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You promise me to come back because I'll be so pissed. If you don't come back, you better come back. Anyway, we've got a ton of news to catch up on today. So let's do this, people.

Welcome to the daily social distancing show from Trevor's couch in New York City to your couch somewhere in the world. This is the Daily Social Decency Show with Trevor Noah. Here's a. All right, people, let's kick things off with the only story anyone is talking about, the Miami Heat beat the Lakers. You see that Jimmy Butler was in, say, triple, double, 40 points. No, obviously, I'm joking. The real big news this weekend was in the Premier League, Man United lost six one and then Liverpool 17th to Aston Villa Aston Villa.

That would be like if the Dallas Cowboys got beaten by the Cleveland Browns. I mean, that was the craziest news. All right.

But for real, though. For real, though, obviously, there's only one story that anyone in the world cares about right now. Breaking news.

The president test positive for the coronavirus, revealing his diagnosis in a late night tweet, saying he and the first lady have covid-19 and will quarantine immediately. Breaking overnight, President Trump this morning at Walter Reed Medical Center.

The president's medical team is insisting he's doing well and is receiving doses of the experimental drug randazza of beer and steroids. His doctors are also saying he could be released from the hospital as early as today. That's right, people.

Donald Trump, president of the United States, is battling covid-19.

And before I say anything else, can I just say on the record, I do not want Donald Trump to die from this. I mean, I don't wish death on anyone, and especially not Donald Trump. I don't want him to lose his life. I want him to lose an election. I also don't want him to die because then Mike Pence would be president and then we might as well be dead because Mike Pence is the most boring human being on the planet.

He's the most boring version of Donald Trump, all of the policies and none of the fun. If Trump is cocaine, Mike Pence is just flour.

Your nose is still going to burn, but nothing cool happens that taste like bread.

I also don't want Trump to die because the whole reason people chose Joe Biden is because he has the best chance to be Donald Trump. If Trump wasn't in the race and people could have taken a chance with someone else, like personally, I would have voted for Marianne Williamson because I do think America needs to realign its chakras.

Yes, I know I'm not allowed to vote, but I'm still allowed to dream. But while it's great that the president is doing better, we still have to ask the question, how did this happen and how did it get this bad? Well, to be honest, the way Trump has handled the country's coronavirus response is unfortunately also how he's handled this pandemic in his personal life, starting with his brazen disregard for the safety precautions that keep the virus from spreading fumes.

One very crowded Rose Garden. The question was this a super spreader event that's led to the White House coronavirus crisis?

Last weekend's packed in mostly mask. This Rose Garden ceremony for his Supreme Court pick may have been a super spreader event. Those downwind affected include the president, first lady, former aide Kellyanne Conway, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who is hospitalise senators Mike Lee and Thom Tillis, as well as the president of Notre Dame. President Trump senior aide who picks his campaign manager, Bill Stepien, and personal assistant Nick LIUNA are also infected.

The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, says she tested positive for coronavirus this morning.

Senator Mike Lee seen on camera hugging other attendees. We have some images of the indoor reception and it's so striking and you'll see and you see the little red dot that shows who subsequently tested positive. So as you walk through them, you start to see the mixing and mingling. Yeah.

Turns out while you've spent the last seven months hugging your grandma through a giant condom, Trump and his friends are having no mosque. Cocktail receptions indoors with a guest of honor is covid-19. And now at least 30 people in Trump's circle have tested positive for covid-19. You realize that means there's been more infections at the White House over the last day than in New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand and Australia combined. The White House Rose Garden is like the wet market of America right now.

Thank God Dr. Foushee doesn't have it. He must be so relieved that Trump stuffed him in a locker three months ago.

I mean, I don't care who you are, guys, this story is insane. Everyone from Trump's campaign manager to Trump's press secretary to Trump's friends have been infected with coronavirus. Now it's almost like the rights of 20 20 didn't know how to wrap the story up. So they would just like. And then they all get coronavirus at the end. And look, I know some people are saying that this was karma catching up to Trump, but guy's a massive outbreak at the White House is not karma.

Its consequences. All right. It's not karma to get hit by lightning when you're standing on the roof of a skyscraper holding a metal rod while there's lightning. The universe didn't do that shit to you.

