Basom Yusuf, a stand-up comedian and self-described "serious business guy," joins the podcast to discuss comedy, cultural stereotypes, and moral reasoning through a series of humorous and thought-provoking hypotheticals. He challenges political boycotts of comedians, arguing that such actions are hypocritical and disproportionately target certain nations—like the U.S.—despite their own human rights issues. He critiques cultural misconceptions, such as linking Mexican presence in Egypt to alien theories, and highlights how identity and perception shape public judgment. Basom emphasizes pacifism and ethical boundaries, rejecting violence even in extreme scenarios, such as attacking a sleeping baby or confronting a homeless person. The conversation explores topics like name pronunciation, religious identity, and social biases, illustrating how language and culture influence perception. The episode also includes absurd jokes—like a restaurant that "hurts" customers at dawn or a fictional collaboration to "pulverize" a guest—used to underscore deeper societal issues. Throughout, Basom blends satire with serious commentary, demonstrating how humor can serve as both a critique and a bridge to meaningful dialogue on race, politics, and morality. The segment concludes with a light-hearted yet insightful reflection on the limits of judgment and the value of empathy in a diverse world.
Hello everybody, welcome back to the podcast, today's guest, we have Basom Yusuf, welcome in. For today's co-host, we have my manager, Virah Floring, please welcome in Virah Floring. Like Jack, man. Like this. Nice to meet you. Hi, hey, good to meet you. Doing good. So if you could please pull the mic closer to you and that introduce yourself for anybody who might not know you and all that one. All that one. All that one. Oh, what does that mean? I guess it's kind of like black talk, actually, you know, in a sense, it's black talk, trying to appeal sort of to the younger, more uneducated generation, more educated, more, oh, oh, okay, are we getting into trouble already for this? I don't know, I don't understand the politics of anything here. Yeah, right. So my name is Basom Yusuf, I am a standup comedian. That's the whole intro. That's what I do right now. I mean, I do, I do some other stuff, but that's that's the kind of the priority. Will you be performing at the Israeli comedy festival? That would be funny. Is that something you'd be interested in? I don't think so. What if they paid you $7,000? Wow. So hard offer to turn down to 70,000, 7,000. That's that's a lot, but I think I'll have to resist. You would still say no. Yeah. Now, you're one of really the only comedians who could have went to the reality comedy festival and kind of avoided criticism. Did you get invited to that? Would you perform it in the future? I didn't get invited, but I would invite I would definitely perform anything if I got invited. What do you think about the crazy criticism that's been given to the comedians who did go? I think it's nonsense. I actually talked about this a couple of times. I said that if we start to boycott comedians because the countries that they go to because of their political, you know, political stance, then we should boycott all countries, which includes a lot of the western countries, including the United States. And I think it's a double standard. But the United States, I mean, I would personally argue I'm a big fan of the greatest country in the world. So why would you want to pay not go to that one? No, because the reasons that they use in order to boycott the real festival is that they do a lot of like human rights violations and they fund wars, which I know the states are the same. So if you're going to do that, I know it's boring, right? It's like very sleepy. I know I would be bored if I would hear myself, yeah, right? I understand what you're saying. I mean, as a proud American, I would just argue that you have to give some slack to the US and maybe give them a little bit of a leeway. Of course, we should then we should give you ways for all the countries. I'm a huge joe. Yeah, I'm a huge, I'm a huge fan of the United States. That's why I'm here. Yeah, it's a great country. I wasn't born here. I was born in Egypt. Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying. I mean, Egypt is nice, but you obviously wanted to come to the United States. Oh, my God, that's that kind of shows I didn't expect that. Oh, so it's kind of like going to weird stuff happening all through. That's amazing. I'm going to I'm going to enjoy this. Well, that's my manager. That's Michael Mike just bringing him some treats to you. Yeah, does he? Does he have thyroid? Are you guys? Are you okay? He has like very like gazing eyes because as a doctor, I need to be as a previous doctor. Like, I need to be concerned. Can you put him down? Put him down. Yeah, like kind of kill him. Yeah, exactly. That's that's that's that's illegal. I mean, they do it all the time with sick people. I don't think they do it all the time with sick people at the hospital. If somebody is extremely sick, I sometimes they have to pull the plug. Of course, that's what I'm saying, but there's no plug to pull right now. You get a look at him. I didn't see a plug. Maybe if we search more, it's more of a metaphorical thing. I know. Yeah, yeah. How is it okay to get upset at