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From Tweets to Threads
6 Plays2 years ago
Salman soliloquizes on the World Getting Hotter, Threads (the new app), and the TV show Silo!
Join Salman Qureshi on an enlightening and captivating journey as he reflects on the advent of Threads, the groundbreaking app set to kill off Twitter, shares his musings on the impact of climate change, and contemplates the idea of relocating to colder countries. Dive into Salman's exploration of the intriguing new TV series, "Silo," as he analyzes its themes and storyline. Prepare yourself for a thought-provoking blend of tech trends, climate considerations, and entertainment recommendations that will leave you both informed and entertained.
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Transcript
Introduction and Escaping the Heat
00:00:06
Speaker
Hey everyone, it's Salman Qureshi, you're listening to the Expat Brad Podcast and it's July.
00:00:13
Speaker
Wow, some of you are getting away for the summer.
00:00:16
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I'm super jealous because it's hot.
00:00:22
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But, you know, I always complain about it being hot in Dubai.
00:00:26
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And I had to go to Karachi, Pakistan, for a couple of days for some personal things, sad news.
00:00:34
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I won't get into that now.
00:00:36
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But what I will say is that
00:00:40
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I forget like the temperatures there were technically lower, but as soon as you step out, like you're slapped by humidity, right?
00:00:51
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Like it just comes and slaps you like right in the face and in your hair.
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And it doesn't matter how long I brush it or whatever.
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I got a free perm every time I stepped out into the city.
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It was crazy.
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And, um,
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Yeah, I felt bad for my kiddo just running around in the heat.
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So that was that was crazy.
Comparing Climates: Karachi vs. Dubai
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And I actually landed back in Dubai.
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This is how bad the humidity was that when I got back,
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I walk out of the airport and as soon as I cross this outdoor area a bit, the first thought that hits my mind is, oh, it's nicer here.
00:01:29
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And I was like, this place is like 40 degrees right now in the daytime.
00:01:35
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I landed in the night, fair point.
00:01:37
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But still, it was like 10 times better.
00:01:41
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And, uh...
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And yeah, so, you know, thankful for everything.
00:01:45
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And then you look at the news and you see all this stuff about how we've hit the hottest day in the global history since, I don't know, ever.
Global Warming Concerns
00:01:57
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Or, you know, the last one was in 2016.
00:02:01
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And apparently we're gonna break that record a few times this year.
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Whoop, whoop.
00:02:06
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Just, it's getting hot, right?
00:02:10
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Everywhere.
00:02:11
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And I think I'm going to regret not moving to Canada now or immigrating when I had the chance because they're going to start melting as in the ice and stuff.
00:02:24
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They're going to have a lot more livable land.
00:02:26
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In fact, with the whole warming up, that's where the temperatures might be good.
00:02:33
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Whereas everything, you know, as you get near the equator gets hotter.
00:02:37
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Correct me if my science is wrong.
00:02:39
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Yeah.
00:02:40
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But there's no climate warm changing.
00:02:44
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Your science is shit right there.
00:02:47
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That's my inner white liberal person or something.
00:02:52
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Anyway, white liberal.
00:02:53
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They're not white conservative.
00:02:57
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So, yeah, it's going to get hot and it's all going to happen around.
00:03:01
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So it's going to be nicer, I think, in Canada, right?
00:03:03
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Because everyone goes there and complains about they all have these wonderful opportunities, immigrants like me who go and their country.
00:03:11
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They can't go back to their country.
00:03:12
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It's never going to happen back home.
00:03:15
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It's always going to be terrible.
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Just keeps getting worse.
00:03:18
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And they go to these nicer places and they complain and find reasons to complain and they complain about the weather.
00:03:25
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They go, it's cold.
00:03:26
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And I just think, yeah, just wait.
00:03:28
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I think at the speed we're going in three years, next year, I don't know, five years maybe, it's going to be perfect there.
00:03:37
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And every other place is just going to be hot.
00:03:39
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And then everyone who was an idiot like me and didn't take up the opportunity is going to sit outside and go, oh man, it's going to be terrible.
