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I still have lots of leftover chisemes.

It's a week of just burro chisemesme, literally.

It's stuff we can't even say on the air.

I know.

Oh, well.

That's for the bonus episode, the after, Alt Latino After Hour.

From NPR music, this is Alt Latino.

I'm Felix Contreras.

And I'm Anna Maria Sayer.

Let the Chisme begin.

This is part two, Felix, of my grand thesis on the state of Latin music, 25 years into the Latin Grammys.

You know, I got to say that you're very, very good at keeping your ear to the ground.

Last week was the first part of a roundup of some of the things of some of your, what do you call it,

your intelligence gathering.

Okay, so last week I told you I was on a mission to figure out what is happening

with the explosion of Latin music.

So this week, I'm bringing you a few more voices.

I got to catch up with Armenta, who is basically, Felix.

I was kind of geeking out when I first met him,

because he is kind of like the ultimate brainpower behind the explosion of regional.

We've spoken with Ergar Barrera before, obviously, who produces and songwrites for a lot of these guys.

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