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Speaker 2: Well, when I heard that, I was shocked. I was

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Speaker 1: G, our girl, our hometown hero, La.

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Speaker 2: Girl born and raised. In Beckyg's documentary Rebecca, she opens

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's sort of a that's a blow. It's

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Speaker 1: Becky G came up in Inglewood on YouTube at local

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Speaker 1: talent shows and contests. She became a pop star very

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Speaker 1: her passion, and her work ethic and all of her

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Speaker 1: went to go see it. I loved it. I was crying.

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Speaker 1: I was weeping in the theater. And that's what we're

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Speaker 1: talking about today. On this episode of Lokatra is Rebecca,

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Speaker 1: the Becky G documentary.

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Speaker 2: The Latino girlies are having a moment in the documentary space,

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Speaker 2: and I'm so here for it, and I'm really excited

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Speaker 2: to talk more about what we learned about Becky and

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Speaker 1: So if you're interested and you want to know more

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Speaker 1: about Becky G. I learned a lot. Keep listening. For

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Speaker 1: Becky came onto the scene on YouTube with her raps.

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Speaker 1: when she came out with that song Becky from the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been such a big fan of Becky G

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Speaker 1: for her. So as long as she keeps pushing and

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Speaker 2: The documentary has a limited screening, so we were able

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Speaker 2: are listening, and will not be in theaters. But my

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Speaker 2: hope is that it's going to get acquired or bought

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Speaker 2: beautiful documentary. And I think, regardless if you're in the industry,

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Speaker 2: her story just relates. It's universal. It's the hard working girl,

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Speaker 2: her roots. Take the pop star out of it, right,

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Speaker 2: Like that is a universal story. And it's a latinas story,

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Speaker 2: so many of us are the first in our family

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Speaker 2: to do something or thinking making decisions, career decisions based

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Speaker 2: on how it will affect the family. Will it benefit

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Speaker 2: the family good or bad?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 2: That can definitely impact you. But I think that is

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Speaker 2: felt it really deeply, because aside from the music and

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Speaker 2: the artistry of it, there is definitely the universal piece

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Speaker 2: of it where she's talking about her mental health and

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Speaker 2: the tools that she's had to developed of having a

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Speaker 2: it and being bicultural. So definitely like so many beautiful

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Speaker 1: So I really feel like this documentary is not just

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Speaker 1: a documentary about a pop star. This is a very

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Speaker 1: la story. I mean Englewood family, culture, grief, mental health work,

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Speaker 1: all of it shows up in a big way in

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Speaker 2: I've been saying this for years. I would love for

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Speaker 2: Beckyg to join us on Look at Radio.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, yes please.

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Speaker 2: I'm putting that out there. I've been putting it out

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Speaker 2: there with our team for years now, but I'm putting

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Speaker 2: it out there to the listener. Would love, love, love

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Speaker 2: to have beckyg on to talk about one anything she wants,

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Speaker 2: two anything she wants, anything from the documentary. There's so

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Speaker 2: much she I'm definitely rooting for her, will continue to

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Speaker 2: root for her. And if you are able to still

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Speaker 2: catch the documentary maybe at a future date, definitely do.

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Speaker 2: And I've just been loving that we've been we've been

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Speaker 2: covering these documentaries these last couple of weeks, from the

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Speaker 2: Selena Losinos now to the Becky g documentary. Gottlege's documentary

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Speaker 2: came out over the summer. There's just documentaries are definitely

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Speaker 2: having a moment. And you told me that there's also

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Speaker 2: some industry insight to why that is.

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Speaker 1: Also documentary is booming, and I think Netflix with it's

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Speaker 1: it's venturing into documentary series and putting out documentaries episode

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Speaker 1: by episode with Tiger King and Chimp Crazy, and I

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Speaker 1: mean there's been a whole, a whole array of documentaries

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Speaker 1: and I mean it was what was that. Making a murderer?

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Speaker 1: Making a Murderer really put Netflix, I think, on the

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Speaker 1: map because I remember tuning in episode by ep and

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Speaker 1: it really set Netflix apart as a streaming platform. And

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Speaker 1: I think that there's some overlap between our interest in

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Speaker 1: lives on their channels online and reality TV and streaming

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Speaker 1: documentary series that are like overlapping. There's an overlap taking place,

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Speaker 1: So we want to watch a story on screen, but

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Speaker 1: we are less interested, I think, in things that are

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Speaker 1: human experience. We want to see real people on our screens,

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Speaker 1: whether it's on our phones or on the big screen

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Speaker 1: in a theater. So I think that documentaries really having

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Speaker 1: a moment, a moment. I love that Latinas are showing

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Speaker 1: up in documentary and I hope to see more of it.

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Speaker 2: Our documentary next.

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Speaker 1: The Lookout Thought documentary is next. We haven't talked about

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Speaker 1: a look at a documentary for years. Yes, and we

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Speaker 1: have our own archival footage. We have been documenting ourselves

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Speaker 1: on the mic on camera for a long time now.

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Speaker 1: We have tons of material and we are always like ideating, ideating,

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Speaker 1: ideating and putting it out there. So yes, maybe you'll

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Speaker 1: see a doc series about Latinas in podcasting one day soon.

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Speaker 2: One day soon. All right, locomot is, thank you for

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Speaker 2: tuning in to another Capital Radio We'll catch you next time.

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Speaker 3: Bessitos lok Ata Radio is executive produced and hosted by

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Speaker 3: me Bosa and me Mala, also edited by me Viosa

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