Rising Costs in Dubai
00:03:49
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I think a lot of people will move to Dubai initially as well because they'll be like, your electricity bill is how much?
00:03:58
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And it's pretty decent here.
00:03:59
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It's not like bank breaking kind of thing.
00:04:02
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It's a little high now.
00:04:03
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It keeps increasing a little bit, but it's all right.
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It's affordable.
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And so people are going to be, if I move to Dubai, I can afford to have my air con on.
00:04:12
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And so they'll start moving here.
00:04:15
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And pretty soon, we don't have natural resources here for like,
00:04:20
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I don't know, electricity?
00:04:22
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I mean, I know UAE has a lot of oil, but at the same time, Dubai doesn't, right?
00:04:26
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So then all this is going to cause bills to go up and we'll be like the people in England who can't afford heating.
00:04:36
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Oh, wow.
00:04:36
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I mean, I didn't say that as a joke, people.
00:04:39
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It's very serious.
00:04:41
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And so then Dubai is just going to be unaffordable, right?
00:04:47
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And here
Future Strategies Against Climate Change
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we are.
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Like we're stuck now.
00:04:50
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Right.
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Canada.
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Russia, maybe.
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Scotland.
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Oh, I. Oh, I just remember my wife's from Scotland and my kids.
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British as well.
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So I better get on that.
00:05:04
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I better move to Scotland.
00:05:05
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Scotland's going to be more.
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My wife has always complained.
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She hates going back because of the weather.
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She hates it.
00:05:10
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She's like, my whole life I grew up, it was gray and dull.
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And I'm like, hey, that sounds like amazing Dubai weather.
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What are you complaining about?
00:05:18
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And again, Scotland's gonna get warmer, so it'll be the right temperature.
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This is my theory.
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This is what's gonna happen.
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So we gotta move north, maybe south.
00:05:26
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I don't know, will Antarctica be the next wonderful place to be when the ice melts away?
00:05:33
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Should I go over and claim some land there right now?
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Foresight?
00:05:37
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How long is this gonna take, man?
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For my kid, maybe.
00:05:41
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King of Antarctica, or at least like a piece of it.
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Isn't it like a huge continent?
00:05:47
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I don't know how much of it will be left in the ice melts.
00:05:49
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Do they know that?
00:05:51
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All the ice melts and they realize, oh, this is a small patch of land that just had a lot of ice around it.
00:05:56
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That's the North Pole though, isn't it?
00:05:58
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Dude, that's my theory, guys.
00:06:00
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You got to have this backup plan the way it's heating up everywhere.
00:06:04
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And I don't know what we're going to do in places where rain's not coming.
00:06:10
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You don't have the facilities.
00:06:11
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It's going to be hard.
00:06:12
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It's going to be hard for everybody.
00:06:14
Speaker
So take care of yourself and invest in sunblock cream companies.
00:06:23
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Yeah, I just thought of that.
00:06:24
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I swear to God, I just thought of that.
00:06:25
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I'm like, that would be a good investment.
00:06:28
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People are going to pay more and more.
00:06:30
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Like, people will start buying more of it as we get educated about sun and cancer and blah, blah, blah.
00:06:35
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Yeah.
00:06:37
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Although, does global warming mean more sun time?
00:06:41
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No.
00:06:42
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No, I think that's separate.
00:06:43
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Sorry.
00:06:44
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My bad.
00:06:45
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If you already invested based on my advice, I apologize.
00:06:48
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I don't think the sunblock cream thing might be the right thing.
00:06:50
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I'm speaking through.
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You should know.
00:06:53
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If you paused.
00:06:55
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Oh, my God.
00:06:55
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If people paused at the wrong part of my episode, I'm going to pause this episode and invest in sunblock cream right now.
00:07:02
Speaker
Then I...
00:07:03
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apologize.
00:07:04
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We've made a mistake.
00:07:06
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And I hope you don't sell at a loss.
00:07:09
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I'm just thinking this shit out loud.
00:07:10
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Like, is it going to be like that?
00:07:13
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What else would change with all this global warming and stuff?
00:07:17
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Like, it's hotter.
