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People are Doubting Salman's Parenting Skills in Ep50
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Salman soliloquizes on Comedian Writer's Block, People's Views of his Parenting Skills, and Reviews TV Shows: Uncoupled, Surface and Industry.
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Experiencing Extreme Dubai Heat
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Hey everyone, it's Salman Qureshi from the wonderful, beautiful, sunny Dubai.
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Yeah, that's right.
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We're rocking it here in full.
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It's nice and hot and I'm sweating.
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Possibly it's dehydration.
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I don't know.
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I'll find out when I go to the doctors after I faint.
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But luckily we live in Dubai and everything is air conditioned.
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Except I stepped out accidentally for two minutes and realized how hot it really is.
Challenges of Comedy Gigs at Mad Cat Club
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You know, one of the things I always get confused here
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There's so many windows inside buildings and even your car.
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Everything's tinted here, right?
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So when you sometimes look out and you're in strong air-conditioned places where you're almost like chilly, all right?
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People kind of like really crank up the air con here.
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And for a second, you just forget how hot it is outside.
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And you step out and bam!
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It just kind of like just, you know, it slaps you.
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It's not actually it doesn't.
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I'm lying.
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It it kind of for two seconds.
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It feels good because the sun, it feels nice and warm on your cold skin because you've just stepped out of like minus 15 because that's what they keep it at, I think, or it seems like that.
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And then the sun kind of just hits you.
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And for two seconds, you're like, oh, my God, this is perfect.
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before you burn and turn into ashes or melt.
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It's a double punch.
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It's like the heat and the humidity.
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One, two.
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One, two, right?
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Yeah, right in your face.
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Anywho, it gets better at night because it's just one punch then.
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It's just the humidity.
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I've been gigging and I did a gig with the Mad Cat Comedy Club.
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It's run by one of my friends, fellow comics, and a really good comic himself, Migdad Dohadwala.
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And it's always a good room, fun, kind of laid out.
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I always get a little annoyed with gigs starting a bit later here than the designated time.
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But it's cool.
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It's what it is.
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And at the end of the night, I had a fun time.
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It was a good crowd out.
Inspiration Through New Experiences
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And I got to see some of the other comics doing their bits.
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You know, a lot of them working on new stuff.
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And, you know, sometimes I don't like watching too much because it's only out of pure jealousy.
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No, it's more like it's more I just don't want to be influenced about topics or, you know, somewhere subconsciously pick up someone's material.
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It gets hard.
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But I did.
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I ended up watching last night because I hadn't in a while.
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And it was fun.
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It was nice to see good stuff they were doing, really challenging themselves.
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And it made me kind of also go, oh, my God, I've been so lazy.
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I hadn't gigged in a couple of months, right?
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Just out of...
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being busy with other stuff.
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And with the podcast, with Sal and Richie doing the podcast and all kinds of stuff.
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So anyway, the point was, it was just another kick in the back about writing new things.
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And that's really important, right?
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As an artist, you gotta keep challenging and creating yourself.
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As a comic, that's the true satisfaction.
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It's when you can write a new joke and make it work.
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Because after a while, you create a bank of jokes that you know people like and they're your safe bets.
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But it's also a safe place that you can run off to.
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And that is a challenge, you know?
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That's a challenge.
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You get comfortable.
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And the audience will get bored after a while too, obviously, if you've got a repeat audience.
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And so I'm trying to like look at stuff.
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And my problem is I love creating jokes.
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I love writing stuff.
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I like thinking of new stuff.
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It's just right now I'm very uninspired.
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And I think part of it is just not having too many new experiences.
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I think comics need to travel more, you know, just gig tour because that really forces you out to make new observations, new connections.
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And I guess that's how your brain works, right?
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Like it connects so many other things until you've kind of like created new stuff, new material.
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And that's really why I watch so much TV.
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It's to be all right.
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No, don't.
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I don't.
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That's laziness.
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So anyway, I'm going to renew my vows towards my comedy career and try to write more stuff that inspires me.
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I know it's kind of like a writer's block and I really am trying to...
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get over it.
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And there really is no excuse.
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I know some people are just more disciplined.
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I am terrible about it.
