212. Mystery Poetry Slam (w/ Touré, Jeff Kreisler)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Touré and Jeff Kreisler join Negin to dive into Trump's obsession with TikTok and attempt to identify the necessary components of a functional democracy. They also break down absentee versus vote-by-mail ballots. Touré explains why he'll be voting in person. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Fake the Nation, episode 212.
0:04.0	Hello, hello, this is Bake the Nation, where we talk about news, we talk about politics and where we add an eighth layer to the seven layer dip that is democracy because we're not fucking around anymore.
0:13.3	I'm your host and favorite second day, Kasserole Naguin Farsad.
0:16.8	Today we're going to talk about mail-in voting.
0:19.3	We'll talk about Tik-Tock and we'll hear the actual Republican case for Trump because it's an election and
0:24.0	there's got to be a Republican case for Trump.
0:26.2	I am so excited by today's panel we have with us for the very first time to their show a podcast or a broadcaster he's a TV
0:35.4	host he's got a show called the Toray show he's got another podcast called
0:39.2	democracy-ish which me and my husband listened to as a family and it's real cute and he has a newsletter called
0:46.2	Black Minds Matter. Without further ado it is the lovely Torrey hey!
0:52.8	Thank you.
0:53.8	I'm not usually described as lovely so I really appreciate that.
0:56.0	Oh yeah, no you are lovely.
0:57.9	We got a chance to hang out in right before shit got weird at the on-air podcast festival and and
1:05.8	that was the first time right that the on-air podcast was let somebody
1:10.5	declined to shake my hand was it COVID precautions and I was like,
1:16.2	oh my God, people are being so weird and like six days later it was like I am never shaking
1:20.9	anyone's hand ever again.
1:23.2	All elbows and fist bumps from here on out.
1:25.4	The globe got really weird.
1:28.2	We also, fun fact about me and Tori,
1:30.4	we're in mirror families because I am married to a black man and he is married to an
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