You did this to yourself. Now, it's bad enough that Trump has put the entire White House in danger before he knew there was a virus outbreak. But what's even more disturbing is that after Trump found out that he could have been exposed to the virus, he didn't quarantine he social distance. He carried on with his life with complete disregard for other people's lives.

There is evidence of disregard for the health and safety of others.

President Trump would have likely been contagious for up to two days prior to his positive test. That means anyone he had contact with at Tuesday's debate or Wednesday's rally in Minnesota could be at risk. Contact tracing is underway this morning for more than two hundred people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus. At a New Jersey fundraiser for President Trump last Friday, the president traveled to the fundraiser despite the White House knowing before he left Washington that a close aide had tested positive for the virus.

It would also be irresponsible, of course, for the president to have been going to a rally in Minnesota on Wednesday night and then proceeding to a fundraiser in Bedminster on Thursday.

I don't care what anyone says, and this is truly despicable. Trump knew that he could be infected and he put his own supporters at risk anyway. And I feel so bad for anyone who paid money to attend this fundraiser because those people didn't want covid. They just wanted to give Trump enough money so that he let them dump chemicals in a river. Why should something bad happen to them? And not only did Trump keep his exposure to coronaviruses secret from his donors, but get this, the Trump campaign also never told the Biden campaign about any of it, even though they had just been debating a few feet apart while Trump was likely contagious, which honestly is surprising.

I thought that if anyone would know the protocol for informing partners that you may have infected them, it would be Donald Trump. In fact, this is probably the first national security secret that Trump has actually managed to keep a secret.

He won't tell you he might have covered, but brief him about a new weapons system. And on Twitter, he'll be like, we got a new missile that's totally unstoppable unless, you know, the secret code is three to four and then five. Hash, hash, Panpan pound. And if downplaying the virus was on brand for Trump, well, so was what came next. A blizzard of dubious medical information, vague promises and self-serving lies.

The president's doctors and White House officials have been giving confusing and conflicting information about the president's condition all weekend.

On Saturday, White House Doctor Sean Conley repeatedly dodging questions about whether the president was so sick he needed oxygen yesterday and today he was not on oxygen Thursday, no oxygen, none at this moment.

And yesterday with the team, well, when we were all here, he was not on oxygen.

But now Conley says he did actually administer oxygen to the president on Friday at the White House after his blood oxygen dropped.

I was trying to reflect the the upbeat attitude that the team, the president, of course, of illness has had didn't want to give any information that might steer the course of illness in another direction. And in doing so, you came off that we were trying to hide something which wasn't necessarily true.

Conley also caused confusion by suggesting the president was initially diagnosed Wednesday. The White House later claimed Conley misspoke and Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has also contradicted himself.

He has mild symptoms, saying that Friday and then admitting the very next day that, in fact, the president's vital signs had been very concerning. And we are still not on a clear path to a full recovery.

Do we have an accurate picture of how the president is doing? Well, the answer is no. I'm going to be honest here. I feel bad for this doctor. Yeah, I know, I know, because guys in all his years at medical school, the one thing he probably never learned was how to bullshit an entire country. Think about it. On one side, you've got the public asking for information on the president's health. And on the other side, you have your patient, the president himself, who wants you to go out and tell everyone that he karate chop the virus until it died.

And once again, people were reminded it doesn't matter who you are. If you come into contact with Donald Trump, at some point, you're going to have to lie.

Doctors, national security advisers, press secretaries, lawyers. Yo, I pray that I'm never on a flight with Trump because that pilot will be out here lying like a month later.

And gentlemen, we're landing as planned in the middle of the ocean. And I just want to thank President Trump personally for opening the emergency door mid-flight and running in a nice, cool breeze.

So right now, as it stands, there's been so much deception from the White House that even though Trump is leaving the hospital, we just don't know what condition the president is in right now. Because while Trump spin team is painting a rosy picture of his health, outside experts say all the medications that Trump is being given suggest that he's not doing that well. But then again, there's also the possibility that Trump doesn't need all the drugs he's getting.

He just wants them. And the doctors are too afraid to say no, give me all the pills, all the oxygen. And while you're at it, give me a boob job because people need drugs.

No joke. Like, for instance, just the steroid that he's on. Dexamethasone is wild. Like, listen to this.

