4.6 • 14.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks for listening to Code Switch. Start your day tomorrow with up first. |
| 0:04.0 | The Morning News Podcast from NPR. Apple Podcast Reviewer Eve Bethel calls it |
| 0:09.1 | concise and comprehensive. Quote, I listen to up first every morning on my walk to work. |
| 0:14.0 | It gives me a great summary of the top news stories during the day and the upcoming week. |
| 0:18.9 | Unquote. Wake up with up first tomorrow morning on the NPR One App and wherever you listen to your |
| 0:25.7 | For all you Spanish speakers out there, una breve a dedencia, |
| 0:28.8 | este episodio contiene algunas palabras of encivas. |
| 0:32.7 | Here's the seat. A Mexican immigrant, a street vendor, is on a corner in Hollywood, |
| 0:37.7 | selling corn on the cob and shaved ice. A man out walking a dog with a companion who's a woman |
| 0:43.1 | confronts him. He tells the vendor to move his cart because he's blocking the sidewalk, |
| 0:49.5 | but the vendor refuses because he says there's plenty of space. |
| 0:52.0 | There's that puzzle. They argue. |
| 0:57.7 | Then the man walks straight toward the vendor. The vendor backs up but grabs some |
| 1:01.8 | powdered chili and tosses it at him. And the guy, he grabs the vendor's cart and he tips it over. |
| 1:08.6 | And the corn and the ice and the syrups, they go flying out into the street. |
| 1:12.6 | So much to lose just food in the gutter. |
| 1:14.1 | Mm-hmm. And after this happens, the street vendor accuses the man who flipped his cart |
| 1:21.3 | of being a racist. And this man, he hears this, right? He responds. He says, and these are his words. |
| 1:35.2 | I'm not a racist. I'm an Argentine. |
| 1:39.2 | This is Code Switch. I'm Shrine Marisol Maraji. And I'm Adrian Floreito. |
| 1:43.2 | And what we were just describing was a viral video that the street vendor Benhamine Ramesh |
| 1:48.6 | filmed on his cell phone. And Adrian, when this video went online, it got a huge response. |
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