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🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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In this episode of Fake the Nation, host and comedian Negin Farsad is joined by author/podcaster Bob Crawford (American History Hotline podcast). Together they talk about the decline of the semicolon; dissect the weeklong Jimmy Kimmel saga; and talk about Trump's unhinged Tylenol rant. Crawford - who wrote the book on the matter - shares what John Quincy Adams in 1830 tells us about America in 2025. Crawford is a true history nut so this episode might actually make you feel...better.
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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 look at the FCC and say, I can't believe you made me agree with Tucker Carlson. I'm your host, Nagin Farsad. And today, I guess fake the nation will be indistinguishable from Tucker's or Ben Shapiro or like Megan Kelly's show. You know, I guess Make the Nation is all of those shows today. |
| 0:24.0 | Today, we are going to talk about Jimmy Kimmel, the drama that has unfolded over the week. |
| 0:30.3 | It was a real will they won't they. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll also talk about other political news. |
| 0:34.1 | We'll get into how you make up with a partner after a fight. And finally, |
| 0:40.4 | for the punctuation enthusiast, we ask, is the semicolon in decline? Ooh, yeah, it's about to get |
| 0:48.2 | real fucking controversial up in here. I am so excited by today's panel. One of them is having extraordinary technical issues |
| 0:57.5 | trying to get on this show. So hopefully they'll be able to join us. But until they do, |
| 1:02.8 | I will first introduce you to our one and so far only panelists. He is host of the New American |
| 1:10.4 | History Hotline podcast, which is an I'd Heart original. |
| 1:14.0 | He has a new book coming out called America's Founding Son, John Quincy Adams, from president |
| 1:19.7 | to political maverick. |
| 1:20.8 | He has a new piece out in Time magazine about the shenanigans at the Smithsonian. |
| 1:25.5 | You guys, he is incredible. He's also a musician. |
| 1:29.0 | He's a Jack of Altraise. He is the wonderful Bob Crawford. Hi, Bob. Noggin, it's a pleasure to be here. |
| 1:36.1 | Thank you. So excited to have you. We, one little note for listeners is that Fake the Nation is in the podcast pantheon a new book out by |
| 1:48.3 | Sean Mallon. |
| 1:48.9 | It's called The Podcasts, 101 podcast, the change of the way we listen. |
| 1:54.4 | And the book just came out last week. |
| 1:56.1 | I was able to do a book launch event with Sean. |
| 1:59.7 | It was so fantastic. |
| 2:03.3 | It was me and Ira Glass, Dan Tversky, |
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