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Bionic Memories Explored
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Salman soliloquizes on Bionic 6, new babies, and watching reruns of 'Suits'.
On this episode Salman reminisces about the captivating world of 'Bionic 6', a beloved childhood show. Amidst the excitement of his youngest brother's first baby boy, Salman shares heartfelt memories of the heroic adventures and futuristic wonders of the Bionic family. Listen in to rediscover the charm and nostalgia of this classic series through Salman's eyes."
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Cultural Journey Through Comedy
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I grew up confused about my culture and identity and felt out of place most of the time until I found comedy, which forced me to be honest with myself and I realized mostly I'm just an expat brat.
Weather and Seasonal Changes
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Welcome to my show.
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I'm Salman Qureshi.
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All right, people, I've I freshly recovered from a thunderstorm and we're going into spring officially.
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Isn't that isn't that what it's supposed to be between like this time between April and June, July?
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I grew up.
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Without really knowing what spring was.
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I mean, obviously, I heard of it.
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I heard about the four seasons.
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But when you grow up in the Middle East, there's just one season.
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It's summer.
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And well, actually, maybe two.
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There was summer and then like lesser summer.
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There was a bit of a winter, I suppose.
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So maybe three seasons.
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I don't know.
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But spring and fall were just like these unique concepts.
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And I thought they were amazing.
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something that Americans have, just like McDonald's.
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Eventually, McDonald's came over to the Middle East and so did spring, or at least my understanding of it, because I just didn't know what it was supposed to look like.
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Look, when there are no trees around and you don't know what's going on and there's not a lot like animals and flowers blooming and stuff around you, you have no idea.
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I didn't know.
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I realized later that's what spring is.
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Now, it's easier to tell now.
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I know this sounds bizarre.
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It's easier now because people have gardens and like Dubai is more green overall, even compared to when I first moved here.
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And so you see different things happening and you're like, ah, yeah, spring, flowers blooming.
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All I had back then was date palm trees and they don't really go through seasons as much.
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Maybe they have like dates come out at some point.
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I should have known.
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I didn't even know spring and fall were two different things until like I.
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Obviously, I did, but it just never made sense, right?
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So now it does, and it's supposed to be spring, but temperature-wise, it's already starting to feel like summer.
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So forgive me for not getting seasons, all right?
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Don't judge me so much.
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Anyway, life is good.
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And hey, let's start off with a big question.
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Win.
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My family has a new addition.
Family Stories and Humor
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It's a little baby boy.
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My youngest brother just had him, obviously with his wife, because how else?
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We're still not at that stage where we're producing them by test tubes.
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Or are we?
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I keep forgetting.
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When they said designer baby, I'm not sure what's happening there with celebrities.
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But someday, maybe if I'm rich enough, I might have one and I'll tell you guys about it.
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I'll tell you the inside secrets of what's going on with that stuff.
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But for now, we had a baby in the family and he's so cute.
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His name, they've named him Isaiah.
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And just between us, I've forgotten what it means.
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All right.
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He's told me a couple of times and I forget where he got it from.
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And I think it was like a lot of debate over the name.
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As responsible brown siblings, my sister and I really tried imposing what name they should go with.
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But they finally decided on that.
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And I think that's why I tuned out.
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I mean, don't get me wrong.
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I like the name, but because I didn't get to choose it.
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I mean, why should the parents get to choose it, right?
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You married into the family, sir.
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And I know my brother doesn't listen to my podcast.
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It doesn't matter that I've forgotten the meaning.
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But it's a cool name.
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And then we fought over the spelling of it, too, just to make it worse.
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And then they decided...
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to go with the way they wanted to spell it.
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So, you know, it's not things aren't off to a great start that way.
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But I mean, these young people, right?
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What do you do?
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What do you do?
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No respect for the elders.
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But he's cute.
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He's adorable.
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Not my brother, the baby.
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He's he's a mixed baby.
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And they always I guess they always turn out cute, right?
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Like nature's trying to tell us, look, mix up and you come out more
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prettier and better and we still want to stick to our racist ways and whatnot.
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Anyway, so my sister-in-law is German and she's a great addition to the family as well.
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I love her.
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She's beautiful.
