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South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Amin Elhassan

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.915K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Dan talks to Amin Elhassan about the pressures of growing up between New York City and Sudan, the moment he discovered his love for basketball, and the concept of making it a career. Plus, the rigidity of living in an immigrant family and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to South Beach sessions. What we have been doing over the last few weeks

0:09.8

is introducing you to some of the new people with surprise announcements that are joining

0:14.4

Metal Arc Media. This one today is of no surprise because Amino Hassan moved us all when

0:21.3

he decided to rip up his contract and just join the pirate ship. No questions asked. Giving

0:26.9

up all leverage I just ride with you guys and I wanted the audience to get to know a little

0:31.4

more about Amino story and how Amino came to be in our lives because I know that Jorge

0:37.6

Sedano told me a long time ago, Hey Amino Hassan, this is a guy you'll like. This is a guy

0:42.8

that you need to make a part of your orbit and then the first time Amino came down. He

0:47.8

told me back then he said, just please I love the environment. I love that you guys

0:53.1

fool around that it's not too rigid and anything you ever need from me. Please make sure

0:58.4

that you consider me to be a part of your world. So I know that's how you may have gotten

1:03.3

introduced to Amino through our show, but I want to introduce you to Amino how he got

1:08.6

to this country, his story that goes back to its roots. So let's go back to the beginning

1:14.6

and congratulations. We are thrilled. It's meaningful to us that you made the move that

1:19.3

you made and we've always enjoyed your company. We've enjoyed that you're willing to make

1:23.6

yourself the butt of the joke for the betterment of the show. It's something that we value

1:28.0

about you around here and obviously your basketball analysis, but as it relates specifically

1:33.5

to your story, what got you to this country? Oh, well, my father was a diplomat. He was

1:41.3

a civil servant who's working in the Sudanese foreign ministry, which is basically our state

1:45.4

department and he was sent on assignment to the UN mission in New York. So we moved to

1:53.0

New York. I was four months old at the time. I was born in Sudan and we were supposed to

1:57.9

be there. I think the rotation was supposed to be four or five years. And then while we

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