Episode 20: In Conclusion...
See Something Say Something
Ahmed Ali Akbar
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2017
⏱️ 45 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Follow Mona @mona_haydar
Follow Kiren @gothistani
Follow Ahmed at @radbrowndads
Watch Mona's video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOX9O_kVPeo
Learn why Kiren is so bitter here: https://twitter.com/gothistani/status/692686175602151424?lang=en
Play "Did The English Steal This Word" yourself here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/ahmedaliakbar/jungli
Follow the show at @seesomething and facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast,
Subscribe to our newsletter buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething/newsletter,
Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething,
Email us at saysomething@buzzfeed.com.
Our music is by The Kominas. Follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com
Find the audience survey at survey.panoply.fm.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, I'm Amadal Yukper and this is See Something Say Something, the BuzzFeed show where we drink jai, tell stories and talk about being Muslim in America. |
| 0:11.1 | Just to let you know, we were also nominated in the best host category for the Webbies, which are sort of like, sort of really cool Internet award. |
| 0:20.3 | I don't know if I get anything. I think I get a statue, which would be really cool if I won. |
| 0:24.9 | You can vote for us by going to Twitter.com slash see something. |
| 0:29.0 | And there's a pin tweet at the top, which you can click on. |
| 0:32.0 | It'll take you directly to the voting page because the website is very confusing. |
| 0:36.4 | And you should vote for your boy. |
| 0:38.0 | Voting closes April 20th. |
| 0:39.8 | If you see something, you better, you better say something. |
| 0:50.3 | Nothing at all, nothing at all. |
| 0:55.0 | This week we're going to be talking to Munah Haider, whose video hijabi you may have seen on your news feed. |
| 1:00.0 | It features Munah basically in hijab, pregnant, and rapping with a squad of Muslim women. |
| 1:07.0 | And it caused a lot of conversation, both of, you know, support and people |
| 1:14.3 | loving the joy of it and seeing a Muslim woman rapping, other people criticizing it for |
| 1:18.8 | appropriation of black culture. And then, of course, there was just regular old sexist guys |
| 1:23.6 | on the internet trolling the video and saying Muslim women shouldn't be rapping. So we're going to |
| 1:27.4 | be talking about all of that with Munah. |
| 1:29.4 | And then afterwards, we made a game called, |
| 1:32.5 | Did the English steal this from your people? |
| 1:36.1 | Parentheses during colonialism. |
| 1:38.3 | So we invited our favorite colonial-themed human meme, |
| 1:47.5 | Giren Risvi, who you also may know as Gothasani, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ahmed Ali Akbar, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Ahmed Ali Akbar and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

