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Bassem Youssef, Unlike You've Ever Seen Him, on Hope, Despair, and A Year of Genocide

Bassem Youssef, Unlike You've Ever Seen Him, on Hope, Despair, and A Year of Genocide

We're Not Kidding with Mehdi & Friends vor 1 Jahr

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If you've been tuning into Zeteo's flagship
podcast, 'We're Not Kidding' for the last six months, you're
going to find this one is a very special episode.

Bassem Youssef returns to WNK for an intimate and heartfelt
conversation – one unlike you've ever seen on this show.
It's also a version of Bassem none of us, including Mehdi, have
ever seen before. "I'm from a very, very, very deep point of
desperation," he tells Mehdi backstage at the Elgin and Winter
Garden Theatre Centre in downtown Toronto. The two met up for
this special recording right before Bassem went live onstage for
one of the last shows of his sellout 'Middle Beast Tour.'

It's been a few months since Mehdi and Bassem last co-hosted WNK,
and with so much that's happened since then and the US elections
just on the horizon, they had a lot to discuss: from trying to be
hopeful versus feeling helplessness, to witnessing the impunity
of Israel reach new heights, to whether the pro-Israel side can
be defeated in the media or in Congress.

If you're looking for a listen that will resonate, that will make
you feel seen, after a very long and hard-to-watch year, tune in
now.

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CREDITS:

Hosted by: Mehdi Hasan

Guest Host: Bassem Youssef

Executive Producer: Kiran Alvi

Senior Producer and Editor: Frank Cappello

Music: Andy Clausen

Design: Alicia Tatone

Mix Engineer: Valentino Rivera

Title Animation: Ehsaan Mesghali