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Anything For Selena

Selena and Me

Anything For Selena

WBUR & Futuro Studios

Maria Garcia, Wbur, Selena, Futuro, Society & Culture, Quintanilla

4.91.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

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 Quintanilla— 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, quick note, there are English and Spanish episodes of anything for Selina.

0:07.1

This is the English one.

0:08.1

If you want to ask you to ask her in the spaniel,

0:11.0

well velve it and selection the version with the titulos in Espaniel.

0:17.1

Produced by the ILAB at W-B-U-R Boston. If I was somehow asked to say only one thing about the place I'm from. It would be that it has this unforgettable

0:47.3

smell when it rains. It's slightly floral, but mostly it's this very specific, cool, earthy desert aroma.

0:58.0

And there's usually a calm, clear breeze, which carries these concentrated little pockets of fragrance.

1:06.0

Oh my God there it is.

1:10.0

The smell comes from the creosot bush,

1:12.0

a resilient plant that thrives only in this particularly

1:16.4

arid landscape.

1:20.6

Especially after a thunderstorm, the creosote bush releases a bunch of these oil compounds into the air,

1:28.0

stuff found in citrus, rosemary, pines, and it just smells like the earth exhales.

1:37.0

Crioso can live for thousands or tens of thousands of years. It's one of the oldest living

1:45.5

things on the planet. And here, this ancient brush grows at the foot of the Franklin

1:52.4

Mountains and the valley they nestle below.

1:56.2

Cutting through the desert valley is the Rio Grande, dividing two cities and two countries,

2:03.0

El Paso, Texas to the north,

2:06.0

and Sudad Juarez and moved to the East Coast, begins here.

2:24.8

Well I remember seeing El Paso from the hill where my monena lived.

2:29.2

This is my brother. He was five when I was born in Ciudath Juarez, just a few miles from the border.

2:36.0

One of his very first memories is looking into the US from Mexico.

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