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I catch my fellow comics making the same excuse and I go, listen, man, you just got to do it.
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You got to sit down and write stuff and hopefully something will hit eventually.
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All right.
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Something's got to hit.
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Uh, and if it doesn't, I don't know.
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I think it comes in flows for me.
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Like I try, try, try, and then I'll have like a purple patch.
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But I think that try, try, try bit is a bit that you got to keep doing before you hit the purple patch.
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And then the purple patch ends and then you go back to the same.
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The only way you screw yourself up is by, uh, not doing the try, try, try stuff.
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I think that could be a motto for life, your motto for life, motto.
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And just go, I got to try, try, try until I succeed.
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Oh, wow, there is already an idiom like that.
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Okay, cool.
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All right, I'm late to the party.
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See, this is why I don't like overly being exposed to too much stuff because then, see, subconsciously, I use something I know and I thought I was being brilliant.
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Luckily, I caught myself and so did you.
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And now it's a public humiliation.
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Okay.
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All right.
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Nice.
Reviving Bollywood Improvise
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Rushi and I are going to be bringing back.
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You know what?
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I'm excited.
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This is what's exciting me.
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Later on in a couple of months, we're going to be bringing back our Bollywood Improvise show.
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And I love doing that show because it was our kind of baby.
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And also it's Bollywood.
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It's always fun.
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And so if you haven't watched it, it's been very popular.
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We've constantly had to turn people away.
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And, you know, because we're so good.
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We're just so good.
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We had to turn people away.
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I've always wanted to say that.
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And what I like about it is that, or if you haven't watched it, what happens is we create a Bollywood movie with suggestions from the audience, and we get an audience member to be our hero on stage, the protagonist.
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And we build a whole thing around them.
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And there's dance involved and improv involved and a lot of shenanigans.
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I love the characters Ruggie and I play with these directors, inept directors trying to make this one last movie to save their studio.
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That's the gist of it.
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And it's really fun.
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And I was kind of disappointed.
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We did a really long run last time, two and a half months.
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And they were all the shows are full constantly.
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But I didn't, you know, the restrictions were still in place.
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We were still trying to be careful with the social distancing and everything.
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And that kind of took away from the intimacy of this kind of show.
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And I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the first time around.
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It was just missing that, you know?
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And we're going to be going back to the old ways.
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The days of old when everybody was uncareful and full of germs.
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And we spread stuff that we shouldn't.
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And...
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And yes, I'm excited.
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I think it's going to be great.
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So if you are in Dubai, and eventually we're going to tour with this show.
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We're working out dates for it.
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But if you want to catch it first, if you live in Dubai, keep a lookout on the Courtyard Playhouse website.
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You'll see the new dates up for it soon.
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October onwards, if I don't have them in front of me, I should know them.
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I'm doing them.
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Uh-huh.
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Anyway, yeah, so do catch it, man.
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It's such a great show.
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We're also working on some other things to tour with.
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Rishi and I are looking at Europe and the States soon.
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And I'm really excited to start getting back on the road, taking our shows.
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It's always, you know, you want to know if your show is good enough to travel.
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That's it's not easy sometimes.
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So you just got to go.
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I hope.
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audiences in other places will get it.
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And, you know, that's why Mr. Bean is so popular.
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That's why Charlie Chaplin is probably popular because they were able to connect with audiences everywhere.
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And what's that guy on TikTok?
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Khabi?
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I think that's one of his success secrets as well.
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So it's very cool when it happens, man.
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It's just a great, great feeling.
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That's me professionally.
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That's what's going on on that side.
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On the dad's side, I've been having a lot.
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This is bad parenting.
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But I noticed because Zion, my soon-to-be four-year-old kid, he'll turn four end of November,
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I noticed his T-shirts have started getting a little tight around his tummy because prior to it starting to get so hot that, you know, even hell's like, hey, you know, we might send some people over.
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And so terrible.
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And and so, you know, he hasn't he used to go to the park every day and do some stuff or something outdoors every day.
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And he hasn't been able to be like a lot of the kids around here.
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It just is way too hot to go out.
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And he's young.
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So, you know, we've been trying to keep him busy indoors.
