213. Today’s Hot Take? Optimism! (w/ Baratunde Thurston, Catie Lazarus)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Baratunde Thurston and Catie Lazarus join Negin to discuss Biden's choice for VP, Kamala Harris and why it's a big deal. They also get into the pros and cons of living in a big city during the pandemic. Pro: Wearing a mask and sunglasses means you can discreetly cry in public. 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	Three, two.
0:01.0	Oh, that was a good one.
0:03.8	That was a solid self-slate.
0:05.8	Fake the Nation, episode 213.
0:09.2	Hello, hello and welcome to Fake the Nation where we talk about news.
0:12.8	We talk about politics and where we break the dead leaves off of democracy, throw them into a
0:17.6	compost bin and make beautiful fertilizer for our country to grow and flourish.
0:23.0	I am your host, N. Parsat, and folks, people have been trying to bring me down.
0:27.0	The pessimism out there is strong, but I won't have it because it's 2020,
0:32.0	and we've got an election to be excited about
0:34.5	and we've got democracy to uphold and I'm excited and I'm an optimist and I'm not
0:38.0	going to let people get me down so today we're going to talk about that VP
0:41.0	pick that we're all so excited about we're going to do a pandy check in and we'll talk about that VP pick that we're all so excited about. We're going to do a
0:43.3	pandy check-in and we'll talk about the world's great cities and how they're
0:46.6	coping with the pandy times. Today's panel is in fact the best panel that could
0:52.2	possibly have been assembled for this week's news.
0:55.0	Guys, this is so exciting today's panel.
0:58.0	And also, because they're my friends and that's really fun for me.
1:02.0	We have with us host of the Employee of the Month
1:05.2	podcast. You've heard her on this podcast before. Oh by the way, when the world
1:10.1	opens back up, which is, you know, really soon in the grand scheme of things.
1:14.4	You can see employee over the month live at Joe's Pub at the public theater in New York
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