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Salman soliloquizes on Twitter, Red Tape, and Criticizing Athletes.
Catch Salman at live shows by following him on instagram to see all upcoming dates - @salmanzq
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Mixed Feelings on England's Victory
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Hi, everybody.
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How you doing?
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It's Salman Qureshi and you're listening to the Expat Brat Podcast.
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How's it hanging?
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How's everything going?
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Is life great?
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Are you guys celebrating?
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If you're English, you probably are.
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For those of you who don't follow cricket, England won the World 2020 Championship against the finals against Pakistan.
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And I say that with a heavy heart.
Pride in Pakistani Cricket
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Congratulations.
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It wasn't the worst thing.
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You know, as a sports fan and as a fan of the Pakistani cricket team or any sports team, right?
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Which team has always won?
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No one, right?
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So the thing is,
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You go through ups and downs and the Pakistan team has had their share.
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They played a few finals, they won once, I mean the final.
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And it's just, it's one of those things, it happens.
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And I think I'm quite proud
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of it not being a one-sided, embarrassing contest.
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That's all I care about.
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You know, when you see the guys on the field give it a real go, you know they're fighting.
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You're like, hey, they made this entertaining.
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It was worth it.
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But I really would have loved if that won.
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All
England's Sporting Triumphs
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right.
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I hope you're having more of an England kind of week than a Pakistani kind of week just based on the sports team results because apparently I think the England team in the Rugby Cup are in the finals as well.
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The Scotland's in something.
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I don't know, man.
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They're doing great.
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It's a purple patch for them.
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Lots of reasons to celebrate and drink, I guess, for those guys.
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Here we are now, entertain us.
The Twitter Conundrum
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Wow, you know what I'm having a hard time these days with is Twitter, man.
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So if you, firstly, I know, I know why do people use Twitter still?
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I do, I like it, I like blogging on it.
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It's not, if I looked at it purely from a social media growth factor,
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I'm not sure.
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I don't think young people are coming on there.
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I don't know who actually uses it anymore.
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If I look at my own following, I built my Twitter following way back, like eight, nine years ago.
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I had this huge blip and had a lot of people follow me at that time.
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And it's interesting because a lot of them are in Saudi and I think it's died down there, at least in that crowd that did follow me back then.
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So my
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Occasionally, some people react to my tweets, but a lot of times it's like sending it out into the void.
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And then I see people who do get a lot of interaction, and I think, well, what's going on with this place?
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So first of all, that's the problem, right?
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Why spend time on Twitter?
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I guess I like writing and that gives me an excuse to write.
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I should be writing more awesome stuff like my own standup material or maybe even a book, right?
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The amount of time I spent on Twitter coming up with tweets, maybe I should have just written a book.
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Who knows?
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Maybe I can compile the tweets into the book of Salman's quotes.
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But then I'm sure there are loads of tweets that would get me canceled in this day and age.
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When I finally get assigned the Oscars to come host it, that'll be my downfall because I haven't looked back through my tweets and cleared it up.
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There must be companies doing that for celebrities nowadays, right?
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Who knows?
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There we are
Social Media Critiques
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with Twitter.
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And now on top of all that, Elon Musk has taken over.
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He's like this dark lord dude who's taken over.
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Everything about him is villainous, right?
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If I had to create a villain for a James Bond film, in this day and age, it would have to be Elon Musk.
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Regardless of the fact that he's pushing...
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electronic vehicles on us, right?
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You would think that'd be a good thing.
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I look at him and I go, I bet there's some nefarious, like double,
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thing going on, a big reveal will happen and how we're all trapped in the Tesla car.
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That's what's going to happen, right?
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He's going to get everyone into Tesla's cars.
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We'll all be in it.
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And bam, one day, everything will just close up around us.
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We won't be able to get out of our cars and he'll have all the data on us.
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So he'll know just who to trap and we'll all be just his slaves then.
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Oh my God.