Asian people for eating dogs? When it is part of their culture, the same way Arabs eat hummus. Yeah, because we don't pet hummus. Because because we pet dogs, but we do not pet hummus. Yeah, well, you know, the Indian people pet cows. They actually worship them. Yeah, I know. It's a little crazy. It's a very controversial thing. That's why I don't eat meat. Oh, you're vegan. Yeah, then based. Yeah. Okay. Well, I didn't know that. I'm definitely not a vegan. So you wouldn't eat would you rather eat a cow or a dog? I wouldn't eat either. If somebody put put them right up to you, they said cow or dog. Oh my god. That will be like it's going to be the easiest choice ever. None. None. Okay. The guy and I mean it. None. What's your name again? What's your flooring? Where? Viral flooring. Viral flooring? Yes. That's a that's a cool name man. He makes floors go viral and then they explode the entire house. I love, I love, I love the look. I love the, do you, do you, do you, do you race? You race. Do you talk? Continuing on that previous thing, the guy now is a gun pointed at the dog and at the cow. I would, I would ask him to please be kind enough not to shoot anybody. He goes, this is, that's not how this works. This isn't about kindness. I'm testing your morals here. I cannot, I cannot choose murdering people. Nobody's the cow in the dog, not a people. I can't, I can't. Still, they are souls. Thank you. That's, that's, that's a great response. I like that. Do you think you could beat Ben Shapiro in a fist fight? No. No, I'll lose if I'm Ben Shapiro because he's, if you're Ben Shapiro, you know, but, but I don't want to be short and weak like him. So you think you could win then essentially is what you're saying? No, if I'm Ben Shapiro, I'll definitely lose. No, could you beat him in a fight? Not if you were him. But if I'm him, that, that I have to do a lot of adjustments like killing my conscious. Yeah, but to be fair, he has that little hat on and doesn't that give him special powers? I haven't put that hat on so I don't know if it gives me special powers. I heard that it gives him the money to buy trainers and he can become an exceptional fighter. I don't know if that will work with him. I don't, I think it's like, dude, I love, like, oh, oh, he's just like, I thought it was like, 30 toxicosis because he has very white eyes. Looks like an ice cartoon character. Some people claim the pyramids were built by aliens, but Mexico is over 7,500 miles away from Egypt. So how would that work? Yeah, I, I like the fact that they always attribute, like, civilization of brown people to aliens. Well, I guess in this case is brown to brown. It's a brown on brown crime. Maybe green on brown, who's green? The aliens, no, the aliens are Mexican, they're brown. No, maybe you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. I'm saying, how do the Mexicans get to Egypt? Oh, so the joke is the Mexicans are the aliens. Oh, yeah, illegal aliens, nice, nice. That's, that's, that's good. As an American, I don't like Mexican. Have you, have you tried stand-up comedy? No, I'm a pretty serious business guy. I like, yeah, you told me about like that voice that the voice is like makes you more business like. Because before, how does the voice help you? It helps me get jobs and makes people take me more seriously. What jobs did you get with that kind of voice? Not yet, but I think it's going to help. Like, I went to New York a couple months ago and I sat around on Wall Street and I tried getting into the building. And they said, no, but I think it'll work eventually. I mean, if you have faith in that voice, man, do you think this is helping? I'm sure. I'll back to that thing about the Mexicans. How did they get to Egypt? Yeah. Well, Egypt didn't have a role. Yeah, but it's not connected. Well, you know, the whole word is connected. Yeah, do you think Egypt should let in more Mexicans? Yeah. I don't know if I agree with that. Yeah. Oh, is it harder to find a job since your name is Bass of Yousef? I nod your Quavis De Shon Malik. Oh, that's a, that's a very cool name. What was that name again? Jacquevi is De Shon Malik. How did you read that? How did you have a, that's a great, that's a cool name, man. That's a cool name. Yeah, it's like a, it's like a hip name. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of like hip and young, you know, has that been a struggle for you? No, because people can't pronounce my name anyways. That's what I'm saying. So people might be a little racist. They might be less likely to want to hire you. No, I like to, people, I like listening to people up all the joys every time they try to pronounce my name. It's the bass saying bass. It's, it's fun to watch. But why, why don't you just go by your last name, Yousef, and then change it to Joseph? Yeah, I sometimes I do that. I said, okay, I said, okay, guys, just call me Joseph. Why don't you do it legally? Because I'm saying that some people, if you're just turning in a resume, they might be like, Oh, we don't want bass and Yousef. We want Jamal. Malik Jamal Jacquevici to Sean Malik. Yes, I don't know. Maybe he would be pretty good for like a security position. Yeah, absolutely. Like a moral security or something. Not exactly, but sort of, but what kind of security are you thinking about? Like security for like a gangster, like a rapper? Oh, like a band.
