289. Quit Before They Fire You (w/ Benari Poulten, Traci Thomas)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
This week Negin is joined by Benari Poulten and Traci Thomas as they delve into the realities of the job market a la The Great Resignation. Then a conversation on if it is okay to ask an ex to delete a nude, before jumping into the satisfaction of holding a grudge
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| 0:00.0 | This is a head gum podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, hello, this is Fake The Nation where we talk about news, we talk about culture |
| 0:13.4 | and if you ask us if we think inflation is a political liability ahead of the midterms |
| 0:18.2 | where we say it's a great asset, more inflation, what a stupid son of a bitch, I'm your |
| 0:24.1 | host, the king foresawd, and that was a hot mic moment from Biden calling a Fox reporter |
| 0:31.0 | a stupid son of a bitch, although can I say that it wasn't actually a hot mic moment, |
| 0:35.6 | he was just using the mic to publicly declare that he knew that the mic was on and he thought |
| 0:43.2 | that the question about if inflation was an asset at midterms was a dumb question and |
| 0:50.2 | that guy is annoying, it was that that reporter Steve Ducey anyways, I don't usually follow |
| 0:57.6 | politics at that dumb level, but I just felt like what a shift from Malarkey, you know what |
| 1:04.8 | I mean, from the Malarkey days of Joe Biden, but today we are going to talk about all |
| 1:12.0 | those people that quit during the great resignation, we're also going to talk about the |
| 1:16.1 | etiquette around nude pics that your ex might have, and finally we ask is holding a |
| 1:21.9 | grudge actually satisfying, I'm so excited for today's panel, I mean first of all, you |
| 1:30.0 | know this man, you love this man, he has been on this show several good Gillian times, |
| 1:36.4 | he's even guest host at this show, he's one of my oldest comedy buds, he's a comedian, |
| 1:42.8 | he's a writer, he's a producer, he's also a veteran of the US Armed Forces, which is just |
| 1:46.9 | a side note about a person with such a storied career, it is the one and only Benari Poulton, |
| 1:53.9 | hey Benari. |
| 1:54.9 | Hey, so great to be here again, and just I love the warm fuzzy, I love the fake the nation |
| 2:00.7 | family and the listeners and everyone involved, I think you're just wonderful, you're all doing |
| 2:05.9 | great work. |
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