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ONLY BOMBS! 26: Solomon · Only Bombs! Comedy Podcast

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All right, yeah, there we go. All right, we were
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doing it. Yeah, finally. It's happening. Yeah.
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Yeah, dude, I'm happy. That's great, man. Thank
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you. I'm happy that it's finally. Thank you for...
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for being cool and patient and dealing with my
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craziness. It's all good, man. It's all good.
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Being here in Texas has kind of like taken me
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out of that New York, like go, go, go. Everything
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has to be on time. If it's not on time, that's
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a problem kind of mode. Yeah. So like living
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here, it's kind of like taken me out of it. It's
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like, okay, it's okay. Yeah, it's more go with
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the flow here. Go with the flow. And, you know,
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people have, you know, different cultures have
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different, you know, timings also. So not everyone.
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And the thing about living in New York is like
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New York in itself is its own country, kind of
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like culture. Yeah. And you kind of like move
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out of it. you're in a different world. You're
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like, okay, now I am the problem. Because I'm
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always on time. I'm always looking for efficiency.
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I'm always like, so in New York City, if you're
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on time, you're late. And if you're late, don't
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bother. And that actually means don't bother
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because there's a hundred people standing right
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after you. They're going to take your work. Yeah,
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pretty much. Did you, like, take the subway everywhere?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cars, that's, you
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know, a different... Subways, walk, you walk
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everywhere. Yeah. But the thing about, like,
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timing... See, I grew up in Pakistan. Yeah. And
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Pakistan and southern part of America... Because
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they kind of like fall on a, on a very, uh, I
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believe on the same latitude. It's the same temperature
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line across the world. And it's kind of like
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producing the same kind of culture. And what
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I've. Like the temperature goes. Yeah. So a temperature
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produces a certain type of culture. Yeah. And
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what I've been noticing is like, yeah, that's,
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uh, so when I came. grew up in Pakistan and came
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to New York, you become efficient and then you
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kind of like move here and it's like, oh, I'm
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back into the same culture that I kind of grew
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up in because timing. When you left Pakistan,
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did you, did you go right to New York? I'm sorry.
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Okay, cool. So you went right to New York. And
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then, uh, so it wasn't like a culture shock.
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I feel like coming from Pakistan and going to
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New York would be like, kind of like, holy shit.
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It was a huge culture shock, but, um, my dad
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had been in New York since the early nineties
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and we were growing up in Pakistan and, uh, growing
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up there, you, because you have like a reference
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of New York city and. We would get clothes or
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occasionally snickers, sneakers and all the equipment,
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you know. I was like, snickers? No, snickers
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too. Snickers too. Snickers, Hershey's. So we
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kind of like had a little bit of a like input
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of like America and New York. And also you watch
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media and growing up under. Also went to English
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medium schools. So English kind of was like your
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second language. I wouldn't say second, but kind
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of like a first language. That's the first language
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you learn in school and your own language is
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your second language as a subject. Yeah. So that's
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how you kind of like, okay. It wasn't like, oh,
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I'm, when I'm coming to New York, it's like,
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oh, it's completely, I don't even know the language
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kind of a shock, but it was like, Oh, now I just
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have to adjust to this, to this pace. So in Pakistan,
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how would you describe, I guess, the pacing?
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Paint a picture of where you came from versus
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New York. So growing up in Pakistan, 80s and
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90s, It was seriously a third world country back
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then. And it was like, uh, poverty. Like you
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see it everywhere and very slow. So the things
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you kind of like see on the television, like
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go the poverty of India and Pakistan. That's
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kind of what it was, but it was growing by the
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early two thousands. It kind of like got a little
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bit of like a jolt and. mid nineties is also
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the history of Pakistan is kind of like has Islamic
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fundamentalists. They come in and go and they
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take charge and they go and then the moderates
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come in. And so every time there was a long period
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when we had like the Islamic So in that time,
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there was the media was like blocked or you would
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have just one state channel or one channel that.
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So our influence was from India. Growing up over
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like there, we would watch Indian media more
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than our own media because we didn't really have
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enough media. But early 2000s and mid 90s is
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when the satellite dishes came in. So the satellite
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dishes kind of brought. MTV and just like mid
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90s is when the you remember that show the grind
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on MTV. There was a show like house parties.
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Oh yeah. Like real world. Yeah. It was like,
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Oh, so then that's when you first time you kind
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of like, Oh, That's what happens. Wow. So how
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old were you like when you first saw like this
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MTV thing? 12, 13 maybe like something like that.
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Yeah. Did you ever watch Beavis and Butthead?
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Beavis and Butthead, of course. Yeah. So from
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that cable television, we would get Cartoon Network
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as well. Oh, hell yeah. So we were getting a
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lot of channels from like from that day, but
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we would have to have like a huge dish antenna
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on top of your house. And yeah, and then you
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would have to have a receiver and then, oh my
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God, it was kind of like a big deal. So this
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was like pretty exciting for y 'all to get this
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stuff. Yeah, we were getting like Nike shoes
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and clothings and we were like wearing all these,
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but that's kind of what was the difference was
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you're growing up in a third world country with
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a certain... I wouldn't call it privilege, but
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it was just a little bit of like, oh, I have
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my dad's in America. Oh, okay. Yeah. So was that
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like looked at like at in high regard? Well,
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in that society, it's, uh, well, yeah, you have
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a little bit more money than the rest of them.
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Gotcha. And then you're going to English schools
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and you know, your parents are putting all their
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money into your education. So, so rest of the,
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um, rest of the people around you, you kind of
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like, okay, I really have to, I can't, you know,
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be, and, you know, I don't want to be showing
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off or this kind of, yeah. But that, that society,
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I was earlier, I was talking about how it's so
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similar to here and it's like the similarities
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are, and now I'm kind of like working on this
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entire like set of how many material around it,
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like, why does it make all sense? Yeah. And I
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think it's the heat, it produces a certain temperature
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where timing is all, you know, people are like,
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they're all, they're very polite. Here? Here.
