What's up everyone, you're watching Weekend with Anacasparian and Kale Brooks because Nando

is not here in the flesh, but he did pre-produce some segments for us so you will be hearing

from Nando a little later in the show with his decode segment and his awesome interview

with Nina Turner. Kale, how are you doing? I'm doing good. No, yeah, I'm feeling good. I'm,

I don't know if some reason things are aligning well right now in my life. I feel very productive.

Just also happens to be while we're like chasing down Nando. He's traveling the world and

I don't really know where he is honestly. He's been on planes. I don't know. I think he might

still be in LA. He might just be sleeping in. I don't know. He might have just asked to call

this one all. I don't know, but, but no, we did. Yeah, we have recorded Nando segment. We'll pull that

up later. We also recorded the interview with Nina Turner and it was really good. So please stick

around for that. I think you'll enjoy it. I'm doing okay. I'm a little under the weather today

and I think I'm hoping it's just a cold. I have like a scratchy throat and a little

fatigued, but I'm fully vaccinated. I'm not like terrified of anything. But at the same time,

I'm really, really happy to like be able to go out and see people I haven't seen in such a long time.

You know, COVID really helped me recognize how much I value people in my life. So good friend

of mine, Aida Rodriguez has a comedy special on HBO Max. It's available to stream if you guys are,

if you have that platform and I got to go to a screening of that in downtown LA this week.

And if I got anything, it was definitely from there because it was like a giant venue with a ton of

people there. And it was kind of crazy. Like I haven't been in any type of environment where there's

like hundreds and hundreds of people kind of jam packed in one small confined space, but it was a good

time. That sounds nice. I mean, it could, I mean, part of it just could be like psychosomatic

that you're, you know, feeling great because of any number of reasons and then you go,

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