Like a hitman yeah like a bouncer but for like a guy who's not even legally liable for a club or anything Just a rapper who's going around making trouble in the streets. Yeah, okay. The kind of like a music video kind of thing Yeah, but what the music video is depicting That's amazing as a servant Will you learn Krav Magas so you can protect yourself from women and children? Yeah, if I am if I would do that if I'm a Zinist well just generally. I mean sometimes in the street. I get a little bit scared of children and women Especially if they're in a group especially if they're used as a shield No, not even as a shield just when I see them by themselves like if he's a mother and a son. I'm thinking yeah I haven't learned Krav Magal but I've heard what he's about if I knew how to poke their eyes out That could be especially beneficial. I mean. Why would do you would you do that if you have drones, you know No, I'm not comparing myself to Israel or any other I'm saying as a one as a literal one-to-one thing that will be a very interesting encounter That's not something you would consider. No, I don't think so. Why is that? Yeah, I'm a kind of a pacifist Well, what if they tried attacking you first like the little kid goes up to your leg and starts like going like tapping asking for candy You don't want to know how to kick it in the balls. Kick it in the balls That's what they do that's what I heard that how you pronounce it the balls That what I said the balls to sound serious I like how you sound serious when you say the balls kick him in the balls the balls. Yeah, kick it in the balls That sounds pretty serious to me very serious How do you say without I guess the mimic Kick him in the balls, but we have a sort of a similar action compared to an American my my I have a very very very Clear Middle Eastern accent Sort of like what I have is what you're saying or no. No, no. No, you're you sound serious But you sound you sound like what I sound like an Arab But what does that mean? I mean in there what is that like we for example Like our vowels are different. No, no, not like that. Like what do you think people would depict you with oh me? Yeah, they they would say Middle Eastern No Middle Eastern with what like what do you think that represents to them? Oh Just a region What is that region represent today? Oh Depending on who you talk to right. That's what I'm saying if you have someone what does the Middle Eastern present to you Well, it depends who you're talking to if I'm talking to you to me it represents the Middle East and not much more because I know Yeah, but to a lot of people who could represent terrorism especially after 9/11. Yeah, I know that was uh That was Like a bad thing. It wasn't it was a tragedy a national tragedy Yeah, I mean especially with all of the evidence how they found the passports like just like around and downtown Manhattan the passports were in Manhattan from the plane. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it dropped from the plane I mean nothing was like I mean everything was incinerated, but the passports Well, yeah, it fell out when the plane hit the building. Yes, because then they could find it and it would make it easier And then and and and yes, of course because how else can you identify the attackers if it wasn't for the passport that was just lying around in the In Manhattan. 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So you're saying you'd rather give money to the homeless I mean if the Homosexual person is in more need Like let's say for example if the homosexual person is is is also homeless No, then in this case, I will just give money to whoever So you'd rather give money to a homeless homosexual than just a homeless No, I didn't say that. I'm not understanding. Would you rather give money to the person in the most needy position? Yes. Yeah, but this person is going to be the worst at handling their finances. Why wouldn't you want to give money to Somebody you know what you know what you're right. I shouldn't actually give money to anybody Especially not a homo or a homeless Well, homeless. It's like with the homo is defensive to be asked for money with the homeless. It's like kind of funny It's like your day got a little brightened Not for you. I I don't know. I think we went into we we made a lot of hypotheticals in that question. I don't know where we are right now I'm just getting frustrated when talking about homosexuals. Yes. It's very apparent Sometimes when a baby is born they accidentally killed the mother should the baby then be charged with involuntary manslaughter That's a very interesting perspective. Right Was it premeditated? I it I must unless it's an extremely early birth. I think the brain starts at like eight weeks or 12 weeks or probably I mean was it accidental or they actually or the baby did he plan for it? Well, that's