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And he and he'll send some of us out into space because he's got things there or he'll cancel us on Twitter or both.
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I don't know.
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I don't know what his exact plan is.
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I'm guessing.
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All right.
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And he's he's brought toxic toxic elements to Twitter that is saying something when you think about social media.
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Like, you have to be really terrible to take something, a platform, a social media platform, and make it more toxic.
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Like, that's a special talent, right?
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But he has managed to do that.
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And now I sit there and I go, should I use Twitter?
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And as the age old complex, right?
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Where do you draw the line?
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Right.
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Like I use all the other social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram owned by his.
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If this was like a superhero series, then he'd be the second villain, Mark Zuckerberg.
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Hands down.
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You don't have to debate these things.
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And then you go on to TikTok, which is like a secret Chinese agency.
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Right.
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What are you left with?
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Poor Snapchat?
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Snapchat didn't sell to Facebook, and now they're irrelevant.
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I think in the whole world, the only place that uses it is Saudi Arabia.
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I don't know why it's big there.
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Maybe young people still use it.
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I'm not sure, but it really just became a very niche thing.
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And I don't know much about the owners.
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You don't hear a lot of controversy around Snapchat, do you?
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Maybe it just doesn't deserve getting attention.
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I don't know.
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Or rather not deserve, but you know what I mean.
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Like it doesn't get attention because it's not big enough.
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But there you go, right?
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So you go, well, what do I do?
Ethics of Social Media Use
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If I'm based on that, if I stop using Twitter, I should stop using everything.
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Everything tech related can be twisted into a bad thing.
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Apple, Google, you know, you could just look at the bad side of these things, these companies and go, oh, it's terrible.
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I should ban them.
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And that leads you to, what, face-to-face meetings with people?
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Hell no, man.
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Hell no.
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I didn't build...
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profiles on social media so I have to talk to people, that's crap, right?
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Face-to-face people react in real time and I don't know how to deal with that anymore.
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I need like a minute to think through stuff and then respond.
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When it's real time, I fail way too much, right?
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I say stupid things where I don't say anything at all and people take advantage.
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So I just can't find myself doing this face-to-face.
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It's too much.
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It's too much.
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I
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For most human beings, I think that's asking for too much.
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Let's all just agree on that.
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We got to make this social media stuff work.
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It's a very interesting world, though.
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And anyway, that's that's my Twitter thing.
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There have been some celebrities who've left.
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There's some people who are trying to get people to this other app called Mastodon.
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And I tried getting on it, man.
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And I realized very quickly this is going to be like that Telegram thing that happened when WhatsApp had a problem a few years ago.
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And loads of people went to Telegram and they said, it's safer and more, you know, it doesn't tap into your privacy.
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It's blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And as soon as WhatsApp started working, most people went back because we're creatures of habit.
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And we have more following there.
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Just setting up new stuff.
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We just don't, right?
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Small obstacles stop us.
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So I feel like Mastodon, however it's pronounced, whatever this app is,
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It's just too complicated.
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Just signing up for it was a whole ordeal, man.
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So I'm unfortunately, while it's probably the right thing to do, I don't think that's happening.
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Then you have some brands and celebrities who are moving off.
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But then on the flip side, there are other celebs and people who are saying, no, we got to stay here and fight the battle.
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I like how they put it like that because then it makes it meaningful that I spend all this time on a social media platform and I just go, I'm fighting for good.
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All right.
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I'm fighting for the good side.
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So I better be on this.
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And, and so, Oh, look, a cat video.
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So that's my deal with Twitter.
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I'd love to know what you guys have been doing with it.
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Have you dropped off?
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Do you even use it?
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And are you listening to this going, why am I listening to this old dude using Twitter, man?
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Everybody's on Instagram and TikTok.
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Come over there, Saman.
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But I like typing sometimes.
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I still tap into my Facebook a lot too.
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And I don't know.
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Facebook sale apparently has billions of users, right?
