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You're listening to Comedy Central. Hey,

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what's going on, everybody? I'm Trevor Noah and

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this is the Daily Social Distancing Show.

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Today is March, which

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means we are almost at the end of

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Women's History Month. So to celebrate,

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let's once again highlights a random woman

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from history who deserves it. All.

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Right, let's see who we got today.

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Look at that today, it's Sophie

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Ferguson. What a legend you

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see. In nineteen o six, Sophie became

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the first woman to say I

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am the boss when a man asked to speak

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to her boss. Yeah, that man's head exploded

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so hard it caused the Great San Francisco

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Earthquake. Congratulations Sophie.

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Anyway, On tonight's show, du Say Sloan

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on America's female Kaepernicks. We

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talk about how men can help women feel safer

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in the streets and why Kamala Harris

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is history's greatest monster. So

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let's do this. People. Welcome to the Daily

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Social Distensing Show. From

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Trevor's couch in New York City to your

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couch somewhere in the world. This

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is the Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor

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Nor. Let's

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kick things off with the exciting news

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from the world of international shipping.

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You know, that's how you get all of those amazing

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products that claim to be locally sourced.

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But now some of those deliveries

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might be a little delayed. Overseas

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a major concern for global shipping. A large

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container ship is blocking the Swiss Canal. Technical

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problem caused FT vessel

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to run a ground The online monitoring system

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tanker Trackers shows the huge

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backlog. It's created a traffic jam

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basically, with ships unable

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to pass in either direction. They're trying to get

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tugged in there to pull it out, but it's so big

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that they're having a hard time moving in. Okay,

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I don't know about you, but I didn't

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even know that this could happen. There's

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a giant traffic jam of cargo

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ships. Yo. You realize this

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is going to set the human trafficking industry back

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weeks. And I feel so bad

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for the captain of that ship that got stuck in the canal

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because, like we've all been there trying

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to make a U turn on a narrow street. But now imagine

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how much more stressful it must be when you know

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that if you back up wrong, you might bump Egypt.

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Ah. Sorry, I also feel bad for the

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guys behind that ship because it's not like

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there's a lot of alternate roots they can take. Can

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you imagine if you're on one of those ships, You're looking at your ways

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app, like, what go around Africa? No?

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No, no, put up Google Maps. This is crazy. You've gotta

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go around Africa. But when you look at how

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big that ship is, I'm not surprised

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that it got stuck. And the crazy

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thing is that whole ship is

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just delivering two double A batteries.

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Yeah, the rest is just extra packaging. What

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this situation ready shows is how

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even in this age of technology, we

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still depend on old school things

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like cargo ships and canals. I

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mean, think about it. Right now, we

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can use our wireless computer phone

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to buy a hologram with cryptocurrency,

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but at the same time, big boat

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got stuck. What a too small. But

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let's move on now to Washington, d C. Where

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there is a big debate going on about gun

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control. You see Democrats

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say that maybe we should do something so

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that there isn't a mass shooting like every five

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minutes, while Republicans

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say, come on, where's your sense of adventure

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never little. But maybe Republicans

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are just busy with more important things,

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because if you watch conservative media right

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now, you know that at this moment,

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we are living through one of the biggest

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scandals in American history.

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Vice President Kamala Harris under fire for

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repeatedly failing to salute the military

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and boarding air force to critics callege

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disgraceful that she would break the tradition

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of showing respect and guests who appears

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to not support our men and women

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in the Armed forces. Vice President Kamala

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Harris simply refusing to salute

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the military members standing their post. Respect

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the military when they salute, salute back. She's

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not a very serious person. At least she didn't

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fall up the staircase here. But Bernie,

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the lack of respect here from Kamala

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Harris, you know, I think it's jarring for a lot of folks.

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For her to walk by them

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and not return their salute

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is just it's outrageous. It's

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outrageous, unbelievable.

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Kamala Harris, Vice President

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and woman who is one strong gust

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of wind away from shattering the glass ceiling,

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did not return a salute.

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This is outrageous and dangerous,

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my friends, because what if what

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if Cuba invaded America and

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the Marines couldn't fight back because they were still

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waiting for Kamala to return the salute.

