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Fake the Nation

218. The Mea Culpa-iest of Mea Culpas (w/ Margaret Cho, Sean Rameswaram)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Cho and Sean Rameswaram join Negin to describe what it's been like living in California as fires ravage the West Coast. Margaret also defines the term "Koreaboo" and Sean explains why the U.S. should be more like Australia when it comes to Election Day. 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 218.

0:04.0

Hello, hello, this is Fake the Nation, where we talk about news, we talk about politics, and

0:08.7

where we add a little kale to the banana strawberry smoothie of democracy because freedom is sweet but with a little

0:14.9

kale it's also healthy.

0:16.7

Am I being so insightful right now I really feel like I am. I'm like the Keith Rainierie of the podcast world just drop in wisdom.

0:25.4

Does that reference make sense to anyone? Is anyone watching the vow? Okay

0:30.3

because I am all I just can't stop talking about Keith Renieri this week, such a ridiculous person.

0:37.3

All right, folks, we're going to talk about gut-wrenching fires on the west coast.

0:44.0

We're also going to talk about all the people who pretend to be people of color,

0:46.7

but aren't actually people of color.

0:48.4

It's a trend.

0:49.8

And we're going to talk about elections.

0:52.2

Today's panel, it was just exquisitely

0:56.2

created for this very moment in our lives.

0:59.2

I can't tell you how excited I am about today's panel. We have with us. He's returning to the show. We love

1:05.7

him so very much. He's host of the podcast today, Explain on Vox, which you should immediately

1:12.2

subscribe to.

1:13.0

He's so smart and fantastic and great and delightful,

1:16.7

and he is Sean Ramos Verum.

1:18.1

Hey Sean.

1:19.0

Hey, thanks for having me back.

1:20.5

And joining us today, folks, this one's a biggie for me because I like look up to this

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