Josh Safdie
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Podcast Appearances
He was just starting to learn guitar.
He didn't know how to play guitar when he started doing Dylan at all.
And he's like, oh, I want to play you a Dylan song.
And I wish I could remember the song.
I remember him playing and me looking at my wife.
And I was like, it's going to be a rough one.
He was like, well, that was good, right?
I was like, you're amazing, man.
There's only one answer to that question.
that's what people said to dylan originally but then i watched him like over the years in tandem with table tennis and he started training with this guy uh who was like the youngest of u.s champion this guy michael landers who was on a wheaties box at one point uh maybe it was not wheaties but it was another cereal brand anyway he i watched him train and he got the mechanics good and then when by the time he i linked him with these
this husband-wife team, Diego Scoff and his wife, Wei Wang, who, she was an Olympian, who he did, because I read that he did Forrest Gump.
And I was like, I mean, whoever did Forrest Gump, I loved as a kid, I loved that section, which is inspired by an amazing true story in the 70s that broke down the communication between
It was like hippie guy missed his bus in Tokyo in the seventies and or the sixties and got onto the Chinese bus and they were all, they hadn't seen an American person.
So now there's this like long haired guy and he's like, Hey, peace and love everybody.