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They're very polite here. Here, they're very
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polite in Pakistan. Everyone's that, what I'm
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saying is that temperature produces a very polite
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culture, but... Interesting. From that politeness,
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like you're always saying yes. Right. And you
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kind of like lose authenticity when you're like,
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okay, I said yes. Did I really mean it? Man,
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is that what it is? So from growing up in that
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culture, I come to New York City where it's like,
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you have, no one's going to give you any quarters
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if you... Flake or mistake or this. Mm -hmm.
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It's like you bring your hundred percent a game
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Or don't come at all. Yeah. Yeah, so that kind
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of like changes your a bit of a No, I have to
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be more authentic Sure, and when I say a yes,
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I should be there half an hour before Yeah, gotcha.
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So that's like your whole, like if you're on
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time, you're late kind of thing. That's where
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you get it is New York. But living in New York
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with that mentality does create a lot of stress
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too. Yeah. Yeah. So what was it in New York that
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you were doing that you figured out that, oh
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shit, being on time is going to be late? Was
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it like auditions and things like that? Like
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for... Everything, like functional utilities.
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everything will make you feel that you're slow.
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So it's literally like just life there. Everything.
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That the card that you swipe for subway, if you
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are swiping it too slow, it won't open and it
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will tell you you're swiping too slow. Okay.
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And you won't be able to go. And we're talking
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about the train, right? The train, yeah, the
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subway train. No, no, it's okay. My fat ass just
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went like $5 foot long, dude. Subway, when you
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go down the subway, you have to run a card and
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the card, if you don't swipe it fast enough,
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you won't be able to go. And it will tell you
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over, you're swiping too slow. Really? You don't
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even be like, dude, hurry up, bro. Yeah. So like
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last time after living here, I've been here three
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and a half years now. Last time I was back at
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home and I swiped the car to get into the subway
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and it's like, and it's like swiping too slow.
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I'm like, yo, Texas is getting to you. And I
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could see that, like that, that railing thing
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that stops you. It stops you right in your legs.
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And if you're like not... If you're moving too
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fast, like how New Yorkers are, it hits you really
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hard in your legs. And then you got people behind
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you like, hurry up, you bastard. So everything
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is like, get going, get moving. Get going, hurry
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up. And then here in Texas, it's just, it's a
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lot. It's like just whenever, man. It's like,
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it's a very Manana culture. I remember you saying
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that the other day and I was like, man, that's
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pretty good. I wish I could remember that. Yeah,
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it is. Well, see, Pakistani culture, Indian culture,
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same thing. We have a problem today. We'll think
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about thinking about it tomorrow. Yeah. And then
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tomorrow never comes. Have you ever been to Maine?
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Maine, I have not. Okay. Yeah. So I was in Maine
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and Maine is like even slower. Yeah. Like Maine
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is even more like, dude. We'll see it was next
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week, bro Island time or something. Yeah, I felt
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like Maine was like my like the way that I am
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as a person I felt like that that was a state.
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It's just like sub dude like just totally chill
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around Like but uh, but yes continue about New
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York. Yeah, New York, man. I came to New York
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2006 2006. 2006. And well, growing up in Pakistan,
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I was, because we were going to good education,
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good schools. Yeah. You said some last time about
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Cambridge. Yeah. Cambridge university has, used
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to have, now I think they don't have it. All
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levels and A levels are like our grade nine,
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10 and 11 is all levels, ordinary levels. And
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A levels is advanced levels, 12 and 30. So that
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British education kind of like trains you to
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come to Ivy League universities in America. That's
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insane. Yeah. So all those schools are training
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these kids to get really good grades and come
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out here. So I was studying in that school, banking
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family, studying accounting, becoming a chartered
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accountant. So in the final year, final year
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of my education on grade 12, I was already studying
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accounting and I'm like, I can't do it. That's
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crazy. They had you studying that in accounting?
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Like, or in grade 12, accounting in grade 12?
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Yeah. Oh my God. And we had advanced mathematics.
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We were doing calculus. We were doing permutation.
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A lot of stuff that was. Whoa. College stuff
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that is. So when those kids who are coming from
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Pakistan and India, coming from that education
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system, when they come here, they're two years
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ahead. So when these tech bros, Indian tech bros
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are coming in or Pakistani tech folks are coming
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in, why are they so good? Because their foundation
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is laid in a better, because our exposure to
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calculus, our exposure to a lot of these hard
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subjects is in great nine and ten. Mm -hmm. Where
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this comes way later in, you know, the way, well,
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you know. Yeah, so it just basically like you,
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you just, you're more advanced. You learn a lot
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quicker. Yes. You know, and you learn a lot more,
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obviously, because, I mean. I just, I don't know,
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I could never see like a portion of my life ever
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dedicated to any kind of accounting. Like what
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so the fuck ever. Like I don't, I still use a
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calculator to count. Hey man, I am with you on
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that. And that was me, like a 14, 15 year old
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kid. I'm like, I cannot do this. No, you can't
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fucking do that. Like you don't want to do that.
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You want to be out like partying and having fun.
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Yeah, exactly. Back in the day, you know, so
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this is what happened. One day, I'm like sitting
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in the library and I'm balancing books, accounting.
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How old are you? 15, 16 years old. 14, 15, balancing
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books. I'm just imagining you with like a little
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big hat, just like balancing your little books.
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Anyway, go on. So back then you had to draw,
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this is pre -Excel, it's like we were still drawing
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ledgers with hand and we had to write everything
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down and then balance it out. And I was fed up
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and I went out and I found like four books. There
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were only four books of arts, how to draw in
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the entire library. Wow. And I'm like, hey man,
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librarian, can I take these home? He's like,
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yeah. He looked at me, he's like, what are you
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doing? I took him home and I drew, started drawing
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and then I drew like a vase and some highlights
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and I'm like, I am not going back to accounting
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ever again. No, you get a drawing book. I wouldn't
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want to go back to ledgers either. No, and I
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gave it up and I gave it up and the whole...
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Like whole family and everyone, my school, everyone's
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like, yo, what are you doing? And I'm like, I'm
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taking up arts. And it was like a big shock.
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My teachers sat me down. They're like, are you
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sure you're not going to get a grade in arts?
