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Comedian Ahmed Ahmed joins the #naplescaptainslog and discusses living in Malaysia and the culture, how he knew he wanted to be a comedian, and tells us the time he slept on Vince Vaughn’s couch!
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Captain Brien: We’re gonna be live in a second. And we’re live! This is the Captain’s Log with Ahmed Ahmed.
Ahmed Ahmed: Hey.
Captain Brien: Thanks buddy, appreciate you coming on the show!
Ahmed Ahmed: Hey, thanks for having me.
Captain Brien: All the way from Malaysia.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yes.
Captain Brien: That must be amazing, so, you could scroll it down and do that little side now.
Ahmed Ahmed: Can I do that?
Captain Brien: Share, yeah yeah, when you’re done with your happy dance.
Ahmed Ahmed: Happy to see you, pal.
Captain Brien: Oh, so it’s a good time, it really is, I appreciate you reaching out to me all the way from–
Ahmed Ahmed: Here we are.
Captain Brien: Malaysia!
Ahmed Ahmed: So share, right?
Captain Brien: When, yeah, you hit the share button and then you could show your people that you’re actually in the US, right?
Ahmed Ahmed: Yes.
Captain Brien: ‘Cause you’ve been in Malaysia for three years?
Ahmed Ahmed: A year.
Captain Brien: A year.
Ahmed Ahmed: I moved to Malaysia January last year.
Captain Brien: January last year.
Ahmed Ahmed: Just over a year.
Captain Brien: It feels like three years.
Ahmed Ahmed: It does kind of, I kind of feel like I got stuck in time when I moved to Asia.
Captain Brien: Is it, is that because things move differently out there, or?
Ahmed Ahmed: Well, it’s a little bit of a slower culture.
Captain Brien: It is.
Ahmed Ahmed: You know things just don’t move as quickly.
Captain Brien: What about the technology?
Ahmed Ahmed: Technology is just the same, it’s the same. I just think because it’s, you have to remember, it’s also very hot and humid country.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: So people, like, tend to not wanna work as hard, just ’cause it’s so hot, like you think Florida is hot and humid–
Captain Brien:What’s the average?
Ahmed Ahmed: You ain’t seen nothing.
Ahmed Ahmed: Man, on any given day, like–
Captain Brien: You might have to talk a little louder we’re not mic’d.
Ahmed Ahmed: Oh, hi, can you hear me everybody? .
Captain Brien: Yes .
Ahmed Ahmed: On any given day in Malaysia, it can get up to a hundred degrees, and then a–
Captain Brien: But it’s humid, right?
Ahmed Ahmed: A hundred percent humidity.
Captain Brien: Oh.
Ahmed Ahmed: So you just walk outside, poof, you’re just sweating.
Captain Brien: Yeah, instantly.
Ahmed Ahmed: Instantly, and, which sucks, ’cause then you have to go to a place where you have to look presentable and you’re like dripping sweat.
Captain Brien: Right, right.
Ahmed Ahmed: The good news is that they have air conditioning everywhere you go.
Captain Brien: Serious? So it’s not like you’re in like little rickshaws running around?
Ahmed Ahmed: No, it’s not, it’s not Thailand .
Captain Brien: Yeah .
Ahmed Ahmed: It’s not, it’s not Bangkok.
Captain Brien: It’s not, it’s not.
Ahmed Ahmed: No.
Captain Brien: But it’s like all, everything is the same as we have here or what?
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah, I mean, Malaysia for many years was considered a third world country.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: Now it’s being called a developing country.
Captain Brien:- Hmm-mm.
Ahmed Ahmed: And in 2020, I’m just gonna tag you on that.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: In 2020 it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be announced a, A developed country.
Captain Brien: This is good for the show.
Ahmed Ahmed: Sorry .
Captain Brien: This is good for the show. I like that, I like the actual pause.
Ahmed Ahmed: Did you show that already?
Captain Brien: I did, I did.
Ahmed Ahmed: Oh, I was gonna share it to both my pages.