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I tell you who would never do this, My

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man Donald Trump. He

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loved the military so much that he would salute

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other countries troops. That's

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respect, yo. But for real though,

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in case you're wondering, there's no actual rule that the

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vice president or the president are supposed

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to return a salute. This is just something

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that Donald Reagan started, like the crack epidemic,

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and once he started, nobody wanted to be the one to stop.

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You know. It's like how that one co worker in your

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office started giving everyone holiday gifts

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and now you have to do it too, or you look like

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an asshole. Here's your Starbucks gift

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court, share roule. Oh you've got me. Oh

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it's Starbucks gift court. What a good use

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of our time. Now, personally,

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if I was a politician, I'll be saluting

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all the time. Yeah, it's fun. It's

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like giving a little baby dad like

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people. If we're honest, if Kamala

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Harris doesn't salute, I

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don't think it's the end of the world. In fact, if

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anyone is disrespecting the military, it's

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the people on TV talking about

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the troops like their cry babies make

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it seem like they're out there crying. Like Oh,

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I was waiting to salute when the

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Vice President came, but when she walked back,

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she did in salute me. So I saluted

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for nerty

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And finally some technology news

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out of Utah, the only place where

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Mitt Romney is considered a renegade. Utah

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has always been one of the most conservative

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states in the United States,

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but now they're taking it to

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a whole new level. Utah

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is a step closer to requiring all cell

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phones and tablets sold in the state to automatically

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block pornography after the Republican

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governor signed legislation yesterday that

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critics call a significant intrusion

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of free speech. Governor Spencer Cox

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said the measure would send an important message

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about preventing children from accessing

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explicit online content. The

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measure won't go into effect unless five other

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states enact similar laws, a provision

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that was added to address concerns that it would

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be difficult to implement. That's

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right, Utah governor

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knows that pawn doesn't belong on phones

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and tablets. It belongs

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on laptops like God intended. I'm

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sure it's a little bit harder to take it into the bothroom and try

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to balance it on the sink, but that's just part of the

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excitement. Seriously, people, this is pointless.

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Even if Utah did successfully

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ban cell phone pawn, it wouldn't make

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any difference. All right, people are horny.

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If they can't watch porn, they'll find something

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else on their phone to get the job done. Well,

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the Amazon app kind of looks like a

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penis and the Instagram app

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looks like a robot's butthole. So if

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I just put them together, yeah,

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that's gonna work for me. That's gonna work real good.

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By the way, I also love that Utah wants

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five other states to join

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them, so even Utah's laws

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of polygamus. But good luck, man, good

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luck getting other states to ban pawn.

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I want to hear that sales pitch. Come on, who

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else hates looking at naked people? Huh,

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Alaska, you know what I'm talking about, right? I

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don't think so, dude. It's pretty lonely up

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here. Wow, Okay, Idaho,

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what about you guys? You guys think sexist? Gross?

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Am I right? But let's move on

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now to our main story. March

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was supposed to be the month for celebrating women's

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history, but we haven't really

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been able to focus on that lately because of

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what's going on in women's presence.

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You see, a few weeks ago, the murder of Sarah

7:58

Everard spark outrage in England

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and across the world, and just last week,

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a gunman in Georgia gunned down seven

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women who he apparently blamed

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for his sex addiction. Now,

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these tragedies each touched on a wide array of

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big issues, from police violence

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to racially motivated hate crimes,

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but for many women, they're only the

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most extreme manifestation of

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a problem that they have to deal with

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every single day.

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The top story at this hour the violence

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against women and the conversation that

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it has sparked among women around

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the world. For many, it

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can feel like the only way to guarantee

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your personal safety is to

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stay at home, lock your doors, and

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never leave. The World Health Organization

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says one in three women worldwide

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have been subjected to physical or

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sexual violence, and data shows

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the violence starts alarmingly young

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around the world. Six women are killed every

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hour by men, and for women

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of color, their cases rarely in

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the headlines. On social media, the

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post text me when you get home now

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going viral, women all

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over the world sharing their stories,

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and we often are portrayed as paranoid

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when we call out or when we say like,

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oh, this is our realities? Who really,

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this is what we see and live every

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day. I thought I was an overprotective mother,

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So I'm surprised to see millions of women

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out there, their sisters and mothers

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and friends asking other

9:26

women to text them when they get home. Okay,

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all that that is truly

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depressing for many women. Every

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time they leave the house, it's

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a risk. And this is not something that men

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experience. Like when the pandemic hit, men

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were like, so just going outside is dangerous

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now and women are like, yeah, added to the list.

