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On this week's "CBS Sunday Morning" with host Jane Pauley; At age 22, Sarah Ransome says she became a victim of sexual abuse, and was threatened with violence, by Jeffrey Epstein. In her book, "Silenced No More: Surviving My Journey to Hell and Back," Ransome describes the traumatic childhood experiences that primed her to become a victim of abuse in adulthood by Epstein, facilitated by his associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. Holly Williams reports. Starring as Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in "Being the Ricardos, Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem tell Mo Rocca they felt intense pressure playing two of the most famous people in television history. Can you play an existential crisis for laughs? Tracy Smith talks with Academy Award Winner actors Meryl Streep Leonardo DiCaprio, and writer-director Adam McKay about "Don't Look Up," a satire about Earth's impending collision with a comet that offers a comical analogy to climate change -- and mankind's reluctance to deal with it. New York City has inspired Candace Bushnell for decades. Now, the author of "Sex and the City" is appearing Off-Broadway in a one-woman show titled "Is There Still Sex in the City?" It traces her career from newspaper columnist to creator of an international TV hit -- and the upcoming new sequel series, "And Just Like That…," Bushnell talks with Michelle Miller about how Carrie Bradshaw and friends changed her life -- or did they? Finally, Techno Claus, who sounds suspiciously like contributor David Pogue, has made the trip from the North Pole to deliver gift suggestions for those on your holiday list who love gadgets.

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Of course it was her biggest hit her own groundbreaking comedy that left us feeling that indeed, to this very day. We love Lucy this morning. Jim Axelrod looks back on her revolutionary show while maraca tells us about a new movie based on her life. It's been 70 years since I would Lucy first grid of millions of American homes seven decades of laughter still going strong. Not everybody your age knows or loves Lucy about Lucille Ball I care about and this week will be looking at the real lives of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, a star-studded film worthy of the Ricardo's this music is body until it would remove the working talk the way. There's always music to seal up that right there yeah Nicole and Javier as Lucy and Desi this Sunday morning is a new comedy about a real life and really scary threat to our planet this morning two of its stars are in conversation with our Tracy Smith, headed directly towards her.

Don't look up is a serious wake-up call about the climate crisis and it's from director Adam McKay made some of the silliest movies ever used a classy San Diego he's done award-winning movies like big short vice, but are you anchorman fans absolutely second husband coming up on Sunday morning, Adam Merrill, Leo and the end of the world. Holly Williams goes behind the headlines with the Jeffrey Epstein accuser Michelle Miller kicks back with sex and the city author Candace Bushnell, Elizabeth Palmer remembers the legendary entertainer Josephine Baker, plus Steve Hartman, Jim Gaffigan, and more on this first Sunday morning of a new month. December 5, 2021 will be right that began on October 15, 1951 and seven decades later, her legend continues to grow. We asked Jim Axelrod to find out why we still love Lucy what a Hollywood lot where one of America's biggest stars ever first film.

Her groundbreaking show, a young artist named Yolanda Glass has been hard at work. One of the workers who came by who worked on a lot. He looked up and he was like Lucy would be proud of this.

I can't describe how encouraging that fell yes campers thirtysomething among the millions who, 70 years after the premier of I Love Lucy still move Lucille Ball stuff in her mouth. Her getting drunk 23% alcohol.

Still love her going fine for mine with Harpo more email and people of color who are comedians out right now without her foundation episodes over six seasons on CBS Ventures of cargo troubleshoot with trying to break out of her midcentury American Cuban bandleader Ricky Ricardo played by her husband Desi Arnett where is the hold the show still has on the public easier to see Jamestown, New York, Lucille Ball was born 100 years ago and worked through Museum. Celebrate I Love Lucy featuring replicas of the show's iconic sets. All I think about is the amount of extraordinarily well done physical, this is so popular journey. Gunderson is the executive director of both the Lucy Desi Museum and the national comedy center 70 years later. Why is Lucille Ball still relevant. I think in some ways, Lucille Ball's legacy can be appreciated now through 2021 lens, perhaps better than it ever has been able to be appreciated. Start with I Love Lucy's enormous popularity is what I will.

