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I Need Goals
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Salman soliloquizes on the end of the year, goals, and success.
Catch Salman at live shows by following him on instagram to see all upcoming dates - @salmanzq
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December: The Non-Working Month
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Hey everyone, you're listening to the Expat Brad Podcast.
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It's Amon Qureshi and we are in holiday mood, man.
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It took me a while to get down and sit down and plug everything in because it's December.
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And December is supposed to be like no work month.
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It should be, right?
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Like I think...
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Why can't we just like put everything on hold for a month?
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And we used to kind of have that in Ramadan.
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If you live in the GCC in the Middle East, it would slow down tremendously.
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I don't think that's the case anymore.
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And I'm not against it that we work through things, but I'm saying the opposite.
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Yeah.
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I would love to take a break.
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But I think December sounds like a better idea.
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It's more, you know, you can fix it.
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Ramadan kind of moves around and that mixes things up.
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You're in the middle of the work year.
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It keeps changing its mind about where it wants to be.
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And that's confusing, man, to plan around that.
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Well, you could, but I'd rather, you know, let's just do December.
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All right, there are enough holidays.
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Personally, it would suit me a lot because from November 26th onwards,
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I just have loads of things booked in.
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My kid's birthday is on the 26th of November.
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Then a week later, it's my – a day later, it's my brother-in-law's.
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Then a week later, it's my wife's and also of the UAE.
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That's pretty awesome, isn't it?
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That –
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that my wife and the whole UAE celebrate everything together.
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She's a lot younger than the country, but I'm not going to put out them numbers because if she ever listened to this episode, then I don't want her to kill me.
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And then we have our wedding anniversary.
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Two of my close friends have their birthdays and Christmas.
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So I'm just thinking I ain't got time to work with all this going on, man.
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We should be allowed to just take time off.
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It's I think it's the nicest time in Dubai.
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The weather's great.
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in, you want to be outdoors.
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You just don't want to work.
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All right.
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Everyone's kind of doing their year end stuff.
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Let's be honest in our heads.
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The schools are off.
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We're all just kind of like going, I blew this current year.
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I had big plans.
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I can't believe the year's over.
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And we're all going through that like
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happy, sad moment at the same time.
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No one is really doing any work.
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All we're doing is enough to kind of just get through it and not get fired.
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Okay, most of us, let's be honest, most of us are in that mode and we're just trying to get through.
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And obviously, when we come back from the holidays in January, we're pumped up, we're going to kill next year.
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But next year isn't now.
Reflecting on Goals and Support Systems
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This year is done and dusted.
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I was trying to find some time also to just sit and go, hey, so what went wrong this year?
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Last couple of years were good because I could blame COVID and the world and everything else.
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And this year, I was kind of looking through my stuff and I'm like, I've talked about my fitness goals, which are...
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Let's just say I kind of missed it by the size of my waistline right now, which is a lot.
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But I had all these other goals in mind.
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You know what I'm appreciative of is that regardless of my failures, I've had loads of friends and people around me who've always been wanting to give me support and love for
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way more than I sometimes think I deserve.
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All right.
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And I'm thankful for that.
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And I don't know why I've been lucky enough to have it.
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It makes a big difference.
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It keeps me going.
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It keeps me kind of, you know, when I'm like, oh, man, nothing's going to work out.
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You're surprised always by how many people around you want you to do better and want to invest or go out of their way to help you.
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It's remarkable.
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It's a happy thing.
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I'm very lucky to have.
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But in spite of that, in spite of that, I am not going to hit certain goals.
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So what went wrong?
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I think I think time just flies by too fast.
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I get busy and I have I am very good at making excuses.
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That's it.
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If I could get paid to do that, I would be killing it.
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I'd be I'd be Elon Musk and more like in terms of money.
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Yeah.
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Anyone hiring someone to just make excuses for them?
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Maybe that's what PR is, I guess, in a way.
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I'd be good.
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I'm just putting it out there.
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Or if you just wanted to conceptualize ideas.
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Do you want someone to hire?
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I'm on a strategic level, strategic minded.
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So I could help you with that because I can come up with great ideas.
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Implementation.
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is your problem, okay?
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That's where I stand.
