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See Something Say Something

Ramy

See Something Say Something

Ahmed Ali Akbar

Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.8550 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Ahmed talks to Ramy Youssef, the writer and creator behind the Hulu show "Ramy" and the HBO Comedy Special "Feelings." They discuss representation, future Muslim TV shows they hope to see, and why it's important to resist being "the first."

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, I'm Amidali Akbar, and this is He Something Say Something.

0:06.3

This week we're talking about the Hulu show Rami with its creator, Rami Yusif.

0:12.9

So before we go in, I just want to remind everyone that we have a Patreon.

0:16.9

Every dollar that you donate on a monthly basis to the show really helps us make sure that the show is healthy and able to be made consistently.

0:24.6

I know the last episode is a little bit late, that's my bad, but it really does help us make the show when you commit to donating to the show.

0:33.6

There's a bunch of information on the website. I won't go over it here. But please consider donating to the show.

0:37.8

We have nearly 200 donors now.

0:40.3

We'd like to raise that to like 500.

0:42.8

You know, and I know there are several of you that listed on a weekly basis,

0:46.8

many, many, many, thousands of you that listen on a monthly basis.

0:50.3

And we'd love for each one of you to be able to just throw even a little bit.

0:53.8

It really helps us.

0:54.9

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

1:03.0

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

1:07.9

So before we talked to Rami, I just wanted to talk to Salima about the show and set it up for you all.

1:13.5

And just so you know, spoilers do you follow.

1:21.7

Hey, Salima.

1:23.3

Hey, Ahmed.

1:24.2

Did you watch Rami?

1:25.9

Well, I meant to watch the whole thing in like one go because I usually do end up binging

1:31.0

shows, but I actually didn't only watch like the first three, four episodes, but I actually

1:34.1

really liked it.

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