Glorelys Mora and Sasha Merci, two Dominican-American best friends and comedians from New York, co-host the Morir Soñando Podcast — a bilingual, unfiltered, culture-rich comedy podcast built on authenticity, laughter, and community.
The podcast is an extension of their comedy brand Morir Soñando, originally launched as a comedy show in 2019 to uplift Dominican voices in the comedy world and provide space for stories that mainstream platforms often overlook.
The show digs into the Dominican-American and broader Afro-Latino experience, reflecting on cultural nuances, bicultural identity, family expectations, generational differences, and what it means to belong between backgrounds. Hosts talk about experiences growing up in Dominican households in the U.S., navigating expectations around success, family, dating, and culture.
The podcast blends raw humor with candid conversations — nothing is off limits. Glorelys and Sasha riff on everyday life topics like relationships, toxic traits, cringe boyfriends, adulting challenges (e.g., diligencias, life admin), personal growth, spirituality, and more, all while delivering plenty of laughs. Their humor is deeply caught up in real life and the awkwardness, contradictions, and chaos that come with it.
Beyond punchlines, the show creates a space for healing, connection, and shared experience — especially for listeners who feel seen by the anecdotes and cultural reflections. They speak to the immigrant experience, feeling “not enough” of either culture, and finding pride in identity through humor rather than through assimilation.
This week, Sasha and Glory are taking it all the way back to 2016 with their friend, content creator and comedian Gadiel del Orbe. Together, they look at how much has changed over the last decade—from the early days of internet fame and Dominican representation online to the algorithms shaping the way we see the world today.
In this episode, Gadiel opens up about getting his start at BuzzFeed, leaving California with a car that had no power steering, and meeting Bad Bunny before he became a global superstar. The crew gets into building careers on the early internet, creating Dominican spaces where none existed, and why $100,000 felt like the American dream in 2016 but somehow feels like $50,000 now.
They also talk about Sasha’s legendary LA teteos, whether people still know how to dance, and why women may have to start asking men for bachata in 2026.
Then, naturally, the conversation spirals into MySpace songs, Rihanna’s ANTI era, Chelsea boots, killer clowns, Pokémon Go, flat-earthers, black holes, and how we went from using the internet to connect with each other to living in completely different algorithmic realities.
Checkout previous episodes of Morir Soñando w/ Glorelys Mora & Sasha Merci HERE
