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To Dallas and Back
5 Plays1 year ago
Salman soliloquizes on Texas life, Eid Meat, and Dropping Pakistan's Cricket Team from Your Life.
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Cultural Confusion and Comedy
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I grew up confused about my culture and identity and felt out of place most of the time until I found comedy, which forced me to be honest with myself and I realized mostly I'm just an expat brat.
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Welcome to my show.
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I'm Salman Qureshi.
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Hey, hey, hope you guys are doing well.
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It's back to Dubai for me right now, and welcome back to the heat wave.
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It's so hot here.
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Why is this place inhabited?
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Ha ha.
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Why?
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I know we have ACs.
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I know there's gas and petrol and whatnot.
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But is this really conducive to human beings to live out here in this kind of environment?
Texas Weather Misconceptions
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And funny enough, I just come back from Dallas.
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And that's not exactly one of the coolest places.
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But the place, it was funny.
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I always imagine, it was my first time in Texas, and I always imagine, I've always heard it's a desert and the cowboy movies and stuff.
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I just thought I'd see desert, you know, a few cactus trees here and there.
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Which is another funny thing.
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Dubai doesn't have cactus trees out in the wild, at least not that I've ever seen.
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And I wonder why, who has knowledge about this, right?
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So how come there are no cactus trees in the desert out here?
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Is that like a specific, you got to be in the West near a cowboy town to have cactus in your tree, in your desert?
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I don't know.
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They're not out here.
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You know, I never thought about that till very recently.
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It's funny what aging does to you.
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You have time to think about these things.
Storm Fears and Misunderstandings
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Anyway, so I thought that was my picture.
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That would be just hot desert.
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Instead, Dallas, I don't know about the other cities, but Dallas is like...
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Green, man.
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It's like packed with trees.
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And thank God for that.
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Because the night I landed there, there was like this huge storm.
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Never seen before storm.
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Kind of the wildest storm they've ever had.
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Lucky me.
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But it was crazy because it was in the middle of the night and I hear the siren go off because they've got these sirens all around, right?
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For warnings and stuff because, you know, for weather warnings.
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I mean, you probably want to rethink where you live if they require weather warnings with huge sirens.
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So anyway, it goes off.
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And my first thought, I'm not joking.
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My first thought was like, oh, my God, we're under attack.
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And notice I said, we, you know, I'm already part of America now.
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I'm like, oh, my God, we're under attack.
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The aliens are here or the terrorists.
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Them terrorists, they're here.
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And that was my first reaction to hearing the siren.
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And then I look out the window, right?
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And then I'm like, what if there's a SWAT team coming and they're out to get me?
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I just came here.
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They must think I'm the brown dude in this movie.
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So I'm sitting there.
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I sort of got, this is what I thought.
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It's in the middle of the night.
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I have jet lag.
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I'm disoriented.
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What did you think would go on?
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Anyway, so then I look out the window and the room I'm in at my brother's house, it just looks out into a big field, you
Dallas's Greenery and Tornado Preparedness
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know?
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And I could see the cloud and the storm approaching.
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Yeah, you know, it's like a person was approaching.
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I could see it coming towards me and that was crazy.
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I've never seen something like that before.
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I've seen storms...
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in the distance and coming down but this was like it was coming to me man and and then it just hit us really hard for a while and it was cool um i mean no damage done not to um not intense property damage at least not to us no no particular thing there's
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bit of electricity problems in some places, but generally it rained most of the time I was there.
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I heard it's been getting hot since I come back, which says something.
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I don't know what.
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I'm blessed.
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I don't know.
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But it was quite interesting to see that and experience Dallas because, like I said, I just thought, I always thought it was just going to be this dry, hot, sandy place.
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It's not.
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It's completely different.
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And the reason I said thank God for the trees was because apparently there's a rule there.
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Like, you got to have a few trees.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, is what I heard.
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There are a couple of trees you got to have up in your front yard and a tree in the backyard.
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They want to ensure like when these spin storms, what do you call those storms?
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Not storms, tornadoes.
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Because it is tornado country.
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When the tornado hits, these trees kind of start acting as speed bumps for them.
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And the more trees, the slower the tornado gets over time.
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So that was quite interesting for me.
Driving Culture: Dubai vs Dallas
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Anyway, it was an interesting trip overall because, you know, every time you hear about any country in the news, you just hear the bad stuff.
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And it's not like that, you know.
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I walked in, went around the city.
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And one of the things Americans probably forget or don't realize because they live there and the grass is greener on the other side is,
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But I just remember how courteous people in general are.
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Most of them are actually quite nice people.
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In fact, one of the things I realized while driving was how less aggressive people.
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Everybody is there.
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Like there's less honking.
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There's more patience on the road.
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You might, if you're American, you might not realize this.
