Is that right? Yes.

That is very true.

You know, I had this when I was a kid in Iraq, I used to try and do magic tricks for the kids in the orphanage.

And I always say the words voila, because I'd never be able to say voila, you know, so I'd say voila.

Eventually, I think I named one of my teddies and teddy bears that mum gave to me at some point, voila, and then I came out to Australia and mum got me a whole magician set and I started doing magic and she had a little rabbit that I'd try and pull out of a hat and it would fail miserably and everything.

all this sort of stuff.

And I think even in Iraq, I had a little toy stuffed rabbit as well that was given to me by sort of volunteers that had come into the orphanage.

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Was it your biological mom was exposed to some chemical weapons and that created some challenges? Yeah.

Yeah, no, the belief is exactly that.

My biological parents were exposed to the chemicals that were already in existing weapons, right? Bombs, et cetera, et cetera.

There was obviously proof that Iraq didn't have chemical weapons in the end.

However, it doesn't matter.

I mean, chemical... official chemical biochemical weapons or not at the end of the day there are chemicals in weapons and and those chemicals whether it's gunpowder or something else can affect pregnancy so yeah it was it was thought that my parents were my mother specifically was exposed during pregnancy and that's how i uh i ended up um this extraordinarily good looking um you know so so so so And my brother, on the other hand, he was born like that.

I mean, what we always sometimes say is, you know, God focused so hardly and so much on my face that he just basically said, ah, fuck.

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