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Fake the Nation

233. The Death Call For Democracy

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

On this week's bonus episode, Danielle Durchslag joins Negin to break down the differences between the first presidential debate and the second. One point of agreement? The mute button sure helped. 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

Hello, this is Fake the Nation, where we talk about news, we talk about politics, and where we provide you with a bonus episode.

0:08.0

That's right, ladies and gentlemen, it is a bonus episode of Fake the Nation.

0:12.0

Why? Because I, your host, Naguen Parsad, watch the debates

0:15.3

last night, and yet I recorded earlier in the day, what's a gal to do? A gal is to provide a bonus

0:21.7

episode.

0:23.0

And today we are joined, and by we, I mean me,

0:27.0

I'm referring to myself in the Royal We, like a fucking fuckball.

0:30.0

I am joined by, oh my gosh, she's one of my good friends she's a visual artist

0:35.7

filmmaker she's based in Brooklyn and then in November this is so exciting she's

0:40.8

gonna have short film screening at both the UK and Moscow Jewish

0:44.0

film festivals because she's fucking international. She's so fantastic. I love her so much.

0:51.1

It's Danielle Dershlogg. Hey Daniel!

0:53.2

Hey Minkie, thanks for having me.

0:55.2

Oh my gosh, Danielle. We watched the debates last night.

0:58.0

We sure did.

0:59.1

And let me just start with like a broad question about performance style.

1:06.0

Now you remember the first debate.

1:08.0

The first debate was a little bit more apocalyptic in that nobody was able to get a sentence out and it was like it felt like a

1:16.4

horrible example of America. It sure did and sort of like maybe like the death call

1:21.7

for democracy was my sense at the time.

1:23.6

All of those feelings crept up.

1:26.5

But I should also just point out just to be factual here

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