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Fake the Nation

457. Hierarchy of Fears (w/ Mangesh Hattikudur & Sally Kohn)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Today, we're talking about Hobby Lobby adding a Manhattan location, how Blue Origin has girl power, how El Salvador is our new best friend and finally, Harvard's response to the administration. Joining this week, is co-host of the podcast Part Time Genius, Mangesh Hattikudur, as well as writer and communications consultant, Sally Kohn!

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0:00.0

With a $5 meal deal with new McValier, you pick a McDouble or a McChicken, then get a small fry, a small drink, and a four-piece McNuggets.

0:08.4

That's a lot of McDonald's for not a lot of money.

0:11.6

Prices and participation may vary.

0:12.8

McDouble meal, $6 in some markets for a limit time only.

0:16.8

This is a HeadGum podcast.

0:20.8

Fake the day shit, episode 4.57. Fake the Nation, episode 457.

0:23.6

Hello, hello.

0:24.6

This is Fake the Nation, where we talk about culture, we talk about news, and where we congratulate

0:29.8

one and all for possibly paying their taxes.

0:33.1

I'm your host, Nikki Farsad.

0:34.5

And if there's ever a year where you felt like you were paying your taxes

0:39.3

into a doge void, it's now. First, they were going to cut $2 trillion at Doge, and then they

0:45.6

revise it to $1 trillion, and now they revise it to $150 billion. So I don't know. I think

0:50.9

you should be allowed to round down on your taxes. You know what I mean? Let's think

0:55.4

of it more of as an aspirational number. It doesn't have, you know, it doesn't have to be the actual

1:00.6

number. Also, they fired a bunch of people at the IRS. So who's looking and paying attention?

1:07.4

It's unclear today. We're not going to talk about that because we'll have to see

1:14.0

what the fallout is from everyone theoretically having paid their taxes. But instead, we're

1:19.0

going to talk about how Hobby Lobby takes Manhattan, how Blue Origin has girl power, and I guess

1:26.2

how El Salvador is our new best friend. We'll also look at Harvard's

1:30.3

response to administration. And finally, we'll look at the comfort class and ask why they

1:35.7

control everything. And oh my gosh, today's panel. Oh, what an excellent panel we have.

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