Mo Amer on American vs Arabic Culture, DJ Khaled Beef, & Palestinian Pride

That's for big, you take my citizenship and I have to move to a tax-free country. You know, I'll call you to see who's just moving around every year. Every big class, every big class. You've got to come to India, man. I'm not doing it. We got to go to the Dung Festival. What's a Dung Festival? No, no, there's not. What? You don't have to go to the Dung Festival. Come on, bro, Dung. He died for everybody. What was Adam and Eve? What were they? What were they? That's a good question. Maybe white people can tell us that. I mean, if we-- They were Christians. Look at this one, man. Adam and Andy. Because he was made from mud. I know. All right, it's been good, guys. I ain't sure. [LAUGHTER] This looks like the front of a mosque right here. I'm looking at it. That's why we asked it. There's a detention center right behind the detention center. That's so dumb. Generally, what's happening with ISIS really can die of alcohol. It is. Who's going to finish your roof, please? [LAUGHTER] I get the podcast now. I get it. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Let me tell you something. I want to pick out a podcast. I'm like, podcast couches. You're comfortable? No, it's you. No, it's me. Come on, come on. Come on, come on. Let me give you some Middle East now. No, no, no, no. Come on, come on. Come on, come on. Come on, come on, come on. I'm not going to swear it. Come on, come on. Come on, come on. Everybody's going to think it's weird. No, no, no. It's not that good. No, no, no. Let me see. Maybe it's not that good. We're good. We're good. Wasn't everybody welcome to Flagor, and today we are here with our boy, Mo, Um, our new Netflix special out wild world. Go check it right now, talking cash shit right up top. Let's go. Okay. About the world's most famous pal city. Well, is he? I don't even know. No. No, but every time I say something, I'm like, is he pal city? We didn't even know. He's pal city. Yeah. Why didn't he think he has a spoken at all? I don't know. I'm so glad he wears black and white today, he's always wearing black and white, it would've been really wild. Yeah. That's what it's all about. No, we can tell you shit so well, they can actually take it away, actually, they can do whatever they want. Damn. No, I'm not Mo. We need Mo. No, no. We need Mo. Please don't. Okay. Have a son. That's for big. I'm like, we can't raise my son like it used to be, we had a big mold, baby, we had a big mold. He's got weight 15 seconds for the next one. It's really sad. It is. It is like when you throw blood out, bro. He tried to downshift, he said, yeah, yeah, he's really sad. You know, after the joke, after the joke, after the joke, you can just settle in, feel how fucked up everything up to say it out loud. Are you talking about the school shootings or taxation, because you're from Houston, so you shouldn't be complaining about this. No, I'm not. I'm not complaining, bro. Because out here, you know, it's wild, right? It's much, much worse. Yeah. I've never left Texas. More leaf Texas. Never. I'm in Texas. What's the most, you've been all over America. That's the most Middle Eastern part of America without them realizing it is. Like them realizing it. Yeah. Like where's like the white people in America? No, yeah. Where are the most, not where are the most Middle Eastern people? Where are the most white people who act Middle Eastern, but they don't even realize it. Like, you basically the entire South. So the South is way more Middle Eastern than they've ever been, bro. They have God, country, family, because this is why I get along with my neighbor. It's God I don't. And like, it's like, you feel that shit, but you were there for each other when shit goes down. Like, they're very, they're very fucking, yeah, they feed the fuck out of you. I've rolled up on my neighbor before, he's like, just gutting a deer. I'm like, what are you doing? He was like, it's pretty self-explanatory, but God damn deer, you know what I mean? And he's just like, making deer sauce and you know, I don't know. It just feels, it just reminds me of my childhood, you know, right? It does because I think I, I think I was like six or seven years old the first time I saw an animal being killed. This is in Kuwait. This was in Kuwait, yeah. Okay. I've raised in Kuwait for a few years, at least till nine years, yeah. Nine years old. Then the Gulf War happens and I was saying, goes into Kuwait, I end up in Houston, Texas. You guys dipped. We did. We stayed for the, well, I stayed with my sister, my family for like the first two and a half months and then my mom got myself and my sister out of there and we ended up in Houston now. Now is this a real story? I heard this story about your mom sowing money into the suitcases. Yeah. I put it in season one of my show. It's absolutely true. But that's from real life. Absolutely true. She's so, she actually, she sowed it in the lining of her purse and so I was just remembering just watching my mom like, who is this human being? It's like, you don't know who your parents are until like something like this happened. Yeah. Like, you don't know if they're good under pressure or horrible under pressure, my parents were unbelievable under pressure and it's like the first time you see them so uneasy when everything has been so wonderful up until then and you just see her like turn it on and yeah, she sowed it into the lining of the purse and she was getting my sister and I have the whole plan was, I'm going to get my sister and get my sister and I out of there. She was going to come back to Kuwait, finish out everything else and then meet us in the state. That was the whole idea. And so on the way to Jordan, we had to stop and bag that and then we're searching all the suitcases because they were finding any valuables that would just take that or tax you or whatever, you know, you got to pay fee, you know what I mean, so my mom stayed on the bus actually and she like because she had a little bit of money left over and she just didn't know where else to put it so she just like hit it under clothes. Right. Well, they were just throwing the clothes out of the suitcase. She was like, oh my God. So she told my sister and I had to get off the bus. And while they were searching, everything the soldier sees my mom never got off of there. But while she was on the bus by herself, she messed up all the clothes. She just like orange peels from the drive so she just poured all the trash all over it. And then the soldier comes up on there and starts yelling at her. The sergeant sees him yelling at a woman. He gets pissed off at him, he jumps on the bus, he's like, what's wrong with you? You know, look at her suitcase. It's obviously been searched on orange peels everywhere. Everywhere. It's such a good discussion. It's such a good thing. And she goes look at her face. It's not a face of a liar. And she goes apologize to her and we left him, my mom fucking pulled that off and it was stressful of circus. That's how we toast. I heard it after. That's just a snippet of it. No, no, I want to give it to all of it. But I heard after a season one came out, they executed that soldier. No. That's true. That's how he died on that bus. He was like, you had drunk the 60s. God, bro. I hope you reached out to him. We got to reach out to him. I don't know how to get a hold of him. I was nine years old. That's just how we're going to kick this all around. Yeah, that's how we kick it up. It's not like DJ Khaled. He's always seen him on orange peels. Yeah, he's never seen. He's never seen him on orange peels. Yeah, he's never seen him on orange peels. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's nothing really to say about him, to be honest with you, it was more. So I opened the special that way and even like I'm saying this now, you're not going to see it coming. You know, it's really just a dope opening to something that I've never seen in the standup special before. So I wanted to like do it that way. But yeah, it's just like I was kind of like the idea is that over the last two years of writing a TV show of the only Palestinian television show in the history of American television and feeling all the stress of that. And then at the same time, you're kind of seeing what everybody else is saying and what they're doing, what's going on. You know, it's comedians. That's what we do. We say the thing out loud that everybody's thinking, but nobody's saying. Right. So when I do that, and I've done that, you know, that opening line in like 30 countries and they go crazy. They fucking lose their mind. Yeah. Yeah. Finally somebody's at it. Yeah. Like when you see that opening line just crushing so hard, is there a little part of you? It's like, I hope that motherfucker doesn't come on board now. Yeah. No way. My open. It's a matter of fact. It's, it's, it's, it is a lifeline, but it's been intended to be a lifeline. Like, yes. It's not too late. It's never too late. No, it is. It is. A lot of people's minds for sure. It is too late because it's going to look fake no matter what, right? Yeah. The opening line and then there is the ending of the special where I do this time bit. It's like a poem, you know, slash comedy bit slash, you know, trying to encapsulate everything that's been going on the last two years. And in that portion, I do, you know, it's like a, it's like, Hey, it's never too late kind of things. It's never too late. Is it a chance for him to do something about it? Is it wild to see like America in like in your lifetime? Is it wild to see Americans start to care about the struggle? Yes. Yes. What is that like? Do you feel, is it confusing almost to see it? No, it's more like about time. Of course. Because it's like I've been talking about it for so long and there's been like a, a massive struggle for me in the business itself. Yeah. And all the hurdles that I've had and like of telling me like, change your name, go to LA. Don't tell me about it. I'm like, what's going on? Yeah. Like, I just never really understood that fully. I got it, but I didn't understand it fully, to be honest with you. What made you stay true? It's impossible. Oh my gosh, I can't pretend to be something else. Stand up is the essence of stand up is being yourself on stage. And it takes years of practice to be yourself on stage. Right. And just shifting that, you know, he'll be something else. I mean, you could think of an example probably. Yeah. Cosmic. That was a whole set, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to start that. You were saying that I was, I was really going with this. I was going with you saying, to be honest with you. Yo, come on, come on, come on. Yo, the thing about Carlos, though, is that he looks so Mexican. Yes, yes, Honduras and Japanese. He got treated. Whatever races and Mexicans get, he probably caught that. Yeah, like if you look it. Yeah, no, for sure, for sure. I'm saying like, it would be a part of my style. Like, how is, how is, are you even black? You can't tell? Boy, that's what I thought though. You can't tell. I'm like, it's kind of for this, man. Well, it's a bullshit. Black people can speak up here. What percentage are you? Um, 50% black. OK, so you get to say it. You get to say it. 50% for real. I can say, well, it's a declaration. I can say what? You can say that word that he says. Well, no, that's not real. Can I tell you something? That word would stand in front of him. No, that's not true. Yeah, that's not true. When you first heard the sand version, what did that feel like? I was, it was 9/11. It was like, I've been in the country like 10 years. I didn't even know this was slow or even existing. 