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Those are good things I'm good at.
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But regardless, you gotta look at some successes and go, hey, you know what?
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I kinda aimed super high, and because of that, I did more than I did last year.
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And that feels really good at some way.
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And also, more than anything, I kinda feel like I'm on a path, and you go, hey,
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I may not have finished, but this journey is kind of fun and at least I know kind of what I'm doing, which the last few years had been a little bit iffy.
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And you'd think people have their stuff together.
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I think some people actually do.
Interview with Lucky Ali
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But a lot of times I don't.
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I just interviewed this legend from India, a singer.
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His name's Lucky Ali.
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And he burst onto the scene on the indie, indie, indie, Indian pop scene, the indie Indian scene.
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Back in 96, 97, maybe 95, 90s, yeah?
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So he's been around.
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He's done loads of great things.
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He really is someone I admire.
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I got to do this interview for him because one of my friends, a really good friend of mine, Asad, got stuck flying in.
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He hosts this show on a channel, on an Indian channel, where...
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He interviews celebrities passing through Dubai.
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It's a fun one, and he wasn't there, so I stepped in for an episode for him last minute, and it happened to be Lucky Ali's episode.
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He was the guest celeb on that.
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He's in town today for a concert, and it was just...
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We were talking about great things.
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I could listen to the guy forever.
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Yeah, he's some really honest, genuine, down-to-earth, doesn't give a damn about being safe or how will the public see me.
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And that's what endears him, I guess, to a lot of people as well.
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He hasn't had this I want to be famous and big kind of feel around him.
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Just very down-to-earth and has his own thing.
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But even he said, hey, I kind of asked him and I was like,
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He said, you know, I don't know what I want to do next.
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I am not sure.
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I'm just doing the concerts because right now they're coming in.
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And so I'm doing them.
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And that made me feel a little good about myself that he, you know, you would look at him, you'd think he's well put together and knows what he wants and has been around.
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He can, you know, he's big.
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He doesn't need the money maybe.
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I don't know.
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But he said that and I went – I guess most people don't.
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We're kind of in a rut.
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We do our daily stuff.
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But when we think about where we want to be or what we want to achieve in life, that can be –
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confusing and daunting at the same time.
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So I make loads of false promises, I guess.
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I wouldn't call them false or fake because I genuinely mean them.
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It's time to sit down for the new year and plan that shit out
Planning for the New Year
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again.
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All right.
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Before I do that, I really want to take like a day somewhere and
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To just chill out and go, what can I do?
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What do I really want to spend the year doing?
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And then if I don't achieve at least just that striving towards that, it kind of makes me feel better than just kind of drifting.
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And maybe sometimes you should allow yourself to drift a bit because you just put too much.
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on your mind, don't you?
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If you're like, I need this, I need to achieve this, I need to push for it.
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Another friend of mine, Damon, he's South African, but he told me this quote from like a Japanese or Far East kind of saying.
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And it translated, I'm just making this up as I remember it, but it meant like the more you like try to reach out and grab something, the more you're likely to like push it away because your hands like outreach and, you know, really like trying to grab it, but badly and it keeps pushing away from you and let it come to you instead.
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I think it's pretty cool.
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It's kind of the opposite of what a lot of people go about.
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Like, nah, you got to get out.
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And I've been talking about setting goals and stuff.
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So I think there's a fine balance between the two.
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I think you need to set those goals.
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But at the same time, this over-the-top pressure on yourself that, no, I got to achieve it and got to do it now and aim huge and big and everything.
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I think there's a nice balance to go, hey, listen, let it come to you as well, right?
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You set it out.
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And I'm not talking about it like that.
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hocus pocus the secret kind of bullshit where you just sit back and go hey i've set this out to the universe and blah blah blah uh i i do think it's nice to go look uh i'm just gonna do my bit and then let's see what comes back to me allow yourself to breathe and just relax and have a little fun with it right uh because the craziest things happen in life man uh
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I took my wife for dinner to this place in Dubai called Pai Thai.
Public Life and Caution
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It's interlocked between two hotels, Medina Jumeirah and Jumeirah Al-Qasr.
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They're both, if you've never been to Dubai and you come down, they're both really nice hotels to step into because they have this...
