Ramy Youssef
speaker
353 appearances
6 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
Ramy Youssef’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, yeah. I did ask you for an editorial. I think I said put it in the beginning. You said put it in the beginning. Did you put it in the beginning? We did not take your note. No, I did a totally different thing. No! Yeah. And it was really helpful to know where you stood as I kind of shifted very far away from that. But I appreciated the feedback. Oh, man.
Okay, what is up with the original music in that show? So I play the father, and he's very stressed, and he yells, and he's kind of in this thing that dads do. But then...
I wanted this tender side to him, and one day while we were recording, in the booth there were these guitars, because we were recording in a music studio, and I picked it up and I was like, what would it be like if he made a jingle to get people to go to his halal cart? Because the dad has a halal cart. I was always fascinated growing up.
We lived in Queens, and then we went to Jersey, but my dad worked in the city, so we're always in Manhattan. and I go to Midtown, and you see the big Fox News building, and the news tickers saying all this crazy stuff about Muslims, and then you just look down, and there's a halal court.
Right on the corner is this halal court, and this guy just slinging platters to all the guys in the suits from the Fox building. And I was like, I want to follow. Who is this guy that the entire world is spinning this narrative around him? And he's like, I got to feed them. And so that's the dad in our animated show.
And so he's always holding all this tension because he's got to pretend to not be who he is. And so I started writing this jingle for the Halal Cart. And then it grew into this dad folk rock album. I mean, we put out a couple songs now. People call it Kebab Dylan. But he has this tender side to him. that no one sees.
But when he's alone, he kind of bursts into song, and there's this whole emotional thing going on with him, and it's one of my favorite parts of the show.
I sang and wrote them, yeah. How did that feel? Oh, so fun. Grammy? What? Were you going for a Grammy? You know, I think... For Kebab Dylan? I think, look, look, I mean, if you look at the Music Academy, historically... They have a tough time sometimes with, like, brown mega artists, you know, probably myself, Beyonce, that kind of thing. We don't always get the recognition.
But Bad Bunny has, like, paved the way for us. The thing with Bad Bunny, bro, is he kind of, like, a lot of people come up and be like, dude, you know, oh, I saw Bad Bunny and you look like him or whatever. But I was doing the... People say that? Oh, dude, I was doing the backwards cap with the beard way longer than Bad Bunny. People think you look like Bad Bunny.
Everyone thinks I'm Puerto Rican, and then they think I'm bad buddy. I don't think you look like bad buddy. Pull up a side-by-side. I think it's, you know, he's obviously taller or whatever. Who is the celebrity doppelganger?
Those sound like core needs. Those are wants.
You know what it is? It's like everything is selfish in the sense that on a human level, you're just trying to stay alive. And then all these things kind of are tangentially tied to that. So it's like I always try to think, okay, there's this selfish self-preservation, but what selfish act... would be the most encompassing of as many people with me as possible.
What would actually bring in more people? What would make them feel good? What would actually be helpful for them? What could entertain them while I'm being selfish? What could feed them while I'm being selfish? You know, because, you know, like Subway takes right now. Oh, there's three people working on this. Someone's going to be editing. You're doing something for yourself. Yeah.
But I'm a job creator. I'm a job creator, right? So it's like, what can I do that invites the most people, that spreads something positive? But let's not get it twisted. It's selfish.
Three. And I do think you and I make justifications like that all the time. Don't bring me into this. Don't bring me into this. Come on, buddy. I know this is like a little Japanese number right here. This is a nice little piece. I know what's going on.
Yeah, Arabs look at you in a good shirt and they go, wow, this is really solving a lot of the crisis in the Middle East.
No, you're so good at that, though. Truly, all jokes aside, people watch your stuff, and the way that you're bringing all sorts of people together, I find very inspiring. Because you're like, and doing it here on the subway, it's like, it's very cool. I mean, and it's very, and it makes people feel like they're part of something. Like they're all part of, we're all part of this thing. This thing.
And you want to put positive things out, mainly because fundamentally, everyone's a good person. Yeah. Everybody. Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Let's go.
This is the most interesting. 100% agree.
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