 We doing something with Pryanka? Yeah That's your mother Hey welcome back to our stupid directly to Thun Corbin I'm Rick and call some Instagram twitter You know what I just did. What? What is that? Really? I don't know what that is. I know what this is. It's from Friends. No, this is... No, it's... No, it's... It's not the arms. It's the... No, but everything together isn't at the forearms, am I right? If it was close enough for hand grenades, you should have known what I was doing. Um, but, uh, this is a speech from Priyanka Chopra. I don't think we've heard of speech. We haven't. I don't think. I could be wrong. Well, unless you consider, I thought, I thought... True. ...your speech. She does fuh really well. Uh, but this is a Priyanka Chopra speech. Looks like it came out in 2017, but it's, uh, variety is the channel that's on. Like, variety magazine? Yeah, great. Uh, full power of women's speech. Rock and roll. We are not women, but we like them. And we like powerful women. So we are, we are qualified to react. And we were, we came into the world through women. That's true. Yeah. Most of us did. Yeah. Not all of us. There's two babies out there. That's true. Okay. But, uh, here we go. You're not Priyanka. Oh, I was going to say that is not Priyanka. You're a white. UNICEF. What is that? UNICEF is a non-profit. How is it? Oh, good afternoon, everyone. I'm going to just keep it here. Good afternoon, everybody. This is Ava. She's 16 years old. Right on being 16. An age where girls should be enjoying their innocence and joys of their youth. But she, at such a tender age, understands the importance of being a voice for her peers and advocate for young girls and women around the world who may not have the opportunities that us sitting over here have. So receiving this honor from a hero like her makes this so much more exceptional. So thank you. Good afternoon. And thank you. And wow, I am so privileged and so honored to be sharing this afternoon with all of you and these incredibly amazing women that are being honored today. Down there. I'd like to extend my congratulations to each one of you, Octavia, Michelle, Kelly, Patty, and all 50 women that have been included in the impact report. Or Obama. Your achievements not just inspire me, but also so many others to work harder, to be better, and to make a dent wherever we can. So I'm very, very proud to be standing alongside of you. So in life, you know, there are moments when you stop and ask yourself, how did I get here? Like, why am I standing here? Well, this is definitely one of those moments for me. And I find myself going back to the beginning. Back to my roots. I was born to incredible parents. Amazing parents who served as doctors in the Indian Army. I was the first born. And as far back as I can remember, I made my parents very proud and happy 99% of the time. Okay, slight exaggerations of personal achievements are allowed from time to time, don't you think? My brother was born a few years later. And even then, nothing changed for me. We were both given equal opportunities. And I want to emphasize this. I want to really emphasize this for you because I don't think a lot of people might understand that being equal might seem very normal. But where I come from, India, and a lot of developing countries around the world, more often than not, this is an exception. It's actually a privilege. My first experience of the glaring disparity between boys and girls came at a very, very young age. I grew up in a middle-class family with extremely philanthropic parents who constantly reminded me and my brother how lucky we were and how giving back to those who were less fortunate was not a choice, it was a way of life, simple. I was seven or eight years old when my parents started taking me on these visits in a traveling clinic to developing communities around and villages around the city that we lived in called Vareli. We were packed into this ambulance and my parents would provide free medical care to people who couldn't afford it. My job at the age of eight was assistant pharmacist. So I would count all the medicines put them in an envelope and give it out to patients and I really took my job very seriously, very seriously. But the more I went on these expeditions, the more I began to notice the simplest things that distinguished a boy from a girl or a man from a woman. For example, girls were pulled out of school when they hit puberty because they were considered ready for marriage and babies. That's 12 and 13, while boys still enjoyed their childhood. Our basic human rights, such as healthcare, were denied just because they were women. Let's call this whole experience trigger number one for me. Fast forward a few years and many, many triggers in between. Like a producer director, for example, early on in my career, I must have been about 18 or 19, telling me that if I didn't agree to the ridiculous terms or painfully low salary in his movie, that he would just replace me. Because girls are replaceable in the entertainment business. That was a memorable one. Made me decide to make myself irreplaceable. But I think what really moved the needle for me and ultimately led me to create the Priyanka Chopra Foundation for Health and Education and around the same time partner with UNICEF was an encounter with my housekeeper's daughter. About 12 years ago, I came home from set early one day and she was sitting in my library reading a book and she must have been eight or nine years old and I knew she loved reading. So I asked her, I was like, this is, I mean, it's a weekday, why aren't you in school? And she said, oh, I don't go to school anymore. So I went and asked her mother and I said, you know, why isn't she in school? And her mom said that her family couldn't afford to send her and her brothers to school. So they chose the boys. The reason she would eventually get married and it would be a waste of