Ramy Youssef
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353 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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Yeah.
Well, I mean, first of all, it's always kind of baffling just because I have firsthand experience that any of the business acumen that he relies on was built up by immigrants. I mean, I think on one hand, people go, his father gave him a huge check. But on the other hand, it's whatever did punch through was these are businesses built on immigrants, especially the hotel business in New York.
So that's always crazy. And then I think in terms of, you know, it almost goes back to what we were talking about earlier of whose turn is it in this country. And right now, everyone's having a lot of turns. So on one hand, he's looking at the South immigration border stuff. But then I also think that the censorship around the conversation with Palestine is
And the way that he's really legislating, you know, with, you know, globally Islamophobically is incredibly heightened and frightening. And it's almost like he's taking it to new levels. I mean, he's posting the craziest things about just leveling out an entire, you know, culture. So, you know, yeah, he's really he's given everyone a go.
It was somebody else, but, you know, my father's relationship with his family was always, my father's always categorized it as incredibly positive.
Yeah.
I don't know. You know how like there's all these conversations where people go, oh, man, that Republican senators out there bashing gay people. And we all know he's gay. And it's like, oh, man, Trump's out there and he's just bashing immigrants. And we know he's really likes them and works with them. And they helped him with everything.
And so it's like you're just watching something that defies the experience that you've had.
October 10th, I get a call from a guy I know. And he goes, yo, bro, where you at with Hamas? Where am I at? Am I a member? You think any of us like what happened on October 7th? It's awful. We hate seeing people die. It's inhumane. It made me cry. And it always does. It's why we've been talking about Palestine our whole lives. We hate what's happening there. We want justice. We want peace.
And we do. So of course I don't like it. Now I gotta prove to you that I'm not violent? You think that's what's in my heart? You know me, you think I'm Hamas? Bro, I'm a Taliban guy. That's a real group. They've been going for 20 years, you know what I'm saying? They're strong.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I mean, I think that there's a balance of threading what needs to be said with diverting expectation. And so the expectation, obviously, in this joke, it's all just like tension release. It's like, OK, what am I going to say? What am I going to say? What's he going to say? And then it just you swerve right into just. It's like, oh, my God, you think I support a terrorist group?
Not that one. Or whatever.
And so that's the misdirect, right? And so, yeah, for me, it's, you know, how do you kind of thread that stuff and do it? And then you also know that you're not hitting everything, right? Because it's like there's so much on the table in that joke that's just not discussed because it's a joke. And I'll never be able to get at it, you know? And that's just...
part of the cost of what it is that I do. And I'm also I'm not really qualified to there's so many unbelievable Palestinian authors and historians and people who do these things in a way that it's so much more eloquent because they know and my thing is like, not that I'm necessarily like a poet, but
You know, if you read poetry from the Middle East, it's so beautiful in how it can capture so much in its brevity. And that's my hope with a joke is in its brevity, it can kind of hold a lot of feelings. So, you know, the misdirect at the end of the joke holds the frustration that you're even putting me in this framework of yours.
And the idea that you think that I am not upset is insane because you've known me my whole life. You know, so all those things are kind of carried while trying to, you know, just hit the target of what my actual job is.
At the end of the day, I'm wired to go near. Don't touch that. Don't touch that. I'm like a little child. I go, well, why not? No, I could touch it. Let me prove to you that I can at least hover around it. That is just, that is just, I'm just like a little kid who's just like, no, don't tell me. No. Yes. Because I don't want there to be this elephant in the room. Then what am I doing?
It feels so dishonest. It feels so, look, what is the point of even being up here? You know, like I can't, I can't let that go.
First off, that show, getting to be a part of it and do an episode, it was amazing because those guys are so genius in their satire, Seth and Evan, and I think what they get at so well...
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