They say it can cause bad side effects like confusion, delirium, mania, irritability, mood swings and feelings of grandiose grandiosity. We should Trump wasn't really taking the steroids, so just like his handling of coronavirus as a whole. Trump's handling of his own brush with Corona has been marked by secrecy, deception and just generally ignoring science like it's one of his children. And one other thing that has remained consistent is that, as always, the thing Trump cares most about is how he looks.

The president himself tries to project an image of recovery, releasing photos and video taken inside Walter Reed.

It's been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about covid. Overnight, the White House released these photos of President Trump appearing to work in the makeshift office set up at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. You see the one taken at the conference table and one from the presidential suite where he filmed last night's update.

Editor in chief of the ER Current Jon Ostrower says that he took a closer look at the data embedded in the photos and found while the photos appear to have been taken over some extended period of time, they were actually just 10 minutes apart.

Critics of the president are questioning the authenticity of these photos, pointing to the blank piece of paper he appears to be signing with a Sharpie.

Yes, basically, Trump staged these photos just to make it seem like he was busy at work. So what we have here is a rare case of picks and it didn't happen. Then again, maybe Trump wasn't busted at all. Maybe this turned out exactly as they intended. OK, Mr. President, we're going to take some photos of you now. So just do what you normally do in the Oval Office. Oh, you guys mean pretend work. OK, got it.

Scribble, scribble, scribble, scribble policy, policy, scribble Iraq.

So that's how Trump's been handling life with coronavirus. You know, I guess in some weird way, it's nice to know that he doesn't treat America any differently than the way he treats himself. But there is one big difference, though, unlike most Americans, Trump has access to the best treatments possible and a world class medical team looking after him both at the hospital and back at home at the White House. I mean, look at this group of doctors that was involved in Trump's care.

It looks like the part of a movie when the scientists announce that they made contact with the space creature, nobody else gets that many doctors. So considering what he went through and how much work it took to treat him.

Some people had a glimmer of hope, just a glimmer that maybe Donald Trump would come out of this thing with a new appreciation for how serious this disease is. Maybe you'd come up with a new commitment to getting it under control. And that hope lasted all of two days. President Trump has just tweeted to the world that he will be leaving Walter Reed Medical Center a short time from now at six thirty PM Eastern. He says the president in his Twitter announcement writing, quote, Don't be afraid of covid.

Don't let it dominate your life. We have developed under the Trump administration some really great drugs and knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago.

Yeah, that's right. America, don't be afraid of covid and don't let it dominate your life, because as long as you can take your private helicopter from your home hospital to an even better hospital, you'll be great. Oh, and by the way, to the two hundred thousand Americans who got covid and don't feel better than they did 20 years ago, I guess that's on you. All right.

We have to take a quick break, but when we come back, we'll have more on the infection heard around the world. And Jason Momoa joins us on the show.

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It's the Apple podcast. New episodes every Tuesday on the radio, Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcast. Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show, there's no denying that every single one of us is still reeling over the news that President Trump has covid-19. I mean, one of the biggest places to see the panic is online. So I figured let's get another perspective from someone who's an expert in online Chibouk, young, white Yabuki. What's going on, man?

How's it going? What do you make of President Trump's diagnosis?

I'm not going to let Trevor unberth. Like I understand that he's sick, but that's just how I feel. That's just how I feel.

You know what I hear, Yabuki? Many Americans are angry with the president because they feel like he was irresponsible with his health and with the health of those around him. And now he's not only endangering his own life, but threatening the operation of the entire federal government.

I mean, yeah, but no, I'm pissed because he is overshadowing the most important news story right now. Melania Trump hates Christmas. What I don't remember that you don't remember.

Of course you wouldn't remember it. You don't remember it because it was announced like two hours before it dropped that they both had covid. So, of course, you don't remember. But she did. She said it.

Look, turning now to secret audiotapes just released of First Lady Melania Trump. She apparently goes on a profanity laced rant about Christmas decorations.

Uncle Plesac, I'm the same way I keep supporting. I don't see enough. I don't know where I put that. I'm working like a as far as I know, Christmas stuff that some use of the Christmas stuff and decoration. But I need to do it right. Oh, man.

I totally forgot that story, that shit was crazy, it turns out Melania hates putting up Christmas decorations at the White House.