That's 15 million more than the next day when Dwight Eisenhower was sworn in as our 34th president Lucy and Desi Moore for television still evolving as a cultural she was the all American girl. He was a Cuban born transplant for its time controversial testing Lucille Ball insisted on to risk everything. Remember, this was more than a decade before the height of the civil rights I think America raised its eyebrows, but then they quickly started laughing. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were to be pioneers in an impressive list of other ways as well.

So well recorded and you want laughter production that show where she gave birth TVs first ever pregnancy plot line on a big three network sitcom. It was still taboo for a woman who was pregnant to be out in the open in front of everyone. And when Lucy needed some time off postdelivery Desi offered up her first to change the Hollywood business model for just repeat some episodes that had already aired this year and as father runs yes and the story goes that CBS executives laughed. Adam and said no. I watch them after their it turned out, everyone which is why 70 years later, Lucille and Desi are cultural icons, the subject of that new Aaron Sorkin movie being the Ricardo's with Nicole Kidman and Javier know and the novel the Queen of Tuesday by Darren Strauss. She was famous to a degree that have existed before her really well intrigued by her immense public appeal when they cut to commercial. The water tables would drop in the big cities because the entire country was going to the bathroom at the same time Strauss found her private pain most compelling his face so yeah not acting yeah that's great right.

She and Desi were perfect together except for the fact that they weren't. She loved him. He loved her, and yet they could live together on camera. Desi was an understanding and loving husband, off-camera.

He was an alcoholic and a womanizer. She knew she could divorce him because that would let the country down.

That's how powerful that bond was for us. It was like a civic bond in his novels, Strauss gives Lucy love in the form of an affair with his grandfather and I wanted to give her a love story of her own. That's why told the story in this way, but that's friction the fact Lucy and Desi did eventually divorce both remarried but most poignantly through the end of her life who was the love of your life is absolutely at the root they were connected by their souls keep looking.

Bill agrees and she should know we had a very special bond. She's their granddaughter, your grandparents did remain in love till the end of their lives completely madly deeply. Now the head of creative direction at Desi Lou. The studio founded by her grandparents. That's right years after I Love Lucy Lucille Ball Greenland shows like Star Trek the Untouchables and the twilight keeper of the I Love Lucy flame is a healing quality that show that's what I feel I'm sorry mine of the elixir that they brought the world looking bill is protective of the memory of her grandfather died in 1986 at the age of 69 and your grandmother who died three years later from an aortic aneurysm at 77, but she also wants to look at them honestly better. We allow the allusion to move aside and let's deal with the reality, yeah, and why it's so important not to let people like that died in their 70s from a heart explosion and alcoholism because neither of them should have been gone.

They died of sadness and trauma Hollywood and what Lucy and Desi the world still has an extraordinary impact. Several years later I was like the first time I got to see female being funny and silly and everything in it was cool, just ask this young artist. I feel like when I was really little. There is this idea that you have to be polite and quiet as a woman and when I watched her show. That was the first introduction don't have to be quiet funny loud I was okay guess what America love to write in their and 11 so much for you to be on for decades and people in my generation, the next generation generation, Maxwell accused of flooring women and young girls into the late Jeffrey Epstein's evil orbit began facing her accusers in a New York courtroom this past week in London. Holly Williams takes us behind the headlines. There is no such thing as a perfect victim. What is the perfect victim is a perfect victim, middle-class white girl goes to private school that has a perfect family life Sarah Ransom says the so-called perfect female victim is pure, innocent, and doesn't exist. Those who don't fit the bill, including women like herself with a history of drug use and sex work are often blamed for their own abuse the victim, Sam is in the victim famous. They are the reason why I write the book Ransom's new book silenced no more detailed allegations of sexual abuse against Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell, but it begins with a chaotic childhood in her native South Africa, a mother, who Ransom says struggled with addiction and to write in her childhood by a stranger that disabled her alarm system. I had no boundaries. She writes I had no bales. I grew up with people hating me strange skating me and so it became my fall is something wrong with me and it's taken me to about 37 years old to find Megan onto self-respect and self-worth back.

