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Hasan Minhaj Doesn't Know
Season 2 · Episode 23
Why We Can’t Focus - with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
0.054mJuly 2, 2025
Hasan sits down with MSNBC's Chris Hayes to talk about his new book - "The Siren's Call: How Attention Became The World's Most Endangered Resource" - and why our rectangles of sadness are so irresistible while making us feel so shitty.
Episodes
- Episode 1Dean of Columbia Journalism School: Jelani Cobb
- Episode 2Why Didn’t Pod Save America? with Jon Favreau
- Episode 3What's Wrong With The Democrats? with Senator Chris Murphy
- Episode 4Halle Berry is Your New Sex Ed Teacher
- Episode 5Accountability is Sexy with Michelle Buteau
- Episode 6Am I a Bad Dad? with Dr. Becky
- Episode 7John Leguizamo Killed a lot of Acting Teachers
- Episode 8Dumbasses for the Culture with the cast of Deli Boys
- Episode 9Rainn Wilson Announces His New Cult
- Episode 10How to Cook an Egg and / or Save the World with Chef Jose Andres
- Episode 11Is Making Kids Famous Child Abuse? with Avan Jogia
- Episode 12A Very Watchable, Very Viral Interview with Medhi Hasan
- Episode 13The Republican Road to Hell with Tim Miller
- Episode 14Why Ezra Klein is So F***ing Angry (with Democrats)
- Episode 15How The Trump admin Could Spy on You with Ronan Farrow
- Episode 16Why Roy Wood Jr. Always Says Yes
- Episode 17Dads, Death & Popes with Mike Birbiglia
- Episode 18Cynthia Nixon Hasn’t Forgiven Andrew Cuomo
- Episode 19Why are Women Obsessed with Murder? with Crime Junkie Ashley Flowers
- Episode 20Rahm Emanuel on How to Divide Republicans
- Episode 21Financial Literacy for Dummies (Like Me)
- Episode 22Why War Doesn’t Work - with General Stanley McChrystal
- Episode 23Why We Can’t Focus - with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes
- Episode 24Is New Jersey Going MAGA? - with Governor Phil Murphy
- Episode 25When Will Democrats Get Mad? - with Rep. Jasmine Crockett
- Episode 26How Trump is Abusing the Military - with Senator Tammy Duckworth
- Episode 27Is Political Violence Becoming Normal? With Arizona AG Kris Mayes
- Episode 28Why AI is Overrated - with Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Episode 29Wu Tang Clan: The Avengers of Hip Hop - with Method Man
- Episode 30How to Get a 6pm Checkout with Mo Amer
- Episode 31I Got Diagnosed with ADD by Psychologist Gabor Maté
- Episode 32Is Texas Still a Democracy? with Beto O’Rourke
- Episode 33The Hasan Summit with Hasan Piker
- Episode 34Fine, We'll Talk About Epstein - with Rep. Ro Khanna
- Episode 35Inside the Destruction of USAID with Dr. Atul Gawande
- Episode 36Will AI Take My Job? with Karen Hao
- Episode 37How India’s Biggest Comic Reps His Home Country
- Episode 38Is America Heading Towards Civil War? with Ilhan Omar
- Episode 39Is Hasan Smarter than a 13-Year-Old Math Genius？ (No)
- Episode 40My Life Coach Session with Mel Robbins
- Episode 41Is The Constitution Cooked? with Jill Lepore
- Episode 42Prince Harry Wants Big Tech to Stop Hacking Our Kids’ Brains
- Episode 43How to Cover a Sh*tposting White House with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins
- Episode 44Why the Stock Market Hasn’t Crashed Yet - with Paul Krugman
- Episode 45The ACLU's War Against Trump - with Anthony Romero
- Episode 46Ken Burns on America’s Shocking History
- Episode 47Malala and Hasan Squash Their Beef
- Episode 48Senator Alex Padilla: How Democrats Can Win in 2026
- Episode 49Malcolm Gladwell Doesn’t Mind Being Wrong
- Episode 50A Deeply Unserious India-Pakistan Summit with Kumail Nanjiani
- Episode 51Best of Season 2: Hasan's Most Unhinged Moments