Speaker 1: So, Yoseph, it's my understanding. Isn't next week it?
Speaker 2: Yes? I got ten more days left and then you
Speaker 2: go back. I do forever. Yes, I'll be back as
Speaker 2: a tourist someday. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Wait, so what is the how long have you been here?
Speaker 2: Nine and a half years?
Speaker 3: Has it really been that long? Yep?
Speaker 1: Yeah so, And I'm trying to remember the last time
Speaker 1: we talked to Yosef, we were trying to illegally marry
Speaker 1: him to stay in the country.
Speaker 4: And then we thought that's probably not a good thing
Speaker 4: to say on the air.
Speaker 3: The yeah, but it would still have been good to do.
Speaker 1: The Now remind now for for for remind me real quick,
Speaker 1: when you first came here nine and a half years ago,
Speaker 1: what did you What did you come here for?
Speaker 2: To get my bachelor's degree?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: I did that at American at American right?
Speaker 3: And where's home? Quait kuwait, Dad's right, that's right. And
Speaker 3: so you came here.
Speaker 1: For to get your your your bachelor's uh huh?
Speaker 2: And then you you start when did you start working here?
Speaker 2: That was after my master's. So I did my bachelor's
Speaker 2: and then worked for a year. International students can work
Speaker 2: for a year after each degree, right, and then went
Speaker 2: back to Quick got a new visa and came back
Speaker 2: here did my master's and then worked at iHeart.
Speaker 3: Where did you work in that year? PetSmart?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 3: Did you really at the pet's hotel? That PetSmart? Oh?
Speaker 1: And then you went and then you went back to
Speaker 1: Kuwait yep, got another visa we knewed you, right, student,
Speaker 1: and then came back and got your masters yep, a
Speaker 1: au as well.
Speaker 3: Right, And then you started working here? Correct? And how
Speaker 3: long did you work here? A year? That was it?
Speaker 2: Honestly ten months? Technically?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I started in October and left in August.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And the one and so that's when we talked to you,
Speaker 1: was when the end of those ten months were coming up, correct,
Speaker 1: because we were trying to figure.
Speaker 3: Out why you couldn't stay. And then we learned that
Speaker 3: iHeart wouldn't sponsor you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, or any company, honestly, any company. I've applied to
Speaker 2: so many places, and okay, but how about the one
Speaker 2: you were working at? Right?
Speaker 1: Well, Well, what other places are you going to ask? Well, well,
Speaker 1: you know what, there's a CC's Pizza down the rock Pike,
Speaker 1: I'll ask them.
Speaker 2: I'm just doing sponsor you right, yeah, no, I just
Speaker 2: don't want to slowly blame.
Speaker 3: But if a company is going to sponsor you, it
Speaker 3: would be the one you're working for.
Speaker 1: Of course they need to Yeah, I get to know.
Speaker 1: I can't just no. If not, you may as well
Speaker 1: just go knock on door. You may as well go
Speaker 1: next door to Mervis and ask you although you know
Speaker 1: what that idea.
Speaker 3: You don't want to.
Speaker 5: If you don't want to blame my heart, this is
Speaker 5: the wrong show. Have you heard the host?
Speaker 3: Why? Yeah? No, But I mean it's fine, and you asked.
Speaker 2: I think, oh, yeah, for sure. I do want to
Speaker 2: mention that they tried. You know, people here, Alison, they tried.
Speaker 3: There's a work visa. Well you say they tried. Do
Speaker 3: you think they tried hard enough?
Speaker 2: At least they give it, They gave it a shot.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know when I worked at PetSmart, they
Speaker 2: made it clear from the beginning, we don't do sponsorships
Speaker 2: right where like.
Speaker 1: When you apply name Joseph, who wait, we don't know, No.
Speaker 3: That's hard.
Speaker 5: Policy is racial profile.
Speaker 2: I do want to make it clear that when you
Speaker 2: come here as a student, your sole purpose should be
Speaker 2: to be a student. When you come here as a tourist.
