I Accidentally Became A Meme: Have You Ever Had A Dream

i accidentally became a meme and this is that story my name is joe circio and you may know me from this meme have you ever had a dream that that you um you had this all started in the year 1999 i was five years old my favorite thing to do when i was a kid was watch fantasy action stuff you know dragon ball z power rangers i liked all the disney stuff hercules came out around the summer before i went into kindergarten and i definitely watched it a lot i really like the soundtrack especially zero2hero that was that was a tune that still is a tune one day my mom reached out to me and said do you want to be in a movie there was a few schools that they filmed that for this hbo production the reason my elementary school got picked in part was because the production manager their kid was in my class or in one of the kindergarten classes at first i really had no idea what this production was about they had repurposed one of the bigger classrooms to look sort of like a nursery there's lights there's cameras i i picked up pretty early on that it was about bedtime stories and rituals because that was what the people interviewing us were interested in so they were asking us guiding questions to that effect the red sweater the haircut that was like all my mom she really wanted me to get on tv they were asking us a bunch of questions there wasn't anyone that i would consider a rival per se but there were kids that were even better at getting the attention of the producers and based on a promise i made to my mother in the car this morning that i was definitely going to get on tv i kind of had a sense that time was running out and i didn't get as much talking time as compared with the other kids on my panel and then they asked me about dreams i remember this one scene from hercules where hercules searches out for pan who's danny devito's character he doesn't want to train anybody anymore and he's a failure so that's when hercules comes in and tries to persuade him about a dream have you ever had a dream i've had a dream that i wanted so much that i could do anything and once he said that it really resonated with pan and pan said okay fine i'm going to train you and the rest is history so that was when i came in with my hail mary speech about dreams suffice to say i didn't i didn't come even close to what what hercules had to say about dreams have you ever had a dream that that you um you had you you what you could you do you i'm thinking a little bit slower than how i'm talking which tends to happen so you you could do so you you you could you but i'm kind of hoping that if i have the beginning and the end of that speech down everything else was going to kind of fall into place you want you want him to do you so much you could do anything so as everyone likes to point out my signature lean back and smile is just like ah i totally nailed that if memory serves me the reaction the room was very deadpan and professional by the interviewers so they just kind of let me talk like oh okay yeah dream sure like you know run with that and oh you know we're we're all set here joe like that was great you know good job i i wasn't too sure whether they were going to use anything that i said but i definitely felt like what i said was really really compelling i didn't hear much follow follow-up about the movie until it was time to go see the premiere in new york so it was this big fancy hall that hbo booked out and they invited all the kids that had a speaking part it was kind of a red carpet moment and i enjoyed watching the production and all my other friends that talked then and then my part is an outtake at the end of the movie the whole audience is laughing at me with the benefit of hindsight i think they were more so laughing with me but i didn't feel that the time and i actually was so upset with the producers i actually blamed them i thought that they had manipulated the film in some way to make it look like i stammered i didn't even accept that i had stammered on on the camera which isn't true but it's just to say i wasn't necessarily a good sport about that especially because for the rest of my childhood and early teenage years that was always going to be shown at most family reunions anyone in my family that wanted to get a vhs or a dvd of that documentary got it and they all reveled in my part and i just kind of want that swept under the rug i want to get past it and it was more or less buried and then one of my friends reaches out to me in high school and he says dude i can't believe it um somebody circulated the clip of your video eventually someone put that on youtube and it started to get momentum it was in the tens of thousands to the hundreds of thousands of views the last time i looked on youtube at the original post it's about 76 million views and that's just youtube so now i want to take this opportunity to say what i meant to say that time have you ever had a dream that was so palpable so crucial to your goals and your aspirations that you would do absolutely anything to accomplish it i've had that dream and this is my story [Music]

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Length: 5min 29sec (329 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 12 2021