Travor noah snake story

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Road Podcast
“
TRAVOR NOAH - 
SNAKE STORY
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TREVOR NOAH - SNAKE STORY
 
And Dang Basaan follows the crowd. 
And he's having a blast. You can tell, you 
know? He walks out and says, "Everyone 
have a great time? I know you enjoyed 
that. Now, it's time for a special surprise. 
Follow me everybody, to the back." And 
he takes us to the back of the house, 
right. Where there's this area they've laid 
out, where clearly they have some type, 
some, some sort of performance. There's 
a stage, there's raked seating. He tells us 
to find our seats, so we all sit down. And 
there's people from all over the world in 
our tour group. Myself, my American 
friends, some British people. There's a 
French family. A dad and his son. They sit 
next to me. So I sit in the front row. And 

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Dang Basaan comes back out. And all of a 
sudden, he's wearing like a giant Balinese 
headdress. Looking really beautiful you 
know. And he looks at us and he's like, 
"Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready for 
an authentic Balinese experience? Please 
welcome the snakes of Bali." I'm like, 
"The what?" I'm like, "Oh he said snakes." 
The snakes of Bali-- And I look, and 
there's snakes. There's a group of men 
gathering snakes to bring out to us. And 
so I'm like, "Oh yeah no. No I don't, no." 
No because you see as a black person 
culturally, I'm trying to not die. So... I take 
all my stuff and start packing it. And the 
French guy turns to me and he's like, "My 
friend, where are you going? The show is 
starting." I said, "Yeah. No, the guy said 

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there's snakes coming, so I'm going to 
move. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go to the 
back." He's like, "You are moving because 
of the snake?" I said, "Yeah." He said, 
"Why are you moving for the snake my 
friend? Are you, are you afraid of a 
snake?" I said, "Uh yeah. That's exactly 
what I am, Yeah I'm afraid of the snakes." 
He's like, "Such a big man, but you are 
afraid of a snake?" I said, "Uh yeah with a 
big brain, that's why I'm afraid." It's a 
snake. Like you're not going to trick me 
into not being afraid of a snake. Like my 
toxic masculinity is not so high that I'll be 
like, "Yeah you know what man, come on 
Snakey. Come on." It's a snake! Instead of 
just letting it go, this guy turns. He's like, 
"I cannot believe it, a big man like this. 

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Jean-Pierre, Jean-Pete..." Turns to his son 
and is like. "Jean-Pierre..." And this kid's 
like "ha, ha, ha!" "Snake. Snake!" And he's 
like, "Oui, oui, snake. Are you afraid? 
Snake. What is this? It's a snake. Snake." 
And these two carry on for like 15 
seconds non-stop. Right. Just back and 
forth. "Snake, snake, snake," the whole 
time. He's like, "Snake. Are you scared? 
Snake. Snake. Snake." I'm like, "Whatever 
man, you guys lost all your wars." So I go 
to the back. Right. I don't have time for 
this. I don't have time for this, because 
there's snakes. So I go to the back, take 
all my stuff. And I climb up and I'm sitting 
at the top, because I want to see the 
show, I just don't want to be a part of it. 
Okay? And so uh, so I've got, I've got, I've 

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got my stuff and I move all the way up to 
the top. And I sit there. As I get there, the 
show starts. And Dang Basaan's really 
excited and he's like, "Ladies and 
gentlemen, please welcome your first 
performer, the powerful Python." And a 
dude comes out with a giant python 
wrapped around him. Alright. And this 
guy had this cool trick where the python 
would squeeze him really tight. Super 
tight. So tight, you could almost hear his 
bones cracking. Alright. And then he'd 
make a sound. He'd be like... Eeh. And the 
snake would let go. Then it'd start 
squeezing him again, and he'd be like... 
Eeh. And the snake would let go. And it 
would squeeze him again and he'd make 
the same sound, he'd be like... Eeh. And 

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the snake would let go. And I was like, 
"This is dope. This is cool. Yeah they're in 
a consensual relationship. I like this. This 
is uh..." So he leaves with the snake. The 
next performer comes out, and this guy 
had a, he had a, he had a green, he had a 
green mamba with him right? And so, so 
Dang Basaan is like, "Ladies and 
gentlemen, the green mamba." This guy 
comes out and he had a cool trick where 
he took the lid off the basket and the 
green mamba would come out and then 
it would start doing a little move. And 
then someone would play music and then 
the snake charmer would dance with the 
snake. They'd do the same moves, like in
in a Justin Timberlake video, just the two 
of them back, back and forth. I was like, 

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"That was dope." The snake goes back in. 
And then Dang Basaan came out one final 
time. And he's like, "Now ladies and 
gentlemen, are you ready for the final