Hasan Minhaj

Impolitic with John Heilemann

Audacy | Puck

News, Politics

4.8 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2023

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

John Heilemann talks with two-time Peabody Award-winning comedian Hasan Minhaj, best known for hosting six seasons of the Netflix series Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and his widely acclaimed Netflix special, Homecoming King. Heilemann and Minhaj discuss his early career as a comic and the centrality of his background as a first-generation Indian- and Muslim-American to his work; his breakout stint as a correspondent for The Daily Show and how it shaped his political and social commentary; his 2017 performance at the White House Correspondents dinner and his return to the capital two years later to testify before Congress on the student loan crisis; and the embrace of Homecoming King as a "calling card for a new brown America." They also discuss The King’s Jester, Minhaj's current one-man show and the subject of his next Netflix special, in which he examines his pursuit of fame and social media clout — and the unexpected risks it ultimately posed both to him and his family. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everyone, John Hauman here
0:01.2	and welcome to Hell in High Water,
0:02.4	my podcast about politics and culture
0:04.2	on the edge of Armageddon.
0:06.3	It's a determined, if dubious, committed,
0:09.3	if Kuku for Coco Puffs,
0:11.0	often wrong, but rarely endowed exercise
0:13.7	in elevated gas baggery,
0:16.0	then neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night
0:19.4	nor the toxic rantings of the Nuthouse right.
0:22.4	A president attempting to invalidate a legitimate election
0:24.9	and stage an auto coup,
0:26.6	complete with an armed insurrection at the United States Capitol,
0:29.1	ignore more broadly and arguably even more disturbingly,
0:33.1	the capture of a desiccized chunk of our political,
0:35.4	social and civic spheres by a cadre of incoherent, insidious,
0:40.0	conspiracy-addled, autocracy craving,
0:42.5	authoritarian worshiping, lunatics, hustlers,
0:44.7	grifters, nihilists, and nincompoops.
0:46.7	None of it, none of it has kept us
0:49.4	from our duly sworn duty and obligations.
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