Back before these naughty lil droplets ruined everything, Les booked us a trip to NYC w/ tickets to a taping for our grad celebration/first vaca in a long time. 😩

I’m sad about this. And I hope it means bigger and better things are waiting for @hasanminhaj in the future. 💔 https://twitter.com/hasanminhaj/status/1295726954751168517
Many poli elites found this show to be low brow, but I found it to be really accessible - it made discussing lived reality in the context of politics easier, entertaining, & cool™️

It made nerdy brown kids feel understood. It helped the diaspora feel alone for feeling estranged.
It helped my dad and I enjoy something together. It helped us share generational perspectives and bridge the gap with a comedic buffer.

It did a lot of things for the fraught relationships between desi kids and their parents.
I’ll be coming back to @hasanminhaj with Homecoming King - a good place to start if you’re trying to understand where @patriotact planted its roots.

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