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Dubai Ain't Got Great Shawarma
11 Plays2 years ago
Salman soliloquizes on Stand Up Gigs, Shawarmas in Dubai, and the new Disney show 'Fleishman in Trouble'.
Catch Salman at live shows by following him on instagram to see all upcoming dates - @salmanzq
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Transcript
Introduction and Dubai Weather
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Hey, hey, hey, everyone.
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How's it going?
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Welcome to the Expat Brad Podcast.
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It's Salman Koreshi.
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You're listening to me in the end of Feb.
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In fact, it's the second last day of Feb.
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And I and you, we all know it's time to go, oh, my God, Feb is almost over.
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Where's the year going?
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I had so many plans.
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What's going on?
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It's already March.
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Yeah.
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Now that I've got that out of the way, we can start this episode.
End of Winter Reflections
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I man, Dubai is hot right now.
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It's like hitting upwards like mid 30s Celsius for those of you not listening in America.
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Like the thing we all follow as opposed to Americans with their Fahrenheit.
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Anywho, it's gotten hot real quick.
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I'm hoping there's like a cold wave around the corner that will embrace us for a couple of months or a couple of weeks even before we hit May, June, July and go into depression or summer as they call it.
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here and uh it's it just baffles me now just i you know i get fomo every time winter's about to end and like even when winter starts i'm like i gotta go i gotta make all all the use of it that i can like every single second of it and then you never do you're never satisfied enough and then it's the end of winter and for those of you who don't live in the middle east our winter
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is basically just good cool weather it's not cold it's uh maybe apart from a couple of days it's not super rainy except again for a couple of days and so it's really just gorgeous weather for three four months and it's the best time to be anywhere in the world this is the best place to be any in those days so
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Anywho, it's coming to an end.
Optimism for 2023 and Comedy Success
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And here we are.
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And I'm I'm and Feb is ending.
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And I've kind of fallen behind again on my gym stuff, which is annoying me.
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But there are other things that are running so smoothly in my life right now.
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That's almost a little scary.
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You know, you watch these shows about people who are bored.
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housewives, I don't know, suburbians, suburbian suburb people.
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And I'm sitting there going, this stuff is going too smooth.
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Like I had a few things I wanted to get rolling and put into place and it's going touch wood, man.
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And and I don't want to ruin it or jinx it.
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And it's good.
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So I'm glad that kind of stuff is going fine for me.
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I just had a great feeling for 2023.
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I'm normally not superstitious.
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Right.
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But 23 is one of my favorite numbers because of Michael Jordan.
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And in my head, it was like 2023.
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The Star Wars is like, it's going to be a great year.
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And so maybe it's true.
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The law of attraction is attracting good stuff to me.
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It's attracting the best of the best.
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To be honest, it really has.
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I've had two stand-up gigs, one in Jan, one in Feb, that were awesome because it was to a big crowd.
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I was opening for two great comics.
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One was Ismo.
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I've talked about it.
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And then recently, I just happened last minute to be added on to open for Mark Lotring.
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He's a South African legend.
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And he's a legend for a reason.
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The dude did 90 minutes of stand-up comedy without a second of low energy.
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It's incredible.
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I'm always watching different... And for me, it was a real learning experience as well because Ismo is kind of intellectual and smart and very low-key.
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He will stand in one place for his 90-minute show.
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And then Mark Lottering comes in and he does a 90-minute show.
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And he, I don't think there was a second where he was standing still, you know.
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And I watched both of them and I go, wow, I don't know which one's the right one.
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Obviously, I think what suits your style and jokes is what makes it the right one.
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But anyway, incredible to see 90 minutes of great material from both comics.
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And then with Mark Lottering, it was just high energy, 90 minutes.
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I was laughing.
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So hard through the whole show that by the end right I'm not making this up by the end.
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I was too tired to laugh So I couldn't get like my voice out like I couldn't muster this trend to laugh out So what I ended up doing was I had this silly grin on my face and I was just clapping along Because that was my only way of showing appreciation for the material because it kept going strong
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right up till he said goodnight and and then some because he actually said goodnight once and then he did a little bit of an encore bit and and it was incredible and he got a standing ovation rightfully deserved it was just an incredible show um
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And he was super sweet backstage.
