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[APPLAUSE]
>> Woo, [FOREIGN] okay,
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you have horses,
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you have dogs, you have cats,
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you have everything, right?
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So what's missing?
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La cucaracha, that's right.
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I know for those of you,
how many Latinos in the house?
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>> [APPLAUSE]
>> Okay, some.
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How many of you know the story of
La Cucarachita Martina, la cucaracha?
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>> [FOREIGN]
>> Okay, a couple of you, not a lot, okay?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> So for those of you who don't know,
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I'm gonna tell you very, very quickly.
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This is a story about a love that dared
not speak its name between a cockroach and
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a mouse.
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And it was a cockroach that lives
in Spain, a very pretty cucaracha,
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who's always cleaning, this cucaracha
is always cleaning with a broom.
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And one day, she finds a coin.
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And then she thinks,
what can I buy with that coin, huh, what?
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Well, what would she buy
if she's a cockroach?
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Face powder, of course.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> So she puts a little makeup on.
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She looks so good and so hot that
all the animals want to marry her.
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So they all come courting,
there is the duck, quack, quack, quack.
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But she goes, okay, she has to ask
them how they will talk to her.
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And if they talk nice,
she's gonna marry one of them.
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But she has the frog, the frog goes okay,
Mr. Senor Frog, how would you talk to me?
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And the frog goes,
barum barum barum barum, or in English,
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it would be ribbit, ribbit, ribbit.
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He goes, I know that sound'll drive
me crazy morning, noon, and night.
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You guys do not shut up, forget about it.
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And then the rooster comes in, and
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she goes okay, rooster,
how would you talk to me?
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And the rooster goes [SOUND],
cuz it's a Spanish rooster.
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The American rooster
will cock-a-doodle-doo,
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cock-a-doodle-doo, okay?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> So then she says oh my God,
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no, that's a lot of noise, okay?
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That's a lot of noise.
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And then comes a little [FOREIGN],
Perez, the mouse who
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everybody believes is a full blooded royal
mouse, who knows how to curtsy very well.
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So she goes, okay, [FOREIGN] Perez,
how would you talk to me?
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And the [FOREIGN] Perez goes choo,
choo, choo, choo.
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Oh my God, she falls in love,
they get married.
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She dances flamenco at the wedding,
then one day, look, there she.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> She's singing flamenco at the wedding.
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Let me see if I see the,
here's Perez, you know Perez?
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Okay, she's in the balcony.
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Perez is courting,
then she dances flamenco.
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Then one day for the holiday,
she is cooking a nice sweet dessert.
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So she's cooking a nice sweet dessert,
but she's also very clean.
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There she is cooking the dessert.
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But she's very clean, so she keeps
on with the broom cleaning outside.
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She leaves the pot burning, and
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the mouse Perez goes, oh,
it smells delicious, I wonder what it is.
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So he gets up on a little stool,
like we have our chair like this.
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He gets up on the stool or a chair.
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And he sees a little almond.
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He thinks, oh, I’m gonna get that almond.
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And when he goes to get that almond,
he flips over and
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goes into the pot and boils to death.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Look, I know,
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this is what they tell children
before they go to bed.
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Look, these are the little feet, okay.
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The little feet of the poor mouse,
look at this.
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Oh, thank you very much.
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Look at the little feet, okay?
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This is horrible, horrible, but so
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what happened with the cucaracha,
well, she sings, she becomes a widow.
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And she sings and
she sings to her little mouse, Perez.
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She never forgets him, but
she ends up being a widow.
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So, it's a beautiful story that we
tell the children of Latin America,
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it's very well known.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> And
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besides Kafka's Metamorphosis,
Joan Didion's Miami, and
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George Orwell's Animal Farm,
Perez Martina was one of my inspirations.
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So this dramatic story I'm going to do for
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you today is based on
the Elián González story.
