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>> HASKINS: Coming up on

"Theater Talk"...

You're onstage with a lot of

lines and a lot to do.

How long did it take you to get

yourselves in the place to have

all that stamina?

>> EHLE: I think we're just

getting there now.

>> MAYS: I think we're just

getting there.

[ Laughter ]

We're not kidding.

Actually, we talked with each

other the other night and said,

"Isn't it nice to kind of listen

to the play now?"

[ Laughter ]

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>> MONA: And then we saw it --

two boys facing each other, one

in uniform, one in jeans --

weapons in hand, hate flowing

between them.

Their faces are exactly the

same -- the same fear, the same

desperate desire to be anywhere

but here, to not be doing this

to this other boy.

>> HASKINS: From New York City,

this is "Theater Talk."

I'm Susan Haskins.

>> RIEDEL: And I'm

Michael Riedel of

the New York Post.

>> HASKINS: So, Michael, one of

the highlights of the Broadway

season and the theater season is

the new play "Oslo," telling a

very interesting backstory about

the Oslo Accords of the early

'90s.

It was written by our guest

J.T. Rogers.

And it stars two wonderful

actors -- Jennifer Ehle and

Jefferson Mays...

>> RIEDEL: [ Laughing ] Together

for the camera shot.

>> SHER: All in one shot.

>> ROGERS: They're actually a

twin.

>> RIEDEL: Sideshow.

>> HASKINS: ...who play

Terje Larsen and his wife,

Mona Juul, who brought the

Oslo Accords together.

>> RIEDEL: The two Norwegians

who came up with the idea for

the Oslo Accords.

>> HASKINS: And we are joined by

Bartlett Sher, who is director

and leads the team into this

marvelous, critically acclaimed

production.

Thank you all for being here.

>> RIEDEL: Bartlett, it seems

that anything that happens at

Lincoln Center, you direct.

Do they allow anyone else to

direct up there?

[ Laughter ]

>> SHER: Uh, well, yes.

Of course many wonderful people.

No, I love directing there, and

I love the Beaumont.

The Beaumont's my favorite

space.

>> RIEDEL: J.T., tell us, where

did the idea for this play come

from?

>> ROGERS: Well, in a roundabout

way, Bart here.

In the way that only happens in

New York, Bart has a daughter

who was best friends with a girl

in school, and that girl's

parents turned out to be

Mona Juul and Terje Larson.

>> HASKINS: [ Gasps ]

>> ROGERS: And Bart and I were

working -- Bart was doing the

American premiere of my play

"Blood and Gifts" at

Mitzi Newhouse a few years ago.

And I brought in spies and

diplomats to talk to the actors,

and he brought in Larsen, who

was a high-ranking diplomat for

the U.N., a special envoy to

Lebanon.

And we're all captivated by his

stories.

And he and I went out for a

drink, and Bart was clever

enough not to tell me, "Oh,

there could be a play here."

>> RIEDEL: Oh, you were really

orchestrating this?

>> SHER: It might have been a

version of PlaywrightsMatch.com.

>> RIEDEL: [ Laughs ]

>> ROGERS: So, I went on to

P.J. Clarke's, the beloved

P.J. Clarke's, and we had a

number of martinis.

And I started to find out that

there was a little back channel,

and I think of myself as -- You

know, I follow politics like

sports.

So I thought, "How do I not know

about this?"

>> RIEDEL: Mm. Mm-hmm.

>> ROGERS: And I just learned

the snippets, and he didn't want

to sort of toot his own horn, so

immediately, then, I'm more

interested.

"Why are you being so

circumspect?"

And I started to discover that

there had been this -- the PLO,

the Israeli government, and

rental cars and too much whiskey

and castles.

And I thought, "My God, that is

my wheelhouse."

And I just sort of went off down

a rabbit hole, researching and

traveling and meeting people.

And here we are.

>> RIEDEL: You would think a

history play can be a little

intimidating, but you seem to

have found, Bart, from knowing

this real man, that there's the

human element, that that's what

we go into.

>> SHER: Yeah, we would sit at

soccer matches, watching our

kids play soccer, and he would

tell me the most outrageous

stories.

I couldn't believe how

incredible they were -- whether

it was about the withdrawal of

Syria from Lebanon or

negotiating this thing or that

thing, and they were all

incredible.

But this was particularly

interesting, and he dug out even

more stories.

>> ROGERS: Yeah, I mean, it was

one of those things where, you

know, you start to hear the tip

of the iceberg and it's amazing.

And I went back to him, and I

said, "Oh, my God, I've got an

idea for a play," and he's like,

"Oh, really?

That's interesting."

[ Laughter ]

But then what you have to do is

you meet people, you talk to

them, and then you build a

proverbial Chinese Wall and, you

know, "I can't speak to you,

can't know anything."

And even Bart, who was as

excited as I, said, "You know,

I'll give you the script in 12

months.

Don't ask till then."

And then I went off and said, "I

think not only is this sort of a

thrilling intellectual thriller,

but it's just amazingly funny,"

which is what I'm always

interested in with my plays, is

how do you tell -- Yes, I want

it to be about politics, yes, I

want it to be about history, but

the point is it has to be

entertaining.

>> RIEDEL: Yeah.

>> ROGERS: I like to learn

things in the theater if I'm

having a good time.

I don't like to learn things

when I'm thinking to myself,

"Wow, they're really trying to

teach me a lot."

>> HASKINS: Jefferson, what was

the term that Terje had for

bringing the people together?

There was a term that they used

where you were going to have the

people become friends.

>> MAYS: Right.

"Gradualism," as he calls it, in

which -- as opposed to totalism.

>> HASKINS: Yeah.

>> MAYS: And gradualism, it

boils down simply to bringing

the parties in question together

as human beings.

>> HASKINS: As human beings,

yeah.

>> MAYS: So they can eat

together and drink together.

>> HASKINS: Particularly drink

together, it seems.

>> MAYS: Yes, there's a lot

of -- The Scotch flows in this

production.

>> SHER: All the negotiating up

to that point had always been

huge conferences with long

tables and people arguing very

intensely, very publicly.

>> RIEDEL: Mm-hmm. For show.

>> SHER: Yeah, for show, and he

was a trained organizational

psychologist, who then thought,

"Well, what if you brought them

into private corners, no one was

around, and then go piece by

piece, gradually from one event

to the next, and have them

discuss it?

Would you come out with

different results?"

>> RIEDEL: Jennifer, I want to

ask you, what do you think

motivated this couple to do

this?

>> EHLE: They saw an

opportunity.

Norway was in a very special

position because they did have

neutrality with both sides,

which was unusual.

And Mona, her first posting was

in Cairo.

So they were sort of stationed

there, and Terje took some time

off from his -- from Fafo, from

his work in Norway.

>> MAYS: A think tank that he

ran in Norway, and he met

Yasser Arafat's brother, yeah.

>> EHLE: They had these

connections, and it was -- Yeah.

>> SHER: And then he went off to

do a...

>> MAYS: Sociological survey.

>> SHER: Yeah, a survey of Gaza.

And during that survey met all

the Israelis, so he was

positioned to know higher-ups

among the Palestinians and the

Israelis.

>> RIEDEL: And they had the

trust of both sides.

>> EHLE: They did, and it wasn't

ever a -- 'Cause it wasn't begun

to become the Oslo Accords,

obviously, or even become any

accords.

It was supposed to just be a

back channel that would feed the

official public negotiations.

>> SHER: And Norway's good for

theater because it's neural, so

you don't enter it from the

point of view of the Americans

or from the Palestinians, that

you have a neutral proxy for the

audience to enter the piece.

And Norway had a lot of

authority 'cause they had a lot

of money and they were giving

aid to both sides.

>> RIEDEL: That North Sea oil.

>> SHER: Yeah, they could push

both sides a little bit more

quietly because they had

authority in both cases.

>> ROGERS: One of the things I'd

always wanted to write a play

about is "Israel/Palestine."

But the answer was always,

"Well, you can't.

You can't."

And so, when I heard about this,

I thought, "Ah."

As Bart's saying, you come at it

this way, and then the play is

not about "he said, she said."

It's about, "Isn't it

fascinating how everything is

off-kilter and now we get to see

everybody's point of view?"

And the thing that was really

fascinating to me, which we

haven't even talked about, was

when I'm meeting with Terje and

then talking to the security

guards in Norway, the

Secret Service agents.

'Cause everyone in the play is

based on a real human being,

from the bottle washers to the

prime minister of Israel.