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My brother's handsome.
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The baby's super cute because of that, I suppose.
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But you know what?
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You know what was really funny?
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The baby is
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He's big.
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He is so big.
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He's like a seven pounder.
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I don't think any of us have ever had.
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You know, this is nice because all my siblings were five.
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We all now have kids.
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We all had late babies.
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So my youngest brother just about joined us now.
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Pretty late in the game, but oh my God, none of us have had a baby that big, man.
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He was a week old and I was already like, when's he going to nursery, man?
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He's just gorgeous.
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He didn't have that ugly, fresh, out of the womb, deflated look ever.
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Just straight up nice, round, cute cheeks and the best features from both sides.
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So I'm loving it, man.
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But you know what?
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It makes me – it's not that long.
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It's been five years since my kid.
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And I already was like forgetting things about what to do with babies and the care you need for them and how small.
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I know he's a big baby, but he's still really small and light compared to my little –
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bugger who still likes to be picked up and walked around and it's breaking my back.
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But anyway, different story.
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My sister, she's got a knack for it.
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She just remembers everything.
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She's at three, so it's more embedded in her.
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But but she's just great at it.
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Meanwhile, I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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They do have milk a lot.
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And my brothers, you know, it's really nice to see my younger one.
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Just just being a father.
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It's funny seeing your siblings become dads and or mothers and just going, shit, I know what this guy was up to.
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Should we allow him to have a kid?
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Yeah.
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But you know what I love most is just when they're new, when it's your sibling's brother, you have the same love for them as you would for your own child.
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And what I really love is getting to pick him up and hold him and just make him tickle and laugh a little bit and just make him smile and then hand him back over to his parents and go home and sleep in peace.
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Oh, my God.
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I love that stuff.
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I do not need...
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to go through this baby stuff again.
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It's much harder than I remember.
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Oh God.
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But yeah, that's a win, man.
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It's a happy times in the family.
TV Shows and Changing Perspectives
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My loser moment of the week is, well, it's not even, it's longer than a week now.
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I've been watching reruns of Suit and look, rarely do I go back and watch reruns of things.
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But I don't know whether it's I just can't find great shows right now or nothing really appeals to me.
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But I've gone to Suits, back to Suits like three or four times now.
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And I'm already on season five.
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I'm binging it again.
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But what I like is that I know it's going through a resurgence or went through it last year, maybe because it was fresh on Netflix.
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It's interesting to me because I loved the show when it first came out and not as many friends or family had watched it.
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But it's great.
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You know, one of the things I found interesting was that watching it this time, like, I was team Mike more early on, at least the first time I watched it.
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And I've never finished it.
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I've never watched it last season because Mike leaves and I kind of lost interest.
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But now when I rewatch it, I'm like, Mike's such a whiner.
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Every time something comes up, he's just like, my parents died in the car, so I want to make them pay for this.
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And I'm like, I get it.
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But I'm also like, oh, God, shut up, man.
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Like, move on, man.
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It sounds horrible when I say it.
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I've kind of swung more strongly towards Team Harvey now.
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I'm just like, yeah, he's the man.
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I think as I grow older, I'm worried I'm going to become more Republican or something.
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Please keep me in check with those things, right?
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Yeah, but it's a great show.
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It still is.
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I still enjoy it.
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But the fact that I'm watching reruns and not doing something productive, deep down inside, I feel bad about it.
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So...
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There you go.
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They're, you know, good things and bad things.
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All right.
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Anyway, listen.
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Listen, today's episode is special.
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All right?
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It's Bionic 6.
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If you don't know what Bionic 6 is...
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I'm actually not surprised.
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It was huge for me when I was growing up.
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It was one of the shows I watched over and over again.
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I had it on VHS tapes, and I think I spent all summer for a few years every time going back and watching it again and again and again.
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And I realized only very recently.
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that it actually was just two seasons long and there are like about 65 episodes in there.
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It felt like it went on for years for me.
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I guess 65 episodes is a lot, but I really thought it went on for a number of years, man.
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The reason the show, you might not have heard about it and why it got canceled wasn't because it wasn't great.
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It was a great show.
