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Latin music has never been bigger, but it's always been big on Alt Latino.

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There's got to be something bouncing off the... It's not bouncing off the moon, Dave.

Maybe it's those Chatticathys at the Forest Service.

I hate those guys, always on their radios talking about trees.

See, it's not Smokey Bear we're picking up.

What is it, then?

Looks like simple pulse-width modulation.

Old school, like Morse code.

Mm-hmm.

Mothers and daughters, daughters and mothers, we explore the generational divide on our latest episode of Books We've Loved about Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club with The Indicator's Waylon Wong.