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It's in the Numbers
12 Plays2 years ago
Salman soliloquizes on his relationship with math, looks back at 2022, and his Nanny going on holiday!
Catch Salman at live shows by following him on instagram to see all upcoming dates - @salmanzq
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Introduction and Parenting Challenges
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Hey everyone, it's Amon Grecian.
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You're listening to the Expat Brad Podcast.
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And I couldn't have said this in a more serious tone, could I?
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I'm trying to keep my voice down a little bit because between you and I, I just put the kid to sleep.
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And the last thing I need to do...
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or have happened to me is for him to wake up and me having to spend the next hour putting him back to sleep.
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Yes, Zayan has gone to sleep.
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Life is good for me.
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And I'm doing this episode risking my peace and quiet.
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So you all should really appreciate this episode.
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It's almost the end of 2022 as well, man.
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And things are happening.
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I normally wouldn't have to be this worried about Zion, but my nanny just left.
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Well, why do we say my nanny?
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Zion's nanny just left to her home country for a three-week holiday.
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Okay, first of all, first of all, let me just put this out there.
Handling Parenting and Burnout
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I haven't taken a three-week-at-one-go holiday in maybe, I can't even remember, five years?
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No, no, no, no, more than that.
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Maybe eight to nine years ago was the last time I put together that amount of time.
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Which says something about why I probably feel constantly burned out.
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Anyway, she's gone for three weeks and I'm not gonna lie.
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I am freaking out.
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Okay, I don't know where she keeps what anymore.
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She had to download this entire quick how-to guide of taking care of my kid again.
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Look, I might sound like I'm neglectful of my child.
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The truth is, I probably am.
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And this might be a good time to bond and pull up my socks a little bit and really get to know him because he has this really good routine going on with his life.
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A lot of it taken care of by the nanny because he goes to the park every morning, he plays around.
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He's on a school break right now, but otherwise he'd go three times a week to the nursery.
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And then he goes in the evening to the park on days he doesn't go to school, which means right now he goes every day.
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So that's twice I have to take him to the park.
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And on top, I have to feed him, bathe him, and clothe him, and keep him out of all kinds of danger.
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My nanny, like I've said a few times in my previous episodes, is very suspectful of my abilities to do that.
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Now, I do have a wife.
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who's also working and busy.
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So we do do, you know, we kind of divide up the workload.
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But the thing is, we're both freaking out.
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So pray for us as we enter the new year, riding into it on this very scary ride.
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And speaking of rides, you know, this year has been a bit of a roller coaster.
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I think
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One of the things that was very interesting for me for this year was how much of it was in my head or how much more aware I was of everything going on.
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I feel like either my memory of my past is really bad or
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Or I really am becoming more sharper in some ways.
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Like I just feel like I'm there more.
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I remember things in the moment more.
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I'm more aware.
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I'm just generally more aware as I grow older.
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And that's kind of cool.
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So this year was very aware, you know.
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I took the time to really sink my teeth into things.
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And it was cool.
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It was, it's been, if I hadn't been so aware, and I'm going to come back to this, I would have thought this year was terrible, like a lot of the other years.
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But it actually wasn't, you know, the numbers don't lie.
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And I'll come back to that.
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But in the meantime, I'm going
Coping with Rising Living Costs
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to come back to that.
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I do have a, I do, I am kind of ending this on a little bit of a sad note because not only has my nanny left, I also got an email day before about my rent being increased by 15%.
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You know, every time, every year when they do that, I just go, okay, but why?
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You know, it's not like my building is becoming newer and newer.
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It's actually becoming older.
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And as things get older, as much as I am so keenly aware of that fact now, things don't run that well and they fall apart more.
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So why would you increase rent?
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Okay.
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And I know the superficial answers.
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I know there's cost increases of everything else.
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Maybe the area has become a bit more in demand.
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You can say those kind of things, but very often it's also almost like a whim out here, right?
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It's just kind of like, hey, we got to increase rent because people have invested money in property and they should get returns.
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You know, it's the bottom line is that, isn't it out here?
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I really think that's the bottom line.
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And so I'm going to have to pay 15 percent more for my rent.
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Now, it's not a lot for me.
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in terms of actual numbers but when you think about it a 15 increase on a cost of something essential right it just it's it just angers you and i don't know how it works in other places but in this place it affects your electricity and water bill because they add this tax according to your rent amount so now they're now i've got another following follow-up hike
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Now, I wouldn't, if I was salaried, I would say to people, okay, so would my job give me a 15% increase?
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No, it wouldn't.
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Even if it did, it would only cover, it wouldn't be an increase.
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It wouldn't really be a gain, would it?
