May 4, 2026

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South Asian music and culture can be.
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Found around the world.
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We're tracked down the.
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Best and presented here for you on Raucous Avenue Radio.
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Hey, everyone listens rug in there and you're listening to
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The Bridge with Sammy John.
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Hi, this is the Jiu sand and you are now
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listening to Rockus Avenue Radio now on the free iHeart Radio.
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App Andy, get down.
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What's up everybody. I hope you guys are well wherever
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you may be across our beautiful world. Here on a Monday.
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Thank you very much for tuning in. My name is
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Sammy John. Then welcome everybody to a May fourth edition
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of The Bridge. It's like Bitch quite possibly, folks, the
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most entertaining hour in all South Asian music is coming
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at you. I'm super excited about this week. It's been
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something that we've been working on here behind the scenes
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for the last several days, and I've been conspiring with
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my good friend Bush Bondhia, the director of the movie
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American Dacy, on bringing this week together for you, and
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we'll be shining a light on the film that was
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twenty five years ago this year. The movie American Dacy
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really a cult classic and I think my goodness, really
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the impetus for so many great things that have happened
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in our community since. Big shout out to Bush and
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the entire cast and crew that was a part of
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that fabulous film, and we'll talk about it all week long.
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And today, to begin this fabulous week, we're going to
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turn Monday's edition of the show towards the two leading
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ladies of the film, American Basy. We'll be joined by
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the star por of a Baby today. We'll talk to
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her about the film, get her take. We'll be joined
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by Suneta Bottom of the film as well. It's gonna
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be a fun hour this week. We'll be joined by
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the rest of the cast as well, Cal Penn, Rizwan Nanji,
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the director himself, USh as I mentioned to you can't wait,
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cannot wait, It's gonna be fun. Well, we've got a
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show to deliver to you today, and we always begin
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our Monday morning shows with what was the number one
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song for our weekend countdown show. We're gonna start it
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off with shub. This song is called Bounce. It's from
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his brand new EP called Chapter four.
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Welcome to the Bridge, Everybody, It's American Dacy Week on
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the show.
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Jack Jack Kyber Harley, a friendly bark back Goofer drink company,
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a great company.
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Based no my.
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God, like god, dampny bad poker, knocking up a buck
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in a bagony.
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I'm gonna pay lock it up, I can agin room,
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Damn Jack, the.
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Big b Big Fanla Stevia Harry Me and a Mania.
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Shoot Tabala Judge. Wait today again Today I'm there Friday.
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Power Pack show for you on a Monday. We'll be
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joined by the Rockets Happney Radio All Stars and we'll
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be joined today of course by Sunita Bottom a baby
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be joined also by Ed de Bray from the United
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Nations News Department, part of our partnership with the u
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N News.
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My money d d K d n A mar Marri.
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And the.
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D n A Yo, don't go on look at the
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thirsty hell c n E or poor it.
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Sorry kopani.
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In baby back in Bali, but the sha que la
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but they are.
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Dary hey cornage retally like nothing at the n A
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then the at the n A Nasa Ma Marri canla
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c n A or to curtainly talk, can't jerry.
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The kitchen kah.
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The LiTi jump up to the kna to.
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The queen u via the n a Yakamaya maya sari yoga.
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Ba n a and the heavy as the n nex
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door pudor edits to get in your tour.
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Did canny a child.
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Like a child.
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Like can tend the fore taking the cha cha they
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killed like the na book got t n a d
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n an yas Ma Marri he didn't care la c
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acor put that door. He took it dinner to dia mai.
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Quid you are in.
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To you about it to.
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Look callico.
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D n a paramedic gootage, I guess hurry can cat
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the n a yas Ma mar you.
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T care last n e or put that door and
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he took it in it.
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N a and to its.
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Shut, say.
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By bus jaqui hocke marrin here pelissa tadara to come
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back dam babby that the old equal this borda joya.
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The gordo carda nandas or jog.
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Daddy d think that then a job pitch Pasaya hun
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an ma married did.
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Get a card car it took.
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That's a cool touch. I love the star work right there.
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The s is called top fella got a Nodsla's latest
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his collaboration with producer Mercy Beats on that song right there,
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the brand new song from over the weekend in Punjabi music.
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I would say it's the big one. But there's one
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song that I think has social media vibrating out there.
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It's from del Gito song just performance at Jimmy fallon
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last Monday. The song is called Mortny produced by True School.
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Doctor by the.
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Candidelly Puny go Junny, tell you connect the.
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Telly, what's the piece liked? Gotta get the bags guitar
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and come jumping their part. Shappy eye up, Sadie, shoppy
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eye up, Sordia happy there got the head he had
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to put their handy thing. You didn't know any to me,
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didn't any tone the phone on em in the air.
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The gut there the tellah a.
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Case up the gut there hardy mony, check me out your.
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What you the thrown up? When I put you and
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put the pun the sun.
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John, Honey, I'm.
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Trying to put you bad.
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I can look back.
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You bad?
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That that look bad to boot the I'm telling you say,
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plumb me pitiable? Can you get them by you bunny?
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How would they would they? The boy and I I
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can't be in everybody.
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In your head, jayt the Got There, the telephil Jessic
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I Got there, the Telepid Jessic got there, Tell jess
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I got there, the tele party mom.