why it's involuntary You know, they didn't mean involuntary. Yeah And the dad would be devastated. He'll lose both of them. Damn. No, the baby is still alive Yeah, but he said like what was the question is like should we charge the baby? Yeah, well, I'm not really it's we don't really do the death penalty in America's anymore Unfortunately, yeah, but imagine the father like losing his wife and then the kid goes to jail Yeah, but he want the father to take care of a murder It's a very interesting perspective. It's a very tough question. I'm very good at writing these good questions Yeah, man, it's just like some main twister Go ahead when you're ready. Yes Have you thought about it? What? What? You forgot? What what was was there a question about the baby? Who slaughtered? Oh, he should he be charged. Yes. Oh, I didn't know that you were waiting for me Yes No, why would you want to let him get away? I think he deserves a second chance. I don't agree I understand Why did people expect the NELK boys to know any better? They're only 30 years old Yeah, because they are 30 years old That's not fair. You wouldn't expect a little kid to know any better when they fall on the floor Yeah, how old are you? I'm 18 by the way. You're 18. Yes You Yeah, I didn't watch the show Yeah, I didn't So yeah, all right, so this is the first episode you've seen really. Yeah, I didn't see anything when I show it Well, that kind of wasn't my plan. I was gonna throw the money to see if you were Jewish And you were some sort of plant But then a real a real Jewish showed up Yeah Now now I just have too many in my pocket if you want them feel free. Oh, thank you These are a lot of pennies. Where did you get that man? How was in mind that was that that was the Jews the rabbi he was collecting them probably from all the different counters. Yeah And now I think I had now have to guess like what other kind of stereotypes that would be coming behind that curtains So now I get the show now so the guest show basically is basically you're putting all of these like weird stuff and see how
that gets react interesting. - Well, no, it's actually a very serious business show and what we do is we do it to tip some. - Are you reading it in? - I am 18, yes. - I know, like you're doing very well on YouTube. - Thank you, I appreciate it. - Amazing, man. - Like, I saw the numbers. I didn't see the show, I saw the number while I was like, oh, really? - I mean, so you kind of made a mistake, actually. You didn't do the correct amount of research. - I didn't, no. - Would you have still went through with doing the show, had you watched it? - I would actually have had fun. - Are you having fun right now? - I'm having a great time. - That's good to hear. Any? - I don't know if any of this will cancel my shit, but. - I don't think so, because I just, I forgot now. Anyways, back to the Nelk boys. - Yeah. - Yeah, I don't really understand. Oh, you are Jewish, maybe. - Oh, no. - I like doing this. - Like, the thing they do with the dreidel? - The dreidel, I never played with the dreidel, I don't know. - It's a similar thing. - I think it's a similar to the, would you ever, if I guess you needed some extra cash, would you ever become like a shabby's goi? - What's a shabby's goi? - It's a non-Jewish person who turns the lights on and off for the Jews. On Friday and Saturday. - Oh, well, there's a thing like that? - Yeah, because they're not allowed to do it, so they found like a funny loophole. - I didn't know that. - Um, do you think you would be a good choice to play ice cube in a documentary? - Ice cube? - Yeah. - Oh, ice cube is huge, man. I don't think that ice cube will have me play his character. - Why would it be up to him? He's gonna be biased if he creates his own documentary. - Ah, documentary. - I don't know how to rap. - No, just like about his childhood and his start, you know what I mean? - Yeah, I don't even know how to act. - Okay. - I don't think I will do the character justice. - Why don't you believe in yourself? - Yeah, I'm not an actor. - Do you think if the Epstein files release, they will implicate Asman Gold? - What? - Who's Asman Gold? - He's that Twitch streamer who does in shower and all of his teeth fell out 'cause he didn't brush his teeth for like 25 years. - Oh my God, there's someone like that. - Yeah. - Is he like, I haven't heard of him. - He lives in like Austin or Dallas, Texas and there's actual rats living in his house. - Oh my God. - I don't really know what he has to do with Epstein. I guess they're both kind of just disgusting a little bit. - Yeah, I don't know who Asman Gold is. - What about Stephen A. Smith? Will they implicate him? - Oh wow, why? - He just looks like the type to get implicated by it. - By what? - He just looks creepy. He doesn't have really a good head of hair. He looks sort of like Epstein. - He