Speaker 2: You need to have a return ticket when you come
Speaker 2: here as a work He's that you know, with the
Speaker 2: second year contract finishes, you need to leave. So I
Speaker 2: never want to make it sound like I want to
Speaker 2: live here because that you want to live here. No,
Speaker 2: that means you're showing intent. And the last thing you
Speaker 2: want to do is show intent that no. No, But
Speaker 2: what I'm saying you would like to stay. Yes, you
Speaker 2: can say that that's fine. Well yeah, but I came
Speaker 2: here as a student and that was my goal.
Speaker 3: I just like Wave Christie no man.
Speaker 5: Surprise as the one with the hat and extensions white hat, right, yeah,
Speaker 5: the Okay, So so you you go back to kuwait
Speaker 5: and you say I want to go get my masters,
Speaker 5: and they.
Speaker 3: Say here, you go go on over.
Speaker 1: So you come back over right, and then you and
Speaker 1: you got your masters, and then you worked here for
Speaker 1: ten months?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then and then but then, That's what.
Speaker 1: I was saying. So at that point we were trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how do we get to keep you? Yes,
Speaker 1: And I remember applaying for PhD, got rejected. I tried
Speaker 1: again another year, another college rejected again, which is fine.
Speaker 3: Wait, you got rejected from a PhD twice.
Speaker 4: Yep, so says the guy who did how many weeks
Speaker 4: in school?
Speaker 3: But I trying to stay here.
Speaker 5: I live here, birthrate citizenship because yes he is Canadian,
Speaker 5: as you know, Elliott is Canadian.
Speaker 3: Right, well both I'm dual. I'm dual.
Speaker 1: Thank you the the so you you you applied for
Speaker 1: PhD and you got two no's.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: I tried two different years, two different schools, and it
Speaker 2: didn't work out. So I put myself through Mason to
Speaker 2: get a certificate.
Speaker 3: Wait, what is that?
Speaker 2: It's just a one year It's kind of like a
Speaker 2: condensed condensed, compressed degree, so right, it just takes less time,
Speaker 2: it's cheaper less classes. So I did that for a
Speaker 2: year right after my art job, and then that ended,
Speaker 2: so that was time for me to leave. And then
Speaker 2: I put myself another s and just like that, another
Speaker 2: year has passed. And so how long since any intent?
Speaker 2: I'm never going to be allowed back to don't worry
Speaker 2: about intent. I'm not picking up any intent.
Speaker 3: Fives.
Speaker 2: No, I was actually curious about their certificates. But it's
Speaker 2: just you know, the years have passed, and yeah.
Speaker 3: I was so curious. I got four How long? How
Speaker 3: old he got two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was by curious.
Speaker 3: How how how old? How old are how old are you?
Speaker 2: Nineteen ninety six?
Speaker 1: So twenty eight, twenty eight, Oh my god, dude, get
Speaker 1: out of school.
Speaker 3: Hey man, it's his COVID year. That's right. So the
Speaker 3: so there's no more certificates to get.
Speaker 2: No, it's over my parents, Yeah, clearly.
Speaker 1: But the but now what did your did your parents?
Speaker 1: But your parents wanted you to come home a long
Speaker 1: time ago, oh.
Speaker 2: For sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, especially my mom. There was
Speaker 2: a period when she was just upset.
Speaker 3: But yeah, now the what happens to the what she
Speaker 3: wasn't just upset? You guys weren't talking for a bit.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, but I understand that I'm not a parent,
Speaker 2: so I can't say I could, you know, relate, So
Speaker 2: I don't know what it's like.
Speaker 3: So what was your what was your Elliott? What you
Speaker 3: would be upset with?
Speaker 4: Wait, which part of your child was all the way
Speaker 4: around the world.
Speaker 5: They have every right to be, you know, nine years
Speaker 5: you'd be upset. You want them to live with you forever.
Speaker 3: Yes, but it's a little bit. Have you seen your parents.
Speaker 1: And not other than when you went back to renew
Speaker 1: your Kuwaiti visa.
Speaker 2: That was the last time you haven't seen when? How
Speaker 2: long ago was that?
Speaker 3: Four years ago? You haven't seen your parents in four years?
Speaker 2: My dad, my mom, and sister were in town two years.
Speaker 4: Ago, Okay, two years back off, Still a long time.
Speaker 3: That's a long time though.
