The Lowride Worldwide Podcast: Recent Episodes
John Ulloa
Ricardo Cortez (@tijuanarickart) sits down to talk about his community art project: teaching youth color bar technology, lowrider history, and community building. His program was highly effective and successful. This episode shows how one person's passion for teaching and learning can have a positive impact by giving back and investing in our youth and our communities.
Dionicio "Dino" Garcia is a member of Frisco's Finest Car Club, and a community college counselor. Eugene "Spanks" Hernandez is President of the Imperials Car Club, and he is a retired administrator from the Los Angeles Unified School District. They were kind enough to come through and talk to me about the "language" of lowriding, and building cultural fluency in the process. The goal?? - to breakdown existing stereotypes that exist within lowriding, and we explore different ways in which lowriding is communicated.
Topics include:
- Community building
- Political activism
- History
- Car Club membership
- Identity
Enjoy!
Raul and I sat down on Whittier Boulevard in Montebello, CA to talk about an array of issues relating to culture, traditions, our individual and collective mission with what we do, and why we do it. Enjoy!
Pauly sits down to talk about the old days of Story and King in San Jose, street vs. show, competition, and more!
Originally from New Zealand, Andrew Lister has been living in Los Angeles for awhile now. He sits down to talk about how he came into lowriding while living in NZ, and the scene there as well as his contributions to working on the film McFarland, USA as a lowrider consultant. Enjoy!
You might know him as Chuco Avila from the film Boulevard Nights or Big Puppet from American Me. Danny De La Paz is a lowriding cultural ambassador, and he sits down with John to talk about his career and reminisce about lowriding past and present, his appearances, and connecting with people. Enjoy!
Adam Tyson from Majestics, Australia sits down to talk about the Australian lowriding scene, a bit of his travels, and more... Enjoy!
Fern is a lowrider, tattooer, co-founder of Esse Skate Company, and he sits down to talk about working with the youth outreach and positivity, skateboarding, and more. Enjoy! This is a good one!!!
The Espinoza Brothers sit down to talk about the lowriding scene in Japan, and they give me their take on things. We discuss a whole bunch of topics including the establishing of Deadend Japan, car shows, the scene, its people, developing of lowriding in Japan, it's "peak", and the future. Enjoy!
Joe sits down and talks with John about his experience as a lowrider, a publisher, and editor of two publications dedicated to promoting lowriding in a positive way. Joe also speaks on lowriding in Australia and Japan. Enjoy!
Unless you've been living under a rock...
Estevan Oriol: lowrider, photographer, filmmaker, and so much more..... sits down with John to talk about lowriding, his body of artistic work, and global perspectives on the culture. We hope you enjoy this great conversation!
My good friend Joe Lomeli is an old school lowrider, and he and his brothers were a huge inspiration in my youth. The Lomeli Brothers were neighborhood guys who lived it! Joe talks about growing up back in the day, his bike, his builds, and lowriding past, present, and future. Enjoy!
World renown tattooer Chuco Moreno sits down to talk about various topics: Chicanismo, carnalismo, art, history, culture, cars, lowriding, and more... This was recorded awhile back, but the conversation is rich with great topics and stories. Enjoy!
Kenny sits down to talk lowriding in New Zealand, his builds, the Carnales Car Club, and their dedication to 70s style period-correctness. Enjoy!
Donny Alonzo from Low Creations Car Club and Jerry Griego, an original member of Low Creations sit down in what was really an impromptu, but robust conversation about the connection between Hip-Hop and lowriding, old school lowriding, and old school San Francisco lowriding, and what is was like "back in the day." Enjoy this perspective from a couple of elders in the game. Enjoy!
In this episode, guest Sonia Gonzales, aka "Lowrider Mama" sits down to talk lowriding from a woman's perspective. Sonia is a member of Untouchables Car Club out of Stockton, CA. She shares her stories about growing up lowriding in San Jose, and the influence of her family, and those Sunday cruises as a big influence in her becoming a lowrider. Enjoy!
Welcome to the Lowride Worldwide Podcast. In this trailer episode, host John Ulloa explains the purpose of the podcast, and invites you, the listener to ride along on this journey with him as he talks to lowriders from all over the world.