9/11 is far some fire rate. So we're in fire rate. Can we admit that? You know, you can't be raising that in the frame. Until 9/11? No, in Houston, it was like, yeah, of course. There was a damn, but it was. It's not in his car. I don't know what the fuck you. Fuck it, no. If we're talking about Houston, by the way, he says the end. It's the most. It's the most city I know. I don't know any people who's the first city in America, please. It is the most ever city in America. And they loved it and they've turned it out. It is. And they loved it and it's bad for us. It's bad for us, and it's bad for us. And they love telling you that after they say the end word. That's their justification. Yeah, yeah. No, I heard that New York is the most diverse. Where do you feel? Feel free to just make up what it is. I'm just saying, but we're going off. What do you like going off to Forbes magazine? Which is never wrong. It's the most diverse city in America. Forbes said that shit. But in New York, we don't feel out the census. So nobody. It's only white people felt out. So it's more like census than he used to. I think they tricked me. Yo, bro. Check it out live.com. legit, like the neighborhood I grew up in, Aley, which is like. Just had so many amazing people come out of there. Yeah. It has like 90 languages spoken in that neighborhood alone. It's pretty. No, I don't think so. Houston, according to school system. Houston is like the first level of the video game of America. Yes. For like immigrants. You know, like if America was kind of complicit in doing some fuck shit to your country, we go, "All right, y'all can come, but you've got to survive." Houston, yes. And then after that, you get to have this American experience. Because then all like the Cambodians go there. And like the. Viennese. No, Viennese. As well, yeah. I don't know about the Cambodian population, but I know it's a huge Viennese population and a huge Nigerian population as well. 100%. And I'm sure you could tell the difference, obviously, between the Cambodians and Viennese off of looking at them. Impossible. Impossible. Impossible. Let's just say Viennese. Shout out to Cambodians, though, for real. We love y'all. We appreciate y'all. And we're glad the more stock. Fuck that, y'all. The more stock. We're the studio. We need to repair it. Shout out to Cambodians. The Viennese. The Viennese. What's happening? Why? Let's say Viennese is on here. Obviously, we're talking reckless. You know what I mean? Listen, we're the only people in America right now that believe that Muslims should hear jokes. I think we're the only one two. What are you five of us? We're the only five comedians. They believe that. It's so. Yo, how did you feel about when you were disgusting, bro? It's the whole. I'm glad you're talking. I'm just so distressed, bro. I cannot wait to talk to you about it because. It's so disgusting, bro. I find it so wildly appalling. First of all, like, even the comedians that went there talking about it, they liked it. They fucking laughed. Like, they're shocked. They were like, "I know, I know." They were just hearing some of the fucking comments. Or even like, the guys like on blockheads talking about, "Oh, we're making jokes. The guys that didn't get invited, they didn't get to go to the shows talking about, "Doin' this kind of shit, fuck you too." What was that? The fuck you too? You understand what he said? He don't got it. What did he say? No, they were like, "They were just like, they were just like, "Tranquil and cash, they're not as bullshit, bro." It's like really, really upsetting because. I wish I got that back from Saudi. It's straight up, but. Exactly. It's just straight up that, like, casual racism with all this fucking insane. It's the biggest treat. Let him go. Expectation. It's insane, bro. So wildly appalling. And then, first of all, for me, from my perspective, bro, I'm a Palestinian roaming around in these streets. Like, no matter where I go, I'm dealing with something. And also, like, me going to that region, going to Saudi Arabia, going to a really odd itself, how many Palestinians that reached out to me after the show that they brought their kids, man, I'm so. Like, it makes me emotional, bro. Yeah. And then my kids got to see you on stage. Got to say the things that you got to say. And it was completely free-raining. Got to do what you want to do. So, fuck you for your casual racism. Fuck you for not wanting to push the needle forward. Fuck you for not, like, even, even, even, like, considering of being upset that the film industry's there. NFL is there. UFC. Every, everything, Mr. B-6, best tennis players in the world. Everybody's there. And you want to pick on comics the most freest art form on planet earth. Probably the less free art form on planet earth. We can actually push the needle forward. And you're talking about this is the issue. I find a huge, huge beef with that. And you're talking about, like, 284 journalists killed in Gaza. And nothing about that. Nobody's, like, having a beef with doing shows and television, or anything like that. Fuck that, bro. Talk your shit. I'm being-- this is the truth, bro. We the best. We the best comedy. We the best comedy. Comedy with the best. Not just like the best. It's like, I really find it to be appalling, bro. The casual racism isn't fucking insane. And I'm a Muslim. I'm a Muslim. My brother's buried there down the street. You couldn't stop me from going there and performing for my own people. And as far as money's concerned, it was very much, like, in line of what I get paid in the Middle East. That's why I can tell when people-- It wasn't like I went out there and, like, "Oh, my God, I got six yachts." No, it was very much in line for what I get paid. Tell him how rich you are. Tell him. I'm not telling the rest. I just don't check money. I'll pay it all the taxes. That's the one thing I don't fuck around with in America. I pay all the taxes. Yeah, I love that. [ Laughter ] I'm more afraid of those three letters than I should. All of the taxes. 100%. I'm going to fuck. I'm comfortable. I've been in worse situations than I did. It's interesting. I've just been chilling. I've made good things happening in the desert. I love the desert perspective. And maybe, like, ours is different because, like, we performed in the Middle East before, so we knew what to expect about. But, like, the funniest thing is when you see these people who, like, identify as very progressive, and that it's, like, their expectations of people are so low, that it doesn't match up with the progressive ideals. Yes, you know what I mean? Like, I couldn't believe you do that. Like, I couldn't believe it. I couldn't believe it. I mean, I just can't believe you would just go and perform for these animals. Let's just say it. You don't fucking say it. Just say it. Just say it. Exactly. I've been dealing with this shit my whole life. I don't want to hear anything about it, especially, like, from comedians attacking other comedians. It's really fucked up. And I just really don't like that. And it's not where we need to be as comedians. We need to be, you know, more thoughtful and have real dialogue and not just trying to throw people under the bus for absolutely no reason. I'm just really just shocked by it. I was really, really blown away by it. And Houston, my hometown, the place where I brought the first ever narrative sitcom, you know, "To That Spot." It's millions of dollars of revenue. It's coming to that city for me bringing it to you. Way more than I ever made on the TV show. Mm-hmm. And, you know, I stood for Houston. I love Houston. I still living Houston. That's my town. That's my shit. They couldn't wait to shit on it. No. Really? Somebody putting it out there like, "Shame on you." "Shame on you, motherfuckers." "Shame on you." "Shame on you." All I've done is give up so much. You think it was easy to film in Houston? (laughing) That was an easy pitch to fucking go to Netflix. But, hey, I want to really film this. It's realistically as possible. It's as great as possible. In Houston, Texas, a place that has no structure for film and television. And the moment, the moment I go over that you want to throw me on the fucking planet. Ain't you already been over that? Houston Chronicle. Yeah, but you already been over that. I'm already been over there. I've been over there and I'm also, I'm a Muslim, bro. I'm a Muslim. It's the obligation to go to Mecca. I have to go to Mecca as well. It's like part of that system. And my brother's buried there. I lost my brother three weeks before my first season came out. Look, how dare you. How dare you? How dare you? I want to give you a chance to push back. This is. People say like, "Well, the government paid and you're accepting money from the government. I want you to speak on that." What do you mean? Somehow that makes it immoral. I don't agree. Where does all this money come from? It all has one source. This is nothing to do with it. I sold tickets there. That's what I think about. I think about going there. It's pre-negotiated. I go there and do that. Nobody's sitting there. No royal family sitting there writing checks to you. Do that. It's part of a big bond. Yeah, I think they don't realize that people had to buy tickets to go to the show. Yeah, people had to buy tickets to go to the show. To be honest, I wish they didn't. They booked people who can come out and sell tickets. And we could have done a much bigger venue probably. I was last, you know, one of the later ones to be added. and fucked up enough. I was booked on October 