Speaker 2: I am very very close to all of my family aunts, uncles,
Speaker 2: cousins from both sides of the family and so yes,
Speaker 2: and at this point I've lost all my grandparents. But
Speaker 2: I do want to make it clear that we did
Speaker 2: you lose them the time?
Speaker 3: Did you? Did you lose them while you were here?
Speaker 2: Two of them? Yes, and then two have gone.
Speaker 3: Like a long time ago. The two that died while
Speaker 3: you were here.
Speaker 2: Did you go backs make me feel guilty?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't because it wasn't let me back in that.
Speaker 5: Jones was going to mention that and stirred up for that.
Speaker 2: That's his only role away sitting here. Joseph's life story.
Speaker 2: My mom's mom passed during COVID So this is you
Speaker 2: could have gotten anyway.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Sure, my dad's mom was recently and it was exact
Speaker 2: times it was literally if I know.
Speaker 3: Oh for the for your certificate.
Speaker 2: And the sad part is that she asked a lot
Speaker 2: about me apparently really and was like when is he
Speaker 2: coming back to work?
Speaker 3: So that well, very sad pretty soon. The now what
Speaker 3: during the time that you were here?
Speaker 1: The but then remind me, like, your dad owns a
Speaker 1: condo in Tyson, correct, right? So what which is where
Speaker 1: you've been living this sweet ass house?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't complain.
Speaker 3: The does it have a rooftop pool? What was Kristin
Speaker 3: telling me? Kristen went, Kristin and Joseph went swimming.
Speaker 2: And Mike, oh and the other Mike and missus just oh.
Speaker 3: Very good? Is the pool nice? I mean it's like
Speaker 3: a beach there is. I wouldn't even call it a pool.
Speaker 3: What why why did your dad have the apartment here?
Speaker 2: His dad got it for him around seventy eight when
Speaker 2: he was a student here. Oh okay, yeah, so that's why.
Speaker 2: And then different family members have been using the fat
Speaker 2: throughout the years, right the nineties when you're can be
Speaker 2: equid and I had family members come and live here
Speaker 2: for a while, and yeah, I had a cousin who
Speaker 2: did a PhD right before my time here, and she.
Speaker 3: Used it and she used it, right, So what happens
Speaker 3: to it.
Speaker 2: Now it stays ooccupied. No, no one's gonna use it.
Speaker 2: I may there more than you, of course.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That's right.
Speaker 5: So Monday the fourteen tickets to The Little Mermaid Summer
Speaker 5: of Loud, and we're giving away an apartment.
Speaker 3: Now when you go back to when when do you
Speaker 3: have to leave? Leave? Not the Sunday, but next next Sunday. Dude,
Speaker 3: are you bumming? What are you gonna do during your
Speaker 3: last week?
Speaker 2: I've been an emotional wreck. I'm not going to stand
Speaker 2: here in my tears face. Have you really There's been
Speaker 2: a lot of tears and snots behind the closed doors. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not making that up, but you know I'm acting tearful.
Speaker 1: The no, No, that's okay. But so but I mean,
Speaker 1: you've got one week left. Yeah, well you're not going
Speaker 1: to just sit in the apartment and crying you get out? Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, of course I will be seeing him a few
Speaker 2: more times.
Speaker 3: Olive Garden.
Speaker 4: You do it before you live, leave the country.
Speaker 1: When you when you think of the stuff that you've
Speaker 1: done here over nine years?
Speaker 3: What where is what like?
Speaker 1: What what rises to the top other than get an education?
Speaker 3: Off?
Speaker 2: I was just in to say my first answer should
Speaker 2: be a degree. But concerts as a music clever and
Speaker 2: a kid, a little boy, and Quid who grew up,
Speaker 2: you know, listening to Brittany and I never ended in
Speaker 2: a million years think that I would get to see that.
Speaker 2: So that means the world to me. I know it's
Speaker 2: not something silly, but we don't have that back home.
Speaker 3: So there's no, there's no. I've never been to Kuwait.
Speaker 2: We got Arab pop stars coming in, right, but their
Speaker 2: family is regional. It's not international, you know.
Speaker 1: So there's like Aerosmith's never playing no Kuwait.