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Che che.
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Check.
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It's really interesting. I think this specific performance on Jimmy Fallon,
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amongst all the things that he has done on a
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mainstream level. I'm talking about Diljit Dosange here, but I
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really feel that this Jimmy Fallon collaboration that he just
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did on Monday on The Tonight Show has resonated into
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the mainstream fibers of this country. It really has. You're
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starting to see American people like pick up on dil
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Jeth and you know, post videos of him dancing and stuff.
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So let's see what happens. Let's bring in Doctor Roy.
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Hey guys, this is doctor Roy with Today's Word on
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the Avenue in Film and TV News at CCXP Mexico.
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Visual from the panel of ss Rajamuli's upcoming film Varronessy
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sparked online chatter after clips showed empty seats during the presentation.
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While some call the turnout underwhelming and preemptive, others noted
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the footage may not reflect the fall audience, as the
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team including Mahesh Babu, Brianca Chopra and pritfeerraj unveiled behind
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the scenes glimpses of the film's global scale vision. In
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Media News, Delgito Sage selling out at BC Place Stadium
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twice is a major milestone not just for him, but
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for Punjabi music globally. Drawing around fifty five thousand fans
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shows how far the genre has traveled beyond regional boundaries
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into mainstream international arenas. In event News, chef Sudish Sandas
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has made history as the first Nipali finalist for the
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James Beard Award, one of the highest honors in the
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food world. From working at A seven to eleven in
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Virginia to co founding Dharu and launching Dapuri, his journey
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is a powerful testament to passion, resilience and refining modern
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South Asian cuisine.
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That's it for today's word on the avenue. Until next time,
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Thank you so.
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Much, doctor Roy. We'll be joined here by Mira Sharma.
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Right after this song called one day, Thank you to
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you do that great.
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The interior that come good day?
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Could he yes, hell and lug You're but not gray.
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They can apparture to put your direct create perior, come
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good day, Hell and jo so they can a party
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to put your dr gret.
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Record leman little the fun of hamony. Could Sadia a
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cruse Sadika okay is hello mother?
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Theybody does attack, then he's no, no you the so
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cave and then he could him nay Marma the revel
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Mari mad.
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The bar not your ody ho do not you girls
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dyes in k.
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To not.
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A k easy life.
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She started to Cumber's.
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Cred terror that cou Ja terra bad come a good day?
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Could he yes, Hell and La you like Javi.
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But not cray.
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How they can departure to put your corey is har
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the u notrecy, but that period that the head had
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come a good day after the head and you're looking it.
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But you making a party to put you not to
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hard the great.
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Man, the men keeper crazy, s humble.
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And study kind merrily to make a girl that's hate,
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you know, abbatising their tacking on Honeyland Toronto tack. We're
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not trying to get a colony. No manager or Carlo Cusha.
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To crec Arbasa to k blogs to tell the Turk.
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Doesn't name is Samra. It's a great track. It's called
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One Day, one of my favorite artists out there right
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now that's really emerging on the scene this last few weeks.
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There he is. And now let's bring in Mira Sharma
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to this episode, who is going to bring a mindful
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minute to you, as she does every week on the Bridge.
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What's up, Mira, Hey, Sammy, Hey everyone.
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Mira Sharma here with your weekly dose of mindful sas
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helping you stay self assured, spirited and strong. Hello May,
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New month, fresh energy, and a reminder that growser doesn't
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always have to be loud. Sometimes it's the quiet shifts,
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the better habits, the stronger boundaries, the calmer mindset that
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change your life the most. So use this month to
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reset your energy, focus on what feels aligned, and step
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into the version of you that's been waiting to bloom.
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Summer is nearly here, the vibes are lighter, and so
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are you. New month's new opportunities. Let's make May count.
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You've got this.
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Thank you so much, Mira. Always great to hear from
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Mira on a Monday. I always say, Mira on a Monday,
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get you powered for the rest of the week. She
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does this song is called eyes on Me to do Musabala.
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And the kid our gentle flea life a coma only
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kage o life Catara flexid I tak the loan at
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the head.
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You punk time past come what come of voice you're want?
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Didney said Jenny Jakaba said, Naha Camia, come on, come on,
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don't go to the bianna. I don't make call you
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tay the minute you can and they call you tay,
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they make you for good. There from my nod idea
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that gonnah got got your mauta hoa brn we put
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the dandeo take a bunny Bunny Dante.
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Bunny.
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Don't you yay with today?
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They can't get the fet you bunny dandie you like
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you know the case mass pandey dan dayah.
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That's not a faking about side for bunny.
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Dan Tayahia times Hanna to Canna said that cry for
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bunny Damaya. Oh no, John upstairs, sorry you tell your
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us that is all honey.
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They shut Caun.
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You're talking back to Okay, can get that they got
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him darling the lack automate you madam three sid for Indian.
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I'm back to wait for.
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Up forgoing heady long and then they're back in our party,
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the party they covered after lock Up. Julie have to
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take catch deepetted them my love Gay Party.
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Mar It's foot ya.
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Bass out there say you have to.
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Say you have to.
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Yeah, car eyes on me.
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Kid.
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And the rumor is that there's about a couple of
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hundred of these unreleased DO songs out there starting to
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make their ways out there. You go, there's one song
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for you right there. Now, let's bring in Ed Debray
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from the UN News Department, as part of our partnership
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with the UN News brings us a news report every
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Monday morning.
