227. It’s Not Magic, It’s Science (w/ Bill Nye, Ophira Eisenberg)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2020

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Bill Nye and Ophira Eisenberg join Negin to discuss New Zealand's approach to closing the gender pay gap, what they hope Biden does to combat climate change, and their mutual love of Canadian cereal. Bill defines the term "carbon fee" and explains why people are less scared of "fees" than "taxes." 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!
0:02.0	Episode 227!
0:04.0	Hello, this is Fake the Nation, where we talk about news, we talk about politics and where we take
0:08.4	the tween that is American democracy, fit it for braces, successfully move all the fucked up teeth to the right spot, and then
0:15.3	fit it for a retainer. And then, decades later, we stop wearing the retainer because we got lazy.
0:20.8	So we have an election where we decide to wear the retainer again. I am your host
0:25.9	the Gien-Farsad and I do weird metaphors and I wear a mouth guard at night
0:31.8	because sometimes I clench by jaws.
0:33.7	But that's a different analogy altogether.
0:36.4	Folks, today we're going to talk about climate change and the Biden administration.
0:40.2	We're also going to talk about the moderate and progressive divide and finally we'll talk about equity pay in New Zealand
0:48.8	Today I have the best panel ever this panel is so. First of all joining us again, we love her. I just want to say I personally love her. I've gone to see her perform dozens of times around the country. She's so funny. She never doesn't kill. Yeah, that's a double negative that means she always
1:11.0	fucking kills. She's a comedian obviously she is also the host of
1:15.6	NPR's Ask Me Another and she's an all-around fantastic fucking person you guys
1:20.3	it's Ophira Eisenberg. Hey Ophira!
1:22.6	A. Hi! Remember performing?
1:25.4	I know, remember when we used to just see each other at comedy clubs and it was cute?
1:29.4	Complain, complain about the live audience?
1:31.9	What's wrong with these people?
1:34.0	Never again, Ophira, never again.
1:37.0	I know.
1:38.0	The dead audiences just don't, they don't produce.
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