They're all my words, but it's

their names and their stories.

But I realized that they talked

about the rules, as Jefferson

was saying, where you have to

come, you have to eat together,

you have to talk together.

"Can't talk about the past.

We have to do this."

And I thought, "Oh, I completely

understand this.

This is how we rehearse a play.

These are rules to create

intimacy very swiftly.

Because we're gonna do difficult

things together, and we have to

trust each other."

And I thought, "Oh, I can write

a play about that because I

instinctively exactly know how

that happens."

>> RIEDEL: Hmm.

Have you met them?

>> SHER: Yes.

>> EHLE: We have, yeah.

>> MAYS: Yeah.

Yeah, Terje has been very much

in evidence all through the

process.

>> HASKINS: Now, are there

aspects of Terje that Jefferson

has that made you choose him for

the part, or is it just that

he's a wonderful actor?

>> SHER: Deep intelligence.

>> ROGERS: Yeah.

[ Laughter ]

>> SHER: You know, Terje is a

very unique character, and, in

all cases, we didn't try to make

the actors do imitations of the

people they were playing.

>> RIEDEL: Yeah.

>> SHER: We wanted to pick

people who were great actors and

then build a part with them,

which was why we had a rule with

Terje and Mona that they

couldn't see the play or have

any --

>> ROGERS: Read it or anything.

>> SHER: Couldn't read it.

They had no say over the play as

it developed.

And then they just came and saw

it.

Mona saw it for the first time

in opening last Thursday.

>> HASKINS: Really?

>> RIEDEL: Oh, so, had you met

Mona before?

>> EHLE: I met her for the first

time in October really briefly.

We did a photograph together.

But during the whole run in the

Newhouse, I'd never had any --

>> RIEDEL: Any curiosity,

though, as an actress playing

somebody who exists and get to

know them at all so there's

something about them that you

might draw on, or you're not

interested in that?

>> EHLE: Not really.

I watched what I could find of

her online, and, obviously, Bart

and J.T. know her.

But I was thinking, you know,

there are a couple of things

that -- little mannerisms and

stuff that I kind of, I guess,

by osmosis, took in from

watching her online.

But I don't think there's

anything that I actually ever

took from anything that J.T. or

Bart said about their personal

experience of her.

Because the things that are in

the play are...you know...

>> ROGERS: Yeah, it's a funny

thing because even -- more than

anything I've written where

it's, on one hand, deeply true,

but, other hand, completely me.

So people would say, "So did you

do that?"

I'm like, "I don't even really

know."

That's just -- That's Mona Juul

as filtered through a kid from

the Midwest who writes plays.

There's no -- So it becomes this

sort of odd alchemy.

I'm looking forward to a play

where everyone is either made up

or dead next time.

[ Laughter ]

>> MAYS: It is a disconcerting

thing as an actor, though,

playing someone who's actually

living.

>> ROGERS: I can only imagine.

>> MAYS: In "I Am My Own Wife,"

I play Charlotte von Mahlsdorf,

who died before it came to

Broadway, and I never met her.

And I always had...mixed

feelings about that, thinking,

"How wonderful it would've been

to meet her."

But now I think --

>> ROGERS: Not anymore.

>> MAYS: The distance -- He's

cured me of this.

[ Laughter ]

Aesthetic distance is necessary

and desirable, certainly.

Because as an actor, you want to

be like Jane Goodall with a

troop of chimpanzees and just

sort of sit there in their midst

and watch them, you know...

>> RIEDEL: Sounds like what a

director does.

[ Laughter ]

>> ROGERS: He's the Jane Goodall

of the American theater.

[ Laughter ]

>> HASKINS: These are very

rigorous roles.

You're onstage with a lot of

lines and a lot to do.

How long did it take you to get

yourselves in the place to have

all that stamina?

>> EHLE: I think we're just

getting there now.

>> MAYS: I think we're just

getting there.

[ Laughter ]

We're not kidding.

Actually, we talked with each

other the other night and said,

"Isn't it nice to kind of listen

to the play now?"

[ Laughter ]

What other people are saying.

[ Laughter ]

And -- But up until quite

recently, too, Jennifer and I

had little index cards in our

pockets to like -- "What happens

next?"

You know, "I know I'm supposed

to be entering with a bottle of

some sort and a couch."

>> EHLE: But now we're letting

that go, aren't we?

>> RIEDEL: Did you know they had

the cheat sheets?

>> SHER: Yes, of course.

There's 64 scenes, and it's,

like, constantly in motion, and

it was harder to do than any

musical I ever did at the

Beaumont -- or anywhere.

It looks very elegant and

simple, but it's incredibly

complicated, between video and

between cues and between switch

and switch and switch.

>> MAYS: And hitting your

marks.

>> SHER: And the transitions are

instant, so one scene ends --

bang -- right to the next one.

>> ROGERS: I mean, Bart has a

choreographic ability that no

one else in the American theater

does, and in devising the play,

having seen not just as an

audience member and now having

worked with Bart -- knowing what

he could do, then it was this

sort of challenge/liberation to

say, "Well, I'm going for broke.

'Cause I know whatever I do, he

can do."

So the first-week rehearsal, he

was not happy with me.

>> RIEDEL: [ Laughs ]

>> ROGERS: But what he did, he

far surpassed even what I

could've imagined because there

is a sweep to it that, in a way,

you're surprised -- Actually, I

think it's even more 'cause I

put some more scenes in -- more

than 64 scenes.

>> RIEDEL: Get the index cards

out again.

>> ROGERS: Really, it's so

complicated, and Bart has

created such a beautiful,

constant dance that the audience

just goes, "Wow."

>> RIEDEL: It puts me in mind of

one of my favorite writers,

David Hare, and with

"Stuff Happens" -- which I think

is a great play -- where you

take history but the sweep of

history and you humanize it.

>> ROGERS: Well, he's clearly

one of the writers that I've

grown up with and studied with a

magnifying glass, yeah.

So I appreciate any tangential

connection with him.

>> RIEDEL: And, of course, the

sadness of it all is that

there's so much hope, but we

know what happens in the end.

You almost get to the point

where it could've worked.

>> SHER: It's strange.

We did the play in June, and we

definitely had that reaction

from audiences then.

They would be like, "Yes, but it

didn't work out."

Now that we're where we are

politically now and everyone's

seemed to have lost all hope, I

find the audiences more hopeful

now than they were in June.

>> MAYS: Or desperate for hope.

>> SHER: They're desperate for

not necessarily that that

particular situation worked out,

but to see a story in which

people of great intelligence and

great compassion take risks to

solve a problem intelligently.

And it's a -- I find the

audience much more hopeful or

longing for their hope now than

they did when we did it six

months ago.

>> HASKINS: Yeah, we think that

it can happen again, right?

>> ROGERS: We hope.

As a diplomat said to me about

the play, he said, "You know, of

course it seems impossible now,

but it seemed impossible then."

>> RIEDEL: Yeah.

>> ROGERS: And it's always

impossible till it's not, and

the answer of how that -- that

change is never evident, and it

would never be in any way like

what happened with this back

channel.

It would be something that some

visionary will think of, and the

rest of us will go, "I never saw

that."

>> RIEDEL: I mean, look, in the

1950s, whoever thought that

Israel and Egypt would have a

peace treaty?

>> SHER: Absolutely no way,

yeah.

And people are longing for

stories of watching really

bright, intelligent people

competently sew together

difficult things and make them

work out.

>> ROGERS: And drink whiskey and

tell good jokes.

>> RIEDEL: That's it -- a lot of

drinking and -- It's like an

Edward Albee play -- "Oslo."

[ Laughing ] They're always

knocking back the bourbon.

Terrific new play, "Oslo," by

J.T. Rogers, at

Lincoln Center Theater, the

Vivian Beaumont, directed by

Bartlett Sher and starring

Jennifer Ehle and Jennif--

Jefferson Mays.

>> MAYS: Jennifer Mays.

>> RIEDEL: I knew I was gonna do

that!

[ Laughter ]

>> MAYS: I am honored.

>> RIEDEL: The two Jennifers.

>> HASKINS: Wonderful supporting

cast.

>> ROGERS: Oh, incredible.

>> RIEDEL: Very well done.

Thank for being our guests

today on "Theater Talk."

>> TOGETHER: Thank you.

>> MAN: I was nervous as hell to

meet those two -- first members

of the PLO I've ever been

face-to-face with.

