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Fake the Nation

220. Cognitively Elegant (w/ Tochi Onyebuchi, Sarah Pappalardo)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Tochi Onyebuchi and Sarah Pappalardo join Negin to break down the most insane moments of Tuesday night's presidential debate. They also discuss whether composting is a form of doomsday prepping and dig into Trump's taxes. Sarah explains why the $750 that Trump paid in federal income taxes isn't even the worst part. 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 220.

0:03.6

Hello, hello, this is fake the nation where we talk about news, we talk about politics

0:07.4

and where we take the dainty throw pillow that is America, and we lovingly embroider

0:12.1

it with the words, we're only doing optimism.

0:15.0

And then we rest our laptops on it as we phone bank for Biden into the night.

0:19.0

I am your host, Nagee Farside, and folks, I signed up to be a poll worker I don't know if I

0:23.8

mentioned last week but I signed up to be a poll worker I haven't gotten the

0:27.4

assignment yet which actually makes me wonder if we have too many poll workers in

0:31.8

the great state of New York.

0:33.4

It's, I, because I don't know,

0:36.4

Sarah, you're based in New York.

0:38.4

I don't know how many people you know in the poll worker world,

0:42.0

but I suddenly know very many and I didn't know

0:44.9

any in previous elections. Yeah, I was one of the few people who trained for it

0:51.0

way before this election. Never actually did it but but I trained for it. So I've been waiting for my assignment too and I haven't gotten it. I think they do do it at the very last minute, so there's still hope. There's still hope. Okay, either be, if I don't get an assignment because there's

1:04.6

so many fucking poll workers, how amazing is America, you know what I mean?

1:10.1

All right. Also shout us to Leah Bonne, and Vicky Cooperman, who also signed up to be poll

1:14.9

workers and are alums of Yay Old Fake the Nation. Today, we're going to talk about the first

1:21.5

general election debate and Chris Wallace parenting hour.

1:25.2

We'll also talk about Donnie's tax returns and the lighter side of disaster prep.

1:30.8

Yeah, there is a lighter sight to disaster prep,

1:33.5

and we're fucking uncovering it here on Fake The Nation.

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