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Transcripts for MSNBC Leguizamo Does America 20240604 03:09:00

- but yeah, you re a little overdressed though, so i m like - yeah, all right, that s not a good look. - no, no. - fix me up, man. - yeah, yeah, so i got a spot. - this is embarrassing. now i feel embarrassed. - no, we wouldn t want you to be embarrassed. - and i ll take this with me at the same time. - yeah, let s go. - this ll hide me. i ll hide behind this drink. but you used to play around here? this 26th street? - yeah, so we used to just come out here saturdays and sundays, just walking around. my mom was just like shopping, you know what i mean, basically looking at the - just looking, looking. - just looking, that s shopping. - and wanting, yeah. - yeah, that s basically shopping. all right, here we go. - oh, this is it right here. is this where i m going to get my transformation? - i think that this is exactly correct. - [laughs] oh, man, it smells mad leathery. my god, it s a real bear. i love this shit. i love taxidermy. does that make me sick? you can respect it a ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Leguizamo Does America 20240604 03:19:00

Which is like 26th street, to the higher numbers, like we re in the 60s right now, it s like you re doing better in life. - yeah. - you re doing better in life. - climbing up, yeah. - so in the 80s, we got to 47th street, and we were one of the only méxicano families in the whole neighborhood, in the whole neighborhood. - for miles, yeah. - we weren t accepted. we were not accepted. - how did they show that you weren t accepted? - they burned down our garage. - oh, snap. - they graffitied our house. - when we first moved here, i think it was i was 11, so like mid- 80s or whatever, and we went to the park, marquette park, and that s the first time that i ever heard spic and wetback. - yeah, exactly. - and razor, go back to your country. i was in seventh grade, dude. like, you don t want to hear that when you re in seventh grade. like, that hurts, dude. - yeah. - and i would get into fights, you know? but when i met these guys, i was like. - high school years. - 16, 17. - we just beca ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Leguizamo Does America 20240604 03:02:00

feed john. [tracks clacking] [upbeat horn-driven music] - [trills] [upbeat music] - i m here on chicago s west side in la villita, or little village, where there s one of the largest mexican american communities in the midwest. the mexicans who settled here came looking for work and ended up creating the second-biggest economy in chicago right here on 26th street, ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Leguizamo Does America 20240604 03:09:00

I m not gonna change it. - right. - but yeah, you re a little overdressed though, so i m like - yeah, all right, that s not a good look. - no, no. - fix me up, man. - yeah, yeah, so i got a spot. - this is embarrassing. now i feel embarrassed. - no, we wouldn t want you to be embarrassed. - and i ll take this with me at the same time. - yeah, let s go. - this ll hide me. i ll hide behind this drink. but you used to play around here? this 26th street? - yeah, so we used to just come out here saturdays and sundays, just walking around. my mom was just like shopping, you know what i mean, basically looking at the - just looking, looking. - just looking, that s shopping. - and wanting, yeah. - yeah, that s basically shopping. all right, here we go. - oh, this is it right here. is this where i m going to get my transformation? - i think that this is exactly correct. - [laughs] oh, man, it smells mad leathery. my god, it s a real bear. i love this shit. i love taxidermy. does that ....

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