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See Something Say Something

Pray For Zayn and Gigi

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Is Thanos a thicc daddy? We get into the real issues facing our culture with all-star BuzzFeeders Bim Adewunmi and Tabir Akhter. From the internet ruining everything to why Muslims invented "orbiting," it's gonna be a pop-culture grab bag of an episode. Boy band savant Sara Yasin also stops by to help unpack the status of Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid (ZIGI!!!) and explain why we should WhatsApp our moms to pray for them.
Plus: Bim and Ahmed will be on Netflix coming this Summer! Read more about that here:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/netflix-plans-buzzfeed-set-docuseries-follow-1105586
Follow Bim @bimadew and @thirstaidkit — Tabir @tabir — Sara @sarayasin — Ahmed @radbrowndads and @seesomething.
Read Bim's essay on romance novels here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/bimadewunmi/meet-the-black-women-upending-the-romance-novel-industryRead Sara's essay on Zayn and Gigi here: https://www.buzzfeed.com/sarayasin/gigi-zayn-power-couple-breakup
Watch our videos at facebook.com/seesomethingpodcast. Find more episodes at buzzfeed.com/seesomethingsaysomething. Email us at saysomething@buzzfeed.com. Our music is by The Kominas, follow them at @TheRealKominas and kominas.bandcamp.com 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Amidale Yuckber, and this is See Something Say Something.

0:07.8

This week, we have some of our faves on to do a pop culture grab bag.

0:12.3

We're going to be talking about people's weird thirst for Avengers Infinity Wars main villain.

0:17.6

Thanos, in every fucking way, is a bad option.

0:21.8

The new worlds of online dating.

0:23.3

Actually, trying to express interest or not.

0:25.6

Actually, I think what's invented orbiting.

0:26.6

And, of course, the emergence of new photos of Zane Mollick and Gigi Hadid canoot.

0:33.9

Get into your mom's WhatsApp chain and pray

0:37.6

for Gigi and Zane

0:39.2

to get back together

0:41.4

okay

0:41.9

So we have some of the Nothing at all, nothing at all.

0:56.7

So we have some of our faves from BuzzFeed.

0:58.9

We've got Bim Ado and me, who is the co-hosts of Thursday Aitkit and Institute Culture Writer here.

1:03.7

And we've got Thabierachter, who's like, you know, our gothante here at BuzzFee.

1:07.0

Yes, that's good. That's good.

1:08.6

Yes, good. Very good.

1:10.7

So before we say anything, I have something to announce with Bim, which you might have seen if you're on our timeline, which is that BuzzFeed News is doing a Netflix show called Follow This.

1:23.3

Which, I don't know about you, Bim, but I've been like just holding it in and not trying to tweet vaguely about it for the last couple months. It's been very difficult. It's been like nine years of secret keeping and I am worm tongue and I'm about to give it away Harry Potter's like, oh, just whatever. Call Voldemort. It's fine. But no, finally we can say stuff about it. Finally. And that is... Well, we can't tell you what we're working on. No, but we can say we're in it. Exactly. Tell us more. I think like one season, at least for now, 20 episodes. It's a mini documentary. Exactly. And in every episode, a reporter basically takes on a story and explores what it means.

2:02.2

And the idea is these stories are very much kind of indicative of the world that we currently

2:06.3

live in and the cultures that we are also living.

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