Episode 856 - Bassem Youssef / Sam Seder

WTF with Marc Maron Podcast

Marc Maron

Comedy

4.6 • 29.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Bassem Youssef was a surgeon in Egypt who started doing a YouTube show from his house and eventually became the most popular television personality in his country, doing what people called "The Egyptian Daily Show." Bassem talks with Marc about using comedy as a political weapon and what happens when the government pushes back in a life threatening way. Also, Marc's old friend and co-worker Sam Seder stops by to talk about doing political news every day in the current climate.

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0:00.0	Fuck the game!
0:01.0	Alright, let's do this.
0:11.0	How are you?
0:12.0	What the fuckers?
0:13.0	What the fuck buddies?
0:14.0	What the fucking ears?
0:15.0	What the fuck nicks?
0:16.0	What's happening?
0:17.0	I am Mark Marren.
0:18.0	This is my podcast.
0:19.0	WTF.
0:20.0	Got kind of a double header today.
0:23.0	Yeah.
0:24.0	My old buddy Sam Cedar from the majority report is going to be here.
0:29.0	Back in the day we had a show, a streaming internet show before anyone streamed the internet.
0:35.0	Way ahead of the curve.
0:36.0	But he's the host of the majority report with Sam Cedar.
0:40.0	Heirs live Monday through Friday at noon eastern on majority.fm.
0:44.0	It's also available as a podcast.
0:47.0	Sam Cedar will be here shortly.
0:50.0	It's all nice to see Sam in a difficult way.
0:54.0	It's difficult and nice to see Sam.
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