I was take you write about your traumatic experiences in childhood, almost priming, you are to be victimized in your adulthood you explain how that works. I think being a victim survivor of sex abuse.

It it robs you of your self-worth and dignity. Ransom says she met Epstein when she was 22, introduced by a young woman she encountered at a New York nightclub. She later discovered was to recruit. She flew to Epstein's private island little St. James thinking she was going on a vacation. She writes sounded so amazing and then Buffy on this island and and that's it.

Locking key. There is no escape. There is no one to hear your screams and cries. It was – she says she first met Glenn Maxwell and alleges she was repeatedly right by Epstein. It was made very clear to me that first trip that if I went to authorities if I told my parents I told my friends if I left to feed it to me I will kill you. I will hunt you mother and father, Don and I will kill them you were terrified.

Of course I was and you were frozen. I was frozen. I was petrified. Now living in a small village in England, Ransom says her book is an attempt to make sense of what kept her and strolled to Epstein and Maxwell for nine months and why she returned to the island on several more occasions. She concludes she was a victim of coercive control an easy target for exploitation using financial despair and fear became a relationship of unique hemp. He gave you enough when you always continue to have that need.

On top of that, knowing that you have nowhere else to escape will run otherwise you and your entire family will be marriages your thinking situation when your your stripped of your ability to act you stripped your own agency. Your effectively they take your complete ability to function as a human being. Ransom believes Epstein was a sadist who propped up his inflated ego by dominating the week. What role did Glenn Maxwell play. She was the organizer. She was the engineer. She orchestrated everything Glenn Maxwell had a privileged upbringing in the United Kingdom, the daughter of a wealthy newspaper tycoon. She reportedly introduced Epstein to the famous and powerful that Ransom describes Maxwell as an aristocratic peep who facilitated Epstein's assaults. What Glenn Maxwell's motivations were. I think he is a very sick woman getting into laid humiliating us. You could see the enjoyment in her face. Glenn Maxwell has consistently denied all sexual abuse and trafficking allegations against her. Finally, in 2007, Ransom says she escaped fearing Epstein would kill her. She flew to the UK to join her mother. She sued Epstein and Maxwell in 2017. Settling with them the following year for an undisclosed sum you still happy with that decision you wish you had getting caught in that time of extra credits that will have my Danco and it's a decision that though was right at the time and I managed to protect my family and I regret a nomogram for the rest of my life but my book is my Danco this past week, Ransom flew to New York to be present at Glenn Maxwell's trial. I so much respect for the girls that are testifying.

I just want them to know that I'm there for them and I'm waiting for them. Ransom writes that she survived hail told us that she refuses to be defined by it. I don't want people to look at me and remember me for being a survivor of Keeling and Jeffries. I'm so much more than that control make you stronger.

Even the sink was from. I have no intention of sinking Steve Hartman this morning is all about taking care of business here in Norwich, Vermont for more than a century. This general store has been as much a fixture in the community is the church steeple but then that sign went up screaming a desperate need the Jan orange warning sign of an end approaching Dan Fraser as the owner of Dannon with how many openings did you have all of all of it was like working have to lock the front door because we have zero help is your dad's business was your grandfather's business to close on your watch to be tough when you've invested your whole life into it. Customers were equally devastated purse that happens whenever a small town loses an iconic business.

