW language.)