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Both these comics, great backstage.
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Just a good reminder.
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You know, the biggest comics I've been lucky, the biggest comics I've had a chance to perform, share the stage with, have just been the most down-to-earth people.
South African Comedy Connection
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and fun backstage, you know?
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There's only one comic, I won't name him, early on in my career, he's like a mid-level Biggie comic from the States.
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And he was so aloof backstage.
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And so he had these little things like, the opening acts should have a different light to mine, they better not do this.
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And he didn't share any time with us back in the green room at all.
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and these comics came in and they're hanging out they're sharing jokes they're sharing expertise tips they're showing appreciation both Isma and Mark came up afterwards and said hey you were great and really loved performing with you you know they were just nice beautiful people as well and Mark so he's huge in South Africa if you ever catch him
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come into your city and you're not familiar with it, and I'll tell you why I'm saying this in a second, then go and catch a show.
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You will not regret it.
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Now, the reason I say this is because when I got on stage, I realized 95% of the audience, or 98%, I'm pretty sure this is correct, yeah?
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It was South African people.
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And two things about it.
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One, I was disappointed other people didn't come.
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It was already pretty much sold out.
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But it was just sad other people didn't come in because I was like, you would have experienced such a great act.
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So missed opportunity for other expats in Dubai.
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So catch them next time.
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And the second thing that I realized was, man.
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You South Africans are one of the best people around.
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Like I just loved your vibe.
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I loved the whole crowd.
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All, you know, great up for comedy and laughing.
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And they were just joyous.
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You're just joyous people.
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And it was so nice.
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And I'm not just saying that because you laughed at my jokes during the show.
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But afterwards, the vibe changed.
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Sometimes when we meet in the foyer afterwards with the fans and the audiences and you get a sense of the people and most people are nice.
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I've always had people come up and go, hey, great stuff.
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Well, can I follow you?
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Blah, blah, blah.
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But these guys were on a whole different vibe, man.
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And I just...
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to all South Africans I love you I would love to you know I really so Ruggie and I we're planning some comedy nights with another comic as well Abs will tell you details I'll tell you I'll share more details on the podcast in a while as well but we were you know we were just building up the tour and we're already talking to a few cities and after that gig I was like hey
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we got to go to Cape Town and Joe.
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Like South Africa has to be on that list.
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I want to go there because it's just, you know, the people just so amazing.
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So amazing.
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I have a lot of South African friends.
Comedy Show Tips
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I do a lot of stuff at the Courtyard Playhouse Theater in Dubai.
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And it's, you know, the owners, one of them is South African.
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And a lot of the staff is from South Africa.
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And that was my first real interaction with a lot of, you know, Safas, I guess.
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And it's been great.
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So, yeah, I appreciate you guys a lot.
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And thank you.
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Love you so much.
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Like, I want to embrace you even more.
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I don't know how that works, but so be it.
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Anywho, so that's a...
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That's my comedy side going on.
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That's what's been happening.
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I really have been appreciative of the opportunities I've had and things to learn and great crowds to perform to.
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It really, you know, sometimes everyone, as any artist, gets a little jaded.
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And these kind of events, these kind of opportunities really bring you to life again and make you want to do more artistically, do more jokes, more material,
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like really give out to the world and it was great because last night also I was invited to close off this show by Comedy Kicks that's K-I-X if you're in Dubai they put on a lot of shows around Dubai and I love them it's this couple called Ima and Amr Egyptian and Filipino both of them and they're such a fun couple they're both also excellent comics I love watching them
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And they were, they've been doing some workshops.
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Again, if you're in Dubai, you want to learn stand-up comedy, go to these guys.
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They're wonderful, very supportive.
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And like I said, they're good comics, so you'll learn public speaking, you'll learn to be on stage, it's all good.
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And they'll give you lots of opportunities to perform.
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So they ran a class and last night was a showcase and they asked me to close.