Captain Brien: You could do it the other one now.
Ahmed Ahmed: Can I do it now?
Captain Brien: Yeah, you can do it the same time anyway.
Ahmed Ahmed: Oh, okay.
Captain Brien: So you had to do one in a time.
Ahmed Ahmed: Oh, okay.
Captain Brien: And, very interesting, I would, I kinda wanna go out there because I did do Hong Kong and China and stuff, but I didn’t spend enough time that I got to live the culture and everything else.
Ahmed Ahmed: I think, I think you would like Asia
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: Well Malaysia specifically, but as I was mentioning earlier you know, you have 45 minutes away Singapore, Thailand, you know, an hour and 20 minutes, Philippines, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Japan is a six hour flight, it’s like all kinda right there.
Captain Brien: With a lot of U.S influence?
Ahmed Ahmed: A lot, like, you can honestly feel like you are in Times Square, New York City when you’re in the Downtown part of Kuala Lumpur.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: And it’s, you know , skyscrapers, nice fine dining restaurants, speakeasy bars, you know lounges,
Captain Brien: Strip clubs?
Ahmed Ahmed: Fast foods. There aren’t any strip clubs.
Captain Brien: Really?
Ahmed Ahmed: But they do have these kind of, I don’t know what you call them,
Captain Brien: Do they have karaoke bars?
Ahmed Ahmed: They do have karaoke.
Captain Brien: Ah.
Ahmed Ahmed: I actually felt like–
Captain Brien: Where there’s very little karaoke going on in those bars?
Ahmed Ahmed: No they have, they actually do have like, you know, the proper karaoke rooms where you get a room–
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: And just you and your friends and like the little, sort of box–
Captain Brien: And do they have the little Geisha Girls come out?
Ahmed Ahmed: Well some of the nightclubs do,
Captain Brien: Yes.
Ahmed Ahmed: But they, and they don’t have any strip clubs, but they have this, and I’ve never been to it, but there’s a couple of these places where you like, you go in and you like, have to buy a woman a rose and then she’ll come and sit on your lap and have a drink and it’s like that kind of thing. I haven’t done that.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: But I’ve driven past this establishment a couple times. But, you know, there’s also, and again this exists all over the world, but you know, there is quite a bit of prostitution.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: You know–
Captain Brien: But it’s not legal.
Ahmed Ahmed: No, I mean, Asia, it’s kind of all over Asia, but–
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: You know, they have like their massage parlors and they’re like, whatever.
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: Dodgy, happy-ending spots and that kinda thing.
Captain Brien: Sure, sure.
Ahmed Ahmed: But, but no, no strip clubs, but great night life scene, the company I worked for, LOL Events, we, there’s like, there’s this leading comedy, events company in Malaysia. And so they’ve hosted everybody, Kevin Hart, Margaret Cho, Russell Peters, Jeff Dunham, Fluffy.
Captain Brien: And the people know these acts from the internet obviously.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah, so–
Captain Brien: Is the TV very similar to our TV? Or is it completely different?
Ahmed Ahmed: So they have a local station that’s called Astro, their local station does like Malaysia, local Malaysian content. So, their language there is Bahasa, so they’ll speak, they’ll, have a lot of programming and adsense of Bahasa.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: But they’re trying to cross over to more American content. That’s kind of why I moved there, was to–
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: Help develop the content creation inside of the company, film, television, that kinda thing.
Captain Brien: Do they like us in the U.S?
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, you know, there’s a lot of U.S influence in Malaysia, you know–
Captain Brien: So you’re cooler, are you cooler if you’re from the U.S over there?
Captain Brien: Do they like that?
Ahmed Ahmed: I don’t think people really give that much of a shit about it.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: But they do like American brands.
Captain Brien: They do.
Ahmed Ahmed: So anything, anything that’s like, that was started in the west, that caught on.
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: Will take off in Malaysia.
Captain Brien: Thank God.
Ahmed Ahmed: And everything from like clothes to food, pop culture, music.
