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

and where we gently coat the shrimp of democracy with an egg mix and a dusting of flour to create

the tempera that is America.

I am your host, Niki Npharsad, and last night I walked into my usual Shwarma place in

the 20 minutes before Iftar, the Ramadan tradition of breaking your fast with a nice meal, and

it was dead silent except for the cooks furiously putting out dates and other goodies because

they knew that a horde of hungry Muslims, I almost said angry, they're not angry, they're

hungry, we're going to bust open the doors any moment and together we had a laugh because

it felt like that scene in Vanilla Sky, except for like it was leading up to Iftar and

not whatever Vanilla Sky was about, which I don't remember, anyway, Dean have you done

that where you've gone into a place like right before Iftar and it's like deadly silent?

No, but I've been to places where there are Muslims who are hungry, where they're a hungry

and angry, every single day, and they want to eat in the clock, worse in the summer when

sunset is like, you know, eat a clonnie.

One is like, yeah, today, this year, this year it's not so bad, well today we're going

to talk about how Democrats should talk and how they should talk, and we're also going

to talk about violence and Hollywood, and finally the Yolo economy, is it a dumb term or

a real thing, we'll figure that out.

I am so excited by today's panel, folks, I'm joined for the very first time on this show,

but not for the first time in my life because I've seen her perform stand up so astutely,

so wonderfully, so beautifully, all over the city, and then she's also a writer of one

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