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🗓️ 16 November 2018
⏱️ 125 minutes
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Fahim Anwar met me at the Comedy Store to talk about the glory days of illegal downloads. We talk about Napster, about CD burners, threatening letters from cable providers, and mods for gaming systems. It was a great discussion between two colleagues. Not colleagues in comedy, which we are, but colleagues in piracy. Because at our hearts, that's what we really are. We are pirates.
Make sure to watch Fahim on Comedy Central in the Goatface special November 27 at 11pm and watch his special now streaming on cc.com.
My European tour goes in this order
Iceland
UK (sold out)
Dublin (sold out)
Brussels
Amsterdam
Stockholm
Stavanger
Berlin
Copenhagen
Oslo
Zurich
Tel Aviv (storyteller show)
Jerusalem
Then back to America at the end of the year and beginning of 2019 with:
Oakland
Sacramento
Washington DC (storyteller show)
Denver
San Diego
Phoenix/Tempe
Miami/West Palm
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0:00.0 | I was downloading all the hit music just for myself and then just top 40 and I had a computer printout. |
0:07.2 | All the songs I had and I would go around. I was known like a CD burner guy at school. |
0:11.7 | So if you wanted a CD, I go you can check seven, make a playlist, 17 songs, 15 or 17 songs from this list and I'll make it for you. |
0:23.0 | I charged like, if it was a customized, because I had one top 40 or whatever, where I could just give it to you and it was five bucks. |
0:30.5 | But if you wanted to customize, make your own CD, then that was more money. That was like seven dollars or ten dollars if you wanted to choose the song. |
0:53.0 | Stick to itiveness, ladies and gentlemen. Stick to itiveness. That's the word of the day. It could possibly have been made up work. Stick to itiveness. That's what separates these Americans from other people. |
1:22.6 | Actually, that's not true. I think Americans give up quite easily. That separates me from, yeah, that's it. That separates me from Tom Saguar and Berkreicher. Stick to itiveness. |
1:40.3 | I didn't claim sickness. I didn't claim foot injury. I stuck with the workout program and I was a non-astric winner of sober October. |
1:56.3 | But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about stick to itiveness that when you're in fucking Reykjavik, Iceland, as I am right now, and you lose your water bottle, you look around your hotel room and you don't see it and you realize, oh, fuck. |
2:08.1 | I lost my hat and I was on the streets and I remember dropping it and I remember picking it up so I had it then. Where is it now? I went to a few gift stores. I got my fucking fridge magnet that I get from every other country I've been to. I had to make a price. It's my second time here, but I had to make up for it. I didn't get the fridge magnet for it. Unless I did. And then I'll have a double. Maybe I'll just give it to my girlfriend. I don't know. But I don't think I have one. Anyway. |
2:36.8 | I went back in the streets. Sure, it's a hill street. It's probably going to roll away. And if it didn't, somebody's probably going to chuck it. You know, this is Reykjavik. People take pride in there. It got damn town. |
2:50.0 | The Reykjavik. I'm back here hanging out with Aurel John. Oh, we have such a fun trip today. Just road trip in it. Goddamn, beautiful country. |
2:59.4 | So I went back to the first gift shop looked in the window. Couldn't see it. It's all closed now. It's 11.30 a night. Sure. It's 11.30 a night. |
3:05.4 | I went to the public house, rendered some fan, which is cool. It's cool. I haven't fans in Goddamn Reykjavik, Iceland. Power of the internet. |
3:16.3 | I moved on. I kept going. I think there's one last gift shop I went into. And I went, looked in the window, looked down to where the t-shirts were. |
3:25.4 | Look down like in the floor near the fridge. The fridge magnet, you know, twirly thing. Couldn't find it. |
3:33.4 | All right. Fuck it. Maybe stick to it if this doesn't work out. Maybe it doesn't. Or maybe your boy Aure looked behind the counter and guess what he saw. |
3:45.0 | His thermos with a note on it. The sticker that he put on there of the baby seal, the cute baby seal pre-clubbing. |
3:54.7 | That's right, you guys. I found it. And tomorrow I'm going to go down and claim what's rightfully mine. Dude, I feel like a Viking in this country. |
4:02.5 | It's hard not to until you actually look at one of the Icelanders and you realize they look like Vikings. Dude, I've had a good time here. I went to fucking. |
4:13.5 | Oh, this fucking great. I wish this place was so. |
4:17.6 | Sint-Sint-Todland, Sint-Todland. Oh, they have all these pools. These outdoor pools, hot tubs everywhere. It's like a fucking part of the culture here in Iceland. |
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