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See Something Say Something

Episode 16: Of Minder And Meeting People

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Ahmed talks to three attractive, intelligent, and charming guests about the SINGLE life. Sara Farizan, Hady Barry, and Ahmed Hozain discuss Minder, dating, and how tedious it is to text people. Then, Ahmed calls up his dad to ask about his relationship history. Plus: Everyone plays a special, dating-themed edition of Halal or Not.

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0:00.0

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

0:10.2

So season two is back and one thing I forgot to say is that we welcomed a new person onto our team, a video producer Danny Menendez, who's been helping us make a bunch of fun videos that translate the

0:21.0

podcast into things you can see on your Facebook feed. They'll be hosted on the See Something

0:25.6

Say Something page. We did a halal or not video with Daibir. Soon we'll be releasing a video where we

0:30.5

test out dating apps with one of the guests from our show today. And the other thing we also

0:35.4

added to See Something Say Something is a newsletter, which we haven't released yet.

0:39.7

And you can find the subscription link in the episode description.

0:43.1

So this episode, we're going to be talking about the single life.

0:46.4

I have been in a monogamous relationship forever, and I just want to know, is it lit to be single right now?

0:52.2

Is it awesome?

0:53.5

Are dating apps good?

0:55.1

Is the scene okay?

0:56.5

Are the parents more chilled out?

0:58.3

These are all things I really want to know.

0:59.7

So I invited on a bunch of people who are experiencing that right now and wanted to talk to them about it.

1:08.7

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

1:16.9

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

1:22.5

So first I want to welcome our guests.

1:25.8

Sara for Reason, who's been on the show before, has written queer coming of age novels,

1:30.3

If You Could Be Mine, and Tell Me Again, How A Crush Should Feel.

1:33.3

You may remember her from our episode last season about youth lit.

1:38.3

Hi, Sarah.

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