7th. - You're so slow. - Why did you do this to me? - He did Dubai, October 7th. - You're so slow. - Bro, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, okay. - You said that was the last time. - You can't say that was the last time. - It was, you can't say that was the last time. - Yeah, it was, you can't say that. - I was, I was, I was, I was, I was, I was shit. - I was funny as fuck, Michael, I was talking shit. - I was, I can't do it. - I can't do it. - I can't do it. - No, it's good to hear that perspective and like it is funny. - Bro, the cares, I can't, I think it's, - I think it's, I think it was fake bro. - I'm honest, I think it's fake. - Yeah. - Like, like, the, the, there are people who fell for it, but I think that it was, a lot of it was started by bots. - Because literally two weeks after we all said this, we're like, in two weeks nobody will even make a peep about this, and it has completely died down. - Yeah, it is. - And then what has happened is Saudi over the next two weeks, - I think it was a negotiating thing. - Somebody was negotiating something, that's what created the pressure, that's probably what it was. And then he was like, maybe like creating a little fuss to like create some negotiating leverage. I don't know, I'm just speculating here. - You're saying between countries? - Maybe, yeah, maybe. - Maybe it's the case or agencies, whatever, I don't know. - People didn't hop on it though, CNN was on it, comment on it. - Yeah, everything is on this, any distraction to take a fucking, come on, like they just started doing it. - They just need to have an opinion about it. - The part that really frustrated me is like, really pissed me off is that I'm nobody even like, you just lump me into this shit, and me being Palestinian, me being my background, and it's the everything that we've done as, as comedians, to try to push the needle forward and try to just be truth tellers, hopefully, and storytellers. And then there's people even took the money and came back and fucking apologize. That's just crazy, bro. Don't do that. These people want the fans in Saudi. I mean, 50% I think the population is actually Saudi. I think something like that. And who's the other 50%? Who's the other 50%? So it's just like, it's not like we were sitting and performing for real fans, people that had appetite for this, people that wanted to see this. And I can't tell you enough, the amount of emails that I got from, like parents that brought their kids out or Palestinians that were there, they were like, oh my God, I can't believe you said those things. And it's just, but it's going forward and free. Because a lot of people that talked about it, they're going to go out on tour around the world. And they're going to start to realize that there are rules in certain countries that might not align with their progressive policies or politics. And we're going to see if there's any pushback. I don't think there will be. I don't think the whole thing was fake in the first place. And there's nobody actually cares. Exactly. And here's another thing, too. It's like even some of my fans were like, I expected better from you. I was like, well, I expected better from you actually. Because I thought you would trust me. I thought you would trust me to be the same person no matter where I went. That's the biggest thing. Like, I don't change. There's a lot of people that go do change. You know, there's not, I'm not saying it doesn't exist. People that go to a certain country. And then they become like the monkeys for that country. They're not an okay shit. I myself don't matter where I go. It's very important to be thoughtful in the things that you say. And I'm very, very like technical with it. I've been doing this shit for a long time. I genuinely don't really have examples. I'm talking about myself only. That's the only person I can speak for is like, I expect more from you as well to trust me and to know. Like, everything that I've done with the show and how groundbreaking it is and what I did with that last episode in season two is nobody's going to do that. Nobody's going to do that. Like, I can't wait for you. You think you got your credit? You think you got your credit for I got it from the people, man. Like, the amount of tickets that I've sold on the road and the people that want to see it from every background that you could think of. That's that's what I don't care what anybody else says. I don't care what industry says or anything like that. They, you know, the numbers on the road and the people that have come up to no matter where I am on planet Earth. That's that's my award. That's how I feel like it. And if there's many, you know, there's things coming up and I hope they do recognize it because it's good for the next future filmmakers. And I think it's the right thing to do just because objectively is so dope. I, I was telling you, I have not gotten a chance to watch season two. It has been on the road too much. Season one was awesome. Season two from the people. I hear like unbelievable praise, unbelievable like it meant something to people. And I think you, uh, you are kind of the man of this moment, whether you want to be or not, I just think you don't really have a choice. And you've risen to the occasion, but I'm just very proud of you as something you know, like 15 years watching this whole thing happen. No, it's this genuinely like something that I feel like it's my life's work, you know, it's like a life purpose like to go into something like this and get this off my chest. It was not an easy thing. We're first season. I was kind of like, you know, it was pandemic. I was divorced by a year and a half. I was dealing with so many things with the first Zoom room ever. And I think you know what I mean? It was like so many different things in the air. And people telling you should do this, not do that. And you feel confident in particular storyline. And they start picking at it enough where you start losing confidence like fuck. And I went into the second season with like nobody such me. These are the guys. I love y'all. You come with me. If you don't, I can't I can't have this like doubt shit, you know, I can't. Oh, you got to trust it yourself completely. And I did that to the fullest extent. And nobody really meddled in what I had and the vision that I had. And it was just to me. It was like a perfect piece of heart. You're you're single now, right? No, I'm married. That's a baby again. What do you mean? You said you got divorced. I had divorced in the first season one. That's four years ago. Five years ago. I know you got a baby. Well, I'm sorry. I want to put out there. Congratulations. That's amazing. No, no, no. It was awesome. I know. I got remarried. The girl I met. You know, you didn't meet her right here. Let me ask a question. Did you come back home? What do you mean? A couple. Brown girl. Oh, she's brown. Yes. I've always been brown. What type of brown? What type of brown. What type of brown? What type of brown? What type of brown? What type of brown? What type of brown? Portuguese. Wait, Portuguese sound white. Portuguese is Spanish. So you only went better when you met the one, son. Three times. Three times. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. We've known each other since eighth grade. They got you, huh? And we know. She's not white. What is she? Portuguese is so huge. Spanish is Portuguese. That's why. That's why I'm not. I know she's not, bro. North African influence like crazy. No, don't. The world. The world came. That's sugar. What do you mean? His. Listen. Listen. Did you. Did you revert her? No, she converted herself. Oh, really? With no influence from you? Zero. Yeah. She was the first time too. Yeah. No zero is for real. Really? She was pregnant with our son and it was like she was about three, four months pregnant. She just woke up like just crying. Just like very just like just she just wanted to do it from her heart. It was beautiful. Wow. And then what do you have? What is your reaction to that? God are you sure? God. No, you have to like I genuinely like don't like to press about these things. And I think it's my responsibility is like to surround the family with like good vibes, good spirits and things like that. And and that was like came from her. And I just wanted her to be sure 100%. Like I don't want this to come from like I got to do it because you know. No, it's got to get a feeling in your heart. It has to come in the rest is between you and God. So now she's on board. She's on board. Yeah. She's amazing. Black and I've noticed this eighth grade and all these years went by and we rekindled. We never dated like back then. Long game. Long game. Long game. Super trustable. My mom met her like five minutes later. My mom gave her a ring. I was like. She's so dope bro. She's like, why girls too? Don't break me. That's it. Give me the fucking top spot. There's a lot of words. She's distilled into top five. Everybody has top five. She's schooling. You want stuff? That's what I'm saying. Like there's a quick more pressure on you to be 100% like committed. Like you got to be is she about it? Because now you just person like a convert, you know. Yeah. Yeah. There's there's like extreme examples of people who convert and things like that. It hasn't been like it's been a very natural and like. Smooth thing, you know, my whole thing is like compulsion and religion is also bad too. So say I was always taught that's like the balance my way is the middle ways with the problem. So my way is the middle way. So you always have to be balanced and everything that you do can be too extreme and everything that you do. But she's not just like pulling out her teeth set of nowhere and you're like, oh shit. I'm shocked. Did you're pulling out her teeth right? Yeah. I love it. Yeah. Mark has been trying to relate to you all the time. Every time you're like shot. I just love it. It's a fucking this is why I enjoy this one. It's like a whole. Yeah. It's all as long. I could be a screen. I'm gonna take shot after this bro. Yeah. He shot. It's not there. Hey, we're just cleansed you. Don't talk about it. Be a compulsion. Do it. Do it. It's okay. You want to go to hell. It's not a big deal. But you can get me out though. You can get me out. It's not it. It's not it at all. I'm not afraid of the problem. I'm so upset. I hope to see half of my Oma in Heaven. Who's the other half? Oh, who is the other half? Exactly. Everybody is. He said half of my Oma. Half of my Oma, which means the Muslim world. I suppose see half of them in Heaven. I hope I hope to see half of my man crack me from please like so that he's just being Muslim and enough to get you in Yes, they mean not like somebody's perfect you out, it's beautiful But if you're in John, uh, you can help get me out of hell I don't know how much poor I have them, but I'll Get some pull when you go there. Yeah, I don't know I don't know what this gonna be like I don't know I don't know what count pull, but I'll you know, I'll put in I'm gonna put it in a word for you I'm gonna be up there. Oh man in it I'm gonna be I'm gonna go go look out for my boy. No True It's very brown white sauce. Yeah, all right Why are you saying it's a bad thing? Why does it got here? It's a great thing. I'm trying to convert you I reverted you. Oh, I got you. Okay. Yeah. I see what's happening No, you have Islam and I have Whatever the white No, you have no direction. Yeah, it's not about that. You're just making shit up as you go. That's Oh, yeah, just take from here and take from there and go to India for six months talk to Makasha To go to India because you're two and you know last time we went there. We organized that shit A little dual swap, no part. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that was a robbery And spices that don't even fucking use Perfect food white people. That's get the hell Italians got it. Get the whole town. It got it From Arabs All right, all right, maybe they were leaders all right, we weren't we're not an agent or leaders, right? This is my hot I think Christian foods the best food in the world without a doubt. What is Christian? I'm glad you asked Italian, Mexican, French, Portuguese, Portuguese, phenomenal, Brazilian steakhouse. Oh my god traitors and settlers significantly Italian food, particularly in Sicily, introduced in key ingredients and techniques , but I don't know how to get you arrested bro. No, no, no, I love it. It goes to it over here On the Californians were moving to Texas. 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Yeah, just see George bush 95 you gotta go for those George Bush doing he's got a baseball show like he's he's you know he's exactly long for right Yeah, that's a hundred percent. Um Let me see Kamala Harris 72% no, she doesn't go. I don't think she goes. Mm-hmm. Barak is 60% I don't think she goes going. I don't think Trompito's going. No, no, no, he's got to talk shit in the air first one. Yeah, he's got way too much stuff to do I mean, that is insane. This is crazy. We could they're up there. Oh, there's a market for who's showing bony blue 20% that's pretty good. Yo That is that's the popping up everywhere. That's a video everywhere. That is a video. She can sniff blue chew out of anything You can find dick chain. He's dead body a blue chew and then bony blue rides the last bit of combat Can we get back to the show? Yeah, we should can we get back to the show You got to come to India man. I'm doing it. I saw those cooking videos. I'm sorry. I can't I don't want a little toaster. Oh my god Listen, listen, I really really have nothing but love respect, but I'm but I put all my Indian friends that go back home in India All get sick. I have no shot. I have no shot. I got sick. I got sick from a donut and flash That's what it is. I'm not gonna do it bro. I can't do it bro. It's no way. No, no, there's not You gotta go to the dung festival. That's a good to come. It's fun. They're having a great time. This is a great time. It's burning man King Kai for everybody. Oh my god, I don't like you to pick the Indian people this way. I really don't like that's not me That's that YouTuber. That's the YouTuber. Yeah, I'm saying I want to go. You're saying that you don't want to go I don't want to go because I know I'm going to get sick. I just don't like being sick on road. You pack a 100% 100% My wife has a pretty good. She won't eat any cold like uncooked fruits or veggies. She can't do it. She won't do any dairy Okay, fair and then only bottle water obviously. Well those three they glue that shit together two sometimes. Yeah, they do They're glue what they they fill it up with tap water and then glue it. Yeah I want to go Yes, some bad things happen. Of course. Yeah, it's glue the top That's once you hear a glue the top. This is sarcasm. Okay guys I want a million people message to me on Instagram. Please Do you have to deal with that? No Okay, listen guys, from now on, we're only going to give the right opinions for the rest of you guys. Thanks for the right opinions for that episode. We shouldn't go back there. And it was fucked up what we did, and you guys shouldn't go there. Why do you want? Why do you keep saying we did? We get to own everything. Wait, what? That's not the way the fucking goes. Wait, how does it go? Just everybody has their own shares, plenty on his earth and stop stealing. That's how I was supposed to do. There's plenty on this earth and stop stealing. I agree with that. Yes. 100% what is somebody has oil and there's not plenty where we're in what you do is you force your currency on them and then don't we try to let women read Is regressed dramatically with the invasion colonialism 100% what 100% I know because you guys had all the algebra We had the algebra. We like women own businesses with the progress. They have rights. They still have rights. Yes, why do you have to say that? We know that because I'm a butter chicken butter chicken. What the fuck is have to do with me? Oh my god, butter chicken is delicious. Thank you. See look at this is cultural exchange French fries French fries are access only wife who think of hamburgers hamburgers People are Roman like you said my brother did a big day and then he goes back like thousands of years. Oh my god. Did he find out he was par a small hat? It's very open like we I'm sure that that's what we were at some point if you think about beginning of time. I mean what the fuck what was Adam and Eve? What were they? It's a good question. Maybe white people can tell us that I mean if we're a question if we look at a Muslim Adam Adam was because he was made from mud. All right, good guys. Thank you very much. This looks like the front of a mosque right here genuinely was happening with ISIS really fucking dialog. It is so fucked up. I agree. Who's going to finish your roof? I get the I get the podcast now. I get it. I genuinely it's really fucked. I really, really feel terrible for those people. I really feel awful for them. It's like even people who have US citizenship are being picked up. There's no right reason to the whole thing. It's crazy. It's really fucking what you think about them Venezuelan boats. I didn't read much about it recently. It's just the bombing of is it talking about their drug? Yeah, game of battleship. I don't know what that I honestly genuinely don't know. I didn't read about it. I'll take this serious. I'm not very informed about it to be honest with you, but it seems kind of good. Yeah, these are fucking drugs. When you just are shooting now, it's like, how do we know their drugs? Exactly. And what drugs? It's crazy. Also some drugs. It's a great point. We might want to let up in here. They do very well. They let all that up in here. I mean, the only reason why they were mad at Eskabar is nobody was getting a piece of money. That was the cash was disappeared. They gave a fuck that thousands of murders were occurring in Miami. They're like, wait, wait, wait, where's the cash? There's more cash. There's more cash. But there's so many dead people. Yeah, yeah, where's the cash? Yeah. Should we let drug dealers pay taxes? I think that's already happening. They probably don't even pay taxes. It's called a pharmaceutical. All your ass like Walgreens pisses me off. He's like, we don't sell cigarettes, but we have fentanyl. We don't go never sell cigarettes. But God forbid you have some nicotine. I just found out most smoke cigarettes. Are you serious? You smoke? Yeah, smoke. It has a smoker. I'm having a hard time right now. Do you want to have a smoke? Let's get the net. Let's get the net. Wow. Get the net. Oh, you don't know about the middwa. Oh, you talking about the stick with the little filter? That's a white guy. Let me talk about the middwa. Do you want to have an actual real Middle East term smoke? What are you talking about? Don't you want your ass? Yeah. The doggie thing. No, I don't know smoking it. Is she strong? No. Smoked real weed, but nobody needs that. Oh, no. It's like a tobacco with the wooden pipe in it. Oh, that's just fire. That's the substitute for weed. That's what that is. Yeah, cause it can't smoke. Which doggie means like being dizzy. God is it. We're going to get the ghat. The Yemeni ghat. You ever tried that before? I'm going to try. I'm going to try. I'm going to try. I'm going to try it. I'm going to try it. Every time I ask me that. I hate that. You look in people. The second one of you will take an interest in your culture. That's me. I don't know you don't want it. I'm judging you. I'm judging you. I think it's taken interest in trying. It's not your culture. That's me from Indian. Yeah. That was two million dollars. He got his passport. He got his passport. You're not leaving. That's what I live in this country. I'm finishing his roof. By the way, it's leaking. This is a mistake. Yeah. We're just out here trying to have cultural exchange. What's your favorite white thing? My favorite white thing. His wife. I'm so glad I ain't had to do it. I'm so glad. I'm a bitch. I'm a wife. Listen, listen. I'm about to will smit somebody. I'm about to will smit some motherfuckin right now. We're proud. We're proud. This is why we'll smit the keep our wife saying. Yeah, my culture is not your costume, bro. What do you mean? Who the fuck out of here? You forget about it. Oh fuck out of here. I was Italian after I live. That's not Italian months. That's New York. - You're Italian, are you? - That's New York. - No, that's Italian. - You also talk like that in Italy? - In Jersey though. - Oh, American Italians. - This is a New York? - I got it, so we got it. - Yeah. - Is that what you want? - Okay, go ahead. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's it. - I know which one you like. - Yes, it's Italian, it's Italian. - That's more like it. - Don't worry, don't worry. - No, no, that's it. - You're more. - I don't even feel more comfortable. - I haven't even watched those speeches here. - I'm afraid you're afraid you're afraid you're afraid you're. - Watch it like that. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. - No watching speeches like, yeah, she is our comforter. (laughing) No, that's fucked up. I'm not deal with no this, this is fucked up. - Whoa, you walked in the door. I know, it's a crazy, everything's going so good. - Top three white countries. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - I'm about country, but London, great white city. You know, we taking that bitch over. - Gotta give that a single. - They own the buildings, we got the people. - Yeah, that's true. - I do like it. - Make it win with Viby. - Okay, so England is great. Amsterdam in particular is really a fun town. - Can y'all name a country? - Vegan is really a spectacle. - Oh, Copenhagen, there you go. - Vienna is great too, fucking amazing. - You would have liked it. - I liked it. - I liked it. - I liked it a lot, bro. - I was really pleased to meet you. - No, we just did the tour there. We had a tour stop there. It was really awesome, man. - Oh, no way. - It was such a great city. - You go to your childhood home. - Dublin was fired, you know. - Fuck out of here. (laughing) - I don't even know who's from there, actually. - I don't know what you're saying. - Who? You take talent, you'll find your pen pal. I heard he lives in Argentina. He might. He might, bro. He's got life. Why do you think you're gonna finish? [ Laughter ] What was that? What was that? It was a prayer? Yes, you have to balance it out. Can you give us a good prayer? Can you give us a good, quick one? What do you mean a good prayer? There's many good prayers. Yeah, you're just a good one. I mean a prayer is something within yourself to between you and God. There's things that I say to myself all the time like just praying with God. Who's that? That's personal. That's personal. That's fair. I like bros. Yeah, bro. What about that one? Bros? Bros? Bros? Bros? Is that priceless? No, this is the best dude ever. What is this? I think he's like showing us the island. Yeah, while you get that up, why you get that up? Let me ask you a question. Fast forward, fast forward, fast forward. Okay, woolly shit. Listen, while you get that up, let me start on something. Why you get that up, right? Yeah, pause. Do you watch, do you watch Arab prank videos at all? Arab prank videos? No. Oh, the little dude. I can't, it's like there's so many things that just so incredible. I can't believe it's not part of your algorithm. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah, yeah. You don't watch this at all. No, no. Let me try to find this guy. Yeah, I need to. I need to switch it up for sure. There's always a little person. There's always a little guy and that's why what I was going to ask. I'm such a fan of this. Is the Arab dude the little Arab guy? No, no, no, not you're thinking of who? Because that guy's no, no, he's not Arab. Oh, I've seen this guy. He's got a sensation. Yeah, there's said this guy is awesome. But there's three of them that are like a free of you. He's like dancing and he's hilarious. I know he smacked this guy. It's such an Arab thing to smack the back of the neck. Yeah, wait, can I see this? Yeah, please. I don't know. I don't know this one, but go go. It's not even an Arab in a neck. Oh, he's about to get rock. He's about to rock. But I love the other dudes. This is very, this is very Arab. They're like, oh, he's just like swearing to God. He's about to go down. It's a thing to it that made me happy. But the rest of it was really sucked. I want this part of my algorithm to get the fuck out of it. The way better things are my algorithm. This really should be part of your algorithm. Nobody wants to see this. I don't know which part is. Oh, yeah, it's at the very top. This is like I think he's from Australia, New Zealand, but he's in a mom that does these speeches. Live simple lives. But I can't. I can't. Yeah, we don't know what he's doing about. So yeah, I don't want to do that. Yeah, I just don't like making fun of religious figures and stuff like that. But I think it's really funny though. You just start off. I'm trying to make fun of it. I'm trying to. Yeah, the Ubrothers hilarious though. But I already know this crazy viral. He has to. He knows it. He's probably to keep doing it. Like he's addicted to it now. He got to go on to keep doing it. It must be Australian or something. I don't know. I couldn't tell from I didn't hear. You have to watch out for the white woman. Unless she convert to Islam. Then you bring them over to us to the path. Is there any pressure to DNA? What somebody is Muslim, right? Like would there be any because that is the identity that I imagine supersedes everything. Obviously, ethnicity is incredibly important in history. It's, you know, food is everything. But if somebody is Muslim and they are white or they're black or they're Asian or whatever it is, would that matter to certain families? It does not matter at all, bro. Like there is for marriage, cultural things that do exist. But to Islam itself, if you look up the last, if you look up the last sermon of the Prophet Muhammad, it'll blow your mind. What is he saying? It'll literally blow your mind. I just don't want to do it any disservice. But essentially is that, you know, the last thing, the big thing in Islam is like don't misquote thing or mislead. It's very, very important to be clear and concise from things. But one of them is like, you know, a basic Arab doesn't have a right over another Arab or a white over another white or a black over another black. It's just like basically described like racism. Was this a thing that impacted Muhammad Ali? Malcolm. Oh, sorry, Malcolm. Malcolm. That's right. When he went to Hajj, when he went to Hajj and he saw everybody wearing the same, you know, same attire. There's no like distinction of who's rich and who's poor or whatever. Everybody's in the same. There's so many colors like everyone, every walk of life. And it doesn't exist like an Arab culture. Like you know, like you just, you know, they're all Arabs. You don't think like, oh, it's like, this is a very American westernized thing. It didn't exist in our psyche like that. I mean, it did to a degree because from Muhammad, you know, someone said, I didn't acknowledge it and say like very clear parameters. Like nobody has a right over anybody else. You know, that's very, very clear. But then after that, it's just like you're just Arab or you speak Arabic. You just, I don't look at it like that. It's a black guy to speak to everyone. That's a white guy to speak to everyone. That's a more western thing. Yeah, it's a western thing completely. It's not, it's not within our psyche at all. Can you speak about the first time you, you did the hush? Is that what you said? Yeah, I've never done Hajj but I've done Omra. What is the difference? Omra is like the shorter version that you could do off, you know, outside of Hajj time. Hajj happens like three months after. So, you know, so there's been almost three months. It's since we deal with the lunar calendar. So after Ramadan, there'll be like the eat and then there's the big eat which eat a lot of hot and that's around the time everybody goes to Hajj. So if you go to Mecca, not during that time, it's called Omra. Omra, yeah, which is a much shorter condensed version. But you saw. Yeah, yeah, I've done this. Yeah, I've done this. Three times after my brother died, I went, what took my, took my family with me. And then I went a second time, a few months later, it just happened, like four or four months, four or five months later. And then I went on this past trip and took my son and wife with me. Okay. It was amazing. Yeah, can you, it was one of the hardest things I've done on this particular trip. It was just really, really tough with my son and everything. But it's amazing how the kid like knew, like he knew he was in the presence of something. Special. Yeah, he just immediately started praising it. It was so instinctual, it was so dope because it's a kid. I never taught him like, hey, make sure you do this, do that. He just walked in and like knew it was so amazing. What is so powerful about it? I had a friend who did it and his whole, he just changed his whole life. Omra, after he came back, mother, child, and comedian. Yeah. But what is so powerful about it? I think from each person is, it'll vary. But from, I'll speak from my own experience is that you know this is like the center of the world. And you know that all the prophets existed and I said, I'm like at some point in time. And you know that there's a tremendous amount of significance of being there. And also the presence of everyone there, the gathering itself. And then knowing that just, it's a spiritual thing. You can't really describe fully, but I have the meaning for it. You know, it's like you get there and it's just like you just. Caught up in the end of the year. And of course the energy is just so powerful. And once you do that, once you go through it. And it's just really, really hard. Like it was this past trip. And you know there's a lot of things you're not supposed to do. Like you can't go there angry. You can't go there mad. You can't like kill any like lizard or broad or anything. You can't kill anything. You have to be pure. Like super pure. And then the positive mindset. You have to wash before you even go into Mecca and change the tire. And you know put on the. Put on the. Come and it has no stitching and it's all just like 100% like this cotton covering. Like you know you just go in and you're just naked. You just like have nothing except you and God and all these people. And just having my son there with me and my wife was just really incredible experience. And it's just so moving. And you're supposed to go from there to Medina and visit the Prophet and the Prophet's Mosque. It's incredible. I can't just. I can't. It's very. You have to just like experience it. You do it to experience it even Medina is one of the safest places on earth. According to insurance companies is the safest place on earth for women to go anywhere on planet earth. Can you tell me about the first time you went? Like I imagine how old were you at that time? First time I went. It wasn't that long. It was three years ago. Okay. I imagine your entire life you built up what this experience is going to be. Yeah. The motions that you would have, you know what is happening like the day before. What is happening when you show up that day? Like are you nervous or are you excited? Are you nervous about even getting back in the US? No. We're not at that point. You're better off. Like nothing. What about that experience? Compared to what you built it up to be to what everybody had told you about. Sure. Are you really good question? Are you chasing the emotion of it or is it overwhelming you? Like what happens the day you arrive? Well for me, again for me, I was stripped down to zero. You know, my