But what sets this place apart is that these customers didn't just give down their sympathies. They gave him applications flatters retired finance director applied for a job going Dr. Rick Ferrell is working check out on this product up the cash register the work all over town in all walks of life punched him to help dance therapist Prof. of psychology principle of the middle school so far, nearly 2 dozen customers like Diane Miller have stepped up Dannon with is the heartbeat of this team is the heart of our town for some reason the heart of the town really got this part of Dannon to store the heart of the desert, stocking shelves and running register one and all, virtually all of these new hires are donating their hourly wage to some of Dan's favorite charities. Dan says this is all good, just help the fact that the community stepped up no means sometimes it takes sort of crisis. If you will to appreciate what you have ended Norwich they have what every town needs more than anything each other. This is intelligence matters with former acting Dir. of the CIA. Michael Morel bridge Colby is cofounder and principal of the Marathon initiative project focused on developing strategies to prepare the United States for an era of sustained great power competition states put her mind to something, we can usually figure it out what people are saying and what we can know analytically and empirically as our strategic situational motors addresses not being matched up to follow. Intelligence matters were ever you get your podcasts just a few days after NASA launched a spacecraft in hopes will push an asteroid traveling toward Earth off course comes a new comedy covering similar ground. Tracy Smith speaks with the director and two of the biggest stars in the universe about don't look up. So how certain is this 100% certainty of impact.

Please don't say 100%, which is called a potentially significant event just in time for Christmas and the world, headed directly towards her new movie, don't look up this month in theaters and on Netflix I giant comet is on a collision course with planet Earth, planet is correct and who better to tell the story of cosmic disaster than some really big stars 99.78% to be exact. There is Leonardo DiCaprio is the scientist trying to warn the world and Meryl Streep as the president who won't take him seriously will be far more catastrophic mile high snob means fending out all across the globe. It's quite a vision, and the guy behind it all is screenwriter director Adam McKay is one of my favorite things that you let us sit in his he and editor Hank Corwin cut the final version in their LA edit room did you in casting. This just look at the two front rows of the Oscars and say okay yeah these are the people I want to I guess so.

For instance, with Pres. Pres. Orlean, of course, you think Meryl Streep and you just assume she's going to say no and you move on. Was there a moment where you kind of said outcome on this can't be happening.

You know I wanted Leonardo DiCaprio type and you get Leonardo DiCaprio. He was the moment when he said yes.

I was like this is crazy and it gets even crazier as you attend an emergency cabinet meeting.

We will be fully briefed, what about us, not a clearance for this Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence is a snub scientist, Oscar nominee Jonah Hill is a petty White House official is stressing me out will affect the entire planet. No sex so full it doesn't take long to see that the comet is a metaphor for climate change with the world split between believers and skeptics. And while there's nothing funny about global annihilation movie is a comedy through and through will layout the newspaper for you.

Grab your Canterbury's city for like I have to do a comedy yeah were laughing we can deal with stuff.

It's when we get overwhelmed with depression and despair.

That's when things get hard so as soon as I realized we needed to laugh it came to dealing with the climate crisis. I knew where to go and at 53 he's learned how to get a laugh or two, Adam McKay dropped out of Temple University to join the second city improv troupe and eventually was hired as a writer at Saturday Night Live where he met his comic soulmate. Will Ferrell the experience of writing with them and then getting the sketch on the air was so fun and pain-free. Neither one of us were overthinking things were just having a good time.

It was like oh I got work with this guy that was cut getting up for all of us, your gentle 40s you stay classy San Diego.

I do? I'm a Teleprompter after S&L McKay and Pharaoh took their brand of funny to the big screen with films like anchorman, the legend of Romberg and Talladega nights ballad of Ricky Bobby with runaway success at the box office.

McKay wanted to stretch his legs beyond pure comedy. He got his chance in 2015 as director of the movie version of Michael Lewis's bestseller about the 0708 financial crisis.

The big short housing market is propped up that they will fail. I'm not sure that most people who read the big short thought this would make a really interesting feature fell.

I couldn't put it down and for some reason when I was done with it. All these people told me sense or never thought that could be a movie this is a movie.

It was a movie. All right double D's zero triple B's zero and that happens is that as America's housing McKay turned a confusing story into a box office hit and shared an Oscar for screenwriting. For him it was all personal know my father lost his house collapse. People think, oh big shot Hollywood guy.

