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Extra Credit: Your Stories (Simran Jeet Singh)

Podcrushed

Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin, Sophie Ansari

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Join us this week for the launch of our first ever extra credit YOUR STORY episode, where we devote an entire episode to a conversation with a listener. Today we talk to Simran Jeet Singh, a professor, activist, and author, about his first memorable encounter with religious discrimination on a soccer field, and in a boys' locker room, in Texas.

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0:00.0

Lemonnotta.

0:06.0

I just remember thinking like,

0:08.0

when I gave in I was upset with myself when I fought back. I was still upset like neither of those

0:15.7

two approaches felt right and so I was wondering to myself as a 11-12-year-, what does it look like for us to take on life's challenges,

0:26.8

those difficult moments in ways that make us feel proud.

0:29.7

Welcome to Potcrushed.

0:36.6

Welcome to the world of podcrushed.

0:40.6

Hopefully we can add some echo some reverb no I'm getting the word no no we cannot

0:47.0

I'm hearing that we've we've run out of money we're doing something a little

0:51.2

different today every Monday for the next six weeks. We're releasing bonus listener episodes

0:56.9

Meaning they're coming from listeners meaning they're coming from you maybe not you specifically but people like you just like you but also quite different. In the specific comes the universal, right? Today's

1:08.1

listener is a professor at Columbia. His name is Simranjit Singh. He is a sick American. His story is one of

1:19.1

religious persecution in the US. So it's pretty light and it's um it's good fodder

1:23.8

It's a really fun way to kick off these listener episodes. Yeah it really is well you know here at

1:28.1

Prokish we love to take something light and and reveal its tragedy

1:32.0

No but it's really meaningful.

1:34.0

Simran tells his story in a very beautiful, succinct way

1:39.0

and he clearly has had a lot of time to reflect on it.

1:43.2

So you'll hear that in its story.

1:44.8

I also think what's beautiful about this story is

1:46.6

I think his approach towards overcoming adversity

1:49.4

and the kind of mindset that he needed to adapt

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