It was the greatest of all time. I love it.

Of our lives in some piece of Christmas decorations makes the girls so much more fun, like yesterday when you called me 11th Yabuki, that that was for work.

I know. But, you know, what's the worst part about this getting buried? I had so many jokes about it. Like now I understand why her holiday decorations look like she murdered Christmas.

Also, I know I'm a lady of Santa because she already got an old white man crawling into a room once a year.

But that wouldn't work. Oh, this was going to be I had to act out, plan to. It was going to be like this.

Why don't you ever give me what I want, Santa? Trump the laws.

The accent is not there yet, but I was going to practice it.

Yeah, you know what I hear, Yabuki, but I feel like Malani. I hate Christmas as a story. Just it doesn't seem important right now.

I know it's but it's just not fair. Like, could you imagine if Michelle Obama had been caught saying that she hates Christmas, the Fox News building would have exploded with Zeeman, but instead it's them, the people who came after Starbucks because they didn't say Merry Christmas are now silent when their first lady said Christmas. You know what else? I was going to start a new holiday non-driver. I was going to call it Christmas is when families got together and listen to the Melania Christmas Day and said Christmas.

But now we can't Christmas because Trump got covid.

Well, also because Melania is sick. Right? Well, I guess you don't want to be mean to Melanie when she's sick. Feel better? Melania, we're rooting for you. Well, look, I mean, maybe the Trumps will get better soon and then everyone can go back to the story, you're just trying to make me feel better. Dreaver, I see what you're doing is not going to work. Christmas is ruined. Now, all that we have is regular Christmas.

Who likes Christmas? It's regular Christmas decorations.

Sorry, that's me. Christmas. I got a call now.

So yeah, I'm going to have to not take this, so I've got to go.

All right. See you later. Pastries. Nice talking to you.

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Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. Earlier today, I spoke with action star and activist Jason Momoa. We talked about his new documentary that tells the story of Native American communities reclaiming their food and land.

What's up, buddy? What's going on, Jason? How are you doing? I'm awesome. I really I'm in quarantine and I'm going out of my mind.

Jason Momoa is one of the biggest stars in the world. So you getting back to work. But before you get back to work, you have to like in Canada, for instance, you have to sit for two weeks at home. You can't leave the house. I think they threaten you. It's a seven hundred fifty thousand dollar fine leave.

Yeah. If you leave the house before that, two weeks is up. Canada taking it seriously. Jason. So they are what are you, what are you doing.

What do you do to stay sane. What's going to be a problem up here. Everybody's like clean and good and that's back to normal. I mean everyone's wearing masks, but I mean, it looks nice from the house. Right. But most of my friends are in like hotels where they can't even go out. I mean, I got a small little yard, but yeah, I haven't you know, I haven't been in a place that's not my home.

Quarantine is kind of gnarly. It is.

It is. What are you doing to stay sane? I feel like there's a motorbike behind you. And I was like that.

I was like, yes, I'm looking at a bike that I can't ride.

It's I mean, I'm playing music. There's a bunch of like, I don't know, can we move this computer or. No. Yeah. So, you know, I show my little spot, I'm listening to music and then I brought my guitars. OK, ok. OK, so. We'll learn how it plays out in the base. All right, all right, all right. That's my new learn how to play stand up bass and learn how to play mandolin.

How many instruments do you currently play? I play guitar.

I play bass and drums. I want to learn trumpet, too, but I didn't bring out my daughter's trumpet. But that's that's what kind of keeps me.

I didn't get to grow up with a lot of instruments, so I'm making up for lost time.

I feel like you the one person who was designed for this. Do you feel like you were you ready for this moment?

You know, has it and has anyone else really ready for is as a nice reset?

I mean, I think it's really beautiful. I never get to be home, so I've got to be home with my babies and and they're 11 and 13. So it's a very beautiful time to be home. Right. And also a lot of work on myself and being my wife. We've been in the 14 years. It's been a beautiful time to, like, just work on us because I spent years trying to build a career where I actually did stuff that I love to do, which now I have the career.

It was not the case. Twenty two years ago. Yeah. So it's just been good to be home and now I'm back to work. And it's kind of sad because my kids can't come up to see me because I have to do two weeks quarantine. Right. So the first time I've ever been away from my family for this long.