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What are you going to do? I'm like, I don't know,
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but I know one thing. I don't want to balance
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these books. I'm very good at it. I'm very good
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at it. I'm sorry, forgive me for laughing. I
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was just like, of course, dude, of course. Like,
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yes, you don't want to fucking balance fucking
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books. Dude, the thought of that now like upsets
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me. And the thing is when you can't find an irregularity,
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you have to do the whole thing again. And if
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you're not right, you can't just put it into...
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So I was I couldn't do it man. Just yeah, you're
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just like fuck Yeah, we were your teachers like
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oh no, I can't believe we lost another one. Yeah,
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well The thing was that I was the only artist
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in the entire school. Everybody else was good
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with ledgers. Yeah, they were fine and Well,
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I don't even know it goes in a ledger. But anyway,
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well, there's a lot of expenses and the incomes
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that are coming in, the expenses. Oh yeah, we
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wanted to watch out. Yeah, I was like, we don't
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want to get into ledgers here, dude. I can explain
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the whole thing. I think there was like four
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car accidents that might have just happened,
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just in that sentence alone. They just probably
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just nodded off immediately. No, yeah, no. We
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don't want ledgers. Yeah. So by the time you
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get to New York and everything, like, are you
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like drawing like crazy in your art books now?
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So, uh, because becoming an artist, they gave
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me all the art projects and, and I'm like, okay.
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So one art project they gave me was like, Hey,
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you have to go out and make a music video. In
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2002, Pakistan, in Pakistan. Okay. Just making
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sure I'm following. Yeah. So in Pakistan, so
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the coming to New York would, I would tell you
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like what brought me to New York. So, um, they're
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like, you have to make a music video. I'm like,
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all right. Oh yeah. Figure it out. So I took
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a audio slaves, um, show me how to live. And,
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uh, we hired a donkey. And we had him run around
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the city and we shot it, borrowed cameras, borrowed
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money for editing, but we got it done. We got
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that video done and we sent it to this international
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competition and won the first prize. Oh yeah.
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And I'm like, you know what? That's what I'm
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going to be doing in my life. Yeah. The creation.
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I don't know what I wanted to create, but I was
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still drawing, painting and all that, but that
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was okay. So now comes a time when everyone was
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leaving for their Ivy league universities and
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I was left behind in Pakistan. And I'm like,
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oh shit, what have I done? Fuck. Fuck. Right?
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Yeah. No school to go to. And I'm just like in
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a artist studio in a basement, like drawing and
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learning just line, like control line. We would
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sit there all day just drawing straight lines.
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Yeah, all day. But that was practice to control
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the hand and the line. So one school opened up
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and I kind of like walked into it and they had
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a liberal arts program, film television program.
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And I'm like, okay. I've never, I don't have
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grades, but I did make a music video, so would
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you consider that? The dean was like, yeah, sure,
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here, get some scholarship and. Yeah. Um, so
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three years film school, Pakistan. Hell yeah.
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Bro, it was one of the best times of my life.
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Cause, uh, it was a very small, it was just starting.
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So it was a very small education. Like we have
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a small group. So you're just like watching films
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all day and smoke. What kind of movies would
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you watch? So as a film student, it was like
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you have to watch international cinema as much
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as you can. Yeah. And so you're studying basically
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films. So for three years, I would say I would
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average a movie a day. Yeah. So it was just like
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just random movies or were they specific movies?
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So sometimes you would get So there was this
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one book in our library, a thousand films you
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must watch before you die. Oh, nice. So, and
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you would kind of like go through that book.
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And if you would find, this is DVD time, man.
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We had, we could find it VHS or DVD. That's early
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2000s is what I'm talking about. Yeah. So any
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DVD we could find, we would watch it. a friend
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of mine had a huge collection of DVDs he'd been
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collecting. His, you know, grandparents were
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filmmakers in Pakistan, so he had a huge collection
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of, so we would watch like German cinema, Brazilian
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cinema, man, you name it, Chinese. There's everything.
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Everything. You're just like consuming all that
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input. And... Did you have a favorite movie?
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Favorite's kind of like... That was one of the
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things you kind of like have to, as a filmmaker,
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you kind of have to lose favorites. Of course,
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of course. Yeah, that's such a silly question.
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How was Only Bombs? Yeah, he just asked me my
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favorite movie every now and again. No, but learning
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from all that, you kind of like have a sense
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of like when you see something and you're like,
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hey, that's good. That's good, you know. That's
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a good movie. Oh, yeah. Yeah right now. I recently
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have been so impressed by Shogun Shogun is a
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those old like samurai kind of movies. It's a
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FX TV show Oh, it's a TV show and I think it's
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like a miniseries but Man, they did a great job
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with like everything. Oh, yeah, I like I don't
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watch shows but then like But I will. I'm not
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making a personal choice to be like, no, I'm
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not watching shows today. I get bored so easily.
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Me too, man. I'm with you, but that's what I'm
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saying. When you do catch, something catches
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your eye and you're like, no, I gotta watch that.
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There's another show, Pantheon, if you're into
24:40
tech and all that. It's on Netflix. Pantheon
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is a... show about uploaded intelligence. Uploaded
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intelligence? Yes. Fuck, I need some of that
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shit, dude. Yes. There are some days I'm like,
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God, dude, I have nothing to download. You know,
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like, nothing today, man. I'm like, fuck, dude.
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It just, it gets like that. You know what I mean?
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Do you work a lot? Like - I do, yes. Yeah. It's
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just, so you know what I'm talking about. Like,
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basically, like, you work a lot. You're just,
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after a while, you're like, fuck. Yeah, I know,
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I know, I know. Like you just said, I don't want
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to fucking work. And then you don't know what
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to do on your day off, you know? Yeah, exactly.
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Yeah. So you get to New York and everything.
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Did you? So from film school, I was, you know,
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I was doing really good, man. Yeah. Like films
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from Dean's Honor List and films getting selected
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in India. So it was a lot of like things kind
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of like were upping. coming and I visit my dad
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in New York city and he's like, Hey, do you want
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to look into a school here? And I'm like, okay,
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now is my chance to audition to the Ivy league,
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you know, standard of education in acting. So
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I, even better, even better Stella Adler's acting
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studio. is where Marlon Brando studied, is where
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all Robert De Niro and they all study method
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acting. It's Stella Adler's studio of acting
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in New York City. And I go and I audition, man.
