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Fighting Nostalgia and Endless Consumerism
4 Plays2 years ago
Salman soliloquizes on being anti-nostalgic, needing endless new things, and having poor name memory.
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Introduction to Expat Brad Podcast
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Hey everyone, it's Salman Qureshi, listening to the Expat Brad Podcast, a podcast I named that because I wanted to talk about stories of my life growing up as a third culture kid.
Evolution of Podcast Topics
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And I far moved on from that and moved on to just talking about everything under the sun.
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And not under the sun because I work in the shadows.
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How are you guys?
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What's going on?
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This summer's not ending, is it?
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And it's not going to end.
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It's going to be with us.
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One of those things that will just be with us forever.
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The never-ending summer.
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You remember that movie?
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Was it a book first?
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The never-ending story?
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I watched it when I was so young.
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I don't really remember except this big creature.
Nostalgia vs Novelty
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I got to go back and watch these things, right?
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My memory's failing or I never, you know, as a kid, never paid.
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There were some things I was very young, so it left a very vague memory.
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I find it funny.
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I don't like rewatching too many things.
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I don't know what it is.
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You want to be trapped with nostalgia.
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Sometimes I feel like if I go back, it might ruin the memory.
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Or at times I don't want to relive the memory, which is kind of funny because a lot of them are good memories.
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I think at some point it became a defense mechanism for me and I stopped listening and watching old stuff.
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And now I don't know how I feel.
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Now I'm afraid to watch stuff again.
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It's a bizarre thing.
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I know loads of people, like my wife.
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She loves watching old stuff again and again.
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And I just want to consume new stuff.
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Maybe I'm just more capitalistic that way, right?
Content Overload and Decision Fatigue
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Just I want to consume and I want new stuff.
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I'm probably bratty that way too.
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I watched that already.
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We've done that before.
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I want new stuff.
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Give me more.
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And now I'm in this era of endless streaming and resources.
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It's just everything that's available to me.
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And I guess it's become a habit.
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It's getting worse day by day.
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I get angry.
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I sit there sometimes just surfing through, just spending time.
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Endless hours just surfing through channels.
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And I might find something that interests me.
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And I go, nah, nah, nah.
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I don't know.
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I don't feel like watching it right now.
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And so I don't know where that's coming from.
Commitment: Personal and Professional
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I'm afraid of commitment.
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What is it?
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I've done well in the other areas in my life where I've committed.
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like marriage, you know, I, uh, this, uh, December, uh, it'll be six years and touch wood.
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Yeah.
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I, I, I have to say it's my wife that's done the heavy lifting there.
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I'm very lucky to have her.
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So she's, you know, she's stuck by me.
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Uh, God knows I'm not the easiest person to be around.
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I think on a personal note, I might be really funny and easy going outside, but I'm sure everybody at home takes it a notch down, you know,
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Our public person persona versus what we are at home.
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It's just like, hey, guys, how's everyone doing?
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And you just come home and just slap the first person through the door.
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Just like, I'm done, okay?
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I left all the nice stuff outside.
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I'm done with the nicest, nice, nice shit.
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Like, this is it.
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There's a limit to how much nice stuff I can do in a day.
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I'm not allowed to be more nice than a certain number of minutes.
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All right?
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I clocked out.
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It's done.
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I need to recharge, and then I might be nice again tomorrow.
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Who knows?
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Maybe.
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Just shut up.
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That's me at home, I guess.
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And she's...
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She's stuck by it, man.
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She's been there.
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But my point is, I know she's done the heavy lifting.
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But I've been here.
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I didn't switch off.
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At least I don't think I did.
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And I don't think – what other areas?
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You know what?
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To be honest, though, when I look back at work,
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It's not the work that I've not committed to.
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I do have a hard time thinking about people who've worked in the same place, like my dad, man, like 50 years in the same place.
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And that was okay.
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I know that was a different generation, blah, blah, blah.
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No one does it now.
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People do.
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People still do.
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And I can't commit to that.
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I can't imagine being in the same company.
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for 10 years, even if they promoted me, man, I'd leave such a trail behind.
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By the time I get to, like if I ever became the CEO, I'd just be like, I got to get out of here.
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I know what I've done in the past.
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This place is
TV Show Preferences and Memory
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ready to collapse.
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Okay.
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I better leave before I have to take this fall as the CEO, the admin cell, the HR cell.
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has left us in ruins.
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I know that.
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It's inside info.
