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Feb 2023
1h 12m

We Are Ahmed Ali Akbar

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In episode 290, the girls are joined by journalist and podcaster Ahmed Ali Akbar! They talk about his work at Buzzfeed and his former podcast See Something Say Something, and then get into his work that won him a James Beard Foundation Award: Mangos aka "Inside the Secretive, Semi-Illicit, High Stakes World of WhatsApp Mango Importing"! It's a compelling story about a journalist and Pakistani mangos so please GET INTO IT! Also check out his new podcast Radiolingo from Duolingo and Crooked Media! Follow Ahmed on Twitter and Instagram at @radbrowndads. 

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