Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

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going to leave you abandoned without the information you need to navigate what's happening in the

world around us. So with that said, here is today's latest and greatest breakdownable news.

Now, I got to be honest with you, I was a little bit concerned about leaving the country

during the American troubles that we're currently experiencing.

But at the same time, I was also not at all planning on not leaving because, hell, it's a trip to

South Africa. I'm taking the trip to South Africa. And I like to travel. And so, you know,

with the little trepidation that I felt, it was really nice to get on a

plane and to get out of the plane and land in a country where basically people look like you

and don't really know you're American. I mean, they kind of know, but don't really know until

they actually hear you talking. And when I get back, we'll have lots of conversation about

some of the ways in which people reacted when we were, when it was very clear that we were a black American group for the

most part. But it was interesting to think about what it was going to be like to leave the country,

particularly when I was getting news reports that, as were all the rest of us who were paying

attention to these things, that tourism

in the United States was really taken a nosedive. Now, according to Forbes magazine, basically

Trump policies are creating a real negative environment when it comes to tourism dollars. And

while literally all of the other countries who consider or who look to tourism to help meet

most of their economic needs, the reality is that America, when it comes to tourism, has really

been struggling to keep up. And in fact, is the only country where visitors are choosing to

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