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This is UN News Today with me Ed Debray. The
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headlines With the Middle East war now in month three,
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the UN Refugee Agency warns of the far reaching effects
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on aid delivery. Meanwhile, in Mayama, the former State councilor
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Ung sangsu Chi has been released from prison but will
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remain under house arrest, and a new death law penalty
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in Israel perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians. Independent rights experts
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warn the Middle East crisis is having growing consequences for
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global humanitarian supply chains and the delivery of aid. As
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spikes and transport costs and freight disruptions are forcing UN
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Refugee Agency UNHCR to adapt its delivery strategy. Heightened and
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security and instability around key Gulf routes, including the Strait
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of Humu's choke point, have severely up to a maritime traffic.
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This has triggered a growing reliance on alternative land corridors
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to distribute aid, including trucking across the Arabian Peninsula and
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Turkey from Dubai. In some cases, shipments are also being
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re routed across the Cape of Good Hope, increasing journey
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times by up to twenty five days. The impact of
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the crisis on aid delivery cost has been substantial. Here's
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the UNHDR spokesperson Colotto Wolf.
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While the capacity of some of our global transport providers
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has dropped from ninety seven to seventy seven percent from
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the start of the year, for some shipments, costs have
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more than doubled, such as transfer costs for relief items
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from unitsr's global stockpiles in Dubai to our Sudan and
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Child operations.
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However, longer journey times are having devastating impacts on those
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in need, particularly Warrisome is the situation for Africa, where
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there are many overlapping displacement crises. To Mayama, where the
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former Myama State councilor unsangsu Chi, has been transferred from
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prison to house arrest, with her sentence reduced under a
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prisoner amnesty linked to a Buddhist holiday. The UN Secretary
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General welcomed the move, but reiterated his call for the
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swift and unconditional release of all those arbitrarily detained as
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a fundamental step toward essential political reform. Antonio Gutadesh believes
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that a viable political solution must be founded on an
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immediate end to the brutal civil conflict across Myamar and
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a genuine commitment to inclusive dialogue. Sustained engagement by the military,
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junta and rebel leaders with the UN Special Envoy is
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crucial to supporting efforts toward a policeful solution. This includes
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coordination with regional partners such as the Asian Group of
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Nations in line with the calls for the Security Council
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and General Assembly. Finally, to Israel, where a newly adopted
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death penalty for terrorist law perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians.
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According to a panel of independent human rights experts who
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are support by the UN Human Rights Office WITCHR. According
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to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
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the new law amounts to a grave erosion of human
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rights and urges Israel to immediately repeal the law. The
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committee expressed alarm that the law mandates death by hanging
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as the default sentence for cases involving an act of
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terrorism before Israeli military courts, which have exclusive jurisdiction over
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Palestinians in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, while Israeli citizens and
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residents are excluded from them. The committee said the new
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law is a severe blow to human rights, rolling back
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Israel's long standing de facto moratorium on execution since nineteen
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sixty two and expanding the use of the death penalty
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in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory, including the West
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Bank and East Jerusalem. The Committee highlighted its concern that
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in Israel, the law applies only to those convicted of
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deliberate killing with the attempt of denying the existence of
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the State of Israel, making it in effect applicable to
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Palestinians only. Further noted that the law prohibits mitigation, commutation
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or pardon of the death penalty, and sets a ninety
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day deadline for executions once a final judgment is rendered. Meanwhile,
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the committee said the law was adopted amid escalating settle
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of violence and unlawful killings with impunity across the occupied
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Palestinian territory, as well as ongoing systematic violations of Palestinian's
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due process and fair trial rights. As of January twenty
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twenty six, nine two hundred and forty three Palestinians were
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in Israeli custody, including three thousand, three hundred and eighty
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five administrative detainees held without trial at debray Un News.
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Thanks so much for that, Ed, And as you guys know,
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today we are shining a spotlight on the movie American
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Day See, and today is day one of the four
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day spread where we shine a spotlight on not only
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the film itself, but its impact and all the individuals
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that are conspired together to make that film into what
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it is today genuinely called classic. And if you're not
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familiar with the film, it's really a love story about
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a kid grows up here in the United States from
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South Asian descent and kind of finds the South Asian
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identity through a love story. So we'll get into it
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a little bit. Stand by for.
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Mary Marco Hassana and.
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Kamana person the persons.
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Such a listener rap Gali person loved kush kusina.
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Al from Sani you wander arrive will BMC slam.
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And I'm great artists polarizing.
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Your mar Marco Hassana, Basra Kamana personahana personas the butterla
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Forlanallana bans.
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Such Calina chat town, Percalina chat Town, cab be mesiato
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or could be enny Boto. I means some cigaret Peterny
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when guessing get me and many got town to there
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is to many bats government in a super many a town.
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I think he's take America.
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And even pertly brought to Yourcanobe Balija just ga Gali
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chat Town Thomas Mers come on down, Mumma Slam come ton.
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Why not name a figur unga.
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Versiri Mango Hassana by Sunda.
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Kamana by Sunda.
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Land Ubacha plana Forlana Flanaga is.
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Such a.
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Rigossana sa Kamana by Sundahadbachavlana Forlana Flanas.