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I would just be covering up
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these other costs that have increased.
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So I'm basically at the same place I was.
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So why work hard at your job?
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And then if I, someone like me who works freelancing and works for themselves, the question comes down to then what do I do?
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Do I increase my prices by 15, 20%?
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Because, well, everybody else is increasing costs.
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So I might as well earn more as well because I got to pay for more stuff, right?
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Nothing is cheap and easy.
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So this thing just needs to be controlled.
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Yeah, maybe, maybe at some point in our lives, this thing will be.
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But for now, I'm just going to crib about it and pay up the extra money because what choice do I have?
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Anywho, that's what's wrong with the world.
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That's what I think.
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It's sometimes the people in power just that everything comes down to money.
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And maybe
Friendships and Personal Growth
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they're right.
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So the thing is, I've been looking at this year, like I said, and I've been very lucky to make some more friends, meet some really cool people.
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I think I've made an effort from my end as well.
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And with certain friends and shout out to them, Rami and Rushdie and who else should I name?
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And there's I'm always scared of starting to name people because I'm like, I'm going to forget someone, even though they become very close to me or very dear to me.
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And just because I've forgotten the name doesn't mean it's not true.
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But now I put pressure on myself to make sure I say every single person's name.
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But you know who you are, right?
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That's such a great line to just kind of go.
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Yeah, you know who you are.
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And everybody who has a remote feeling of like, yeah, I think I am a good friend of Salman will probably say at this point, yeah, yeah, he means me.
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So I do mean you.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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So, yeah, but these guys, you know, it's been great.
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I've gotten to know some of my friends better.
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I think I'm more, I've always been lucky to have a lot of friends, but I felt like I've made more of an effort than I have in my life.
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I'm a lazy friend, unfortunately.
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Like, I really love my friends, but I'm very lazy about it.
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And I think...
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as I grow older, maybe I'm just, again, like a lot of other things, becoming more conscious of it and thinking, hey, I really should pay attention and do stuff for them, you know?
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So it also meant...
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Trying to buy gifts that might mean something to them, really mean something to them.
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And that part's hard.
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But I am lucky.
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I married a very amazing person who kind of is aware more than I am and much more thoughtful.
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So Sara really like, you know, she always amazes me.
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She just knows what to get people or she'll look around and she'll ask the right questions and figure it out.
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Whereas I'm just like a guy by a tie.
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Right.
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It rhymes to write by a girl.
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by the world.
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Yep.
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I don't do well on those things.
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I've also, I've had a great time this year because I got to spend some quality time with my parents.
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Family's been very important.
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Zayan takes up a lot of my time, but in a good way.
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I love him so much.
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And no jokes there, right?
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Every time I say it out loud like that, I'm expected to follow it up.
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But I really do.
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I've been...
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Very lucky to see my son's growth.
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I've talked in my previous episode about his autism and the challenges of that.
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But honestly, when I look back at the start of the year and where he is now, I can't be more proud.
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I can't be more thankful that he's making, you know, he's really killing it with a lot of things.
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He's just a great kid and he's so smart.
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And I love that about him.
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He's just a really smart kid.
Family and Personal Reflection
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Who knows how to get things that he wants done, you know?
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He loves doing this thing where he comes up to me and hugs me and he wants something out of my pocket, like my phone or something, you know, because we've been very strict with his screen time.
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So he'll hug me and smile at me.
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Bam, take my phone from behind my back and just run off.
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So it's kind of cool.
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It is worrying at the same time.
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When I said rollercoaster veneer, my dad's finally retiring and I'm so happy.
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It's kind of scary at the same time because we've lost a few family relatives and my dad and mom are old.
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That's kind of scary.
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My dad's retiring.
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All of these things are like, shit, how much more time do we all have?
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Wow, do I sound really introspective today and sad?
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I don't know.
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I'm not sad.
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I've had, you know, I'm overall really happy.
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And I think dad's retirement will give him time to chill out.
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He'll get to see all the grandkids more.
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God, he's worked his whole life, man.
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And I'm really glad for him and my mom.
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And they'll get to spend more time with us kids and the grandkids.
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And that has to be a good thing, right?
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So here we are.
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I honestly thought my mom would take it a lot harder with the retirement because I think she always stresses about having to make changes.
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And she's taken it really well.
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I think deep down she realized, oh, this is what I wanted as well.
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So this is great.
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This is one of the better news that is happening.
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This literally happened as well last week.
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So my ears ending on a bit of a bang, like with like a lot of stuff happening, good and bad.
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And so it's kind of reflective of the whole year in a nutshell.
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Yeah, but it's happened.
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And, you know,
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We did a Christmas party the other day.
