Make My Day Episode 12: Penguin Selfies with Aparna Nancherla

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

Radio Point

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 7 July 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Aparna Nancherla (Netflix Standup, Corporate, Space Force) competes to cheer Josh up! Aparna breezes through the first ever round of the game Say Yes to De-stress, setting an all time Make My Day high score! She then donates her $100 grand prize to the Black Visions Collective. Plus, pep talks for people who are nervous about the country "reopening" and for a baby bird trying to leave the nest! Donate to the Black Visions Collective: https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/ Watch Aparna's Netflix special: https://www.netflix.com/title/80175685 Follow Aparna on Twitter: www.twitter.com/aparnapkin Follow Aparna on Instagram: www.instagram.com/aparnapkin And of course, the titular penguin selfie: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/09/592232204/penguins-mug-for-camera-take-a-pretty-great-selfie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Josh Gondelman.
0:06.0	No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.
0:11.0	We're here because the world is a hard and stressful place, so we try to make it a little
0:15.2	bit nicer for, you know, 25, 30 minutes every week.
0:18.5	It's pretty irregular.
0:20.1	Every week, I play a game with one guest,
0:22.0	who is the only contestant, and so they are guaranteed to win. During the game, I assign them points
0:26.1	based on how much they and their answers cheer me up personally. Then at the end, the winner
0:30.9	gives a pep talk to cheer up the person or group of their choice, because this isn't all about
0:35.0	me. It's just mostly about me. They also, of course, as every
0:38.4	week, win a $100 donation to the cause or charity of their choice. My guest today is a writer
0:44.7	and comedian with specials on Netflix and Comedy Central. She's one of the stars of the
0:48.8	incredibly funny show, Corporate on Comedy Central, and also, as a very recently, she is on Space Force on Netflix, where you can see her there.
0:56.8	Welcome to the show, Aparna Nancerla.
0:58.8	Hello!
1:00.8	Thank you so much for being here.
1:02.8	Thank you for having me here in the ether.
1:06.3	I know. We're here. We're in different places, but our voices are together.
1:10.6	Our voices are united in the universe.
1:14.0	How are you holding up lately?
1:16.2	I've been working on a book, which is, you know, fortuitously like a good quarantine
1:22.1	activity to have because it's like a thing you don't really have to go anywhere to work on
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