Episode 19: Do Better
See Something Say Something
Ahmed Ali Akbar
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm Amadal Yukber and this is See Something Say Something, the BuzzFeed |
| 0:07.4 | show where we drink Jai tell stories and talk about being Muslim in America. |
| 0:11.6 | So this episode is going to be a bit of a pop culture smorgasbord. |
| 0:15.7 | We're going to be looking back at some shitty representations of Muslims. |
| 0:18.8 | And then we're going to talk about the celebrity Muslim baby that's probably going to save |
| 0:22.7 | all of our lives. |
| 0:37.7 | So first off, we'll be debuting a new segment called Do Better, where we fixed your problematic faves. |
| 0:43.7 | In this case, we're going to correct some wrongs in a famous 90s sitcom with Abid Unwer from BuzzFeed. |
| 0:48.8 | And then later on in the episode, we're going to call over to the BuzzFeed UK office and talk with Gina Moore Barrett for a Muslim meme update. |
| 1:00.0 | So while we're on break, we were like brainstorming a bunch of ideas, and we realized one huge thing that we talked about once on the show and didn't bring up again |
| 1:12.5 | but thought we could do continually was look at the way some, I would say, immigrant and |
| 1:18.8 | Muslim characters are portrayed on TV and in movies and just sort of like the super shitty ways, |
| 1:25.1 | the like tropes that we've seen growing up. |
| 1:32.4 | And, you know, watch them again, decide what we think about them. |
| 1:35.0 | And then do some corrections. |
| 1:37.3 | Figure out, like, how you can do better. |
| 1:40.3 | So the segment is called Do Better. |
| 1:46.9 | And for the first segment of Do Better, I've invited our resident, like, super, I don't know, |
| 1:50.1 | how do you, I don't even know how to describe you. You're a mystery to me, Abbot. |
| 1:55.8 | Yo, I don't know how to describe myself either. I just, I just am, you know. You're like, you're like super salty, but deeply loyal. You love media, but you hate it. I hate me. I don't love media. I just hate it. Anyhow, Abid... If you don't know, Abid Unwar is a social media editor at BuzzFeed, who's been on the show a few times. And this time we decided we're going to talk about, like, if we're going to start, we're going to start with like a classic clunker, like something that's super shitty and probably so many people saw, which is Seinfeld. |
| 2:23.7 | Seinfeld. |
| 2:24.5 | Yeah. |
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