E127. Sarah Rose Siskind Fixes America

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Sarah Rose Siskind is a science comedy writer, psychedelic educator, comedian, and co-founder of Hello SciCom, a company that combines science communication and comedy to help scientists and tech companies revamp their content. She and Bridget discuss homelessness, how little we knew in our 20s, sobriety & pharmaceuticals, why D.A.R.E. is a terrible program, pandemic-induced anxiety, why mental health issues are like spousal abuse, and why people shouldn’t treat weed as a cure-all. They swap crazy Burning Man stories, discuss classism, agree that art is one of the things humans do right, commiserate over comedian-brain, and highlight the importance of knowing your audience in any given situation.

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0:00.0	This is Watkins, welcome with Bridget Pettasy, I'm Bridget Pettasy, and you are welcome.
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1:13.0	Very excited for my guest this week, Sarah Rose Siskind.
1:18.0	Sarah Rose Siskind is a science comedy writer based in New York City.
1:22.0	She's the co-founder of Hello Sci-Com, a company that combines science, communication, and comedy to help science and tech-oriented people get their message across.
1:32.0	Sarah is also a psychedelic stand-up comedian, which means she's only funny when you're on psychedelics, and her show is written up in the New Yorker.
1:41.0	She has a column at Psychology Today about, you guessed it, psychedelics.
1:46.0	Previously, she's written comedy for an artificially intelligent robot named Sophia, at Hanson Robotics, and was the lead writer for Star Talk with Neil the Grass Tyson, a TV show on National Geographic.
1:59.0	She's written comedy for the White House Press Correspondence Dinner and her Harvard cum laude thesis on comedy.
2:06.0	Sarah is a blast, a brainy, brilliant, beautiful genius, and I love to this far-ranging, wild conversation about everything from depression, anxiety, burning man, psychedelics, comedy, and life.
2:24.0	I'm with Sarah Rose Siskind, everybody, welcome.
2:27.0	Thank you for having me on your lovely NPR microphones.
2:32.0	Sarah just accused me as a hate speech.
2:37.0	Now for the next two hours to talk about systemic racism, I'm Sharia Levin-Levinson.
2:43.0	She said she felt like she was on NPR, and I was like, oh, so we're going to radicalize a bunch of people and becoming red till now for three hours of jazz.
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