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My younger brother, to surprise my younger brother's new wife, I say new wife like he's had a lot of them.
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It's his only wife.
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They got married this year, which is, again, a very happy thing that happened.
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and it was her first Christmas with us, and this is a little embarrassing as well because we got her, like, a couple of simple gifts.
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She bought everyone something, and it was really cool and thoughtful, and throughout the whole dinner, my wife and I are looking at each other going, oh, my God, we should have got something much better and for everybody else as well.
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I told you I'm not good with gifts, man.
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Anywho, here we are.
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I think I've grappled a lot this year with...
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with the idea of things not being in my control as well and just letting go a little bit and doing my bit that is in my control.
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And I know this concept has existed for everybody for years, but it's a lot harder to do when it comes down to it, right?
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And so for me, there was a little bit of a breakthrough in terms of that to go.
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all right man um i i really am letting go of the problems or or the things that i i just you know they're not part of things that i can control which is interesting because again i'm an improviser i teach improvisation and a lot of it is about that and i am like that on stage
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But real life can be tough and it's a good reminder for me.
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So I've been really happy about that.
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Finally, like turn the corner on those things.
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It's it makes a big difference, right?
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Like you're just more happier in the moment as well.
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And you're just kind of going, hey, I really focuses you.
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on the things you should be doing and so i started doing a lot more of that um and that has been great so it really opened my eyes up to a lot of things as well i'm really excited about the coming year because uh amongst other things i've also kind of gone these are things that are really important to me right now these are things i want to put my energy in and i've been better at saying no to a lot of things
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which is scary and hard again for me.
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I'm a people pleaser, but I managed to do it, man.
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And, um, and the whole year kind of culminated in, in some big successes and changes.
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So I've been, I've been overall, it's been a, especially after the first two years, I see all these memes flying around about how people are still trying to process 2020.
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And I am too, to some extent, you know, it's like a trauma that you got to get over.
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And, um,
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And that's fine.
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But this year, I feel like a little bit of the luck has returned.
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And I hope all this doom and gloom talk about the inflation and although God, I just was complaining about my rent.
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But overall about like recession stuff, it's starting to die out.
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And I think I'm more hopeful of the future, which is a good feeling.
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And I don't care what the pundits are saying.
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I don't care what economists are saying.
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I have a good feeling about it and I'm going to stick with it.
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It's been tough, you know, because even health wise has been a bit of a yo-yo.
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I've talked about, again, my problem with the weight.
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up and down and I kind of am a little less than I was at the start of the year after having lost massive weight in between, which can make me sad, but you know, a win is a win, even if it's a very small win.
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My knees have been a case as well, but again, overall, I think I've done well.
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So I just look back and I go,
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hey this is great and and you know when i was in school in third grade i think this happened in the second grade or third grade when we learned long division i missed those classes due to some family thing and that forever altered my path and love for math
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because when i came back i couldn't grasp it i got so far left behind that i became afraid of math and never did well at it again until much later in university and i don't know what popped into my mind at that time that i you know i just put some work into it i guess and this relationship with math and numbers has been scary and up and down and i think naturally they don't come easy to me
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And that little bump in the road caused a big diversion for me, years of loss in the wilderness, if you may.
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But here we are.
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And this year, I used a lot of numbers for my own stuff.
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I spoke about it in the previous episode about using numbers and measurements and everything.
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And really, you know, as I'm sitting down and closing off the year and looking back,
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I am astounded at the changes that have come in, the impact that's been made.
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And like I said, and this is what I was talking about the beginning of the year, I could have easily gone this year as a bust as well, because I didn't meet a lot of my goals.
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But I was surprised by how much progress I had made.
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And that made everything feel so much better and motivated me to go, hey, I'm on the right path.
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Yes, there were times when there's been reversal.
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I've taken two steps forward, one step back.
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But instead of concentrating on that one step back, I've also realized I'm still one step ahead.
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I hope I've done the math on that analogy properly.
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Yeah.
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As I said it out loud, I'm like, I'm not sure if I'm ahead or back, but you get the point, right?
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That's how I feel.
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And actually, no, no, forget feelings aside.
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That's exactly what was the problem.
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I was always into my feelings this time.
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I actually had numbers to back it up.
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And that was amazing.
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And I compared things to the last couple of years.
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And I was like, wow, you know, this has been a decent year for me.
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And I know things have been tough the last two, three years.
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But overall, it's been nice to make progress.
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And that's what you got to do, right?
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Yeah.
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And so I'm kind of like falling a little bit back into loving numbers and stuff and setting up even better stuff for next year, you know, measuring every goal I'm setting.
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It really just makes you feel a lot more confident and motivated.
