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Ramy Youssef

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Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

I think I'm gonna fight for the light Yeah I think I'm gonna fight for the light I think I'm gonna fight for the light Baby, I'm fighting the fight

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

Somebody called it Kebab Dylan. Somebody else was like, wait, this is like War on Drugs. This is like some sort of like Arab Jeff Buckley thing. Yeah, it's totally this like folk thing that is so fun to do as this character because it is. It kind of sneaks up on you. And he, again, he's so crazy the whole episode. And then all of a sudden you go, oh, my God, this guy is so tender.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

Somebody called it Kebab Dylan. Somebody else was like, wait, this is like War on Drugs. This is like some sort of like Arab Jeff Buckley thing. Yeah, it's totally this like folk thing that is so fun to do as this character because it is. It kind of sneaks up on you. And he, again, he's so crazy the whole episode. And then all of a sudden you go, oh, my God, this guy is so tender.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

Somebody called it Kebab Dylan. Somebody else was like, wait, this is like War on Drugs. This is like some sort of like Arab Jeff Buckley thing. Yeah, it's totally this like folk thing that is so fun to do as this character because it is. It kind of sneaks up on you. And he, again, he's so crazy the whole episode. And then all of a sudden you go, oh, my God, this guy is so tender.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

And there's this tenderness in him. And that is the experience of so many of the men that I know where you go, oh, man, this dude is like kind of intense. And then you get him alone and you go, wait, is this the most emotional person on earth?

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

And there's this tenderness in him. And that is the experience of so many of the men that I know where you go, oh, man, this dude is like kind of intense. And then you get him alone and you go, wait, is this the most emotional person on earth?

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

And there's this tenderness in him. And that is the experience of so many of the men that I know where you go, oh, man, this dude is like kind of intense. And then you get him alone and you go, wait, is this the most emotional person on earth?

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

It is.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

It is.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

It is.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

I was very bad at school, and so I ended up leaving. I was always in high school – really middle school and high school, I was fascinated with cameras and I was always making things. And then in the back of my head, I said, this is

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

I was very bad at school, and so I ended up leaving. I was always in high school – really middle school and high school, I was fascinated with cameras and I was always making things. And then in the back of my head, I said, this is

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

I was very bad at school, and so I ended up leaving. I was always in high school – really middle school and high school, I was fascinated with cameras and I was always making things. And then in the back of my head, I said, this is

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

what I love doing the most but there's no way I'm going to be able to actually live doing this and and I didn't see a path to it being a career because I didn't know anyone who'd ever done that so I just thought I had to go to school and become a lawyer you know because that was kind of the only thing I could imagine myself doing even if I had no real connection to like the law I just said well I know how to talk and it seems like those guys talk and then they're able to feed their families by talking and

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

what I love doing the most but there's no way I'm going to be able to actually live doing this and and I didn't see a path to it being a career because I didn't know anyone who'd ever done that so I just thought I had to go to school and become a lawyer you know because that was kind of the only thing I could imagine myself doing even if I had no real connection to like the law I just said well I know how to talk and it seems like those guys talk and then they're able to feed their families by talking and

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

what I love doing the most but there's no way I'm going to be able to actually live doing this and and I didn't see a path to it being a career because I didn't know anyone who'd ever done that so I just thought I had to go to school and become a lawyer you know because that was kind of the only thing I could imagine myself doing even if I had no real connection to like the law I just said well I know how to talk and it seems like those guys talk and then they're able to feed their families by talking and

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

So that was kind of all I could see. There's some books you got to read in the middle. And then this comedy thing comes up and you go, oh, well, you could talk here too. And this is way more in line with what I love about art and filmmaking. And so, yeah, it just became inevitable at a certain point.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

So that was kind of all I could see. There's some books you got to read in the middle. And then this comedy thing comes up and you go, oh, well, you could talk here too. And this is way more in line with what I love about art and filmmaking. And so, yeah, it just became inevitable at a certain point.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

So that was kind of all I could see. There's some books you got to read in the middle. And then this comedy thing comes up and you go, oh, well, you could talk here too. And this is way more in line with what I love about art and filmmaking. And so, yeah, it just became inevitable at a certain point.

Fresh Air
Ramy Youssef Animates A Muslim Family's Post-9/11 Life

Yeah.