>> TERJE: So, what do you think

of them?

>> MAN: Ah, not the demons I was

expecting.

This Ahmed, what do you call

him?

>> MONA: Abu Alaa.

>> MAN: I can do business with

this man.

By God, you can't imagine, to

have someone finally we can deal

with.

I have thought of this day

for...

years.

>> EVAN: ♪ On the outside,

always lookin' in ♪

♪ Will I ever be more than I've

always been? ♪

♪ 'Cause I'm tap, tap, tapping

on the glass ♪

♪ Waving through a window ♪

>> HASKINS: Last week, we were

here with the creatives of the

wonderful new musical

"Dear Evan Hansen" --

Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, who are

the composer/lyricists, and

librettist Steven Levenson.

And we wanted to talk to them a

little bit more about what they

have done, starting, Justin and

Benj, with one of your past

shows, "Dogfight."

>> GREEN: I saw "Dogfight" at

Second Stage, which is where

"Dear Evan Hansen" began, as

well.

It was kind of a brutal show.

Since we don't have the

librettist here with us, and the

librettist was Peter...

>> PAUL: Duchan.

>> GREEN: ...Duchan, would one

of you just sort of give us the

general story?

>> PAUL: Yeah.

It's the story of a group of

Marines in 1963 -- and this was

based on a true story -- that

come into San Francisco before

they're about to ship out

overseas.

This is sort of right before the

Vietnam conflict became sort of

a real conflict.

And they took part in a true

Marine tradition, which was

called a "dogfight," which is

where they would put in a bunch

of money to rent a venue and buy

food and alcohol and threw a big

party.

And the rest of the money was

prize money, and that prize

money went to whichever of the

Marines could find the least

attractive date to bring to the

party.

So it was sort of a very

horrible, you know, misogynistic

tradition that was a real one in

the --

>> GREEN: And is that what drew

you to it?

>> PAUL: [ Laughing ] That's

what drew me to it.

No, you know what?

What's interesting, what drew us

to it was a couple of things.

It was Lili Taylor's performance

in the film -- River Phoenix and

Lili Taylor.

Your heart sort of immediately

goes out to the character Rose.

She's sort of the main character

that Eddie, who's also the other

protagonist, asks out on a date.

And sort of throughout that

night, it's sort of the story of

these two unlikely people who

change each other's lives and

make an impression that's

indelible.

They end up returning to each

other many years later.

So it's sort of the story of how

this sort of young, lost,

confused, and therefore

"conditioned to be like other

guys" Marine has his mind and

world opened up a little bit by

a beautiful young woman who's

into folk music and the changing

times.

And he also brings her out of

her shell.

It's all inadvertent, but they

end up actually truly connecting

through that night.

>> HASKINS: But she's like a

nerd.

>> PAUL: Yeah, she's -- You

know, she works at her mother's

diner, and she doesn't have much

of a social life, has never been

on a date before -- you know,

not traditionally beautiful.

>> HASKINS: Begging to be

musicalized.

What song can you do for us from

"Dogfight"?

>> PASEK: Yeah, we're gonna do,

I guess, the opening number,

"Some Kinda Time."

But in examining it, I think it

was similar to "Evan Hansen."

Both of these -- The two

protagonists, the journey that

we follow, they're both very,

very flawed men who are lying.

And then things unravel, and

what has been wonderful about

both of them is examining

complicated characters and

getting to work in that way.

So this is where we meet the

young men, initially.

>> PAUL: They're charging into

the city and they're --

>> PASEK: They're, you know,

filled with testosterone...

>> PAUL: Hey!

>> PASEK: ...and excitement and

the night out.

They're gonna take San Francisco

over.

[ "Some Kinda Time" plays ]

>> PAUL: ♪ You better call the

cops and give 'em warning ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ Sound a siren ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ Bang the bell ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ A main Marine rolls

in this mornin' ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ On his way to raise

some hell ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ No sweepin' us out ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ Or keepin' us quiet ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ Try it ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ Through the

Golden Gate, across the water ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ See us comin' ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ Hit the dirt ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ Lock your door and

hide your daughter ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ Wouldn't want her

gettin' hurt ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ Goin' all in,

throwin' a dogfight ♪

♪ Big night ♪

♪ The party's on, we got till

dawn ♪

♪ We'll be having some kinda

time ♪

♪ Some kinda time ♪

♪ Livin' it large ♪

♪ Making noise because the boys

are now in charge ♪

♪ Some kinda time ♪

♪ Cut all our strings ♪

♪ We'll be kings for an

evenin' ♪

♪ Gonna be havin' some kinda

time ♪

>> PAUL: And it goes on.

>> GREEN: So, I just want to

bring you back into this for a

minute, Steven.

>> LEVENSON: Oh, please.

>> GREEN: Because I've always

wanted to ask --

>> PAUL: What did you think --

[ Laughter ]

>> GREEN: I've always wanted to

ask a librettist this.

Do you ever get envious of the

way that music just does your

job 10 times more quickly?

In other words, we just heard,

you know, a minute of a song.

We get what that scene is.

We understand who these people

are.

The music does so much work that

is so much harder to do in a

script.

>> LEVENSON: It's funny -- I had

an experience in D.C. at

Arena Stage -- where we did the

first production of

"Dear Evan Hansen" -- where I

was -- I don't -- I was standing

in the back of the theater, and

I think it was during

"Words Fail," which is another

incredible musical moment in the

show and an incredible acting

moment for Ben Platt.

And I remember listening to it

and feeling a certain joy in how

beautiful that song is and in

how evocative that performance

is of these characters that we

all created together and then a

certain sadness that I would

never really be able to do that.

It's a little bit like standing

outside of something and looking

in and feeling like -- That's

just something so miraculous,

the music.

>> HASKINS: But what you do is

miraculous.

>> LEVENSON: Oh, well, thank

you.

>> GREEN: And you're a miracle.

We're all a miracle.

>> HASKINS: As I hear this,

though, I want to lure you into

doing a little bit of a song

which I feel is sort of a

parallel in "Dear Evan Hansen,"

and that's "Sincerely, Me," my

favorite song.

But I hear the energy of that

song.

Could you do a little bit?

>> PAUL: Yeah, sure.

That sort of boyish, raucous

energy of -- Yes.

>> GREEN: But the situation

is -- Steven?

[ Laughter ]

>> LEVENSON: Yes, well, I'm so

bad at summing things up.

But this --

>> GREEN: That's why you're only

a book writer, okay.

>> LEVENSON: Exactly.

In this number, basically, Evan

has told this grieving family

that he and Connor were close

friends and would send e-mails

to one another.

And in this scene, we see some

of those e-mails, and Connor

actually steps forward.

And that's who we see when the

number begins, completely out of

context, is Connor, who has

passed away.

>> HASKINS: So two live boys and

a dead boy are doing this

fabulous number.

>> PASEK: Evan and his friend

Jared are creating these e-mails

together.

>> PAUL: We'll just sing a

chorus.

>> HASKINS: Just a chorus,

please.

>> PAUL: Yeah, okay, okay.

[ Singing indistinctly ]

♪ Turn it around ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ Wait and see ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ 'Cause all it takes

is a little ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ Reinvention ♪

♪ It's easy to change if you

give it your attention ♪

♪ All you gotta do is just

believe you can be who you wanna

be ♪

♪ Sincerely, me ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ My sister's hot ♪

>> PASEK: What the hell?

>> PAUL: We're back.

>> HASKINS: Bravo.

Now, one thing I want to mention

before you go is the wonderful

contribution of your director,

Michael Greif, because so

important to this musical, as we

said last week, is the social

media and the influence of

social media upon kids.

I mean, my assistant said to me,

"You don't understand what

social media is to these

high-school kids."

>> GREEN: My kids say that to me

all the time.

[ Laughter ]

>> HASKINS: And the way that

Michael Greif has integrated and

your designers have integrated

the social media is a whole

other fabulous level.

>> PASEK: It became a ninth

character.

>> HASKINS: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's amazing.

But I will say that you two have

been nominated for the lyrics

for two songs for the

Academy Awards this year from

the wonderful "La La Land," and

I wonder if you would play us

out with one of them,

"City of Stars."

>> PAUL: Sure thing.

>> HASKINS: But before you go, I

want to thank you, Justin Paul,

Benj Pasek, Steven Levenson --

whose play...

>> LEVENSON: "If I Forget."

>> HASKINS: ...is at the

Roundabout...