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So I better get out now.
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I'm going to cash in and get out.
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So, you know, I don't know.
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I just, I can't imagine staying like that.
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So...
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I guess there is a commitment problem now.
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But why a TV show, right?
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I can switch it off anytime I like.
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And actually, I force myself to do that sometimes.
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And now I do that too.
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Even if it's a show I'm kind of enjoying, I just go, you know what?
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I'll watch this later.
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It's partly to do with the fact that some shows have started.
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A lot of shows do still release their episodes weekly and
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And I just go, I should have waited a couple of weeks.
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At least I get to watch two shows back to back or a few shows back to back, you know.
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And then I go, nah, I'm going to watch it now.
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Like I watched the second episode of Industry of season two.
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Both episodes have been great.
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Interesting arcs of the show.
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of the main characters coming out some crazy stuff in that show i love it i love that stuff like that uh i gotta start remembering character names because then i go hey i want to talk about this thing that happened on the show with that person and i'm like i don't know this is a weird thing i do have a name problem
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with movies and characters all my life because it's very rare I'll remember the name of the characters.
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I don't know why.
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People quote characters and actors and go, oh, yeah, and they say it in front of me, and I'm like, I love that film, but who was that guy you're talking about?
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Who's that?
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And it's like, that's the main guy.
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I just don't know.
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My wife's talking to me about Back to the Future.
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It's one of our favorite films.
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And I'm like, oh, yeah, Marty, Marty.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Yeah, that was Michael J. Fox, right?
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OK, cool.
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So something like that I managed to remember right now, maybe because she's repeated it so often back to me.
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But otherwise, I'm clueless.
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I have I completely.
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shut it out for some reason or I forget or I don't pay attention.
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I don't know what it is.
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And so now here I am like Severance.
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What a great show.
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I was watching The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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He's got a great bit.
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I'm not a big fan of late night TV, surprisingly.
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I mean, I don't know.
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Not that I hate it.
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I watch it.
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But some parts have not, you know, it's a lot of hit and miss or maybe it's just wrote.
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I don't know what it is, but he he did.
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He did this.
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This one's really good.
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And he he comes on.
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It's lost footage of him being in the show Severance.
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If you haven't watched it, go watch.
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It's a great show.
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I think it's been nominated for a lot of awards right now.
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Ben Stiller directed it.
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Ben Stiller, the comedian, that dude.
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Yeah.
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And it's it's so such a good there's this one episode.
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I think it's episode three or four.
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They do this dance kind of thing.
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You won't understand it until you watch it.
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It's just so bizarre and funny and just so out there.
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I thought it was one of the greatest scenes I've ever watched on television.
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And that's high praise coming from someone who has name and TV Alzheimer's or something.
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Amnesia.
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Yeah, but Severance, another show, right?
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Great show, great characters.
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And I barely remember the names of each character.
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I don't know why.
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It's like I'm trying to remember some of them now, and I'm like, I don't know.
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I wasn't paying attention.
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So there's that.
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And where am I going with this?
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I'm completely lost now.
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This must sound like you're listening to some 80-year-old guy who's lost his memory and is just rambling on his podcast going, Well, you know, there was that time I, uh, what was it?
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Where am I?
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What's going on?
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Oh, there's a mic in front.
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I better talk into this mic.
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What is this mic?
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Ha ha ha ha.
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No, at least I remember the show names, right?
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That's the start.
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It's not a complete loss.
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Maybe I haven't lost it all.
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Maybe some stuff still sticks.
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You know what?
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I'm going to make... I know it became a habit when I used to read the news.
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I'd be reading articles.
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I knew I started skipping a lot of the names as I read them.
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I don't know why that became a thing too.
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And I think that's what's fed into my brain.
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To ignore names, right?
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And I'm going to start practicing going back on that and trying to fix myself up, okay?
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I'm going to try fixing this stuff up so I remember key information like the character names of a TV show.
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that maybe you're not even interested in.
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I don't know.
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It might come in handy at some point.
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You get held up and you go, hey, please let me go.
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Please let me live.
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I'll let you live if you tell me the main character's name in my favorite TV show, Small Wonder.
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What is it?
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Show from the 80s.
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If you could tell me this, I'll leave your wallet and I'll spare your life.
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And I'm on my news going, oh, crap.
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Ah, just take the wall.
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Shoot me now.
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Oh, so yeah.
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So I'm shuffling around TV shows, sit their way too much, finding it hard to commit to something.