Captain Brien: They just gravitate towards it, they love that.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah like Guns N Roses was just there last year.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: Like for the third time.
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: And like who would’ve ever thought Guns N Roses–
Captain Brien: Right, a little extra.
Ahmed Ahmed: And they’re performing, it was raining too, like they were out doors and people are just like, yeah! You know, PAradise City!.
Captain Brien: That’s fun, that’s a good time, though.
Ahmed Ahmed: But you, I think you’d love it man, it’s, I do miss my family and friends and the U.S, but I’m just gigging Asia right now.
Captain Brien: Cool.
Ahmed Ahmed: I wrote this new hour of material, I’m gonna try it all this weekend.
Captain Brien: Speaking of new material, you are performing this weekend at Off the Hook Comedy Club.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yes.
Captain Brien: Get tickets at offthehookcomedy.com
Ahmed Ahmed: Yes.
Captain Brien: They can find you on Instagram @ahmedahmed?
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah, it’s @ahmedcomedy A-H-M-E-D comedy, that’s also my Twitter handle.
Captain Brien: Tell me about the first time you hopped on stage, what was that like, how did you know you wanted to be a comedian?
Ahmed Ahmed: Well, I actually started out as an actor.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: I was always funny as a kid, cracking jokes, do like school plays and I was considered like, the class clown in school and, I was never the guy who would put like a tack on the teacher’s desk or–
Captain Brien: Okay, yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: Chair, I wasn’t that guy.
Captain Brien: You weren’t the prankster.
Ahmed Ahmed: I wasn’t the prankster, but–
Captain Brien: You were just a funny dude.
Ahmed Ahmed: I was just a funny guy, I’d be in the corner like, cracking jokes and get people to laugh and I was always in the detention room and that. But I never took it seriously–
Captain Brien: Same here.
Ahmed Ahmed: You were the same guy?
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: I never took it seriously though, and then, like the comedy side of it. And then I grew up watching a lot of like, dramatic film, so I was like, you know, Robert De Niro, Clint Eastwood, Denzel Washington, all these dramatic actors–
Captain Brien: And those were your heroes?
Ahmed Ahmed: They fascinated me, ’cause I was like, you know, they were just a great screen presence and I was literally living in movie theaters. You know, remember the days where you’d go buy a ticket for one movie, then you sneak in to like 10 other movies.
Captain Brien: Yeah yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: I’d spend 10 hours at the movie theater on the weekends.
Captain Brien: Really? I did that like once in my life.
Ahmed Ahmed: I did it almost every weekend, just–
Captain Brien: Wow!
Ahmed Ahmed: I did it to escape from my house, ’cause I didn’t like being home .
Captain Brien: Okay, okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: I had like strict parents–
Captain Brien: I probably didn’t do it ’cause I never had that much time, I was running from one athletic event to the next, to the next, to the next.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah, I wasn’t that active when I was a kid, but I was active, but I wasn’t into sports and stuff.
Captain Brien: How do I say Hireem? Hireem, he’s a comedian, right?
Ahmed Ahmed: Hiram, Hiram.
Captain Brien: He’s a comedian, yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: Hiram.
Captain Brien: Jennifer Allen, what’s up guys.
Ahmed Ahmed: Allen, what’s up everybody.
Captain Brien: Welcome to the Captain’s Log.
Ahmed Ahmed: Jennifer, how you doing?
Captain Brien: Say hi to Ahmed Ahmed.
Ahmed Ahmed: If you guys are in Annapolis, come to the shows this weekend.
Captain Brien: Yeah, we got a great show coming your way. Two tonight, two tomorrow, and one Sunday, Mother’s Day.
Ahmed Ahmed: Oh yeah, Mother’s Day celebration–
Captain Brien: It’s a good show.
Ahmed Ahmed: Come laugh with us on Mother’s Day.
Captain Brien: Yeah, yeah. You gotta bring your mom out, hang out with us. So, you was telling me, so far haven’t answered my question.
