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John Safran

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
317 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And then when I was dropped there, dropped down, I just come out in my head and I was going, okay, I'm going to tell these little stories and, yeah,

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Here it is.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I'm using the medium of documentary.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And in that case, what I learned in Race Around the World, again, hitting the ground running, was I did this one story about week three or maybe even week four, and I was looking into โ€“ I was in the Ivory Coast in West Africa and looking at voodooism.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

So I decided, like, to hang out with these different voodoo priests and see what they do in โ€“

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

in the Ivory Coast.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

But instead of, yeah, National Geographic-ing it, I was like, here's a photo of my ex-girlfriend.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Here's a letter from my ex-girlfriend.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Let's go visit some voodoo priests.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And then you got to see the process of the voodoo through my, like, petty personal story.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And when I did that...

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I was like, this is somehow just, it was like, this is what I should be doing.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I should be kind of like telling these personal stories that speak to these bigger things.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And there's all this stuff going on there.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Like, for instance, it's totally obnoxious on one level to kind of make everything about yourself.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

But on this other level, like the audience is aware that I'm aware.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

So there's that going on.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And so there's a lot of stuff going on.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And also, I think...

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I think โ€“ and I was like young at the time.