00:07:20
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People, more comfortable clothing?
00:07:23
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I don't know.
00:07:24
Speaker
Should we invest in cotton?
00:07:29
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A water bottle companies?
00:07:31
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Oh, that's evil, isn't it?
00:07:32
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They're like sucking the earth dry.
00:07:34
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It's so funny.
00:07:35
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Like you see these companies and they're like, we all know we're all part of it and there's nothing.
00:07:40
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We're heading like straight into a car crash and we're all like, oh, we got a break.
00:07:51
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But none of us are willing to put the foot on the break.
00:07:54
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And when I say us,
00:07:56
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I have always said the same thing.
00:07:58
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All right.
00:07:59
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At an individual level, I've given up.
00:08:02
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I don't think anything I do at this point is going to make any difference to any of this.
00:08:09
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I'm talking about the people in control, in power, the decision makers, the people who should be making this happen.
00:08:18
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Man, if their foot's on the brake and they're just like, you know what?
00:08:23
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I'm going to lift my foot off the brake and move it towards the accelerator and the pedal and just...
00:08:30
Speaker
Yeah, just nicely just press onto that.
00:08:33
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That's what's happening.
00:08:35
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And so I'm trying to now just enjoy those few moments before we head into that crash.
00:08:41
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Or I'm kind of looking around and going, should I invest in a good safety helmet?
00:08:47
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That's what I'm doing.
00:08:49
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I'm trying to have fun.
00:08:50
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before it all goes down and it happens.
00:08:54
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And I don't know.
00:08:55
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I don't know.
00:08:55
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Like I at this point, I also realize I won't be rich enough to be at the billionaire level to go off to
Living in the Moment: Pre-Climate Disaster
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Mars.
00:09:03
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I think that's their plan, right?
00:09:04
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The rich people are just like we've got they're not telling us everything.
00:09:08
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They've got bases on the moon and Mars and they're just like, yeah, we're
00:09:13
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We're good.
00:09:14
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We're just going to head off as soon as things.
00:09:17
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They've got this alarm, like a measurement tool somewhere in their house.
00:09:22
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And they're like, when it hits this, the siren will go off.
00:09:25
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You'll get in your rocket ship that's under your house.
00:09:28
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And you'll go off and inhabit the new world.
00:09:33
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Whereas the rest of us will be left standing back and going, take me with you.
00:09:37
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Yeah.
00:09:41
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So, yeah, guys, I've just spelled out what's going to happen in the next few years.
00:09:45
Speaker
So if you were making plans, you might as well drop it and become a beach bum.
00:09:50
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That's right.
00:09:52
Speaker
And on a brighter note.
Personal Reflections on July Birthdays
00:09:56
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It's like everything's going to hell.
00:09:58
Speaker
But on a brighter note, I've been hitting the gym, guys.
00:10:03
Speaker
I have to tell you guys, every time I start going on this path, I'm like, look, it's my birthday month.
00:10:10
Speaker
Okay?
00:10:10
Speaker
I hate my birthday.
00:10:11
Speaker
Personally, I hate birthdays.
00:10:13
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I hate my own birthday a lot.
00:10:15
Speaker
I've...
00:10:16
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As a child growing up, summer birthdays are horrible.
00:10:20
Speaker
If you're about to have a child, try avoiding the summer months for their birthdays.
00:10:25
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Just because my personal experience was in the summer, everyone's gone away, your closest friends and stuff.
00:10:33
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especially in July.
00:10:35
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And in August, they might be starting to come back.
00:10:36
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But July, they've all gone.
00:10:38
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You might be somewhere else as well.
00:10:40
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So it might be nice if you've got family and friends that you've gone to.
00:10:43
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But it never really works out like that.
00:10:44
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You don't have the same kind of big birthdays that I saw my other siblings have as well.
00:10:50
Speaker
And so my birthday was always like the summer half-ass thing, right?
00:10:56
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I didn't really love it ever.
00:10:59
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I find it more and more just not meaningless.
00:11:01
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I like celebrating.
00:11:04
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life and I'm not like a downer that way
00:11:07
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But it's my birthday month.