But know this collapse of affected people that were close to me so it was definitely a project that I felt a real emotional connection to the world is ending meetings we had an illustrious drought and famine on the oh so boring. Now Adam McKay has an emotional connection climate crisis.

It's a passion he shares with some of his best-known cast members.

Why did you decide to do this movie because of him because of huge fan.

Nobody makes me laugh harder in his movies. Nobody more.

I've been waiting patiently for something like this when course he's done award-winning movies like big short vice, but are you anchorman fans absolutely no second husband turns out they all needed a few laughs, sunset, the movie was filmed at the height of the pandemic masks and all, but to Leo DiCaprio that only made the film more meaningful was a fascinating thing I know the hundred year to realize the rule was going through the same thing simultaneously writing that's why connected with this boy that was about the climate crisis that Rogan feel the ramifications of this and what were seeing right now the wildfires massive hurricanes and all these catastrophes doesn't get better than this. Okay, it doesn't get better than this slowly becomes worse damage the entire planet house in Tarpon okay will get this one house in particular is right on the coast of New Jersey.bad news. The climate crisis is a tough sell in the film skewers news media types played here by Tyler Perry and Cate Blanchett, who insist on smiling through it all may not be going to tell you is about to be destroyed. Do around here. Keep the bad news like medicine from where you said is that accurate yeah you are where you we all get fluffed up and we come on talk about our movie and Berlin TV and you know he shaved.

And yes, we try to to give the people something something to lift and I think it's about everybody's very human desire not to look at the bad thing. I totally really think you know, again talking about climate talk about it a lot. You can kind of see people's eyes glaze over 10 one movie make a difference hopefully but at this point, I'm so rest on the wrong guy to me.

It's about a little less, no conversation a lot more action at this very moment. I say we sit tight and assess C-type process. Sit tight and assess want us to sit tight and assess K filmmaker to use comedy as a way to get a serious message across.

He's just hoping he won't be one of the last we can overcome this, but what scaring me now is really getting to be down the last second, so hopefully this movie is something where we get a lot of laughs but we also get kick in the pants. Sex and the city is one of those pop cultural touchstones that resonates to this day. The woman behind it. Author Candace Bushnell she's talking with our Michelle Miller so do you still love New York. They tell I really gel think things happen every day in New York City has inspired writer Candace Bushnell decade in the city based on her best-selling book is the author of sex and the city catapulted Bushnell onto an international stay, now 25 years later, 63 good news only. She finds herself under the spotlight. Again, this time in an off-Broadway show shoe obsession like Carrie Bradshaw know Gary Bradshaw has a shoe obsession because of me what's the most fun about being up here most fun interacting with the audience. Women here sometimes in there like it's going do you want to hear the real story of Mr. bank what I'm doing is looking back and I'm chasing the steps that it to get here to see my dad up to.

I guess it's my book was largely autobiographical, including Bushnell's take on her life in her 60s. And of course sex types in postmenopausal women sex crazy. You never want to see another penis again and now I some people like that to certain tax by right now it's okay that might sound surprising coming from a woman who for decades is written about just that Bushnell's career began when she was 19 and left college for New York City has 1 foot in sacks and 1 foot in society in her 30s. She landed her own column based on her own life within five years.

That column morphed into the best-selling book and they hit HBO series starring Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, Harry.

So much of that character comes from my real life who the white knight. This series followed Carrie and her friend Charlotte Maranda and Samantha as they navigated life and love in New York City.

Here were women. We were all living unconventional lives and it was always this idea that you don't have to feel bad if you haven't allowed societies rules about how your life supposed to be visit shock you at all. That is still so incredibly relevant. Now were analyzing human beings and human behavior and listings are universal really Bushnell herself married ballet dancer Charles Asgard in 2002. They divorced a decade later and it really changed don't have to be partnered or live in a family structure to survive. At one time today. Bushnell has written 10 novels three that would turn into television shows, sex and the city, however, turned into a global sensation inspiring to films in the new HBO series premiering this week. What is life after not just success, but huge monumental success. My new mental so now I don't because there are just so many other things that I want to do. I still get up every day and work and just keep working and I have things on the back burners.