does? - Yes. - Hmm, never saw that. - Are we talking about the same guy? - Who? - Stephen A. Smith. - And who? - Jeffrey Epstein. - Yeah. - You don't think they look alike? - No. - What about Steini? Does he look like either of them? - Oh, Steini from Nellboys. - Yeah. - Oh, he's a good kid. - Do you think Hurricane Katrina was caused by anti-Semitism? - That's the first time I heard that. - Really? - Yeah. - I've heard that for that and many others to be completely honest. - Oh, if we're, I don't know. I didn't, I never heard anything from him. - What do you believe? - After hearing it for the first time potentially. - No, I don't believe that. - Why not? - That's a mixed sense. - Why not? - Maybe at the time the, were upset so they released it? - Who? - You know what I'm saying? - No. - I feel like I've done so many implications we've done this episode and at this point, I have to just start going like this with it. I could only get away with so many 'cause as a former Jew, I get like five. - You're a former Jew? - Yeah. - What do you mean former Jew? - I'm not Jewish anymore. - Why? - Because I don't want to be. I'd rather, I get both benefits if I say I'm a former one. - Okay, so when did you decide to stop being Jewish? - Maybe like two and a half years ago, three years ago. - Why would happen? - I was never really religious. I was just Jewish and then I realized that the Jews will always consider me Jewish. But if I start saying I'm a former Jew, which I basically am because I'm not religious, then I don't have to be associated with it anymore. - It's your choice, man. - But I still get all of the benefits sort of like being able to do that, like this whole thing here. - Oh, to make fun of Jewish people. - Yeah, I get it both ways. - Oh, so you can get the, yeah, but they're still your people. - No, they're not. - Now I'm a business guy. My people are on Wall Street. - Well, same people. - That's true, but like instead of 100% like 98. - Yeah, okay, so you're just like lost two points. - Yeah, maybe I need to find somewhere other than Wall Street. - I'm starting to rethink my choices. - Hollywood. - No, that's gonna go up a point. You might be the exception there. - Nah, maybe. - Give, how do you read your handwriting? Can I see that, please? - It's tough for you. - Yeah, actually, it's, you have much better handwriting than mine. 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What is the moral of the story? That's if you give a man 14 fish feed him for 14 days or two weeks. Yeah, I know, but what's the moral? That's just like a fun fact from it. Yeah, if you give someone food, they will eat it. Yeah, but then after 14 days, the guy won't have any more food and then he'll be reliant because you've been giving it to him for two weeks. He really has to feed himself. Yeah, but what if it's somebody with sort of a disorder? Yeah, well, then he will need help. The original saying is give a man a fish feed him for a day, teach a man to fish feed him for life, but that doesn't work if the man doesn't have arms or legs or a brain. So then what can you do? The man is basically a fish. Go ahead, Joseph. Yes. Is it okay if I call you that from now on? Call me whatever you are, man. Which do you prefer? Besson. Besson? Okay. Parents usually say they will do anything to their children, is this something to be concerned about? Concerned? Yes. Why? To do anything to their children? For their children. No, that's not what it says. To their children. Oh, then this is concerned. So what do we do? How can we put a stop to this nasty behavior? I know. Child protection services. On every parent? Oh, yeah. If someone said that, it will be a problem. Do you have any children? Yeah. Are you willing to do anything to your children? For them. Not to them. You have a. But that's a nice thing, but you're saying it's good. What I read is not good, it's bad. Yeah, I would never do something to them. What about give them a high five? Yeah, that's something nice. What is the most practical way to microwave my foot while it's still attached to my body? That's a tough question. You're not flicking it, you should do this and flicking it, and we flicking the side. This is going to be a tough question, so just focus. If each happy meal comes with a toy, but only one, and you got four happy meals, when does the amount of toys coincide with the amount of happy meals you bought? And how many happy meals can be bought until you reach the max level of happiness? That's a mind-twister. Right. I didn't understand even while I wrote, I was hoping that you could give me a better answer to it. No, it's tough, man. So what do you think? I think we should pass this question. You want to pass that question? Yeah. But then I'll never know the answer. Yeah, man. The happy meal is supposed to make you happy, but that answer, that question doesn't