S1 E8: Tez Ilyas // RizTest Podcast

The RizTest Podcast

Eid Mubarak! 🌙🎉

We link up with the hilarious Tez Ilyas who is currently living his best life co-starring in the second season of Man Like Mobeen (recommissioned for a third - boom!) and smashing it on all fronts. We drink tea, eat fruit and discuss Tez’s origin story, current projects and exciting projects on the horizon.

Sadia and Shaf also catch up after Eid for a long overdue news round up, discuss the absolute state of the new live-action Aladdin movie, Museums engaging with wider communities and biases in Artificial Intelligence.

Books mentioned:

• Algorithms of Opression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Safiya Umoja Noble)
• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms and Other Threats of Toxic Tech (Sara Wachter-boettch)
• Talk to Me: Amazon, Google, Apple and the Race for Voice-Controlled AI (James Vlahos)
• Friend of the show, Anisa Khalifa's write up of Aladdin: https://anisakhalifa.com/2019/05/27/film-review-the-new-aladdins-updated-casting-cant-resolve-its-flawed-foundations/

Show Notes:

• Tez’s childhood and education
• Moving to London and first forays into Comedy
• Man Like Mobeen and bromance with Guz Khan
• “Muslim Comedian is not a genre of comedy”
• Telling your story and staying true to your roots
• White Fragility (I know right?)
• How not to have a discussion about Brexit
• The Tez O Clock Show and what the future beckons