Bassem Youssef
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1,048 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2024
last heard 5 Jun
Bassem Youssef’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Best year ever. Well, they last a long time.
So... I'm not sure I want 70. I need to... I'll throw five in the mix and see how we feel.
If there was no religion, humans would have invented religion. Because think about, think of like the early humanity. Like you're like a caveman or whatever, and then like you see your family members killed, and then you say like, what, I'm gonna be like the cheetah or the gazelle that just like ends and perish? I need to have, I am more important.
I think with the development of consciousness, humans... like thought that they are much more precious and important than the other animals because they have now intelligence. So my life will not end like that. My death will be even more important. There's consequences for that. There's consequences for what I do. And then the early man was like,
They are in the desert and all of these like natural phenomena. They didn't know what to do. They were afraid. So they need to have refuge. They need to have something to take care of. They need to have a reason for everything. Because if there's no reason, it's chaos. It's chaos. It's terrifying. It's terrifying. There's nothing. There has to be a reason. There has to be a reason.
There has to be a purpose. There has to be like a cause, something. I'm not just going to be like die like a cockroach being stepped on. And that's kind of like part of it is ego. The whole world rotates around you in a way. It's the ego. So religion actually got a lot of it from humanity itself. Like me, us, like us being humans. And there's, and many religion is a collection of stories.
And those stories based on things that humans did themselves and they attributed it to gods.
It will be great if it's stopped there. But here's the thing, if you humble in order that your ego kicks in and feel that you are better than someone else who's not humbled in front of the same God, that means that I will have all of that train that I can use that, because now, what does it mean being humble? I'm divine. But you're not. I'm way more humble than you. But you're not.
So you see how they kind of like the oxymoron, I'm humble and I'm surrendering, but in the same time, I am better than you and I'm more entitled. Isn't it crazy? Yeah. It's beautiful. It's crazy. I mean, look at like the Muslim Christians and Jews and everyone. It's like, all right, Muslims, we surrendered. I mean, I'm talking about the extreme ones. I mean, like people say, I surrender to God.
Good. Keep it that way.
like if you go I surrender to God that means that I am closer to God than you than you should die okay Christians Christ is love and he loves me and we gonna be together but you don't get into his kingdom and you die you see it's the same thing yeah it's just if you stop it stop there stop where you are humble and you feel that you're a piece of shit and you are worthless human being and you are there yeah stop there
But once you say, oh, that makes me a better person than you, and it makes me more with God than you, so that would give me the entitlement to kick your ass.
because of this? Because it's picking up? There was other, a couple of things that were going on, but they stopped. Again, I don't know if it's October 7th.
The Superman story just so. Yeah, yeah.
What role were you?
Okay.
What did you audition for?
So in June, I was traveling to Dubai.
and right an hour before i i get into the car and go there my manager said like best i'm going to send you a script read it it's for superman it's like oh superman you know i i i'm not really good in auditions i'm not as an actress so it's like okay i'm just gonna do it send the tape i do that they send it i go to the airport and and i read i and i can i think i can talk about it now because they said they changed the script
So basically what I found it interesting in that new script is that there is like a dictator in a country that invades another country and Superman interferes politically. That's the first time we ever see Superman interferes politically. So basically it was like Russia and Ukraine, but because of me, it was like, it couldn't be Russia and Ukraine.
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