Time for another question where I get reminded that I'm blind.
[laughs]
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This is one of those questions I never heard until I started doing YouTube.
Does it bother you that you don't know what you look like? As somebody who is
blind since birth I don't know what anybody looks like so therefore
it doesn't bother me that I don't know what I look like.
You know, if I lost my sight, maybe I'd be a little more concerned about how
I looked or what I looked like, you know? Right now,
it's not much of a big deal for me.
When it comes to dressing up, you know, I want to be sure I look a particular way.
That my outfit all matches and things so absolutely I'll ask
people. I'll even ask some stranger. "Hey, do I look alright?"
"Oh, yeah, you look terrific." Or I can use Facetime
to check out, "Is this the right shirt I should be wearing."
"Is this the blue shirt or the black shirt or whatever?"
I could just use good ol' Facetime and find out in an instant.
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So, let's say for example if I could see, boom, right now.
I have perfect vision. Do you think I'd be able to
identify myself in a photo lineup. No way.
I don't think so. Again, this is theoretical, but
I mean, I know how I feel, but
if you had 3 or 5 people with the same sort of face structure as me
I don't know if I'd be able to recognize myself.
Isn't that weird?
As far as I know, how I look is this way...
I'm about 6'1".
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I have blue eyes. [choral group sings]
I'm told I have a nice smile.
[camera takes photo]
I think my hair color or sort of silver.
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The one thing I hear about my hair color is that it's sort of salt and pepper.
You know what's funny about that. I have no clue
what that means? It's two colors,
but black and white. That doesn't seem like very much.
I used to have dirty blonde hair. That I know. And when I was little
it was really blonde. I know I'm not hideous.
I mean, I walk down the street and people don't run and freak out or anything
when I go by, right? And that's about as much as I know
as far as, you know, how I look.
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So, who do I look like? Well, the things
I've heard most often are a lot of people say I look like this old guitar player
from Canada named Jeff Healey who happens to be a blind guy.
People say I look like the radio talk show host Glenn Beck.
And some people say I look like former Tonight Show host
Jay Leno. And I asked you guys
who thought my doppleganger was. And, oh boy, the responses
are incredible. The original MacGyver, Richard Dean Anderson.
Tom Wilson who played Biff Tanen in Back to the Future.
Former President Bill Clinton. Kevin Bacon.
Somebody said if I got real gaunt and scary looking I might
be able to pass for Gary Busey. Maybe a squinting
less stoic George Clooney. Another former
President, Jimmy Carter. A slim John Goodman.
Martin Sheen. Dustin Hoffman.
Dick Van Patten from "Eight is Enough"
One for the kids.
And an older Phil DeFranco. What do you think, Phil? Close?
Huh? Maybe in a couple years?
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You know, if you think we missed somebody in those dopplegangers, let me know.
I'd love to hear in the comments who you think I look like. You know, somebody famous though.
You know, I noticed nobody said Brad Pitt.