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And there were about six, seven people taking stage for the first time.
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And for any comic who's been around, you know, you remember your first one and then you watch these guys and you go, wow, that, you know, I can't believe.
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they have so much confidence already in everything.
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And it was wonderful to see all these comics.
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Great material as well.
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So Ima and Amr, well done.
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You've definitely put in the work with these guys.
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It showed on stage.
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It made me think, though, it's a little tip.
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If you're doing stand-up comedy or if you're a public speaker, right, and you get on stage and...
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and you're trying to be, you know, add some humor into your speech, here's a little tip from me as a stand-up comic, right?
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Too many people have these jokes and the first few times you're doing it, you're so tense about it that you rush through it, right?
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Like my first time I ever did stand-up, I was actually getting angry at the audience when they were laughing because I was just like, hey, I will forget my set.
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I need to get through this, so just shut up.
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Shut up so I can get through this, all right?
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Stop interrupting me.
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And that kind of stays with a lot of comics.
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So they don't...
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Pause to let the audience laugh because sometimes as a whole, the audience needs that five seconds to go, oh my God, that's hilarious, right?
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Not because they're stupid or anything.
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It's just some jokes require that moment of like, aha, and you might have written those brilliant jokes, but you'll do a disservice if you rush through.
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So slow down, know where your joke, your punchline is.
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and stop, give it five seconds.
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Even if you don't get a few laughs, it's fine.
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You'll get over it, you'll learn that, cool, it didn't land this time.
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Maybe it was my delivery, maybe it wasn't relevant to the audience, or maybe it is a bad joke, and so on.
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But when you rush through,
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I see these comics like they're eating into the laugh, like the audience starts to laugh and they've moved on.
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And so it's gone.
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And you train the audience because then they go, shit, I'm just going to try laughing.
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This guy will move on.
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I'll miss the next bit.
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So they start laughing.
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I think that's my theory.
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They might start laughing less over a long show.
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So let them laugh.
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You know, you've worked hard.
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to get to that point all this was to ensure they get a laugh out of it then let them have it and let yourself enjoy it you know it gives you that moment to pause absorb it and be in the moment right so so that's uh that's that's a little tip from me i think i i hope it helps you like i said even if you're just doing a few humorous bits in in a normal presentation just give that moment yeah
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So I wanted to, anyway, putting this aside, yeah, all of my comedy stuff, all my events, latest, blah, blah, blah.
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If you follow me on Instagram, at SalmanZQ, then you'll know all my upcoming gigs and the tour when we announce it, blah, blah, blah, all the dates, details.
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So keep an eye on it, follow it, and I'll keep you up to date with it, all right?
Shawarma Musings and Memories
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Now, what I did want to talk about, what I've labeled this, is the shawarma episode.
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And I know this is maybe unpopular opinion, but I just think Dubai does not have good shawarma.
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I said it.
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I've said it, man.
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People keep sending me places to try and promise me that this one is amazing and this place is nice.
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And I have always suspected...
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that we don't really have good shawarma here.
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Yeah.
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Like there's a few different types as well.
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I never had these Malabari South Indian cafeteria style shawarmas, which some people love here.
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I don't.
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I don't think.
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I'm a purist when it comes to shawarma.
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And I found places that do good shawarma, but not great.
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And that's what I mean.
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Like, shawarma here isn't amazing enough.
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I'm saying it out loud, man.
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I come from Saudi Arabia, right, from my early childhood.
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And I'll tell you, Saudi...
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just had the best shawarab I've ever had anywhere.
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And maybe it's a childhood thing, then I'm nostalgic about it.
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But there was this place in Jeddah called Sharafia.
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All right.
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And Sharafia, it's not like a, it was a bit more like old town in terms of the area.
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And I've heard recently it's been broken down, which is sad to hear in a way, but I guess it's part of some big vision of Saudi to redevelop the city and so on and so forth.
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Yeah.
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Anyways, back then, back in the 90s, Sharafiya had loads of shawarma places.
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And as a kid, I didn't realize that it wasn't common, but the shawarmas in Sharafiya were slightly different.