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Like kind of like a what do I call it?
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Like a munition kind of stream river kind of flowing through it.
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Yeah.
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And it's kind of it's cool.
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If you book this restaurant, you can get on a boat to go to it.
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It's like a two minute boat ride as well.
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And it's so it's so charming and fun.
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You get a great view of the Burj.
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It just is made really nice.
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And the food there is amazing.
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It's one of the best Thai places that my wife and I like.
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It's her favorite Thai spot, I think.
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I'm pretty sure she said that the other night.
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And that's why I took her there.
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Uh-huh.
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Anyway, so I take her for the birthday and we're sitting having dinner and there's another couple right next to us, right?
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Earshot, within earshot.
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And at one point, Sarah and I, we start gossiping about someone as you do, having a little fun, chit-chatting about people, you know, because you got to badmouth people once in a while.
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And this thought crossed my mind.
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I just had this thought crossed my mind going, what if this person next to me, the girl was sitting closer to us on our side.
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What if this girl knows me from some show?
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or Sarah, you know, we're both fairly public figures.
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What if she knows us?
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And she hears us talking about like this and she goes, wow, I thought these were nice people.
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But look at them.
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They're just cribbing about someone and really gossiping and badmouthing people over shit, you know?
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And this thought crosses my mind.
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And I kind of move on the topic elsewhere.
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It had run its course, luckily, as well.
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And towards the end of the dinner,
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The guy comes over to his girl and kisses her and hugs her and wishes her a happy birthday really loudly.
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And I'm like, that's sweet.
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And my wife's like, that is awesome.
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And he kind of turns half towards us to go, hey, I'm really because we were the closest to them.
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Hey, I'm really sorry to do this, but, you know, I just can't help it.
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And I joke because my wife had passed a comment to it.
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I joke and I go, hey, listen, man, I know I was looking at you.
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I'm like, please, please don't do that kind of stuff now.
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Now you've put the pressure on me to do something as well, like a grand gesture.
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And we're all having a laugh.
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And then they go, hey, we know you.
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we've come to your shows and the girl knew my wife and I both.
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And the guy remembered us from me from a show.
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They had come to this Valentine's show and we had kind of picked on them a little bit, particularly me.
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And they remembered, but they loved it.
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It was a really fun one.
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And so it came true.
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That thought that crossed my mind.
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Maybe something about trusting your instincts, right?
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Something told me this is what's going on.
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And so I knew
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in the back of my head.
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And probably, right?
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And he goes, I know.
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And I opened up to them.
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I was like, I swear to God, I had this thought.
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And they were like, you're lucky.
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The last couple that was sitting before you guys came in were really loud.
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But you guys weren't.
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And we were kind of busy.
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So we didn't really hear anything.
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I don't know if she was being nice.
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And I wanted to not embarrass me.
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But that's what they said.
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And we got away with it.
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But it just goes to show, right?
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Like what sometimes I forget and I think, who knows me, right?
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But then at the same time, I got to remind myself, I've been doing this stuff for more than, it's at least now since like probably almost 15 years, almost 15 years at least,
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And a lot of my shows in Dubai, you know, I've been doing a lot of stuff here.
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And and so it's it's kind of cool.
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You forget that so many people may have attended.
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And even if they don't know me as a household name, they'll recognize me when they see me from that show, which does happen to me often.
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And that, you know, it's kind of like half famous where they go, hey, we know you.
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And then they take a saying, you're the guy from the show.
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And I have to go, yeah, my name's Salman and do the rest.
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But they there's that.
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And so I don't know where and when I never you kind of have to watch yourself when you become a public figure to go, shit, someone could recognize me and make it a big deal if I'm acting obnoxious.
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Not that I do.
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I do.
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I do sometimes.
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I do.
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I get angry with people.
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And so it's kind of like I don't want to be one of those guys on a video going, hey, check this guy out.
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He's a comedian.
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But in real life, he's a bastard.
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Right.
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So that that's that's the kind of stuff that goes on in my head.
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And it does happen.
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So maybe I should be a little bit more careful when I'm batmouthing people gossiping out there in the public.
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I don't know if you've ever been busted for that or caught even without being famous.
