So, my guest today is a comedian and activist and author. He did something that was not an easy

thing to do back in 2016, I believe it was, when he went to the Middle East and he did this tour

where it sold out 27 different places, Dubai, Beirut, Cairo, Kuwait, Amman, in front of the

King and the Queen of Jordan. And we had Amman four years ago, we were putting an annual convention

together in Las Vegas, we had, I don't know, four or five thousand people there. And we brought

him on and he, I mean, the crowd fell in love with him immediately. When this guy's on stage,

he lights up. But at the same time, the reason why I wanted to bring him on, I respect his opinion,

I think when a country like us is in a situation that it's at sometimes we need comedians.

Comedians can play the role of a synergist to kind of lighten the load and get us to say,

listen, can we all just get along?

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Mazjib Rani, thank you so much for being a guest on that team.

Thank you for having me, Patrick. I appreciate you having me on. Actually, that tour you mentioned

was the axis of evil comedy tour. It was in 2007. I appreciate you. Yeah, I know it's good,

because as I'm getting older, I like that you kind of pushed it up a little. So now I felt

younger for a second. I was trying to, I was trying to make you younger, but 2007. So the talk

you gave on the, the TEDx, the one that's got 15, 20 million views, was that 07?

No, that one was, I believe, in 0809. So this is the story goes in 07, we went with the axis

of evil comedy tour. That was me and three other Middle Eastern American comedians and we were the

first group of guys who came out on Comedy Central who were from our part of the world doing

stand up. And I always say it was the first time you saw Middle Easterners on American television

and we weren't killed. We were just telling jokes. And so that tour took us to the Middle East

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