Three Podcasts For Your Weekend: A Really Good Cry; Cold Blooded; More Than A Movie

 This weekend for your podcast listening, try three iHeart podcasts that can make you cry, want to solve a grisly mystery, or relax with a friendly discussion of movies. 

The three podcasts are: "A Really Good Cry,” "Cold Blooded" and “More Than a Movie.”

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First up, is A Really Good Cry. On the show, Host Radhi Devlukia will share wellness tips, surprising revelations and never-before-heard personal stories, conversations around self-awareness and growth, education around what we eat and how it affects our mind and body and how to identify, process and move through our emotions daily, and so much more.


The podcast will also share unique perspectives from a range of special guests including celebrities, scientists, subject experts such as Tia Mowry, Dr. Ramani Durvasula, Cleo Wade, Tan France and more. With each episode, A Really Good Cry will equip listeners with the knowledge and tools necessary to embark on their own journey towards emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental wellness. 

“I am so excited to launch this podcast. It’s a mixture of things I’m curious about, learning in my life and a place to let your guard down and feel all the waves of emotions we go through in life,” said Radhi Devlukia. “Emotions are meant to be felt, processed, and released, and I’ve created this podcast as a safe space to hopefully help people do that in their lives. You’ll laugh, you'll learn, you’ll grow, and you’ll have a really good cry!”

Then, for the true-crime podcasts fans, we have a truly grisly one for you. On Cold Blooded, the show delves into the mysterious murder of Billy Halpern in 1980s South Florida. With a smile and optimism that epitomizes South Florida in the 1980s, Billy Halpern is the last person anyone expects to find brutally murdered. Six months after his body is found, throat slit ear-to-ear in a professional execution-style hit, the investigation goes cold. When his best friend and girlfriend turn up dead, investigators realize Billy might have been caught up in a larger scheme involving the city's most dangerous criminals, local wise guy and mob associate Bert Christie and decorated ex-cop Gil Fernandez.  .

Despite circumstantial evidence tying a growing list of crimes back to Christie and Fernandez, the murders go unsolved for years.

Decades later, investigative journalist and former cop Scott Weinberger and Detective Danny Smith agree to work together to solve this murder mystery. Ultimately, this yearlong investigation will expose the true motive behind this killing spree and uncover new evidence, including the DNA of the killer.

Finally, we leave the rubbernecking aspect of true-crime for the intersection of culture and the movies with More Than a Movie. On season two, host Alex Fumero takes listeners through some of your favorite films that have impacted Latino Cinema, from Andy Garcia’s 1990 breakout role in Godfather III to Natalie Morales’s 2021 double directorial debut with Plan B and Language Lessons.

Every episode will reveal something about the movie you didn’t know, feature interviews with the biggest actors, directors, writers and producers behind them and tap into the history of Latinos in film.

In season one, Edward James Olmos set out on his directorial debut, American Me, and he wanted to accomplish two things: to represent Chicano culture on the big screen and to save part of his community from gang violence.

But when people were allegedly murdered because of their participation in the film and Olmos himself was allegedly extorted by the real life Mexican Mafia, it exposed the unintended risks of trying to represent someone with an agenda in mind, even a well-meaning one. On the 30th anniversary of the cult classic, host Alex Fumero and producer Nigel Duara delved into the true story of American Me and the legacy the controversial film left behind.

Join this cinematic journey through Latin cinema every Thursday.

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 Check out these three podcasts this weekend.

If you're interested in wellness and mental health, check out A Really Good Cry.

Looking for some true crime with murder and intrigue? Try Cold Blooded.

And, if you're interested in Latin cinema and culture, sample More Than a Movie.