brother had just passed like maybe two or fifteen days prior. It was a complete out of nowhere. He's a healthiest one, he's a pilot, he's just so. It's just nobody saw it coming, you know. He like texted us, "I'll hit you guy. I'm charging my phone at the hospital, getting to check up, my chest, whatever." And then the next call we got, he was dead. So he just like changed my entire world. All of us, you know. So when I went there, I had a different energy completely. I was just like, you know, I'm in this position where I'm like, I don't want to say the leader of the family, but I am like in a way. And so my mom, everybody depends on me in a way. And I'm just thinking about his kids, his wife, all these things. And so I wasn't really thinking about like, oh, I was more like, I'm taking my mother for her heart. I'm taking his kids where he wants to come with me, whoever wants to come. I wasn't really empty. I was about that. It was about everybody else. And to me being of service to my mother, it's a big deal. And to be able to push my mom to do the laps, the seven laps, it was a big deal. So all that is there like culminates to the experience, you know, just brings it all together for me. But it was deeply, deeply powerful. And actually that's why I prayed for my son. Like I pray, I didn't know I said, God, please. And I don't really say it was publicly, but I said, like, you know, just thinking about my brother passing. And my sister was sick at the time too. We just found out about her diagnosis. And he was just like, if it's good for me, and give me a son and a great wife for, you know, a child and a great wife and a family. If it's not good for me, please don't give it to me. Eight months later, I was, you know, probably respect to you. So it was just that. It was just that like being there for the family, but it's like, you got to be, it's depending on which space you're in. And some people go and it's like forced. And it's a, some people do that. And then you say, a lot of Adam, it's only, only God knows what's in their hearts and what their intentions are. But for me, it was, it was deeply, deeply powerful. Easily one of the greatest things that I've done in my life taking my mom there after my brother passed. - When you're there and you're doing the laps, is does somebody tell, I'm, forgive me, I'm ignorant to this, but like does somebody tell you where you can stand? It can you go up and be closer to it. - Yeah, you can, you can be as close as you want to and you can. And there's, you know, there's people that are overwhelmed by it, ah, there's, there's a lot of different emotions. - Yeah, there's a lot of different emotions. I am more of like, I'm not going to do that. I'm not going to like try to top up you. I just think it's very important to just be as controlled and as balanced as possible and to see it and appreciate it. And if there's room to go into it, I don't need to do, I don't feel the need to have to go and touch it and do all this 'cause I just see so much chaos over there and everyone just kind of, which I don't agree with. - They can disrupt you right now. - They can't and everybody is feeling a certain thing and you don't know what emotions they're going through. I lost my system. My brother, this guy could have lost his whole family. I mean, you don't even know what loss or people are going through what mindset they're at or what reasons they're doing it for. So you don't, you know, I just try to stay in my own way and just think and just think and pray. - But do people respond? - If you're not of the faith, are you allowed to go? - No. - No, no. - No, you're not. - When people go there, are they going there with a prayer in mind, per se? Are they going there to like maybe seek advice or a message? Like, is it both? - The thing is all of the things together, like number one is that you're going there to purify your heart and essentially cleanse yourself. And so there's things that you follow while you're there, things you can say while you're going around and there's ways to do that. But really what it boils down to is being as like internal about it's like being really from the heart and having your intention with the divine, you know? That's really, really what it's about. It's like you can just keep talking to God while you're walking around. Sure, there's things, there is an actual, you know, things you can say on the way there while you're going around. There's is like things you can do 100% in the end. Like you have to be like your intention and with God and the things that you say, the things that you pray for and ask for, that's the most important thing. It's like you being like in tune with the divine, you know? And I keep saying like divine in God. It's like the way I was taught is like your incomprehension of God is your comprehension of God. - Yeah, acknowledging that you can't possibly comprehend it. - Exactly, yeah, yeah, exactly. Like if you try to describe what God is, your brain should short-circuit. - Exactly, yeah, it's too much for your comprehension. - Exactly, exactly. - Yeah, it's, it's easily one of the greatest things I've ever done in my life. It was hardest, one of the hardest things. And the first one you do, you do it. You have to do it for yourself. And then the other times you do it, you can do it on behalf of others, you know? Like people who couldn't go, you could make the intention to do that. - Oh wow. - And so is my third time. I made an intention for someone else, you know? And you go and do it on their behalf. - At this point going, people must know you. Like they must be so familiar with you. People stopping you while you're actually. - Sometimes it's smiling, but there's a very respectful thing to be honest with you. - I'll get messages after like I saw them. I saw you brother, but I didn't want to interrupt you. It was a very, very sweet thing. - They're also probably hype too. - They're hype too, they're in tune. But they see you and then sometimes it breaks that, you know, focus a little bit. But most of the most part, it's everyone is there for a particular purpose. And they understand that. So they don't really interrupt that at all. It's very cool, like they don't really, really don't. And actually most of them were just thrilled to see my son. He was the main attraction, you know what I mean? Just seeing this not even two-year-old like go around. It's such a blessed thing. Kids are like, they see this as like, he's like the innocent, the purest one. So they, he was getting way more attention than I was, you know. And I was praying for him most of the time. I prayed for him, my wife, and those I've lost before. - Why is that place specifically so important? Like what is the historical significance of it? Is that, that's the first place of worship. - Ever in the list of religions. - Yeah, and all religions, yeah. Abraham, prophet Abraham. - Oh, I didn't know that it went back to Abraham. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Abraham built the Cabo. - Yes, I believe so. - Oh, wow. So that's his first fact check me on this. But I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it is. 'Cause he's the one who saw the moon. - So this is the first. - He saw the moon. And he saw the Oneness of God and the monotheistic belief, religion. And he, the story of his son was like, he saw these statues and he broke, he broke all the statues. And then he put the hammer around the big statue. And everyone's like, oh my God, the big statue, you know, destroyed all these like, we talk about it. I did this. Like, you know, this is ridiculous. - But it's interesting. - He just kind of broke that whole moon. - Because-- - Because-- - He was a caneta. - Wow, that's-- - The first temple? - So-- - Yeah. - Okay, no, Abraham, that's-- - No, no, no, no. - He saw the moon. - He saw the moon. - He really saw the moon. - He was a man of the four years of the book. - It's just built by Abraham and Ishmael. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Abraham and Ishmael built that the temple. - Wow. - The Cabo. - Yeah, the Cabo. - The Cabo is Islamic text, yeah. - Wow. And then what would the difference be a Cabo compared to a temple compared to a-- - It's a place of worship. I mean, it's like, I don't-- Again, like, it's one of those things I don't want to be speaking very, very understanding. - I understand. - I keep it clear. But do you research, do you think? And I'd love to talk about it more clearly. But this is like the different setting for that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, wow. Oh, I didn't know that it went all the way back to-- - Oh, yes, source. - Oh, yeah. - Yeah, it's been destroyed and rebuilt and destroyed with as many, obviously, many things that have happened throughout history since then. But it's an extremely powerful place, for sure. - And are Christians and Jews, do they also revere that place? - Christian and Jews will go to Jerusalem, right? - That's what I've always seen as a Jerusalem. - Like Jerusalem. - Jerusalem. So it used to be like pilgrimage. What would you go to Jerusalem and tell the problem, I'm gonna change it. The cab, sorry, excuse me, the direction of prayer. - I can feel the pressure that you have to get this right. - And it's really important that-- - No, I know it's important to you and I can feel that. And there's this part of me that I really empathize with that because I can see how important it is to you and you don't want to get it wrong. - Yeah, of course not, but it's-- - But it's very important, yeah, yeah. But I do know for a fact that he used to pray towards Jerusalem and then it was changed. - To Mecca. - To Mecca, yeah. - So the prophet, peace be upon him, he says that this is gonna be the new place because it was the original place. - Yes. - And this is where-- - Oh, wow, wow, wow. - So it used to be there, yeah. - But Jews and Christians don't. They look at Jerusalem as well. - Yes, they look at Jerusalem, yeah. Jerusalem, they go to Bethlehem and Nazareth. - Obviously, it's Jesus. - Yes, yeah, exactly. - Oh, wow. We don't also have the same obligation for like a hodge that Muslims have. - Right. - But there's like an actual specific place to go to. - Yeah. - And I think there's a connection with Mecca. - They don't feel that way. Like it is some sort of life pilgrimage there, but the idea is that the idea is that Christians, and it's a beautiful thing, you know, there's a lot of Palestinian Christians too. Like, what do you think it came from? - Yeah. - So there's like, there's a lot of-- - Boy, it's a proud people. You welcome. (laughing) And that's where they go. They would