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See Something Say Something

Episode 3: Fandom

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

BuzzFeed's Bim Adewunmi and Abid Anwar join Ahmed to talk about seeing yourself represented in pop culture, and to reflect on the power of cosplay at Comic Con. Plus: play along with a couple rounds of Halal or Not: Fandom Edition, and find out about Abid's future "space disco."

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Here's a guide to all the pop culture references discussed in this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:10.2

This week, we're going to be talking about fandom and fan culture around things like TV shows, comic books, and movies.

0:16.9

And yes, there will be spoilers.

0:19.0

So watch out. It's pretty light, though.

0:29.6

If you see something, you better, you better say something. Nothing at all, nothing at all.

0:33.6

So today we'll be playing a special fandom edition of Halal or Not.

0:38.0

Then I'm going to be giving a quick chutpa about New York City Comic-Con and Ms. Marvel.

0:42.8

And then finally we'll talk about pop culture representation.

0:45.9

We're going to be dropping a lot of names of different characters and TV shows in this episode.

0:51.0

So I put together a post sort of giving more information and some visuals

0:54.9

of all the things we're talking about. You can go to the see something, say something page

0:59.9

on buzzfeed.com, buzzfeed.com slash see something, say something. And there'll be a visual aid for you

1:06.0

there that can help you out. This week, I'm joined by Abidunwer,

1:13.1

who is a senior social media editor at BuzzFeed,

1:16.7

and Bim Atawanme, who is a senior culture writer at BuzzFeed News.

1:20.8

Hey, guys.

1:21.8

Hey!

1:22.0

Hey!

1:22.9

How's it going?

1:23.7

That's good.

1:24.1

Good.

1:24.7

Not to be here.

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