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But the problem was, I think, on some production side, the team that made it, apparently they were like top-notch writers and creators and stuff that got together for this one.
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And then the production house that was doing it, I think, got sold off or something.
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You know, one of those things happened, and it got lost in the middle or just got shelved because of that.
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Which is a shame because I think if it had gone on a couple more years, it would have been as it would have had a cult as big as for Ninja Turtles or whatever.
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Because it was it had everything, man.
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Look, if you haven't watched, I'll tell you.
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Right.
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It's about a family of six people, Bionic Six.
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And I think it's one of the reasons I resonated with it a lot is because we were a family of seven, a bunch of siblings, you know.
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And so they were they were fine.
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four siblings and we were five and you know just kind of like it kind of like I felt like we were there we were part of this we were bionics seven six you get what I mean right so it was it's quite relatable that way and then the story was really cool it was um
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The dad starts off.
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Look, so there's this Professor Sharp who runs, I think it was called a special units, special science unit, something like that, some lab, special units lab.
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It doesn't matter.
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He creates these bionic creations and energy, and he researches all that kind of stuff.
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And then the dad, he becomes bionic one, so he's kind of like secretly, I think only the mom knows, and he's secretly saving the world while pretending to work, the whole Superman stuff.
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But it's pretty cool.
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And then this incident happens, and all the family...
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has to be infused with the bionic powers because otherwise they'll die.
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You know, had to do it.
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And so now they all become like characters in this thing and they fight evil as a family, which is really cool.
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And they have cool names and cool costumes.
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And the way they turn into like the bionic six was always cool.
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Just check this sound clip out.
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That's them basically, like, they do this kind of cool move where they shuffle their arms around.
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You got to go online and watch it.
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And then at the final bit, they click the ring on their right finger with the wristwatch on their left, and they say what you just heard.
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And then they turn, like, you know, they're in regular clothes, and they turn into the Bionic 6.
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And then they had, like, cool names, like, well, kind of.
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I look back at it now, I'm like, some of them didn't.
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Like, Mother was Mother 1.
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Father wasn't father one, but mother one was mother one.
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And she had the latest powers, I think.
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And then you had a sports one who was, yeah, basically very cool.
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I think he was one of my favorites.
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And then the sister was called Rock One.
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And then it gets funnier because then there was another son named IQ.
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He was in IQ1.
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I don't know why that happened.
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He was also, the rest of them are white.
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He's an Afro-American and so probably adopted, right?
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And I think that's why he didn't have one because they were like, look, we love you and shit, but we're not giving you our last superhero family name or something.
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So he was just IQ.
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But at least it wasn't, you know, to be fair, the show didn't make the black guy the brood, typical kind of thing.
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He was actually the smartest out of them and polite and everything.
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And strong at the same time.
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So a little bit of that.
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Anyway, and then, oh, sorry, the youngest one was also karate one.
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And you might immediately picture a Far Eastern kid.
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And you're right.
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So much for not being so stereotypical.
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Oh, but he got...
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He got to have karate one in it.
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One was in his name.
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Well, I don't know, man.
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I guess the Asian kid was treated better than the Afro-American kid by this family.
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So those are your characters.
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And they had this gigantic gorilla robot at home as well.
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Was it called Fufu, something like that?
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And he was one of my favorites.
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But he made it so obvious that this is the Bionic Six family.
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I bring that up for a reason, all right?
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Let me give you a little bit more background.
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They're arch enemies where... And they had cool enemies.
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They had this guy called Dr. Scarab.
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And he was the brother of Professor Sharp, the guy I mentioned earlier.
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But he was like... He's...
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like the mad scientist version of it.
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And it was quite funny because the professor shop, the hero was tall, lanky and typical like glasses nerd scientist looking.
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And then the brother was like round, fat and short.
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And so I guess those were kind of cool, funny stereotypes they did.
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And he had this, the younger brother, Dr. Scarab, had this, had this like fixation about wanting to be the smarter one and everything.
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And so he decides to conquer the world.
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But much like Shredder, he couldn't get the formula right.
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And so his henchmen were, often had the powers, but not,
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as smart or worked as well as Bionic 6, and that's why they kept failing.
