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Fake the Nation

441. Positive Masculinity (w/ Peppermint & Amber Ruffin and Selena Coppock & Andrew Heaton)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In light of the New Year, we have a couple of great segments lined up for you. First up, we have Peppermint and Amber Ruffin join to talk about whether a woman from this story is an asshole. And then, Selena Coppock and Andrew Heaton join to discuss the premise of "positive masculinity." Enjoy!

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——Host - Negin Farsad

——Producer - Andrew McGuire

——Theme Music - Gaby Alter

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0:00.0

This is a headgum podcast.

0:05.4

Fake the Nation, episode 442.

0:08.6

Hello, hello. This is Fake the Nation, where we talk about news. We talk about culture and where we take New Year's off.

0:15.4

Ladies gentlemen, this is one of our vacation shorty episodes. We have a wonderful couple of segments lined up for you.

0:23.6

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and a wonderful new year.

0:28.7

And I hope you get to still relax.

0:31.0

And to help you relax, we've got a couple of fun conversations.

0:35.2

And first up, we've got peppermint and Amber Ruffin joining us to talk about whether a woman is an asshole in this story.

0:45.4

Check it out.

0:46.1

Next topic, we read an Am I the Asshole piece in Reddit?

0:51.0

And I couldn't wait to talk about it.

0:52.6

So to do just that, I'm joined by

0:54.8

iconic Broadway performer and Gallabout Town. It is the wonderful peppermint. Hey, Peppermint.

1:01.0

Hey, Peppermint. Hey, Amber. I'm also joined by incomparable comedian and writer Amber.

1:06.1

Ruffin. Hey, Amber. Yippity-Doo. So I'm just going to read an abbreviated version of the grievance from this potential

1:12.3

asshole.

1:13.2

And then we'll discuss.

1:14.9

Here we go.

1:15.8

This 29-year-old woman says, quote, my friend, who's 31, has told me that her husband,

1:20.9

who's 35, has a crush on me and has recently told her that he fantasizes over me.

1:27.1

This already makes me feel very awkward, but now she

1:30.2

asked me if I can stop wearing makeup and wear baggy clothes around him. I mean, okay, and then she

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