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See Something Say Something

Episode 26: The Fast And The Furious

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ramadan Mubarak folks! It's that magical 30 days where we're all hungry and sleepy and trying to be a better person. See Something Say Something is celebrating this Ramadan with a mini-series. And this first episode is all about fasting. Ahmed talks to Kamelya Omayma Youssef, who grew up in Dearborn, MI, with parents who didn't fast. At a certain point as a teenager, she had to figure out what she wanted to do. Then, Ahmed is joined by comedian Aman Ali to talk about how he drove across the country six years ago, breaking his fast in a new state and a new mosque every night. And finally, we hear from former competitive Olympic weightlifter Kulsoom Abdullah, about how professional athletes train during Ramadan. 

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I'm Amadol Yakhber and this is See Something Say Something, the BuzzFeed show where we drink jai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslim in America.

0:10.7

It's also the first episode of our Ramadan miniseries.

0:14.6

Woo!

0:15.9

It's Ramadan, everybody.

0:17.4

And of course, you know, that means that we planned a ton of episodes about the month of

0:22.4

fasting and being hungry and trying to be a better person but failing and actually you know it's

0:28.3

i've organized ramadan here at buzzfeed for three years so there's a lot of other stuff we have

0:32.8

prepared for you which you can find at buzzfeed.com slash Ramadan, videos and posts and all that.

0:38.3

But for the first episode, you know,

0:40.2

I think we're going to talk about the most important

0:42.6

and most recognizable thing about Ramadan,

0:45.1

which is fasting.

0:48.2

If you see something,

0:52.2

you better, you better say something nothing nothing at all nothing at all so I don't know about you guys

1:03.2

but it has never been easy for me to wake up at 3 a.m and feed myself for sohoor I just like set an alarm for maybe half hour before I'm

1:14.4

supposed to wake up. Um, and then I just grow, like, I'm just like, uh, I can't believe I'm up

1:20.9

at 3 a.m. Um, and then I sort of literally walk my way over to the fridge and, uh, you know, decide what to make. And, you know,

1:30.0

if I'm feeling ambitious, I'll be like, oh, make some eggs. Protein is so important for the day.

1:35.3

But really most of the time, I'm just looking for leftovers or cereal or something really

1:40.0

simple that doesn't require me to clean any dishes. And then I sit there and try to remember how to eat.

1:47.0

Like my spoon is just like, I'm looking at it like it's a foreign object.

1:50.6

I'm like, how to use this again?

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