Felicia Day On Being Weird, Hard Work And Women In Hollywood
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Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this recording of a live event in Chicago, actress, gamer and internet royalty Felicia Day talks about being a weird kid, the importance of hard work, and how women can take over Hollywood. She's the author of a new memoir called You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost).
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| 0:00.0 | This fall, W bez invites you to our upcoming live events. |
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| 0:09.0 | Check out the full calendar now at W be easy.org slash events. |
| 0:15.0 | From W bez Chicago, this is Nurdette. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Tricia Bobita. |
| 0:20.0 | And I'm Greta Johnson. |
| 0:21.5 | On Nurdette, we like to say that nerd is a verb. |
| 0:25.0 | That means it's not about what you love, it's about how much you love it, so you could just as easily be a nerd about like |
| 0:30.3 | Doctor Who or Calculus as you could about baseball or board games. |
| 0:35.5 | We like to talk to all sorts of different people from authors to astronauts about what it is that |
| 0:39.7 | they're really excited about. |
| 0:41.3 | This week it's someone who, if there was a fight for an |
| 0:43.8 | iron throne of internet nerdery she would be a contender because she is one of the |
| 0:47.8 | greatest nerds in all the land, Felicia Day. Felicia Day is known for her |
| 0:51.7 | roles in Supernatural and in Dr Horrible Sing Along blog. |
| 0:55.6 | She also is the mind behind Geek and Sundry, which is a website that has like all sorts of different |
| 1:00.4 | blogs and shorts and shows, a lot of really cool stuff for all of your |
| 1:04.3 | nerdy needs. She also wrote a memoir it's called You're Never Weird on the |
| 1:07.7 | internet? |
| 1:08.7 | Almost. |
| 1:09.7 | Parenthesis almost. It's about her upbringing which was, and it talks about finding your tribe online. |
| 1:15.0 | The Good People of Women and Children First Bookstore here in Chicago invited us to do something that we don't get to do very often here on Nurdett, |
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