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And they're like, yeah, welcome. Two years master's
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program in acting. Man, that was one of the best
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times of my life. It was like, you really understand
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acting. And you're like, okay, now I, I get.
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Yeah. You're really getting into it. You're really
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getting it. You're like, okay, you get it. But
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it was like, I was 21 years old when I got out
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of school and New York city, just out of school.
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Yeah. And I'm like, oh shit, it's the financial
27:02
crisis, 09. Yeah. So you're out, wait, I'm sorry.
27:05
Like, so you're out of acting school now in 09?
27:08
09 is acting school. When I get out from acting
27:12
school and financial crisis were upon us. So
27:15
I started auditioning. Everyone was on strike.
27:19
Broadway was on strike. Everyone was on strike,
27:22
man. So couldn't really find anything, any work
27:25
anywhere. So like, so during the acting thing,
27:29
is this like where you like kind of like fell
27:31
in love with comedy? No. In stand -up comedy?
27:34
No, you just kind of were like, you were just
27:36
loving, just acting. So in Pakistan, being the
27:42
only artist, I kind of was like the one who would
27:46
organize all the welcome parties and farewell
27:49
parties as well, right? Yeah. So you kind of
27:52
like on the mic, and I would imitate our principle
27:56
And our principal, he was like really big, fat,
28:01
popping eyes out. But he would talk like, kind
28:04
of like, that was his voice. And I would just
28:06
go do his voice on the stage and everyone would
28:10
be dying laughing. But I never thought that,
28:14
you know, that's something that I want to do.
28:16
I was more of like, I want to create films. I
28:18
want to do this. I want to be an actor. And during
28:23
acting school, I fell in love with Shakespeare,
28:25
man. Yeah. Oh man. Naturally. Yeah. You kind
28:29
of like have to fall in love with Shakespeare.
28:31
Yeah. Because as a practice in school, there
28:34
are two things you kind of like always have to,
28:38
um, it's a sonnet and a monologue. You kind of
28:42
like, that's your daily, you kind of have to
28:45
practice your monologues daily. For us, it's
28:47
like the Romeo and Juliet, you know, uh, and,
28:53
um, But yeah that kind of like the Romeo and
28:57
Juliet what the Prologue the prologue for a Romeo
29:02
Juliet. That's like our exercise. Mm -hmm and
29:06
You pick a sonnet that's your like sonnet for
29:11
life kind of like as an actor you kind of like
29:14
practice every day Yeah, and mine is like I think
29:18
the sonnet 60 something sin of self -love. So
29:22
you Do that as a vocal exercise as you pick that
29:25
up. But that was kind of like my thing. But,
29:29
um, who would you play? I'm sorry. I don't mean
29:32
to keep interrupting. I'm just interested. I'm
29:34
coming right to your point where who would I
29:38
play? I wanted to play all the serious characters.
29:41
I wanted to be like Tybalt. Uh, no, I actually
29:46
wanted to be, um, Iago and I wanted to play serious
29:50
character, Lear. I wanted to play, uh, Richard
29:53
the third. That's like, uh, but they would cast
29:57
me in, in comic roles. Uh, I think that I, yeah,
29:59
I think that I was, uh, I was still hung up on
30:02
the whole Romeo and Juliet thing. Oh, Romeo and
30:04
Juliet. So when you said that, I was like...
30:06
Oh, the serious ones? And like you wanted to
30:08
be like Tibb, Alton, Romeo and Juliet? No, no,
30:10
no, not Romeo and Juliet. But in Shakespeare,
30:14
I wanted to play like hot spur, like the warrior
30:18
characters and that. Mark Antony was one of my
30:22
auditions, man. Mark Antony, Friends, Romans,
30:25
Countrymen, that's like one of my... So not the
30:28
popular singer? No, no. Mark Antony from Julius
30:32
Caesar. Yeah. Sorry. When I kind of like start
30:36
talking Shakespeare, I believe that everyone
30:39
kind of like knows what I'm talking about. I
30:40
can see you zoning out. I can see you like, wait,
30:43
hold on. I was like, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
30:46
know. I was like, if you, dude, if you whip out
30:47
the word soliloquy right here, I swear. No, but
30:51
that's a, no, that's really cool. So you would
30:53
always get. You would always get chosen for like...
30:57
For comic roles. For comic roles. Yeah. Like,
31:01
no, you're playing village idiot. Village idiot.
31:04
Yeah. So you're playing village idiot, you're
31:07
Sylvius, you know, that's what you're doing.
31:11
But I would do it so well that, you know, people
31:17
would be laughing, falling out of their chairs.
31:19
You see in the audience, you're like, what the
31:21
hell? Right. But you're in character so much
31:24
that the script and everything is doing its job.
31:26
It just starts to become you, right? Yeah. Yeah.
31:29
So from drama school, I found work at a bar as
31:38
a bar back and slowly worked my way up to managing
31:44
partner. Managing partner? Yeah. What was the
31:47
managing part? Like at a bar? Like you became
31:50
the manager of the bar? This bar was a huge club
31:52
in downtown Manhattan, a place called M -15.
31:55
It's gone now. Oh. And it was a 5 ,000 square
31:59
foot club in Tribeca on Walker Street. And...
32:05
You give a lot of detail. I think it's just so
32:10
funny cause I'm sitting next to you and I'm like,
32:12
wait, hold on. I was just there. I was like,
32:14
is this that Cambridge thing where you explain
32:18
something and you're just like, yeah, I was drinking
32:20
out of a bottle. Yes, the bottle was plastic.
32:23
Just to let you know. There was a screw top.
32:27
I had a choice between a screw top and a... I'm
32:31
like sitting there, can you drink the fucking
32:32
water? You drink the fucking water. No, no, no.
32:35
But no, that's really... cool that you could
32:37
recall so much stuff like that. I could tell
32:40
that like, like that your, your sense of observation
32:43
is already extremely keen, you know, which kind
32:46
of like, to me, like, you know, I feel like when
32:49
you write your comedy and things like that, I
32:51
could, I could feel like that you would have
32:53
a lot of material because you took everything.
