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John Safran

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
317 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I wasn't like โ€“ so things were sort of like subconscious or whatever like that.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I think I did kind of feel it was a bit โ€“

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

like on the nose to be like pointing a camera at other people and like, oh, look at this, these interesting foreigners or whatever.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

It just seemed like, and it seemed just more, I was just way more comfortable with throwing myself in there and being part of it all and just, and also I think people, other people appreciated it, that you sort of,

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Like on the ground, back then at least, like I got good feedback.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And I think everything I've done since then has been this โ€“

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

like sharing kind of like some personal thing, almost like oversharing this personal thing from my past or from my experiences or to sort of like speak to some bigger thing.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And then not a lot of hectoring or conclusions.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I hate conclusions.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Like other conclusions are for someone else.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And I also think if you've got enough, if you've brought enough through the story, why kind of should you have a โ€“ who am I to have a conclusion?

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And I also noticed things I really liked when I was really little, I noticed they always had really bad endings.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And I was like, why is that?

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Like, you know, there'd be like these Looney Tunes cartoons, like with Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

It'd be hilarious the whole way through.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And then the ending was always lame.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

And same like Monty Python never has good endings.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

So that's also part of it where I'm going to go, I'm going to follow in the rich tradition of good storytelling where it doesn't have good endings.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Why John Safran is comfortable in the uncomfortable

I can't really go.