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 going back to a time when the VMAs felt like the biggest night in pop culture, music videos were events, and becoming an MTV VJ felt like an actual career path. From the performances everyone talked about the next morning to the artists who made an entire generation stop and watch, they’re asking the question: did the VMAs lose their magic — or did growing up change the way we experience pop culture?
In this episode, Sasha and Glory get into what happened to the pop star, whether record labels started prioritizing algorithms over actual talent, and why today’s award-show performances rarely feel as risky or unforgettable. They revisit the glory days of TRL, MTV Tres, 106 & Park, True Life and Becoming, while remembering the shows, videos and performers that shaped their childhoods.
They also settle some of the most important debates of our time: Backstreet Boys or *NSYNC? Who was the real star of the Spice Girls? And which Britney Spears album belongs in the pop-music hall of fame? Sasha explains how *NSYNC slowly won her over with hit after hit, even if her heart still belongs to the Backstreet Boys.
But underneath all the nostalgia is a deeper conversation about the way music holds our memories. Sasha and Glory reflect on the songs that instantly transport them to childhood, the hopeful futures they imagined while listening to 2010s festival music, and why adulthood can make the world feel smaller than it once did. They talk about reconnecting with their inner child, finding freedom again and remembering that nobody ever said grown women couldn’t wear glitter pants.
And, of course, one conversation about the overwhelming state of the world somehow becomes a debate over whether anyone is still allowed to eat lettuce and cherries. 🥬🍒😭
Checkout previous episodes of Morir Soñando w/ Glorelys Mora & Sasha Merci HERE
