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Podcast: The Chris Cuomo Project
Episode: Max Amini Explains What People Don’t Get About Iran
Description: Max Amini (comedian and actor) joins Chris Cuomo to talk about what the world misunderstands about Iran and the people who live there.
Born in Arizona to an Iranian family and raised partly in Iran, Amini describes what it was like growing up between two cultures — experiencing both the warmth of Persian culture and the repression of the Islamic Republic. He explains the “double life” many Iranians live under the regime, the difference between the Iranian people and their government, and why Western audiences often get the country’s identity wrong.
Cuomo and Amini also discuss cancel culture in comedy...