So, Jason Momoa, a lot of people know you as an action star. I mean, you know, whether it's being a breakout star in Game of Thrones, whether it's, you know, leading the front line of shows on Apple TV with C, whether it's, you know, just like blowing up the box office with Aquaman, Jason Momoa is an action stop. This project we're going to be talking about today is a little different. It's a lot of hot, a lot of pain and a lot of hope.

Tell me about the documentary Gava and why Jason Momoa decided that this this film needed to be made.

Well, I think the way you brought up just being known as an action star, you know, it's a misconception of who I am. Even going back to my first film that I directed, it had to deal with the atrocities that were happening on Native American reservations. I made it my duty in many ways and in my art, in my companies to kind of fight for justice and bring to the forefront things that are my concerns. And I think all the roles that I play, people kind of think of me in a different way.

But yeah, you know, when gathering came by, there's those things are happening to even my own people in Hawaii or just the things that have been happening and what has happened to our ancestors and the disconnection between our ancestors and our traditions, our food source. And so this film is extremely beautiful. And I if I can use my platform in any way to be able to bring something that's an honest human film and the true history and explanations of what has happened to so many, so many indigenous cultures, and I'm all on board.

So when I saw it blew my hair back. You know, I've seen it about five times. I love it. I just watched it against that. I could be with you. And I mean, you get a chance to watch it.

Man, can I tell you something? I learned things watching it that I didn't know. I, I feel like any great documentary does that any great documentary, you know, sharpens up the things you do know. But then it'll always open your eyes to an aspect of an issue that you genuinely never knew before. What a lot of people may not know is how decimating their food supply was one of the things that the colonialists did to destroy Native American populations, decimating their food, you know, polluting the way they eat, restricting them from living the way they lived.

And you see those effects still affecting those communities today. And that's what you show in the documentary, which I found really fascinating.

I mean, how it ripples out. I mean, like it relates to even my own culture, which is obesity, and like just shipping all the crap food that's coming over on boats. When we were, you know, we were island earth, we were we were sent by ourselves in the middle of the ocean. I just find it that it's so disconnected from the natural food source that it's beautiful to be able to share a little bit of that and be a part of something like this.

So, I mean, I definitely I'm very thankful that you watched it because sometimes you don't get to do that. So I'm very thankful for that. But it's yeah, it's a beautiful film that I want to get out to the world.

You showcase people who are putting forth solutions. You know, you're putting indigenous peoples in front of the camera. This isn't one of those stories where, like the documentary filmmaker or the executive producer makes it about themselves. This is a story about the people. And we follow these amazing people who are saying, here's how we can combine science with our traditions. Here's how we can move into the future. Here's how we can claim back our food supply. Why do you think it was so important for you to make sure that this film centered itself around those heroes as opposed to just you telling their story?

I mean, that's the best part about this thing. Like being involved ball, because it comes directly from there. I felt like I was getting I felt like I was growing and getting therapy and the experience within the tribe, I mean, that's what's beautiful about it, is it's truly amazing filmmaking. And also the director is the way that he unfolds it in his storytelling process. So, I mean, that's what makes just a great documentary in general.

Before I let you go, I'm worried about you in quarantine. I know how crazy that can be. Here's my suggestion. You play music. I say you should do like a free concert every day, even if it's for 30 minutes. What? People live online you like to.

You know, I feel like you get love and. I was born in quarantine. Jason, you claim quarantine, I was born in quarantine, now I'm and you know what, I I grew up stuck in the house partly because of apartheid, partly because my grandmother was afraid to let me go outside. So, I mean, I'm used to it, but I don't think I'm used to anything that's happening in the world. So stay strong and stay strong.

Statements during the Hogweed is, my friend. Don't ever threaten me with a hug, Jason. I'll take you up on it. Thank you so much for joining us on the show.

Thank you very much. It is. All right.

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Welcome back to the Daily Social Distancing Show. So earlier today, I spoke with actor and musician Kat Graham. We talked about her work with the United Nations to help refugees and her latest film directed by Reza Cut-throat, City Pegram. Welcome to The Daily Social Distancing Show.