Speaker 2: Although Jala is coming to abudabulated this month and I'll
Speaker 2: be there.
Speaker 1: But okay, but that that's Abu Dhabi, right, Yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: I understand an hour and a half. Yeah no no,
Speaker 1: but I get that. But to Kuwait specifically, nothing.
Speaker 3: No, no.
Speaker 2: With the exception of Arab stars, yeah no international wow.
Speaker 3: So I get that.
Speaker 1: And and and Joseph any anytime there was gonna be
Speaker 1: like somebody like a band at the station, Yoseph would
Speaker 1: come up.
Speaker 3: But I get that. You love music and so a
Speaker 3: chance to be around it is great, all rights? What else?
Speaker 2: What else other than cause it's people? I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: that sounds kind of cheesy, but people everybody have met here,
Speaker 2: and also the general lifestyle. Something as simple as hopping
Speaker 2: on the Metro and going to the grocery store like
Speaker 2: brings me joy, whereas in Quit like driving lunatics are everywhere.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's car accidents every single out of the day.
Speaker 2: I don't even like driving. So just yeah, the basics,
Speaker 2: honestly so.
Speaker 1: But you could get in a car and go to
Speaker 1: a grocery store.
Speaker 2: No I can't. Yeah for sure. Yeah. I got my
Speaker 2: license in Quid before I got it here. But it's
Speaker 2: just did you get a license? Did you use your
Speaker 2: KUWAITI one, No. If you're a student or a work visa,
Speaker 2: I think it's required for you to have a local
Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, if I'm not mistaken, international works, if
Speaker 2: your international license works.
Speaker 1: If you're a tourist, right yeah, if you're just visiting, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: no that I get that. I get What is there
Speaker 1: anything you did where you were like, yeah, I probably
Speaker 1: shouldn't have done that. I'm thinking of something very specific
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 3: Go ahead. Please, didn't you get like your nuts waxed?
Speaker 2: That did happen? I was thinking of sending this audio
Speaker 2: Cliff to my parents.
Speaker 5: But so much for that?
Speaker 3: Would they be We will edit it.
Speaker 2: It's a very taboo subject where I'm from. But we
Speaker 2: don't talk about that stuff.
Speaker 3: Wait, you don't talk about like your penis?
Speaker 2: Oh for sure?
Speaker 3: Not No, the penis, Elliott, you know this? Why why
Speaker 3: would I know that?
Speaker 4: It's a very conservative society.
Speaker 1: No, I understand it's conservative publicly, but but in your
Speaker 1: own house, I think it should be Yeah something, I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: I can vouch that your mom and dad have had sex. Yeah, exactly, exactly,
Speaker 1: so I would think publicly like there's probably not a
Speaker 1: radio host in kuwait asking about your your testicles?
Speaker 3: But the but no, I but behind closed doors?
Speaker 2: I agree?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 5: But so where does that agreeing as an agent of change?
Speaker 5: He's not agreeing it goes on.
Speaker 3: No, he's agreeing it goes on behind closed doors.
Speaker 2: Yes, sure that was convincing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but was that was that up there with the
Speaker 1: things where you were like, I don't ever need to
Speaker 1: do that again.
Speaker 2: That was the most painful experience ever. I'm not exaggerating
Speaker 2: it felt. Did you end up doing that? You know,
Speaker 2: no one's seen me naked. It wasn't someone asked me
Speaker 2: to do it. You know, I'm not sleep figure out
Speaker 2: it was just for me hygienic purposes. I just want
Speaker 2: to try it, right, So I just went ahead and
Speaker 2: it was just the one time thing, yolo, right. I
Speaker 2: guess maybe I was trying to rebel in some way.
Speaker 2: I don't know against what internally of just my situation
Speaker 2: of wanting to say or can't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: You know what doing something a little crazy?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to stay. I can't watch this get
Speaker 3: rid of my hair? Wait, but did you just say?
Speaker 3: Was that the first person that has seen you.
Speaker 2: Naked other than doctors? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow, Oh that's right.
Speaker 1: Did we want you to hook up with Casey also
Speaker 1: as part of the marriage.
