South Beach Sessions - Amin Elhassan

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4.7 • 32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Amin Elhassan never has a problem dishing out NBA hot takes or speaking his mind on any number of cultural topics, but getting him to communicate about his own emotions? That's another story... Amin opens up to Dan with a heavy heart about the ongoing conflicts in Sudan, grappling with feelings of shame, and tells Dan why all this time, he relates more to Papi than him. Amin and Dan also reflect on personal struggles they're working on, and how each have found ways to try to honor the sacrifices of their immigrant parents. Check your ego at the door with this one... Listen and subscribe to Amin's podcasts, CINEPHOBE and BASKETBALL ILLUMINATI, wherever you get your podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Giraffe King's Network.
0:11.0	Welcome to another uncomfortably intimate South Beach session with my
0:17.0	lovable, repressed male friend, Amine Alhassen. I tell him an unusual number of times that I love him.
0:25.0	I see his discomfort all the time every time I do. We talked a couple of years ago when you made
0:30.4	the bold decision to just jump from ESPN into my loving Harry bosom in a way that I did not understand
0:38.4	how much trust you had in me or in us to figure out what you would do in the future and what your
0:45.3	kids would be doing in the future. But you left that decision to us and we seem to have figured it out.
0:51.9	You are here now for a couple of years and what I wanted to talk to you about among other things.
0:57.8	I've noticed the way that America has changed recently that I find myself more and more appalled
1:05.3	about how flippant people are about freedom. You've heard me say before that people who have to
1:12.2	flee to find freedom or fight to find freedom seem to have a greater appreciation than people
1:18.0	like even me who were born in this country and don't know what my parents went through to get
1:23.7	me that freedom. You are Sudanese and one of the things that I have noticed about you,
1:28.6	Amine, and conversations that we've had, it feels like you're a little bit lonely in this country
1:34.0	being Sudanese because your people are suffering and you are not suffering the same way they are.
1:40.7	It's a recurring theme with you. What's happening there with you when you when I describe you as
1:46.5	lonely in that regard? Is that accurate? I wouldn't call it lonely but sad and maybe tormented sounds
1:56.3	a little too dramatic but it's something that I struggle with a lot. I guess it's a form of
2:05.1	survivor's guilt. The idea that I am not subject to the things that they're subject to and right now
2:15.6	in Sudan is in the news or should be in the news at least because of what is essentially a
2:24.0	gang war between two heavily armed sides, the military, and which is led by the de facto president
2:35.0	who basically subverted what was supposed to be a peaceful transition to civilian democracy.
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