Nerdette’s Finest: Negin Farsad
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.6 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 8 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. It’s a philosophy she calls “Being aggressively delightful.” You might think that sounds exhausting, but Farsad says not so!
“I also think rage is exhausting,” she told us in February 2018. “I might think rage is more exhausting than trying to be friends with people.”
It’s genius I tell you!
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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 WB EZ 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. |
| 0:38.3 | From WB.B.E.Z Chicago, I am Greta Johnson, and this is Nerdette's finest. |
| 0:45.7 | Nerdette is almost exactly five years old, and to celebrate, we are remembering some of our favorite episodes over the past five years, partly because we would also like to invite you |
| 0:51.2 | to help support this thing that maybe you have been listening to for an |
| 0:55.0 | entire five years, or maybe you just found out about us, which is great because now this is a |
| 0:59.6 | perfect opportunity for you also to listen back to some of our favorite interviews. |
| 1:04.8 | So our special episode today is a piece of our interview with comedian Nagin Farsad. I am so excited to share this with you. Stick around after the clip and I will tell you more about all the great Nourdet stuff that you can get when you donate to us. But if you are like, whatever, man, I just want this stuff. I just want to help support your show because I think you're great and I think it's really important to support things that are made by people who work at public radio stations. Just go to wbeze.org slash nerd alert and you can make your |
| 1:33.3 | donation right the second. The website again is wbez.org slash nerd alert. So as I said today, |
| 1:41.9 | we are listening to an interview with Nagin Farsad. |
| 1:45.9 | She's Iranian-American. |
| 1:47.3 | She's awesome and hilarious and smart. |
| 1:49.8 | She has a book called How to Make White People Laugh. |
| 1:52.7 | And she has a life philosophy that has, like, completely changed how I interact with strangers in a really good fun. I'm pretty sure not creepy way. Let's |
| 2:02.8 | listen. I guess if I were to name it, it's a philosophy called being aggressively |
| 2:11.9 | delightful. Because I don't like to just take a crap on people that, you know, think differently from me or whatever. |
| 2:22.4 | And whenever I travel the country and I do shows all over and so I've met a lot of people. |
| 2:28.8 | I've been in Laramie, Wyoming, I've been in Birmingham, Alabama, I've been in Columbus, Georgia. |
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