Hasan Minhaj On Faith And Seeking Answers

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🗓️ 2 June 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Comedian Hasan Minhaj is not afraid of talking about his faith, even when it gets him in trouble. He's a two-time Peabody Award winner and host of the Netflix show Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, which has just begun its second season. He talks to Sam about being an Indian American Muslim, how he finds joy in family and what his faith means to him today.

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0:00.0	The thing about 2020 is that just when you think you've adjusted to a new reality, that
0:08.6	new reality gets shifted again.
0:11.2	If you are like me, you've probably spent the last several months adjusting to coronavirus
0:15.4	life.
0:17.0	And then for the last several days, you've been glued to your TV and your phone, watching
0:21.5	headlines about protests and unrest and pain all over this country.
0:27.7	Some of you listening were in those protests yourself.
0:30.3	If so, stay safe out there.
0:32.6	All of a sudden, in just a few days, a different reality to adjust to.
0:37.1	New and old questions raised about how we live our lives together day after day.
0:42.5	This national moment hurts a lot.
0:46.6	And we're going to talk about it all in detail later this week on the show.
0:50.3	But for now, today's episode is all about the new reality that existed before those
0:54.8	protests started.
0:56.3	And the biggest story across the country and the world was just a global pandemic.
1:01.6	Backed in just a few weeks ago, we were looking for bright spots for a moment of relief.
1:07.1	I interviewed Hussein Minhaz a few weeks ago.
1:10.0	And he had so much calm in the middle of the happy but frazzled chaos of home life.
1:15.5	I caught him actually in a very tight window of time.
1:17.8	You know what's so funny Sam is that like, I really feel like I have to barrel through
1:20.6	this.
1:21.6	I already talk fast, but I feel like I have to barrel through this because I have a real
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