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So I know a lot of people stop using it or reduce it or complain about it, but still must mean a lot of us use it.
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Who are these people?
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All right, so that's the world I'm living in, people.
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That's my social media stuff happening.
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And it just makes me angry that these rich people have come in and ruined it more or people who even got rich off it are kind of ruining that experience.
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And it doesn't have to be like that.
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Right.
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So if everybody would just calm down and just let us use this stuff.
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OK.
Golden Visa and Family Dynamics
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Meanwhile, some of the good stuff that's happened is I know some of you, if you watch my YouTube, if you haven't subscribed, man, I
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You'll find me on Salman Qureshi.
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It should show up.
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If it doesn't, tell me.
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I'll go jump into a well because after 10 years of creating a YouTube channel, I really should be searchable, right?
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You would think.
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So let me know if I don't show up or what shows up when you search Salman Qureshi.
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But the interesting thing that happened here, how did I get into YouTube, man?
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Where was I?
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Ah, yes.
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I was talking about the video I put up on getting the Golden Visa in the UAE through my wife, right?
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So basically, through my wife, she's now my sponsor, all right?
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So like I am now a taken care man.
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Is that the phrase?
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What's the phrase for I'm well taken care of?
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No.
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I don't know.
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You know what the line I'm trying to use?
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God damn it.
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Forgot.
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But yeah, my wife's technically on the visa.
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She's a bread earner now.
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I should just turn up to her and say, hey, listen, I'm going to chill out.
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You do the work and let me know how it goes.
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She's my Oprah.
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All right.
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So I'm on her thing and our kids and...
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We need to change his visa as well, right?
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So my wife goes into the office and she's like, the kiddo, he's also coming under our sponsorship.
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We're going to move him to the tenure visa, blah, blah, blah.
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They say, you've got to get your husband's permission to do that.
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You can do whatever you want, but the power remains with me.
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So she's like, why?
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I was like, that doesn't make sense because she's my sponsor as well, right?
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But they're like, hey, them the rules, buddy.
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So off she goes to, she tells them, she's like, look, the husband, my husband's also on my visa.
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And then they go, okay, okay, okay.
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Sure.
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And then it's all good.
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A few days pass by.
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We don't get our kid's visa.
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We go back.
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We're like, hey, what's happening with this?
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And they're like, hey, we need this letter.
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But you told us we don't need it.
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They're like, no, it can't be done without that permission letter.
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And I was like, all right, fine.
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So then we go, where do we go?
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Go to a typing center, get that done.
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Go to typing center, get it typed up that I give permission to my wife to sponsor our kid.
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Well, this sounds ridiculous, right?
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So we go back and we submit the letter and we're like, is this okay?
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And they're like, yeah, yeah, this is fine.
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We got the letter now.
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Boom.
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A few days pass again.
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Nothing's happening.
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We go back and we're like, yo, what's up?
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Well, not so much with that confidence.
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Excuse me.
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Could you help us with our son's visa, please?
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I'm not sure what's happening.
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That's the tone I use when I'm in government offices here just to lower myself and hope their ego doesn't kick into play and they get my stuff done.
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Anyhoo.
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They go, oh, we can't accept this letter.
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It's not stamped by the government and stuff.
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So you need to go do that.
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And you're like, oh, when did you tell us this before?
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So then off I go.
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to the Dubai office for, what's the word for it?
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Like, what's the stamping thing?
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The notary stamp.
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Yeah, that's where I go.
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Go there and I fork out 300 therms.
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That's about almost $100 just to get a letter saying, my wife, I'm okay with my wife sponsoring my child.
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And I know maybe there's some
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like legal reason to protect the kid not being taken away by one of the spouse, although I think they only asked the dad, not the mom for permission.
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And so I get that aspect maybe, but it was ridiculous, right?
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I...
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I'm under her visa as well.
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Like, she literally, in the UAE, she's now my sponsor.
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That's so cool.
