I said, Daddy, what's your dream? He says, Daddy, my dream is to one. You know what I want to do. I want to be one the best athletes and I want to be a businessman and I want, so that's great. And then he's quiet for about a minute and says, Daddy, what was your dream when you were my age? I said very simple, he says, what's that?

Just to come to America and leave Iran.

I said, I can't think that I had any dreams in Iran.

Like I'm being very serious with you like I don't I didn't even know the concept of dream it like hey

one day I'm gonna be a successful actor I'm gonna be a successful businessman

I'm gonna be a politician I'm going to be a successful businessman, I'm going to go be a cop.

There is nothing about my life in Iran where it was an element of dreaming about who I'm going to be one day. Nothing. There was no dreaming, right?

That first glimpse came in Germany when we were watching, you bay watch you know and you're seeing

David Hasselhoff and you're watching dirty dancing with you know Patrick's

waysie and you're seeing you know sat ains which was their channel and you're seeing all these you know

heroes and lifestyle I'm like what if one day you can be rich love what if one

day I can be an actor what if then the dream machine started But when you're living in a place like Iran,

I'm only speaking for myself, maybe it's different for a lot of other people.

Man, they shut down your dream machine very quickly.

Now in my case, I you know you talked about David

Hasahov and you know different references that you might have been exposed to in my

case I mean I'm a bit older than you so when I grew up in Lebanon, my exposure to kind of the archetype of America and

masculinity was clinked eastward in the spaghetti westerns. I don't know if you're familiar

with them, Patrick, but you know familiar with them Patrick but you know I used to you know watch a fist full of dollar and the good the bad and the ugly and I would see this guy who comes in this you know mysterious guy and I say I want to go to that land where this guy lives and so I really

can can commiserate with your feeling about Rambo and so on did you speak any English

when you landed in the United States or not a word? No, and I spoke I spoke I spoke I spoke Farsi Armenian, Syrian and German

when I came here but zero English.

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