00:11:09
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And two days... So 2019, two days after my birthday, one of my best friends died.
00:11:16
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And so now I have that wonderful association around the time of my birthday.
00:11:22
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And other things have happened in July.
00:11:24
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And I'm just like... I've actually lost a lot of people around this month too.
00:11:28
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Not just him.
00:11:30
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A lot of close, wonderful people.
00:11:31
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So that sucks.
00:11:33
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I just...
00:11:34
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All right, it's a month where I'm gonna remember them all and bring some cake home and balloons home and celebrate.
00:11:45
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And also once you cross 40, you're like, do I really wanna be reminded of my aging?
00:11:51
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Not that I feel old, but it's the number, it's a number that keeps coming up and you're like, age is just a number, yeah, but it's a number and it's going up.
00:12:03
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So I don't know what I was talking about.
00:12:04
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It's like
Fitness Goals and Challenges
00:12:05
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it's my birthday month, so it should be fun in some ways.
00:12:09
Speaker
I've got nothing planned.
00:12:10
Speaker
Two days after my birthday, my family's flying out for a month-long holiday in Scotland and London.
00:12:19
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I am going to get to spend it here in Dubai.
00:12:22
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Wonderful.
00:12:23
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But it will give me some soul-searching time and a time to miss my kid and wife and kind of looking forward to it.
00:12:29
Speaker
So why did I start talking about it?
00:12:31
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Because I'm here in the gym.
00:12:33
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I've got like a week left, a little more than a week.
00:12:36
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And I'm like, I just...
00:12:38
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I just want to lose like half a kilo if I can in that time just to tell myself I'm physically in a better place than I was last year.
00:12:49
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Because at this point, I've given up on the next year on my birthday, I'll have...
00:12:54
Speaker
six abs or whatever kind of dream that's gone.
00:12:58
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But I just want to like lose a little bit, just a tiny bit, just to feel good on the day.
00:13:07
Speaker
So I'm hitting the gym every day now that I can.
00:13:10
Speaker
I've increased the amount of time of my workouts.
00:13:13
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It's helped that I'm not that busy with work.
00:13:15
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So it's kind of like working out from that perspective.
00:13:19
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But I always remember how good I feel after the days I work out, how good my body feels, how good my mind feels.
00:13:29
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And then I don't know why we can't just make it a habit.
00:13:35
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Everyone should just be doing it.
00:13:36
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And he said we got busy and blah, blah, blah.
00:13:41
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And then I read this stat, I think it was a Harvard study, that if you're obese but work out, you live longer than a person who's at the right weight.
00:13:52
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and doesn't work out at all.
00:13:54
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So that was quite interesting.
00:13:55
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Although I'd like to meet these two people and go, hey, how are you at the right weight level while you're not exercising?
00:14:04
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First, I'd like to slap them for being...
00:14:08
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So lucky.
00:14:09
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And then I'll have this chat with them, which they might not want to have once I've slapped them.
00:14:14
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I don't know.
00:14:15
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Maybe they're nice people.
00:14:17
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That's why weight stays off them.
00:14:19
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I don't know.
00:14:19
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I don't know their life story.
00:14:21
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And I want to just...
00:14:23
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hug the obese person in this story and go, I'm really sorry you're working out and you're still obese.
00:14:29
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And then you get to live longer as an obese person, which is, I don't know, like I hope you accept it and there's not fat shaming going on so you enjoy this life and you're not upset about it and you're at peace with your body.
00:14:43
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So I'm not making fun of that.
00:14:45
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I'm just saying it is a real pressure thing.
00:14:49
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Like I get it.
00:14:50
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Like any physical thing
00:14:53
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Anything you lack physically is so prominent, right?
00:14:56
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Because that's what you see in people.
00:14:58
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That's what we notice.
00:14:59
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You see someone with bad teeth.
00:15:01
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If your teeth are okay, no one cares about it.
00:15:04
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But if you have bad teeth, everyone sees that first.
00:15:07
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It's a thing.