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You might just think, oh, you know, it's horrible here and the driving's bad.
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But trust me, you need to get out more and see what it's like out there.
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The world outside on the streets, it's not good, man.
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People, like the first thing I come back here to Dubai and the first thing I hear on the streets is a honk, right?
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The honk.
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My cab driver, he stopped at the first traffic light.
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And five seconds, not even five, two seconds, the lights just turned green and honking from behind.
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And I was like, oh, my God, I'm back here.
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And just people driving right up behind you and just trying to ram you away off the road or something.
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It's just so aggressive here.
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There is, like, you try, you miss a road, you want to cut in somewhere, people don't want to let you in.
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Don't use the indicator here, because that just signals to them to speed up, you know?
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It's a bit I used to do in my stand-up as well about it.
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It's still true.
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I forget.
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And over there, it wasn't like that, you know?
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It was just, people are just more patient.
Gun Range Experience
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And this is gun country, you know?
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Gun state.
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Like, it was the first time I...
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I went to a proper gun range and took some shots.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I'm generally not a guns guy.
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And I don't know how, I don't really feel like people should be carrying guns around so easily.
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But in a shooting range, it was kind of interesting.
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Some of my friends took me over and we were just using handguns.
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And I'd love to tell you what it was.
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I think it was a nine-
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M9mm?
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Or is that film for shooting?
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No, like shooting film.
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That's 9mm, right?
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I don't know what gun he had.
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That's how little I know about this stuff, all right?
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So it was so little about this stuff that I know.
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Anyway, it was just, it was interesting.
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It's a very powerful thing.
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It's kind of scary the first time you hold it.
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But once I took a few shots, it was kind of, it was like, yeah, this is cool.
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I wanted to see if I could get better at this.
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I wasn't.
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I was horrible.
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So, you know, if you do ever see me wielding a gun gone crazy, don't worry.
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Just stand still.
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Because I'll probably miss you.
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That's how bad I was.
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I was like, this shouldn't be this hard.
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I'm pointing it.
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I've got my hand steady.
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I shoot it.
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It should hit the place where I'm looking at, right?
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That's how they explain it to you.
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Except it didn't.
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My first few didn't even hit the target.
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Which is also weird because when you go into one of these gun ranges, they give you these targets to shoot at.
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You can choose your own paper with different pictures.
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We picked one with a zombie and regular one and whatnot.
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And then this one showed up.
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that looked like an Arab dude, an Arab terrorist.
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And I was like, this is so stereotypical.
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This is so wrong.
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This is so racist.
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And I was like, cool, we'll take one of these.
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I just wanted to do it because it was just so wrong.
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And so I shot some Arabs in India.
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As I'm saying this out loud, I'm like, oh, my God, I'm going to get canceled for picking that one.
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But but it was it just hit me how how I should have said something.
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I don't know.
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I instead I partook in this awfulness.
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The point was about shooting guns.
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I learned to load it like, you know, you hold it in your hand.
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It's crazy.
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It's crazy how prevalent guns are there and how I've always been kept away from them growing up where I did.
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Like, you know, just never held or saw one.
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Got my mom to hold one by accident.
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Like...
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We were over at a friend's place who was showing me how it's dismantled and how to be safe with it.
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And my mom was with us and put it in her hand.
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I should have taken a picture of that.
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I just gone, this is what she's up to nowadays, guys.
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She's all American now.
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But that's Dallas for you.
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It's just crazy America.
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And I enjoyed it there.
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I'm just glad it's not here.
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The country is so interesting on so many levels.
Sports Superstitions and Travel Woes
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I had the immigration officer pull me over because...
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He thought there was something, you know, to ask you for questioning.
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There's some stamp missing from my passport, and it kind of baffled me for a second.
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I was like, oh, no one stamps anymore.
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So that was the reason.
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They were very polite.
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Dallas Airport immigration was also very polite compared to the guys at some other airports I've landed in.
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But it was, you know, overall, it was just kind of just chilled out over there.
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And I have to tell you something.
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Every time I've been in the U.S., this is the second time now.
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It's not like I've been there 10 times or something during the NBA finals.
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If I'm in the U.S. when the NBA finals, this happened twice now, the Celtics won.
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All right?
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So putting this out there, the Celtics won the championship.
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Back in 2008, I happened to be there when the finals were going on.
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And this time around 16 years later,
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And I just, I don't want to take all the credit for it because I guess the players on the court deserve some of it.
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But if you're a Celtics fan and you believe you're one of those sports guys who believe in luck and lucky charms and all that kind of stuff,
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I don't know.
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I think next time Celtics are in the finals, just remember and maybe bring me over, you know, send me a ticket.
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Might be in the country.
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Who knows?
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Who knows?
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Third time, three times in a row, we'll know if it's true or not.
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So just putting this out there for particular Celtics fans.