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But.
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Yeah, you know, you don't get the same kind of exercise you do.
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Take him swimming a couple of times.
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But that, you know, the swimming thing, it's fun, but he's not like running laps in there.
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Right.
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And even that the pool eventually starts getting hot.
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We can't survive longer than half an hour.
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It's an outdoor pool.
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Maybe I got to time it better when the shades on, you know, the sun's kind of.
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creating some like there's some shade over it uh thing is and runs towards the area that has sun he's attracted to that bit and then he boils and goes all right time to go home but it was funny because my his nanny gerald she put on a t-shirt that was i i i really again shouldn't be laughing at this but i
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because it's funny.
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She puts on one of his t-shirts and she looks and goes, oh, no, no, no.
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We got to change that.
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He looks like Winnie the Pooh.
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You have to picture it, you know.
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I mean, I wish I could put up a picture.
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Maybe I should have taken a picture publicly, but shame my kid.
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I'm not trying to fact shame him.
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It's just cute and funny at that age anyway.
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And she changed his T-shirt then.
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She was just like, no, I can't have him hanging out like this.
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So, yeah, you know, the other thing.
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In dad life, that's been very interesting that I realized.
Adventures in Single Parenting
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So my wife, right?
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So she flew back to her home country in Scotland.
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She's in London right now with her family.
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And for various reasons, we couldn't work out, all of us going together.
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And Zayan ended up staying back with me.
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And, you know, I realized how much people...
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My fear, I think they think I'm inept, how much they are worried about that.
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Like it suddenly started creeping into everyone's conversation about the fact that Zion has been left with me.
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Because first, my wife kept going on about like keeping him safe and not letting him do some stuff that might put him in trouble, like get hurt.
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And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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You know, obviously, I'm going to be careful with the kid, man.
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I always am.
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And it's like, you know, I'm a pretty hands-on dad, to be honest.
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So I was really taken aback that this is how people, this is their view of my abilities.
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Because then my mom started, like she called me up and she sent me a couple of messages saying, hey, listen, you got to be, you know, you got to take care of Zaya and make sure.
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And I'm like, yeah, fine.
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Of course, you know, I'm going to keep him busy.
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He's going to have a great time with me.
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I've kept my schedule as free as possible as well for him, you know.
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And then my sister does it to me.
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And then this was the best.
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Gerald comes up to me and she says, you know, I'll skip.
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I'll skip my weekend.
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I'll not take my day off this week so that I can stay with Zion.
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He's going to be alone.
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And I'm like, hold on.
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I'm like, what have you guys been thinking about my parenting skills?
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This is kind of terrible.
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I have managed him alone before.
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And I do everything for him.
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Well, obviously not.
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I do less with the nanny around.
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But...
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Gerald helps out a lot.
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But I still was like, okay, okay, come on.
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All right?
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Like, chill.
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So I'm not going to kill him.
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And now I've been extra careful because I'm like, man, if anything happens out there, I'll be like, oh, we knew it.
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Right?
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So I'm just being super careful that nothing happens.
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Eventually, I had to push Gerald out.
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I was like, look, just go take your holiday.
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All right?
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Just take, I mean, your weekend off.
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Like, we'll be fine.
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And so far, he's good, man.
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So far, I think he's good.
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If anything, I'm the one that's stressed out and stuff.
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And I hope people will have more faith in my abilities.
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It did really kind of surprise me, take me back a little bit.
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Because I'll have you know, a lot of my other guy friends who just became parents or about to become dads come to me for advice.
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Not going to lie.
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Well, actually, they don't.
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I give it.
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I just realized that I'm just like, hey, you're having a kid.
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Let me tell you everything about parenting that I know because I raised one kid.
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And in hindsight, maybe I shouldn't push it down people's throats because every parenting experience is so different, isn't it?
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That, yeah, that's the truth of it.
Binge-Watching Netflix's 'Uncoupled'
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But the summer has given me a little bit of free time.
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I've been catching up on my shows, Netflix and stuff, and every other app that I can think of, Disney+, OSN, Apple+, I've covered it all.
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And one of the ones I really enjoyed watching was Uncoupled.
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It's on Netflix.
