Title: Yara Shahidi On Celebrating The Persian New Year

Conversation text:

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DRESSED
LIKE THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING.
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT YOU WEAR ON FIRST

DAY OF SPRING.
I KNOW EXCITING FIRST DAY OF SPRING.
FIRST DAY OF PERSIAN NEW YEAR.

I'M HALF IRANIAN.
AND SO IT'S THE BEGINING BEST HOLIDAY EVER.
Jimmy: I READ ABOUT THIS OVER THE WEEKEND.WHAT IS THE NAME OF

THE HOLIDAY?
NOWROOZ.
HOW TO SPELL THAT?
IT'S MANY SPELLING
BUT N-O-W-R-O-O-Z
IS ONE WAY.

Jimmy:ALLRIGHT AND WHAT HAPPENS ON
NOWROOZ?
A MATTRESS SALE?

NO.
IT'S PERSIAN NEW YEAR.
AND SO IT IS LIKE A CONTINUATION OF

A CELEBRATION OF LIFE, AND
SPRING AND HEALTH, AND GETTING
READY TO, I GUESS TAKE ON THE
NEXT YEAR.

STARTS WITH LIKE REALLY AMAZING
PRECELEBRATIONS.

ONE IS CHAHAR SHANBE SOURI, YOU JUMP
OVER FIRE.
Jimmy: REALLY?

IT'S VERY FANTASTIC
WHAT KIND OF FIRE YOU JUMPING OVER?
LIKE MINI-BONFIRES.
Jimmy: LITTLE BONFIRES? HOW OLD WHEN YOU START

JUMPING OVER IT, TODDLERS
JUMPING OVER FIRE?
THIS IS HOW I DESCRIBE IT.

THERE IS NO AGE RESTRAINT.
REALLY DEPENDENT IF YOU HAVE UPS
OR NOT.

IF YOU CAN'T JUMP VERY HIGH,
THEN YOU BETTER LIKE, I JUMP
NEXT TO THE FIRE SOMETIMES.

Jimmy: OKAY.
YEAH.
ONCE YOU GOT TO A PLACE YOU

ARE COMFORTABLE JUMPING OVER THE
FIRE THEN YOU DO THE FULL JUMP.
Jimmy: DO THE FIRES -- BIGGER

AS YOU BECOME MORE ACCOMPLISHED
AS FAR AS THIS GOES?
CEREMONIAL.

FOR THE MOST PART, LIKE ONE
LEVEL OF FIRE.
Jimmy: ALL RIGHT.

SOUNDS LIKE FUN.
IS IT FUN?
STAY UP LATE?

RING IN THE NEW YEAR?
YEAH, HAJI FiROOZ BRINGS YOU
GIFTS.

Jimmy: ARE YOU MAKING IS UP
AS A PRANK?
OH, SHE TOLD HIM, WE JUMP OVER

FIRE.
NO.
Jimmy: THE IDIOT BELIEVED IT.

ALL A PLOY.
NO, ACTUALLY, IRANIANS HAVE IT
DOWN PAT WHEN IT COMES TO

CELEBRATE.
JUST A FANTASTIC 13-DAY
CELEBRATION.

YOU GET GIFTS.
CELEBRATE WITH FAMILY.
YOU HAVE FANTASTIC FOOD.

LIKE A REALLY COOL UNIFYING
MOMENT.
ACTUALLY, A CHALLENGE GOING ON

IN WHAT YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO
ENCOURAGE SOME BODY NONIRANIAN
TO SAY \"HAPPY NEW YEAR.\"

Jimmy: NOWROOZ AL BERAK.
THAT WAS SOME CHALLENGE.