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And that risk of violence is why women

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are forced to constantly check up on

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each other to make sure that everyone gets

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home. Okay, It's become a normal part

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of women's routines. Get home,

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brush your teeth, put on some pj's, and then text

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your friends a picture of you holding today's newspa. But to

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prove that you're still alive. And that sucks for women

10:02

on multiple levels because sometimes a woman

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forgets to send the text and accidentally

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falls asleep, and by the time she wakes up, the sniffer

10:09

dogs looking for her and find Jessica is trending

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on Twitter. And the truth is, even

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if women know they will get home safely,

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most times they never know which is the

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time that they won't. Because for women,

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just being out in public means

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facing a wide array of potential threats

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from men. People don't just wake up

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one day and murder somebody. They

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are taught from an early age that there

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is a power difference between men and women and

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that it is okay to use certain

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language, certain behavior, and

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they progress from cat

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calling and groping. Percent

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of women forty and younger reported

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being harassed on the street in the past. Here

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I'm dressed for work. This is are

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my professional calls. I've been followed home,

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I've been stopped. They guys

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trying to actually harass me. I was cat

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probably for the very first time. Um

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probably level or twelve, and you have thirty

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seconds that young to work

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out if I say no to this

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person, are they gonna be okay with that? Or

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are they gonna start yelling at me. Yeah,

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that's a terrifying thing to have to deal

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with. Women never know what

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a cat call might lead to, since

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that person already has no audacity to start shouting

11:22

at them on the streets. I mean, it's like the

11:24

guy at the buffet who starts grabbing rice

11:27

with his bare hands. You're that person is clearly

11:29

capable of anything. This is why

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so many women wear headphones

11:33

when they're walking down the streets. You

11:35

think they're all listening to your podcast. No,

11:38

half of them are just pretending to listen to something,

11:41

so when a man cat calls them, they can act

11:43

like they didn't hear it, and the other half

11:45

would never listen to your podcast anyway.

11:47

Oh, you talk about sports with

11:49

a mix of pop culture revolutionary.

11:53

So women basically have to tiptoe

11:55

around the outside world like it's the quiet

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place, which is why they leave the house onto

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the teeth in case, just in case they

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get noticed by the monster. Too.

12:05

Many of us have plushed our

12:07

keys in office in case we need

12:09

to defend ourselves. I now have a panic

12:11

alarm, which is part

12:13

of my life now on my keys,

12:15

on my keychain for my car. I

12:17

have a mini mace. Kamila

12:20

Parker packs up bags for her business.

12:22

She started to give women a layer

12:24

of safety that fits into a purse.

12:27

The self defense bags have a taser

12:29

in alarm

12:32

and pepper spray. Every woman you know

12:34

has taken a longer route, has doubled back

12:37

on herself, has pretended to dawdle

12:39

by a shop window. I walked in the middle

12:41

of the road, and I did tell

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my daughters to do this. That is a safe

12:45

place. God damn, it's

12:48

safer in the middle of the road. Yo.

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How bad do men have to be for

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women to be? Like, I'll take my chances

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with an eighteen wheeler at least won't tell me to

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smile. And I never want to hear anyone

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talk about women's giant persons

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again, like ever again. Look at all

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the ship that they have to bring with them just to stay safe.

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They've got tasers, They've got many mace

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sprays on their key chains. What do men have

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on our key chains? Huh? Bottle

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openness, I mean that should tell you everything

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you need to know. Women don't know when they're going to

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be attacked, and men don't know when

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they're gonna be surprised with the tailgates. You've

13:22

gotta be careful, bro. There's Bruce ky Is around

13:24

like every corner. But

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the solution here isn't to load up women with weapons

13:29

and gadgets like a human so Sami knife. In fact,

13:32

the solution doesn't really have anything

13:34

to do with women at all. The

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burden has been placed on us to stay

13:39

safe rather than compelling men

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to change their behavior. We are finding

13:43

these comments on social media, but why

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was soon So going out at night?