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Sara and I finally got some time to watch a show together, and it was great.
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So we went through it so fast.
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It was one of those where you binge through and you're like, oh, no, no.
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It's already over.
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We watch all the episodes.
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Although I've heard I think Netflix is doing the rest of the season or season two in Jan because I think that's their new policy of releasing it in batches or something like that.
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I don't know.
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A lot of shows are doing that.
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And I had a chat with Rami, one of my friends, and he said, again, fellow comic improviser, one of the smartest guys I know, and he was saying it's better to release it weekly
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And I kind of was like, no, no, I want to watch it all at one go.
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But I don't know.
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Yeah, maybe he's right, you know, because then the show breeds more.
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You kind of allow it to fester in your mind a bit.
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You get to think about it a little bit during the week.
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But I'm just desperate.
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Funny enough, all my shows kind of are coming out on the same day weekly.
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So that's maybe that's what's annoying me.
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I don't have a midweek show.
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People, streamers, what are you doing?
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Right?
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Release.
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If you are going to release it weekly, at least split up the days, man.
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So we've got something every day to look forward to because there's enough crap outside.
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Oh my God, there's so much crap outside.
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But Uncoupled, it wasn't brilliant stuff.
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It was a nice rom-com, light, breezy, kind of fun thing.
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I read one review where someone just shared it with me because after I told them it was good, they're like, but look at this review.
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It says no, it's not great.
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And I'm like, I read through it and I was like, listen, they're approaching it like it's supposed to be a masterpiece, like it's Breaking Bad or, you know, a serious show.
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And I'm like, some shows aren't meant to be just light and breezy.
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They're nitpicking on stuff that
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Dude, go watch another show then, right?
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NPH was amazing in it.
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Neil Patrick Harris, if you don't know that, I mean, what world are you living under?
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I've loved the guy since Doogie Howser.
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He's great.
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And he's brilliant in this show as well.
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In episode one, there's this short kind of monologue he does.
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It's brilliant.
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Just watch it.
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It's a good show.
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He's a 40-year-old gay guy.
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His guy leaves him after 17 years, and now he has to navigate the single life in New York.
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And it's fun.
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It's beautiful.
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Yeah, maybe it's about white privileged people as well, rich folks.
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But I enjoyed it.
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It's worth watching.
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And I think the characters initially that came across, I was like, oh, it's going to be just stereotyped, shallow characters.
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They actually develop considerably and you see other sides of them.
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So I'm excited to see how the show goes.
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I also watched.
Critique of 'Surface' on Apple TV
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Here's one that, you know, there's some stuff I'm watching like Surface.
00:18:21
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It's on Apple TV.
00:18:23
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First of all, I don't know how to pronounce her name, but Gugu Batara.
00:18:27
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She's done a few things.
00:18:29
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I first caught her in Black
00:18:30
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She was brilliant in that, what is it, San Juino, something like that, that episode.
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And she's done some other stuff.
00:18:38
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She's brilliant.
00:18:38
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She's really good in it.
00:18:41
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My only problem with this is, you know, it's just too long.
00:18:44
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It really was just a feature-length erotic thriller kind of movie, you know?
00:18:51
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And they've turned into episodes.
00:18:52
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I'm on episode four now.
00:18:54
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The fifth episode is coming this Friday.
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And I just kind of go...
00:18:59
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Man, I don't know if the twists and turns are really... I think I've guessed it already.
00:19:03
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And if I have guessed it, then that's exactly what I mean, right?
00:19:06
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Unless they have a real bombshell waiting.
00:19:10
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It's still all right.
00:19:11
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You know, nothing great, but not the worst show.
00:19:14
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I wouldn't say I wasted my time watching it.
00:19:16
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But the rest of this cast, like Oliver Jackson, Cohens, and Stephen James...
00:19:22
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They're just kind of wasted, I think.
00:19:24
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They don't have much.
00:19:25
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It's just too much self-indulgent at points or just too much overthinking.
00:19:30
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Like, oh, we've got this mystery going on and she might have – there's so many twists and turns.
00:19:35
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But also, we're going to take a pause to let her think about how she feels about horses.
00:19:42
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You know, shit like that.