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First of all, you could even get camel meat shawarma way back before it became a trend.
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out here, yeah?
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And it was awesome.
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And then they had these shawarmas that came in kind of the samoli bread.
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At least that's what they called it there.
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It was much like a, not like a hot dog roll.
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I don't know how to describe it.
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What can I compare it to?
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Like French bread maybe, but not really.
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A bit between like a hot dog and French bread.
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And so it wasn't like a normal Arabic bread wrap.
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That came...
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in my life much later when I started having chicken shawarmas.
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So beef and camel shawarmas was the more common thing back then.
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And they'd add these spicy stuff in it.
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And those shawarmas were just amazing.
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And I don't know if you still get them there, that kind of style, or it's completely disappeared.
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But I've never had it here.
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And then even the chicken shawarmas, the cafeteria ones, I was just like, this ain't shawarma.
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These are good sandwiches.
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I don't hate them.
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But this ain't shawarma.
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All right.
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I don't know what sauce you're doing with this.
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Where's the garlic and blah, blah, blah.
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And even recently, I've had some Lebanese places open up here that I've tried out.
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Aloe Beirut.
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What's the Bar Bar, which is supposed to be a legend back in Beirut.
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And they were good.
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but they weren't amazing, all right?
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And I don't know why that is.
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Well, actually, Barbar and Alo, when I first went, were quite good, much better.
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And then I kind of went, oh, they dropped the ball a little bit.
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So I don't know if it was just that day I didn't have great.
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But again,
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Not great, man.
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Not great.
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I've done a TikTok video about this place near my house, which is, again, really good shawarma.
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Not great.
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I don't know what makes a great shawarma.
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Maybe it's the right amount of garlic sauce in the chicken shawarma that I like, and so I haven't been able to find it perfectly.
00:17:25
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And in Saudi, the chicken shawarma is often had french fries in it, too.
00:17:30
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I don't think any shawarma place does that here.
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Why not?
00:17:33
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Hey, I've given you an idea.
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If your thing kicks off and people start eating your shawarma a lot more because of this advice that I've just given you, then send me back some love.
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Send me some free shawarmas maybe.
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I don't know.
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And so, you know, it's been a battle for me.
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My brother and his wife, they tell me they're based in Canada, in Ottawa.
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And they said, you know, they have so many Arab families there and blah, blah.
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And so they're like, they've had better Shahrirma there than they've had in Dubai.
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And man...
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I don't know what else to say.
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I have immense respect for my brother's shawarma tastes.
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He knows food and he knows what he's talking about.
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So when he told me that, I shouldn't have been surprised.
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I was just disappointed.
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Like, where's Dubai's A game when it comes to shawarmas?
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And why hasn't it...
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You know, it's supposed the other thing that really ticks me off here is most of the places are decent or very overpriced now.
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You know, show reminds the street food, man.
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I grew up.
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I don't expect prices to say from when I grew up.
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Yes, there were four or five terms.
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In fact, you know, when there was a chicken show that came out, I was like four or five terms reals in Saudi.
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It was like, whoa, man, you're splashing out.
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Yeah.
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And now, you know, you don't get shawarmas for like less than 20 durhams or some shit like that.
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And I'm like, I don't know.
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To me, it was all the street food.
00:19:04
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And maybe because it's so sanitized, maybe that's another problem that's come across with shawarma.
00:19:10
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And again, I'm going to keep reminding you guys, there's good shawarma.
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One of my friends took me to the Wafi Gourmet Restaurant.
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Good shawarma.
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Not great.
Cultural Reflections and Critiques
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Anywho, that's my take on the showroom.
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I was here, man.
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I don't know.
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Feel free to send me some places.
00:19:29
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There was one in Sharjah.
00:19:30
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I used to have the Fresh Chicken King back in...
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early 2000s.
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I think it's still around.
00:19:35
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I don't know if it's still good because I haven't been in that part of town for like, I don't know, a gazillion years or something.
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Back then it was good.
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It was one of the closest ones to the Saudi South Shorma that I had and I haven't had.