>> LEVENSON: Aptly named.

[ Laughter ]

Yes, the reviews write

themselves.

>> HASKINS: ...for joining us on

"Theater Talk."

>> GREEN: I'll be the judge of

that.

>> LEVENSON: Oh!

>> HASKINS: But we want to say

you wrote "City of Stars" with

the musical director of

"La La Land," Justin Hurwitz.

>> PAUL: The composer,

Justin Hurwitz, yes, who wrote

the score for the film and --

>> HASKINS: Which came first in

"City of Stars" -- the lyrics or

the music?

>> BOTH: The music.

>> HASKINS: So, the Oscars will

have been over by the time we

air this, but I sure like this

song.

[ Laughter ]

>> PAUL: Thank you very much.

[ "City of Stars" plays ]

>> PASEK: ♪ The city of stars ♪

♪ Are you shining just for me? ♪

♪ City of stars ♪

♪ There's so much that I can't

see ♪

♪ Who knows? ♪

♪ Is this the start of something

wonderful and new? ♪

♪ Or one more dream that I

cannot make true? ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ City of stars ♪

♪ Just one thing everybody

wants ♪

♪ There in the bars ♪

♪ And through the smokescreen of

the crowded restaurants ♪

♪ It's love ♪

♪ Yes, all we're lookin' for is

love from someone else ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ A rush ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ A glance ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ A touch ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ A dance ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ A look in somebody's

eyes to light up the skies ♪

♪ To open the world and send it

reeling ♪

♪ A voice that says I'll be

here ♪

♪ And you'll be all right ♪

♪ I don't care if I know just

where I will go ♪

♪ As long as I got the crazy

feeling ♪

♪ A rat-tat-tat in my heart ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ I think I want it to

stay ♪

>> PAUL: ♪ City of stars ♪

>> BOTH: ♪ Are you shining just

for me? ♪

>> PASEK: ♪ City of stars ♪

♪ You've never shined so

brightly ♪

[ Applause ]

We messed that up terribly.

>> HASKINS: Thank you.

>> PAUL: We've never performed

that song.

>> HASKINS: Whoa!

>> PAUL: Yeah, yeah.

♪♪

>> HASKINS: Our thanks to the

Friends of "Theater Talk" for

their significant contribution

to this production.

>> ANNOUNCER: We welcome your

questions or comments

for "Theater Talk."

Thank you.

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If You Experience Any Of These 30 Signs You Were Born To Be A Spiritual Healer… - Duration: 5:28.

If You Experience Any Of These 30 Signs You Were Born To Be A Spiritual Healer�

The world of metaphysics is a world of mystery.

It has sparked the interest of humans since basically the beginning of time.

Although there is still much to be studied regarding the metaphysical world, we do know

if you experience any of these 30 signs you were born to be a spiritual healer.

We all have super in depth spiritual bodies.

We are all connected to not only one another but all living animals and things on Earth

� and it�s amazing.

Some of us are even born with special abilities that can serve a greater purpose to the people.

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A spiritual gift can be passed down generations beyond.

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Now, of course, you can�t lay your hand on a cancer patient and cure them; but you

might just be able to cure someone�s depression or anxiety � or simply enlighten their soul.

Healers often suffer from issues of their own because they are so adapted to fixing

other people�s emotional issues and burdens.

They not only ignore their own problems, but they carry the burden of others too.

However, a spiritual healer will always pull through because they know the world needs

them � and it does.

If you think you might be a spiritual healer, you probably have experienced at least one

of these symptoms before.

You are highly sensitive to energy.

You feel other people�s emotions and physical ailments as your own (empath).

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plexus chakra disorders).

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Sensitive beings like animals and children gravitate towards you.

Other people tend to �dump� their emotional baggage onto you to deal with.

You think in shades of grey rather than in black and white.

You are very aware of the interconnectedness of life and deeply respect it.

You believe in synchronicity more than coincidences.

You have a history of healers in the family, e.g. nurses, psychologists, massage therapists

You�ve experienced a major trauma in your life, e.g. loss of your family, life-threatening

illness, near death experience, physical/sexual/emotional abuse, war, mental illness.

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You tend to use the right side thinker more than a left side thinker.

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roles.

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You have had numerous mystical experiences.

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Trevor Noah Stand Up ~ Trevor Noah Full Show HD - Duration: 55:18.

Thank you very much

Yeah

Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much and see you. Thank you

Thank you welcome

Washington DC

Oh, you guys feeling good. Yeah?

Yeah, whoo whoo whoo you and that as well, and that as well

Lovely [I] love the sounds people make it so much fun

Yeah, we'll just we just thrown language out of the window. I like that. I feel like we've devolved against human beings [now]

Because that was the thing [that] separated us from the apes wasn't it the fact that we chose speech

Monkeys used to run around and scream

We were like no

English

But now we started to go back to that started to embrace our roots people get excited. Are you happy? I'm real happy how happy

[well], oh

That's one of my favorite sounds it sounds like someone having so much fun. They hurt themselves like you can plan ahead of power

so much fun

That's a weird thought I love and you know it's crazy that we all know what that sound means

We don't agree on anything in this world [race] religion politics, but that sounds that whoohoo

Has united us all

You can make that sound anyway people accept it as long as alcohol present

this that sound

It has to be alcohol. You can't make that's not anywhere else you can't make that sound in the office. It's unacceptable

If you [faust] won't allow as you come in x final email sent whoa

I'm sorry. Sorry. Sorry, sorry

Coming that sound in church, and that is why jesus died for our sins, whoa?

Sorry [my] go to happen

You can't do it, but everyone knows it everyone knows what who means it means happiness?

the happiness of the people

Strange - no one asked me to vote on it. I

Didn't get to choose

If I was to choose, I I don't know that I would pick woo who is the sound of happiness?

Strangely enough, I think it may be more after the sound of sadness

And I could see it at a funeral

Family Gathered around the concerts

He is streaming down their face posture reading the eulogy

It will

always remember Mary

as a loving mother a

caring friend

Foodie blogger

and wonderful sister

before we lay her to rest would you please join me now as we observe a moment of

[woohoo]

[about] standing there

There will be one big lady in the corner

Thank you very much sister

such a fun sound

Sound of happiness the sound of white happiness in particular in I've tracked it

I've searched for the source of [whoo-whoo], and I found it originated with white people

white white woman in particular

Answer a comes from that is the sound of a white woman's turn up. That is the sound

from her getting into the game [cami]

And that's when you know, it's odd

Because everyone else learned it from white woman. That's where it came from [you] know it spread through Society like a virus

It's not the natural sound anybody else makes why we'll make that sounding stink to me, but they weren't officer Knit like white

Men were the first ones to learn it because for them is sort of like a making coal

they know what it means they have to reciprocate like

But everyone else that you learn is the natural sound for them, but for nobody else like black people, [woohoo]

But it's not the natural sound black people make for fun

You know black [people] can [whoo-hoo] black people often do [whoohoo], but it's not instinctively a black sound of happiness

And I think it's because black people aren't comfortable with the [woohoo]

Deep down inside. There's a certain moment in [woohoo] when every black person stops enjoying it

It's just there's just a moment

When and maybe this is [just] my personal experiences, but I feel it sounds eerily similar to a police siren this just a moment

first fucking partner

just

Put your hands in the air

And keep them there

Not the sound of happiness in my [life]. That's not hope I guess that's why why people do it?

There's why people love calling the police, [so] they party like oh

My God the cops are here

Never make ahead

My believe why do you have a very different relationship with the police? I was trying explain this to my friend Dave

You know when we hang out and I do. What is it with black people in please

I'm like it's not black [people] don't like the police or hate the police

It's just that just the general we have a tumultuous history with the police one day we were driving

We're driving on the highway and the police car pulled up behind us and [I] got [tense]

I just got really tense and he's like dude. What's going on. I said the police [are] behind us

It was like yeah, and did you do anything wrong? [so] [that's] not the point

Because it really isn't

For white people that is the point

The police will send you to jail if you do something wrong as a black person you have a different relationship

the police may send you to jail just because

The I know that I was I was a driver

I got pulled over by the police for the first time in my life in America

And already I'm not very comfortable in driving in the United States

You know not because of the other side of the road, but because the outside of the car. I'm not used to that

you know

like I

always given to the calm the wrong

So I'll be shopping and I'll come back to my car confidently. I'll jump inside and put the things down and I'm like ah

And instead of getting out exit. [there] is just [it] there you can always think somebody is watching me, so I just say

And I act like I planned it all the way

Where is my driver?

