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You Had Me at Black

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4.0 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Mark takes an impromptu and lifechanging trip - or what's formally known as an Ayahuasca- in Peru. \* Produced by Jarrod Sport \* Music and scoring by Charlie Corpening (@Black\_ChinaKid) and Deion Henderson (@Deion.henderson) \* Created by Martina Abrahams (@MARTINAdotA) and Britney Abrahams (@the\_lovelybee) Use the hashtag #youhadmeatblack to join the conversation.

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0:00.0	Hey this is Martina Abrahams and you're listening to you had me at Black.
0:05.0	This week's story comes from Mark. He tells us about an impromptu but life-changing
0:10.8	trip he took in Peru. Here's what happened.
0:14.0	I want you to breathe all this.
0:15.0	This is you had me at Black, the podcast where black millennials tell true life stories.
0:27.0	Shh.
0:30.0	I'm sitting at my desk at work. It's probably like 1 PM and I get a text from my friend.
0:38.0	He's like, yo, can you call me? And, you know, I'm thinking it's an emergency.
0:43.5	I'm like, okay, so I kind of stop what I'm doing.
0:46.1	I get up from my desk, I'm at work, I give him a car, I'm like, hey, I'm going to Peru next week.
0:51.5	My girlfriend canceled on me.
0:54.0	It's a group trip.
0:55.0	Everything's already paid for.
0:57.0	Can you just get to Peru?
0:59.0	When he called me, at first I was like, no, like I can't go to Peru next week. I mean you know I really felt nervous I thought that I wouldn't be able to do it
1:08.8	But every time I tried to find an excuse to not go like I had nothing going on the next week you know I had
1:15.4	plenty of days off that I can take you know I had money safe to take a trip I just
1:19.7	hadn't thought about Peru I'm like I don don't know, I mean, I can try so I found like a pretty good deal to
1:26.6	Peru like Lima Peru. So I buy the ticket. So I get to Peru, everything's going great, you know.
1:33.8	The first day of the trip is fine, we enjoy Lima, Peru.
1:37.2	The second day of the trip, we explore some more.
1:40.1	Then the next part of the trip was a fly to Cusco Peru.
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