337. Taint Week (w/ Subhah Agarwal & Judy Gold, Adam Conover & Traci Thomas)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Happy Taint Week* to all that celebrate (*The week between the holidays and the new year)! In this two-part episode, Negin is joined by Subhah Argarwal and Judy Gold as they discuss whether or not you should let your child quit a sport. In part two, Adam Conover and Traci Thomas join Negin to discuss "breakup school" and how to combat ghosting.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.4 | Fick the nation episode 337. |
| 0:09.3 | Hello, hello, this is fake the nation where we talk about news, we talk about culture |
| 0:13.4 | and where we embrace the tank week, which is the crudest name for it, but it is the week |
| 0:20.7 | between Christmas and New Year's, where we nevertheless have a show I am your host |
| 0:25.7 | Nagine Farsad and we have been banking just really phenomenal conversations with our |
| 0:31.8 | many just glittering fantastic guests, low these past months, so that we can give you |
| 0:40.0 | a wonderful tank week episode. |
| 0:42.5 | So please enjoy this next topic. |
| 0:47.2 | We read a piece in Yahoo Life from Suzanne Hayes, it asks the question, should you let your |
| 0:50.8 | child quit a sport? |
| 0:52.2 | And to get to the bottom of this, I'm joined by comedian and podcast hosts and just |
| 0:56.8 | all around extraordinarily wonderful woman Judy Gold, hey Judy, and mother of a college |
| 1:03.6 | Apple Ziggs, which is a part of the reason I bring this to my mind and I'm also joined |
| 1:09.0 | by comedian and just the most ever delightful comedian, Saba Agarwal, hey, Saba, okay, |
| 1:17.5 | so somebody you have kids? |
| 1:19.3 | No. |
| 1:20.3 | No, you don't have kids. |
| 1:21.4 | All right, so you, I have a child who's not yet of age to be quitting things. |
| 1:27.2 | You don't have a child and Judy, you have two kids, right? |
| 1:31.0 | Two kids. |
| 1:32.0 | Yeah. |
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