Some things work. Something don't work there is no happiness. There is disappointment that that didn't work out but I accept where I am not happy about it but make no mistake, Candace Bushnell is still looking forward to the next chapter. This show is called is there still sex and the city yes why was that a question for you necessarily sex per se. It's about things that are sexy now and Shannon feeling like hey I can still make things happen. Feeling the possibilities feeling the possibilities that's what I think it really is about making fun of my English first came the sun come now. The movie it's called being the Ricardo's maraca talks with some familiar performers playing some of the most famous people in television star but would you believe I was a featured player. Lucy and Ricky chorus girl Fred seven decades all the world's first name basis with characters made famous snowball husband as young as William Frawley, conveyance, which is why expectations are high, is a movie about the real people behind I Love Lucy is about to hit the big screen. There many people who feel very strongly about these characters, like their family.

Can you assure the public that you done your best to do justice to these characters done everything that was in my ability to yeah I got cold. Kidman and Javier bar. Damn Morton box office clout to headline Hollywood's biggest movies along with costars JK Simmons and Nina Re: Honda who have an Oscar and Tony between them. They felt intense pressure to get their roles right but we were up to you and I know you are always polite and probably with the driving. Keep seven Aaron Sorkin script the Ricardo's races through a frantic which Lucille Ball is accused of being communist. Desi Arnaz is accused of cheating on Lucille I Love Lucy loosely in the couple announces she's pregnant with a baby all against the high-stakes production of an episode of I Love Lucy. Second guessing that there are many things that surprise you but what are some of the top things that surprised you learning about Lucille Ball.

I mean all all of it, how they built production company the way in which they were such a team. I didn't know how clever she was hashing away say she wasn't funny so you you nine that I didn't know it and use my pocket. I need garden shears to establish right away that I'm setting a fancy tape will have flowers in a vase of flowers wish you great actress. Jesse wants yeah – is quite dancer to move accents, but she was beautiful. She used her hands all the time. When she told that she was which I love and that's really depicted and Shannon Desi. It was I was in love story love for each other's still alive. Do you think the comedy between the two would've worked if they didn't love each other that would have been I would withstand the stress was an enormous amount of stress when you're doing a show and also that perfectionism which which was like it's gotta be quite and my weight 91 20th as much is your second trombone from his job, married off-camera and on. They were one of America's most famous couples zip overlooks the love story is do people like creating this amazing show pricing works were exposing themselves in order that were exposing themselves right and speaking which that balconies seem text you I mean that's the kind of Lucy and Desi. You never saw. Obviously, it was in 1950 not flung the bulk of this letter on the show to when they're talking this for their bodies. Sexual energy six: continue there so force that's unstoppable is the rational. It's more honorable thing one to the other if Lucy and Ricky Ricardo were fire downstairs neighbors friend were ice for the love of God, man, this is hard.

In fact, JK Simmons and Nina Re: Honda discovered that the merchant's on-screen bickering was no structured all fractures Bill Frawley and Vivian Vance don't tell me, Little Rock is a cognitive seven-year-old Kip, I have no problem with. I was really surprised Bill thought that was characters thought that was the merchant's what was the source of that animosity. Rumor had before they even eyes on each other.

Bill had overheard Vivian complain that she's can be paired up with this old man you're marrying my grandfather and that did not go over well with Bill was a big age difference for Gage different was 22 years. Not unlike leaders are targeted very closely. What in real life. Of course Lucille and Desi divorced three years after the series ended. Why didn't the marriage work Javier God like me. What do I know you worked for what they want to go for time and or cyclic succession.