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But we had to go through that and get stuff done.
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And I don't know.
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Like, these things are stuff that makes you go, dude, why are we still in this world?
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Things have progressed so much, especially in a place like Dubai where everything is so great.
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So, yeah, I just got to –
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Change this up, people.
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And I'm sure they will.
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I'm sure they will at some point.
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All right?
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So that's cool.
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Right.
Upcoming Comedy Shows in Dubai and Saudi Arabia
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I'm getting ready for, if you're in Dubai, come down to the Courtyard Playhouse because I'm going to be doing, the next few Mondays, I'm going to be doing the Bollywood improvised show.
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That's so cool.
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We take a guest, we put them on stage, and we take them through an experience of what being the protagonist in a Bollywood film will be.
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And it's a lot of shenanigans and mistakes and stuff.
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It really is funny, but it's one of those live shows that you'll have to
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get your butt off and not get to watch a Netflix, you'll have to come watch it in person.
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So look those up if you are.
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We're really working hard on it.
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We actually dance in that too.
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We've got a choreographed dance bit that we slid in.
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It's interesting.
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But I'm finally getting my head around the Saudi visa thing, guys.
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So I know I've been talking a lot about coming to Saudi and performing there.
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It's something I really want to do.
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I want to hit Riyadh and Jadda, particularly maybe the Hran, the mom...
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Cobra, that site as well.
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But it's finally coming together on how to get a visa for a year, multiple entry.
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And so I can go back and forth and do some shows.
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And I'm really excited about it.
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And I'm really glad Saudis opened up.
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They really have made it very easy now to do this.
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So it's very cool.
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And I'm going to keep you guys posted on that aspect.
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See what
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how my comedy travels there.
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It's really exciting.
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The place is really exciting right now.
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They're doing so many events.
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They're doing a lot of investment into arts and culture.
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And it just makes me really happy.
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So I really want to hit that back and have Al-Bake in Saudi.
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There's something pure about that that I want to do.
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So those are just keep your fingers
Critique of TV Show Trends
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crossed.
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I've got my fingers crossed that that stuff kind of works out.
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Yeah.
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And that's all I'm doing.
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I'm doing work.
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and I'm watching a lot of sports these days.
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I haven't had a lot of new shows and everything that I've been impressed with, so I can't really recommend something at the moment and flick through and see what's going on, but I had one show that I watched on OSN out here, Ex-Wife, and it's four episodes long.
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It comes back to the same thing I keep saying about a lot of shows.
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It would have been a great movie.
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And because they've split it into four one-hour episodes, it just fizzles out towards the end.
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You know what's happening.
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You're kind of over the big hump and the big reveal.
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And then there's an hour left to wrap things up.
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You're like, come on, man.
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You lost me at episode three.
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So it's worth watching except, like, the last episode.
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30 minutes is a drag.
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They just could have made it really good and sharp by making it a movie, which is what it was.
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All right.
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So everyone's like, listen, this is a great story.
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Great script.
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Now just elongate it to four hours, 10 hours so we can make some money off it or keep people hooked on for longer.
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I don't know what it is.
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This is funny how social media is going shorter, shorter, shorter.
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series are going longer, longer, longer on TV, two different worlds.
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And I wonder if young people are watching these series.
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I should talk to them more and find out.
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Right.
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So not much on that, but sports.
NBA Season Analysis
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I'm loving it.
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Lakers.
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Holy crap.
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That's a train wreck.
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Right.
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That is so that's like that's more entertaining than a lot of the shows and stuff I'm watching, like just watching this bunch of aging superstars just
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like running off track and imploding.
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Do you think they'll make a strong comeback in the season?
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I don't think so, right?
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I think LeBron needs to just get out of there because it's not going to happen.
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I think the owners of the Lakers, the management team just needs to go, this didn't work.
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We've tried it for a couple of years now.
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get rid of people, get those drafts in, get the young blood in, rebuild, right?