00:15:09
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think about it all right i swear to god it's a thing you got bad teeth everyone's like oh my god that person with the bad teeth do something about it right uh but you could have great teeth then someone might notice but uh teeth is something and so physical stuff is something and i'm i'm not a tall person right and and compared to someone with a weight problem my thing is i can't do much about my height uh
00:15:34
Speaker
Apart from artificial stuff, what, wear platform shoes all the time?
00:15:39
Speaker
Yeah, walk around in stilts.
00:15:43
Speaker
I hate those, especially those stupid fashion advice that go, hey, if you wear these kind of clothes or these kind of colors and stripes, then you'll look taller.
00:15:51
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And I'm like, man, that's bullshit.
00:15:54
Speaker
All I got to do is stand next to someone average height and they know I'm short.
00:15:58
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All right.
00:15:59
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It doesn't matter how many stripes I've caught on.
00:16:01
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OK, they know they look at it.
00:16:04
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It's different.
00:16:05
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All right.
00:16:07
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So I understand that pain.
00:16:09
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I understand it better because I can't do anything about it.
00:16:12
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I recently heard about this guy who – was it in China or Japan who had like – was he an influencer?
00:16:21
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You must have heard this where he added like bone or something into his legs to make him taller by a couple of inches and he felt good about it.
00:16:36
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I'll be too old.
00:16:37
Speaker
So I've missed that boat entirely.
00:16:40
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But yeah, so the weight problem thing, it's a thing.
00:16:43
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It's just those two people, man.
00:16:47
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Just these people in these studies.
00:16:51
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I feel bad.
Societal Pressures on Appearance
00:16:52
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And he's living longer.
00:16:53
Speaker
Whereas this guy who's on the normal weight, he or she is going to die earlier.
00:17:00
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But satisfied, right?
00:17:01
Speaker
And they're going to get more...
00:17:05
Speaker
like sympathy, right?
00:17:06
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They're going to die and people will be like, oh my God, I can't believe that person died.
00:17:10
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They look fit.
00:17:11
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They looked all right.
00:17:13
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They were happy because I guess, you know, when you're that way, like everybody throws stuff at you.
00:17:19
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Whereas the person who's obese, they'll die and people will be like, oh, you know, well, we saw it coming.
00:17:26
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Whereas the sign says something else.
00:17:28
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So what's that all about?
00:17:31
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What's going on here?
00:17:32
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Huh?
00:17:34
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Well, that's weight and life and all that kind of nonsense.
Entertainment Recommendations
00:17:41
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I'm watching I'm watching Silo on Apple TV and man, so often they just nail it.
00:17:49
Speaker
They've got great shows coming out, whereas Netflix is just like just like vomiting stuff.
00:17:55
Speaker
And every so often you find like a diamond in there.
00:17:58
Speaker
But it's coming to a point where you're like, man, I am having to sift through a lot of puke to find that one gem.
00:18:07
Speaker
Whereas Apple is just like, you know, just nailing it.
00:18:11
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And Silo is, although it's one of those, it's kind of a, I haven't finished it.
00:18:17
Speaker
I'm four episodes in, but the season, I think all the episodes are out.
00:18:21
Speaker
It's one of those shows where they're living in an artificial world inside because the outside world has like been destroyed or has it.
00:18:30
Speaker
And I've seen similar stories.
00:18:32
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We've seen movies about the same kind of story.
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But this one's fun because it's really, although that's the world it's happening in, it's really a murder mystery.
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There's like some conspiracy theory.
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Something's happening and there's been some murder.
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So it's really about that.
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And that's what I love.
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It's at a...
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deeper level it's really a crime murder show which is the type of stuff I like it's well done there's there's great actors in there Rashida Jones from the office is in there that's what hooked me because I saw her little clip on TikTok not her but from the show and I was like oh I want to watch this because hey she's doing a totally different kind of role I've totally forgotten about her
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And but, you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert, spoiler alert.
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She dies pretty early, like in the first episode itself.
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So I was like, oh, it's not her show.
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Maybe in the next few episodes, she's going to come back.
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and make an appearance.
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I don't know.
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But yeah, so it's a good cast.