32:55
Do you feel the same way? Yes. Yeah. That's where
32:58
the stage is right now where I am, where I'm
33:00
like, all this observation. And with cultural
33:04
differences and all this, it's like comedies
33:06
are coming up. Yeah. So this is where it comes
33:10
from studying accounting, man. You kind of like
33:14
have to go deep down into find out the irregularity,
33:19
right? Yeah, I guess. In accounting? In accounting,
33:23
when you were balancing anything, you have to
33:25
kind of like go in everything, deep down in the
33:30
rabbit holes to find what the problem is. So
33:33
when that mentality, you take it into arts, into
33:37
film, into anything, you're like, okay, I'm going
33:42
deep. Wow. Interesting. I've never really thought
33:45
about it like that before. So when I took it
33:47
to acting, it was the same thing. I'm going Shakespeare,
33:49
I'm going deep. Yeah, you're just going real,
33:51
real deep. Right? So like, how long was it before
33:55
you, I guess, from acting until you actually
33:59
got up on stage at like an open mic? The bar
34:05
kind of like took me. And that lifestyle, that
34:09
nightlife, New York City just takes over. You're
34:13
just like, I'm in my early twenties and I got
34:17
the keys to a huge club in New York City. Man,
34:21
I made it to the top of the world. That's pretty
34:23
crazy. Bro, it was the best. It was like, you
34:27
have all the attention and as an actor, you were...
34:30
You know, you got the charm going. I think that
34:34
was charm school for me because I learned so
34:37
much about human psychology and people coming,
34:40
talking to you, just having, you know, drunk
34:43
conversations and all that. You kind of like
34:47
soak it in as a human character. Oh, that character,
34:50
that guy. You kind of like soak in because New
34:52
York city, man, everyone in the world is there.
34:56
You kind of like absorb all that. But that. takes
35:00
a toll on you to that lifestyle. So I had turned
35:04
into a 300 plus pound bottle down alcoholic man.
35:09
It was puking my guts out every morning. It was
35:12
that bad. It sucks. Yeah. It sucks really bad.
35:14
I know, I know what you mean. How long have you,
35:16
are you sober now? Yes. Yeah. How long have you
35:18
been sober for? Uh, it's going to be five years
35:20
now. 2021. Wow. So the pandemic kind of woke
35:26
me up and uh, brought me back to zero. I was
35:32
pumping gas at a gas station in Jersey during
35:34
the pandemic and night shift, nothing to do and
35:39
on Joe Rogan's podcast. And I'm like, okay, I
35:43
can turn my life around first with health. And
35:48
once I saw like Kill Tony when they moved out
35:56
here. and they were giving Hans him a chance
36:01
and Hans kind of like was coming up. That moment
36:07
was like, hey, maybe that's my way back to arts
36:13
and the life, the things that I went to school
36:16
for. Maybe that's my way back to the stage or,
36:22
you know, because... You know, you see Joe does
36:24
it a lot for a lot of comedians. Yeah, like the
36:28
stand -up comedy thing? For stand -up comedy.
36:29
And I'm like, hey, the comics also do it for
36:32
other comics. So you just, you know, start somewhere.
36:37
And so this flat fat blob at the gas station
36:41
kind of like thinking like, hey, man, maybe you
36:44
got to get on Keltoni. Really? 2020 is when I'm
36:48
like, I got to start preparing for Keltoni. because
36:52
that's my way back to stage. And I kind of like
36:55
realized, man, you always got casted in the comic
36:58
role, but you wanted to play serious characters.
37:02
Just lean into this comedy and see where it takes
37:05
you. Yeah. Yeah. So that's when I shifted, when
37:10
I'm like, okay, now I'm concentrating on comedy,
37:14
stand -up comedy as an art form. Before that,
37:18
I... I wouldn't even go to comedy shows in New
37:21
York City. No, that was not even the question
37:24
of like, oh, I want to be a comedian or stand
37:27
up comic. No. And it was, it was like, okay.
37:33
But that, that path of recovery from alcoholism
37:39
and, you know, getting out of those addictions
37:42
and learning your own patterns and learning all
37:44
those things. A lot of these lessons kind of
37:47
like, kind of like you learn and you want to
37:51
tell your friends and your brothers and your
37:54
sisters and be like, Hey, this is kind of like
37:57
a lesson I learned. I see you in this predicament.
38:00
I kind of came out of this in this way, but when
38:06
you tell them they don't want to listen. And
38:10
it's like a very like, Oh, who are you to tell
38:12
us? So you're like, okay, how? Can I transfer
38:17
this information without getting, you know, without
38:23
making someone upset? So that's when I'm like,
38:27
oh, maybe standup comedy is your tool to take
38:35
a subject that's very hard to swallow and turn
38:39
it into digestible. laughable material so you
38:46
can transfer this information. So that was like,
38:48
okay, now you have a purpose. Start from walking
38:53
around the palms, man, getting turned by a whole
38:55
gas station into a gym. There was a cement bag
39:01
that was left in the rain and become like a rock.
39:04
I taped it. That was like my weight. You couldn't
39:08
find weights in early pandemic. So I had rudimentary
39:13
weight. So I was working out at the gas station,
39:15
man. It was like a Rocky movie. People were honking,
39:20
passing by. I was running. And all my regular
39:24
people who would come get gas trucks and everything,
39:28
they would be like cheering me on. So every,
39:31
you know, it took me a year to get sober, but
39:34
once I got sober, it was game. And so your whole
39:37
reason for sobriety was essentially to just get
39:41
in the standup. Well, to get on stage. The school
39:47
that I went to, and the whole sobriety time that
39:58
it took me three, four years to like rewire myself,
40:04
I had to study a lot of like ancient religion.
40:07
So one thing happened to me and The one saying
40:12
about New York City, if you can make it there,
40:14
you can make it anywhere. The city will give
40:17
you that. It will make you come to the top of
40:21
the world. And you were able to feel that loneliness
40:26
too. The loneliness at the top of the pyramid.