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I think both sides have got to go, hey, we got a championship out of it.
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Well done.
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Booyah.
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Because neither of them have time to go through this terrible season, even if they did and somehow they made it to the playoffs or something.
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What's the point when you next season?
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It's not like you're going to go, OK, we're fixing some problems so that next year we win the championship.
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Hell no, man.
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I don't think these problems are going away.
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I think they really need to dismantle.
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And that's the story of the Lakers right now.
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But the Bulls are the team that's really hurting me right now because they started off well.
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I was really hoping they're going to pull together things.
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I know the moves they made offseason, I was a bit like, oh, that's not really addressing some of your problems.
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And now it's coming.
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to show to everybody what's happening.
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But I really thought they started off decently and now they're like a point par 500 team.
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And I'm just like, come on, man.
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Start winning some games.
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They can.
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When they're good, they're good.
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They're fun to watch.
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And yet they're not clicking.
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But the horrific thing that's been happening in the NBA, what's happening with Warriors, man?
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They've lost seven games on the road.
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Curry is fantastic.
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But why are they losing?
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I have no idea.
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This is another interesting thing.
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They're under.500, I think, right now at the moment.
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So they're not even making the playoffs.
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I know they'll turn it around probably more faith in the Warriors than I do with the Lakers.
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But it's interesting.
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This whole season has been crazy, right?
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Utah Jazz, which threw away their superstars, are like topping the league.
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Is this an early season blip that's happening and things will turn around and go back to normal and blah, blah, blah?
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Or is this like a new world order or just...
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You know, people are just teams.
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Some teams are just, yeah.
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This is an interesting season already.
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I can't wait to see how it unfolds and finishes and which team eventually comes out on top.
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It's got so much going on already that it's fantastic.
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Will people make moves?
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Will AD end up in some other team?
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Who wants him?
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And the best part is,
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I get to sit on my overweight fat ass putting on weight while I munch on loads of fatty food and judge these athletes.
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That's the best part about watching professional sports people.
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That is the thing that sets me apart from everybody else.
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These athletes may be making millions, but they can't protect themselves from my criticism.
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That is a bit, that's amazing.
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They'll probably never hear anything I've said.
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They're not listening to this, but deep down, I feel good about it.
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All right.
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So so screw you guys and your millions of dollars.
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We need to stop that shit as well.
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I think the problem is these rookies coming in, getting 100 million dollars.
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And it's not out of spite.
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I was never in that league, so I was never going to be one of those people.
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But but man, it's crazy.
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What job does that?
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Right.
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I think it's time they got to sit down and go, yo, I think we messed that bit up.
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People should at least have two years under their belt and show some promise before you're allowed to earn 100 million dollars or something like sign a contract that big.
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Really, it should be that, shouldn't it?
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I don't know.
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Maybe then you go into player protection, blah, blah, blah.
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I don't know, right?
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And then you grow old and you don't want to leave like Ronaldo.
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Oh my God, that's unfolding right now and I can't wait to see what happens with that.
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Ronaldo's finally lost it and he's just gone.
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This club is against me and the manager doesn't like me and they're like kids.
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When you watch these sports things unfold, you're like, these are kids.
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They're kids fighting like parent and child fighting and it's ridiculous because I'm just like, you're paid way too much.
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To be acting like that.
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Just put on your shit and do your job and earn that money, man.
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Like no other profession gets to get away with that much whining or acting out like that.
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At least not if you're earning that much money.
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Actually, I take that back.
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CEOs, right?
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They don't do anything that deserves the payout they can.
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It's a losing game.
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We're all playing.
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Unless you're the one on top.
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And that's the truth of the matter.
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All right, guys.
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I think I'm done with this.
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I've spoken enough.
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I got a busy week ahead.
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I might be flying around as well.
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I have a few gigs to do.
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So thank you for listening.
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Keep a lookout for the next episodes.
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Take care.
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Bye.
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And as a dog would say...
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Woof.