This episode is brought to you by Verizon. The experts have spoken. Rising has been named America's most reliable network by route metrics, proving there's only one vast network best and most reliable, based on rankings from the roof. Metrics. U S route score report dated first, have twenty twenty one. Your results may vary hey guys, you might remember especial episode of the park asked a few weeks ago. It was the live show that the appeal the theatre in New York with Bassam Useth, who known as a John Stewart of Egypt, who spoke out against God, autocracy in his country and ultimately had to flee. Welcome is launching a second part cast and its hosted by thus amusing. is called remade in America, and today I am sharing the first episode of that. Podcast fee comedian, most, your brawny with data listeners, show about feeling, like an outsider in America, and try

make it anyway so check out the show and then had on over to the remaining America podcast wherever you listen to this path cast and listen to the second episode out today, don't forget to subscribe. You're gonna love it. I'll be back Thursday with another episode of statehood, theatre friends. My name is best music. Welcome to the fore, episode of mine, you show real. in America, presented by cafe before we get started a little bit about me My story begins in Egypt, where I lived until I was fourteen years old. I was a regular guy. I was married, what has a heart surgeon? You know irregular dude, but my and had always been to move to America. But then something strange happen: Egyptians, my people, took to the streets to tell our military dictator Hosni Mubarak. To me

streets, were flooded with tens of thousands of angry people are demanding a change here in Egypt. You see in Egypt, we don't have a beach, We don't have Congress, we don't have democracy. So A revolution was the only thing that could make him go and a few weeks later he did. How nice of him now I didn't take to the streets, but I did contribute in my own way. I mean short video about Egypt, surrounded me. How can I tell you, forget that dyspeptic it eyes and eliminate Lawiya Louis shovel instead of old, modest? My any battle, I mean my videos, equal stateroom media, were brainwashing, Damascus, my view

he's got a lot of you. So many views to the tv station invited me to turn my Youtube videos into an actual, keep in mind that all economic, dynamic and lacking in around the same time I had an opportunity to move to America towards there ass a doktor. faced with an impossible choice, even though had wanted to move to America for the longest time. My country, he did my show. So I stayed in Egypt Few years are a blur. We made a bunch of episodes, got the life audience over forty million people QT into my show. Every week, that's like the Superbowl. Every Friday There was only one problem: government didn't like likely jokes. I knew that if I stayed in Egypt, I would end up in jail. So I left my home and came to America.

Why am I doing a bucket honestly? I felt like an outsider in Egypt and it's easy to feel that way here in Amerika I don't think I'm alone in feeling this way and I want to address. and why so many people feel like outsiders, like me in this country, and so together, I hope we can figure out what it means to belong here. I bet you abusive, and this is remade than America presented like. I have been vision for the past four years and its changed my life. I try to talk all

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ok back to remade in America to get things done, I need to talk to somebody who's been in my shoes and immigrant, a brown guy who made it in America and then in Hollywood, accurate, comedian, Maws, your brawny, my parents. never came to any my events and then I remembered I was born in IRAN, so I'm an immigrant. So when you're an immigrant, you don't want your parents to come here. Events, because when arrogant parents come to school events, they out you they as soon as they walk into like. I know we are emigrates, you like the shot they thought I was wanting to Mars is the ultimate kind well tighter and immigrant. He moved United States from IRAN when he was six years old and today, Mars is a very sad,

this will comedian, an actor MOSS tackle some of the ways he's an outsider in his comedy. You can see that in his most recent Netflix Comedy special appropriately named immigrant. It was actually kind of sad because I guess that I'm iranian and my wife is indian, so our kids are all colored up and it was very sad when Trump one my little six year old girl she came up to me. She was scared, because daddy am I gonna, get deported, yeah and I said no baby you're not gonna, get the porter, that's it! You were born here, you're, not gonna, be deported, but cousin Maggie, it's gotta go, you might want to say goodbye. Mars is real accessible and I'm. Lee Jealous, I excited to have him on the show we started by talking about how he came to America, You know I left IRAN. I was six years old has borne seventy two I left in seventy eight, so I grew up in this community in northern California was interesting because in March