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So if you've been hiding away from it, it's time to stop running away from numbers because even when you run, you're clocking up some miles, which is calculated in numbers.
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I...
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I don't know why I that doesn't make sense.
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Anyway, the point is that it was that also is the fact that I could see I was making progress.
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It was also, you know, the culmination thing that I talked about earlier, that also made a big point because it's sometimes when I was getting frustrated with certain social media goals, for example, that I was like, I want to hit these numbers and I want to release these videos.
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on an average and I was falling behind or sometimes just frustrated that my numbers weren't being hit.
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I was astounded over the last couple of months when some things clicked in place.
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I was listening and learning from people.
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I've been very lucky.
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A friend of mine who's a huge influencer, one of the biggest I know in the world, Danish Ali,
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He has been so helpful in guiding me and teaching me and taking time to help me with videos and put me in his videos.
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So he's been the most generous person ever.
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And I love him for that, apart from our lovely friendship.
00:19:42
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And, you know, other people who've come together with me to do stuff.
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It really has been very cool.
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And I've seen it culminate into like the snowball effect has started happening and it feels so good.
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So, you know, without having taken those measurements and stuff, I would not have known where I was and what happened and what kept me going.
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I would have quit at some point going, this is not working.
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This video didn't do well, blah, blah, blah.
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So it's nice.
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I'm taking a bigger, wider, top-down approach from
Future Plans and Projects
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next year as well.
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Already working on some budgets and plans and tours and everything.
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So it feels good, man.
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2023 is going to be a rocking year.
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I'm finishing off 2022 going back and watching this series called Chuck.
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If you haven't, you got to watch it.
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It was from the early 2000s.
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It was only five seasons.
00:20:35
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I can't remember why.
00:20:37
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I don't even remember if I finished the fifth season.
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So I'm looking forward to I'm already on season four.
00:20:43
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And there's like these episodes where I'm like, I don't know if I watch this one or not.
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So after season three, I'm not like it's it's my memories vague.
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Maybe I watched it.
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uh really rapidly but it's also it's one of these series i watched when i was kind of like in a bad place in my life so it means a lot to me and watching it again it's a really fun show it's kind of comedic spy stuff going on um but with a nice twist and the story was really fresh at that time and really cool and the main guy was like a nerd who develops into a spy so it
00:21:19
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you know really good story good fun um hasn't aged too bad either so definitely one to watch if you haven't it's called chuck right now in the ue it's cat it's being played on amazon prime it's available on it uh none of the other streaming choices i know um that i use have it uh it's a great show watch it man
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uh any the other thing that that's one of the things and i've the other thing i've been kind of closing my year on is is i've been hitting the gym a lot in the last two weeks and i'm hoping to do it this week as well to close off the year if i can just slightly increase the amount of uh weight loss that i have overall this year and have just a tiny little bit of dent on my tummy uh i think it'll it'll be nice to go into next year on that
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And the last thing I think I'm closing off here really fun.
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One of my other close friends, Asad, who's such a mover and shaker, he had a great year.
00:22:16
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He was in a feature film that was released worldwide.
00:22:19
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I mean, how great is that?
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You know, kudos to him.
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We're doing a TV show.
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So before COVID hit, we had done this Urdu comedy show with mixes of things with celebrity guests and whatnot, you know, the whole late night show format type stuff.
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And we're coming back to do it with a fresh channel and fresh kind of look and feel and a name.
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So I'm looking forward to shooting that a couple of episodes before the end of the year.
00:22:47
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What a nice way to end the year, right?
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To be able to go out and film stuff that I love doing.
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My bits will be comedic and improv.
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It's a comedy show.
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So improv and stand up involved in there.
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It's I'm really looking forward to it.
00:23:03
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Urdu isn't usually the content, the language I do content in, but it is something I'm developing on the side as well.
00:23:10
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I'm doing some digital content creation in Urdu as well on the side.
00:23:14
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Quite enjoying that.
00:23:15
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Very difficult sometimes because it's not easy for me.
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And on the same and on that note, I'm also, again, obviously just developing my English stand up and digital content on that side, too.
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So it's been hectic and fun, but I'm really looking forward to the next
Conclusion and Holiday Wishes
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year.
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I hope you guys have had some time to reflect.
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If you haven't, please do.
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You'll be surprised how much good stuff was there in your year as well.
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And on that note, I got to run, man.
00:23:43
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I don't want to take any more risk.
00:23:44
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My kid might wake up any second.
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I'm enjoying the peace and quiet right now, like I said.
00:23:49
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So you guys have a great New Year's ahead.
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Enjoy.
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Merry Christmas as well.
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Goodbye.
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Or as a dog would say, wolf.