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I don't know how many of you know,
but Elián González was a little boy,
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five years old, who went on a trip,
and he was shipwrecked, found at sea.
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And then his custody battle
created an international crisis.
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So, the title of my piece
is called [FOREIGN].
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With what ass does a cockroach sit,
and I will try,
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like Stanislavsky, to become a cockroach.
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Can you tell I'm a Cuban cockroach?
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Okay.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Okay, but I'm not feeling so
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cucaracha today.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> I think this is a little off.
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I'll just put it here.
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Yes, it's good to change things.
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Okay, I'm not feeling cucaracha.
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I don't know why, but
you know what I think?
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[FOREIGN] The shoes,
now that's more cucaracha, right?
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That's more cucaracha, okay.
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Quick, hide.
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Quick, hide.
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That should be my name, not Martina.
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That's what they should put on my
tombstone, here lies Quick, Hide.
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Oh, the life of a cucaracha is really tough.
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People think we're dirty.
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But what do they expect when
we gotta hide all the time?
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Inside a greasy stove, under a dresser
with a dust bunny the size of a bull frog.
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And only if you're really lucky,
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behind a can of Planters peanuts that have
been opened, and you can lick the salt.
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We suffer so much anxiety.
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You gotta have eyes in the back of
your head cuz you never know where
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the danger's coming from.
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But I shouldn't complain,
this is a good family situation for me.
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The old man is 80 years old and
slow as molasses, and Catalina,
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my best friend,
is a very generous parrot, but bossy.
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Oh, I gotta do all her leg work
cuz I got six legs and
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she's got two, and
she's got to be inside her cage.
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Everyday at 9 a.m.,
I gotta go into her old man's bedroom
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to see if he's packing
a suitcase to leave on a trip.
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And she's so strict with me, we gotta have
vocabulary lessons at 12 before lunch.
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And then at 3, cafe con leche. Cafe con leche,
not just regular cafe con leche but
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cafe con leche with a discussion.
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And she gets upset with me if I say
something she don't wanna hear.
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[FOREIGN] Like my grandfather used to say,
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Al rey no se le dice lo que no quiere oir - you don't tell the king
what he don't wanna hear.
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No?
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>> [LAUGH]
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>> [SOUND] Practice
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makes perfect.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> [FOREIGN] Where is Martina?
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I've never met a cucaracha more resistant.
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Any type of intellectual
stimulation is like a punishment.
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How many times have I told her we must
feed our brains as well as our souls?
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And to think I was once like her.
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La salvaje, a wild savage.
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I was not born in Havana, but
some called me, La Señora de la Habana Vieja.
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No, this grande dame of Havana
was born in the jungle, and
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taken by a man who took Cuban parrots
to sell in the black market.
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And that's how my brother, Francisco,
now Harry, ended up in Chicago.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> And I ended up with my old man,
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the Grammy winning singer of
the Nueva Vista Social Club.
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My Grammy winner, so handsome.
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[FOREIGN]
Big bags under his eyes,
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magic fingers that can pluck the guitar.
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And massage my [SOUND] cranium [LAUGH].
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My old man and I, we're going to
be doing a duet together of a CD.
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And that's why I work hard
to elevate myself and
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learn a new vocabulary word every day.
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Yesterday's word was succinct.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Martina should be happy.
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How many roaches are there that learn
vocabulary and live in such splendor?
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A cage that's the exact replica
of the Palace of Versailles.
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My mirrors!
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My Louis Quatorze chair!
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And my divan.
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Most people are hungry in Cuba,
I am like Marie Antoinette.
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I say, let them eat cake [FOREIGN]
>> [LAUGH]
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>> Martina, Martina!
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[FOREIGN]
Where were you?
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I assume there's nothing to report.
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No suitcase, no packing going on.
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He's not going away on a singing trip, no.
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>> No, no packing, no suitcase,
no, not like that, no.
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>> Okay,
let us begin with our vocabulary lesson.