If you ran into another Iranian, it was an occasion we were almost embrace. Each other's differ for me when I ran into another Egyptian. I dont know if he's a pro islamist to approve. military, I kind of like whenever any other egyptian I'm very suspicious the air Does he like me going? Does he like the other people? It's only Lucy goes. Are you you go depends? Are you so your growing up here, whatever political repercussions, meaning between IRAN and the United States. Did that affect you. I had an american girlfriend in high school and marine is very liberal so that was not as big of an issue. We all knew each other at school and I don't think anybody judged you necessarily on your iranian this I had the opposite, which was my pet and telling me hates located date, Americans and other people, but when you get married, even after Marin, Iranian solely with

anything. It was like racism from the other side, and I told my mama's frizzle am I not get married to sing and if I may, I dont know I might like em. I gotTa Africa meet somebody and come home because I fell in love with our God or nobody to follow with an the wise, so intent on me Marian arises and well. You know they nor culture, the lad which you know we're having a party and were telling jokes she's not can understand it you kidding me, you want to marry someone, so they can send your jokes. I go. This is crazy. So from early on. I was very integrated and I didn't really bind that the irony was when I moved on to allay. I end up having my first iranian girlfriend and then my mom ended up not liking her so ill equipped with its very ironic, you know when I was growing up in Egypt. I didn't have your experience. I grew up in my own country and I still had a problem with my parents with dating I used to dance Elsa and my mom was very objecting on this because, like what kind of a girl you gonna meet and end up, man

if she goes and dance and as you know, this is something that is frowned upon. So I am, you don't need to be in a different country to have problems thank you by your parents. Will you know it's funny, as I think that a lot of people from our part of the world are more conservative, so I can imagine getting up from your country that you lived in it for forty forty five years and going to another completely. country, not speaking the language, not knowing if you're gonna go back so there's a lot of stuff that I understand why they would have a hard time. It wasn't like that were excited and there were like all we ve done we in IRAN run now we're going to America like it wasn't that it was. It was more like oh shit, theirs revolution? We gotta go Before we go any further, I should probably explain: something's Mars talked about revolution might produce, please tell me that not everyone in America took a class on IRAN

or I ran, as you guys say it. So it's time for a short history lesson. Four thousand, years. Iran was ruled kings. They call themselves Shaw's. The problem is people are not very happy. It was oppressive. It was a dictatorship there democracy and they kept all the money and power reminds me of hold so late nineteen Seventys, the people of IRAN, I voted against the shop. They replaced him with Ayatollah Khomeini, the Ayatollah Khomeini appears tonight. You have come to full power in IRAN, as he said, he would get another of those bloody convulsions that have recently slept the country The whole mania was a self proclaimed man of God and he turned from a monarchy into an islamic state in

forcing Sharia LAW a lot of people that IRAN during this revolution, including Mars and his family. You see revolutions are not always a positive thing I tried to navigate alert and especially as I try to figure out how to translate my career as a tv hosting Egypt to do tv and movies. Here I have to say it's really tough, to be a brown guy. In Hollywood Mars, the revolution at the age of six and not long after. He took his first steps towards a career in Hollywood, but it took his parents a little longer to get board. You know when I was twelve years old and marine County. I audition for my young junior high schools musical. I had become a big fan of Eddie Murphy as a kid so wanted to be like him. I love funny people. Somebody goes as a play happening in there's all the

pretty. Girls are doing it and less good. Try it. I go out audition I get in again on stage I love being on stage on twelve years. Oh, I love being stay so from then on. I did plays all the way through high school and every time I would do plays the director of the school play with Tommy Harris he's got something in my parents would nod or whatever, and then they get in the car. My that would be like that. Bitch is crazy. You're gonna, be a doctor here. You're gonna be a lawyer. Your horse, Sergio brawny Son, like that, you know said so, want when it when he knew I wanted to be an actor. He was trying to talk me out of it is like son. You know you're, not gonna, succeed in Hawaii, I started guiding us because we're not jewish to be jewish. To succeed in Hollywood saw you should think about lawyer or doktor. The heck are they put their Joyce do and so I went to college, I went to undergrad at you, see, Berkeley and