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Why was she on her own? Why was she dressed

13:51

like that? Why was she why

13:53

she had a drink? You know, seeking

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to blame the woman for the fact that she's

13:57

been attacked. The mainstream conversation

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about um the subject

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uses passive voice all

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over the place. There's no active agent. Nobody's

14:06

doing it to them, They're just experiencing it. That immediately

14:09

frames the entire debate as if

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it's your problem as a woman. We are

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the culprits, whether we like it

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or not. This is about man and we

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have to deal with that fact. And we can't even start

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to have that debate unless

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we start to reframe it with men at

14:24

the center of it. That's right. The

14:26

conversation needs to be reframed

14:29

because this is not about what else women

14:32

can do. You can't solve violence

14:34

against women without addressing the

14:36

men committing it. Would be like trying to

14:38

address gun violence without restricting

14:40

access to guns. I mean that would be so

14:43

crazy, Like who would be that

14:45

stupid thing that you could

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stop gun violence without

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trying to stop access to guns.

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And I know right now a lot of guys are watching

14:55

this going, You know, Trevor, I don't murder women. First

14:57

of all, congratulations, but second of

14:59

all, understand that there's more to it than that, all right,

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As men, we often act in ways

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that we think are totally appropriate because

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we know that we would never do anything wrong. But understand,

15:09

the woman doesn't know you. She doesn't know that,

15:12

right, so it's easier for you to just not

15:14

do those things. Like you might think

15:16

you're innocently complimenting a stranger's

15:18

outfit in a parking lot, but unless

15:21

you're Christian Siriano, she doesn't need to hear

15:23

that from you. We should also be teaching the next generation

15:25

of men to respect women and be aware

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of their experiences, and we should start

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them as early as possible, like as

15:32

soon as they're done nursing. Their eyes have to be here.

15:34

But aside from children, we

15:37

have a responsibility to teach each other

15:40

like as men, maybe we should start checking

15:42

in with our friends like women do, only

15:44

in our case it will be a little different. Hey

15:47

man, did you make it home safely without

15:49

harassing any women? All right? Great,

15:52

good to know, Love you, I mean, go packers.

15:54

Look, the point is, as men, we should

15:57

be steering this conversation to where it belongs

15:59

centered on because this is

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our responsibility not to be creeps.

16:04

All right, So let's not make it the one thing

16:06

that we don't take credit for. All

16:08

right. When we come back, Dulce Sloan looks

16:10

at all the troubled female athletes have

16:13

been getting into, so don't go away. Welcome

16:17

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. This

16:20

month is Women's History Month, and

16:22

to celebrate, we turned to Dulce Sloan

16:24

for another episode of dul saying

16:33

athletes they're good at running, jumping,

16:36

and getting hitting ahead, but some athletes

16:39

are also trailblazers for justice and

16:41

pioneers for change, like Muhammad

16:43

Ali protesting the Vietnam War, or

16:45

Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the anthem,

16:48

or j R. Smith missing all those jump

16:50

shots. I see what you're saying. J are no

16:53

justice, no threes. But

16:56

today I want to talk about the activist

16:58

female athletes who have been a race from

17:00

the history books, women like track

17:02

star Rose Robinson long

17:04

before cap Neil to protest police brutality.

17:07

Rose refused to stand for the flag and

17:10

anthem during the nineteen fifty nine

17:12

Pan American Games because she felt they represented

17:14

war, injustice and hypocrisy.

17:17

Her activism was another example of

17:19

black women in the nineteen fifties perfecting

17:22

the art of sitting when and where

17:24

they weren't supposed to, whether it

17:26

was sitting at the front of the bus, the whites

17:28

only section of a restaurant, or

17:30

just sitting around judging white people dancing.

17:33

Basically, we were experts at using our behinds

17:35

to save you to the system.

17:38

It wasn't long after the protest that the I

17:40

R. S came for Rose for tax evasion. Of

17:43

course they did. She ended up going

17:45

to jail and missing the nineteen sixty Olympic

17:47

Games, the same games where

17:50

a young unknown athlete named Cassius

17:52

Clay broke out onto the world stage.

