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Kind World

Kind World Presents: Selena And Me

Kind World

WBUR

Kindness, Society & Culture, Profound, Personal Journals, Uplifting, Stories

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today, we present the very first episode of Anything for Selena, a new podcast from WBUR and Futuro Studios.

Growing up along the US-Mexico border, Maria Garcia felt torn between her two identities as Mexican and American. But then, something changed her life. She discovered Selena — the Mexican-American pop icon who proved she didn’t have to choose. In the premiere episode of “Anything for Selena,” host Maria Garcia explores how Selena helped Maria find her own place in the world.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey guys this is Andrea Aswahai host of Kind World. You know we're not putting new

0:05.3

Kind World episodes into your feed these days but we recently introduced you to the

0:10.1

new show Anything for Selina with a trailer.

0:13.5

And I wanted to bring you the first episode of that show from the I-Lab.

0:17.3

It is an incredible story about what it means to be an American,

0:21.5

about belonging, and the legacy of the Latino pop star 25 years after her

0:27.3

murder.

0:28.7

If you like the show's first episode, be sure to subscribe.

0:32.4

And now here's the first episode of Anything for Selina.

0:37.0

Hey, quick note, there are English and Spanish episodes of anything for Selina. This is the English one.

0:45.0

If you want to

0:46.0

to ask you to discuss in the spaniel,

0:48.0

well, Velveil feed and selection the version with the titulo in

0:52.0

español. with the titula in in Espaio.

0:54.4

Produced by the eye lab at W-B-U-R Boston. Food If I was somehow asked to say only one thing about the place I'm from, it would be that it has this unforgettable smell when it rains.

1:27.7

It's slightly floral, but mostly it's this very specific, earthy desert aroma and there's usually a calm

1:37.6

clear breeze which carries these concentrated little pockets of fragrance.

1:45.0

Oh my god, there it is.

1:47.0

The smell comes from the creosot bush,

1:49.0

a resilient plant that thrives only in this particularly arid landscape.

1:55.0

Especially after a thunderstorm,

2:00.0

the creosote bush releases a bunch of these oil compounds into the air, stuff found in citrus,

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