488. So Gosh Darn Special (w/Shanna Christmas and Myq Kaplan)
Fake the Nation
Headgum & Negin Farsad
4.5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This week comedian and host Negin Farsad is joined by comedians Myq Kaplam and Shanna Christmas. Together, they ask, can you charge Thanksgiving guests who come to your home? They also look at Target's new 10-4 policy and the latest twist in the government shutdown. They also look at new revelations about the Epstein Files and close it all up by asking what one New York Times podcaster shouldn't have asked, has liberal feminism ruined the workplace?
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Myq Kaplan: @MyqKaplan everywhere and his new special "Rinni" will be out on YouTube on Nov. 19!
Shanna Christmas: @ShannaChristmas everywhere and her special "Highly Intelligent" is currently available on YouTube!
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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 the countdown to Thanksgiving. I'm your host, Nagin Farsad. And as a parent, the fall is just stressful because you have like a bunch of holidays. And in my case, my kid's birthday also falls into the bunch of holidays. And they all have to be special. And I'm just like swallowed by the need for things to be so gosh darn special right now. |
| 0:25.1 | And it's exhausting. |
| 0:26.5 | Today, we will talk about Thanksgiving and whether you can charge for it. |
| 0:30.9 | We'll also talk about Target's new 10-4 policy, the end of the shutdown maybe, right-wing infighting, and finally, did liberal feminism ruin the |
| 0:40.1 | workplace? What? Oh yeah, we're also going to just like, just like gently dip our toes into |
| 0:49.0 | the Epstein files. I felt weird saying toes in relation to Epstein anyways, but that's going to happen |
| 0:57.3 | because that news just broke. So to join me in talking about all these wonderful things, I have, |
| 1:04.9 | and not wonderful things, I have a wonderful panel assembled for you today. Oh my gosh. First off, she has a special out. |
| 1:14.3 | It's called Highly Intelligent. You can look it up right now. She has a special out, |
| 1:18.2 | you guys, because she is just an incredible comedian whose work you can see on these streets |
| 1:24.2 | of America. Okay. She is the wonderful Shana Christmas. Hey, Shana. Hey. |
| 1:29.5 | Hey. I love how you said she's in the streets because I do be out in the streets. That is so |
| 1:34.3 | accurate. So thank you. |
| 1:37.0 | Look, we're nothing if not trying to be accurate here on Fake the Nation and then other times |
| 1:43.9 | being willfully inaccurate for the purposes of a joke. So that's what we're going to be accurate here on fake the nation and then other times being willfully inaccurate |
| 1:45.4 | for the purposes of a joke so that's what we're doing here um thanks so much for joining us |
| 1:51.1 | for the very first time we'll try and make it like a a gentle experience for you and so hopefully |
| 1:57.9 | you'll come back um Yes, I'm excited. |
| 2:04.7 | We are also joined by my good buddy. |
| 2:05.3 | Oh my gosh. |
| 2:10.1 | This guy has a new special out on November 19th at 8 p.m. Eastern on YouTube. |
| 2:10.9 | You tune in. |
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