17:55

History may have been different if the government had

17:57

Wesley sniped Robinson over three

17:59

hundred eighty dollars. Fast forward

18:01

to a couple of Olympics later, and another

18:03

brave athlete would have her protest overlooked.

18:06

Wyomia Taias was the first athlete

18:09

and Olympic history, male or

18:11

female, to win gold medals

18:13

and consecutive hundred meter events,

18:15

an accomplishment that took two

18:17

decades to beat. And that's before all

18:20

these modern improvements in science and

18:22

nutrition and vegetables.

18:24

When Talia set this record, they hadn't even invented

18:26

kale yet. And in the nineteen

18:29

Olympics, Wyomi had protested

18:31

racial segregation by wearing black shorts

18:33

instead of her uniform shorts. Unfortunately,

18:36

her protest did not get the coverage that should

18:38

have, and no one noticed, and part

18:41

of that was the media's fault. But maybe she could

18:43

have done something a bit more flashy. If

18:45

your protests involves clothes, is

18:47

either got to be loundclothes or no

18:49

clothes. If you're running with no bottoms,

18:51

oh, you've got people's attention. Finally,

18:55

let's talk about Alice and Felix, one

18:57

of the greatest sprinters to ever compete in

18:59

the Olympics. Phillips was good enough to get

19:01

a Nike sponsorship until when

19:03

she got pregnant. Then, during contract

19:06

negotiations, Nike offered her a

19:08

brand new deal with a seventy pay

19:11

cut, which is some bullshit.

19:13

They should have given her a hundred percent more.

19:16

She's literally growing another sprinter.

19:19

If it was me, I would have rolled

19:21

up the Nike and Burnett bish to ground. But

19:23

Alison is classy, you know, so

19:26

she wrote an opted in the New York Times

19:28

to let the sneaker heads know what was up. The

19:30

resulting outrage forced Nike to stop reducing

19:32

endorsements based on an athlete getting pregnant.

19:35

There was even a congressional inquiry into Nike's

19:38

maternity policies for athletes. And

19:40

if you're Nike, you know you need to make

19:42

changes the policy when Congress is the one telling

19:44

you to just do it. So the next

19:46

time you think about athletes taking a stand,

19:49

don't forget the ladies.

19:51

They're racking up the bling and fighting the power

19:53

at the same time. Now, if

19:55

you'll excuse me, I'm about

19:57

to go do my own bottomless protests outside.

20:00

And it was Elba's house. What am I protesting?

20:03

His wife? Thank

20:06

you? So much to say. All right, when we come back, the

20:09

fantastic actress nom Zammbata

20:11

joins me on the show to talk about what it

20:13

was like working with Eddie Murphy on coming

20:15

to America. You don't want to miss it. Welcome

20:20

back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier

20:23

today, I spoke with South African actress

20:25

Norma Zammbata. We talked about

20:27

making her American feature film debut

20:30

in the Coming to America sequel and what

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it was like for her actually coming

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to America. Nomba,

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Welcome to the Daily Social Distancing Show.

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It feels good. It feels good to have somebody

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pronounced my name and surname very correctly.

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I practiced for a very long time, just so you

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know, Okay. It was like I said,

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the whole day, I was like, nom zam oh

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baa, and then I'm practiced,

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and I practice when I practice, Yes, And

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I just sat down. I was like, I'm gonna practice. How are

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you? I'm so good all

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the more better for being here. Oh are you kidding

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me? Are you kid? This is an amazing day for me because

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not only do I get to celebrate you as a fellow South

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African, I get to celebrate your success in

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the most successful movie of the

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year, the movie that broke Amazon Prime.

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Coming to America. Congratulations

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are not just being part of the biggest film, but also being

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one of the breakout stars. I mean, do you ever

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take a moment to think about how amazing that is. Eddie

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Murphy, James Old Jones are senior Hall,

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Wesley Snipes, you know, Leslie

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Jones, Jermaine Fowler, and so many people are

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like, man, that nom Zamo, She's

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amazing. It is

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crazy. It is crazy. I mean, honestly,

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it's been an outer body experience for the longest

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time. But I think you would be able

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to let me know, you know, how to you know,

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go about this Hollywood thing because having

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to call Eddie Murphy Eddie. Yeah, you know when Eddie

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came onto said or a senior and it's not a senior

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Hall or Wesley. So yeah, it's

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been an amazing journey, honestly, and a very incredible

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out of body coming together

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like a full circle moment for me. You're

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Coming to America story was was almost

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as crazy as the original Coming to America

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story because you have to audition

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for this movie. You went in the country when you were doing it.