Speaker 2: She's like my sister.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was just about consummation. Legally it was important.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to miss you like christ Yes, I
Speaker 1: hate that you're I hate that you're leaving.
Speaker 3: I wish you could stay.
Speaker 2: I never asked for this chapter ten, you know, but
Speaker 2: I'm kind of being forced out of it. But life
Speaker 2: is unpredictable. We can't expect and assume things. So I've
Speaker 2: accepted reality.
Speaker 1: So what do you do when you get back there,
Speaker 1: what are you going to do other than JLO.
Speaker 3: Well that's the only thing I currently have.
Speaker 4: That the only thing on my schedule right now.
Speaker 2: No, but like so when you get back to search, which,
Speaker 2: by the way, I have been applying for months now.
Speaker 2: It's just things are not run remotely back home. You
Speaker 2: need in person attendance, Like you can't just sit home
Speaker 2: and apply on line.
Speaker 3: No, there's no, there's no like LinkedIn or we do
Speaker 3: have LinkedIn.
Speaker 2: It's just I don't even know why they put the
Speaker 2: job positions if they're not going to hire that way
Speaker 2: and quit. Unfortunately, if you don't have connections, if you
Speaker 2: don't have a very strong reference of someone working in
Speaker 2: the company, you're likely to not just not get the job.
Speaker 2: Oh really, yeah, you do need to know someone. I
Speaker 2: don't want to batmanth my country though I do.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, But that doesn't sound that you're just
Speaker 1: sounds like you're just saying that's how it works. That's okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what is the what is the like? What kind of job?
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like you've got forty five degrees
Speaker 1: like time? What kind of job are you trying to get?
Speaker 2: My main passion and interest is the entertainment world media,
Speaker 2: whether it's film, television, radio, behind the scenes obviously, I
Speaker 2: don't want to like, oh no.
Speaker 3: You should be a Why don't you be a disc
Speaker 3: jockey in Kuwait?
Speaker 2: Oh no, No, I don't like the spotlight. I don't
Speaker 2: like public speaking. You know, well you guys do ignore it?
Speaker 3: Good so but do they? But but there's radio, there
Speaker 3: is TV we do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm gonna apply there. Not that I haven't
Speaker 2: tried yet, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Did you apply? And did you apply for a job
Speaker 3: at the radio station?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: We got multiple ones. I've been trying.
Speaker 1: Well what did they tell you?
Speaker 2: Either never respond or just rejections.
Speaker 3: Rejections but they haven't even met you yet.
Speaker 2: Well you send in your resume though, and apply?
Speaker 3: Did you tell them that you worked here? God?
Speaker 1: Even a kuwait they hate iHeart, I get it, I
Speaker 1: get it. They're like, that's the that's the devil, the
Speaker 1: But no, I want you to get it one don't.
Speaker 1: Let's get you a job at the Kuwaiti radio station.
Speaker 2: That would be great again. I'd have to go there
Speaker 2: in person. Yeah, things are not run digitally.
Speaker 1: But when you say it's connections, like, does does this help?
Speaker 2: No? No, you need to know someone who works in
Speaker 2: that on the radio stage yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, or
Speaker 2: anywhere bank, anywhere, Like if I had an uncle, for example,
Speaker 2: working there, probably get at the.
Speaker 1: Bank, then you would get that, or somebody who works
Speaker 1: at But you don't know anybody that works at the
Speaker 1: radio station.
Speaker 2: None of my family members in the yeah media, And
Speaker 2: this day I can't think of.
Speaker 3: Nothing radio, nothing TV. Now that sucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that sucks. And also am I going to prioritize
Speaker 2: passion or finances? Like do I care more about salary
Speaker 2: or so that's also something to think. I wish it
Speaker 2: was the best of both worlds where I could mix both.
Speaker 1: But what is so? So that's what you'll do for work?
Speaker 1: So are you gonna go back and live with your parents?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very normal to live with your parents no matter.
Speaker 2: How do you get forty to fifty? Is it really
Speaker 2: you're unmarried? Yeah, and even when you get married. By
Speaker 2: the way, I have a cousin who they just built
Speaker 2: a floor another level on her childhood home and so.
