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See Something Say Something

Episode 13: Self-Care And Salt Bae

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2017

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump's inAGGHHHHHguration is this Friday, so Ahmed invites guests to talk about coping strategies. We check in with BuzzFeed's Zainab Shah and Reeda Saleem, talk therapy and self-care with mental health professionals Kameelah Rashad and Bisma Anwar, and make a call to BuzzFeed's UK office to laugh at some memes.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, I'm Amid al-Yukber and this is See Something, Say Something, the BuzzFeed podcast where we drink

0:06.6

chai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslim in America.

0:11.4

This episode is coming out on Trump's inauguration day, and, you know, that's obviously on everybody's mind.

0:18.1

So I wanted to take this episode to talk about taking care of yourself

0:21.3

and get some advice about how to stay sane and process all of this in the weeks and months and

0:26.5

years ahead.

0:27.5

I think it would really behoove many in the Muslim community to think about studying the history

0:33.1

of protests and civil rights in this country.

0:34.9

If you see something, you better, you better say something. protests and civil rights in this country.

0:57.0

Then we're going to call up the BuzzFeed U.K. office to have some laughs and check in with some brand spanking new Muslim memes.

1:03.6

I guess the best way to describe it is, as people have done on Twitter, is a little bit of halal with a little bit of haram.

1:07.0

But first, before all that, I want to invite some guests in the studio to ask about what's going on for them this week.

1:16.0

So this week on See Something Say Something.

1:18.3

For every segment, we're going to be rotating our guests.

1:20.8

So we get a lot of different voices in this week of Donald Trump's inauguration, this new era that is obviously affecting Muslims so much.

1:31.3

So for the first segment, I've invited two BuzzFeed employees.

1:35.5

I'm joined by Zanab Shah.

1:37.4

She's the global operations coordinator here in New York.

1:41.1

And she also runs the Twitter account.

1:43.0

Hi.

1:43.5

She's a real homie.

1:44.6

She helps us out.

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