Joe Opio
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On the screen?
Why do you want us to fact check this?
No, no, I just want you to fact check that, just in case we're watching, he is not a child soldier.
You know what I mean?
Joe is not a child soldier.
No, Joe is not in the movie.
He isn't in the movie and he isn't, you know what I mean?
Because your accent is confusing.
There's a lot happening.
No child soldier was harmed in the making of this podcast.
There's a lot happening here.
No, they were.
Because the thing is, and to go to the point that Dave was trying to make, in Uganda, so when you come from a smaller culture, you're forced, because you don't produce as much, you're forced to consume things from larger cultures.
So when I was growing up, I loved reading.
but then you didn't have as many books in Uganda.
So you had to read everything you could get your hands on, whether be it a Milsom Boone, whether be it like Shakespeare, you just had to read everything.
And so it's funny because when I go to countries, they say South Africa, even the US, Americans are very shocked.
They go like, oh, how do you know about this movie that happened?