go visit Bethlehem, Nazareth of course, and they would tour those land. - I will say, I went to Jerusalem. - It's a beautiful thing. - And like, again, I've obviously never been to Mecca, but like what you were describing in terms of like the intensity of the worship there. Like everybody there is like, it's game time. This is the thing that I believe, and we're talking about everybody. - Yeah, all of this is beautiful. - This is a thing that matters to me the most, and I love it, and I appreciate it. Am I in the presence of it right now? And it was quite overwhelming that feeling. - Yeah. - It was quite overwhelming. - It is. - And someone who did not grow up religious at all, I was like caught up in it in a way that I've never experienced anything else. - It's incredible, man. It's like really a profound feeling that you have, and it's just like the energy. You know, it's a real thing that many people coming together for this sole purpose of just like being faithful and their belief in God. It's just a beautiful thing. - And not it's into a higher power. - It's so unknown. - Yeah, yeah. - It's incredible, it's incredible. And I remember being so torn up 'cause I was visiting my family in the West Bank, and my aunt, you know, she doesn't have the same freedom as I would 'cause I have a U.S. passport. She was just begging for me to put her in an interest. Just take me with you. to go back home in the trunk, to go to Jerusalem. - Oh, she's the witness. - They can't go freely after your permits are usually denied and they're right there because it is all separated by the apartheid wall. - Oh, and you watch her play like so. - Oh, yeah, let me, yeah. - The Jews are telling you to stop talking to each other. - Oh, people. (audience laughing) - Talking too much. - Put that down the line, shut down the line. - But I think that's it. - So yeah, it's like it's a very painful thing for me. 'Cause I grew up with these stories from my mother and talked about my grandfather and those stories are like where, you know, there's so many Palestinian Christians and of course there's Palestinian Jews and Muslims as the majority. But it was not the life that I see today and what that's turned into today is really, really disheartening. - Do you have that thing that it's called to say the least. It's my heart is shattered, bro. - Yeah, it's survivor's guilt that you heard of that term. - Oh, I just, I don't know about survivor's guilt and all this. - It's a term. - I know, I've heard of it. - Yeah. - I think about it is just like, I don't know about survivor's guilt, but I feel like my heart is shattered and I just, you know, you think that it can't get worse and it does and you feel helpless. So the best way that I can contribute any kind of way 'cause I do believe in a unifying rather than like being just like this instigator is too many of that going on. So it's just like really, really important for me to share like really grounded stories from what I come from and what it is, I don't call it survivor's guilt 'cause, you know, I don't think that's it. My parents were just trying to do the right thing and have a future for me. So as they thought coming to Texas was the best thing. - Yeah. - You know what I mean? - And it has been, and it has been a night. - Did it, it wasn't the best thing. - Like, in terms of your impact. Like, could your parents ever imagine the impact that you've had on your people's lives? - My mom is blown away. - But the answer is, as coming to Houston's Texas, could have that type of impact. - Never, nobody's ever come. My father passed when I was 14, so I don't, I know that he would be wildly proud of it. Like insanely proud, he would be like, he'd be astonished. - Alone away. - Estonis, yes. - Does your mom tell everybody the years on? - My mom doesn't really talk like, she's very, my mom is very protective, she's old school like this, but this is when I knew I was famous for real, for real. My mom got a WhatsApp video of me, and they didn't know there were four in it. My mom. - Wow, you know what I mean? Dude, like, have you seen this guy? You know what I'm saying? - That's what I was like, a couple times. - I was like, what's that thing? - I'm like, what's that thing? What are those views like, what's that? What's that? Immigrant views are fucking great. (all laughing) You know that, I was like, you make shit out of this thing. - You made it bro, I made it for real. If my mom was getting WhatsApp measured, you've seen this guy incredible, 'cause there was a few moments where, you know, I do show these villages that would come from in my series and in my second special, my mom in Texas, where I go back to our village, and it was just such a profiling, funny story at the same time. Like, I went to the mosque, and I was just like, I was like, oh my God, it's from my father's prayer. My grandfather's the first time I ever went there in 2009, when I was allowed to go back. And I get there, and I do, you know, quick little prayer there, and I'm thinking and I'm waiting for me to go off. And then this guy goes, hey, it's time for me to pray, do the call to prayer. I was like, no, I'm not doing the call to prayer. He's like, no, no, I do the call to prayer. I was like, I don't wanna do it. He's like, you have a beard. I was like, what the hell is the matter? I have a beard and I don't wanna do the call. It's a lot of pressure to do the call to prayer to the entire village. And then finally, force, he's like, just do it, I'm gonna go get out, do it. He knows one of those things. And I get on a mic and I do the call to prayer. I'm just like overwhelmed. I was like, oh my God, and this guy comes right in, right? Who did the call to prayer? Like this, and everybody sells me out, even my cousin. He was like, this guy, I was like, wait, wait, wait, wait. They made me do the call to prayer, why? He was like, wait, you did it 10 minutes early, I was like, let's not, what the clock says. He was at the clock, it's 10 minutes ahead. I was like, bro, that's how the hell am I supposed to do? Watch y'all fix the clock, it's a digital clock. I'm sure it's just a couple of buttons for the whole situation. And he was like, wait a second, I know everybody in this village, who were you? I've never seen you before. I'm telling my name. He was, huh? He was, who's your father? I tell him what father is. He gets so quiet. He goes, oh. Yeah. He goes, pfff. What's the phone? He goes, you know who installed the sound system in here? No way. She's a father. No way. Way easy. Holy. Pfff. Lost it. Not in that moment, but I had to walk away. And I was just like, pfff. Holy shit. That's. That was wild. But it became a little story. My mom found out about it immediately. She called me up. "You're doing call to prayer 10 minutes early?" You know, it was like a whole thing, but they didn't know how. And I have it all on videos. I put it in like, in my own accord in the Muhammad of Texas special. It was just so, that I reenacted it like in a series of episodes. Yeah. It was cool. Season 2, yeah. Beautiful. It was really, really dope, man. So it's just like things like that. I think comedy, sincerely, has like saved my life. We're being generationally displaced and has allowed me to like, rekindle all my family across the world. Yeah. Being in performing all these different places around the planet has created like this situation for me where I'm like the glue to keep everybody together. Yeah. I didn't choose to do it. It just chose me. And to be in that position was really been priceless. And the fact that I get to share with my son now is just amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You've got to buy it. Is there, is there, is there like a, like your relationship with America, right? Like, you had so much success and you've been able to not only create a career that is incredibly successful, but like on your own terms of success. Well, at the same time, there are things that as Americans done around the world has deeply impacted your family. Sure. Like, how are you juggling that? You go, like, is there a part of you that, it's like, yeah, like are you, I imagine there's party that's like very angry about it, but the minute maybe is there a part of you that's like very grateful for some of the things that America provides? Of course. You know, so it's like, that's happened. First of all, it's really important to know, you know, like, I am American and I am also Palestinian. So it's like, those are a balance that needs to happen inside both internally. And what I did was, it's like, especially after 9/11, like I started stand up in '95. I was a little teenager, bro, like a little, I was 13 years old, well, not even 14 yet. And after my father died, I was just like doing stand up in class on a shit, fast forward in me doing stand up in the clubs. And I realized very quickly, like, I'm the only one here. There's nobody else, you know? This is the left spot. It was one of the clubs I started at back then is left stop, left spot in the comedy showcase. And I used to go to these clubs and there was not another Muslim or Arab insight, you know? And all the white communities just wanted to be Bill Higgs and Sam Ken. You know, I think that was the whole cruise they were there and I didn't even know what these guys were. They've been in the country like eight years. I didn't even know. They're like, you don't know what the fuck's wrong. You know, it was that thing. So I realized that there's a tremendous responsibility there and also like, oh, I'm the first guy. This is a huge responsibility. It's cool. But also like, you better be fucking good. Yeah. Yeah. And then it, after 9/11, it did this hard switch where I was like, oh, there's even a bigger responsibility. No. Because I had got invited to go do shows in Germany, Italy, and Sicily for US troops in April of 2001. It was like 19 years old, didn't you miss that? I didn't even have a passport. I had a refugee travel document. Wow. I go do these shows. I didn't even know like, I had to, I went to the German Council of the day. I'm flying out. I was like, I need a visa. He's like, what are you stupid? You're supposed to be here. Wait before he goes, but you're in luck. He goes the, the, the, the, the travel document is issued by the United States. It's not required visa to enter Germany. And today, the Schengen law goes into effect that when you fly into a European country, you can fly in domestically everywhere else. I mean, what? Oh, the chances are that. I went, did that whole tour, doing shows for US military. Crazy. Had a different meaning to it then. Five months later, and I 11 happens. Shifts. I