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Bassem Youssef

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1347 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Public schools are very like, they are not, they don't have like, they don't have English language as like a strong, but they are brilliant people. So because they would mostly study in Arabic, but they are brilliant and they are very, very, very smart, very sharp. But then I'll go there. Now I am the sissy boy. from the private school that comes into medical school. Now I'm an outsider again.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And I go into residency and I pick up salsa. So now I'm a salsa teacher while being a cardiothoracic surgery resident. And I'm an outsider for the third time because in salsa, I'm kind of like the respectful doctor. And in resident, I'm the guy who is just dancing. So, and everything, of course, as a medical resident, you will mess up a lot.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And I go into residency and I pick up salsa. So now I'm a salsa teacher while being a cardiothoracic surgery resident. And I'm an outsider for the third time because in salsa, I'm kind of like the respectful doctor. And in resident, I'm the guy who is just dancing. So, and everything, of course, as a medical resident, you will mess up a lot.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And I go into residency and I pick up salsa. So now I'm a salsa teacher while being a cardiothoracic surgery resident. And I'm an outsider for the third time because in salsa, I'm kind of like the respectful doctor. And in resident, I'm the guy who is just dancing. So, and everything, of course, as a medical resident, you will mess up a lot.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

So they would always like, oh, because you're a dancer, oh, because you don't care about medicine. You just like want to go there and dance with women, which is true. And so all of my life, I felt that I'm an outsider. I'm not part of the team. I'm not part of the core group. So, and I have a story that you would love.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

So they would always like, oh, because you're a dancer, oh, because you don't care about medicine. You just like want to go there and dance with women, which is true. And so all of my life, I felt that I'm an outsider. I'm not part of the team. I'm not part of the core group. So, and I have a story that you would love.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

So they would always like, oh, because you're a dancer, oh, because you don't care about medicine. You just like want to go there and dance with women, which is true. And so all of my life, I felt that I'm an outsider. I'm not part of the team. I'm not part of the core group. So, and I have a story that you would love.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Right before my residency, I was so much into salsa, so I had all of the money, and then you save that, and I was working in summers, and I was doing extra jobs, and I took that money, and I went to Miami in order to learn Rueda de Casino, which is the Cuban kind of like circle salsa kind of thing. And I went there in the summer of 2001. And my return ticket was 9-12, 2001.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Right before my residency, I was so much into salsa, so I had all of the money, and then you save that, and I was working in summers, and I was doing extra jobs, and I took that money, and I went to Miami in order to learn Rueda de Casino, which is the Cuban kind of like circle salsa kind of thing. And I went there in the summer of 2001. And my return ticket was 9-12, 2001.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Right before my residency, I was so much into salsa, so I had all of the money, and then you save that, and I was working in summers, and I was doing extra jobs, and I took that money, and I went to Miami in order to learn Rueda de Casino, which is the Cuban kind of like circle salsa kind of thing. And I went there in the summer of 2001. And my return ticket was 9-12, 2001.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

The universe has a sense of humor, I got to tell you that. 9-12, I was supposed to be on a plane coming back to Egypt. What happens? Thank God, I ran out of money 10 days before that. It was like, all right, I changed my ticket and I came back. 9-11, I'm kind of like, my mom,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

The universe has a sense of humor, I got to tell you that. 9-12, I was supposed to be on a plane coming back to Egypt. What happens? Thank God, I ran out of money 10 days before that. It was like, all right, I changed my ticket and I came back. 9-11, I'm kind of like, my mom,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

The universe has a sense of humor, I got to tell you that. 9-12, I was supposed to be on a plane coming back to Egypt. What happens? Thank God, I ran out of money 10 days before that. It was like, all right, I changed my ticket and I came back. 9-11, I'm kind of like, my mom,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Fly at 9-12. But by the way, I was in Miami when they went to the flying school in Miami. So, I mean, I had like 9-11 written all over my face. You'd be all over the news.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Fly at 9-12. But by the way, I was in Miami when they went to the flying school in Miami. So, I mean, I had like 9-11 written all over my face. You'd be all over the news.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Fly at 9-12. But by the way, I was in Miami when they went to the flying school in Miami. So, I mean, I had like 9-11 written all over my face. You'd be all over the news.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And my mom was like, what?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And my mom was like, what?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

And my mom was like, what?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#424 โ€“ Bassem Youssef: Israel-Palestine, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Satire & Fame

Yeah, like, you know, samba, salsa, pachata, merengue, it's kind of like Latin dances. And it's like, you know, I don't know how you describe salsa. Couple dance on Latin beat. And I did it because... I once, I, and I talk about that in my Arabic stand-up comedy, not the English. I talk about, like, how I was, you know, I didn't have, like, really, like, a great, like, social life.