How To Be Aggressively Delightful

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Greta Johnsen

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4.6 • 924 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2018

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

If you’re looking for a way to combat the online trolls and bots fomenting unrest in the U.S., comedian Negin Farsad might have a solution for you. “I guess if I were to name it, it’s a philosophy called ‘being aggressively delightful,’” she tells us. Farsad, an Iranian-American Muslim, is the co-host of the podcast Fake the Nation, the author of the book How to Make White People Laugh, and sometimes you can hear her on our very own WBEZ as a panelist for NPR’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! She told us how she manages to be aggressively delightful, even when confronted with intolerance.

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0:00.0	I'm Natalie Moore. I fell in love with soap operas when I was just five years old, and I still
0:06.1	watch them. Their television's longest scripted series and have zero reruns. Now let me tell you,
0:12.7	soap operas aren't just some silly art form. They are significant. In this season of making,
0:18.0	Stories Without End from WBEZ Chicago.
0:25.7	Join me as I share how the genre began, their social impact, and why these stories endure.
0:28.3	Listen wherever you get your podcast.
0:30.8	Hey, buddy.
0:31.5	Oh, hi.
0:32.2	How's it going?
0:32.9	I'm pretty good.
0:34.3	Can I do a whole show like this? Wow.
0:35.9	What if I did?
0:38.2	From WBEC Chicago, this is Nerdette.
0:40.7	I'm Tricia Bobita.
0:41.7	And I am Greta Johnson.
0:43.0	Nerdette is a show where we talk to people about their obsessions.
0:46.5	People who are scientists and poets, astronauts and adventurers, people who dare to ask big questions and explore the unknown.
0:53.4	This week on Nerdette, we're talking with Kamiknagin Farsad.
0:56.0	She's a total politics nerd, even worked as a policy advisor for the city of New York for a while.
1:00.4	But for her, the draw of stand-up comedy has just always been a little too strong.
1:04.7	So now she calls herself a social justice comedian.
1:07.7	She's trying to figure out how to bridge the gaps between vehemently divided Americans
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