Make My Day Episode 21: Send Your Poison Out with Scaachi Koul

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

Radio Point

News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Scaachi Koul (host of the new podcast Not Great) competes to cheer Josh up! Scaachi sets the all-time Make My Day high score by crushing a game of You Spite Up My Life. She then donates her $100 grand prize winnings to the Lebanese Red Cross. And finally, Josh and Scaachi give pep talks for people whose enemies appear to be thriving, and to anyone having a hard time with a creative project. Subscribe to Not Great, Scaachi's new podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/not-great-with-scaachi-koul/id1524565091 Buy Scaachi's book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250121028 Donate to the Lebanese Red Cross: https://supportlrc.app/ Follow Scaachi on Twitter and Instagram: www.twitter.com/scaachi www.instagram.com/scaachi Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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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.
0:11.1	The world is a stressful place to live, and every week for about 25 to 30 minutes, we try to make it a little gentler.
0:17.5	This is how it works.
0:18.3	Every week, I play a game with one guest who is guaranteed to win because they're the only contestant.
0:22.6	I assign them points throughout the game based on how much they cheer me up with each of their answers.
0:27.6	Then at the end, the winner and I each give a pep talk to the person or group of our choice, because this isn't all about me.
0:33.6	It's just mostly about me.
0:35.6	The winner, of course, also wins a $100 grand prize donation
0:39.3	to the charity of their choice, because we like to do a little nice thing here. My guest today is
0:44.0	a writer for BuzzFeed. She's also the author of The Amazing Essay Collection, One Day Will All Be Dead,
0:49.5	and none of this will matter, which is truly one of my favorite essay collections of the past
0:53.9	forever. I love it so much. And now, she's the one of my favorite essay collections of the past forever.
0:54.8	I love it so much.
0:56.2	And now she's the host of the new and wonderful podcast, Not Great.
1:00.2	Welcome to the show, Sachi Cool.
1:01.9	Sachi, thank you for being here.
1:03.4	Hello, Joshua.
1:05.3	How are you?
1:06.1	I'm doing okay, thank you.
1:07.3	How are you?
1:08.2	I'm fine.
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