We are celebrating Sammy Obeid today, turning 40 years young, as all of us born in 1984 are destined to achieve this year. To highlight him we went back to the vaults and chopped together some hidden files from our interview in May, that turned into a freestyle/music collaboration. On the recording you’ll here me (J.dubs) playing piano and beatboxing. Musical collabs have been apart of what I do since the beginning and highlighting someone like Sammy is easy because of our natural creative chemistry.

I met Sammy in College when I competed against him in Speech and Debate. Then he was a worthy advisory that was just starting his comedy career. Now he regularly tours the US, and has built an impressive following, worth checking out if he comes to your town.

Our communication of jokes and rhymes have been of great inspiration over the years.

You can find his site here:

Sammy Obeid

“Sometimes I Realize I'm not my thoughts.

Sometimes my thoughts realize they're not me.

Sometimes I have someone else's thoughts in my mind.

And sometimes my mind is in someone else's thoughts..”

-Sammy Obeid

ALSO-

Bonus Link: I am reading a One Act on Zoom this Monday with a group of actors from Boston. The One Act was written by Gail Spilsbury a devoted collaborator of Mad One Media. I am playing an old man (OLD STIFF), which fits in with currently being disabled. I am filling in for another actor, and have grown a beard for the roll.

If you need some entertainment, here’s the link, when we will be reading

Zoom Performers Group (ZPG) invites you to a reading of Gail Spilsbury’s one-act play

Old Stiff

February 12, at 7:00 p.m. (EST)

Please use this link to join the reading: ZoomPerformersGroup.com

When a successful investment lawyer and weekend painter confronts the truth about his pretenses, his world threatens to implode. Will his trusty ego, his partner in connivances, come to his rescue one last time?

Cast

Old Stiff             Joshua Walters

Beatrice             Laura Rocklyn

Andrea…………Gail Merzer Behrens

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