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Yeah, there were a lot of similarities, and I think this came before Ninja Turtles, so maybe they stole that from this, or it's just a common use theme in anime and everything.
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I don't know, enough.
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But that was the background, and he had interesting henchmen, this guy called Chopper, who'd go...
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Every time he'd speak, he'd be like, I'm going there.
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I found all this cool back then.
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It's starting to sound silly.
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Then he had this guy like Glove who was one of those characters.
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They always have this evil guy with a right-hand guy who wants to take over secretly, right?
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G.I.
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Joe, I think, had it.
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I guess Ninja Turtles, Shredder, Krang and Shredder.
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shredder maybe they were kind of like that you get the point um but he keeps failing and and that's the show right so the the battles between them and it's a great show i don't know how like i said if it had run a bit longer i think there'd be a cult and it would have been turned into a movie for sure i still think it should be picked up and revived because it the story and the characters and the tech it was ahead of its time and it was still
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like be cool right now it would still like it had great stories and everything going in there and i remember a lot of the episodes in there with the storyline not just because i re-watched it a lot but they just stuck you know they they had like cool interesting themes in the episodes uh where you're having fun and that's hard to do for particularly kids shows right they they had some like
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All the funny stuff and action and everything.
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But they also sometimes had these cool things to think about and message.
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And I always think that's why some things stick for kids and you shouldn't dump stuff down for them.
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Yeah.
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So so I loved it.
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And and like I said, we would have done better.
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But there was one there's one thing they probably need to change if they brought the show back.
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All right.
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And it was this.
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There's this, you know, the whole Superman Clark Kent joke that goes around about him just putting on glasses and covering it up.
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Well, these guys tried even less.
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It's really bad.
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Like they did not have any.
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Even the Ninja Turtles had that stupid eye mask.
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These guys did nothing.
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They walked around as a family.
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So obvious because they've got this two adopted kids with them.
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Sometimes even the gigantic robot.
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At home, right?
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And they just walk around.
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Oh, and the gigantic robot has the Bionic 6 logo on his chest.
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Maybe he didn't go out in public as much, but I don't know.
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He was there right with them.
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And so they always walk around and then...
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So no one ever recognizes them.
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They just walk and people walk by them in busy areas and stuff.
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And then some disaster happens.
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Right.
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And they go, shit, we need to turn into Bionic Six and to do it right in front.
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They don't even have the Superman thing of like running into the phone booth and changing costumes and coming out.
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Nope.
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They just stand there in the middle as people are running around and they do the whole Bionic Six thing.
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Which is really funny, because right after they change, people go, oh, the Bionic 6 are here.
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Dude, there are episodes where they do it publicly.
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There's an episode where Scarab, like, crashes this teen party, and he suspects the Bionic 6 kids are there.
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And it's, like, their faces are so obvious, but they're, like, checking everyone, going, hmm, maybe it's this one, maybe it's that one.
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And then they mistake this other blonde kid.
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Sports 1 is a blonde guy for being Sports 1.
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I'm just like...
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Yeah, this was pretty stupid.
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This bit, this one thing was just really dumb about the show.
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Why?
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Why did they do that kind of stuff?
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Anyway, so that's one thing that wouldn't need changing because it was such a big loophole.
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And I'm sure if it was brought into the modern time, whoever rewrites the show, reproduces it or something would be cool.
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I genuinely think it would be such a cool movie to watch as well, right?
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Because it's got this mix of superpower science and...
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adventures and cool stories and family.
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Family, yes, we all love family.
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And it just would resonate with most people.
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Maybe they might make it smaller because of people having less kids, but no, I think overall it would work.
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It would work.
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And if you haven't watched this show,
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It's there on YouTube.
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I think I think they pretty much uploaded all the episodes up there and you could watch it there.
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The only problem is the print is so bad.
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Like most of the episodes, I was like, God, this is hard to watch because of the print.
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It wasn't because it's made cheaply.
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But the upload quality isn't always great.
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And I try getting my nephews and nieces to watch it.
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But, you know, kids just they want they just can't tell when something's old and say, I've tried with a few different shows and they just kind of they try for my sake, but I can tell they're not into it because.
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I think that makes such a big difference to them.
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So yeah, there you go.