Now is my job. [it] should have been you by now where allah. [oh] well again. He'll drive myself

Don't know why I do that

I'm not comfortable

You have [to] drive in Los Angeles, so I had a little rental car

I'm driving on the freeway and this police car pulls up behind me

He drives me irony for a little bit and they flashed his lights and I like oh he probably wants to go past and so

I moved over to the middle lane, and then he came with me

He flashed his lights again long as I go come on just go blows me man. He's good

[all] right back to the fire. He came back with me, and he does the crash like this

I was like what what was a year ago?

[Blondie's] [oh] [God], [I] think he was stopping me

I thought it was basically the vehicular equivalent of that moment on the sidewalk when you both don't know which way to go I

[thought] we were doing that without cause I got out

I thought that was happening

I thought that was happening actually he thought that I was evading him in the most polite Manner ever because he is irritating

He's like [allosaurus] our

Virus our Mantra. I can know the hell you were saying

[as] part of the problem, I don't think it's fair that police have speakers on their cars, and we don't I

Think this is a recipe for disaster. That's the first step in mending relationships as communication people

I don't know what the hell they tell us things, but I couldn't tell him he was like Glorify raw carrot [Raja], [huh]?

I have to speak I wouldn't have the ability to be like sir. I cannot see what you're saying in McQs, please

Enunciate yo, and speak clearly

No, no your words [buddy] usual

Talk to me talk to me. What do you need however all over be like okay? I will be pulling over right now

Thank you very much. It would be more effective, but I just know something like a lot of thought. Oh, brother

I don't know what the hell you would

Like what do you always like all over all over?

Authentic and so I stopped I pulled over right there where I was on the freeway which apparently is not supposed to do I didn't

Know this and who knows cuz I [just] know that [Brittney]. Tell me to do something

I do it free to pull over and then I stopped and he was like don't pull over another because you can be more specific

pull over because it's a pillow and

There's more appropriate you can't just come telling either get back into the road like this [dad] does not know what you want

Take the next exit, and [no] [weed] [Ronnie] and now he's guiding me along. It's like

I had a really angry GPS or get a [signal]

The way he's driving me like make a right take a right at the line nicorette

It's like I chose angry cop on my way

That's what it felt like when I turn turn laughs don't know I can laugh turn Leno recalculating

And so forth and so finally finally we stop we stop

I [blow] on the South Road he pulls over behind me and he gets out of the car

And he gets out. He goes keep your hands where I can see them. I?

Don't know what you can see or not see I don't know the very same instructions

I don't know what you can so now I'm landing this I

Don't know what you can speak or not. I'm strict right don't get me wrong

I try I just [know] the thing is I just want [to] die. That's all

I don't I just I just don't want to die so I know I don't look like but I'm not the diet type

I really I'm not like I'm a chill out guy who likes living

I don't want to die and the worst thing is I don't know how not to die

That's a thing. I don't know how not that. I could every day I turn on the TV

It seems like another black person is being shot. So I just want to know how not to get [shots]

You know I I try and learn

I really do I try and learn you know it only is all started in the [in] the lower the lower echelons of of enforcement

Community Watch Frozen women shop, Trayvon, The Young boy

And the story started off with man shoots boy everyone was like yeah, this is horrible

This is disgusting but in the news some strange eating the next day is forget and then they start asking other question

I was he wearing a hoodie. What was he doing? And why was he wearing a hoodie? I was like

Oh is that so that's so don't wear hoodie. That's what it is the hoodie

Very frightening you don't know what's going on on the day. Yeah most in Star wars. It's the creepiest thing ever

Hmm. It's the dark side

And so's like also if [I] were a good evening. I'm safe now

I was going to shoot me if I don't wear [woody]

But then if you cut forward and then the next thing you notice is Mike Brown in Ferguson

When he gets shocked by the police unarmed it's shot

I know like a man was unarmed, and he got shot [and] I was like [God]

This is disgusting they say but also he approached the police officer apparently and he may or may not have scuffled with it

We don't know, but he approached him. I was like

Oh, okay, okay? [so] that don't worry hoody and don't approach the police don't go towards the police you see police

You are the other way it goes all the way from okay cool. I've got it. So nobody know approaching the police

This is it. I'm learning

I'm learning but then but then the next guy comes on the news Eric garner in [in] [New] York City

And there he is he's standing and the police they apprehend him and they start talking him anyone go towards them

He doesn't go he's standing to his answer

He just choked to death by six policemen

And then they come on the news next and I go well you got to understand for these police

I mean, this was a this was a pretty big guy. He was a pretty big guy. He was scary

He was a really scary big black guy, and I'm like okay cool

So don't be a big black guy and then you should be fine

Don't be a big black guy, and then I said every day. I look in the mirror, and I'm like good job

Nowwhere, Hoodie boy already and don't approach the Policeman don't be a big black man

I think I think I've got it all down

I think and then I turn on the TV and then I see walter scott a 50-something year-old man running away

From a policeman hitting shots in the back running away

from the Policeman and again the media for some strange reason

Just seems to forget what the main purposes of the discussion is because um they want to go unarmed man shot in the back

They - they like who was Walter Scott

Let's find out about it. Apparently he had a charge of assault against him in

1987 so

[he] get suffered

How hard did he punch the guy that he gets suffered in 2015?

then [loose] again to the future and then he came back to get him and then what happened [I]

Mean was 18 everyone by somebody in the [eighties]. I don't understand. What is the big deal it was seeing the craziest things

They're like Walter scott. I mean this is everybody talking [about] the police Aubert. Let's talk about him. Why did he run?

Why did he want?

Good you didn't want to go to jail?

Are we really going to live in a world where police no [longer] want to chase criminals that what we say?

[it] always [they] police no longer

Wanted Chase crews that best of all points of the game isn't it we say there's kids cops and robbers

Yes, you've seen the movies. That's what makes this fun freeze you can't catch me copper, and then you run

As it makes environment?

now police no longer [oil-change]

[schools] we going to live in a world where police can you imagine what that's going to do to the movie industry is going to

Be horrible, [we] will be watching bad boys five Martin Lawrence and will Smith free, okay?

end of movie Done the Worst movie ever

This is the strangest thing of they are so weird quiz questions that have nothing to do with [a] man being [shot]

Who's unarmed [they] [come] and go also also a note it is a walter scott. Oh sixteen thousand dollars in child support

to the cop

not black

That would be a different [story]. That would be like if [that] was the mother of his children that shot him

Then you know what I may. I may actually be on her side you never know

I might have been there like you know [once] you. Shoot him in the back girl. That's right

You shoot him think [he] [d] angled pay after he play you stood him in the back thinking he can run away [from] his

responsibilities, shoot him dead

But this is nothing to do with it [a] policeman shoots an unarmed man

He's running away, and they have the nerve [ever] nerve that crazy enough to say this is this officer feared for his life

He was afraid afraid of what the man's running away

There's nothing less frightening than somebody running away [from] you. That is the definition of fear

He's running away. The only thing he could have done to be less [threatening]. It's a cluck like a chicken

There's nothing less frightening with a man running away from look like what are you afraid of you can't say he was running [over] I?

Was afraid I'm afraid of what he's running away from you that makes no sense you seen him from behind no one's threatening from behind

They're running away. There's no one who's frightened like maybe Kim Kardashian, but nobody else

Is running away from you? You shoot him in the back?

[another] guy, I was afraid afraid of what we have abandonment issue. Why would you shoot him?

My Dad left when I was five

It's no sense

So I don't know how not [to] die

Yeah, I am in my car on the side [of] the road the random streets in Los Angeles

The whole time instead. I want to die. [I] lied I heard that and the policeman gets out of his car. [he]

starts walking

Towards me

And his hands is by his side that's doing this

and I've watched Westerns I

Know what this means

This is never good this never turns into friendship

So I'm starting [to] [stress], and I'm looking at him in the side mirror of my car

And I'm panicking because objects in the mirror are closer than they appear

So [usually] I can say at any moment, and I don't know why I don't know

I did this like as soon as [you] go. I panic. I completely panicked and I launched myself out the window

I took my body, and I threw it out the window, and I fell onto the side of the cartridge like

And onto the settlor basically went back to nature. I thought of a predator don't make eye contact and you play dead

That's all I did. [I] just tell this head of [the] stop jay which freaked him out. He was completely

He was just like what the heck hey. Hey what what's going on? I said, I'm sorry. I'm uh

I'm sorry like [sir]. What are you sorry for whatever it is that's going to make you should be I'm sorry

I'm sorry officer. He's a circuit back in the car get back in the car, [sir] no

Not on a diet, please. I'm not falling for that trick please up as well. Hey

Sir, you know. I'm not going to kill you [just] get back on the clock of it

I mean shake this guy was just as freaked out as I was I'm not going to lie [cuz] I mean when I put myself

in his shoes

What does he do imagine that you're standing on the salad or a guy jumps out of his own car didn't even call for backup?