40:30
It is very lonely. And I felt that. I'm like,
40:33
I have everything. Thousand people dancing around
40:36
me. I have lifestyle. I have. But there was no
40:41
inner satisfaction that really was not, I was
40:45
balancing books. Right. At the club. And yeah,
40:49
and you were wanting to get up on stage. Or be
40:53
creative in a way. So in that process of recovery,
40:58
I learned from a lot of religions and all, they
41:02
all kind of like bring you down into like living
41:10
in the present, present moment. So art and all
41:17
this kind of like brings you into what, did you
41:22
have a question or so? No, no. Are we just. Yeah.
41:25
Well, the question that I was asking was like,
41:28
uh, from like New York, like when you get to
41:31
New York and everything, like to stand up comedy.
41:36
How'd you connect the dots to getting on stage
41:38
as a standup comedian? So the thing was like,
41:42
the reason that became standup was like, so I
41:45
have all these lessons that I've learned. I need
41:48
to transfer them to standup. And to, so, so Kill
41:58
Tony, I'm like, okay. I'm going to go do or die
42:02
on Keltoni. And if they give me a thumbs up,
42:06
I'll continue with standup or see how it goes.
42:10
Oh, okay. So, so you weren't really a standup
42:12
comedian? No, I was not. Oh, okay. Gotcha. I
42:15
was like, I'm going to go, I'm going to survive
42:17
the minute and I'm going to bring material for
42:20
the interview. But that was also just me. I had
42:25
to get my confidence up, man. Cause like imagine
42:28
300 pounds, you kind of like slowly, slowly you're
42:31
building yourself back up. You're reducing your
42:34
weight down and kill Tony first time. Yeah. I
42:38
get on, they're like, pretty good, man. Yeah.
42:42
Like you did all right. Yeah. Yeah. We'll survive
42:44
the minute. And then interview was great. Did
42:47
some Shakespeare too. I saw that. Yeah. Yeah,
42:50
that was pretty good. That was Romeo and Juliet,
42:54
right? And I was like, wow, that was pretty interesting.
42:56
Like you got up there and did that and everything.
43:00
Yeah, I don't remember I'm asking you how long
43:02
you were doing stand -up for. Do you do like
43:05
a lot like now? Are you like an open mic or anything?
43:09
So stand -up comedy, so when that, when? Kill
43:15
Tony kind of like gave me that boost and then
43:17
second boost. I got on two times in the same
43:21
year, a few months apart. Wow, that's crazy.
43:24
And the second time it was the same thing. The
43:26
interview was great, but that's when Tony and
43:29
them were like, Hey, you have to take this seriously.
43:33
Right. You have to go open mics, figure this
43:37
out. Cause you know, you're good. Both interviews,
43:44
hilarious, like we're dying laughing. He's like,
43:47
how long you been doing comedy? I'm like, two,
43:49
three months. Like, no, go do open mics workout.
43:52
So I started doing a lot of open mics, 2023 is
43:57
when I came out here. So first year, a lot of
44:00
open mics and podcasting too. So I was like,
44:05
hey, I'm going to get in the mix. I'm going to
44:07
understand this, figure this all stand up comedy
44:09
out. You get back in your ledger. Back in my,
44:12
you know, all my, you know, so it being in that
44:18
earlier, I was saying that staying present kind
44:22
of is the root of all religions and sobriety
44:27
kind of like taught me that take stay here. Yeah.
44:30
So that brings me a lot of opportunities and
44:34
everything in front of me. So stand up is kind
44:39
of like has also another thing that I do want
44:44
to, the whole idea of making it, I don't have
44:50
that anymore. Kind of made it to the top of the
44:53
world in New York city. So now with the whole
44:56
idea of like, I have to make it in stand up,
45:01
that drive is not that prominent anymore. It's
45:04
more like let the process unfold on its own because
45:09
it takes you 10 years to get it and you just
45:12
started. You're three years old. Don't jump ahead.
45:17
Don't let the process happen on its own. Yeah.
45:22
So now I do a lot of writing. So this is my third
45:30
year, fourth year in standup. And I've been starting
45:33
to doing a lot of performances, but first year
45:37
it was a lot of open mics. It was just like grind,
45:41
grind, grind, this mic, that mic. What are you
45:44
talking about? What are you talking about? Yeah.
45:47
So like what's your writing been like lately?
45:52
So recently it's like, we were talking about
45:56
observation. So now I'm like observing things
46:00
that are very, Like around here in Austin. Yeah.
46:06
And cultural differences from New York city.
46:09
And then you have, you see the patterns of this
46:13
culture, like Texans in the South and you see
46:17
all these patterns and you start like, okay,
46:20
this is the material that I want to talk about.
46:23
Like when the politeness is just on the face
46:27
and when you do get back in my Uber and you start.
46:31
taking a shit on your host, man. And I'm like,
46:35
why would you be doing that, right? People are
46:39
coming out of these parties and they're saying
46:43
bye, love you, and they get in my car. And they're
46:46
just immediately shitting on the host. On the
46:48
host. Oh, okay, yeah. I'm not saying anything.
46:52
I'm just observing. You're just listening. I'm
46:53
just listening. I'm like, why is this happening,
46:58
right? But now the comedy is like, you want to
47:05
talk about these things? How are you going to
47:07
make these jokes? Yeah. Do you, so do you just
47:11
take it and I just kind of go write like with
47:13
it or? So with writing, my writing process is
47:16
more like, uh, if I write something down, it
47:22
kind of like doesn't work for me. It kind of
47:26
like binds me or something like that. Oh, okay.
47:30
For me, it's more like, I have an idea and I'm
47:33
just going to like, keep exploring it and talk
47:36
to someone about it. Talk to one of my passengers
47:39
about it. Oh, cool. How do you explore it? So
47:42
this, um, um, politeness, like. Politeness? Politeness
47:52
is a, is a subject like, um, people are very
47:56
polite on, you know, Well, I keep saying yes
48:01
in politeness. Like I want to make you comfortable.
