Don Cheto is the talk of the town - The cranky old on-air character at Spanish-language station KBUE-FM is actually played by a 27-year-old immigrant who’s got his competition in a sweat. -Los Angeles

Don Cheto is in the final stretch of his six-hour morning radio show, and you can feel another rant coming on. The roly-poly old man with the white hair and bushy mustache is a cranky country character who came here from a small town in Mexico years ago and hasn’t stopped railing against the world ever since. On this particular morning, he’s confronting his young on-air partner, Marlene Quinto, on one of his many pet peeves — how women’s liberation has ruined the lives of men.

Women don’t know how to cook anymore, Don Cheto grouses into the microphone at the Burbank studios of station La Que Buena, (KBUE-FM 105.5). They don’t know how to sew or even how to make a home remedy for a sick child without running out in the middle of the night to the “Reetay.”"*

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