330. Boring Wins (w/ Grace Lynch and Zach Stafford)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Negin is joined this week by returning guest and host of the podcast, Teaching Texas, Grace Lynch, as well as Tony Award winner and host of the podcast, Vibe Check, Zach Stafford. They all break down the midterm results, why Gen Z has a problem with the thumbs up emoji, and the epidemic which is being quiet fired.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:07.6 | Baked the nation, episode 330. |
| 0:10.4 | Hello, hello, this is Baked the Nation, where we talk about news, we talk about politics |
| 0:14.0 | and whatever the outcome, we're glad the elections are at least over for now. |
| 0:19.8 | I'm your host, McGee Frasad, and we're entering that stretch of time. |
| 0:23.9 | We're all still feverishly working, but Thanksgiving is around the corner and we're |
| 0:28.0 | a little bit like, why are we all still working? |
| 0:30.3 | Can we just all stop? |
| 0:31.3 | That's the feeling I have. |
| 0:32.3 | I don't know if you guys have it, but that's the feeling I have. |
| 0:34.1 | I just don't want to work. |
| 0:35.8 | But the nice thing about my job is that on some of the days, I get to have fantastic conversations |
| 0:44.0 | like the one we're going to have today. |
| 0:46.3 | And speaking of work, we're actually going to talk about being quiet fired. |
| 0:50.2 | That's a new term that people are banding about. |
| 0:53.2 | We'll also talk about the midterm results. |
| 0:56.0 | We're going to break them down, don't worry. |
| 0:57.9 | And we'll ask why Gen Z has a problem with the thumbs up emoji and the thing that happens |
| 1:02.5 | when you go on a date with a celebrity from a dating app. |
| 1:06.2 | Oh, folks, the panel for today, such an exciting panel today. |
| 1:10.8 | You've heard her on this show before. |
| 1:12.9 | She's just so lovely. |
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