290. These People Are Not Epidemiologists (w/Maeve Higgins, Tehran Von Ghasri)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This week Negin is joined by Maeve Higgins and Tehran Von Ghasri as they discuss the forming of a Trump-free GOP and Boris Johnson's fall from grace. Then, a conversation on Whoopi Goldberg's suspension from The View and how Joe Rogan continues to spread COVID misinformation.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a HeadGum podcast. |
| 0:03.5 | Fick the nation episode 290! |
| 0:09.7 | Hello, hello, this is Fick the nation where we talk about news, we talk about culture |
| 0:12.6 | and where we say to everyone who's upset, you guys Tom Brady played for 22 years. |
| 0:17.8 | Like it's okay, is that retirement is just fine. |
| 0:21.5 | I am your host, Negaine Farsad, and yeah, I take positions on a sport I don't know anything |
| 0:26.0 | about. |
| 0:27.0 | Today we're going to talk about a former president and a possibly former prime minister. |
| 0:31.7 | We'll also talk about the Will Be Goldberg controversy and that whole Joe Rogan curfable. |
| 0:38.5 | What is it about that and why are his podcasts so long? |
| 0:43.2 | Today I have the most exciting panel. |
| 0:47.4 | This is a very, there's just, we're covering many points of the globe on today's podcast. |
| 0:56.2 | Joining us again on the show, you've heard her here before, I've had the just wonderful |
| 1:01.8 | pleasure of working with her on weight weight, don't tell me as well and I've had the pleasure |
| 1:06.7 | of being stuck in airports with her in various points of the country. |
| 1:11.7 | She is the author of the book that just recently came out that you immediately have to buy. |
| 1:16.9 | It's called Tell Everyone On This Train I Love Them and this is not her first book, this |
| 1:22.3 | is like her umpteenth book, she's so funky and hilarious and good at writing them, it |
| 1:26.3 | is the one and only Maeve Higgins, hey no, messy messy, hello, thank you so much, so happy |
| 1:34.5 | to have you there. |
| 1:35.5 | I forgot about that airport trip, we had a really great day at the airport again, I missed |
| 1:40.4 | being an airport with my friends, I know right, I mean it's where some of the best shit |
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