make me happy. That's why it's good to skip it. But that makes me even less happy. You get over it. In what situation would it be appropriate to punch a sleeping baby in the face? I don't think it's appropriate at all. No matter what the situation, of course. What if the baby has one of those little devices on, where if you like, you know, do something bad to it, it's like a dead man switch. So maybe you have to punch it in that case, right? Open the device on the baby. The baby's friend, who's also a baby. Wow, these are very advanced babies. No, they just got a hold of like a more advanced piece of technology. Yeah, but how did the piece of technology appeared on their fingers like that? One baby put it on the other one. How did the baby put it? Like who invented that? Oh, probably not a baby. Okay, so how did the baby get it? It's, I don't know, maybe this is a baby in Afghanistan. Okay, how did the baby in Afghanistan get it? It was in his house, I guess. Yeah, and then like who delivered it to him, another baby? Yeah, there's two babies in the house. One baby got a hold of it and then put it on the other guy. Did he get a hold of it? That's the question. Like how did he get it? He was just sitting there on the counter. Why? I don't know because some irresponsible baby left it there. A third baby? Yeah, a third baby. So is this a very little baby? No, but I mean, most of the other babies. I know, but is this like an underground baby, underground force, that kind of like deals with dead men switches and puts on other babies? No, it's just a lot of babies. Because that seems serious. Okay, so we'll go with that one. That sounds very serious. Then can you punch them when they're sleeping? No, we need to find the one who actually put the device. But I don't think it's a baby. I think it's the first stretch to us. No, it is a baby. I don't think so. In this hypothetical, it's a baby. In this hypothetical? Yes. Then bunch, punch that bitch, I don't know. See, I'm trying to find a way to justify because I was on a plane the other day and his baby was crying and yelling and I wanted to pulverize him. Oh, my God. So you just wanted to have an excuse. Well, do you have these anger issues against babies? Do you like, like, punching babies? Well, what did they do for us? Nothing, but do you think? So you need to punch them? If they're yelling and screaming when I paid $800 for a flight? No, it's, if I pulverize him. Pulverize him. How would you pulverize him? But that's not pulverizing, you just squashed him. I want to incapacitate him for the rest of the flight. But you just said pulverizing him. Yeah, that's exactly what I said. Yeah. Are you going to take this with you? No. I'm not going to throw them again because I don't want that situation to happen again. That was a bad situation. Was that scary when he came out? What? Who? Any collector? No. Because it was very obvious it's a costume. No, that was a real one. Yes. He's from Brooklyn. From Brooklyn? Is that how I say it or they say it? No, this is how I say it. Okay. Would it be a good idea to start a restaurant that only serves breakfast at night and tries hurting you in the morning because that's not when they serve breakfast? And try to do what in the morning? You hurting you? Yeah. I mean, isn't that waffle house? It's not really institutionalized in a direct way to the rules. I mean, they serve breakfast all day and they, I guess, right? They bring, I think they serve breakfast all day. Not only at night at this new location, and if you go in there in the morning, you'll get attacked. What do you think? My idea here. I mean, that the part about hurting people, doesn't that put like legal liability on you? No, they'll sign a waiver or something. Ah, like what? Fight club. What's that? That people fighting in a club. Would you ever be interested in collaborating with me on a video where we take Longneck and then rip his arms off and then he take his legs off, followed by his eyes? Who? Longneck? Who's Longneck? The next guest coming in in about five minutes, I was thinking, one day we could do a reunion. Me and you, we take his arms off, then his legs off, then we rip out his eyes, and then we pulverize his stomach with an elbow. You like the word pulverize, but you say you said pulverize. Pulverize. Like the word pulverize. So you've been making fun of my vocabulary. I don't know. I said you like the word pulverize. Yeah. I mumbled it. No. I mumbled it. Because of your action, because you're from Saudi Arabia. Yes. But I mumbled. But you like the word pulverize. It sounds cool. It sounds cool. Pulverize. It sounds like you just beat the shit out of a daily. Are you really 18? I am 18. Wow. You think I'm older or I'm younger? I thought I was your older. How old did you think I was? Maybe 24. Somebody couldn't come up with such intelligent questions