What does he say ten-four? I need backup any what do you need? [I] got [a] black eye kid killed himself

Ten-four you gotta make something up better than that will back you up. Don't worry. Let's be fun. What do you say? It's like?

[oh] kid the times freaking out. I was freaking out and

I'm lying there and the approaches slowly

He pushes he finally gets to get into my arms, and he's like get back in the car

So we go back to magazine stops me back at my window compact about dollars please

ah

Sure, sir calm down calm down

Oh good. It was a desire. He's like sir. Have you been drinking?

[Missin] Homesman I'm been drinking so okay calm down

Do you know why I pulled you over sir?

Is because I'm black

Now I wasn't being an ass nor was

I joe can I just been informed that as a black person in America if you drive a really nice car

There's a good chance you're going to get pulled over by the police yeah, so in my world

He was doing his job as I had been told

Yeah, I wasn't judging him in fact. I was a I was a little flattered. I was like well. Thank you very much, [Mr.]. Officer

Who noticing this bad boy around here? That's right 2015 baby. I

was really excited he was more freaked out though because I thank you too much because I'm black and

Then he did this thing that I've come [to] learn is the reaction of white people in America

Who when they hear [information] they can't process fast enough?

Have this this thing with a smile on the outside, but on the inside

It's also if they short circuiting

Like and he he looks at me. He goes. I'm sorry what I said because I'm black

That's why you pull me over. He goes no. No. No here. We are no. That's that is not

Okay

No, no, that is not

also [bad] for him [I]

Think we both learned a lot that day the two of us grew from [that] experience I

Was speeding that's why he pulled me over

But he let me go

Yeah

I'm having a great time. I really am

Not getting speeding fines during my time out here some of you may or may not know I got a job. This is fantastic

That's and that's that's how my grandmother put it funny enough

I phoned my grandmother to tell her that I'll be working on the daily show and she was really excited to the

Coachella

I'm so happy for you

When's Dad [you] got [that] job?

I said no, no granny already had a job which like no you did you?

Did you have her office, but notes like that it wasn't [their] job?

Of course she gave the [rock]

My mom was a bit better

Cause her to tell her the news and to give you a bit of a [backstory]

I've got two younger brothers [all] right, so one brother is nine years younger than me

And then the youngest is 20 years younger than me right [and] so the youngest

just became

One of the student Council members in E school right so he gone to the student council

So I phoned my mom to tell her my good news and on the phone and I'm [like] [oh] mom

I don't know if you heard when the other danish when she's like oh my baby

I'm so excited all pretty this is wonderful. Well done, baby

I'm so happy for you, and did you hear what happened to your brother?

I'm like no other oh, he's on the student Council [at] in school

Oh, I'm so excited both my boys are doing big things in the world

Yeah, some things are bigger than others

[no], it's all the same and like you say that but I mean you know

How are you know ha ha ha?

That'll keep fine. Fine you and never student council. So [that's] [to] really like what?

the Wonderful experience

Changed my life completely coming to the u.s.. Like people are smiling at me more. I just be my imagination

Clay noses at the airports

I mean flying in probably a combination of of my job and the fact that the ebola crisis is now passed

Down probably the worst of the worst time ever is flying into America as an African

During the ebola crisis it was the craziest thing. I've ever seen in an airport

You'd walk in the b tension

[it's] [a] sure everybody into a special quarantine area ask you questions

Questions that they don't [normally] ask the number one question they always ask for sir. Have you been in contact with ebola?

They're always on stirrer. Have you been in contact with Ebola [I]?

Love I love the sincerity of the question like there was a chance my answer could be yes

And next up didn't do it

like what kind of person do you think I am that I'll still be embarking on a journey having knowingly been in contact with the

Most deadly disease on a plan like who do you think I have there are b? [dela]? [I] don't care

[who] can comment zero refund policy?

I'm going to tell you what even if it kills me Mickey mouse and everybody else I'm going

Have you been in contact with ebola?

And the reason is like a boulder is like a distant relative

I love the phrasing have you been in contact with a boat yeah? I spoke to him last week is doing well

Thank you very much for asking

Ebola makes flying a nightmare

We're the worst flight. I was coming from Johannesburg South Africa going to San Francisco

Flew and then because the distance of the flight [jets] you stopped over in Washington, and they change over your flight

So you've gone to another plane and an airplane section, San Francisco

And when we were changing planes when we're switching over the air hole station the second plane tells the passengers

That Africans are coming on board

And so because of this they're going to be spraying the cabin with the life pesticide

[now] I understand like when people are [afraid] they do stupid things I get it

But what I didn't understand was

Why she told them this as we were boarding the plane?

Have the decency to speak behind our backs

Could you're walking onto the aircraft [and] she takes a little microphone. She goes ladies and gentlemen please note

We have some passengers joining us in the south

Africans like they're coming from Africa everybody [completes] in their seats as these passengers find the old place

we're going to be spraying the capital with a life pesticide due to the ebola crisis and

Feel free to cover your nose eyes ears and mouth the pesticide shouldn't be harmful

But it may be so if everybody would just cover up, and we'll be coming down shortly as everybody take their place

Thank you very much. She says this as we bought the plane. This is our introduction ebola tries and really like

You know how hard it is to find a [stitch] in a plane with people that think you're bringing them dead

Do you know about it?

but you're sitting there and everyone you go it almost felt like that scene from Forrest gump like I'm working on the plane feel like

I know Spain was walking down trying to find your Jenny

finally everyone seated and takeoff

Clan heads out to San Francisco and it was by far

most tents lights I

Have ever been on I

coughed once

the [plane] [Shop]

Wasn't even a bad cop. It's like a little kid gloves, but that's what the guy opposite me like

You do calm down man calm down. It's just a you say

Okay

The one was so stressed the plate was [temp] no one wanted food nor snacks

We finally land at the airports the plane is texting to the gate and everyone everyone was waiting for that seatbelt sign to go

Everyone was just like it was more than normal because already I didn't understand why people are in a hurry on claim to get out

Of their seat like you [can't] go anyway

Forever plane lands everyone's sister come on. Come on. Come on. You. Can't go, and you're gonna go there

That's where you individually go there is it come on come on food?

Yeah, I

Don't understand why people lie to hurry

So you know who's even worse?

But people at the window you have no right to be in a hurry you see me like come on. Come on

Come on boom yeah

Yeah, yeah, talking my logic trusted me now right now

Yeah, and I'm glad I didn't sit now for two more minutes is much more comfortable

stadiums people's wait

Ebola made it 100 times worse because [not] everyone wants to get out of the plane

coughing sneezing you can feel the tension and as we about to leave a

Hostess comes back on the [pho] ladies and gentlemen back in your seats everybody back in your seat

Unfortunately right now. We have a health and safety official and needs to come on board just to make sure that everything is [alk]

Duty Ebola we're just going to make sure that everything is fine

So please stay in your seats ladies and gentlemen again apologies for the delay

she says this and then

This man comes on a health and safety official right and he has with him and list of all the African passengers and a thermometer

right A

digital laser thermometer

And he comes on in his job is to see an old African passengers and get their temperature

And I think the way, it works is like if you're very hot then you've got ebola right?

