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Death, Sex & Money

Hasan Minhaj's Honest Mistakes

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Podcasts

Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.67.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Hasan Minhaj was drawn to comedy because of its "radical honesty." But that hasn't always translated well to his personal life. Don't miss our weekly newsletter! Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter and we'll send you weekly audio picks, behind the scenes updates and letters from our listener inbox. Follow the show on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected].

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0:00.0

You know how like when you're growing up they always teach you, you know, the best rule of

0:04.3

thumb is to always tell the truth. Is it? I mean, is it?

0:09.2

This is death, sex and money.

0:15.0

I would never kill somebody unless they pissed me off.

0:18.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:22.0

We split the money 50, 50.

0:24.1

And need to talk about more.

0:26.0

Money joking, I love you, mommy.

0:28.6

I'm Anna Sale.

0:29.5

In the spring of 2018 comedian Hassan Minhage became a dad.

0:38.0

It's been, uh, it's been the most beautiful and horrific thing that's ever happened to me in my life

0:45.7

Being real like it's it's a doozy. It is a doozy.

0:51.2

When his daughter was born Hasan was working as a correspondent for the Daily Show.

0:55.9

He'd recently won a Peabody Award for his stand-up special Homecoming King, and he was in the

1:00.8

thick of developing his weekly political TV show for Netflix called Patriot Act.

1:06.0

Hassan's wife, Bina, a PhD in Public Health, also has a demanding career, so it's felt like a lot to

1:12.2

manage all at once.

1:14.0

That's been the biggest sort of like push and pull of it.

1:18.0

We got to divide and conquer.

1:19.0

All right, like you sleep this time, I'll pick up this, all right, swap it out, I'll sleep, now you cover this time I'll pick up this all right swap it out I'll sleep now you cover this just like the

1:25.3

strategizing yeah the logistics just logistics yeah and I've never been really great at them.

1:32.5

And so I've just had to level up, you know?

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