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I know some kind of global phenomena right now.
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A lot of people talk about it.
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I think they've seen some memes around it as well.
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And I think this is just overindulgence, right?
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Not over, just overavailability of too many things.
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We're just...
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Our brain can't contain it anymore.
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I feel like if you have fewer choices, we'd be better off, right?
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It's like too many choices.
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It's like being at Chili's, Applebee's, and you're just like, ah, do I want steak or this goat meat or this elephant on pie?
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There's just too many options, and you don't know where to lock down, you know?
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So you just keep going at it and keep flicking through and hoping something will strike.
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And then I'll spot a show that I really want to watch.
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The reason I'm bringing this up is because I'm really kicking myself in the back.
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I've been seeing this show, The Godfather of Harlem.
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You know, what's his name?
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Forrest Whitaker.
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Again, I need to pronounce names properly.
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Great.
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I love his acting.
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and he's a great guy great great actor and he's particularly good in this series right and the whole cast is actually really really good i love it that that dude who's in daredevil as well as the as the kingpin he's in this and he's great in this show as well kind of different villainous character but different you know i admire the guy the guy's really he kind of
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He plays these characters.
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I don't know if it's the characters he's played or his style of acting.
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There's some level of intensity and evil where you're just like, man, I never want to get in trouble with this guy, but I also want to kill him.
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Just brilliant, though, right, for him to evoke that kind of emotion.
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Someday I'd like to be half that actor, you know.
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And anyway, so this show, I know I had been seeing this name pop up through my various, you know, flicking through times.
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I think it was on Stars Play or OS and I can't remember it.
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And I never watched it.
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I just look at it.
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I go, yeah, I don't know.
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Maybe I'll watch it someday.
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And now it's on Disney+.
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And I finally went, you know what?
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I'm going to watch this.
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And then I went through the whole first season.
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It's great.
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It's got Malcolm X's story involved in the Nation of Islam.
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And that's always fascinated me.
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Because, you know, Malcolm X, I was in school.
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I don't know how old I was.
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He was pretty young.
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I found this book in the library, and it's the first autobiography I ever read.
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And so it's left a deep impact.
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The story was so powerful.
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It made sense to me.
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I know it's funny for you.
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It might sound funny, but it made sense to me because I was growing up.
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I know as a...
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It wasn't like I was a poor kid growing up in Saudi, but what resonated with me was the racism and feeling like a third-class citizen in the place you are in.
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And that's a lot of how I used to feel in Saudi Arabia growing up as a brown kid.
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And so I guess that hit me hard and the story is powerful.
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So I've always been fascinated by Malcolm X and he's a big chunk of, you know, he's a big character in there.
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And so I think the show is great.
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I'm like, this is where have you been my whole three years of my past life?
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I'm so sorry.
00:14:45
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I've just been, you know, I just not be looking at you.
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Right.
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You were there all along.
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And you were willing to love me and I just didn't love you back because I was looking for someone else.
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I was always like maybe there's another hotter TV show I can watch instead.
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And I feel bad, you know.
00:15:01
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It's a great show, great cast, great story based on some kind of reality.
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But obviously, you know, exaggerated and messed up like they do with all the shows now.
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I like that Lakers show as well.
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I don't know.
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That was a funny one though, man.
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I'm like, that's way too close.
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Way too many characters.
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You should stick to the truth as much as you can.
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Anyway.
00:15:23
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So this Godfather show, I'm watching it.
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And then I realized Disney Plus has only put up the first season here.
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And I think that the third season is out now and only season one.
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I'm like, where's season two?
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Even if you don't have season three here yet for some reason.
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Speaker
So I don't know if it's a Disney Plus Mina thing.
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Middle East thing and it's there in the States.
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I don't know what's going on.
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Maybe it's a copyright thing, you know, like the Marvel, Daredevil, all these shows had to go to Disney.
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But now I'm stuck.
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So I started looking through all the other apps trying to find where it was in the hope that it's still there as well.
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And I can't find it.
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And I'm so annoyed at myself.
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Putting myself in this situation where now I've watched this great show and I'm dying to watch season two and probably season three and I can't because it's not available and I had the option to watch it for the last two years.
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This is just driving me crazy.
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really made me angry as well.
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And I don't know, what's up with Disney Plus?
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Why haven't you put up the next two seasons?
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I tried Googling this as well.
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I'm trying to figure this out.
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It annoys me.
