Hasan Minhaj and Margaret Wappler

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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🗓️ 19 September 2016

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This week, Jesse sits down with Hasan Minhaj, comedian and Senior Correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. They discuss stand up comedy in other countries, the current political climate in the United States, and his one man show Homecoming King. He also talks to Margaret Wappler, a journalist, columnist, pop culture critic, short story writer, podcast host , teacher, and now novelist. Margaret and Jesse talk about her new novel Neon Green, how she took care of her ill father as a teenager, the writing process, and the 1990's. And Jesse talks about the look on former NFL star and current analyst Randy Moss' face while his colleague Trent Dilfer gave his thoughts on the player protests going on in the NFL right now.

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0:00.0	Bullseye with Jesse Thorn is a production of MaximumFun.org and is distributed by NPR.
0:16.0	Even though there's moments where people go, oh man, props man, you really skewered them,
0:20.4	you really gave it to them.
0:22.1	To me, one of the things that I think has been missing from all this dialogue, especially
0:25.5	because everything gets re-blogged and so-and-so eviscerates the right and vice versa, is
0:31.8	personal sort of empathy in putting your own skin in the game.
0:35.3	That was this week's guest, Hassan Manage, he's a comedian.
0:38.7	He's a correspondent for The Daily Show and he's a Muslim American.
0:42.5	At this summer's Republican National Convention, he went looking for some of that empathy.
0:47.0	I've had a Trump work to become president, I'm going to get deported so I just wanted
0:51.2	to say goodbye to all the delegates from the states that I'll never get to visit.
0:55.7	So I went up to the delegate from Alabama and gave her a big ol' hug and said, bye, I
0:59.6	had her sign my American yearbook.
1:01.6	I asked her if she would be my pen pal on the camps, I don't know what type of Wi-Fi we'd
1:05.0	get there, it's all that sort of stuff.
1:07.2	But I wanted to look her face-to-face in the eye and go, I'm not just some esoteric
1:10.9	number that you read in a bright, barred article or that you see in a Facebook status update
1:16.3	about how Islam hates us and your brown neighbor has come to kill you.
1:20.8	Look at me in the eye in this moment and you don't think I'm a bad person, right?
1:27.1	I'm Jesse Thorn, it's Bullseye.
1:36.2	Coming up I'll talk to Hassan Manash.
1:38.4	Last June he gave a speech at the radio and television correspondence tent.
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