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Is such a Zabi Froust t Buya d Mike.
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Subminia Baram is born in Malaysia Tamil heritage. Raised in Buffalo,
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New York. She brought Father Sai to life in American
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Daycy and has since carved out a steady career in
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Hollywood with roles in Blades of Glory, Law and Order,
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Criminal Intent, and most recently, Adam Sandler's animated hit movie Leo,
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a true Diasporas story on and off the screen. And
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as part of our week long special of shining a
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light on the movie American They See, folks, let's invite
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this young lady to the show, Sunita Bottom, how are
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you today? Welcome to the bridge.
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I am great and I love that you called me
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the young lady of course.
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Reason.
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Yeah, absolutely, you know, yeah, you know, I know it's
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only been what twenty five years, but time is flying? Yes, yes,
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and listen, yeah, I know that it's been, you know,
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twenty five years since this film made its way out there.
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What an impact it all made for everybody that was
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involved in this film. And you don't want to get
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your thoughts on it. Twenty five years.
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Yeah, it's really amazing because you know this movie was
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the first of it's kind, so you didn't see that
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many brown cases or any at the least this many
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brand spaces up on the big screen.
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And it made a massive impression and a huge imprint
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on so many people's lives.
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You know.
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I think it was the first time people like you
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and me felt like they were represented, you know, and
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part of that was truly incredible.
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You know, I going back to the moment. Let's talk
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about this in an industry, in a business that was
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completely radically different than it is now. You know, there
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weren't so many productions of this nature. You you you
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get contacted from you know, somebody from the team, maybe
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get maybe Puche with this grand vision of you playing Fara,
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and you know, what was your reaction to that? And
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what was that moment like when you first saw all right, Fara,
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what is this character and what is this film? What
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was that moment? Take us back to that initial reaction.
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God, it was so long ago.
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Well, so, you know, I was a young actor in
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New York. It's a late nineties. I did have an agent,
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and I think I'd only been in New.
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York like a year or two.
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I don't remember if the audition came through my agent
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or whether I saw the posting in backstage, which was
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like the newspaper at.
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The time that post auditions, but just I just was like, oh,
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take a movie and it's like all South.
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Asians, that's so interesting, Oh my god, okay, it just
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I didn't we none of us knew what we were
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walking into. And you know, Pusche over these last few
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weeks were posting, was posting videos, audition videos, and then
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I saw this video of my audition.
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And it was just it was mind blowing.
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And I think a lot of memory, you know, we
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forget things over time, but seeing that video, I was like,
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oh my god, I totally remember that.
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I remember that room. I remember, you know, it was
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a big studio, there was a mirror, there was a
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ballet bar.
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I remember doing that scene.
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I remember, you know. So it was it was pretty incredible,
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and nobody knew what it was.
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Going to be, right, and the fact that he usual
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was able to do that, like he'd never written anything before,
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he'd never directed. Pulling together all of these actors and
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many of whom are doing really really well.
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And quite successful.
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Now, you know, pulling all these actors together to do
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this project. It was pretty incredible.
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It's interesting, you know, you reflected on what this class
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of talent has gone on to do. I think a
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lot of people know several of the actors for what
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they've done since the movie, but may not know that,
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you know, the genesis of this was this little classic
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called American They see that happened. Yeah, you probably come
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across a lot of people that know you from the film,
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that soly remember you from playing this role in a
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film that was so important in our culture at the time.
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You know, put this twenty five years into context for
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us in terms of the perspective you've gained for its
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impact out there.
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Really, truly, I think it's the sense of appreciation and
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awareness of what I was privileged enough to have a
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hand in and be a part of, and a sense
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of gratitude.
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Honestly, you know, a lot has happened in twenty five years.
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You know, we grow up and we experience a lot
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of life, whether it's you know, good or bad, or indifferent.
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Or both all of it, because that's life.
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So it's really truly a sense of appreciation and gratitude
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that I was able to be a part of this
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incredible piece that affected many people in such a positive way.
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And congratulations on the big twenty fifth anniversary, and uh
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here's to celebrate in the fiftieth here pretty.
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Soon, pretty soon, Okay, all right, it's fly bye.
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It'll be here soon all right. So there you are.
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You are not wrong, You are not wrong.
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Definitely. Thanks for joining us today Asnita.
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Thank you so much. Have a great day.
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Yep, folks, here's the next song for you.
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cozy said, don't be delayed to me. Okay, sorry reward Ju,
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but they have he logKi sky show domain.
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Snape's a cosey great track right there. It's bringing poor
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Verbeedi to this show. Eh. She was born in Chendigar,
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raised between Belgium and New York and a Williams college
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grad who trained at the British American Drama Academy in London.
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She was the heart of American dacy as Nina Shah
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and has since built one of the most respected careers
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in the cast, a Drama Desk Award winner for Dance
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Nation with credits spanning Sully, Gossip Girl. One of us
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is lying on the stages of the Public Playwrights Horizons,
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Manhattan Theater Club, The Amazing Poor Baby, How are you, pa.
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I'm fantastic, I'm so happy to be here.
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Well, you know, take us back to the moment you
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find out that you've been You've been put this character
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of Nina Sean in front of you and you're you're
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you're probably making sense of how there's so many brown
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names in a script like this throughout an entire film.
