Negin Farsad Tackles Her Daughter's Unanswerable Questions

About this episode

Comedian Negin Farsad discusses how to explain complex topics to her daughter while reflecting on her previous appearance tackling kids' unanswerable questions.

In 2017, comedian Negin Farsad came on the show to tackle kids’ unanswerable questions. Now she’s a mom, wrestling with how to explain death, slavery, and war to her own child. Plus, a delightful episode crossover moment with another former guest. (Hint: hot firefighters!) … Recommendations from the archive Want to hear more comedians answer kids’ questions? Check out the whole series! • Kids Ask Negin Farsad Unanswerable Questions • Lauren Lapkus Answers Kids’ Unanswerable Questions • Kids Ask Chris Gethard Unanswerable Questions … Episode resources • Negin’s podcast: Fake the Nation • Negin’s book: How to Make White People Laugh • We recorded this episode at the women’s clothing company M.M.LaFleur in Manhattan. And they’ve got a special promo for you! You get 15% off first-time orders with the code LONGSHORT15 … • Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! • Follow us on Instagram • Sign up for our newsletter, where we recommend other parenting + reproductive health media • Buy books by LST guests (your purchase supports the show!) • Website: longestshortesttime.com … Cover photo credit: Joyce Zhang Learn more about your…

People in this episode

Host: Hillary Frank

Guest: Negin Farsad

Topics covered

• parenting
• children's questions
• death
• slavery
• war
• comedy
• family

Keywords

• Negin Farsad
• parenting
• unanswerable questions
• comedy
• children
• death
• slavery
• war

Sponsors

M.M.LaFleur

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: M.M.LaFleur, Instagram, longestshortesttime.com

Products: Fake the Nation, How to Make White People Laugh

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