Speaker 3: She lives up there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Is kuwait forget me for asking? Is kuwait an arranged marriage?
Speaker 2: No? No, you could choose who you want. Yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2: Back in the day it used to be.
Speaker 1: Right, so, but now it's anymore. You can go out
Speaker 1: and meet people and you.
Speaker 2: Can't date publicly though.
Speaker 1: You can't date publicly, but you can date privately. Sure, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm asking no, But it's not like if it's not
Speaker 1: an arranged marriage.
Speaker 2: It's twenty twenty five. Yeah, but my household, we're quite traditionalist.
Speaker 3: So your parents would have a problem. Do your parents
Speaker 3: want to arrange your marriage?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. No, they're not the type of
Speaker 2: parents who like, we have this girl or you.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, the way, but then you have
Speaker 1: to date, right, So here's how it worked.
Speaker 2: Let's say I'll use my sisters and as an exablation,
Speaker 2: she's married, No, she's not. I just have one something.
Speaker 2: Let's say she meets someone at work and the guy
Speaker 2: likes her. The guy would find my mom's number. Because
Speaker 2: quid is so tiny, you can you know, easily find that,
Speaker 2: and then the family would come together too. Families arrange
Speaker 2: a meeting, and based off of that meeting, you know,
Speaker 2: you could have other meetings, get engaged or just drop things.
Speaker 2: So the family is involved.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, and then when you get engaged to my knowledge,
Speaker 2: you can't really hang out just one on one. There
Speaker 2: has to be a third party involved, whether it's a friend,
Speaker 2: a cousin, and sibling. So technically, the first time you're
Speaker 2: ever ever alone alone is your wedding nights, is when
Speaker 2: you get married.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but now is that like when you said, like
Speaker 1: he would if you're if using your sister, Yeah, and
Speaker 1: at work there's somebody and he would find your mom?
Speaker 1: Is that because is that because of your family or
Speaker 1: is that just because, like you said, your family's pretty conservative.
Speaker 1: So is that just because of your family or is
Speaker 1: that kind of how it it runs?
Speaker 2: I want to say it's a cultural thing. It's a
Speaker 2: traditional thing, so that amongst all households, I got youa.
Speaker 2: But again we're in twenty twenty five. Maybe some families
Speaker 2: do it differently. Now, yeah, I'm sure there's people dating.
Speaker 2: I mean who would know?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I listen, I agree, And even if even
Speaker 1: if it was underground, you know it's going on, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So do you or do you look forward to that
Speaker 1: when you get over there?
Speaker 2: No? No, no, that's not on my that's not on
Speaker 2: your list.
Speaker 1: No, but you do, I mean, eventually you want to
Speaker 1: meet somebody maybe.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I like the idea of marriage growing old with
Speaker 2: you know someone.
Speaker 3: But yeah, no, it's pretty awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and I'm sure I'll change my mind because
Speaker 2: as of now it's no. But you know I'm open.
Speaker 3: Once you get there, right, once you get set up?
Speaker 1: How will we contact you?
Speaker 2: You know, don't give your phone number out, No, I
Speaker 2: want to know I message. If you're not iPhone, I
Speaker 2: may not be able to so if you're an Android
Speaker 2: or something, because I'm gonna switch my like put an
Speaker 2: equity chip number.
Speaker 3: So oh, I got you, but we got We use.
Speaker 2: WhatsApp where I'm from. That's okay, and Facebook Messenger that
Speaker 2: works too.
Speaker 3: All right, very good? Any any parting words for oh who?
Speaker 2: I do have a few thank yous, But well before
Speaker 2: we get to the thank yous?
Speaker 1: Who who at the built in the building, will you
Speaker 1: be like, thank god I never have to see them again?
Speaker 3: Good question, Thank you.
Speaker 2: I thought you were going to ask me who I'm
Speaker 2: gonna miss the most.
Speaker 1: I may, but right now I want to know who
Speaker 1: you'll miss the least, and Jones will answer for you
Speaker 1: if you choose to remain in silence.
Speaker 2: I know, honestly, no one. I love the bosses, the salespeople,
Speaker 2: the programmers, the DJs, the promo team. I swear to God,
Speaker 2: there's nobody I can think of that I Jones.
