Gadiel Del Orbe
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Latino New York comedy with a pulse.
The Gadiel Del Orbe Show is a rapid, personal, New York-and-Dominican comedy podcast built around whatever has Gadiel heated that week. Airline fees, dating apps, stand-up anxiety, viral creators, politics, and family economics all get pulled into the same restless conversation.
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The Gadiel Del Orbe Show is a fast, personal comedy podcast where the week arrives already boiling. Gadiel talks like the thought is happening in real time. A cheap Spirit Airlines ticket becomes a full case against hidden fees. A date in Los Angeles turns into a larger complaint about dating in New York, restaurant prices, phone behavior, and the cost of having a family. A solo episode about chasing a dream at 39 becomes a raw check-in on stand-up, ADHD, discipline, friendship, and the fear of quitting. The show keeps moving. It repeats. It swerves. It laughs at itself before making the point cleaner than expected. The register is Latino New York, Dominican pride, creator hustle, comedy-club exhaustion, and group-chat outrage, all compressed into a weekly monologue that refuses to sound sanitized. Guest episodes add a different charge. Norberto Briceño helps turn a conversation about psychopaths and sociopaths toward politics, empathy, and power. Kenstarrrz brings the internet-creator lane, Hot 97 visibility, and the reality of going viral. Mr. Nueva Yol brings bilingual chaos around comedy, content, immigration jokes, and online stunts. Black Rose and Norberto bring returning-podcast energy, stand-up talk, history content, and Bronx comedy-room stories. Even when the show is joking, it keeps circling real pressures: money, identity, ambition, dating, social media performance, and what it takes to keep going when the dream stops feeling romantic. It suits listeners who like their comedy commentary hot, informal, culturally specific, and emotionally exposed. The show is not tidy. That is the point. It feels like a creator opening the laptop, pulling up the week’s mess, and letting the audience watch him argue his way into a truth.
Made for: For listeners who want comedy commentary shaped by Dominican-New-York culture, creator life, dating frustration, and real-time internet reaction. It fits people who like blunt solo energy with guest banter rather than polished panel analysis.
What sets it apart: The show’s edge is its mix of comic rant, personal confession, and cultural pride: Gadiel can move from airline fees to ADHD to politics without losing the room. It feels less like a format than a weekly pressure release.
The Gadiel Del Orbe Show is your weekly, high-energy dive into comedy, culture & trending topics—served with Gadiel’s signature Dominican-New-York swagger. Every Wednesday we sit down with the funniest creators, boldest entrepreneurs, and loudest loquitos shaping Latino pop culture. Expect off-the-rails storytelling, spicy hot-takes, and the kind of real talk your group chat wishes it had.
Gadiel turns a Spirit baggage fee into the grievance your group chat forgot to file.
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A Spirit fee fight turns into a funny airline rant, softened by a warm Napa Valley opening.
A cheap Spirit ticket becomes a $150 grudge, and the host gets plenty of mileage out of the math. The complaint starts with a $75 checked bag, a $75 carry-on, and a same-day cancellation policy, then turns into a full feud with the airline.
A New York dating rant that turns $19 cocktails into family economics.
Dating in New York is treated here as a ledger of restaurant tabs, $19 cocktails, and the small indignity of being asked to take a date's photos while vanishing from the picture.
Charm, empathy, and office power get pulled into one blunt conversation.
Norberto returns with a loose, jagged conversation that opens on a friend-group argument about psychopaths and sociopaths, then keeps widening into empathy, charm, and how harmful people can still appear impressively put together.
A gratitude-first solo set that moves from monetization news to a colmado dance floor.
Thank-you note turns into a loose solo set about monetization, listener loyalty, and the strange feeling of starting over after building something once.
A direct, personal monologue that turns a racism debate into a vivid cultural argument.
The episode frames a listener check-in as a firm confrontation with anti-Blackness in Dominican podcasts and videos. Its line of thought stays steady even as it widens, returning to how racism in the Dominican Republic is being normalized on camera before moving into pride in…
Technology where culture actually lives.
Creative work, personal stories and affectionate interruptions.
Peter Sagal leads NPR's live news quiz, pairing celebrity guests with listener call-in games.
A stranger calls. Chris Gethard listens. Anything can surface.
Manolo López describes Cafe Colmado in New York’s Lower East Side as a cultural gathering place disguised as a coffee shop.
Gadiel Del Orbe recounts attending Latino Hive in Napa Valley, where he met Al Madrigal and heard that Latino buying power is about $3.4 trillion.
The Gadiel Del Orbe Show examines whether dating in New York City is financially unsustainable, citing an estimated $180 average date and $19 cocktails.
In The Gadiel Del Orbe Show, 39-year-old Gadiel describes the strain of chasing stand-up comedy while working for himself.
Norberto is back.
The host reflects on his recent emotional struggles, ADHD-related rumination, and experiences with stand-up comedy performances.
This episode features an interview with Ken Stone, a content creator who went viral multiple times on Instagram before facing repeated account deletions, discussing his journey and impact in the culture.
Mr.
This episode critiques the manosphere and exposes why self-proclaimed 'alpha males' are actually frauds, featuring guests Black Rose and Norberto.
The host shares a simple but transformative piece of advice from a friend named Bradley during his time in the navy that completely changed his life's trajectory.
The host opens by thanking the people who keep showing up.
The host returns after Valentine's Day with a fresh update.
This episode features a conversation with Mr.
This episode discusses the backlash against Adidas's huaraches collaboration with designer Willie Chavarria, exploring whether it's cultural appropriation or appreciation, and touches on related cultural issues.
Two friends reminisce about their early days in LA comedy, including a disastrous unpaid gig at a Mexican restaurant, before discussing a dramatic story involving a hitman and faked death.
The hosts discuss the impact of a Love Island contestant's actions on Dominican men's reputation, touching on colorism and the Irma Hernandez tragedy.