You know, I thank you for having me. And you were one of the most talented people I know easily. I mean, actress, singer, dancer, human rights activist. And now, once again, you're embarking on a journey that is sure to blow people's minds, which is being a part of Riza's third film, which seems like it's going to be a blockbuster because, I mean, the cost alone is crazy.

Going to be it's tii Ethan Hawke shamik more. Who am I forgetting if Wesley Snipes.

Yeah, Terrence Howard three beastie. Pretty, right. Yeah.

Tell me a little bit about the movie and what this experience has been like.

The movie was wild because we actually shot it in the Ninth Ward in New Orleans. That was not something that I necessarily thought was going to happen, but it really brought to light that we're trying to make. And the stories we were trying to tell it at home, working with Reson was so different because I had never worked with. Anyone like him, he's like a ninja know, and and because he's an artist too, you know, you really get that he really goes with the vibe sometimes directors over direct.

You really like let us go with the flow. Right, right. Right.

The story seems to be a heist movie. You think, oh, I'm getting into a straight up action movie. But then you come to realize that almost like one of the bad guys in the movie is Katrina. We're dealing with people who are reacting to that disaster. And although the story is set 15 years ago, it feels unfortunately really applicable to what's happening today.

We really, really focus on the neglect that happens within marginalized communities. And you really see the parallel of of what is happening currently. And, you know, the black community not getting the kind of support, getting the kind of funding, not getting even accountability given to them for for what they are experiencing. And and it just I'm so glad that I was a part of this movie. I feel like it really is going to help a lot of people.

And I think it gives a lot of clarity to what a lot of communities are experiencing.

You're not just a performer. You've always been somebody who has who has really spent a lot of time working to bring to the fore issues that communities around the world face. You know, I I first remember seeing your work with the UN refugee agency, but as somebody who's been traveling around the world dealing with communities that have been decimated in many ways, what do you think we could be doing collectively right now to help not just our immediate community, but people out there around the world where it feels like the situation is hopeless?

You actually do a really great job of that because you are so international, too, and also your background and your biracial. And I think where you come from really does play a huge part in the journey that you take. And for me, you know, on both sides of my family, whether it's the Holocaust on my mom's side or the Liberian civil war on my father's side, both of my grandparents were were fleeing and became refugees. And naturally, my devotion to the refugee agency, I believe, stems from this place of wanting to protect people.

Because I needed protection, my family needed protection. What's really important that we can all do is, is whether it's just following the UNHCR or just really paying attention to what's happening globally, especially if covid-19. I mean, we're talking about South Sudan, Syria, Yemen are on the people that are fleeing for their lives are on the brink of starvation because they're not getting access to the kinds of support that they need right now. So it's really important that we keep our focus on remembering that we are all together in this and that we're all one community and changing the way people perceive refugees, changing the stigma, changing the resettlement stigma.

Really working through that idea, I think is really important and valuable right now. Crucial right now, really.

You recently did a Vogue Beauty Secrets video conference, which was video to try and keep up with contouring to see what's happening in the world, but wasn't what I wasn't expecting was to watch a video where at the end, all of a sudden you flip it and you turn this seemingly benign topic into a conversation about black women, black women's beauty, how the industry has portrayed black women, and what we can do to protect not just the image of Black Beauty, but also the sanctity of being a black woman who has natural hair.

Please walk me through the process. What do you do?

You plan to trick us from the beginning with everything that was going on that is going on currently in the world with all the racism and the lack of protection for black women and the lack of acceptance in Hollywood in a lot of ways of not really profiling, highlighting, celebrating different kinds of black women. For me, it wasn't until I actually started to really accept myself and and really understand what would make me tick and what would make me move was I actually coming into my own power.

I think if you accept it, you come from a difficult childhood. If you if you accept that you come from a broken home, if you accept that you come from an industry that tells you that you are not black enough, but you're also not white enough, that you fit in everywhere and you fit in nowhere, and you understand that that is something that you have to walk with. And you have a just a different kind of power. You have a different kind of voice, you know, and I want to be a voice for the voiceless is why I'm working with the refugee agency.

That's why I'm doing films like Your City, and, you know, I hope that even through my fashion, even though it's sometimes fashion can seem so trivial that I can write, I can do something with it, you know, inspire some some girls to be able to grow.

I think you're doing that and much, much more. Kat Graham, thank you so much for joining on the show.

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