So then something went wrong. You want to go to have to go to what so everything is just learning about them as a couple was long after they were not a couple anymore. Every time you would hear them speak about each other whether their books and public appearances. They had such regard and respect of love for each other as artists as human beings as parents. Whatever was incompatible about about them as a couple. They were both very generous with each other and it's there that's wanted black and white. Why did she insist on Desi as her husband in the sitcom because they had great chemistry that was fantastic togetherness the perfect person for the job. Okay, that was it.

You think that was you asking me and my God, I sound like France bestowed a rare honor on an American-born legend this past week. Elizabeth Palmer tells us about the remarkable life of Josephine Baker deep in the French countryside sits a medieval castle shuttle. Jimmy loaned with a most unlikely history I keel from Japan and his brother Brian from the north African country of Algeria have returned to visit the place they grew up with their siblings.

12 altogether adopted from around the world.

The children are old enough to come down here to prove that human beings can live together might have different pigmentation came from different continents, but has nothing to do with human being. They were known as the rainbow tribe an experiment in racially quality devised by their legendary mother. One of the first black stars Josephine Baker took place during Josephine Baker grew up in the slums of St. Louis as a young dancer.

She made it as far as New York and then beyond with an American vaudeville show to Paris in 1927, at times, segregation and racism limited up for black America. There was at least Baker rocketed wearing on stage she was playing to a race trope like she was impossible to stare professor and biographer of Annetta Jules Rosa, in addition to her performing. She is a businesswoman. She has a hair cream called Baker fix her picture is going on actual bananas because of her banana skirt not only initiate musical star movies but she is and believe it or not I spy working with the French against the Nazis in World War II.

She could also fly a plane, so she was actually an Air Force pilot.

If you are not on Wednesday and was awarded France's highest.

The first black woman to be inducted into the pantheon mausoleum. More than 45 years after her death, French Pres. and then one micro hailed her here entertained civil rights fighter and of course mother so was like a fairytale to live in a castle. It was like holy days. One of her sons, Brian Lyons Baker met us at the castle to give us a tour and reminisce that there is Luisa Colombian from Finland Finland. My brother Kofi from Ivory Coast. The rainbow tribe with more than a family. For Baker it was a living commitment to her ideal showing to the world when kids babies grow up together from all kinds of countries and schedules and religions they can live together what would you say your mother's legacy is ideal of universal sub rosa was very important. Baker would eventually return to the US on to where she was among the first to insist on integrated audiences. Many people credit Frank Sinatra and the rat pack with desegregating Las Vegas, but Josephine was the first performer at the flamingo club requiring the club to be desegregated. No serve your race far better to remain my race. I definitely put me there is only one race, the human race. You want me to stay. Don't you like one because it her role in that movement earned her an invitation to join Martin Luther King Jr. to speak at the historic March on Washington.

Josephine Baker died in Paris, of the stroke in 1975 crowds poured into the streets that she was buried with full military honors salute to her life and her legacy where she get that kind of self possession and recognition of her own power. I think it was innate and innate poison innate self-confidence legacy I think is one of courage. Courage in the face of adversity and all of the things that she was able to overcome in her lifetime, and like all truly great. She made aware, while all the big it's that time of year and Jim Gaffigan has thoughts… You like it here in the chatter of strangers on the sidewalks of New York City that time of year. That's right. That season, it's the most covert time of the year. Well supposedly we should not be freaking out. We should be doing the things that we know work when you're dealing with a pandemic virus is not the time to panic. Legend has foretold that covert will return when it's cold outside and were indoors with our loved ones. Either way, that's now guess what covert knows when you're sleeping. It does when you're awake. Covert knows that are good last we better watch out. Hopefully fraud better not pout and I'll tell you why actually want to leave because family can be a lot of time. Anyway, my point is supposedly the time of the year shouldn't be mistletoe loved ones should happy holidays. Thank you for listening. Please join us when our trumpet sounds again next Sunday morning progress and crazy time is the point is we had people in the best way to protect good people is to convict final season Millstream