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Fake the Nation

466. Swapping Out Skincare Routines For Happy Hour (w/Dasha Burns and Zach Sherwin)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by Politico's White House Bureau Chief, Dasha Burns and comedian and host of the critically acclaimed Crossword Show, Zach Sherwin. Together they ask whether smoking is cool again and whether TikTok skincare routines are actually ruining our skin. In politics, they talk about the Iran-Israel conflict, Trump's military parade, and the No Kings protest. And finally, a chaser to end the show: is Happy Hour a relic of the past?

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0:00.0

Hello, hello. This is Fake the Nation where we talk about news. We talk about culture and where we ask,

0:05.1

are we as a society embracing Tankini summer? I'm your host, Nagin Farsat, and when I don't want

0:11.1

to think about the possibility of war, I'm thinking about swimwear, or at least I'm begging my

0:15.6

brain to think about swimwear. And apparently, Tankini's are having a moment, moment and folks if this is a concern to anyone

0:22.7

google it because they're not not slutty if that was an issue uh i just want to allay concerns

0:30.0

there today we'll ask is smoking cool again and whether tic-tok skin care routines are actually

0:36.9

ruining your skin.

0:38.1

But on the heavier front, we'll talk about the conflict between Iran and Israel and the

0:41.9

crazy juxtaposition between the no king's protest and the military parade this weekend.

0:46.3

And finally, we'll ask, is happy hour a relic of the past?

0:51.3

And oh my God, I'm so excited about today's panel. You guys, we have two

0:59.6

first timers on the show, but they're both like so extraordinarily well-versed in the

1:06.1

world of talking and audio and smartness that it wasn't it's not going to be an issue too much hype

1:15.0

too much hype no no no this is what i do this is the hype that i do everyone has to just

1:20.4

deal with it so first up we have a wonderful comedian um he's also host of the show called the

1:26.9

crossword show which he tours around

1:29.3

the country. And honestly, I did this show a couple weeks ago, and it was one of the most

1:33.4

fun nights of comedy I've had in a long time, and I have many, many nights of comedy. So that's

1:38.6

saying a lot. And it is all because of the excellence of the one and only, Zach Sherwin. Hey, Zach.

1:44.5

Hi, Nageen. Thank you so much for having me on. And I just want to say you were part of one of the

1:49.4

best crossword shows in memory. You knocked it out of the park. And the crowd loved that you

1:54.9

were like coming online with crossword puzzles for the first time before they're very odd. So it was

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