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It's a great show, fun.
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Obviously, I haven't finished it to know what the ending's like, but I'm quite close to it.
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And so that's my recommendation for shows.
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Check it out.
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Silos is a good one.
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Oh, and the other thing I woke up to this morning was Threads, right?
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So you probably have heard of it.
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It's the Twitter copy, and I hope it kills Twitter because every time I get on Twitter, I hate it, every little change.
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I don't know.
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This experience is being destroyed, and I'm not getting into the freedom of speech and all that kind of stuff.
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Just something about it.
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It's just I hate it now.
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And the recent thing he did about limited tweets, it's just like a painful thing, but I like text-based apps.
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I realize that.
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I don't have time all the time to get into video and stuff like the younger generation.
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I've just got busy timelines and I would love to do more video stuff, but text is easy for me because it's on the go and I can do it and I like it.
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So, but I was getting sick of
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Twitter and Facebook does not have that same kind of experience.
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So Threads has come out.
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It's awesome.
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If you're not on it, get on it.
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My standard username is there, SalmanZQ on there as well.
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And I'm really enjoying it.
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So far, they haven't destroyed it by, I guess they can't right now, with the whole, this is what you'll see, this is the ads you'll see, and blah, blah.
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It's very easy to sign up also from your Instagram because it's owned by Meta, right?
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So they will spoil it eventually, but for now, I'm happy.
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You can sign up through your Instagram thing and so you don't have to refill all the data and profile and blah, blah.
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You can just copy paste it across.
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It's nice.
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But it's already been fun.
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The first day has been fun.
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I've been tweeting, like tweeting.
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Well, what are you, threading on it?
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I don't know.
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That's what we're doing now.
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So I'm writing on it.
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I'm posting on it.
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And I've already pulled some friends.
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I have mixed feelings about one thing, though.
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I know it was easy to sign up with Instagram and you've got that follower count coming along with your friends and stuff, which is cool because I think that's how –
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why the other apps haven't worked because they haven't been able to get people to move in and find a community fast enough.
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This one does that because, you know, you already have a few people on there.
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But one thing I did love about Twitter was finding strangers and reaching out to people and making those connections.
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So I hope I don't lose that because I already have Instagram to interact with the people I know and Facebook and blah, blah.
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Twitter was always this unknown as well.
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And I've made some great friends like that, at least online, right?
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And
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so I want that to keep going, and I hope that doesn't get ruined or that does not happen.
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And yeah, let's see how it rolls.
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I really hope it works because I'm going to monitor this for a week.
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I'm going to use it a lot.
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It's so Twitter stylish that usability is so easy.
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As one of my friends, Rami, said, the bar is so low that just a functioning app is enough.
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I thought that was brilliant.
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And so, yeah, it's working.
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It's working fine.
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And I'm hoping in a week's time
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It'll be good enough that I don't – I'm going to quit Twitter.
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A few times I've thought about it, but I've just gone, where do I go to text this stuff?
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I like doing it.
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I really do.
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And so now if this doesn't crash, Twitter is done for me for sure, like 100%, and I'm really happy about it.
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I hope a lot of journalists and everybody just move over here.
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Let's see how it pans out.
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Like I said, if you haven't, give it a go.
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Try it because, hey –
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What we really need in life is one more social media platform to operate on our phones.
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Cool.
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That's what's been happening, guys.
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I've just been parenting.
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I've been checking out this app.
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I've been watching Silo.
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I've been taking it easy and having some fun.
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We do have some great shows coming up next Tuesday.
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If you're Dubai-based, come down to Rushdie's Comedy Souk at the Courtyard Playhouse.
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I'm going to be performing there on Tuesday, July 11th.
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So that's a show I'm looking forward
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to.
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And I hope you come down or spread the word.
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You can sign up for attending the show on the website for CourtyardPlayhouse.com.
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Cool.
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Do that.
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Meanwhile, I will be heading off doing other stuff.
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Take care.
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I'm running out of time.
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I'll catch you on the next episode.
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Take care of yourself.
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Goodbye.
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Or as a dog would say, wolf.