Speaker 3: I don't know about that, all right. And you wanted
Speaker 3: to you had that you wanted to do. Yeah, are
Speaker 3: you gonna cry? Don't cry?
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Oh you're talking to Yosef all right, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 2: I will never take this for granted, ever, ever, ever.
Speaker 2: This is the fourth time that you've had me on
Speaker 2: your show, and so I so appreciate you. Seriously. I
Speaker 2: boud down to you. I'll miss you so much.
Speaker 3: No, that's very kind. That's very kind. I will say this.
Speaker 1: Joseph whenever he comes up to the radio station, comes up,
Speaker 1: gives me a great big hug.
Speaker 3: No, no, it's very nice. It's very very nice. Oh wait,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry I interrupted you.
Speaker 2: And then Tyler, I'll miss our quick five to ten
Speaker 2: minute chats. Every time I come to the office. I
Speaker 2: always come in and you're busy working, but you always
Speaker 2: stop what you're doing to talk to me. So thank
Speaker 2: you for acknowledging my existence.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: And by the way, five to ten minutes is more
Speaker 1: than he would give ninety nine percent of the people
Speaker 1: in here. Absolutely, I haven't talked to Tyler that long
Speaker 1: in our twenty years of knowing each other.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm sorry, I interrupted.
Speaker 2: And then Diane, I'll never forget my last day at work,
Speaker 2: she came to me, wrote her number and said, any
Speaker 2: time you need anything, just let me know. And so
Speaker 2: that meant the world to me. I'm so I appreciate
Speaker 2: it of you for doing that. Kristin. You're the reason
Speaker 2: I'm here. You're the one who taught I told about
Speaker 2: my student visa situation. So she's just such a caring person.
Speaker 2: Every time I see her, she's always telling me, you know,
Speaker 2: update me, have you figured it out? Have you figured
Speaker 2: out a way to stay here? So just thank you
Speaker 2: for being thoughtful and such a life of person on
Speaker 2: this year. And then this guy right here, he is
Speaker 2: the batman to my Robin. He means the world to me.
Speaker 2: He's one of those rare people in my life whom
Speaker 2: I could sit beside in silence, like we don't even
Speaker 2: have to talk, and that's my happy place. I'm content.
Speaker 2: He made me feel that he is and just he
Speaker 2: has this gift of making everyone around him feel comfortable.
Speaker 2: And I still remember the first time I ever met
Speaker 2: him was actually behind this wall, and the second time
Speaker 2: and him, I remember that. And the first stuffe we
Speaker 2: ever took was at DC one Orrendoland. You made me
Speaker 2: wear your hat. I still have that picture. So just yeah,
Speaker 2: thank you for being there for me, and thank you
Speaker 2: to this country. America has embraced me since day one,
Speaker 2: dating all the back, all the way back to twenty
Speaker 2: ten when I first came here as a tour so
Speaker 2: fifteen summers ago. So thank you for welcoming me with
Speaker 2: open arms. I never felt like a stranger here and
Speaker 2: the States really just there's a sense of belonging here.
Speaker 2: I felt like I belong So thank you for that.
Speaker 2: And yeah, a lyric that I would like to sign
Speaker 2: off with is in the name of Simple Minds. Don't
Speaker 2: you forget about it? Please, because I won't forget you.
Speaker 2: But I'm just scared that I'll come back here and
Speaker 2: you guys have no idea why.
Speaker 3: Am oh, I trust me, we won't be here familiar.
Speaker 5: I like Jennifer Lopez cute uppes.
Speaker 3: Well, dude, I'm glad that you were able to come in.
Speaker 1: Of course, the like we're we're gonna be on vacation
Speaker 1: next week, but I wanted to make sure that we
Speaker 1: could say goodbye to you before we left. So it was,
Speaker 1: it was, It was very nice, and don't you forget
Speaker 1: about us.
Speaker 3: It doesn't have the same ring.
Speaker 1: To it, and it doesn't and it's not as newly
Speaker 1: as nice as everything you said.
Speaker 5: Remember it's an eighties weekend watch. Probably, I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's true.
Speaker 3: All Right, very good, Joseph, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Offen