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It's a win-win situation for everybody.
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I get a free ticket and your city, your team wins the championship.
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I mean,
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God, some teams pay millions of dollars to have that happen.
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So you're welcome.
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All right.
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Oh, my God.
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I do want to fly business class, though.
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Long haul flights without business class are punishments.
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I've said it.
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Economy is not economy.
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Economy is now treated like you're...
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I don't even know what word to describe.
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It's like prisoners, all right?
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You're treated like prisoners.
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You're taken, and it's a prison you pay for, for those many hours, you know?
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It's not a cheap service, all right?
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I just looked up some of the airlines flying from here to Dallas and return flights, and they're easily about almost $2,000, right?
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That's not a small amount of money to pay for a service.
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It's not.
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It's a lot of money.
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And yet, you know, the treatment of how you're sardined in and the lines, the cues you have to wait in and then having to endure, having to see business class being treated better than you or first class being treated.
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You don't even see the first class people.
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I don't even, you know, you don't even see them.
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Business class, you still walk through and you go, hey, this could be you.
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Maybe.
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Maybe.
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But first class, you're like exclusive beyond like approach, you know.
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And all of that, it just makes you feel bad.
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You're just going on a holiday.
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You're going on a trip.
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And you feel like you're happy.
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But then you go through all of this.
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And by the end, you're just like, oh, my God, get me out of this airport.
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Get me to the hotel so I can rest for two days, you know.
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And you get no rest, nothing.
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The food's thrown at you.
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The cabin crew talk to you differently.
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It's all just so...
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different that it's uh it just feels wrong for that amount of money if i went anywhere else i would be treated like a king like any other service i mean you know even a hotel would charge me for 24 hours would be far less than two thousand dollars um
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You can book a luxury hotel in that.
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And these airlines treat you like crap.
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Like everything they're doing for you is a favor.
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Like luggage is a problem.
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Your check-in is a problem.
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Everything about it is a problem.
00:14:25
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You know, just made to feel like chickens in a coop.
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That's all it is.
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And...
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Anyway, I'm back here, man, and it's hot.
Global Heat and Corporate Responsibility
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And I shouldn't complain about that anymore because I feel like the world's like all I hear in the news these days is about how hot it's going to be everywhere, how there's heat domes.
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I don't even know what that is.
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I didn't understand.
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I tried.
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I tried understanding it.
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I couldn't.
00:14:56
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But apparently they're everywhere and they're gonna trap more heat in the places they are.
00:15:00
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So you're gonna find record heat breaking summers.
00:15:04
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And I'm like, great, wonderful.
00:15:06
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I've always hated summer and on top of that, this is what we do.
00:15:11
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Thank you for not recycling and no, actually, you know what?
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It's not individuals.
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It's these corporates who allow this to happen, governments and corporates.
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I blame you.
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Thank you for giving us a hot summer.
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All right, thank you.
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It's ridiculous.
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You know, we have to go through this.
00:15:27
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It's just, ah, anyway, apparently everywhere is just going to be hot now.
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You know, there's no cooler place to go off to.
00:15:35
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And I've ranted about this a lot in the past.
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So what's the point?
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You know, I'm just saying I might as well be in Dubai now, which is just going to be as hot as everybody else.
Eid Celebrations and Social Media
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But we just had Eid, man.
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Oh, I completely should have started with that.
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But Eid Mubarak to people who just celebrated and listening to this now.
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It's the one with the meat.
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Hey, eat, eat Mubarak, as I like to call it.
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That's crazy.
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I just said that out loud.
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And I'm like, I just did this weird dad joke to myself and did a chuckle.
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that it just says something about where I am mentally right now.
00:16:17
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But Eid Mubarak, it's a good time.
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It's the one with the meat.
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And I'm just going to be a little controversial for a second.
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I just feel like, you know, this whole thing, and this is not true for Muslims everywhere, but particularly in the subcontinent, particularly in Pakistan, there's this whole big thing happening.
00:16:35
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about your sacrificial goats and sheeps and cows.
00:16:39
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And it's almost become like a, it has become a thing of showing off.
00:16:43
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It's so, it makes you kind of sick, you know?
00:16:47
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And I think we just have this weird problem where we think,
00:16:51
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Just because some people, I'm not a vegan at all, right?
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Look, the last thing I've tried in the past, morally, I have an issue with us eating animals.
00:17:01
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But I, man, I love cows, all right?
00:17:05
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Unfortunately, I show love in a funny way.
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I milk them.
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I barbecue them.
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I'm sorry, cows.
00:17:12
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You know, this isn't even funny to some people, but...
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It's in my head somewhat.
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It's horrible, but I'm addicted to it.
00:17:20
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I can't live without a good burger from time to time.
00:17:23
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But my point is, I'm a meat eater, all right?
