Make My Day Episode 39: Bullet Points with Negin Farsad

Make My Day with Josh Gondelman

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News, Society & Culture, Comedy, Politics

4.9 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Negin Farsad (Fake The Nation podcast, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me) competes to cheer Josh up. Negin plays a game of Non-P.R., answering questions about things she can't get away with saying on public radio. Then, she donates her $100 grand prize to One Fair wage to help tipped workers and hourly workers make a fair wage. Plus, pep talks for the year 2021 and seventh graders. Follow Negin on social media: https://twitter.com/NeginFarsad https://www.instagram.com/neginfarsad Listen to Fake the Nation: https://www.earwolf.com/show/fake-the-nation/ Donate to One Fair Wage: https://ofwemergencyfund.org/ https://onefairwage.site/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Josh Gondelman.
0:05.0	No, I'm sorry, I'm Josh Gondelman, and this is Make My Day, a comedy game show.
0:10.0	The world is a stressful place, so every week we try to make it a little nicer for about half an hour.
0:15.0	I play a game with my guest, who is guaranteed to win because they're the only contestant,
0:19.0	and I assign them points based on how much they cheer me up over the course of the game. That's how all the points are assigned
0:24.6	based on how much I'm delighted by their answers. The winner, and again, only contestant,
0:29.6	wins a $100 donation to the charity or aid cause of their choice, and at the end, we each
0:34.6	give a pep talk to a person or a group or a thing that we think really needs it this week, because this isn't all about me.
0:40.2	It's just mostly about me.
0:41.9	My guest today is a stand-up comedian and a regular panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, as well as the host of the Comedy News Panel podcast, Fake the Nation.
0:50.2	Welcome to the show, Nagine Farsad. Oh my gosh, Josh Gondelman. Hello, thanks so much for having me.
0:56.0	It's such a pleasure.
0:57.1	I'm so happy to see you.
0:58.5	It's been a little while.
1:00.6	How is your new year and such?
1:02.5	Oh, my gosh.
1:03.5	I was in bed by 9.45 p.m.
1:07.2	So I am just redefining baller over here.
1:15.2	Beautiful. I was asleep before midnight for sure,
1:22.0	and I woke up to like a bunch of texts. I sent like all my Happy New Year, Glad We're Friends texts at like 10.30.
1:26.7	Yeah. Because like, who cares? Who cares? This is fine. The sentiment is what's important, not the timing. Yes, of course. I did a thing where I didn't send any texts.
1:33.2	I totally understand. First of all, it was like very happy in quotes New Year. It was like a big year for the word happy in quotes, maybe the biggest. And the other part of it is just like all those
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