Episodes 62
Avg. Duration 54m
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Apple Rating 5.0 (15)
Since Jun 2025
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Expat life in Mexico City: interviews and solo dispatches about language, culture, and what it really feels like to leave your life behind and move to CDMX.

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S2 Free Tequila

Jun 13, 2026 16m Bonus Transcript

I got sick, got antibiotics from a tip-jar doctor, and came back to life right as the World Cup kicked off here in Mexico City. The city went dead quiet, then erupted. I Watched Mexico win from a…

S2 A Sick Anniversary

Jun 03, 2026 25m Bonus Transcript

Celebrating one year of the podcast from Mexico City, where strangers wish you a good meal and toilets overflow without warning. Illness, isolation, ten M&M's in a bag, the kindness of a movie…

S2 La Noche Es Femenina

May 26, 2026 24m Bonus Transcript

The inevitable loneliness of starting a new life. Also I got strapped into a bungee harness with four women and zero Spanish comprehension, learned that The Simpsons is apparently funnier in Spanish,…

S2E50 Colonists, Duolingo's Dirty Secret and a Million Pesos with Chris Casey

May 20, 2026 1h 2m

SEASON TWO PREMIERE! Chris Casey is back. I find out he actually was an expat — Abu Dhabi, year and a half, government-financed apartment, walked around like he owned the place. We talk about when I…

S1E49 Conversations, Confessions & Cow Testicles

May 14, 2026 1h 1m Transcript

This is the final episode of season one of onefjef: a compilation of clips, conversations, connection, confessions, and moments that somehow led me from Columbus, Ohio to Mexico City. I still can’t…

S1E48 Dumb Gringo

May 08, 2026 16m Transcript

An earthquake alarm went off, Mexico City is slowly disappearing into the earth, and I'm still impressed I haven't fallen on the sidewalk yet. Episode 48 — the penultimate episode of onefjef season…

S1E47 Un Kilogramo de Tortillas

Apr 30, 2026 25m Transcript

It’s a new era. The podcast has a focus now — expat life in Mexico City — and there’s a new contest to go with it. I talk about CDMX’s no-driving-test license system, why Beetle taxis used to rule…

S1E46 Indie Films, Hollywood & Steering the Ship with Jon Sherman

Apr 23, 2026 1h 27m Transcript

Filmmaker Jon Sherman has been my friend for years and I finally got him in front of a microphone before I left Ohio. We talk about growing up in Manhattan, making movies nobody would buy, Harvey…

S1 Boom, Bing, Bang

Apr 20, 2026 24m Bonus

I probably shouldn't release this episode but I'm clearly doing it anyway. I talk about Mexican milk cartons, eating raw white bread, and the NEW CONTEST!Please show some support for the podcast and…

S1E45 Black Sheep, Candelaria & Divide and Conquer with Bernardo Pacheco

Apr 16, 2026 1h 25m

Bernardo Pacheco grew up in a low neighborhood on the south side of Mexico City, the youngest of three, black sheep by temperament. We talked about the stories we keep telling ourselves about our…

S1E44 Faith, The Warped Tour & Real Life with Tim Waters

Apr 09, 2026 1h 28m Transcript

My friend Tim Waters came over two weeks before I moved to Mexico City, we sat in my living room with the lav mics I got for Christmas, and this is what happened.We get into growing up super…

S1 Cracked Wide Open

Apr 07, 2026 25m Bonus Transcript

About a month in, I'm starting to admit that this is actually my life. Also: my sister and nephew visited, we went to a cooking class, watched a mariachi band play an inappropriate song, argued about…

S1E43 Documentaries, Dyslexia & We Just Die with Nathan Fitch

Apr 03, 2026 1h 10m Transcript

My friend Nathan Fitch went from making skate videos to documenting Micronesian soldiers fighting in U.S. wars—and somehow that’s just part of the story. We talk about how he ended up in the Peace…

S1 Light Fixtures

Mar 31, 2026 29m Bonus Transcript

Two weeks into Mexico City and I'm getting by — mostly. A woman at the market walked me across the entire building to find a spatula I didn't need, I took my first all-Spanish yoga class and spent…

S1E42 Butter But No Spatula

Mar 25, 2026 24m Transcript

I’ve lived in Mexico City for a couple weeks now, and I’m in that weird in-between place where some things feel easy and others still make no sense at all. But the weather is perfect, the garbage…

S1E41 Ego Death, Young Life & Trying Not to Get Laid with Jack Hopkins

Mar 18, 2026 1h 14m Transcript

Jack Hopkins (aka Jack Hoppy) is a bartender, filmmaker, and musician from Columbus, Ohio. We talk about growing up small and non-athletic in the suburbs, learning about life from movies, getting…

S1E40 The Band-Aid Is in the Garbage

Mar 12, 2026 31m Transcript

Two months from buying a plane ticket to moving into an apartment in Roma Sur. This episode is the arrival — the last frantic packing at my mom's house, the delayed flight out of Cleveland, the Uber…

S1E39 The Last One Before Mexico City

Mar 06, 2026 28m

My time in Columbus finally comes to an end, and this is what it sounds like. I threw away a living thing. I hid poker chips around my old house. I sold a mattress for $26. And the podcast finally…

S1E38 My Life Was the Size of My Life

Feb 27, 2026 32m

This is what it sounds like to dismantle a life. Packing tape. Gravel alleys. A crazy landlord stomping next-door. A going-away party with live music and rocks as door prizes. I’m leaving Columbus in…

S1E37 Hi, is this still available?

Feb 20, 2026 32m

Selling garbage cans, packing chaos, Yannick Bertrand, and reflections on leaving a place that suddenly starts telling you how much you matter.Please show some support for the podcast and get access…

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