was booked to do Japan, Korea, Guam, these military tours there. And then they canceled me. They were like, oh, you know, we're worried about your safety. It was like my safety. Nobody has anything to have me. I believed in it. I was like, oh, it was really a moment where I was scared to be myself. And I thought like the best approach is to go do these shows. I could be myself in front of them. I could be myself for anybody. And it was really, and I ended up doing it. They love me so much. They brought me back three years in a row. And I was able to connect with so many soldiers there and realize very quickly like the America occupies the entire planet, you know. And once I started realizing this, and then I got invited to go to Kuwait in Iraq to very place that I was, you know, that I fled from. I couldn't turn that down. I was like, I gotta go do this. It was before I even was a citizen. So I had to like mislead the immigration officer to get into the country. Wow. I just spoke perfectly. It was like, oh, well, I don't know. We're doing shows for you. It's groups here and this and that. And I end up at Saddam Hussein's palace, which was converted into a hotel. And it's just like, you know, experiencing that, being able to resolve everything that's going on in my heart and communicate with all these soldiers on such a human level and realizing that these guys didn't even want to be there and realize they were also misled in such a significant way is, you know, somehow made me feel more at ease about it. And I was doing shows, but there was like all these US soldiers here and then it was like Iraqi soldiers up there. I was flipping into Arabic. Those guys were laughing. I'll come back. But the Americans were like, yo, would we trust this guy? And I started talking shit about them with the Arabic, and they started laughing. And I started talking shit. So nobody's done this nobody's ever gonna do this again. It's not not possible. Never going to happen. And this is when I realized like, oh, there was a big play here. It wasn't really Saddam Hussein. It wasn't really all this. It was about, like, American domination in the region and just made me, they just settled things down a lot better for me. And just like, and that's the way I kind of balanced things out. It's like I hit them head on in any time that you wear. And my mind that would make me feel a little bit more like, oh, fuck, wear this one. No, because you're like, when you're mad, you don't understand it. And then when you're upset about something, it's because you don't fully grasp, you know, fully grasp what happened. But when you do understand it, it becomes more logical. And it just helps you like heal, you know, it creates this thing and also got to go back to Kuwait. I saw my aunt after like 20 years. She was like, another mom to me, his wild. So they're supposed to escort me back to the plane, me and other comedian, that's a protocol. And this is in 2009 and they go, they go, no, no, we have to take you to the plane. And I was like, come on, man, just like, you know, just go ahead. I booked my flight three days later so I can hang out with my family that I haven't seen in that long. And then he gets a call. He's like, oh, sorry, I have to go back to, I mean, I got this call out of the suburban. He goes in the culture. He runs back to us. He's like, I'm so sorry. You guys are going to have to walk yourself to the plane. Bradley Cooper just landed from Afghanistan. I was like, thank you. I was like, tell him I said, thank you. He was like, what? I was like, he'll get it later. It was him and Dak Shepherd actually on that tour. And I figured out Dak's was on it when I did his podcast. He was like nuts. And yeah, he was just fresh off of hangover, I think, in that old tour. So he flipped out. And then I got to spend like three days with my family that I haven't seen all that long. Go to the house that we fled from. And it was just, that's the way I dealt with it. It's just like going there, seeing it with my own eyes and just, and just healing that way. That's what's really helped me throughout that whole process. Crazy, man. Yes, it's just like I skip so much. But yeah, I mean, yeah, it's, this is not the last time you're going to be on here. Yeah, there's so many stories. There's so many stories. Now, there is something that we wanted to do with you before we left because we know that you're a connoisseur of hummus. So we have a little hummus taste test. No, you don't. I already hate it. We have a little hummus, Joey. Can you bring in the hummus, please? Thank you so much. We have a little hummus taste test for you. And, you know, once we will go through that. Yeah, in your opinion, where's the most, where's the most hummus drum? Like where can you, is there a good hummus in New York City? Hummus. Yeah. First of all, how your pronouncing it really hurts. I said hummus. Thank you so much. It's a hummus, you know, which I expect to more from you. It's hummus. It's a ha. Hummus. I can do that. It's hummus. Hummus. Hummus. Not hummus. I don't know why you sound like hummus. He we heard when I was there. Hummus. It's gonna be all sound. No. No. Hummus. Hummus. Hummus. Hummus. Hummus. I did this with the hummus. I did this with the Henith. You could just say hummus. Hummus. Hummus. Yeah, it's better. But you're adding more of a to it. No, that hummus. That's better. Hummus. Say the white way. It's perfect. Hummus. Yeah, hummus. It's a white word. Yeah, hummus. It's definitely a piece in Arabic hummus. No hummus. That's what hummus. Chole, that's what we call it. What is it? Chole. Chole. First of all, yes. This is all sacrilegious. Why? Because it's just because it's just fun. No, not the tub aware part. It's the fact there's no garnish on it whatsoever. You guys are monsters. Absolutely fucking monsters. Okay. She'll be all disgusted with yourself. Okay. There's no olive oil on which makes you fucking disgusting. I was like, "Would you give me some goddamn cake?" Is there good hummus in New York City? We got some pita. Yeah. Okay. So this is number one. First of all, that looks terrible. Okay. Okay. It's all chunky and just like it's not supposed to. What is this peanut butter? We're fucking nuts. This is better. Number two. This is whoever made this deserve to be whipped. For sure. Okay. Thanks. This is appropriate. It's just disgusting. And there's no stuff for a lot. You shouldn't say it's about food because it's food. So God forgive me. So it's really beautiful. Okay. Each one looks worse than the other. Okay. What is this? I feel like I'm in India. No. What is this? This is one of my feet to be honest with you. It's probably going to taste the best. Okay. Thank you. I appreciate it. You're welcome. All right. All right. Here we go. All right. What am I supposed to be figuring out? Which one's worse than the other? This one is the best. Oh my god. Oh yeah. We are. It's a trick of me. There's no tricks in this. The massage set this up. Listen anyway. There's a beaters out. Okay. Meepers and I'm funny. Okay. Let me get a little bit of that. Yeah. Stop. Yeah. It's so terrible. Okay. That's terrible. Number one is terrible. It's so much garlic. Okay. Two garlic. Okay. Oh. That's what I'm doing. Why don't we have to look afterwards? Yeah. I'll try. Oh my god. You're saying this is too good. Not bad. But is this? Is this what about texture wise and what about? Let me just give one more rep. We're converting them. It's very pasty. No. You're supposed to be like a creamy pause. The texture to it shouldn't be like glue. It's really kind of gluey. Got it. Okay. That feels like the most hope. Okay. Of all these. Okay. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. All right. I'm trying. Relax. Yeah. See? See how this is moving around for you? I love this. Where this one is moving. Look at this. This is good. So you could just tell from how it's moving. So we like the texture here. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I'm right. That one's good. No. Yeah. I don't know. Somebody poured fucking cumin on us. So much cumin on this guy. Did you get me pita? You can't even taste it. Look at it. Oh, it's just like flooding. Number three. Oh, so much cumin. This is for someone who's worried about gas. Can I ask you a question? I noticed you take very little bread because these are terrible. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Okay. Not because I want to. Fair enough. You're doing this as a doing. I'm also trying to watch my bread and take. I'm carrying a fair enough. I have this whole thing. I want to be carrots. All right. Oh, what's that? I'm fucking horrible. Horrible. What'd you guys put in this fucking? Oh, huh. Is there teenness? That's what it is. That might be the one who needs me. No, no, no. Okay. I don't. I don't like that one. That one. It's not even. Oh no. All right. What about that? That's not real. Somebody was in a rush when they made that. Yeah. I like this one. That's it. Yeah. These two are the best ones before. Yeah. That's the best one. That's that's quality. I don't know what quality but it's the best one. That's the best of this. Let me see. Now double double check. All right. Here we go. Okay. Okay. So that's that's one. Okay. Number four. You're going number four. What is number three? I'm fine. This is number one for you. I was number two. Three four. Yeah. Yeah. That's right. That's right. Let's look at number four. Number four is Sabra. We wrote Sabra on everyone. That's how it works. That's the definite cut. What is number four? Oh. Okay. Oh. Number four is Salma Mediterranean Lebanese restaurant in the East Village. There you go. Number one is Sabra. Number two is Cedars. That's Lebanese place. That's why. Yep. So this is, so you pick the two Lebanese. And then number three is Iftica. That's the worst one we've all agreed. Yeah. That's an American one. Yeah. Of course it is. So I'll be I got to give you credit. I put like fucking green tea in this. You did go. Wow. That's the best. You did go. One, two, three, four. Yeah. Wow. I'm in. Yeah. You thought it was a joke. I do these for the clips. Yeah. I do this for my history. My lineage. My folks Moa Margo check out the Netflix special right now. Wild world. This is your third. My third Netflix. Third Netflix special make sure you go check them all out and then check out season two of his show. Mo go do it right now. Thank you so much for coming. Just sharing the story and just hanging man. I really appreciate you. I really like this man. I've been looking forward to this. Me too. Me too. Me too. Love you. Thank you so much. Thank you all so much. That's Sabra.