468. An Episode That Pairs With Hot Dogs (w/Dasha Burns & Zach Sherwin and Pete Dominick & Faiz Siddiqui)

Fake the Nation

Headgum & Negin Farsad

Current Events, Panel, News, Politics, Comedy

4.5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

This week on Fake the Nation we give you two fun/ridiculous/insightful conversations from the vault. We discuss a study on the type of people who buy into pseudo-profound bullshit. Yes, they studied this and host Negin Farsad gets pretty worked up on the issue as she discusses it with comedian/podcast host Pete Dominick and journalist/author Faiz Siddiqu. Also, Dasha Burns & Zach Sherwin join to discuss new statistics that show how violent crime is FALLING across America. What does it all mean? Enjoy! And we hope you're having a sweaty, hot-dog laden July 4th!

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0:20.7	Hello, hello.
0:21.6	This is Fake the Nation, where we talk about news.
0:23.2	We talk about culture and where we have a vacation episode.
0:27.1	It is July 4th week.
0:28.7	We hope you're having a wonderful time off, and I hope it's a time off.
0:32.9	We have put away a couple of really delightful conversations to share with you guys for this holiday
0:38.8	episode. So without further ado, let's get into it. One of our listeners, the excellent Patricia,
0:45.6	sent us this article about the apparently falling crime rates in America and it had a fake
0:50.1	the nation written all over it. So to join me in talking about it are the wonderful chief
0:55.6	White House correspondent for political and host of the new podcast, The Conversation. It is
1:03.2	the excellent Dasha Burns. Hey, Dasha. Hello, hello. Thank you for having me. By the way,
1:09.0	I think you're the White House Bureau Chief.
1:11.7	I said the wrong thing.
1:12.9	White House Bureau Chief.
1:13.6	There we go.
1:20.5	I'm also joined by comedian and host of the Crossword show, Zach Sherwin.
1:21.3	Hey, Zach.
1:22.0	Hi, Nagine.
1:26.6	I, listening to Dasha's intro really makes me think I need to level up my title game.
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