Episode 6: College
See Something Say Something
Ahmed Ali Akbar
4.8 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2016
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, I'm Amadal Yukber. |
| 0:02.3 | And I'm Thabir, Ahtar. You may remember Thabir from the Jin episode of See Something Say Something. She'll be the co-host this week on the podcast. If you're listening for the first time, See Something Say Something is the BuzzFeed podcast where we drink Jai, tell stories, and talk about being Muslim in America. This week we'll be talking to college students about their lives, |
| 0:22.0 | but also what it feels like to be a Muslim student on campus right now. |
| 0:27.2 | If you see something, you better, you better say something. |
| 0:35.5 | Nothing at all, nothing at all. |
| 0:38.3 | I brought Thabir in because, like, teens and the youth are something that's very close to your heart. |
| 0:47.3 | You've been telling me I need to talk to young people, like, for weeks every time we talk about new episodes. |
| 0:52.3 | Yeah, I've been bugging him with forever that he should |
| 0:55.6 | be doing a teen episode we should just make a teen podcast really but finally he listened to me and now we |
| 1:01.8 | have these two amazing teens who are sitting next to me teens are really important to me teens are the |
| 1:07.4 | future you know your deputy social media director at buzzfeedeed, you know, care what the teens think. |
| 1:12.8 | I love them. |
| 1:13.9 | And I want to know what they care about and what they don't care about. |
| 1:17.4 | And then how I can improve my life. |
| 1:33.1 | So we've invited two NYU students in today, Ramesa Ben Zazoon. |
| 1:33.7 | Hey. |
| 1:38.8 | Whose essay, I'm Muslim, but my roommate supports Trump, was published in the New York Times. |
| 1:41.2 | And Zanab Babakir. |
| 1:42.3 | Is that correct? |
| 1:43.7 | Hi, it's Zanab. |
| 1:49.1 | Zanab Babakir, who's also a freshman at NYU, and studying engineering there. |
| 1:49.8 | Yes. |
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