originally. I studied political science because I had been convinced that I should be a lawyer by my parents and my mom is even said. Listen if you wanna tell jokes and do plays just do it on the weekends. I said. Ok, that's a good compromise. oh, I study Polly Sigh undergrad than my junior year. I go to ITALY to study abroad, while I'm there there's a professor. I love what he does. I think to myself, maybe I'll be a professor, that's a good compromise, because that's a job that I think the community will be looked upon in a with respect, but also get to be in front of people and talk about ideas. I got us a good company can practice your jokes on students who cannot tackle throw some jokes in the middle right. So I come back to me so my mom Libya, professor, she loses or mine. She. Those are you crazy. There's no work for professors, you! How do you know the job market? For professor that I get in seal it for the graduate school to get my pasting Polly sigh, but right away. I start doing plays again in the theater department and I

feel alive when I'm doing place at night and then, when I go to class in the morning at the palace I class I'm just like this is for me and a one point. They even taken one step further. Being a professor isn't about lecturing it's about publishing? You have to keep coming up with books, so publish or perish, and I said you know what I'm going to perish I'm out of here, so I dropped out That's what my mom thought. I'd lost my mind since she was there with my grand and they go listen. You did not do lawyer, you did not do professor and they go at least become a mechanic, I sort of legal how'd. You go from lawyer the mechanic and they go. Health is a revolution. We can go to any country and be a mechanic you can go to anchor, should be an actor and, as you know what this pretty deep, but that's the as someone who gave him a revolution. Thinking like you, should have a job that you can do anywhere in the world.

Beyond a speedy, listen when the whole Muslim ban think there was a muslim bad. They ask me you're, afraid of Muslim back, I'm not afraid personally of the Muslim Ban, because honest truth is I'm really not that religious? Look, I'm not that religious like I was born in IRAN, but I'm not really religious. Ok, like I'm, not really a merrily Muslim. A Moloch muslim issue like this is our Muslim. I could play a Muslim in a movie. You'd go see it. You believe it right. You got a movie. You see me on the screen. Allow but always good look at our own. We speak the language. When I first started stand up. There wasn't any other iranian comedians. I was probably in a line up of ten fifth. comedians. I was always very unique because I was talking about my experience being IRAN in Amerika. I have two observations. First of all, you ve done a lot of acting and second, you didn't actually just play

errors yea as of right or even at this late again, you're still texts, I started getting a couple terrorist parts and then Chuck Norris did a movie of the weak called the president's man, a line in the sand. There I played a terrorist act honesty. I hated it. I really didn't like it and I realize, while they're gonna send me offer these parts because I'm iranian, so I did that and after the truck what movie? I said, I don't want to do any more chairs prices at that point. It done to terrorist forces, said no more and my agents were like okay and then the tv show twenty four called and there is a terrorist and I was like no and they go, but he changed his mind halfway through the mission and I grew the ambivalent terrorist. I like that, that's kind of Laird, so I took that that was the last summer played a terrorist and it is interesting because you have to say no at a certain point- you know a lot of times- It actually, it works like one of the best one.

Hollywood they say is to say no. I don't want to do terrorists, boys, it did work and you now have a very successful career enacting, a and a scandal that I need you to make it even bigger, because that gives me hope, because if you don't get your own big blockbuster, when I'm gonna have understood in my way, I need to move you out of my way. So they come to meet people go when you make it When is the night. When is the day? What was the thing that major? You made it and I go. You know in movies you have in your mind that, like you're, you're walking down the street and someone goes you I'm going to make you a star, but in reality it's a series of days and nights and projects where you make it and make it and make it, and you really don't know what that project is going to be what monsieur said three made me think I mean not even getting terrorists sport