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The word for today is, petit pois,
that's French for peas.
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Repeat after me.
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Petit pois.
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Again?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Again?
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Now a sentence.
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I love my petit pois.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Is that it?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Very well.
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What, you're not staying
to hear Bertha the Bee,
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the Animal Internet's new reporter?
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Keep on buzzing Bertha?
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You think she's dry?
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Don't you mean succinct?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Yes,
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I know you like Lumumba the Lizard's
reporting but he's old.
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Yes, very well, go, meet Lumumba, but
remember café con leche is at 3:00.
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And our discussion is
going to be a good one,
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all about Spain becoming the biggest
investor in the Cuban economy.
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[FOREIGN]
Lumumba.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Lumumba.
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>> Poor guy,
his legs don't have good suction no more.
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To think that I used to
live in this apartment!
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This was a very bad family situation for
me.
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A lot of danger, and no food!
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One week I was on a strict diet of hair.
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Hair is so bad for the digestion!
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>> [LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
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>> A shadow around me, ow, ow, ow.
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Hey, kid your finger on
my antenna is killing me.
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What, you're a good boy and
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you gotta kill me cuz nobody likes
roaches in the house, they're dirty.
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No, no that's a lie, a lie.
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You're a good boy and you don't lie, and
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you like to play with the tourist children
at the hotel where your father works.
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But the tourist children got bigger,
better toys than you,
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a Power Ranger and an SUV.
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But you got toys that are magic,
a rock and a stick, and they can fly.
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You're a smart boy!
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And you like to wash your daddy's car?
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So bye bye dirty roach, I kill you.
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No, no, kid, I'm very clean!
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I'm so clean, I'm friends with the Queen!
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What Queen you ask, what's your name?
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Elian Gonzalez. The Queen of Spain.
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You saw her on TV?
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You love TV?
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Me too.
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Take your finger off my antenna and
I'll tell you all about it.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> No, no I won't run, I promise.
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See Elian, I was in a flamenco
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dancing contest, that's right.
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I was the best dancer of
flamenco in all of Cuba.
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And that's how I got to be the roach
in waiting to the Queen of Spain.
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Yes sit down, I'll tell you all about it,
no I won't run.
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There I was, dancing, dancing, dancing,
with a mantilla on my head, ole.
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What?
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Oh yeah, they cut two little
holes on my mantilla so
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my antennas could stick out, yeah.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Elian, and
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when queens eat,
what do queens usually have?
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A crown, yeah but she doesn't wanna wear a
crown cuz she wants to be more democratic.
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No, more communist, no more capital,
oh, the politics got me mixed up, okay.
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Look, queens have banquets,
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the only problem is that
the banquet is in a restaurant.
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And there's nothing that restaurant
owners hate more than us roaches.
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But I, [LAUGH] [FOREIGN],
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I jump on the back of the queen's
dress and hold on to the back.
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Oh my god, it was so pretty, I had to
read the label, Carolina Herrera, and
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when I look up, the restaurant
owner staring at me with such hate.
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But I stare right back,
he can't do a thing.
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He whacks me, he whacks the Queen.
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[LAUGH]
>> [LAUGH]
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>> I went down on the back of the Queen's
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dress, holding on and
waving just like the Queen.
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Elian, you try the royal wave.
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That's right, that's right, and I made
the headlines in the Animal Internet.
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That's the AI, where we get the news.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> [FOREIGN] Dines with the Queen of
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Spain.
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What?
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You wanna kiss me?
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So, I turn into a princess.
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Ah, no chico, that happens in fairy tales.
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If you kiss me, I'll be a roach, but
a roach in waiting to the Queen of Spain.
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Quick, hide.
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Quick, hide.
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Thanks, kid.
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Look at that.
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He's waving at me.
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Martina, [FOREIGN].
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Where were you?
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My old man's coming any moment now.
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Oh, there he is.
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Quick, hide,
hide under the sunflower seeds.