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You can get into trouble, right?
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Getting the wrong thing.
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There was a time.
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Yeah, I got to tell you guys this.
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This was when I was doing my master's.
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We were in a in one of the courses we were put into a group, you know, one of these projects.
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And one of the guys was a little annoying.
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Yeah, we all kind of the rest of us.
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We kind of were like, oh, God, we got to tolerate him.
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And he was his biggest problem is he was one of those like he gets stuck to you too much.
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Anyway, we all get in the car.
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He goes off to his car and he calls me.
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And you probably can see what's about to happen.
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He calls me for something.
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I tell him, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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We put the phone down and we get and the other girls in the group, not that I needed to point out gender, but the rest of the group, they start talking about him going, oh, God, thank God he left, blah, blah, blah.
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And I chipped in, too.
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And.
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And he sends me a message after 10, 15 minutes going, you know, you should really check to make sure you've hung up properly.
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So he hadn't.
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But, you know, that's the kind of guy he was.
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He was listening in.
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What the hell, man?
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What about that?
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No one ever fucking judges.
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No one ever judges that, huh?
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That's bullshit.
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Oh, sorry for the language.
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But anyway, that's crap, right?
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So...
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So he did that and he heard everything.
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I was really embarrassed about it.
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We all were kind of like, oh, no, we feel bad now.
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And none of us at that time thought about the fact that he was listening in continuously.
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A little sly of him to do that, too, you know.
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And I was busted with that and I didn't learn my lesson.
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That's the lesson of the story.
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I didn't learn my lesson, but hopefully by sharing this story, you guys go, right, don't do that, be extra careful.
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It's a little easier with the phones nowadays with the hangup and seeing it with these wide screens.
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I'm talking about, I don't even know what phone that was.
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It was probably one of those old Nokia phones where you had to press something to disconnect, like really click and you didn't see the screen to see, oh, it's still on.
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And so on and so forth.
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So probably unlikely to happen now.
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I don't hear too much about people butt dialing either anymore, do we?
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Occasionally happens, but yeah.
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So that's what happened.
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And I'm just telling you guys, be careful.
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All right, you don't know who's listening.
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And just be safe.
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Cool, unless you really don't care.
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One of those people who are like, I don't care.
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But then you wouldn't be gossiping, you just tell them straight to their faces, right?
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That's what's been going on with
Middle East Positivity and Achievements
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me, man.
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We've been celebrating, December's an expensive month as well.
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Maybe I should rethink that whole, I don't need to work in December kind of thing.
00:18:24
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I'm gearing up for the new year with finally with some shows and dates finally materializing.
00:18:30
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And I'm very excited.
00:18:32
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If you're a fan waiting for the stand-up comedy shows from my side, keep a look on my Instagram page as well, guys.
00:18:39
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I'm going to announce it there.
00:18:41
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The rest of the stuff, when I look back at some of the stuff I did, you guys should do this.
00:18:45
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Yeah, I set very concrete goals this year and coming back to that, I'm just gonna say what really helped me to look at it in a positive way was to go, hey, like I said before, I made great strides in this, but also I could see the areas which failed me more.
00:19:04
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And so when I'm gonna set the goals for next year,
00:19:08
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And this isn't a management consultancy thing, right?
00:19:10
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I'm just a very practical person who needs to make things dumb and easy for himself.
00:19:15
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And I just looked at it and it just became so obvious to me, hey, these are the things that I really missed the boat on.
00:19:23
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And and so now I know what were the reasons I didn't and and and.
00:19:28
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And I got to put that up because those were some of the things that would have made the most impact in me getting to where I wanted to get to this year, I suppose.
00:19:37
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It has been a good year, though, for me, and I hope it has been for you guys.
00:19:42
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Like I said, after a couple of years, you know, to be able to go out gigging again, making people laugh, not be worried about masks and stuff.
00:19:50
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Just the general vibe in the Middle East is so happening and so lovely.
00:19:54
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I mentioned in my previous episode, I went to Saudi and it was great.
00:19:58
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I keep hearing there's a World Cup going on in Qatar, man.
00:20:03
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We forget this tiny, tiny, tiny island of a nation.