I don't know if I will ever make it in Hollywood, so instead I am making a buck. Let's take a break when we come back parenting comedy and porn don't leave us did I mentioned there was born

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Now she was like: ok I'll, buy it for you. So admirably made a trip with a whole family with me, my sister two brothers, and we all went to seven eleven and my mom bought me a Porno magazine called. We owe you, I we mom my mom. she was pretty. I guess said she was she was hip in some ways: conservative somewhere other issues like laughing about it like she was like this is to her was funny and then when he- it wasn't like. We were in the corner, looking at it that we bought it and then, then we open it up and in the middle of it, for whatever reason they had an obese leaf fat like she couldn't move fat centerfold enables LULU

I'm her with me in my younger brothers. I they were all look at our high god of ethical moment to traumatize you from our travelers. The other way we're not fetching anyone. We just talking about the expected standards and then I remember a friend of my found to grocery bags of play boys that someone had left out for life the garbage to take. That is treasure, so he gave me one of those and so that again became like my little universe of play boys and then, after a while, I'm ready when the seventh grade. He- and I both started talking about the fact that we have all these play boys so than the other guys in our class were like war. You gotta share it man, so we brought those to school and were selling them for, like five bucks. A pop that was my sex education was play, boys and obesity that women in the in the magazine or people look at the Middle EAST. This conservative place, who have lay very strict rules about sex and sexuality in everything

Everybody knows talk about the underground behind the closed doors in IRAN, in Saudi Arabia. Even in Egypt I mean there's liquor, IRAN have it by huge liberal population, but they're doing everything behind closed doors, yeah. I think my mama have seen my mom over the years become more more open minded, but its amazed How is a community? I still see it I managed to stand up. I do joke sometimes were I can't believe, like I was doing jokes. There were like pro gay marriage. Let people be themselves- and I put my comedy- show com. Like I was. It was a joke that that had that we talked about Caitlin General in sex change in on us it up. I said I support that, like anybody wants to do whatever they want. Do it? I've had people on the audience like one lady at one shows I thus disgusting and I was like, are you kidding me and that lady might not be the religious conservative, but she found that Hence, if she was, it was an iranian jewish event, and so

not only are you iranian, which means you probably em, if you look at it in the bigger picture, a lot of Americans. Don't like you, your Jewish with me, you ve, been persecuted and yet you're willing to judge a gay person or someone who wants to change their sexual I don't get that and I've had it. Also with iranian Muslims are much assain. It was just the jewish partners. It's it's. I think it is that people that have it in their minds that grow up and conservative cultures. They sometimes again don't think about the irony that while I've been persecuted in this country any yet I'm willing to judge other people and persecute them. So you talking about something here being criticised for being, in their opinion, not appropriate whether it was a pro gay joke or may be certain language profanity right, profanity and in on my show they would leave the bigger picture that we ignore it and they will attack from prevent kiss like that is not acceptable. You had

you know, I feel the judgment. I think our parents do a good job of instilling in us this judgment of the community, so I remember growing up on my dad would say what you know your post or Jobrani son. You know you can't be seen doing this or that, like you, have a name and the community, so you feel being judged. I feel like everywhere I go like and we would they they would take us to parties and at the party you can't be yourself. You gotta be very hollow, sir. How are united in a very nice kid and for the most part, was a good kid anyway, but you can't let loose in any way and even as an adult like, I dont cost that much, but I was doing so and up and when you do set of common the comedy store. There's a lot of committees with Super dirty and they'll, get up then just costs and go really in raw Amber one, not I was doing a show and I ended up cussing a little bit and on Sunday remembered my iranian friends. Mother had come to the show, and so then I felt really self conscious and I stopped my show and I turned to them. I said I'm so sorry I didn't mean, because I really feel that, as we were laughing because

