Episode 39: Halaloween

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 550 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

We're back with another jinn episode! This year, it's all about taking the genie narrative beyond the lamp. First, a conversation with Ms. Marvel writer G. Willow Wilson about why jinn make for such compelling characters, her own experiences with jinn, and, of course, we talk a little Kamala Khan. Then, it's a chill round of Do Better with Abid Anwar, where we tackle the jinn sex scene in "American Gods." Plus, we bring you real life jinn stories from friends of the show.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, I'm Amidall Yuckber, and this is See Something Say Something.
0:07.1	Welcome to our second annual gin episode.
0:11.0	We stupidly got the Ouija board, and we asked it some questions, and it somehow came up with a phone number.
0:20.7	But the next day, we went up there, and the furniture was put back in the exact same way.
0:26.6	If you see something, you better, you better say something.
0:36.6	Nothing at all, nothing at all.
0:38.3	Nothing at all.
0:40.3	So last year we like convened a panel to talk about gins and tell some stories.
0:46.3	This year I want to be talking about gins in pop culture with G. Willa Wilson.
0:49.3	Ghost stories in Egypt are typically about the person dying and the Jin becoming confused.
0:58.0	And with Abid Anwar about the American gods' Jin sex scene.
1:03.0	Like one thing would be cool is like if Jinn's had the same kind of representation that
1:07.0	like Lucifer or Satan has throughout like media where it's like there's been several
1:11.2	different renditions of what Lucifer can be or can't be. But also we're going to be peppering the
1:17.1	episode with a little real life gin stories from people around the BuzzFeed offices. Let's start
1:23.5	with this story from El Amindel Mahmud coming from Sudan.
1:35.3	When I was little, my family had a farm and it was a special place to me, but this farm, wonderful as it was, was terrifying at night. That might have something to do with the fact that
1:40.3	the farm is between the Nile and a graveyard. And one day, as we were pulling up to the
1:47.5	farm, I saw a fire that was the size of a person. That is to say, a fire that was exactly
1:53.2	the size of a human being from far away in the farmhouse. And casually, I watched this fire take a few steps to the left while
2:04.4	nothing else caught on fire and then vanished. You might say that I have an overactive imagination
2:11.5	as a 10 year old. I would say you are incorrect because I remember it incredibly vividly.
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