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Walk me through the story of how you came to be

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one of the stars in the movie.

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So it's crazy. I'm in the U a E. I

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literally flew from New York to

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Switzerland to the U A E. By

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the time that I'm in the U A I'm supposed to fly back

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to South Africa because I was supposed to go and host the South

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African Music Awards. Yes right.

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I get a call the night before my flight from

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my agent and he says, you want to be in the room

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for this one. You can send a cell tape that you want to be in the

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room. And I was like, listen, I've spent

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so much money flying in and out these

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auditions. I'm not working out and

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I'm not gonna spend another penny. And

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he said, well, it's for a lead and coming to America,

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and I'm like, well, I don't know. So

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I literally changed my flight

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from flying out of Abu Dhabi to South Africa

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to a new flight from Dubai to

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U l A. And so I canceled

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that and I drove from Abu Dhabi to Dubai.

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Could applied from Dubai into l A and

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I made them too unto the

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officers of Leah Butler and I did not audition.

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It is quite a feat, you know,

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because I mean, getting into an American

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film is already a big jump. Getting into a you

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know, a major marquee film is another jump.

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But I mean, to be seen as one of the breakout

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stars of it is the ultimate, ultimate,

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ultimate celebration of what you have done.

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And you know, like Eddie for instance, even said he's

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like, you have the most authentic

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accent. He's like, he loved how you were doing the thing.

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You know, you play um Jermaine Fowler's

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Barba in the in the story, you know, and the

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love interest, and and what's cool about the story

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is you don't you don't know which way it's going. You're like, are

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we're gonna stay in the mundo, We're gonna go back to America?

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But but here you are in this world? Was

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it was? It? Was it interesting for you when you were

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getting the job, because I mean a lot of people don't

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know this, especially like Americans, they just go to other countries

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and they work. You know, you can go to another

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country and you can work, and then if you're you're British, you can just

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go to another country in New York. But as a South African

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there's such a big process behind, Like did

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you have to go to get a visa and everything right? Yet

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they had to approve you to come and do the

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job. I mean, first of

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all, you are coming into America with

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a tourist visa,

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and then you move from being a tourist to being

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somebody that's employed in America. So

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it's a whole process. I mean I remember even

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when you know, I got the call to make

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it back to the States, it was like, you need

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to come back. You need to sign papers so that we can give

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you, you know, your official oh one visa

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and go back to the embassy in South Africa.

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Do you have that visa and

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then come back let me tell you. I

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was like, I really genuinely deserve this movie

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because I did

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anybody say anything to you at the at the visa place, Because

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I remember one of my favorite things about about the

24:47

process, Americans don't realize you do the so so to everyone

24:49

who's watching it doesn't understand, this is how it works for a lot

24:51

of countries around the world. If you're gonna come work

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in America, you can come in for the

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interview and then Americans can accept

24:57

you for the job. But then you have to go back to your

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country so that Americans in your

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country can stamp your passport and put

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a visa in your passport so that you can come back to

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the country which is America, so that you can get the

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job. And what happens in between is you get you

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get like you meet some of the most interesting people

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in the process. So so on my side, I'll never

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forget. The guy who was working,

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you know, immigration. He looked at my visa

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and he's like, yo, man, yo, your visa says you

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got an old one. And I said yeah, and he said,

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man, oh one means you the best of the best. I

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said, well, I'm just good at what I do. And

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he's like, nah, oh one means you the best. You

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like the Michael Jordan of what you do? And I

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said, well, I don't. I don't know about that. He's like, what do you do? I said,

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I'm a comedians like you, the Michael Jordan of comedy.

