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Faketation Episode 296

Hello, hello, this is Faketation where we talk about news, we talk about culture and

where we tape on March 16th the day between the Ives of March and St. Patrick's Day.

It doesn't get much love this day, but it is the creamy center of the cookie sandwich.

And now not exciting is the cookie exterior, but it does hold it all together.

And oh my God, I have your host, Nguyen Pharsad, and I'm going to keep talking about dates

and holidays because Persian New Year Cometh, we are just a few days away, it's on March

20th.

Sina is on the show today, which I will reintroduce when the time is appropriate, and he is dancing

a Persian dance on the Zoom call right now.

Because Nauru's, as you've heard me say every year on this podcast, it's a celebration

of spring, it's really secular, and it's really lovely to take a moment to recognize

spring and all the possibilities that it brings, and to reconnect with family and friends,

and to eat some food, and to just be joyous about spring, so like I, as your favorite,

I'm going to just say Iranian podcaster, second only to the other Iranian that is on this

show today, would like to invite you to celebrate Persian New Year this year, as I do every

year.

All right, so today, we're going to talk about a grab bag of news items from this week,

including daylight savings.

There was a stunner in the news this week about daylight saving.

You have no idea.

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