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And so take us back to that moment, tell us
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how this role landed in your lap, and walk us
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through the moment where you're like, yeah, I'm going to
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do this.
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Yeah.
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I mean I was like a freak avoid for being
492
00:37:08.800 --> 00:37:11.599
like an Indian American girl who wanted to be an actress.
493
00:37:11.840 --> 00:37:11.960
Right.
494
00:37:12.440 --> 00:37:18.719
Everyone else was like you know, engineering, med school, law school,
495
00:37:19.079 --> 00:37:21.800
Like I was like the only Indian person I knew
496
00:37:21.840 --> 00:37:25.800
who wanted to act seriously, So it was pretty weird
497
00:37:26.039 --> 00:37:27.679
what I was doing. And I was in New York
498
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:30.119
City and I was reading backstage, and I was going
499
00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:33.559
on auditions, and you know, it's like I was like,
500
00:37:33.599 --> 00:37:35.559
people don't know what to do with me, and there's
501
00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:39.360
like so few Indian people doing this. And then I
502
00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:43.639
got a couple of like basically the same time the
503
00:37:43.840 --> 00:37:47.480
American Bacy, like the Little Ad was in backstage. It
504
00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:49.679
was the same time as this other play called East
505
00:37:49.760 --> 00:37:53.079
Of East of Manhattan Theater Club was being done. And suddenly,
506
00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.440
like I went from like not having any idea what
507
00:37:57.480 --> 00:37:59.840
I was doing to being cast into things at the
508
00:38:00.079 --> 00:38:03.920
same time that were primarily South Asian casts, right, And
509
00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:07.960
it was mind blowing for me, And it was pretty
510
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:11.480
mind blowing for all of the other like South Asian
511
00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:14.920
actors who were in the projects with me, because we
512
00:38:15.039 --> 00:38:21.039
were all pretty isolated and unique and weird in our
513
00:38:21.360 --> 00:38:25.400
career choices, you know, to be doing this thing. And
514
00:38:25.519 --> 00:38:28.519
then when I, you know, started with American Dacy and
515
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:31.679
I met Kal and Ronevier and Deep and Sunita and
516
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:36.079
Ami and just the whole gang, it was such a
517
00:38:36.440 --> 00:38:42.920
beautiful experience to feel not isolated in this funny profession
518
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:45.360
that I was going into, to feel like there are
519
00:38:45.480 --> 00:38:47.920
other people like me. I mean I think, like, yeah,
520
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:50.519
you know, I basically like had a crush on every
521
00:38:50.559 --> 00:38:53.559
single person I worked with, because I was so excited
522
00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:57.559
to have met someone who had made some moilre choices me.
523
00:38:58.039 --> 00:39:01.400
Right, that's awesome. You know, take us back to that
524
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set you have. You have so many awesome folks all
525
00:39:05.519 --> 00:39:08.119
collaborating on a project like this, and you just put
526
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:11.679
it very kind of squarely. You all had something in common.
527
00:39:11.800 --> 00:39:13.599
You had all made this choice in life, and you
528
00:39:13.679 --> 00:39:15.760
were in it together, if you will. What was the
529
00:39:15.880 --> 00:39:17.480
energy on the set, like with everybody there?
530
00:39:18.800 --> 00:39:22.480
It was you know, it was so long ago that
531
00:39:22.639 --> 00:39:26.719
I only remember like the fun and the excitement and
532
00:39:26.840 --> 00:39:30.679
the stories were like so like silly and loud, and
533
00:39:31.679 --> 00:39:34.480
and you know rewatching, you know, I rewatched the film
534
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.880
recently at the American Days, the reunion event, right, and
535
00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:45.000
I was actually marveling at how that film was still
536
00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:47.320
ahead of its time. It was because it was telling
537
00:39:47.800 --> 00:39:50.880
dacy stories, not for the white gaze, but for.
538
00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:52.039
The dacy gaze.
539
00:39:52.519 --> 00:39:56.239
Because there's there's a seek storyline there's a Muslim storyline.
540
00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:59.760
There's you know the story of like a Muslim woman
541
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:02.599
who who is both like modern and teeny boppery and
542
00:40:02.800 --> 00:40:05.880
also embraces her culture and religion as well as you know,
543
00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:07.800
my character and finds her way through it.
544
00:40:08.039 --> 00:40:08.719
But there are so.
545
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:14.880
Many distinct basy like regionalities and stories in one film,
546
00:40:15.000 --> 00:40:18.039
Like it wasn't like a Punjabi story. It was like
547
00:40:18.199 --> 00:40:20.880
there were some Funjabi characters, but there were you know,
548
00:40:21.440 --> 00:40:24.239
and you know, actually don't see that very much in
549
00:40:24.360 --> 00:40:27.599
an independent like even in an Indian American movie, Like
550
00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:31.480
it wasn't like it was a pretty wide swath of diversity.
551
00:40:31.679 --> 00:40:35.440
So yeah, cool, even if some things are dated and
552
00:40:35.519 --> 00:40:38.079
something we wouldn't if we remade the movie now, we
553
00:40:38.159 --> 00:40:39.679
would do some different choices.
