292. How Is This Happening in Canada? (w/ Leah Bonnema and Virginia Heffernan)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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This week Virginia Heffernan and Leah Bonnema join Negin to discuss Canada's truck strike and if they are winning any supporters. Then a very serious conversation about the years long McDonalds vs Burger King's fast food war. Finally, a conversation about an article in Vox that takes a look at comedies identity crisis.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a head gum podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Big donation episode 292. |
| 0:09.7 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:10.7 | This is Big The Nation, where we talk about news, we talk about culture, and where we did |
| 0:13.8 | join the cultural conversation by watching the Super Bowl half time show. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm your host, McGee Forsodd, and while I can comment extensively on Eminem's facial |
| 0:23.3 | hair choices, I can't actually tell you who won the Super Bowl. |
| 0:27.8 | I just realized I actually have no idea. |
| 0:31.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:32.2 | Don't tell me. |
| 0:33.2 | Don't tell me. |
| 0:34.2 | Let's just see if it accidentally happens in my ears. |
| 0:36.5 | Today, we're going to talk about Canada, Canada. |
| 0:40.0 | We're also going to reach in the grab bag of random stuff to talk about Burger King, where |
| 0:44.3 | Americans are traveling, and we ask a big, fat, existential question about comedy and |
| 0:50.2 | it's a role in the world today, just some little stuff, you know? |
| 0:54.7 | I am very excited by this panel, because I mean, I'm fans of both of these women. |
| 1:03.0 | This first one is like one of my old comedy buds, you've heard her on the show one million |
| 1:09.0 | times. |
| 1:10.0 | She's, first of all, if you ever get to see her live, why wouldn't you do this for your |
| 1:15.3 | life? |
| 1:16.3 | Your life would be vastly improved by just seeing this one person on a stage doing stand-up, |
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