The Brighter Side is brought to you by Audible.com. This is the brighter side.. And we're doing something we've never done before this week.

We're kind of taking a collection of two older episodes, our immigration episodes, from a year and a half back.

And it seems oddly relevant to bring back the best of from that episode.

We're going to hear Ragnar and Nikki talk about their experience

coming to America. One's a journalist, another one's a scientist. We're going to talk to

Mazda Brony, a very accomplished Muslim comedian, a great man. You should listen to all of his work.

He's got a great movie on. He's in Superior Donuts with

with Jermaine Fowler right now. He should go check that out. And then we're going to close

it off with probably one of the smartest people I know, Mr. Danny Bidrocheon, a keyboard player

for Parliament Falkadelic. And kind of just get our hands on what it is going on right now

with this whole immigrant situation

and with the Muslim situation. And I wanted to, the main reason I wanted to do this is because

I'm working on another special with Jeff and immigration is going to be our topic. And I've been

doing a lot of research. And it's, you know, incredibly depressing and crazy what happens to these people. And you think that it's, you know, incredibly depressing and crazy what happens to these people.

And you think that it's just, you know, you hear about the wall and you hear about the Muslim

ban, but it's not just these people.

It's lots of other people.

I went to these immigration shelters in Austin, and I went to these other shelters in San Benito,

which is a little town right outside of Brownsville.

And I went to another shelter in Matamoros, Mexico, from people who get kicked out.

And, you know, I met the only place where I actually met Mexicans was in Mexico.

The shelters in America, we don't, We don't let Mexicans stay there.

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