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[FOREIGN]
>> [LAUGH]
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>> I'm hiding under the sunflower seeds
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and I see the old man shuffling and
singing.
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And he's calling Catalina
the flower of his existence.
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And then, he tells her that he's
going on a singing trip to Miami.
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Oh my God, she loses it.
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No Miami, no Miami, no, no Miami, no!
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Well, the guy, he's a smooth operator,
because then he says,
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they're gonna do a CD together and
that he's gonna give her a massage.
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When he says massage, that's the key word.
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I see, Papi.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Give it to me, Papi.
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Give it to me, give it to me,
give it to me.
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[LAUGH]
>> [INAUDIBLE] An old man and
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a parrot,
that relationship is not healthy okay.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> But life is good for me here.
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All I gotta do is shut up,
I'm getting good at climbing
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the dresser where the old
man keeps his postcards.
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I could use a little contemplating.
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There is nothing more relaxing than
contemplating on top of a postcard.
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My favorite is Rio de Janeiro,
where Yemalla has her feast day.
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I love Yemalla because
she respects roaches.
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Thank you, Yemalla for
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not letting Elian believe I was a dirty,
dumb, disgusting roach.
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[SOUND] Contemplating is good.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> We roaches, we are bumpy bugs.
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The bees, and the ants,
they're the workaholics.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> We love to contemplate, yeah.
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[SOUND] You know, sometimes I don't understand
why people hate us so much?
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We've been in this planet since the day of
the dinosaur and we are not extinct, why?
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Cuz we outsmart people and
we're easygoing.
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How many times they hit us with a broom?
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And then they go find a pan or a newspaper
to pick the cadaver up and surprise!
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>> [LAUGH]
>> And
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then they yell [FOREIGN]
where did that [FOREIGN] go?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> We outsmart people, yeah!
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We live, we are survivors.
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We live even if our lives
are full of insult.
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Martina, Martina Martina, you missed Bertha.
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But I will tell you the news.
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Oh, in that old French tradition,
that of the raconteur and
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the lead story today is such a tragedy.
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A tragedy, a tragedy, oh, I love a tragedy.
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Please, can I rip a little piece of
paper from your cage to use as a hanky?
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If you must.
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It all started at 4 a.m. in the morning, 14
people huddled together by some trees and
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shrubs to the shore boarded
a boat to leave Cuba.
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Last passengers were young mother and
her boy El Nino,
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five years old. Isn't it something?
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[FOREIGN] The queen,
the pope, Leonardo DiCaprio,
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they all come to Cuba by plane,
and then others, they go by boat.
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Are you finished?
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>> [LAUGH]
>> Before they boarded the boat,
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the boy turned to look back, but
what he, the mother bent down and
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said Nino don't look back.
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There's our future [FOREIGN].
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>> [LAUGH]
>> The captain of the boat
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took the boy from her,
he was her boyfriend.
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And when the mother saw the boat packed
like a can of sardines, she hesitated.
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But the boyfriend said [FOREIGN] and
she did.
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It was so crowded in the boat,
the mother held the boy in her arms and
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when the boy turned to look back and
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didn't see any lights on shore
a tear trickled down his cheek.
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He wiped it off with the back of his hand.
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He wanted to be brave, but
he had a lump in his throat.
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The mother, to distract him,
pointed to the planets.
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There's Pluto, Venus, Mars, she got them
all wrong but it did distract the boy.
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Then she starts to sing,
When You Wish Upon a Star.
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Aye, nobody sings that
better than Jimminy Cricket.
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[FOREIGN]
>> [LAUGH]
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>> [FOREIGN] cannot hold a candle to my
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old man.
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Not long after that,
not long after that, the boat
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stopped and the boyfriend, the boyfriend
went to see if he could fix the motor.
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To make matters worse, it started to rain.
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The drops were the size of quarters!
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People start to get antsy, they,
they said what is happening,
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we're not moving, we paid $1000!