48:04
I'm going to say yes. Right. But I don't really
48:07
mean it. Interesting. So now this subject, when
48:11
I have passengers who are like Texans and all
48:15
that, I raise this subject with them and we kind
48:18
of like have a conversation like, Hey, from there
48:22
you start like building like, okay, I'm going
48:26
to take this, these, these things, and I'm going
48:30
to incorporate into a joke that's going to come
48:34
out of it. How it's going to come out of it is
48:38
like, I don't know, but the universe kind of
48:44
like provides every day you kind of like, oh,
48:47
this, oh, this, but then a bit on its own starts
48:53
to get crafted and it gets crafted in my head.
48:56
And it gets solidified in my head. Yeah. And
49:00
every time I start talking about it, it comes
49:03
out the same way. It comes out the same way.
49:07
Same way. So you're able to say the same thing
49:09
over and over and over again. So it's like, yeah,
49:12
it becomes like a belief on stage. Yeah. Like
49:14
right now I've been working on this bit, like
49:17
how a city of Austin is like your drunk friend
49:22
who hasn't got his shit together. His house is
49:25
a mess. There's dog hair everywhere You know,
49:29
mm -hmm. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, this is very
49:32
true. Yeah fucking HEB People bringing her goddamn
49:36
dogs in all the time. I have dogs. I love dogs.
49:39
Don't get me wrong Yeah, that's like kind of
49:41
like bringing like bringing your dog over to
49:44
somebody's house uninvited You know what I mean?
49:46
No, I love dogs too. I do that been taking care
49:49
of my friends dogs Don't fucking bring your dog
49:51
over uninvited Anyway, sorry. No, I got booed
49:57
on for kill Tony and talking about dogs. I'm
49:59
like, I don't know. People are very sensitive
50:01
about dogs. Yeah. Cause uh, yeah. Cause it's
50:05
kind of like, I don't want to talk any shit about
50:07
on kill Tony was like, Hey, you'd hate dogs.
50:10
I'm like, no, I don't hate dogs. I'm just, you
50:13
know, this obsession of people with dogs is,
50:17
and then I got booed. I'm like, Oh, I think like
50:20
people. Don't know like I get it. I get it because
50:23
when I was younger I got bit by a dog. Mm -hmm.
50:25
So I say younger Fucking like 20 years ago and
50:29
I was still 19. Well, but anyway Yeah, no, so
50:33
I I got bit by a dog back then and then I stopped
50:38
liking dogs Like I started hating them. Oh, no
50:41
for like a long time And so like I really wasn't
50:45
very like friendly with them. Okay, but then
50:48
but then I sort of like You know, basically met
50:52
my girlfriend's dog and her dog kind of changed.
50:55
Changed, yeah. Yeah, everything. And now I love
50:57
dogs, but like, yeah, you're right. Like, you
51:01
know, people like, you know, the, the people
51:03
look at them, like they're like dog, like they're
51:06
their pets, like, but, uh, but people look at
51:08
them like they're like real, like they're human
51:11
babies. You know what I mean? There's a girl
51:14
who brings her. dog at the creek and she holds
51:18
that dog in a way that I'm like, bro, what are
51:22
you doing? It's like, I like it. I get it. I
51:26
get it. I get it. But at the same time, I'm kind
51:27
of like, like I just, I don't know. I can't find
51:30
myself going to that like extreme, but, but I
51:34
do get it because it's not like, they're not
51:36
like dogs aren't like, like hamsters and they're
51:40
not like livestock, you know, like they actually
51:43
have. Like to me, like dogs have more of a personality
51:46
than like cats do. Like I can see a dog, but
51:52
like when it comes to like cats, for some reason
51:54
I'm like, I just, I just feel like they just
51:58
want to kill me. Like they only want me to die.
52:01
Cats are very mean. Yeah. Yeah. Like, but you
52:04
know, I don't know. Like I tried to be like a
52:06
cat person, you know, back in the day, but good.
52:09
I couldn't pull it off. It was just that fucking
52:11
reconsider all the litter. Like, I fucking hate
52:15
litter. You know, I'm just not a pet guy. I'm
52:18
just not a big pet guy. I think that's really
52:19
what it is. I think that's what it boils down
52:21
to. Are you a big pet guy? Do you like iguanas?
52:24
I grew up with pets. Like, in Pakistan too, we
52:27
had dogs, cats around all the time. So it wasn't
52:32
really like, I don't mind pets at all. Yeah.
52:36
I live in a studio apartment, so... Having a
52:39
pet in a studio apartment, I wouldn't want to
52:42
leave the pet. No, I wouldn't. I don't want that.
52:45
No way. No. There is no fucking way. No. I like,
52:52
I had trouble. Like we have a, we have a fairly
52:54
big apartment. I say, I have trouble having the
52:56
fucking dogs in here. No, one of the reasons
53:01
of coming out to Texas was like getting to the
53:04
land man. COVID woke us up. in New York City
53:08
and I was like, hey man, you don't know anything
53:11
about anything growing or anything. So go to
53:14
Texas, start stand -up, start your career in
53:18
arts. Now I'm back into everything that I went
53:21
to school for. Yeah. Would you say that you have
53:24
a love for comedy or is it just like, you know,
53:27
this is fun? See, the more I've been learning
53:32
about it, the more I'm admiring and I'm loving
53:35
it. the process, it's like, I didn't start it
53:41
as like, Oh, I love standup comedy. I'm going
53:44
to go learn it. No, it was like, Hey, standup
53:47
comedy is your way back to stage and your it's
53:52
your tool for you to whatever, you know, things
53:57
that you have learned in your life. You want
54:00
to transfer this material to the next generation.
54:04
That's a good way. Stand up. And I, you know,
54:09
for me growing up, George Carlin was the inspiration
54:13
for stand up. Like it was like, the first time
54:18
I saw George Carlin, I'm like, that is amazing.
54:21
Right. Yeah. And if a person can do that, he
54:25
kind of like changed my perspective. That's when
54:27
I came to America and when I saw him, it's only
54:30
after he had died, I found out about him and
54:33
I went in and, you know, looked into a little
54:37
bit of his comedy, but I never wanted to be a
54:40
stand -up comedian. No, but now the more I learn
54:45
about it, the more I'm into it, the more I go
54:48
on shows, the more I see my friends who are like
54:52
stand -up comics that are like doing like from
54:55
one step to another when they're like, oh, he
54:58
was doing this bit six months earlier and now
55:00
look, this bit has come out this way. That admiration
55:03
is like, the love is just growing. It's like,
55:07
oh man, I love it now. And now it's more like,
55:12
I want to be on stage. I want to transfer. I
55:15
want to talk about it. And now, you know, I've
55:18
been doing shows here and there. So it's like,
55:21
hey, you know, it's coming along. It's like,
55:24
oh, I can go talk about, you know, how, you know,
55:28
New York and... North and South, the differences
55:33
between that I've been finding out, I can go
55:35
talk about it and have fun about it. And that's
55:39
kind of like, oh, let's talk about some things
55:42
that we don't really talk about in real life.