00:19:44
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They tagged it like you don't know what to expect.
00:19:47
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Yeah, I definitely was not expecting that kind of pause in there.
00:19:52
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But like I said, did I waste my time?
00:19:54
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No, it didn't.
00:19:56
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It's one of those things that could have been sped up.
00:19:57
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It's the kind of stuff you look at and you go, this is why WhatsApp had to add that feature on the voice notes to speed up people talking, right?
00:20:06
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Some things just need to go a little bit faster than they did.
00:20:10
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And if you really ask me, the thing that did waste my time was this show, this movie on Netflix called Ren's Recurrence.
00:20:20
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It's like a Mexican movie, kind of well done, but predictable and not shocking anymore because I don't know.
00:20:25
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I think Game of Thrones has really made it hard to shock us with stuff.
00:20:31
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And OK, though, you know what I'm really excited about, though?
00:20:35
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is industry.
00:20:36
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One episode's out.
00:20:37
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Again, they're releasing it weekly, and I'm like, oh, no, I have to wait.
Excitement for 'Industry' Series
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But, man, season one was awesome.
00:20:45
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Some of the main characters, again, like they're shades.
00:20:48
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You hate some of them for their choices, and you like them, and you feel bad for them.
00:20:53
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So it's a real nice roller coaster.
00:20:56
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It's not one of those shows where it's Wall Street and all that stuff,
00:21:02
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you know over the whole big money stuff but it's not from top down it's more from these interns who come in and season two I've watched the first episode and I have to say it's already off to like a really great start so I think you know I'm really looking forward to what happens the main characters
00:21:24
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If you watch, I'm not throwing away, I'm not like, you know, giving away some stuff, but very quickly, they kind of start off as friends and then there's a bit of it ends on a bit of friction.
00:21:35
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So season two is starting off on that note and all of them.
00:21:39
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have these interesting stories lined up coming along.
00:21:43
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And I'm really like looking at it going, oh, this is definitely going to be good.
00:21:49
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And I like a little bit of like gray characters.
00:21:52
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Sometimes I like supporting like, you know, those the ones who are kind of doing wrong stuff.
00:21:57
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Just in TV shows, says something about me, but just in TV shows, I kind of like the idea of like some of them getting away with it.
00:22:04
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So I'm going to see how this plays.
00:22:06
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But if you haven't, that's definitely one to watch, guys.
Humorous Take on Fantasy Soccer League
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And last, you know, I got to say football.
00:22:13
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The Premier League is back.
00:22:15
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And that's awesome because I know nothing about football, to be honest.
00:22:19
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But I play with friends a little bit and I am trying to learn about the Premier League.
00:22:25
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It is interesting.
00:22:27
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And I have a team in the fantasy league, which I built on Google searches.
00:22:31
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That's the truth.
00:22:32
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So my results for week one were kind of middling.
00:22:35
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And I'm like, hey, so not too bad, right?
00:22:38
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Literally, whatever league I'm playing, I'm in the middle of it right now with a couple of friends.
00:22:42
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I'm in a couple of leagues with different friends.
00:22:45
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And...
00:22:47
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And that's interesting to me that you know nothing about soccer or the league or enough about the players to make really good choices.
00:22:54
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But I've managed to Google, thank you, Google, to allow me to create the right amount of team.
00:23:00
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Let's see how it plays out.
00:23:03
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It's a great league.
00:23:04
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I don't know.
00:23:05
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Let's see how it goes, right?
00:23:06
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So what?
00:23:07
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Even if I end up on top of my friends league, all it gives me is like a couple of months of
00:23:13
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talk time to put those guys down and then it's back to back to another season oh it's tough playing these fantasy leagues all right i'm gonna do some research this time i'm gonna see how well i do you know i'm gonna i'm gonna make an effort this time all right so anyway on that note uh this has been great uh you guys are awesome as always for listening
00:23:33
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Do let me know what you guys think about the episode every time and share it and blah, blah, blah.
00:23:38
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You know what to do.
00:23:39
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I'm going to head off until the next episode.
00:23:42
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Take care of yourselves.
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Bye.
00:23:43
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Or as a dog would say, woof.