Curing Cancer in New Zealand

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People

Chris Gethard

Society & Culture

4.8 • 9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A Cuban expat tells Chris about her incredible journey from Cuba to New Zealand to work on cancer immunotherapies. She opens up about why she left her home country and how the George Floyd protests made her question her own place in the world as a black, Cuban woman. She also discusses the importance of not getting emotionally tied to her cancer research and describes how shaving her head and embracing her natural hair made her feel reborn.

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0:00.0	Hello to everybody who knows that you can't be a sociopath if you dig for salsa.
0:09.8	It's beautiful and out of this.
0:11.5	One hour, one phone call, no names, no holds bar.
0:16.7	I'd rather no one on one.
0:21.2	I think it'll be more fun than I'll get to know you and you'll get to know me.
0:29.8	Hi everybody, Chris cathart here coming to you from the studio.
0:32.6	I actually was in the studio in New York City for this call.
0:35.7	Happened to be in the city today as it was and I said let's do a call like the old days
0:39.8	in the studio.
0:40.8	So here we are.
0:41.8	And guess what?
0:42.8	It's a very good, very interesting call.
0:44.5	It's a very interesting person.
0:46.8	A person who doesn't live in America and lives in a country that they weren't born in
0:52.7	and grew up in a country that is one of the most.
0:57.4	Fascinating and not always in positive ways, countries in the world.
1:01.3	You can grow up Cuba.
1:03.3	She has a lot of opinions on that.
1:05.8	And then on top of it, the things she's doing in New Zealand are so smart and giving and
1:12.3	are going to help the world and we talk about that and we talk about hair and we talk
1:16.8	about everything.
1:17.8	We talked about so many things in an hour and partway through the call, I say you're
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