[0:16]Hello, Doha. Hello! Assalamualaikum. I love coming to Doha. It's such an international place. This is like, it feels like the United Nations, just here. You land at the airport and you're welcomed by an Indian lady, who takes you to the Almaha services where you meet a Filipino lady, who hands you off to a South African lady. Who then takes you to a Korean, who takes you to a Pakistani guy with the luggage, who takes you to the car with a Sri Lankan. You go to the hotel, you check in, there's a Lebanese. Yeah. And then, then a Swedish guy showed me my room. I said, where are the Qataris?
[0:58]They said, no, no, it's too hot. They come out later. They're smart. They know. And of course, uh, it's growing so fast, sometimes there's growing pains, you know, um, like sometimes you run into people that you think know the city well, but they don't know it that well. Uh, my Indian cab driver showed up at the W and I asked him to take me to the Sheraton. And he said, no problem, sir. And then we sat there for two minutes. I said, what's wrong? He said, one problem, sir. I said, what? He goes, where is it? I go, you're the driver, you should know. He goes, I just arrived, sir. I go, you just arrived at the double. No, I just arrived in Doha, sir. I was on my way home from the airport, I got a job. I'm working already. He goes, sir, why don't you drive? I go, I don't know where we're going. Neither do I. It'll be an adventure, sir.
[1:56]It is an adventure. The Middle East has been an adventure the past couple years. Middle East is going crazy with, with the Arab spring and revolution and all this. Are there any Lebanese here tonight? Any Lebanese by applause? Lebanese. Yeah, the Middle East is going crazy. You know the Middle East is going crazy when Lebanon is the most peaceful place in the region. Who would have thought?
[2:19]Oh my gosh. No, there's serious issues in the region. Some people don't want to talk about them. I'm here to talk about them tonight. Ladies and gentlemen of the Middle East, here's a serious issue. When we see each other, when we say hello, how many kisses are we going to do? Every country is different and it's confusing, okay? In Lebanon they do three. In Egypt, they do two. I was in Lebanon, I got used to three. I went to Egypt. I went to say hello to this one Egyptian guy. I went one, two, I went for three. He wasn't into it.
[2:54]I told him I said, no, no, no, I was just in Lebanon. He goes, I don't care where you were. You stay where you are, please. You stay where you are, Habibi.
