482. Racism; Don't (w/Jon Schnitzer and George Civeris)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this week's Fake the Nation, comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by comedian/podcaster George Civeris and comedian/horror guru Jon Schnitzer! Together they discuss the controversy behind the Riyadh Comedy Festival and ask, are we all Taylor Swift-ed out? They also talk about Trump's obsession with troop deployments in Chicago and Portland and wonder, is Marjorie Taylor Greene sometimes reasonable? And finally, are chatbots leading to divorce?
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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 start stressing out about Halloween. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm your host of Gine Farsad, and I'm also a mom. |
| 0:09.4 | And my question to all of you, the listening audience, is do I dress up for Halloween and show some holiday spirit while I'm walking kids around trick-or-treating? |
| 0:18.7 | Or do I wear normal clothes and act invisible? Like, what is the ideal |
| 0:24.4 | parent in a trick-or-treating situation every year I wonder? So now I'm just making it a public |
| 0:28.9 | question. Today, we won't talk about that really, but we will talk about the controversy around |
| 0:34.9 | the Riyadh Comedy Festival. And we'll ask, is Taylor Swift seeing a backlash? We'll also talk about the controversy around the Riyadh comedy festival, and we'll ask, is Taylor Swift seeing |
| 0:38.4 | a backlash? We'll also talk about what's going on in Chicago and Portland. And we ask, |
| 0:45.4 | is Marjorie Taylor Green sometimes reasonable? I don't know. I felt even weird saying it. |
| 0:50.5 | And finally, are chatbots leading to divorce? Oh my God. What a set of questions we have |
| 0:57.8 | today. And what a just handsome panel we have assembled for you today joining us for the first time. |
| 1:07.8 | He's the host of the United States of Kennedy. It's an I-Hart podcast. He's also the host of |
| 1:13.1 | Stradio Lab, which is, if you could tell from the title, a podcast about straight culture, |
| 1:19.0 | which is just, ah, it's so funny and you should subscribe to it. It is the wonderful George |
| 1:24.7 | Severus. Hey, George. Hello, hello. |
| 1:30.1 | So excited to have you on. |
| 1:36.7 | And then as I was like just thinking about today's show and I had Halloween on the mind, |
| 1:43.1 | it's what's weird is that our next panelist is sort of like, I want to say, |
| 1:45.7 | our foremost expert on Halloween. |
| 1:52.2 | He's new to fake the nation, but he is not new to being spooky. |
| 1:59.6 | In fact, he's got a show at the Elysian on October 18th in Los Angeles called Something Spooky. |
| 2:03.0 | He's known for making spooky experiences. He's even done it in the Obama White House. But he's also just a wonderful comedian who's |
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