554
00:40:39.760 --> 00:40:44.760
I think, you know, well, going back to it, you
555
00:40:44.880 --> 00:40:48.639
you you you you you look at something like what
556
00:40:49.239 --> 00:40:52.400
you did at that time. You know, even yourself, like
557
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:56.480
you obviously come from such a serious literary family, you know,
558
00:40:56.639 --> 00:40:58.719
with what your mom does right and what she has
559
00:40:58.800 --> 00:41:02.159
been accomplished career, and then you have you know this this,
560
00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:05.599
I think you've spent an incredible amount of time in
561
00:41:05.760 --> 00:41:10.239
your career building infrastructure for whether it is the playwrights
562
00:41:10.320 --> 00:41:12.920
out there, if you've done anything towards theater or in
563
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.840
the different places that you've done. And I feel like
564
00:41:16.039 --> 00:41:18.960
there's something about what Buse did that may have in
565
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:20.840
some sort of way inspired you to go out there
566
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:24.639
and be somewhat of an infrastructure builder, somewhat of someone
567
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:26.639
that can go out there and build the invisible if
568
00:41:26.679 --> 00:41:28.440
you will. Is that is that true?
569
00:41:30.039 --> 00:41:32.119
You know? I hadn't thought of it that way, But
570
00:41:32.239 --> 00:41:35.679
when you say that, it's like, yeah, like he was
571
00:41:35.760 --> 00:41:41.119
sort of teaching me the idea of representation matters before
572
00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:43.679
I'd ever heard that phrase or anyone had coined it
573
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:48.960
in that way, right, Because here was a script that
574
00:41:49.199 --> 00:41:52.039
was exactly what I said, like all of these basy stories,
575
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.920
and I had been trying to be like, well, what
576
00:41:55.119 --> 00:41:56.880
kind of a job can I get as a you know,
577
00:41:57.239 --> 00:42:01.760
like a brown Indian American actress. I'll take whatever anyone
578
00:42:02.119 --> 00:42:05.119
offers me, but I haven't put myself into a position
579
00:42:05.239 --> 00:42:08.480
of power and of like no, no, actually, like we
580
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:11.760
can create these stories and opportunities for ourselves, which is
581
00:42:11.800 --> 00:42:14.960
what Pusch was doing, right, Because I was like, well,
582
00:42:15.039 --> 00:42:17.840
I guess people can put me in Shakespeare place because
583
00:42:17.880 --> 00:42:21.239
people go non traditional casting in those which is a
584
00:42:21.360 --> 00:42:22.599
very small minded.
585
00:42:22.320 --> 00:42:22.880
Way to think.
586
00:42:22.960 --> 00:42:24.960
But that is what the world was presenting me in
587
00:42:25.280 --> 00:42:29.840
you know, nineteen ninety six. But piuche was doing what
588
00:42:30.320 --> 00:42:32.960
everyone like now is like, of course you got to
589
00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:35.280
do that, which is making his own stories, making our
590
00:42:35.360 --> 00:42:38.639
own stories. So yeah, I think he taught me early
591
00:42:39.119 --> 00:42:42.280
that idea, and then my career the last twenty five
592
00:42:42.360 --> 00:42:47.320
years has been very much about like helping play rights
593
00:42:47.480 --> 00:42:51.920
build the world they want to build, right, and whatever
594
00:42:52.119 --> 00:42:55.760
that story is, like find your story, develop your story,
595
00:42:55.840 --> 00:42:59.119
believe in your story, and flush it out fully, whatever
596
00:42:59.239 --> 00:43:04.480
your skin color, background, gender, sexuality. Right.
597
00:43:05.880 --> 00:43:09.639
Nina is an interesting character. Of course, she's probably the
598
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:12.400
most culturally centered out of everyone in the movie. And
599
00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.960
you know, and at the time, of course you represented
600
00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:21.920
you know, something of of I guess that the audience
601
00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.760
is sitting there being a fan of what the outcome
602
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:27.519
would be for you specifically in the film. And how
603
00:43:27.679 --> 00:43:31.079
was that at that time, you know, being somebody that
604
00:43:31.639 --> 00:43:34.400
played this role and then you know, being such an
605
00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:37.920
inspiration for other leading ladies in these kind of love
606
00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:41.199
stories like this and a very unique you know backdrop,
607
00:43:42.480 --> 00:43:44.679
give us a sense of that playing the Nina role.
608
00:43:46.199 --> 00:43:48.599
You know, Nina is aspirational for me.
609
00:43:49.079 --> 00:43:50.159
Like I feel like.
610
00:43:50.480 --> 00:43:53.039
Nina was like balanced and had her act together and
611
00:43:53.280 --> 00:43:56.000
was confident and comfortable in her own skin in a
612
00:43:56.039 --> 00:44:01.280
way that she was not, Like I might have talked
613
00:44:01.320 --> 00:44:04.480
a good game and sold my Needa, but I think
614
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:09.360
I didn't feel totally comfortable, and I didn't you know,
615
00:44:09.760 --> 00:44:14.800
have the confidence of like what my culture means to me,
616
00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:18.000
because it was a different time then, and like beauty
617
00:44:18.239 --> 00:44:21.239
was defined, you know, like we're talking about like we
618
00:44:21.360 --> 00:44:23.519
made that in nineteen ninety nine, it came out, you
619
00:44:23.599 --> 00:44:26.880
know in two thousand and one, Like beauty was very
620
00:44:27.039 --> 00:44:31.519
much like white, traditional blonde, blue eyes, you know. And
621
00:44:31.760 --> 00:44:34.800
so I didn't have the sort of self confidence of
622
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:39.199
living in my brown skin going to school with people
623
00:44:39.360 --> 00:44:41.760
no one looked like me. You know, I was the
624
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:44.559
only one that looked like me when I in all
625
00:44:44.639 --> 00:44:48.000
of my educational disciplines in like you know, high school, college,
626
00:44:48.320 --> 00:44:52.880
elementary school. So I didn't have the comfort that Nina had.