And you've got to live it works on scans the passages and guess the thing walks down ticks their names up to liscus

Temperature gets the names temperature names finally gets to where I'm seated and does the way this thing and the passenger opposite me

moves to my aisle

Looks at me looks at my name

Looks back at me, [and] then he just shrugs and walks away

Almost as if I wasn't African enough

I've never felt so conflicted in my life

Don't get me wrong like I never want anyone to [think] I have ebola

But I also don't want anyone to assume that I can't have [you] bola

You don't know me. You don't know what I'm capable after all they born in the world

Let's go cheer myself up chin up trevor. You can have ebola [chin] up kid. Come on. Come on. Come on

You can have a bola

He walks to the back of the plane

Scans the rest of the passengers [gets] the tail, and he realizes he's now missing a name

So he looks back through the plane can't figure. What's going on. I know it's me

I know, it's me, but I'm not going to help

He had his chance he had a good ebola man, and he let him go

And so I was hispanic and as he panics the air hostess comes back down the plane. She'll see what's going on

I need to get the people [out]. He goes yeah, no

I got a problem ebola list I can't figure out where they where the passenger is and she's like yeah

I gotta get the people out here like look

I know this is killing me as well, but I just [gotta] figure out yeah. Yeah, I don't get them out. I'm dead

I'm dead I gotta get the people going okay. I don't just calm down

Just give me a second and now I can feel the tension building in the plane people start whispering

There's rumors going around

Because some people are hearing pieces of the conversations like broken telephone as it goes down the [plane] [all] [day] hearing is yeah

Air Ebola Ebola killing miracle

Yes yet yet everybody out [of] here dad let him feel the tension

People start looking at each other a guy opposite me didn't even hide. He was like it's you. Yo

You follow you was like you I was not happy for something that something like a cue cameras you really coughing

I think [it'll] shut up. Oh come on you. Oh come on you now

[wow], kill you now, I'll kill you first

Everyone in the play starts [leaving] the people are going crazy

Everyone is stressed people [want] to leave in the middle of the Chaos in the midst of all of us

I'll never forget

Middle Eastern man, maybe four rows behind me [I] dressed in very traditional Garb

stands up he

[sticks] his head into the conversation being had

Between the Air hostess and [a] safety official he goes excuse me both of me. Sorry to interrupt

Not to see what you are talking. I just want to say maybe you want to check

I know this gentleman over there is cozy little bit the man

Survived the identical wearing hood something about him. I don't know something

Simply will be uncomfortable. [is] that maybe you want to check there? I said you know you know what I see something say something else

My gravy at to augment

How the wheel has turned my friends?

You quickly [forget] there was a time when muslims with a black people of the sky?

And yet now you have deserted me

As I thought he'd be on my side, I thought if I need anyone understood, what would be like we stigmatized with that man

So we shared from the average look over and be like don't worry brother. I go to the back

Steady sold me down the river throw me under the bus like it's your turn now

I'm free bitches

And he was I don't blame you [once]

[coz] Ebola was one of the craziest things I've ever seen in terms of

the human condition, how quickly with Total panic

One minute, I'll be flying. I'll see people of middle Eastern descent getting cold you know random selections

Peeping through the machine and then ebola happened [a] lot of a sudden the focus shifted

Focus shifted now as Africans in pulled aside Africans waiting middle easterners were cruising through security

and

Then almost as quickly as [it] started it flipped back overnights, and [I'll] never forget when it happened

right after the Charlie hebdo attack in Paris

That attack happened and almost the next day ebola wasn't a thing anymore

Middle Easterners were back in the spotlights normal service had been resumed

Because after Charlie hebdo [I] would walk through airports and no one gave a damn. They didn't care about me where I was from

all the bananas in my bag

I just I just cruised them security

Charlie Hebdo

Terrorist attack in France everyone did with Cnn breaking news terrorists have attacked Charlie Hebdo headquarters a

News unconfirmed reports are saying 12 people have been killed by terrorists

But everyone said they were terrorists it was written because we didn't know that they were terrorists. We just knew that their middle eastern

but immediately we're into terrorists because if you're middle Eastern

That's a terrorist. That's the world. We live in now. Yeah, if you middle Eastern terrorism is your trademark

It's so crazy

How easy it is to get people to hate the group of people because that's what happened?

Charlie hebdo, and then everyone started saying things about muslims these damn muslims. Do you down we gotta Stop islam?

That's what we got to do. We got to stop these islamists these Muslims now. I'm not saying all muslims are terrorists

[but] all terrorists are Muslims

It sounds really smart doesn't it sounds really [smart], but it's not it's stupid in the tape speech. That's what we

Terrorism is not a [racist] and acts

As involved over time yes right now. We're dealing with

extremism

islamic terror in some parts of the world

But if you go to other possible [lost] [emotive] terrorists as though for your different face

You'll england

20 years ago, [and] you said was a terrorist they show you a drunk Irishman, [I]

Don't need to say drunk. I could've just an Irishman

Was a time when nelson mandela was labeled a terrorist like terrorism is an act. It's not a face

People say these people these muslims you gotta admit to an awful. Lot of them

Awful lot [of] them doing the same thing

Yeah, but you know who's not [terrorist]

Most Muslims

Most Muslims are not terrorists

I'm not even Muslim, but it gets to me because I'm like most wasn't people [like] yours

I know how you know [this] because we still around

They've had ample opportunity to take us out people. There's a billion muslim people on the planet

They met every chance they could have killed us using those falafels they sell us off to midnight when we come another car

It could have wipes us all out

But they kill acrobats

They've had the mean

It's so weird to see our prejudices the way people are labeled in [the] media and society

[it's] not just muslim people you see with black people as well

People saying these things like you know I remember when [there] when the riots were happening in Baltimore

People quickly jump these thugs these are a bunch of thugs running around these thugs you know I'm starting to think black people like crime

That's what I'm starting to think that the only way they can deal with a black people like [crime]

No, no that people don't like crime

Because you know who's not a criminal?

most black people most black people are not singer

Mac people hate crime

Just like everybody else so like black people are cheering crime on or something they watching a black eye. Do some like yeah

[yeah], when black people see a black person doing a crime they also looking at the [prison] like dude. It's nothing crazy

I'm gonna fight the act love that face not a face that you put [cities] [up]

That's not the same thing and everybody has it you know

[you're] [middle-eastern] and you do something to spear a black person

That person [gets] [shot] [in] a bad neighborhood the first story though

His need was always lead with the same thing and today in Compton a man was shot in what is suspected to be gang-related violence?

So he's got her in violence, but ever since anything else there was just two guys gang-related probably gang-related

Why do you say that well because you know in this area? There's a

Pop

Where's Integrity boys guys doesn't matter who it is

[it] could be two kids someone got shot the three year old was shot today by a four year old [and] what is

suspected to be gang-related violence

[the] kids yeah they recruit very young

Wasn't a mistake. No. It's not a mistake

It's never a mistake

But if it's in a rich neighborhood the story changes because you'll never hear them reporting the same thing about the [Hampson's]

And today in the ham since a man was shot in what is suspected to be gang-related violence?

The [burberry] Gang has been known to operate around these parts

They never [sale] in fact you more like you see the police commissioner going up a lot of we just conduct an investigation

we

found out that a

Firearm was discharged earlier today and a bullet left the

weapon

penetrating a victim and

We're going to investigate whether whether it was misfired, or I'm sorry to say this did someone shoot the gun well

we're not we're not ruling anything out right now, but uh

We're checking to see if there was a mechanism failure or what about the person well?

We don't think that this was intentional. We don't so wait

We live in a world where you investigate a gun before you initiate a rich white man

Is that what you say no no, no, that's that's not what we're saying, but the gun is black

But that's not the point the point in

So weird how our prejudices have given everyone their late?

Middle East is there's something there a terrorist black person does something?

Their Gang relates, [Era] thug [but] the white guy walks into a church killing nine people dead

what do they lead with on the news and today in an

Isolated incident [a] lone gunman walked into a church opening fire and killing nine people. It's always a lone gunman

Yeah, a lone gunman with no ties to society whatsoever. They were separated as quickly as possible. I love how they do that

He kept to [himself] and was notoriously

unfRiendly had no friends whatsoever

No friends really no, no friends not even one

No

Not even on Facebook

Everyone is friends on Facebook come are you telling the guy had no friends like as the shooting happens. It was like

What dylan I'm trying? I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying

I'm trying

the weirdest thing ever and

[the] first thing they [always] go to is

Mental instability as they go to the first thing [never] go with Terrorism

What happened are we always saying this was tears well?

We're not going to jump to [that] conclusion of this was a young man. Who was rarely mentally? He was unstable

He was a troubled young man, but he was a terrorist

Committed Terrorist Act walked into a building

Shot a bunch of people to try and spread a message of hatred [right] he was trying to pass something

He was trying to do something

as an act of terror

Well look no, not necessarily. He was a troubled young man. Yes and a terrorist

He [was] mentally [unstable] just like yours

That's exactly what a tariff is there's no known reason to blow [yourself] up. That is ridiculous

pretty

butchers [fema] [terrorists]

It's we it's almost like without realizing it what they saying on

The news is you know this young white man is clearly struggling struggling with something. I mean uh because uh

Why would you forgo all that privilege? Why would you I?

