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Episode 10: Jingle Bells Mubarak

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

It's the most hegemonic time of the year and Ahmed wants to complain about it. But Christmas deserves a fair shake too, so he brings Eid Elfs Tanzila "Taz" Ahmed and Salimah Fatimah Mohamed to explain why they love the holiday season. They play some games, discuss the differences between Christmas and Eid, and talk about Christmas music. Plus: we're gonna have a liveshow!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, I'm Amadala Yuckber, and this is See Something, Say Something, the BuzzFeed podcast where we drink Jai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslim in America.

0:09.1

This week, we're going to argue about Christmas for the whole episode.

0:14.9

If you see something, you better, you better say something. Nothing at all. Nothing at all.

0:28.6

I'm not a big fan for many, many reasons, and I brought on two people who are not grinches like me

0:36.3

to talk to me about Christmas and why

0:38.9

as Muslims they've come to appreciate the season as they've gotten older.

0:43.1

And we're going to talk about Christmas music

0:44.7

and throughout the episode we're going to be playing this mixtape

0:47.6

that Mishdi music put out two years ago

0:50.0

of Christmas Desi songs.

0:54.1

We're going to talk a little bit about that too. Music of Christmas they see songs.

0:55.7

We'll talk a little bit about that too.

1:02.7

So joining me today are Salima Fatima Muhammad.

1:06.5

She's a public health professional and like my best friend ever.

1:10.7

She's sticking her fingers in her throat.

1:12.1

Welcome to the show, Salima.

1:13.9

Hi, Amad.

1:14.7

Hi, everybody.

1:18.5

And we also got Thunzila Ahmed, also known as Taz.

1:27.0

She's a writer, an activist, and co-host of the really hilarious podcast, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim, with Zara Nurbukh. And also, she is the creator of

1:29.7

Mishni music and the source of all the music you're going to be hearing today. Welcome to the show,

1:35.5

Taz. We've been excited to have you for a while. Merry Christmas. Oh, God, it's already starting.

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