John Safran
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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,
Here it is.
I'm using the medium of documentary.
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.
So I decided, like, to hang out with these different voodoo priests and see what they do in โ
in the Ivory Coast.
But instead of, yeah, National Geographic-ing it, I was like, here's a photo of my ex-girlfriend.
Here's a letter from my ex-girlfriend.
Let's go visit some voodoo priests.
And then you got to see the process of the voodoo through my, like, petty personal story.
And when I did that...
I was like, this is somehow just, it was like, this is what I should be doing.
I should be kind of like telling these personal stories that speak to these bigger things.
And there's all this stuff going on there.
Like, for instance, it's totally obnoxious on one level to kind of make everything about yourself.
But on this other level, like the audience is aware that I'm aware.
So there's that going on.
And so there's a lot of stuff going on.
And also, I think...
I think โ and I was like young at the time.