But there is a kind of method to all this large expansion, and in order to get to that I think I should talk about a quote that our founder, Sir Fazle Hasan Abed , talks about a lot of time, which is "Poverty is not just poverty of money or income.We also see a poverty of self-esteem, hope, opportunity, and freedom.
I wanted to say how did you approach these scenes? Is Abed more comfortable being his true self with this group of people, or is this just how he really is? And what happened to your nose?
He speaks English with a perfect British accent, makes me sound like gutter trash. And one day Abed came back and he'd been basically doing interviews in this place called the Akcakale, which is a refugee camp 500 meters from Syria where sometimes they take incoming artillery.
two vets from the Iraq war sit down and have lunch but we fought on different sides of the war. And then talking to Abed , it was sort of this idea, how are we going to meet? I mean, we can't really just tell him that I was a Marine.
So we had to figure out that kick-puncher mask, but I love this episode because it was sort of like how are we going to address not having that Troy Abed dynamic. And I think it was kind of fun to just be paired up with someone.
By the by the pressure of today that pressure is going to create that diamond, you're gonna be thrown in the fire and you're gonna become the modern day Meshach, Shadrach and Abednego coming through the fire without even smelling like smoke, you know, And it's it's interesting, because while I was going through it, I couldn't see the end yet. But then I went.
And I had astral projections when I came to Australia-- always had the out-of-body experience of going to sleep. Hence why I wake up in the morning abed with a sore head, because I never really slept. I had this thing in my subconscious going on.
Around that time, BRAC was about 10 years old. And there was a guy called Sir Fazle Hasan Abed who moved back from London, leaving his cushy job at Shell Oil, and decided that he was going to actually work towards rebuilding the country after the war.
Who do we have? We have Danny Pudi, Abed Nadir, Alison Brie, Annie Edison, and it's dean-irific Jim Rash.
down in this city called Gaziantep, which is in Turkey, but it's a 45 minute drive from Aleppo. And one of the fellows who's working for them is this guy named Abed , who was a Syrian activist during the revolution's early days. And to give you just a picture, Abed is the grand nephew of the Nizar Qabbani.
And one of the fellows who's working for them is this guy named Abed , who was a Syrian activist during the revolution's early days. And to give you just a picture, Abed is the grand nephew of the Nizar Qabbani. A famous poet laureate of Syria who died in exile in London.
as we were talking, drinking tea, eating baklava, sort of reminiscing about our wars and what they meant to us. And then after about three hours, good old Abed , he says, listen I've got to go to the bathroom. So all tea. So he gets up to go to the bathroom.
He's like, and I met this fellow and I think the two you should meet. And I was like, OK, Abed , who's the guy? What's the deal? He's like, well, he used to fight for Al Qaeda in Iraq.
And then I'll just relay this, then I'll finish. And for me one of the most poignant points of that lunch was, Abed had been translating between us the entire time as we were talking, drinking tea, eating baklava, sort of reminiscing about our wars and what they meant to us.
So I'll start with you Danny. So in last week's episode, the "Bondage and Beta Male Sexuality" Abed really had some very pivotal scenes, and so he got a lot stronger. I wanted to say how did you approach these scenes?
One it was the re-pilot of it, but this evolution of all these guys, because you're dealing with the loss of a friend, and coming through Jonathan Banks' character, and this new evolution of Abed . And I think it was across the board the mandate it felt like.
But that particular episode, when you watch it, is such a nice evolution of Abed . And I think this year, in terms of like-- I've said I think Abed 's changed and grown the most this year than of all the seasons, and some of it is because we had to deal with certain changes.
A lot of your pants. bashing our heads going, wait, how is Abed on the moon now?
A lot of your pants. Yes. He would be such a good-- He would be a better Abed .
applause as she finished. Afterwards we went backstage and were introduced to Hillary, Huma Abedin, her right hand woman, Bill and Chelsea, the former head of the Democratic National Committee and head of the Clinton campaign, Terry McAuliffe, and every other significant member of the Presidential campaign.
And at the time, I had some affiliations with Jabat al Nusra, a big fighting group there. And so then he was, the first line of the story was, Abed and I agreed the night before we'd lie and tell I'd been a journalist.
I thought that was a nice thing. But that particular episode, when you watch it, is such a nice evolution of Abed . And I think this year, in terms of like-- I've said I think Abed 's changed and grown the most this year than of all the seasons, and some of it
to be this thing that's haunting you, but something we just had to address. And plus we had this new character that we loved that we will really just go, oh, this guy is not going to be buying any of Abed 's bullshit. So it was really fun.
A lot of your pants. I mean there are really some great, great, oh my god, Chris Evans as Abed ?
So he was one the classic family of physicists of around that time. But when he was a student at Zurich Polytechnic in 1904, he was ill for a while abed . And he was a balloon pilot in the Swiss army reserve.
Huw would like nothing better than to relax with the goggle-box and let her mind be lovingly swaddled in intellectual flannel, but her mind isn't having any of it. The more broadly parallel she runs, the more meta-cognition she finds herself mired in, so that even as she lies abed , propped up on a hill of pillows the size of a Celtic burial mound, her thoughts are doing something like this.