Josh's Soap Box: Is It Racist To Ask Where You're From?

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

Comedy Interviews, Education, Society & Culture, Comedy, Self-improvement

4.5 • 905 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, Josh airs what's on his mind. Did the NFL star Damar Hamlin suffer cardiac arrest because he was vaccinated, or because he was smashed in the chest by six-foot-four, 220-pound receiver? Was the musical editor of The Simpsons, who died this week, the greatest TV composer of all time? We revisit the best-ever Simpsons songs to find out! Is there anything redeeming about seagulls? And as we learn new facts about the Buckingham Palace racism scandal, Josh finds himself confused... Is it always racist to ask where you're from?

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0:00.0	Goody, humans, happy New Year.
0:04.1	What a lot to talk about this week.
0:05.4	There's a lot going on in my head.
0:08.0	It's supposed to be a time for reflection, for rejoicing.
0:11.6	Maybe rejoicing was last week, and this week is the reflective, contemplative, what are we going to make of 20203 moment?
0:18.7	But there's so much stuff going on in my life.
0:21.8	And I don't even know if I'm allowed to say, happy New Year still.
0:25.8	I mean, we're a weekend.
0:28.3	Larry David, he's not into it.
0:34.0	Hey, Larry.
0:36.5	Randy.
0:37.2	You got it. I'm a friend of Susie's. I know, I know, I know, yeah. Happy New Year. It's a little late, frankly, for the Happy New Year's, you know? Why? Just happened a couple weeks ago, right? Yeah, that's too long. Statute of limitations. It's kind of run out on the New Year. Three days. Plenty. Three days. By the way, everything doesn't have to be happy. Why does everything have to be happy? So I'm past Larry David's three days. I like it. I like Happy New Year. I think it's good. My Christmas tree is still up. It's a real one. And I just want the place to smell of pine and mango for as long as possible. If you're not in Australia,
1:12.7	then you don't understand this benefit of the festive season down under. It's hot,
1:17.7	and so there are tons of mangoes, the likes of which non-Australians simply can't fathom,
1:22.5	how delicious an Australian mango is. And, you know, because it's also hot, the tree, the Christmas trees are
1:29.0	constantly wilting. It's a battle against nature. It's a battle against the good lord to try
1:36.0	to keep your, your Christmas tree adequately hydrated. So your house, ideally, smells of festive
1:43.6	Christmas tree oil hanging in the hot, humid air and rotting pineapple, a mango rather, and pineapple, if you so choose, coming from the kitchen.
1:52.2	It's just delightful, and I want to keep that going until at least Australia Day, which last time I checked was still on January 26th, but because that's the commemoration of the day on which
2:01.3	the Europeans invaded the First Nations people were not really supposed to celebrate that.
2:05.9	So we'll just say I would keep the Christmas tree until the day formerly known as
2:10.5	Australia Day, which I would never condone because genocide.
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