627
00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:53.679
So so.
628
00:44:55.199 --> 00:44:57.679
It was really like, yeah, it was sort of like
629
00:44:58.199 --> 00:44:59.639
I think I think I would.
630
00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.920
Have liked have been more like Mena in my life.
631
00:45:02.199 --> 00:45:05.840
Wow, that's really interesting and thanks for sharing that. I
632
00:45:05.920 --> 00:45:08.440
think it probably tells more to the story of the
633
00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:12.079
job that you did in that role and realizing, you know,
634
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:13.679
what the character had to portray and you did that
635
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:18.000
so well, and so thank you for that. Right. You know,
636
00:45:18.639 --> 00:45:21.840
as you look at the time when the film came out,
637
00:45:22.039 --> 00:45:25.199
it comes out right before nine to eleven, in a
638
00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:28.320
time where people have not even figured this out from
639
00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:31.159
anyone else that's brown, and here's a film that speaks
640
00:45:31.519 --> 00:45:34.480
directly to the condition of the South Asian experience here
641
00:45:35.599 --> 00:45:38.400
talk about that time, you know, nine to eleven comes.
642
00:45:38.639 --> 00:45:41.800
It kind of changes the narrative around the film in
643
00:45:41.880 --> 00:45:44.880
a way, but then again reframes it in a much
644
00:45:45.000 --> 00:45:48.079
different purposeful way as far as what our representation of
645
00:45:48.119 --> 00:45:51.639
our culture is. Tell us back about that absolutely well.
646
00:45:51.920 --> 00:45:57.039
So I actually think that we were more invisible then,
647
00:45:57.599 --> 00:46:03.639
and certainly the Muslim experience on screen after two thousand
648
00:46:03.679 --> 00:46:06.639
and one was all quite negative.
649
00:46:07.440 --> 00:46:09.280
It was, you know, terrorist.
650
00:46:10.639 --> 00:46:11.000
Mostly.
651
00:46:11.719 --> 00:46:15.639
And that's what's so wild about watching the film which
652
00:46:15.760 --> 00:46:17.719
came out just before nine to eleven, because you see
653
00:46:17.800 --> 00:46:23.079
Riswanmanji and Suneta Parum depicting Islam. It's just like we're
654
00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:26.559
just college kids practicing our religion and now we're doing
655
00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:29.039
our prayers and now we're going to mock and it's
656
00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:31.639
just a part of our life. And also you know,
657
00:46:31.760 --> 00:46:33.960
we're going to the school dance and living our life
658
00:46:34.480 --> 00:46:37.159
and it's like, oh, watching it, I was like, oh,
659
00:46:37.400 --> 00:46:38.840
like that.
660
00:46:39.039 --> 00:46:40.639
Is something I never see.
661
00:46:41.119 --> 00:46:43.599
You don't see like someone just like being a Muslim
662
00:46:43.719 --> 00:46:46.320
and being fully integrated into their life in college and
663
00:46:46.400 --> 00:46:47.360
it's no big deal.
664
00:46:48.440 --> 00:46:53.360
Yeah, that's fantastic. Borva. Thank you so much for spending
665
00:46:53.400 --> 00:46:55.440
time with me here on my show. I wanted to
666
00:46:56.400 --> 00:46:58.760
one more time just congratulate you on the film and
667
00:46:58.840 --> 00:47:01.320
everything that you've been doing in your career. And thanks
668
00:47:01.360 --> 00:47:02.480
for joining us here on the bridge.
669
00:47:03.599 --> 00:47:04.440
Oh thank you.
670
00:47:04.679 --> 00:47:07.000
Such a pleasure and so happy to talk to you
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again after all this time.
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Thank you so much. Here's everyone may.
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Fall goody hold malady, hold, don't no baker get a good.
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Man?
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This man dad hol on, okay on look here son,
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come to ko. Then they beact.
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Hereda harmonia nikity, who the puddy little Honeyamada, who are
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a puddy little man?
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They honey? Then go up.
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The Lamentakay there you liberty holiday.
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All about it a game.
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Okay there looking okay, put the gate took to day too.
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He's going to Charlie the first game bag Hoyry.
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Looked down movies, the pretty.
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Had pretty, Horry up, pattle Man Move honey, Okay, Junjam
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and the Jamay not loved. Holy ninety night. Okay jun
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Jad did.
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And shout out to poor baby, Shout out to Sunita.
689
00:49:57.519 --> 00:50:01.679
Buttom for joining us today. Sp is that you know,
690
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so many incredible actors that came together on that film.
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And even though they did work on that film, they
692
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all in their own right went on to be so successful.