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It annoys me when it's a territory.
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Just put it up everywhere worldwide.
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I know you've got these back-end stories about copyright and whatnot and blah, blah, blah, permissions.
Frustrations with Streaming Services
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You own the stuff.
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Find a way.
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Figure it out.
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This has happened to me before with Amazon Prime.
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Where there's a show I love.
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And I've forgotten the name.
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Oh, my God.
00:17:04
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You guys are witnessing the disintegration of a person's memory live.
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Well, not live, but recorded and released pretty close to as being live as possible.
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Enjoy it.
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Maybe someday you'll listen back to these episodes and go, yeah, we could see it coming.
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This guy was losing it.
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None of you reached out to try to save me or warn me.
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Thank you very much.
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I'm saying this in advance.
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When you listen back to this, screw you.
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Screw you for not reaching out to me and warning me.
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Bastards.
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Oh my God, now I've used language on this show I never do.
00:17:50
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Thank you.
00:17:51
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You're happy with yourself, people.
00:17:53
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Bosch.
00:17:54
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That's it.
00:17:55
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I was filling up words so I couldn't remember the show name.
00:17:58
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Bosch.
00:17:59
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Don't ask me the actor's name.
00:18:00
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Oh, wait.
00:18:01
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Actually, suddenly I just had a – it's a weird name.
00:18:05
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It's Tito – I can't pronounce the line.
00:18:09
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I don't even – even if I – like I don't know how to pronounce it.
00:18:12
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But he's in a – it's based on a book, a series, and I grew up reading some of those books.
00:18:19
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So it was really cool to watch the show.
00:18:20
Speaker
It's a very, this is one of the shows I recommend because it's one of the great series of the world.
00:18:26
Speaker
It's stuff you just watch.
00:18:28
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because it's easy, and I like cop shows, a good cop show, and it's one of those, all right?
00:18:34
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It's not groundbreaking.
00:18:35
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It's just decent acting.
00:18:38
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The main character is great.
00:18:40
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The other actor is a hit and miss.
00:18:42
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Overall, you know, it just intrigues me.
00:18:44
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I like the show.
00:18:45
Speaker
I watch it.
00:18:46
Speaker
And every time a new season came out, Amazon Prime wouldn't make it available immediately in this region, right?
00:18:54
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And that just pissed me off.
00:18:57
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I was just like really – I was trying to find hacks.
00:18:59
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I'm not good with the VPN stuff.
00:19:01
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I was trying to find all these ways to try cracking something so I can watch it.
00:19:07
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And I didn't want to stream it illegally because some of the quality is often bad now.
00:19:11
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I used to do it all the time.
00:19:12
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I can't believe I started paying for apps and stuff.
00:19:14
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They got me.
00:19:15
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These capitalist people, they got me.
00:19:18
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And –
00:19:19
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And yeah, so every time I have to wait an extra month or something sometimes just to have that show come on.
00:19:30
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And I don't get it.
00:19:31
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It's just things that piss me off.
00:19:33
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That's what this show is about.
00:19:36
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Things that piss me off and losing my memory.
00:19:42
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I hope it's funny for you.
00:19:43
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I hope this is entertaining for someone to have me go through this.
The Joy of Live Performances
00:19:50
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Oh, wow.
00:19:50
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All right, the summer's officially August.
00:19:54
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You know, we're mid-August.
00:19:55
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Oh, where'd the time go?
00:19:58
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Where?
00:19:59
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Where does it go?
00:20:01
Speaker
I blink and then I'm in the middle of a supermarket in my robes.
00:20:04
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It's like, let's go.
00:20:06
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How'd it go here?
00:20:08
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Uh, that's where the time goes.
00:20:10
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And, uh, I, I'm looking for it next week.
00:20:13
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I've got my first, uh, improv show back on stage on Monday night.
00:20:18
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I'm looking forward to it, man.
00:20:20
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Just being in front of a live audience.
00:20:21
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Uh, you guys don't know how good that feels.
00:20:25
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Uh,
00:20:26
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It'll be a good show.
00:20:27
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I think we'll have a packed crowd.
00:20:29
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People are dying to get out and watch a show and stuff.
00:20:32
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So it's going to be great.
00:20:33
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I'm going to be at the Courtyard Playhouse.
00:20:36
Speaker
The show starts at 8.
00:20:37
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You've got to be there by 7.30.
00:20:40
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Make sure you get a seat.
