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The Psycho Cyclists of Amsterdam! - Trevor Noah
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- But now we are here in Amsterdam.
Yes. The best damn of them all.
What a good time it's been. What a good time.
I'm glad, I'm glad I came here early on this trip
because I got a few days of the good weather.
I've heard so many rumors about it.
Every time I come here, people are like, ah,
you should have come.
You should have come a few weeks ago.
People in the Netherlands talk about their weather.
Like a child who doesn't know where their dad is.
No, he was here. He was here. But you didn't see him.
He was here. Mommy said he's coming back.
It's not just, you know what it is?
It's not just the rain that gets me here.
It's like a depressing season
that sets over the entire place.
You know, the entire thing.
It's just like, like I'm, I'm used to rain. Okay?
I grew up in South Africa, in Johannesburg, right?
We have a lot of rain, right? Yeah.
I live in New York City now. We get a lot of rain.
But you know what happens is the clouds come in, it rains,
and then it leaves, even if it rains for long.
If you look into the distance, you can see parts
of the sky in other cities that have no clouds here.
It descends upon the entire Netherlands.
Like an ancient wizard has cast a spell.
You look as far as you can, like two days ago when it hit,
when it hit like properly, it hit.
I looked out of my window
and I was like, this is not possible.
This, there are no clouds. It is just cloud. It's gray.
There's no shape, there's nothing. You can't see anything.
It's just gray as far
as your eye can see from one corner to the next.
And then the worst thing is, it's not rain, but it's rain.
Just enough rain that you get wet.
Not enough that you need an umbrella.
You just walk around with an umbrella.
You feel like an idiot. You close it up,
it's drenched all over your face.
Tiny little droplets. Ah, ah.
You can't do anything. You don't wanna be outside, you know?
But you don't wanna stay inside.
It's like depressing the whole time.
The whole time I, I was, I was in this weather for two days.
For two days. I was in this weather.
I was sitting inside, I was looking at
it, I was walking outside.
I was feeling it. And in two days, in two days,
I felt something deep inside me.
I was like, go, go. And I was like, now I get it.
Now I get why the Dutch colonized. I get it.
I get it, man. Woo.
We, ooh, don't even play games with me.
Amsterdam. If I lived here for six months
after month seven, I would be like, ah, Ana,
oh, Ville near the countries of other Mensa.
- Oh,
- Oh, that's probably what happened, right?
Yeah. 'cause like, 'cause it didn't happen the other way
around because it's not, it's not like,
it's not like anyone from Surinam was landing here, right?
There's no African boats arriving here.
Africans weren't building boats.
They were having a good time eating mangoes,
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