Saad Sarwana: A muslim, a physicist, and a comedian...
The Story Collider
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🗓️ 23 December 2013
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Pakistan-born physicist Saad Sarwana gets a visit from the FBI. Saad Sarwana grew up in Pakistan, and moved first to Canada and then eventually to the US to attend graduate school in Physics. He's a professional physicist by day and an amateur standup comedian by night! As a Physicist, Saad has over 30 peer reviewed publications and two US patents. As a comedian Saad has performed at every major comedy club in the NYC area, and has been featured on an ABC 20/20 story about Muslim Standup Comedians. This winter you can see him in the US on the Discovery Science Channel show "You Have Been Warned." Help keep us going! If you love the podcast, please donate here: http://www.patreon.com/thestorycollider
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| 0:00.0 | Twas the night before Christmas when all through our home, friends were waiting for drinks at the party we'd thrown. |
| 0:07.2 | With an espresso martini mixer from Fever Tree, all you need to add is the vodka, you see. |
| 0:14.2 | Five espresso martinis ready in a second. A Christmas miracle, everybody reckoned. |
| 0:23.9 | So this holiday season mix with the best, |
| 0:29.7 | with fever tree cocktails for you and your guests. Please enjoy responsibly. |
| 0:33.5 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:36.5 | Is NYU scientist the... I felt... |
| 0:37.5 | I was so... |
| 0:38.7 | And I just thought, well... |
| 0:39.7 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:42.9 | Because science was on my side. |
| 1:03.2 | Hey, everyone. I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to The Story Collider, where we bring you true stories of how science has affected people's lives. |
| 1:10.2 | This week's story is from Saad Sirwana. The story was recorded in December 2012 at Union Hall in Brooklyn. |
| 1:13.6 | The theme of the evening was Science and Religion. |
| 1:24.6 | So it's 2002. Here's my profile in 2002. I'm a single Pakistani Muslim male, and I've come to America on a student visa to |
| 1:32.3 | study physics. And I'm also doing this amateur stand-up comedy on the side, and I'm getting a lot of |
| 1:40.6 | gigs on the road. And to be a successful comedian on the road, one thing |
| 1:45.2 | which you have to do is you have to have a car, which I happen to have, and you need a good |
| 1:50.4 | sense of direction so you can drive to different places near New York City suburbs and do comedy. |
| 1:56.4 | And that's something I did not have. A good remedy would be a GPS, but in 2002 a GPS cost like $700. |
| 2:05.6 | So, but what you could find was you could find just the antenna of the GPS. It was a little |
| 2:11.6 | thing which looked like a mouse, which you connect to the DSU connector of your laptop, and you load up some drivers and some software, |
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