00:19:50
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And I'm also wondering which country has the best shawarma.
00:19:54
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I've been to Jordan.
00:19:55
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I didn't really have street shawarma there.
00:19:59
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Not been to a lot of other countries.
00:20:00
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I've been to Oman, Bahrain, Saudi, of course, UAE, all different parts of it.
00:20:06
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So I wonder which Arab country claims to have the best shawarmas.
00:20:10
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And can they compete with the one in Ottawa now?
00:20:13
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I don't know.
00:20:15
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I don't know if that's possible.
00:20:16
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But apart from my...
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sad life around shawarmas.
00:20:20
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I still eat a lot of shawarmas because I love these things.
00:20:25
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I, you know, yeah, I guess that's it about the shawarma stuff that's on my head, man.
00:20:33
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What else am I doing?
00:20:34
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Right.
00:20:35
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I watched Fleshman in Trouble.
00:20:38
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It's on Disney.
00:20:39
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Great show.
00:20:40
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It's about this guy who's going through a divorce and it starts off very funny.
00:20:45
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It kind of keeps that tone somewhat.
00:20:49
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But overall, it's a great show to watch.
00:20:51
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I zoomed through it like seven.
00:20:53
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You love it when you watch a series.
00:20:54
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You're gripped by it.
00:20:55
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And I ran through the whole eight, nine episodes as fast as I could, consumed it, and burped it out.
00:21:03
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It was great.
00:21:04
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It's a great show, great acting, great cast.
00:21:07
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And it's based on a book.
00:21:08
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So I guess that's where the meaty stuff comes.
00:21:11
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My only...
00:21:12
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my only little complaint about it was it starts off as the about the guy's divorce but then one of his female friends it becomes her story as well and her her thing too is roped in and it just felt like it was a bit bit bit of a switcheroo when you watch the first episode of what's happening it's a little crazy he's on apps and and that's how they advertised it like this newly divorced person is navigating apps i thought it'd be a sitcom of that sort but it goes way deep uh
00:21:40
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Normally, I would have hated them doing that to the show, but because it's still such a good show and fun, I still recommend it.
00:21:47
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It's really great.
00:21:48
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And yeah, man, apart from the fact that they're trying to change...
00:21:54
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the Roald Dahl books and apparently the James Bond books as well.
00:21:58
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Everything else is good here, man.
00:22:00
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I don't know why they're doing that.
00:22:02
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I know there's been enough controversy around it.
00:22:03
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I think it's dumb.
00:22:05
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I think, you know, I think I'm a little tired of people going, I'm offended.
00:22:08
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Like it was written.
00:22:10
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It's there.
00:22:10
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If you don't like it, don't buy it anymore.
00:22:12
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But obviously it's the publishers, right?
00:22:14
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So they want to keep selling this book and they know their consumers will buy it.
00:22:17
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It'll create the right controversy around it, make it relevant again and repackage and resell.
00:22:22
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So I get the commercial side of it.
00:22:25
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uh i don't know as an artist i feel bad as someone going through this whole bending down to every vocism situation it sounds bad to me the wrong thing to do but here we are and um and it's happened and i have no power over stopping it so what's the point of complaining
00:22:47
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right i wish all the only thing it makes me go is i wish i had the old um additions and i would and i could have kept it but i guess they'll probably shoot up in price or and not be as available right so we've lost that opportunity and i will regret that forever because i don't know he could have just preserved some real history and republish it sometime down the line or something and told people actually the original said this haha
00:23:17
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Anyway, that's me.
00:23:18
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That's my life.
00:23:19
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That's my thoughts on things going around.
Closing Remarks
00:23:22
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I hope you guys have a good week ahead.
00:23:24
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I hope you have a great March ahead.
00:23:26
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And I hope you've been having a great year like I have been having.
00:23:29
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And here's to wishing all of us a great year, man.
00:23:31
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You take care of yourself.
00:23:32
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I'll catch you on the next episode.
00:23:33
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Goodbye.
00:23:34
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Or as a dog would say, woof.