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Fake the Nation

231. Lollipops For Everyone In America (w/ Benari Poulten)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Benari Poulten joins Negin to discuss the Georgia Senate race and the role money plays in electoral politics. They also look back at the insanity that was 2020 and share a touching tribute to Fake the Nation favorite Catie Lazarus. 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 231.

0:04.0

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

0:08.0

and where we tense our shoulders and clench our butts as we anxiously await the end of 2020, which has been, by all official accounts, a fuckball of a year.

0:17.0

I'm your host, Niki and right up to this very end,

0:21.0

I feel like we just keep getting bad news about everything

0:23.7

because 2020 is so committed to its brand which I think is at the end of the day

0:28.9

pretty admirable but guess what 2020 you're no match for humanity, motherfucker.

0:33.6

We're taking you down unfollow.

0:36.8

So today we are going to talk about the year that was.

0:39.6

We have a lot to say.

0:41.1

So that's actually going to take up two full segments of our chatteriness and we'll also start the show by talking about the race in Georgia that is a real nail bider.

0:53.6

In today's panel, we had a little hicup with one of the guests that we had booked.

1:00.4

Everything is okay.

1:01.6

Luckily, we're just down one panelist. But don't worry because the panelist we do have is enough panelist for like 12 panelists.

1:12.0

He is my friend. He is a veteran of the US Armed Force is no big deal.

1:17.2

You've seen his handy work on many television things because he's fancy as a producer and a writer and he's just

1:26.1

a fantastic comedian who we've seen delight audiences around the country and he's

1:32.4

been on the show so many times you already

1:34.4

knew who I'm introducing it's Benari Lee Paulton hey Benari.

1:38.1

Thank you so much for having me and what an honor that when you think of

1:42.1

disasters horrible fuckballs of years you think of me?

1:47.1

You're like, oh, what, this is a fuckball.

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