How Rap Made Me A Man with Comic Zach Sherwin
Story Worthy
Story Worthy Media
4.1 • 529 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Zach Sherwin knew he loved rap music from the day he first laid ears on it. But he never imagined he'd be called up onstage to rap with his boyhood idols. Word.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Honest, as you know, my book, Pit to LAX, my Storyworthy Life is coming March 25th. March 25th. Circle it on your calendar. That's right. Or mark it on your electronic calendar. You can pre-order it at Storyworthymedia.com or at storyworthy podcast.com. And right now on the phone, I have a friend on the phone with me, Honest, that was in the peace car with me. Malaulele, Janie. Molese, Killesquistina, I believe. |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah. is that was in the peace corps with me. Malolalele, Janie. Malolet, Calistina, I believe. |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah, I was Calicitina. Can't you speak American? You were Saini. Weren't you Saini? |
| 0:31.4 | Sainy, yes, that's right. Okay, Jane, tell everybody about that little island of Otea that we |
| 0:37.0 | lived on in the outer islands of Tonga. |
| 0:39.9 | Oh, it was in the northern part of the country, and there were about 50 islands there, |
| 0:45.3 | and we were in a village of about, what, they were like maybe 60 people there. |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, about 60 people. |
| 0:52.2 | And we each lived with a family, and we did what our family did. |
| 0:57.1 | We got to go to church three times. |
| 0:58.9 | Three times a day. |
| 1:00.7 | Do you remember that? |
| 1:01.6 | Why did you go three times a day? |
| 1:03.4 | Because Tonga is a crazy, full-on Christian-loving nation and they go to church all the time. |
| 1:11.5 | Yeah, but there's... |
| 1:12.6 | Church fell at 5 o'clock in the morning, weekdays. |
| 1:15.8 | I remember that. |
| 1:16.6 | Yep. |
| 1:17.2 | And it was a lot of eating, sleeping, and going to church. |
| 1:21.3 | Yeah, there's really not a whole lot else to do. |
| 1:23.2 | So going to church probably filled a lot of time. |
| 1:25.5 | Well, and there was no electricity. |
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