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And you know, not only to say that that film
694
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was what made them, not at all. Some of these
695
00:50:14.559 --> 00:50:17.199
people were already established. It's how they got those roles.
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Here's Rihanna for you.
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Hey, everyone, it's Rihanna with the news only on Diaspora,
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Rising Global News from a South Asian lens on Recus
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Avenue Radio.
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You're Home, away from Home.
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We start the week with something escoating quietly but rapidly,
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global cyber attacks. Security agencies across North America, Europe, and
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parts of Asia are investigating a coordinated wave of ransomware
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and infrastructure targeted cyber attacks. Banks, telecom providers, and government
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digital portals have reported attempted breaches. Officials have not confirmed
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a single source yet, but cybersecurity analysts are calling this
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one one of the most aggressive coordinated digital offenses in
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recent months. Indu's Ministry of Electronics and It has reportedly
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increased cyber defense monitoring protocols, urging financial institutions and tech
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firms to titan security. And with India's massive digital payments
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ecosystems UPI transactions crossing billions monthly, cyberstability is national stability.
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Wars aren't only fat with weapons anymore, they're fat with code.
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In South Asia is now too digitally powerful to ignore it.
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But tell us your thoughts follow our Rockas Avenue Radio.
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This is Randon with the news every Monday Thursday and
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See you guys smart, Thank you so much for that, Rihanna,
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And now let's bring in Dorita Das Gupta to the
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show to bring you an artist spotlight. How are you today, Dorrika?
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Thanks Sammy.
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Hey everyone, this is the Suta Eurokas Avenue Radio Music
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corresponding back with some fun facts about your favorite artists.
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Today.
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We're shining the spotlight on an artist has been redefining
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South Asian music with a whole new vibe. Hassan Rahim
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Born in Gilgit, Pakistan, Hassan Raheim isn't just any artists.
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He's a doctor turn singer, songwriter, rapper who's been blending
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R and B, hip hop and indie pop into his
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very own signature sound. He first caught everyone's attention back
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in twenty twenty with his viral hit Esa gess It
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and trust Me. Since then, he's been unstoppable. Fast forward
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to twenty twenty two, Hassan made his Cokes to You
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Baby with the funky track pache Hut alongside Tello Kureshi
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and Justin Biebe's, which even landed in Marvel Studios Miss Marvel, Yes,
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our guy made it into the Marvel Universe. In twenty
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twenty three, he dropped his EP Maybe It's Love featuring
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Collapse with the likes of Talha and Jundalha, YunOS and
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even Rough Star. And in twenty twenty four, he took
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things international with Mahrabuan, teaming up with the Indian mediom
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Wizard Read this for a cross border banger. What makes
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her sound so special. It's not just the smooth vocals
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or catchy beats. It's a simplicity heart and a touch
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of his giliate roots and he brings that into every song.
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Well that's all for me. Now back to you, Sammy, Thank.
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You, Doita. We're big fans of Hassan Rahim. Here's his
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collaboration with There just for all. The song is called
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baby Girl Bailey.
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Every night you've been Ama mine babygirl Tera muchos.
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In't so don't could feeling.
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Him my bones Dona Joe made us not the Counajo
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a manager who who.
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Ca ca I do?
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No?
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They can't by giant to.
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Put your guy.
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Yeah, have I pull long man, push body a boom,
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complock against.
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The baby, threw it through.
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Until your back up.
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Yeah, you.
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Guys enjoy a.
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Rash in Quod Saya Observer Manchester Juno Samaya Retarded too
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album Cactus Sophia liked you.
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Know that you swim, oh baby, and you took me
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with yourself running a bit, don't inside my head, laid me.
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Don't you tell me by yourself?
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Pill be deal mad.
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Babe true through.
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Delia call it.
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Hard to.
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Learn and.
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Yet the baby through and through?
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Who's there Jusfall, Hassan Raheem. Then, folks, as we close
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out the first episode of our American Dacy twenty fifth
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anniversary special right here on the bridge, We're a baby
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Sunita Buttam, the two leading ladies who in two thousand
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and one gave us Nina and Fuddah, and in doing so,
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gave a whole generation of Brown girls in America their
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first look at themselves on a movie screen. Twenty five
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years later, they're still working, they're still building and still
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bridging worlds, and that, more than anything, is the legacy
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of this film. It didn't just put us on the screen.
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It launched careers and that are still shaping the culture today.
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By the way, Tomorrow we flipped the script the two
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villains of American Dacy, the man we love to hate, Wednesday,
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the boys, the roommates, the brothers, the Ryder die friends
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who made this film quotable. And Thursday we close it
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out with but Ushpondia, the director himself, looking forward to it.
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It's gonna be a fun week here. I hope you
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had a great time hanging out with me today and
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I hope you enjoyed the first episode of this American
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Dacy special. I'll leave you with a saying. The song
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is called gay Ja. I have a great day, everybody, So.
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Go ahead, cut him up. Shum the goose.
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Bozidy God, No, lit my head that up article.
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Cara one, Mira.
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Curing Saba, who's a rare Vaska super bay Leah Bbca
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now bonnabh gurnamen, No fella of your nobody body had
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nobody body had, Mirah.
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Monday Cake Stage of Blues on Courts.
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Sorry along, Mara Kia smooth
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Go Hi Yeah, salar RIrA yeah, gological because I'm Cara,
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my Mira