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The boyfriend tried to fix the motor but
he couldn't.
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Then the waves kept rocking more
violently from side to side.
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The mother put the boy down and
he almost lost his balance.
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A big wave poured water over them,
a woman screamed as she fell.
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Suddenly there was thunder and
lightning and people panicked.
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And panic is like wildfire,
once it starts it's impossible to put out.
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People rocking more violently now.
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Another wave put water into the boat and
the boyfriend yelled for
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people to calm down.
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Suddenly a man went overboard,
people screamed he's drowning.
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The boyfriend yelled the mother to get two
inner tubes to use as a life preserver.
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The mother grabbed one for
the child and put it on him and
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then the boyfriend yelled the mother
to grab the rope he was throwing and
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she quickly tied the boy to the tube.
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And said to him Nino hold on, hold on.
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She was about to tie herself to the tube
when a monstrous wave was forming and
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growing bigger than all the others.
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And the weight of the passengers along
with the fury of the wave capsized
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the boat until all of the passengers
are hurled into the ocean.
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El nino?
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The boy, the boy was under water.
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He opened his eyes, he couldn't
see a thing, he swallowed water,
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he gagged in a few seconds.
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The tube lifted him up, with the rain,
thunder and darkness he was confused.
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Where was his mommy?
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Is there someone by the sinking ship?
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Was that her?
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He tried swimming like his
father had taught him but
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with his arms they were too short to reach
the water and all he could do was kick,
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as people kept screaming and crying and
the rain was coming down hard.
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He tried to scream but no sound would come
out of his mouth, and the screams and
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the crying stopped and the only sound
was the sound of the waves and the rain.
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And the boy just kept kicking.
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[FOREIGN]
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Aye, no.
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I love a good cry!
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That was great.
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Martina, it's a tragedy that
turns into a [LAUGH] comedy.
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Because the boy has been called
a child of the dolphins
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was rescued by two Miami dolphins,
Dolores and Dominique.
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Oh, they were so
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good to the boy, first they all cried
together the boy cried about his mother.
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And Dominique cried about her own
mother who died in child birth.
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And Dolores cried about her baby calf
who got hit by a Carnival cruise ship.
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Then after they cried they [UNKNOWN] and
echo-located [SOUND]
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>> [LAUGH]
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>> And when the boy was hungry,
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he asked got milk and Dolores was
still lactating, breast at the boy and
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her milk was as sweet as dulce
de leche the Hagen Daas.
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They got along so well with
the boy they wanted to adopt him.
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Imagine, a boy with two mommies.
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But the sharks vetoed the adoption.
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Well they [UNKNOwN] and echo located and
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they pushed the boy, Elian Gonzalez, to
a fishing boat so he could be picked up.
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Elian, Elian Gonzalez, I know him.
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I know him.
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This is not news.
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This is a real tragedy.
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I know him.
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Thank you very much, thank you.
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>> [APPLAUSE]
>> Thank you and you know what happened?
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You know what happened to Elian?
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He got sent back.
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In my story, this is just an excerpt in
the story, what happens is Catalina and
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Martina have a huge fight.
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In a jealous rage
the parrot hits the roach,
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she ends up in a luggage bound for
Miami with the old man.
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And she ends up next door
to Elian's relatives.
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So she gets inducted in Miami into the AI,
the Animal Internet,
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by a transgender cat called Cassandra.
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>> [LAUGH]
>> And
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when she does get inducted into that she
actually does the interview with Elian,
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one to one with Elian the day that the US
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government sends the SWAT team to pick
up Elian and sends him back to Cuba.
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So the roach jumps in to Elian's
sneaker and they fly off to Cuba,
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where they eventually reunite
Martina and Catalina and
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they continue the vocabulary lessons and
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they continue their discussions
with Cafe con Leche.
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Thank you very much.
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>> [APPLAUSE]
>> Thank you.
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