373. Ethical Omissions (w/ Margaret Cho & Shirley Leung and Wajahat Ali & Bill Santiago)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're honoring Labor Day with two phenomenal conversations from the vault saved for this specific occasion. First, we have Margaret Cho and Shirley Leung discussing various ethical quandaries like, should you tell your ex you dated a famous person and should you leave a job that's paying TOO MUCH? Also, Wajahat Ali and Bill Santiago join to discuss the new phenomenon of men adding "in therapy" to their dating profiles
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgun podcast. |
| 0:06.1 | Fake the nation, episode 373. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello, hello, this is Fake the nation, where we talk about news, we talk about culture |
| 0:12.8 | and where we dofully and fully recognize Labor Day by not laboring this week. |
| 0:20.4 | However, we do have phenomenal conversations to save for you specifically for this occasion |
| 0:26.8 | in the vault and coming up is topic number one. |
| 0:32.9 | Next topic. |
| 0:33.9 | We are going to jump into some ethical quandaries and joining me in Sound Judgment is the |
| 0:38.9 | wonderful journalist from the Boston Globe and podcast host of Say More with Shirley |
| 0:45.8 | Liang. |
| 0:46.8 | It's Shirley Liang. |
| 0:47.8 | Hey, Shirley. |
| 0:48.8 | Hi. |
| 0:49.8 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:50.8 | And we are also joined by iconic comedian who is currently on tour with the live of some |
| 0:56.5 | week with a live and live and live show and you can find all of that information or website |
| 1:01.4 | it is. |
| 1:02.4 | The one and only Margaret Cho, hey, Margaret, hello. |
| 1:06.4 | So let's dip into the first ethical quandary here. |
| 1:08.6 | Someone wrote into the ethicist of the New York Times and asked, my salary is too high. |
| 1:12.9 | Is it wrong for me to stay in my job? |
| 1:15.6 | And I just like, just that headline, I was like, what? |
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