00:20:41
Speaker
And you can go on their website to book yourself a seat.
00:20:44
Speaker
This is for, obviously, people in Dubai.
00:20:47
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I'm not popular enough for people to fly down.
00:20:50
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to Dubai to watch me yet.
00:20:52
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At least, not that I know.
00:20:54
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If you've done it in the past, please let me know.
00:20:55
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That would be a cool little point I can show off about to my fellow comics and friends and family, right?
00:21:06
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It's...
00:21:08
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Anyway, that's what's happening.
00:21:11
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It's going to get busy now.
00:21:12
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I'm just wrapping up.
00:21:13
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I've got a showcase tonight.
00:21:15
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I've been working with some people on their improv skills and stuff.
00:21:18
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It's always fun.
00:21:20
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A little inside thing.
00:21:21
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Every time I'm going through the – we run this course for like five weeks, then a showcase, and then the sixth week I do a wrap-up session with them.
00:21:29
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And I always feel through the five weeks I'm like, I don't know how this is going to go.
00:21:33
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Yeah.
00:21:36
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Because you have to remind yourself these people are starting out and you're constantly comparing them to people who've done it for years in your mind, in the back of your mind.
00:21:45
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And I constantly have to go, OK, it's the first time.
00:21:47
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It's the first time.
00:21:49
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Don't don't expect them to learn every single thing or do it exactly right.
00:21:54
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Be amazing in every scene they do.
00:21:57
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You're not amazing in every every time you're on stage.
00:22:00
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So why are you expecting that off them?
00:22:02
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You know.
00:22:03
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But I love it.
00:22:04
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The showcase comes along and I have a great time and people have a great time.
00:22:08
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And I always feel a little bit not smug, just, you know, a good feeling, a warm feeling inside knowing that people might have changed people's lives.
00:22:19
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Who knows?
00:22:20
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I don't know if it's a good in a good way or a bad way.
00:22:23
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But definitely some kind of impact on their life.
00:22:25
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So that's always a fun little thing I tell myself at night just before I'm crying myself to sleep thinking I haven't achieved anything in life.
00:22:35
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I like to remind myself of that.
00:22:37
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And I like to think there's a joke out there floating around one of my videos that makes people laugh.
00:22:42
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They go back to it and they laugh and they go, all right, cool.
00:22:45
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My life's a little better.
00:22:47
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Early on, that was one of the reasons I started doing comedy.
Animal Welfare Reflections
00:22:50
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I mean, while I continue to do it, because someone came up to me after a show, one of my earlier shows, and said, it means so much when I've had a bad week to come here and to just watch you make me laugh.
00:23:05
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And I forget all the...
00:23:09
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Messed up things in the world.
00:23:11
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Then I get to have a laugh.
00:23:13
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And it's so nice to see a positive role model from our community.
00:23:17
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And blah, blah, blah.
00:23:18
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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
00:23:20
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Just tooting my own horn right now.
00:23:22
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I was going to say tooting my own horse.
00:23:24
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Oh my God, just the horse thing made me think about that poor horse in New York.
00:23:29
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I'm so glad I never did that on my visits there.
00:23:31
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This is horrible.
00:23:33
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We got to stop that stuff, don't we?
00:23:35
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Using animals in this day and age.
00:23:37
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I know in third world countries, it's easier to set than done.
00:23:40
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But maybe someday, maybe someday we'll stop doing that stuff, man.
00:23:44
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And make it all okay.
00:23:45
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Anyway,
00:23:46
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That's if you haven't seen it was this horse collapsed in New York on the street and they were like hosing the horse with water because being overworked.
00:23:56
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It's so hot.
00:23:56
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That's why I can't remember New York ever being that hot.
00:23:59
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But obviously, I mean, I wasn't working like a horse.
00:24:02
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I suppose that's so terrible.
00:24:05
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Oh, man.
00:24:06
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So, yeah, I guess, you know, this heat, man.
00:24:10
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I hope these guys fix this stuff up with climate change.
Closing and Family Time
00:24:13
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That's a great note to end on, people.
00:24:17
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I got to get home, see my kid, play with my kid.
00:24:20
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He's going to spend some time with him before I have a busy evening.
00:24:23
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So I'm going to only get a few hours with him.
00:24:25
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I want to spend that time.
00:24:26
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I will see you guys next time on my next episode.
00:24:29
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You guys take care, have fun, and goodbye.
00:24:32
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Or as a dog would say, whoa.