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Fake the Nation

289. Quit Before They Fire You (w/ Benari Poulten, Traci Thomas)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

News, Comedy, Current Events, Panel, Politics

4.41.1K 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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