55:45
Let's talk about it on stage and see how that.
55:50
And also sobriety, all that. staying present
56:00
and being a servant to the muse is like whatever
56:04
universe is going to give you in the moment,
56:08
just have that and you know, live in that. So
56:13
we had the other day, one of the cameras kind
56:19
of stopped working and I was like, Hey, that's
56:23
okay. The universe took me from here. to my friend's
56:28
house and we were able to record something over
56:31
there. Yeah. And that recording had been delayed
56:35
for weeks. Look at that. And I'm like, see, that's
56:39
how... This is how it goes, man. You gotta like
56:43
let the flow take over. And once it takes over,
56:48
it's like... So now the challenge is how to keep
56:53
in the flow and trust the flow. Yeah. and not
56:57
be that, oh, I need to control this. I need to
56:59
control that. I need to do this open mic. I need
57:02
to go do that. I need this much stage time. I
57:05
need that much stage time. And also management
57:08
of attention, man. That's another thing I'm been
57:11
working on is like when you do get attention.
57:16
The last time I was on Kill Tony, man, I got
57:18
so much attention, like viral clips. People were
57:22
sending me viral clips. I'm like, People were
57:26
cutting clips post. I'm like, okay. I stopped
57:30
for like six months. I didn't sign up. I'm like,
57:33
you need to manage this attention. Cause there's
57:35
a lot of comics that you see get attention and
57:39
then you don't hear from them. So that attention
57:45
management is something that I was kind of was
57:47
like, okay, you need to be very careful with.
57:51
Cause there's an energy. So as an actor. Uh,
57:57
when you do go up on stage, there's a lot of
58:01
energy that you transfer. Yeah. And all that
58:05
transfer of energy depletes your energy. This
58:10
is very true. Yes. So that how to manage that
58:15
is the thing that I'm like very concentrated
58:19
on. That's why I've been doing a lot of archery,
58:22
hikes, spending time in nature. Oh, hell yeah.
58:26
Just, you know, sitting, looking at the water
58:29
and forcing myself to be like, hey, stop that
58:33
crazy New Yorker. Go, go, go. Why aren't you
58:35
making money? Why aren't you doing this? Why
58:37
aren't you doing that? Yeah, you're trying to
58:38
slow down a little bit. Yeah. And when you slow
58:41
down, you listen to what the muse has to say.
58:44
Oh, yeah. What are your goals for comedy? Like,
58:48
do you have any or? So, for comedy, As of right
58:51
now, this is my fourth year and I kind of like
58:54
was treating it as a college program. So like
58:57
give four years. Yeah. So first year and this
59:03
is fourth year and now, um, you know, start doing
59:06
shows and stand up filmmaking, all this in hand.
59:15
It's all so. When you were asking me, do I have
59:19
like, when I see a future plan for comedy, this
59:23
is something that I was talking about before
59:26
too is like, I've given up on like what the future
59:31
is going to hold or what's going to, let me do
59:35
this today. And I'm bringing my tool. I'm trained
59:40
in film, television, theater. I'm training. I'm
59:45
bringing my tool in the present fully. Let the
59:48
universe use me how it wants to use me in that
59:53
day. So from there, there will be something coming
59:58
out of it. But what I do want eventually to have
1:00:03
is a comedy cowboys is my channel on YouTube.
1:00:09
Oh, yeah. So Comedy Cowboys has been the podcast
1:00:13
and now it's turned into a production, Comedy
1:00:17
Cowboys Productions. So, which the idea is we
1:00:23
did a live show as well. People who had been
1:00:25
on the podcast, we did a showcase last year.
1:00:30
And so these are the things like, okay, I could
1:00:34
build this up slowly, slowly, slowly. Don't rush
1:00:37
it. Don't force it. Because there have been times
1:00:41
that I tried to force the podcast. They've been
1:00:44
tried to force the show. It doesn't work. It
1:00:48
creates a huge mess. So I'm like in the flow
1:00:51
of like, okay, when it's going to happen. But
1:00:54
every day you take a step towards it. Like, okay,
1:00:57
what can I do for my show today? Oh, I can do,
1:01:00
I've started doing these a day in the life of
1:01:04
little programs. giving comedians, my friends
1:01:09
highlights like, Hey, day in the life of Blazing
1:01:12
Nana, day in the life of Nick Devlin, Tommy Tickles
1:01:17
and see, you know, so that's kind of like my
1:01:19
filmmakers, um, um, exercise as well. So getting
1:01:26
that production house and also having comedy
1:01:30
cowboys as a live show that we already have done.
1:01:35
As like a recurring one. Yeah, as a recurring
1:01:38
one. Man, that sounds fantastic. Yeah, but it's
1:01:40
gonna be, it's gonna take its time, so no rush.
1:01:43
Yeah, yeah. Every seed takes a minute to grow,
1:01:46
I guess, right? Well, dude, thank you so much,
1:01:50
man, for coming on. I appreciate it, man. Thank
1:01:51
you so much. And thank you for your patience.
1:01:54
Oh, of course. You know, like having to deal
1:01:55
with my craziness, you know. Man, I'm telling
1:01:57
you, staying in the present, whatever the universe
1:02:02
brings, whatever. You know, we have days. That's
1:02:07
what's up, my dude. That's what's up. Hey, thank
1:02:08
you, Solomon. Appreciate you, man. Thank you
1:02:10
so much for coming on. Thank you. Thank you.
1:02:11
Thank you, of course. My pleasure. And that's
1:02:15
it, man. That's a wrap. Thank you. All right,
1:02:19
buddy. Hell yeah.