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Speaker 1: It's Kiss one or two point seven, LA's number one

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Speaker 1: hit music station. If you think back, Kiss really is

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Speaker 1: embedded into the fabric of Los Angeles, right. This radio

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Speaker 1: station has been around for a very long time, and

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Speaker 1: even outside of LA, Kiss is known for being the

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Speaker 1: like the texture of LA really is, right, I mean,

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Speaker 1: in the station has evolved over the years. It's at

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Speaker 1: different hosts, it's at different morning shows, it's played different

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Speaker 1: styles of music, but it's always been very Los Angeles.

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Speaker 1: It's the first place I visited when I visited LA,

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Speaker 1: when I was on a trip with my girlfriend from

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Speaker 1: high school's father came. I wanted to come visit Kiss

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Speaker 1: FM because I had heard about just how legendary it

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Speaker 1: was around the country. It's just very LA. So we're

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Speaker 1: psyched that we're here. I mean, it's a cool thing, right,

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Speaker 1: And I would listen to Kiss if I work at Kiss.

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Speaker 1: And Ruby has actually and resembering it up is because

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Speaker 1: Kiss is featured in this but Ruby has brought up

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Speaker 1: this really cool sort of Instagram account that captures vintage LA,

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Speaker 1: that captures like old school LA, and the Kiss van

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Speaker 1: is in one of the photos on the Instagram page.

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Speaker 1: So Ruby, tell me more about this account. Yeah, so

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Speaker 1: this artist Aguadazum, she's also an educator. She created Veterans

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Speaker 1: and Rukaz, which is an instagram. It's basically think of

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Speaker 1: it as like an archive of throwback photos of capturing fashion, music,

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Speaker 1: the entire style and vibe of the early eighties nineties

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Speaker 1: of La. So it's it's very nostalgic. It's a very

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Speaker 1: nostalgic account. They have over like two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: thousand followers, and people get to submit their photos and

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Speaker 1: kind of tell their own story. Right, So this account

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Speaker 1: is just, like I said, so nostalgic, and the images

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Speaker 1: are just so much fun to look at the throwback

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Speaker 1: clip liner in the oversize five o one jeans. You know,

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Speaker 1: a lot of this is also coming back now, but

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Speaker 1: it's like a love letter to La. It's funny because

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at these photos thing and these are cool

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Speaker 1: again now, But I know these photos are from twenty

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Speaker 1: plus years ago. I know. I look at this stuff

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, this is literally like the fashion that

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Speaker 1: my sister would dress up had to go to high school. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the AquaNet hair, you know all of that. Yes, So

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Speaker 1: what Lupe are you with us this morning. Good morning,

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Speaker 1: How are you? Good morning? Yes, I'm here. I'm you

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Speaker 1: call me, you know, at the right time because I

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Speaker 1: am on crunch time in the studio. All good stuff though.

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Speaker 1: Oh are you in East LA right now? I'm in La. Yes,

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Speaker 1: My studio is right there by, not far from East

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Speaker 1: LA College. So got it. Hey, you were named the

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Speaker 1: first ever Instagram Artist in Residence by LACMA big fan

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Speaker 1: of that museum. That's great. Congratulations, thank you so much. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was in twenty seventeen. I believe it's so cool.

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Speaker 1: You're archives they resonate with so many Angelinos and they're

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Speaker 1: just vintage La, vintage La. Why did you initially want

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Speaker 1: to create the digital archive? Um? You know, it's like

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Speaker 1: I've had these questions. UM. You know, they asked they

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Speaker 1: asked me these questions before, like how and why, um

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Speaker 1: and why on Instagram. I think that what it comes

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Speaker 1: down to is that just like the limited resources that

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Speaker 1: my community has has dealt with. UM. You know, like

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Speaker 1: when I started this archive, it was very specific to

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Speaker 1: the nineties, and UM, I just saw like the representation

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Speaker 1: was very very slim, especially coming that was focused on

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Speaker 1: women and everything that I was seeing and reading and

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Speaker 1: looking at on popular media was so centered on the

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Speaker 1: male perspective or narrative, and for me it was, you know,

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Speaker 1: I needed to see like women's voices as well. So

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Speaker 1: that's where that's That's pretty much how why it started

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Speaker 1: and why it continues to grow so much because everything

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Speaker 1: that you see on these platforms, your map points and

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Speaker 1: ran and rucas is all these photos that most I

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Speaker 1: would say maybe eighty percent of them are shared by

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Speaker 1: women in the pictures. It's so interesting to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: all these different scenes and narratives snapshots, and I mean,

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Speaker 1: how many photo submissions do you go through daily? You know,

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Speaker 1: there's it comes in waves. Sometimes I get let's say,

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Speaker 1: for example, if I post a photo that is almost

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Speaker 1: like a throwback, and then a photo like the present moment,

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Speaker 1: which those are very very popular. People love to send

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Speaker 1: a picture of who they are now and who they were.

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Speaker 1: Then let's say post sad I get like, you know,

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Speaker 1: a wave of photos that are also inspired by that

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Speaker 1: particular photos. For example, if you were to send me

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Speaker 1: a photo and people are attracted to that photo and

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Speaker 1: they're like, oh, you know I have photos that look

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Speaker 1: then I get you know, depending on what the picture is.

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Speaker 1: But sometimes you know, I would say, um, I would

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Speaker 1: say that maybe I get four to five pictures a day,

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Speaker 1: so that's something that I have to go you know

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Speaker 1: pretty much. I go through, UM, have conversations with people,

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Speaker 1: so the pictures are not just people sending them and

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Speaker 1: then I post. You know, I have conversations. I want

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Speaker 1: to know the story behind these photos and encourage people

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Speaker 1: to share a little piece of it, you know, kind

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Speaker 1: of like, uh, the human I these photos, the people

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Speaker 1: who are the people in the pictures, you know, what

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Speaker 1: was they feeling, where was it taken? And if they

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Speaker 1: feel inspired to share their story, then that's that's a

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Speaker 1: good thing, you know. But I also I'm also very

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Speaker 1: careful on like if people aren't ready to share certain

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Speaker 1: things and then that you know, that makes a lot

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Speaker 1: of sense to me too. Well, if you want to

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Speaker 1: check this out, I mean it's really interesting to see

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Speaker 1: it and think about La in the fabric of La

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Speaker 1: and these stories in the photos and where they were

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Speaker 1: and what they were doing. You can go to Veterans

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Speaker 1: Underscore and Rucas. It's it's underscore, So it's veterans underscore

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Speaker 1: and underscore rucas right on Instagram. Correct, Yes, check it out.

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Speaker 1: So nice to meet you. Keep it up. We'll keep

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Speaker 1: looking at these photos. Thanks for coming on with us,

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Speaker 1: Thank you, all right bye. The throwback glamour shot ones,

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Speaker 1: the ones that you used to go into the studio friends,

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Speaker 1: The spaghetti strap tank tops that we used to wear. Yes,

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Speaker 1: pay phones, old, the dark lipstick, all of that. Look

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Speaker 1: at the old buses too, were building LA buses all right,

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Speaker 1: we got a thousand dollars help pay your bills in

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Speaker 1: the five six two next