300. The Toddler's Need to Unionize (w/ Lizz Winstead and Jody Avirgan)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Lizz Winstead and Jody Avirgan join Negin for this weeks panel, they kick off the show with the heartwarming story of a couple of dudes and how they defied the giant that is Amazon and unionized 8000 Amazon workers. Then, they tackle the Japanese tradition of allowing toddlers to run their first errand, the real reason fit people drink more than unfit people and how we are feeling now that taxes are due. Last the panel has a conversation about where they hid as kids and how they hide now as adults.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a head gum podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | Vick the nation, so 300. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, hello, this is Vick the nation, where we talk about news, we talk about culture |
| 0:13.4 | and where we revel in JLo and Ben Affleck's second engagement. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm your host Nagine Farsad and oh my god, I love a reboot, you know, and this version |
| 0:23.2 | could even be better than the first one. |
| 0:25.2 | We'll see, we don't know yet. |
| 0:27.0 | Today, we're going to talk about Amazon's first union, we'll also talk about toddlers |
| 0:30.9 | in Japan, talk about the connection between booze and exercise, your taxes, and cat litter. |
| 0:37.0 | I am so excited by today's panel, it's one of those panels that just, I could just |
| 0:43.6 | be like you guys do it, and then I could just leave the room in that kind of panel, that's |
| 0:48.1 | how great they are, and unknowingly they are about the entire universe. |
| 0:53.4 | I am first joined by co-creator of the Daily Show, founder of Abortion Access Front that |
| 0:59.4 | you've heard me talk about on this show. |
| 1:02.4 | She's also host of the feminist BuzzKill's live podcast, she's been on this show, umpteen |
| 1:08.2 | times, because she is so goddamn wonderful, it is the one and only Liz Winstead, hello, |
| 1:18.4 | so happy to see your face, also joining us to the show. |
| 1:24.0 | I mean, you know him from fakes a nation, but you additionally know him from this day |
| 1:29.1 | in esoteric political history, which by the way, I listened to an episode recently, it |
| 1:33.5 | was about like how Nixon changed the outfits or something of the White House staff. |
| 1:40.7 | This episode was really fun, and it just like make, it just made me laugh, you should |
| 1:45.1 | check out this day in esoteric political history, um, and start with the episode about Nixon's |
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