Mean he was a young and white man. Why would you throw that all away?

By darn anything with the minority I get it that sucks, but I mean I would you throated he must be crazy?

This is madness. I refuse to be potables. I refuse to live in the world who will deny white people the moniker of terrorists?

That's racism people. That's what that is

If a white man through hard work and determination commits an act of terror he loves to be called a terrorist

[he] worked for a damage. You don't deprive them of [that] because of the color of his skin

To give it to him and you put him up there bin walid and Charlie

Will will have our prisoners don't get me wrong. Oh my God I?

Try to be better. [I] really do I

Realized every now and again. I do things that I'm not particularly proud of

And for instance whenever I fly into America I've been out of the country and flying back into America

I wish tried to fly on Middle Eastern Airlines

specifically

Fly on emirates or qatar. It's yet one of those and the reason I do this is

because I feel

There's less chance that

somebody

oh

That someone and this may sound a little bit [racist] [give] every right to be offended

[I] feel like the less chance that somebody will attack one of those planes

For a few reasons number one because they're not proving a point

Planes already Muslim on Muslim run. They're not converting anybody and secondly and more importantly on my side

I I think there's a small chance somebody could defuse the situation

Someone could talk them down. Just because they speak the same language

That's that's awful terror for me the fact [that] you don't understand what the person says they're speaking a rabid arabic

puts fear in the Hearts of all men I

love

You you never think good things when you hear arabic

Now watch we watch too many movies and TV shows like you whenever you hear arabic then some bad happens

They immediately that's always going to happen

[look]

[there's] never something cool or sexiest ever a hole in the wall of the [book] [so] [colonel] one way

Never that

So it makes you think it makes you think a certain way. I know I know I'm not any difference

I was on a flight my first Middle Eastern flights

flying on an emirates plane and this man

Emerged from the Galley had a long beard. He was carrying a box and he just went off. He's like ha

ha

ah

chicken clean

chicken

sorry, I

I get really excited with chicken. I'm sorry for that. Sorry

my friend excited usual [rectified] satire of the Flavor

Wow, I'm thinking I love chicken so much the rule. Is that there is the black thing?

So that's racist

There's a little thing [that] makes me think there's a chance that someone understands the language

They may be able to talk the guy down

They could be it could be a terrorist on the plane [now] with a suicide vest [we] flying

40,000 feet in the sky man jumps off losing his head. There you ha

Ha and just maybe maybe some guy will be opposite of like hi

What are you doing?

I'm going to block this plan to show everybody that a live [grade]

Yeah, but do we know this

reporting [Element] [is]

So what are you doing? [I] wanted to show love you the power. What are you saying? I should learn and you know

Are you saying a lot of muslims? Is that what you're saying ah?

[are] you saying we do not know the power of a light? Oh, you're saying you're saying [about] muslims. What are you saying?

No, my friend things. I was not trying to thank you

I was just trying to kill you listen to whatever that. I wanted to show you. What are you showing me? Huh?

Are you saying at a little place?

That's what you're saying

You're better looking than me [you] think I'm not supposed in just because I'm watching cody with a chance of meatballs. That's what you think

What I'm not saying I wanted to what are you showing you so nothing? You make us look bad? Why don't you preach?

Why don't you talk to people up? This is not Islam. What are you doing with your stupid dress [bla] [Bla] [Bla]?

You make us all look bad

No, no, [I] was looking like you're not trying nothing. No even good your best backwards. You don't even know what you're doing here

[so] this is my first time I've never done this before yeah, yeah, story story, sit down, shut up

It's something I dunno if I can load [so] hard you can eat. It don't worry you can do it. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah?

[I'll] do anything that makes my flying experience a little [bit] [more] comfortable

It has [a] fun where you really are thank you very much for coming out. Thank you. I appreciate

if you see

even oil to me

Marineland literally it means the world to me stand-up. Comedy changed my life forever

[I] don't think I would have ever had the opportunity to travel grew up in Soweto in South Africa

Thank you. Thank you. [I] didn't choose it for thinking

And I don't [satan] like in like a sob story way, you know because everyone was poor in so it's room. Which was cool

You know like when everyone's put together it's cool. It's fun. Yeah, you'll feel. It's as much

So not like anyone can't easily ah you are poor

Yeah, so are you?

This sucks

But I probably never would have traveled the world word not for stand-up. Comedy, you know

I'm the first person in my family to the board an airplane

first person in my family to ever get kicked off an airplane I

Would have never I would have never learned about America would have never come out places like Washington DC

Would never learn to drive another side of the road I would have never learned about charming racism

Had I not come to this beautiful country

Probably something [that] changed my [life] forever charming racism

classic American Charming Race I

Never knew there was such a thing growing up, and I thought I knew all about racism

I always you know coming from the home of some of the best racism in the world I am

No, I don't mean to brag but South Africa is by far like we've got with a top quality rating for them out there like

it's

Handcrafted you get rid something like that anymore like I've seen racism all over the world to be honest the standards have dropped

It's not what it used to be like I'm I'm talking about quality racism. You know now

It's cheap and mass-produced probably made in China now. I'm talking about

real racism

And America showed me show me a wonderful new type. I you know I've always considered myself a racism connoisseur

I appreciate the finer Racism's in life. I not all reasons. Don't get me wrong

I have my favorites have my [not-so] favorites. You know like blatant racism. I love I love blatant racist

You know exactly where you stand with the person it's often old people that exhibit blatant racism

They tell you exactly how they feel this is what I think about you you like yeah, and you're gonna die soon

You share?

[theirs] Racism is I don't particularly care for

Like Subtle racism. [I] don't like really don't like suck. You know what people don't tell you they're racist is leave a series of clues

Hope you'll figure it out for yourself. [I] hate that you'll say things like we don't need your people around here

who

your people

tall people

No, damn it your people

Friendly Viru

No, I'm talking about your I'm not gonna help you say it

Did you believe it so much say and have the [balls] stand behind your convictions say it's only the series of clues

And I'm working this out for what is raising Sodoku are you serious?

to say it the cloud

but on justified

Rather embrace it be Blatant all the American and be charming I

discovered charming Racism in a place called, Lexington, Kentucky

And if you've ever been, but you really need to go

It's a beautiful place old school charming racism with a smile and the tip of a hat

Everyone in Ableton [Heather's] vibe. We smile a charm [that] draw all the southern draw. I love it so much

They were they would speak out there the grammars horrible, but it's still beautiful

So the sentences don't really make sense to be like y'all. I never done gaussian um them out and like [that's] test

There's not English your autocorrect is broken. I don't know what that but it's for

It's beautiful in fact when they speak really fast sometimes it sounds like someone sing a banjo inside their mouth that

Until it sounds like [gee] I asked two men for directions, and they started arguing was most beautiful sound I've ever heard in my life

But I was like where you going boy, and I'm going to the theater Kedar

He said all y'all getting on the waianae Road

Maybe I don't see non that our way the print was like now laying low and Obama really long get on site

[they] [leave] all gone. Don't mean only been on the getting [old] me finally going man on the game. Don't be

It sounded like someone started a mumford & Sons concert in their mouth

One minute they were talking and then they got into in the guy was like nail all get on why no sighs I've [failed] [again]

don't make [Finn] alone now get on the

[game's] life, I'll get a long way [coming] around me everything all day

Ya know like I don't even know what they get all the warning

They were gonna say now [I] [can] leave oh fine, and then all the game, [okay] killed again that way

[nager]

The reason I'll never forget, Lexington though

Because I made a woman out there

The gorgeous gorgeous, I'll never forget [-] until the day I die

she walks into the Lobby of the theater we are standing with some friends and

she was absolutely stunning [a]

classic Southern Belle she had long big [blond] hair

Giant boobs

She stretched herself into the Lobby pushing people out the way

She made her way straight for me straight from cancer

He points me in the face that you're like excuse me, baby excuse me honey. May I catch you from owen please

Yes, of course hi. Hi. How are you? How are you Madison, honey? [I] just want to let you [know] that you're by [far]

very funniest and

handsomest nigger I done ever seen

and I would like

I was so shocked [cuz] [I] [lit] most handsome. Not handsomest

The grammar is just crazy man [you]

[guys] have been too much fun. Thank you so much for coming out tonight

Okay, [barbecue]. Thank you very much

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