00:20:08
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just managed to host the World Cup and did it well enough.
00:20:13
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I know they're loaded.
00:20:14
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I know.
00:20:15
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I know they spent, if it's true, $200 billion.
00:20:17
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Yeah, but you got to give it to them.
00:20:20
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Yeah, they held a world class event in their venue.
00:20:25
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And I know there's a lot of negative stuff.
00:20:26
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I'm not trying to whitewash.
00:20:28
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I think they should be called out.
00:20:29
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And made to admit the wrong things they've done and the bad things that they did pull.
00:20:34
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But I'm sure every organizer has some history as well.
00:20:37
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So I can't just, you know, like completely write them off for that reason.
00:20:41
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I think it's terrible, some of the things.
00:20:43
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But you got to keep it.
00:20:45
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You got to look at the big picture at some time as well.
00:20:48
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Not to say anyone's life is of no value.
00:20:52
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It's still a remarkable thing that's happened.
00:20:55
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It's fed off to the whole region as well.
00:20:58
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Real positive vibes all around.
00:21:00
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A lot of friendship, a lot of traveling, opening people's minds.
00:21:03
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It's great, isn't it, to see that happen?
00:21:06
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What would you rather do?
00:21:07
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Have everyone closed off and not talk to each other and just be like, you did this one thing and I'm not going to talk to you and blah, blah, blah and blah, blah, blah.
00:21:15
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I think the more people go into these places, the more they'll be like, we have to open up.
00:21:19
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So it's great.
00:21:20
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I'm looking forward.
00:21:21
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This World Cup has been full of upsets and it's been great that way, too.
00:21:26
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So I'm looking forward to seeing the quarterfinals and the finals.
TV Show Recommendations
00:21:31
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I've been going back and watching some reruns.
00:21:33
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I rarely do that.
00:21:34
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But I've been watching the show called Chuck.
00:21:36
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It was a great show in the early 2000s.
00:21:40
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If you've never watched it, go watch it.
00:21:42
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It's got a great cast.
00:21:43
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A lot of those guys went on to do a lot of great TVs and movies.
00:21:47
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You'll recognize big names who kind of just started out.
00:21:50
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And it's a fun story, especially the first three, four seasons are legit funny.
00:21:54
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It's on Amazon Prime in the Middle East now.
00:21:58
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I don't know how many seasons they put up there, but it's a start and I was starting to watch reruns and it's great.
00:22:03
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Another show that's come back with season two, it's a new one.
00:22:06
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It's the Slow Horses Show on Apple TV, Apple TV Plus.
00:22:11
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The first season was amazingly good and refreshingly fresh.
00:22:21
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The lack of better words to describe it.
00:22:23
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And I'm looking forward to season two has just started.
00:22:25
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Apple drops episodes weekly.
00:22:28
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You can't binge them unless you wait till they're all done.
00:22:31
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But they always start off with two episodes.
00:22:33
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So they've done that.
00:22:34
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I'm trying to wait till at least week two.
00:22:37
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So there's three episodes.
00:22:39
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I don't know why that makes me feel better.
00:22:40
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Or at least get to like near week four.
00:22:43
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So I don't know.
00:22:44
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Anyway, those are strategies I use to watch shows that are released weekly.
00:22:47
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I am looking forward to that.
00:22:48
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That's a great show.
00:22:50
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Gary Oldman's in it.
00:22:52
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Did he just announce his retirement or something?
00:22:54
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Well, this might be one of the last things he does.
00:22:56
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He's awesome in it.
00:22:57
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So watch it for him if you're a fan, even if you're not.
00:23:01
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This guy's great.
00:23:01
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So, you know, you'll see how brilliant he is in this show.
00:23:07
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Watch that.
00:23:07
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So these two things are stuff I'm watching.
00:23:09
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Enjoy it.
00:23:10
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I got to
Signing Off with Good Wishes
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run now.
00:23:11
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I got a busy, busy day ahead.
00:23:14
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I hope you guys have a great weekend and fun and take care of yourselves.
00:23:19
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I will speak to you guys soon.
00:23:21
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This has been fun.
00:23:22
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Take care.
00:23:22
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Goodbye.
00:23:23
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Or as a dog would say, woof.