and a high quality show it, 18 usually. Yes. What you're saying? Are you in college? No. I haven't got an education in past the sixth grade actually. No. Well, in sixth grade, COVID happened and then I never really continued from there. Where? Sixth grade? But that COVID was five years ago. Right. You were in sixth grade? Oh. Well, actually, it was seven. I'm saying I didn't get an education pass with the sixth grade. Yeah. And then you actually dropped out of school? I did it online for a little bit and then I realized that why am I going to school when I could be doing drop shipping? What? Drop shipping. It's when you buy an item or when you sell an item that you don't actually have for a higher price and then you ship it from the seller with the lower price. Yeah. Like those Amazon ads. Okay. You don't work for Amazon. Yeah. Sort of. But I just didn't really work out for me and then that's, and then I got into an education with long neck and now I'm going to surprise him in five minutes. Well that's the end of the show. I appreciate you coming on. Thank you so much. Will you help me take out long neck? I don't think I want to risk my life. No. He's a little scrawny like, no, no, no, no. I don't want to hurt people. I don't know if you should consider him a people more like a. Yeah, that's not something nice to say.
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Basom Yusuf is a standup comedian and discusses his views on cultural stereotypes, political boycotts, and the double standards in global criticism.
He challenges the idea of boycotting comedians based on political stances, arguing it’s hypocritical and calls for equal scrutiny of all countries, including the U.S.
He highlights cultural misrepresentations, such as equating Mexican presence in Egypt with alien theory, and critiques the oversimplification of cultural practices.
Basom emphasizes his personal values, including pacifism and moral reasoning, rejecting violence even in hypothetical scenarios involving children or animals.
He shares insights on identity, self-perception, and how name pronunciation affects social interactions, noting that non-religious individuals may distance themselves from cultural labels.
The conversation includes satirical and absurd hypotheticals, such as punching a sleeping baby or running a restaurant that attacks customers in the morning.
Basom reflects on humor as a tool for social commentary, blending absurdity with serious questions about ethics, bias, and societal norms.
The episode features a mix of personal anecdotes, comedic exchanges, and philosophical debates, demonstrating the power of humor in navigating complex social issues.
Summary:
Basom Yusuf, a stand-up comedian and self-described "serious business guy," joins the podcast to discuss comedy, cultural stereotypes, and moral reasoning through a series of humorous and thought-provoking hypotheticals. —despite their own human rights issues. He critiques cultural misconceptions, such as linking Mexican presence in Egypt to alien theories, and highlights how identity and perception shape public judgment.
Basom emphasizes pacifism and ethical boundaries, rejecting violence even in extreme scenarios, such as attacking a sleeping baby or confronting a homeless person. The conversation explores topics like name pronunciation, religious identity, and social biases, illustrating how language and culture influence perception. The episode also includes absurd jokes—like a restaurant that "hurts" customers at dawn or a fictional collaboration to "pulverize" a guest—used to underscore deeper societal issues.
Throughout, Basom blends satire with serious commentary, demonstrating how humor can serve as both a critique and a bridge to meaningful dialogue on race, politics, and morality. The segment concludes with a light-hearted yet insightful reflection on the limits of judgment and the value of empathy in a diverse world.
FAQs
Basom Yusuf is a standup comedian, and that is his primary career focus currently.
He would not perform there, as he believes the boycott of comedians based on political stances is a double standard and applies equally to countries like the United States.
No, he has not tried stand-up comedy himself, though he is aware of how a serious, business-like voice can help in professional settings.
He believes that after 9/11, the Middle East is often associated with terrorism, which is a harmful stereotype, and he sees it as a form of bias that needs to be challenged.
He would give money to the person in the most need, emphasizing that both groups can face economic hardship and that compassion should be based on need, not identity.
No, he believes it is not appropriate to hold a baby accountable, as the situation is involuntary and a baby cannot be held responsible for such an outcome.
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