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Fake the Nation

159. The Thick of Summer (w/ Rico Gagliano, Rob Kutner)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Negin chats with Rico Gagliano and Rob Kutner about the recent New Yorker piece on Al Franken, outgoing intelligence chief Dan Coats, and what they’re reading and listening to this summer.



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0:00.0

Fake the Nation, episode 159.

0:05.0

Uh, hello, this is Make the Nation where we talk about news, we talk about politics and

0:08.8

where we lament the timing of this recording.

0:11.8

I am your host, Nakee Farsad and we're actually

0:13.8

recording Tuesday just before the debates and I know you guys know that we are

0:19.5

normally a Thursday record things are, travel is being done, I'm sorry we're not going to be

0:27.2

talking about the debates this week, but we are going to be talking about other assorted

0:31.2

beltway sheep skull duggery or I was going to say shenanigansary but

0:36.7

that's not a word we'll also look back at the Al Franken situation.

0:42.8

And finally, Summer, it's happening.

0:44.8

What should you be doing about it?

0:47.1

I'm so excited about the panel today, you guys.

0:49.0

I've known both of these gentlemen

0:50.7

for quite a long time.

0:53.0

First up, we have the comedy writer.

0:57.0

Oh my God, he just ended a ridiculously long tenure for Conan. He also had a ridiculously long tenure for John

1:06.6

Stewart. Ridiculously long because he is so much beloved as a comedy writer and you can check out his great works.

1:15.8

He has a comic book that you can check out at rob cutner.com.

1:20.1

He also has a book which I forgot the name and he's not even trying to promote that book

1:24.3

Apocalypse Howe. Apocalypse Howe there it is.

1:28.0

Also my Twitter feed.

1:30.0

How about that?

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