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I was like, I don't even know what. He's like, Hey, man, if

25:39

I see your jokes and they're not funny, you're going back

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to your country. You hear me, and then he stamped my

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passport and I came in. So I

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wanted, like, did you meet anybody like? Because they always

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say interesting things. It is

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I'm thinking right now, I'm cracking out because

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I'm thinking you got a threat. And I had

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a threat as well, because she

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saw my she saw my old one and she said,

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says paramount, and I said

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yes, says well what do you do? And I said,

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I'm an actress. Oh which movie?

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And she and I said, oh, coming to America.

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And she was already you know, I said coming to America

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and she stopped writing. She looked up. She said, don't

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mess it up. So no

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one wants to know. We want to make a good

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movie. Movies on your shoulders,

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girl, you don't. If I'm watching that movie in

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time, I'm going to come find you and take your

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passport and go you going back home? Don't

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please, don't I like it. No,

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it's it's it's only been a success story. It's

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been beautiful. People have been celebrating you back

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home. You know, everyone's excited, ton Kai

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and they're just like, oh no, Sambo, you've done

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it for us. Um it's a new journey

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now. And I know, it's scary and it's a crazy time to

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come to America during a pandemic, But you

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have dreams, you have hopes, you have aspirations.

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What are you hoping to do now that you're in this

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new world, you know, building on the success from South Africa

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into the US. UM, honestly,

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just to continue to do the work that I do. UM,

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to continue to work with the United Nations, the

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refugee and see to continue to make

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more films. Right now, I want to

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get into producing as well. I think I'm in that space,

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just like that creative What are you what are

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you doing for life? Though? Like, because this

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is a question I love asking people who have just come

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to a new country, like, so, do you have

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any favorite things you do in l A? Do

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you have like because it's it's pandemic plus

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a new country, So what is what is

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your like normal life? Now? Do you have any

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normal you know? Honestly,

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you when you come to America, I

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think you've You've said this before about the eating.

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So there's the first couple of months of jazz

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eating and thinking that it's not going to go anywhere,

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and then you want to go home and everyone says,

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my goodness, I'm not like, it's so good

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to you your cheese,

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So I try not to eat

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a lot. But also, you know, I love

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chicken sandwiches. I didn't think I love sandwiches

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as much as I do. I enjoyed chicken sandwiches.

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What's the most American thing that? Oh?

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The crossing up the street was kind of very

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hard for me in the beginning. Yeah,

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definitely, I was trying not to die in America.

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It's very expensive to transport a bottom home.

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So yeah, there was just those those

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kind of things that I was going through. But honestly,

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it's very hard to come into a new

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country as a person who's on the

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other side. So I had a lot of culture

28:19

shock, a lot of culture shock, but there's a lot

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of learning as well. So I

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mean, what do I do. I haven't hyped, I haven't

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done I haven't done the normal um

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touristy things. I haven't gone to the Hollywood

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Walk of Fame. So you know, I'm taking it slow. Oh

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I love it. So what you need to do is I'll give you two

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tips for l A. What you need to do. You need to get

28:39

like a really nice dog, and then

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you need to go for a hike, but then you

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need to dress as if you didn't care, but you

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have to dress as if you're on a runway. And

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then you go for the hike, and then make sure you don't

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sweat, but make it look like you were working out exactly.

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Do I need to have a bottle of water as well, But

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it must be like a like a like a special type

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of bottle. It like it must be a bottle that says something

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about you as a person, natural but

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not too natural what I mean? And then

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like yeah, and then and then just enjoy l a be yourself,

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but don't be yourself, Just be who you who

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you think you should be, and you'll have a good time for

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I don't think I can be able to do it, and I

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don't know. Can I tell you no? But can I tell you? The thing

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for real, though, is that's the great thing about what you're

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doing what a lot of people do, is you are you and

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people are loving you for that. I think that's why you're successful.

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In the movie. You play the character fantastically,

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and I think when people meet the real norms amre in real

29:26

life, they go like, Wow, she's even more

29:29

of a princess in real life. So I

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think you're gonna experience more success, more joy,

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and you have no risk of somebody taking away that

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possible. Thank you so much for joining me on the show. Thank

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you going to see you when the lockdown ends.

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Yes, yes, yes, please stay safe.

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Okay, and we're so proud of you.

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Yes, thanks to Eva. Bye.

29:52

Don't forget. People Coming to America is

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available now on Amazon Prime Video.

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