money. I was completely blown and it shook me to my core. Eventually I decided to cover the past of her education so that she could continue to learn because education is a basic human right and a huge necessity, especially today. From that point on, I was determined to make a difference in as many children's lives as I could in whatever big or small way that I could contribute. There's a really, really beautiful quote that I read recently and I think it's absolutely appropriate to say, to explain what I'm trying to say today. The hand that rocks the cradle, the procreator, the mother of tomorrow, a woman, shapes the destiny of civilization. Such is the tragic irony of fate that a beautiful creation such as a girl child is today one of the greatest concerns facing humanity. Girls have the power to change the world. It is a fact and yet today, girls are more likely than boys never to set foot in a classroom, despite of all the efforts and progress made over the last two decades. More than, I'm just going to give you a stat, more than 15 million girls of primary school age will never learn how to read or write compared to 10 million boys. Primary school, it's the beginning of our future. Over the last 11 years, I have witnessed firsthand the incredible work that UNICEF does for children around the world, especially victims and survivors of child marriage, displacement, war, sexual violence. But there is still so much work to do. And for me, that is the fuel to my fire. The reason I'm so committed to this cause and that is where my passion stands from because I know that a girl's education not just empowers families but communities and economies, a result of her education, we all do better. It's just as simple as that. As entertainers and influencers sitting in this room, I feel that it's our social responsibility to be a voice for the voiceless, which is why I applaud each and every woman in this room for being such a badass, for using your platform and your voice to contribute to change and for ensuring that there is not even one lost generation as long as we are alive. I'd like to thank Mariety and all of you for encouraging me and all of us in this room to keep going and fighting on. Thank you so much. She's a good speaker. Yes, she is. She's a very good speaker and makes me very happy to know now what I know about her, the fact that she started from Miss World. And she's now obviously using her celebrity to help people in the experience, like young girls who unfortunately do not have the access to the basic human right of education because some people think that the brother deserves it because he's a guy, which makes absolutely zero sense. At all. But are treated differently when they go through puberty or are treated differently when they are on their period or are treated differently, you fill in the blank because they're a woman. Yeah. What have you noticed you haven't been a father of both a boy and a girl? Yes. What are the differences you've noticed how people? Oh my stars, how much time do you got? Yeah, well a couple minutes. The primary one is the over sexualization of the being. Obviously, yeah. I mean, my son who's an attractive man, even when he was a young boy, it's pretty good. It's pretty good. When he was a teenage boy, many people would say, wow, Mike is such a beautiful boy. But walking down the street, he didn't have women doing this when he walked by. Yeah. Whereas I had to let my daughters know when they were 12 and 13, I had to say, did you notice that? They're like, notice what? It's like, did you notice that? You need to be aware of that. But where of what? That grown man was sexualizing you. He was looking at you. No, dad, gross. No, honey. And experientially, they've said to me, when I've asked them how often have you had to deal with objectification, Mike is like, I don't ever have to deal with that. And the girls are like, every day. Yeah. Yeah. When a guy goes there, you don't have to think about your safety usually. Oh, that's the other thing. Yeah. I mean, just objectification lustfully, then add to it the other level. Violence. Of that sense of even in a place as advanced and safe as Los Angeles, there is that constant awareness of, if a man comes along, I'm weaker than the man. And Mike has nothing to think about that. Yeah. But yeah, I love that she has that organization to help people like that. And that's one thing I've always wanted to be able to do. If you ever do have the means to start a charity that you really care about, it's obviously you should. Yeah. I think it's your responsibility if you have the means to do change using your gift of finance. Yeah. I've got several that I am looking forward to being able to do one day. And she absolutely carries herself with a stately regality. And she's a very good public speaker, not only her capacity with her. I don't think she was reading anything. I don't think she was either. She may have had, she kept glancing in this particular spot on the left. She didn't learn that she was reading anything. I don't think she was. And she definitely doesn't need it, like bullet point. Yeah. She doesn't need it. She has a capacity with her vocal range and what she says in her mastery of the language. She doesn't use any filler words. If you don't know what filler words, they're uh and. The words are true. And so those are filler words. And people who do that are typically uncomfortable and insecure as well as her body language. She's tremendously, which is not a surprise. I mean, she was taught to be in this world. So she learned public speaking skills, body language, things of that nature. So she's, she's just a really strong, confident woman. Yeah. Good speech. Yep. Let us know what other speeches we should react to, whether Priyanka or others. We are always down for a good speech. Yep. So let us know what other ones we should react to down below. Duh, maha, that's it. Ha ha!