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That's the story of Bionic 6.
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I grew up watching.
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It was a big thing for me.
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It was a big thing in school with my friends.
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We had this whole phase where everyone was Bionic 6.
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Everyone had I'm this character thing with it.
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And it was such a phenomena.
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But like I said, in my memory, I thought it was much longer than it actually was.
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And that's why it interested me to go back and relook at it and realize, ah,
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Shit, it was just a couple of years.
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I didn't have action figures and stuff.
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Anyway, if you're listening to this, watch it.
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If you're a producer or linked to someone, tell them to start an online petition, get the show back on, man.
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I would love to watch.
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You have at least one customer who'll buy a cinema ticket.
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And maybe that's not a good reason to spend a few million dollars on something.
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But...
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I hope at some point, while I can still see things and go to cinemas and stuff like that, it comes out.
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Yeah, I hope you enjoyed this little intro to Bionic Six, man.
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One of my favorites from kids.
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If you're a golf kid, I'm pretty sure you watched it because we didn't have anything else to do back then.
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Anyway, all right.
Stand-up Comedy Creative Process
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And, of course, I've been enjoying my stand-up comedy.
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I go through these phases where I love it.
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I just got to ask again, so I'm going to talk about this.
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I get asked all the time.
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This one question that people do with stand-up, it's how do you come up with the material?
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What do you do?
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And I think people have these fixations either of like you're just coming up with stuff on the spot.
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That's not true.
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And being surprised it's scripted.
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It has to be.
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And and wondering whether we just like walk around and pop up ideas, pop up or or we spend like days writing the stuff out.
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The truth is I give advice sometimes when people press me because I don't want to sound like a douche and make them think, oh, he's just hiding the secrets and everything.
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It's not that I really don't know.
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Yeah.
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I don't know what makes something funny.
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Like deep down, I really don't know.
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And where do these ideas come from and how they form?
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All right.
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Because I also think everybody has their own way of doing every comic.
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There's the extreme examples of Jerry Seinfeld who spend hours writing.
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And I've been lectured about that sometimes.
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You got to sit down and write and just write for hours and hours.
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And I just can't do it.
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It just doesn't work for me.
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Then apparently there's the other side.
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I don't know how true this is, but someone like Eddie Izzard, I've heard because he's dyslexic, he can't write down his stuff.
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So he kind of just memorizes and riffs on it on stage and comes up with stuff.
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And I think I'm more that than Jerry.
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And maybe I do still try to force myself to write sometimes.
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But for me, material kind of just forms in my head as I'm thinking about things and I go, oh, this might be a funny way to say it and stuff.
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And I'm sure if I wrote down, it could get better.
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And that way I'm lazy.
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But but that's how I like come up with ideas.
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I just kind of constantly am like running them in my head, pretending to speak them out in my sound crazy now.
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And then eventually they turn into jokes.
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But but some of my best jokes and material also come on stage when I'm riffing, when I'm talking to an audience or I'm just playing with my jokes and I get a nice addition or a bigger laugh over something I say and becomes a complete joke then.
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And that's beautiful to experience.
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So for me, it's a lot about.
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playing and being creative and just having fun and then seeing what comes out.
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Obviously, it's hard when you're trying to write a one-hour show to just always have to wait for inspiration.
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You can't.
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But I also find instead of sitting and writing, the more shows I do,
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the more material I start generating because I'm on stage.
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And, you know, it just it's a flow for me.
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And that's what works for me.
00:24:19
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So if you do plan on giving stand up a go and want to ask another comic, I'm sure maybe someone has better advice.
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I'm not, you know, I really I'm a baby when it comes to the craft.
00:24:32
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But I think you got to find what works for you and then just come up and give it a go a few times.
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But remember to try to have fun with it.
00:24:40
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Too many comics, I feel like, take it over seriously or something or start getting in their heads about it.
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And any creative art or form requires you to have a certain amount of play involved with it.
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All right.
00:24:52
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So there's my wisdom.
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imparted as well.
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Things other than that are great.
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And I'm going to wrap up this episode now because you guys got to go wherever you were driving.
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You're probably almost there.
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And yeah, have a great day.
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See you on the next episode.
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Take care, people.
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