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But even as a meat eater, I just feel like you don't have to flaunt it.
00:17:30
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You don't have to put this stuff up on social media.
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You don't have to talk about how you're, it's not a bragging thing, all right?
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It's not.
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You do it out of religion and culture and respect and everything, but you don't have to turn it into this monstrous, weird occasion.
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There's a whole story behind it.
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I don't know, man.
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You know what I mean?
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I don't know.
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Maybe just keep it off.
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online, all right?
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It's an animal.
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It's a living thing.
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Show it some respect, all right?
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Instead of turning this whole thing into a spectacle, it just says something weird about where we are as human beings.
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So I hope at some point we'll stop doing that.
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I don't see it happening, though.
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People just so desensitize.
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Why do you want to desensitize people to this?
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Some people go, yeah, I'll take my kid with me and...
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And they should see it and become a man or whatever.
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And I'm like, no, man.
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I've lived my life completely fine without ever having to take the knife myself.
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There are specialists who do that.
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They do it for a living.
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And it's done.
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And I get the meat at the end.
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That makes me no less a man than the person standing there cutting it themselves.
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It's an outsourced job now, just like everything else.
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You don't have to be a man about it by doing it yourself.
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Just let them do it, all right?
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And keep kids away from this.
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You do not have to make them desensitize about this stuff, man.
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It's got nothing to do with religion.
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It's got nothing to do with manliness or whatever the hell, whatever reason you've got up there.
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Keep kids away from any kind of violence, you know, as long as possible.
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It's just, I don't know.
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Oh, my Lord, man.
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It's crazy.
Impact of Improv Teaching
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Let me end on a lighter note.
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I was walking into a gig and someone walked over to me and told me how they had done a workshop with me a while ago with my improv stuff and they mentioned how that changed their life.
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And it's happened to me a couple of times before, and it's usually around the idea that, you know, help them work through just being more confident in taking chances, saying yes more, getting rid of the label they put on themselves.
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And it felt nice.
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It felt nice.
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But the feeling I really had, you know, whenever someone tells me that, the feeling I always get is relief.
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You would think it would be pride.
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It would be happiness.
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It would, I don't know, any of those things.
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But usually it's relief.
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And it's because I kind of always feel as a human being, I have no idea if this is 100% correct.
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You know?
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When you're teaching people and you're...
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you know, I don't know, like sharing some kind of idea about how to be, it could, it's, to some extent, it'll always be subjective, so hard to make it absolute truth, because also it might not be the right thing to do every single time, right?
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So behavior, human behavior, it's just so hard, and every time I talk to people, I'm like, I don't know, I hope
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This is the right way to be, you know?
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What if I teach something to someone?
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What if I'm convinced that this is how one should act?
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And then it turns out that, no, it was destructive for them or for me or in general for people.
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It's not the way to be.
00:21:07
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You know, kind of how like smoking wasn't considered bad at some point.
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No one was telling you off for smoking, I guess.
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But then everyone went, that's horrible for you.
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That's how I feel about teaching anything.
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And I just felt relief that their lives became better because of the work they did with me.
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And it's just like, whoo, that was a close one.
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Oh, man, teaching comes with some funny stuff.
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So stuck to teaching Matt.
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I never thought Matt.
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Don't know why I said that.
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All right.
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I'm going to end this episode with just a sad
Pakistan Cricket Fandom
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little note.
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I said happy, but screw it.
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A few words for Pakistani cricket fans who still support the game.
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I don't mean to be negative, but, you know, it's time to let go.
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The game's moved on, the money's invested, the country has bigger problems.
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Shouldn't be upset about cricket anymore, you know, just get on with it and get moving.
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There's a lot more in life to deal with.
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I see people getting so upset about
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cricket and these matches and stuff and I just go, it's not worth it, man.
00:22:20
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I'm older and I just feel like I wish I hadn't spent so much time on that.
00:22:25
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My blood pressure would probably be better and whatnot.
00:22:30
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It's a weird thing though, isn't it?
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You see these fans.
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It took me a long time to like
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everything turns into like a little cult in your head isn't it like the whole team your defense of it take any sport any anything and you kind of just go listen i just um i gotta desensitize myself from this like i gotta stop telling myself because the first few times you go you get angry and you go fine never want to see these guys again blah blah and then you end up watching the next match
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or you just kind of follow the score online.
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And it takes a while before you really pull yourself out of it and you go, okay, I'm actually completely done with this.
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So it takes a while to do it, but don't lose hope, all right?
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Life on the other side is so much more happier, so much more calmer, so much more satisfying.
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than being a fan of this situation.
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All right.
00:23:25
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So just lots of advice in this episode, because why not?
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I hope you enjoyed it.
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I'm going to cut off here and I'll see you on the next episode.
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Thank you guys for listening.
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