247. Society Is Not For Everybody (w/ Amir Blumenfeld, Leah Bonnema)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Amir Blumenfeld and Leah Bonnema join Negin to talk about the Chauvin trail, Matt Gaetz, and Bohner’s new memoir. They also celebrate Jill Biden’s fishnets, debate the merits of text-based therapy on a scale of nothing to therapy, and potentially end society! You can follow Amir @blumenfeld, Leah @leahbonnema, and Negin @neginfarsad. We'd love to hear from you! Write to Negin at [email protected] and support her Patreon www.patreon.com/NeginFarsad.

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0:00.0	This is a headgun podcast.
0:06.0	Folks, today was a bit of a comedy of errors on the technical front.
0:09.0	At one point in the show, you may hear my audio change.
0:13.0	It should still be kind of the same, but just a slightly different level of audio.
0:20.0	So, sorry about that, and I'll clean up my act for next week.
0:26.0	Thank you.
0:27.0	Big donation episode 247.
0:31.0	Hello, hello, this is Fake The Nation, where we talk about news.
0:34.0	We talk about politics and where we brace ourselves for the hatching, boning, and then dying of cicadas.
0:40.0	This is the year for Brute 10, which comes every 17 years.
0:44.0	I am your host, Nikki Forsyth, and I'm oddly excited for a plague of cicadas.
0:48.0	I didn't grow up with them, so this feels special.
0:51.0	I don't know. Plus, who, besides these randomly overly specific insects,
0:56.0	thinks that 17-year intervals are reasonable.
0:59.0	That's not a reasonable interval.
1:01.0	You either do 15 or you do 20, 17 doesn't make any sense.
1:04.0	Cicadas, I have some notes for you.
1:07.0	Today, we're going to talk about a plague of dumb controversies on the right.
1:11.0	We'll also talk about the Derek Chauvin trial, and finally,
1:14.0	text-based therapy.
1:15.0	Is it totally ridiculous or just mildly ridiculous?
1:19.0	Today, I'm joined by, oh my god, this panel.
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