they're like what's this guy's problem, my friends mom, I'm! So sorry this is a disgrace and there were laughing, and then I realize you know what we all know. These words exist. So these people who decide the Basque on that and come after you on that, then I go. You know what man that's an issue you got a deal with is actually very freeing so due to my show when I do like like I do, the bid in the immigrants Peshawar grab my crotch and the night, and then I make fun of what I know. Some of them are thinking. Some of them are going that, oh, my god, he grabbed his balls. Why did he grabbed his balls? She's like amazing, that, like all your life, you trying to please someone you're always in and on the outside, Americans judge you, because you are iranian, an iranian Jews. Because you not iranian enough yeah you're, not representative, you have to be yours to represent. No, what I wrote my muscles and those are my Mozilla go. Can forty six years also? No longer a kid are of the adopted talk. I don't have the respect any these people. I have

mortgage. I gladly friggin mortgage like that. That's the best placed to get its so freeing in your mind when you just go. This is who I am and so, you like it come if you don't no big deal. when I was a kid my parents didn't think it was their job to tell me they loved me, but in America feel like you require to tell your kids, you love them and Mars talks about this allowed in his comedy immigrant. That's no play cats with anybody. I kinda Erica six years old. If I went to my dad when I was six ass in a play catch, if hey doubtless play catch people like you Lucky you're in Amerika, you won't play cats. I send you to IRAN to play cat with horror, Saddam Hussein.

with you, I love being apparent, and I know it's a lot harder. I mean there are times like cheese. I think I was yesterday or the day before I was kind of grumpy and I caught my eyes like. While I be so grumpy like everything, my son would do ass. I would you do it put why I put on my guard a bike report. Anyhow What do you think you know you ve the frustrated, but in the end I wanna buy cried with my son, my dad a bike ride bike ride with me. That said, my father was very loving to us in terms of like he was very generous, always gave to us always either. You gave me a lot of confidence in who I was, but the culture wasn't one of like all the Scots I kick, the ball or lisco play catch. It was like yours. Twenty dollars go play my mom used to hit us she's, like one am I she's like a friend of mine but yeah, it's a very gosh, I'm a little worried about the future of our kids, because we are we coddled them a lot and so

son is highly sensitive, so anything that's ever said to him. He will take it personally and he'll like if I say something he'll go to, but his mom and be like daddy said. Whatever I forget what he did. You know what he was farting, these lactose intolerant. It was farting, might have been. I would at stake, oh my god, what you rotten! That is like busting, your balls right away, and I thought of it is ok, but look. He goes to his mom, I'm in your wife, his Indian and India's are not known to be that easy. There. You know my wife, a lot of who, when they find out my wife's India there, like only other so greatly, must be oh Gun, Gandhi and peaceful, again, go she liked the indian Joe Pesci, she Casas. She gets upset she's Taipei and I'm a lot more laid back, and so we actually work well together in that sense, but yeah there's a fine line, as you know about discipline and

its ability and all that and also telling them that you love them. So I tried as much as I can to remind myself and forty six is also sometimes of discharges. Wanna sit there from the television and watch people argue with each other on CNN or whatever it is, but then the king, will come in the Roman, I go okay. Let me pay attention to my son, her daughter and in the end I tell people that don't have kids. I said it's almost like you get to relive your childhood, so I'm watching my son play soccer. You know my daughter, playing tennis or or my daughter will bring her friends over and they'll start making videos and dance stuff, and I'm just like I love it There are few things during this conversation. As soon as this episode is done, I'm going to call up loot and say no. A lot then drive home it my kids when the by cried for the corner, store and buy them poured hey if they turn out anything like Mars, then I'll be a happy daddy.

three in America will be back next week. In the meantime I could use had figuring out what to talk about next. Have you- this is like an outsider. What would you like me to discuss the show? I put it loud and social media, and many of you responded. Here's a message we got. Josie you? He call from attack on Palestinian and you come to the south and I was now black covered- not why I didn't know how, What happened here in the path between blacks and whites, aggregations of all races, Roman, they came, hey can you come in here? I definitely a like an outsider and I will try to Finland Dude, and I thought I was having a tough in LOS Angeles thanks for the coal choosy. There are a lot of people who feel like outsiders in this country and race. Please, a big part in that regard.

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