Author Simon Rich on 'Spoiled Brats' and being a history nerd

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🗓️ 5 November 2014

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Simon Rich was the youngest staff writer ever on Saturday Night Live. His new book 'Spoiled Brats' is a collection of funny stories, including one about time travel in Brooklyn that's being turned into a movie. We also talk with a producer at NPR who reported a story about how young-lady voices are received on the radio. Plus your nerd confessions.

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0:00.0	This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events.
0:05.0	Join us in person for smart discussions, heartfelt storytelling, and more.
0:09.0	Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org
0:12.6	slash events.
0:14.0	Aren't we all forever linked with those prehistoric cave painters who
0:22.3	first dare to lift brush to stone.
0:24.4	Hey Simon you wrote the fart sketch right? Yeah. Does there need to be so many
0:31.8	farts? Yeah I think so.
0:33.0	I think so.
0:34.0	I do.
0:35.0	Yeah. Okay.
0:36.0	I'm Greta Johnson.
0:38.0	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:39.0	And from W. Be Easy in Chicago, this is Nurdett.
0:41.0	Coming up, we talk with author Simon Rich about what it's like to make two 30 under 30 lists and then turn 30.
0:48.0	I'm extremely physically young looking.
0:50.0	I've always looked like a child.
0:51.0	So, you know, luckily I can probably still fool people for a few more years
0:55.6	and think that I'm smart.
0:57.0	And we talk about the voices of women, especially young women,
1:00.0	and how they're often not taken as seriously
1:01.8	as the voices of men.
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