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Actress Yvonne Orji shares a hilarious and relatable story about her childhood as a first-generation Nigerian American, questioning her parents' finances when they'd claim to be broke while filling up a shipping container.

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00:00Do you think money grows on trees?
00:02You're like, what?
00:03Money, style, and power.
00:05I will start with money.
00:07As a first-generation immigrant kid, I thought we didn't have any.
00:11Because I always thought...
00:12Is that what they told you?
00:13That's what they told us.
00:14We never had money except for when they were, like, shipping things to Nigeria.
00:17I'm like, I thought we were at Pa.
00:19But why is that?
00:20Barrow?
00:20Always.
00:21Like, I don't know any other kids who have a shipping container
00:23that's, like, parked in front of their house for, like, months.
00:27With everything coming from Costco, just getting in there.
00:30But then it's like, Mom, can I get some new shoes?
00:32Do you think money grows on trees?
00:34You're like, what?
00:35But it must grow in the shipping container.
00:37Maybe in the container it grows.
00:39So I always thought we were poor, but my parents always found money for school.
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