Ahmed Ahmed: Oh, yeah, so, so, I–
Captain Brien: Who’s more AD, me or you?
Ahmed Ahmed: I think together, we have–
Captain Brien: Yeah, okay, okay, that’s good.
Ahmed Ahmed: ADHD .
Captain Brien: Yes, I agree.
Ahmed Ahmed: So I just kind of, I moved to Hollywood when I was 19.
Captain Brien: Yup.
Ahmed Ahmed: I started working as an actor, I played a lot of terrorists in a lot of movies.
Captain Brien: Shocking.
Ahmed Ahmed: Shocking!
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: So, I was in Executive Decision, where I played terrorist number four, I was in, I was in the first Iron Man movie.
Captain Brien: Yeah, you were.
Ahmed Ahmed: So I helped kick-start the Marvel Universe, you’re welcome. But then they killed me.
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: Well that was fun, and then I just, I, the problem with Hollywood is, Hollywood, is that you, you don’t get a lot of opportunities to, to play other parts other than what your stereotype is.
Captain Brien: Right, once they cast you kinda that way.
Ahmed Ahmed: That’s it. Unless you are lucky enough to do a part in a movie–
Captain Brien: Unless you’re like Matt Damon or,
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah like you write your own ticket, you know Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, they wrote Good Will Hunting, they won an Oscar, then they could do whatever they want.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: You know, you gotta, you kinda gotta get kissed into the party, you know, Hollywood. And I just never really did, they wanted me to change my name I didn’t wanna do it. Anyway, fast forward I quit acting, I ran out of money, I actually slept–
Captain Brien: Very typical.
Ahmed Ahmed: Very typical, I slept–
Captain Brien: Hollywood dream.
Ahmed Ahmed: Hollywood dream, I slept on my old buddy, Vince Vaughn’s couch, for about a year.
Captain Brien: He’s kinda famous.
Ahmed Ahmed: He’s a little famous.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: You probably heard of him.
Captain Brien: How did you get hooked up with Vince Vaughn, to sleep on his couch?
Ahmed Ahmed: So we met,
Captain Brien: You can’t jump into that.
Ahmed Ahmed: No, well I met him before he was famous.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: We did it after, well not we, I was an extra in an afterschool special that he was the co-star in,
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: And we met on that thing. And you know, do you know the Peter Billingsley?
Captain Brien: I know the name, yes.
Ahmed Ahmed: He used to be an actor.
Captain Brien: Yes.
Ahmed Ahmed: Now he’s a producer, director–
Captain Brien: Okay, right.
Ahmed Ahmed: He was Ralphie in Christmas story.
Captain Brien: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: So he produces, now he produces all of Vince Vaughn’s movies and runs a production company, but he was the star of this afterschool special at the time. Vince played the best friend. It was a story about this young kid nerd, who wanted to impress this girl, but she only dated jocks,
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: So he joined the track team, but he wasn’t fast enough, so he took steroids.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: And then Vince Vaughn was the friend who’s like, don’t do drugs, I’m gonna tell the coach.
Captain Brien: And this was an afterschool special.
Ahmed Ahmed: An afterschool special that I was an extra–
Captain Brien: Do they still do afterschool specials?
Ahmed Ahmed: CBS school break special, I think they call them now.
Captain Brien: Really.
Ahmed Ahmed: I don’t know, I remember back in the days–
Captain Brien: Afterschool special for that age, is probably a thirty second clip.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah. .
Captain Brien: And they watch six of them and they’re done.
Ahmed Ahmed: Right. Almost like a weather .
Captain Brien: Right, right.
Ahmed Ahmed: So then we met, I was an extra, I played one of the guys on the track team who, when I found out Peter’s character took steroids, I kinda like, roll my eyes.
Captain Brien: Is this leading up to how the hell you became a comic?
Ahmed Ahmed: So this is how I met, so yeah, so when I started out as an actor, ’cause you asked me how I met Vince.
Captain Brien: Yes.
