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