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available wherever you get your podcasts. You know, Anna, the other day I was listening to some

updates on the hurricane situation in Florida, and it was also an update on the hurricane

situation in Puerto Rico, and it reminded me of how people on the island and off the island

had such a strong, strong connection to Puerto Rico.

Yeah, it really is this amazing thing. I think growing up in Southern California, I wasn't around a ton of Puerto Ricans earlier in life.

And I think the more I've covered music and the more I've spent time with Puerto

Ricans with their music, you get this sense of just how tightly knit the community is. It really

is kind of like that energy of everybody knows everybody a little bit. And also like everybody

feels connected, whether they know each other or not.

And I've seen that happen with musicians where they cross genres.

They may be a salsa musician, but they were also working with a rock band and maybe some hip-hop and reggaeton bands.

That community is close musically, but also culturally.

And then just a connection to the land, the island itself is, is incredibly strong.

And I feel like that has to breed this unique flexibility and willingness to cross over and to experiment with new things and to be inspired by different things because they're all drawing

from this same source that is the island and then the community and the people and the culture

and the love that goes along with that space. And so like typically, you know, we see a genre

and it's born out of a certain place and maybe it's influenced by another place, but it feels

really deeply connected to that place and it's its own thing versus with Puerto Rico. There's

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