Ahmed Ahmed: That’s how I met him. So we met, we became friends, I started taking acting classes, and then the first part of the story, me doing all the terrorist parts and all of that. Then I got sick of it, I ran out of money. Vince offered me his couch.
Captain Brien: Yep.
Ahmed Ahmed: At this point he and I–
Captain Brien: That was cool of him.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah, he had just done the movie, Swingers.
Captain Brien: Yeah!
Ahmed Ahmed: And then he launched him to stardom right after that and he was traveling around the world filming movies. So he’s like, hey, just stay at my place while I’m gone, and he’s always super nice and supportive and, such a smart, funny, awesome businessman and just cool friend. And then I was starting waiting tables at Kevin Costner’s restaurant, actually.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: He used to own a restaurant called Twin Palms in Pasadena.
Captain Brien: That must be like, that must have been like the cool place if you were aspiring actor, to work at his place.
Ahmed Ahmed: This was when Kevin Costner was like at the top of his game.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: And so he opened this like beautiful 500 seat, indoor, outdoor country–
Captain Brien: ‘Cause he had needed a tax break.
Ahmed Ahmed: He needed a task break.
Captain Brien: He needed to lose more money.
Ahmed Ahmed: He needed to lose more money, so opened his restaurant with his wife. Him and Cindy Costner owned it, and I was the head waiter there–
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: And I was making a lot of money as a waiter ’cause I was making my customers laugh.
Captain Brien: Of course.
Ahmed Ahmed: And I thought, why don’t I just get rid of the food and just do the funny? And so that’s kinda how it all started, I got, you know, I made a lot of money as a waiter and I was just like, you know what, let me just try stand up and I did one night, I went up on stage in front of 40 comics, did a open mic, and then I killed,
Captain Brien: Which is not typical.
Ahmed Ahmed: Which is not typical and then I bombed for like–
Captain Brien: That’s normal, right.
Ahmed Ahmed: ‘Cause I thought I was so good.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: I didn’t realize, oh this is a craft, you have to take it seriously, and right jokes and know your timing and–
Captain Brien: Yeah, the stars can’t align every night you get on stage, you actually have that material.
Ahmed Ahmed: Bro, I bombed just the other night, at a open mic night. Kind of on accident too, I was at the Comedy Inn in Miami, killing every night, awesome shows and then I go to this open mic on a Monday just to like, just to see what was up in downtown Miami, and I aided so bad. But it felt good, it was–
Captain Brien: Yeah, it should.
Ahmed Ahmed: It was like a humbling experience,
Captain Brien: Right, right.
Ahmed Ahmed: And it grounded me. ‘Cause comics–
Captain Brien: You work on new material, sometimes that’s why you work on it.
Ahmed Ahmed: You gotta fail to succeed.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: So I just, I started doing standup, I got pretty good at it, I started running comedy rooms, because I couldn’t get booked at the major comedy clubs.
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: So I just started, I started this room called Dublin’s, with a guy named Jay Davids,
Captain Brien: Yeah, I know Jay well.
Ahmed Ahmed: So now he books, he’s the vice, VP of talent at the Laugh Factory now.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: So him and I started a room in Hollywood, at a place called Dublin’s, Bubblin in Dublin Jay Z?
Captain Brien: Yep, yep.
Ahmed Ahmed: Every Tuesday night, rain or shine. Dane Cook, Dave Chappelle, Joe Rogan, Carlos Mencia–
Captain Brien: Sick shows.
Ahmed Ahmed: Like, because we were writing between the Laugh Factory and the Comedy Store, so we were the hub, for like cool, and we had like, celebrities would come every week, hot chicks, librarians, doctors.
Captain Brien: How long has Jay had that title at the Laugh Factory these days?
Ahmed Ahmed: About, just over a year.
Captain Brien: Okay, okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And, so he’s, he’s booking all the talent at the Laugh Factory.
Captain Brien: That’s great.
Ahmed Ahmed: So he started that room, one night, who you know very well, Pauly Shore came in.
Captain Brien: Yep.
Ahmed Ahmed: Pauly Shore came in with like five hot playboy play bates. And he was like, ‘hey buddy, what’s up buddy?’
Captain Brien: Hasn’t changed.
Ahmed Ahmed: What’s up buddy?
Captain Brien: Hasn’t changed a bit.
Ahmed Ahmed: He’s like, ‘hey why don’t you guys come in?’ Well, we said, ‘hey do you wanna go on stage?’ And he said, ‘sure’, he went up on stage, he killed it. He came out, what’s up Douggy, what’s up Allen.
Captain Brien: Hey Doug, Allen, what’s going on?
Ahmed Ahmed: So, Pauly goes on stage, he has a great set, he comes off stage, and he’s like, ‘why don’t you guys ‘come to my mom’s club and do a night there?’ The Comedy Store, Mitzi Shore. So we did, we called the show Rot Comedy.
Captain Brien: Okay.
Ahmed Ahmed: Jay hosted, I would throw myself up at the lineup every week, we took the best of the best from Dublin’s and put them on at the Comedy Store. So it was Sam Tripoli, Sebastian Maniscalco,
Captain Brien: All great comics.
Ahmed Ahmed: You know, murderers, right.
Captain Brien: Right.
Ahmed Ahmed: And then, Mitzi Shore was in the room one night, and she caught my set, and she came out to me afterwards and she said, ‘hey you’re very funny’, that’s what she talks.
Captain Brien: Yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: Hey, you’re very funny. I said thanks, she said, ‘are you, are you Arabic?’
Ahmed Ahmed: I said, ‘Arabic, oh yeah.’ She goes, ‘oh from where?’ I said, I’m from Egypt. She goes, ‘oh, you know we used to be your slaves.’ And she walked away, and I was like, ‘oof, that wasn’t good’
Captain Brien: Yeah yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: And then I got a call the next day and they’re like, she wants to make you a paid regular.
Captain Brien: That’s it, boom!
Ahmed Ahmed: Sounds like, oh now I work for you.
Captain Brien: That was great!
Ahmed Ahmed: So, and so that’s how I got of the Comedy Store, then I eventually got at the Laugh Factory and the improv and I started kinda make my way around the comedy scene and then I ended up touring the world, I got in a sitcom with Steve Burns, Vince Vaughn producer and Peter Billingsley And then you know, I just kinda made my way around Hollywood for 20 plus years and,
Captain Brien: Been touring.
Ahmed Ahmed: Touring and–
Captain Brien: Playing all the comedy clubs in the country.
Ahmed Ahmed: Playing all the comedy clubs, you know I’m really lucky to like, to have established some great relationships with, you know, awesome people like yourself. Not everybody wants to book a comic through a comic, they wanna go through an agent and a manager And, I was shocked how many club-bookers were like, yeah have your agent book me or you know, I was just like, okay, I can talk to you.
Captain Brien: Right. Well it goes the opposite way too when you reach out to a comic and they’re like, ‘hey talk to my agent.’
Ahmed Ahmed: Talk to my agent. And then you have to jump through all those groups.
Captain Brien: Yeah, yeah.
Ahmed Ahmed: I guess it goes both ways.
Captain Brien: So it does go both ways. Well guys, my guest Ahmed Ahmed gonna be at Off The Hook comedy club this weekend. This is the Captain’s Log, thanks for watching. Hey Keith, before I say goodbye, I wanna say hello. I’ll see everybody tomorrow–
Ahmed Ahmed: What’s up guys.
Captain Brien: At the–
Ahmed Ahmed: Tee Bone, My buddy.
Captain Brien: Great City.canooeaces. Hey Tee Bone in the house, what’s up from Dubai. Honey, how are you?
Ahmed Ahmed: Hey guys.
Captain Brien: Anyway guys, we are out, I will be live tomorrow from the canoe races in Naples, Florida. I love you guys the most, we’re back.
Ahmed Ahmed: Thanks brother, cheers.
Captain Brien: See you tomorrow, we’re out.